OCTOBER Meet-up
Leeds / West Yorkshire illustrators - our next meetup is coming up soon and we are going Halloween!
Vicky and I will be handing out spooky prompts to get us drawing Please bring a sketchbook and anything you like to draw with.
We will be at Water Lane Boathouse as always from 6-8pm.
It’s free but please sign-up so we know how many to expect - we’d love to see you there!
Mirroring the changing social and research contexts over the last 20 years, Professor Maria Maynard’s inaugural professorial lecture maps a journey from observing and understanding ethnic health inequalities to engaging in practical efforts to effect change.
For our second of two satellite events as part of Battle of Ideas 2024*, we’ve invited Freedom of the Arts co-founder Denise Fahmy to discuss how FITA’s 5-year project is going a year in and the possible impacts of the change of government.
A Mother's Body is Spectacular. Phenomenal. Beautiful.
Join us for a session of heartwarming and supportive discussion, followed by a healing tea blend workshop for balancing hormones.
One of the FREE events that form part of (M)OTHER exhibition by Ellie Andrews, we are so excited to be sharing the floor with Vix Wright-Jones and Melanie Hadida!
Event Run:
Intro to the exhibition by Ellie Andrews
"So You Think You Know Me..." An evening with Graham Cole (A Misty Moon Presentation)
Graham Cole OBE is known to millions as PC Tony Stamp, the no-nonsense copper from ITV’s The Bill. But while this is role is undoubtedly one Graham will always be associated with (and happy to be so) it is just one part of his story spanning 50 years in business.
Join Graham in this intimate setting to hear his full story… and join him for a drink after in the bar where he will be meeting fans and signing photos.
SCIENCE + ART + BEER = MIND EXPANSION!
Quantum Sauce launches Farsley Lit Fest!! Three experts talk for thirty minutes each, including:
Caroline Cauchi - Fact vs. Fiction: The Novelist’s Ethical Dilemma
Lucyl Harrison and Catherine Wynne - Pandemic Pages: Reading Covid Fictions, Memoirs and Poetry
Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis - Who buys books? Libraries, literature and legacies
Join Hold Fast Bookshop as we celebrate the release of a new book of short stories by writer S J Bradley - 'Maps of Imaginary Towns'.
Designed to empower people to navigate their way more confidently through today’s ‘smog’ of dis-information three experts from the University of Leeds, the British Library and CILIP look forward to sharing their knowledge with you in this free interactive session at Leeds Central Library.
Why do we travel? How can we do it better? And how can it be part of a fulfilling life? Journalist, broadcaster, and author, Ash Bhardwaj explores these questions and more during an evening of storytelling at The Leeds Library. Join Ash as he shares insights from travels at home and abroad, and offers his advice on making every journey more mindful and satisfying. Guaranteed to provoke self-reflection and wanderlust.
Hosted by TV presenter and author Mary-Ann Ochota we welcome local history buffs to a series of short presentations and a panel discussion with local experts from the University of Leeds, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service and Leeds Archives on the compelling secrets hidden in Leeds’ archaeology, archives and libraries with ideas about how you can use these troves to bring the past to life.