CULTURE

Kath Harrison and her daughter Helen Shippin
14th November 2025
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Carriageworks Theatre Marks 20 Years of Family Ties

An inseparable mum-and-daughter duo who have worked side by side in local theatre for almost 30 years have offered a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a much-loved Leeds venue as it celebrates a major milestone. Kath Harrison and her daughter Helen Shippin are key members of the dedicated costume and backstage team at…
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Leeds Palestinian Film Festival
17th October 2025
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Leeds to Celebrate Palestinian Film and Culture with Three-Week Festival This Autumn

The Leeds Palestinian Film Festival proudly returns for its 11th edition, running from November 12 to December 6, 2025, at iconic venues across Leeds. The festival continues its mission to celebrate the richness, diversity, and resilience of Palestinian culture through the transformative power of cinema. This year’s festival promises over three weeks of unflinching,…
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Royal Visit - 15 May Bradford Live_©Tom Arber
16th May 2025
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Bradford Live Gets The Royal Seal Of Approval

His Majesty King Charles and Her Majesty Queen Camilla recently visited Bradford’s newest entertainment venue, Bradford Live, to meet performers and creatives involved in Bradford 2025 and to celebrate the region’s designation as UK City of Culture. Their Majesties were greeted on arrival by a special performance from eight musicians of Paraorchestra, a pioneering…
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Councillor Helen Hayden with nine of the artists on Neville Street.
10th November 2023
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New outdoor artworks celebrate history, life, and culture of Leeds

Ten unique large-scale artworks are set to celebrate history, life, and culture in Leeds as a new outdoor exhibition opens on Neville Street. The artworks, displayed on the eastern wall of Neville Street, are all produced by locally based artists and focus on past, present, and future culture, industrial heritage, music, nature, and Leeds…
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Antarctic photo album
6th October 2023
2 mins read

Antique photo find takes librarians on surprise of discovery

A classic case of not judging a book by its cover took librarians in Leeds on a fascinating photographic journey through a daring Antarctic rescue mission. During routine cataloguing in Leeds Central Library’s strongroom, special collections librarian Rhian Isaac found what appeared to be an unassuming family photo album tucked away on a shelf.…
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Specialist artists, Robert Woodland MBE and Debra Miller of The Upright Gilders
1st September 2023
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Pipes fit for a Queen as organ’s golden years return

More than 160 years ago, they made their glittering debut during a right royal performance attended by Queen Victoria. Now the magnificent decorative pipes of Leeds Town Hall’s stunning organ are being restored to their former glory as part of a once in a lifetime renewal project. Specialist artists Robert Woodland MBE and Debra…
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Cotton Connections
31st March 2023
2 mins read

Cotton’s common threads entwined in hall’s new exhibition

Visit the latest exhibition at Lotherton, exploring the last 300 years of cotton in Cotton Connections. Now the fascinating story of cotton and its remarkable impact on different cultures and communities in India and Europe is being explored in a new exhibition at Lotherton. Cotton Connections: From India to the High Street opens at…
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Leeds Beckett University and LEEDS 2023’s Year of Culture
10th March 2023
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Leeds Beckett to launch new Leeds School of Arts building with exclusive programme of academic and student events

The new Leeds School of Arts building will be launched officially on 29 March with an exciting programme of events, featuring the inaugural lecture of the school’s Professor Sue Miller, an exclusive live performance, reception, and concert featuring live academic and student performances throughout. Professor Sue Miller from Leeds Beckett University’s Leeds School of…
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Miffy Awards
10th March 2023
2 mins read

Global award put Leeds learning project top of the class

Museums in Leeds have scooped a top International Award for an innovative project to bring history to life in classrooms across the city. A panel of experts from leading museums around Europe named Leeds Museums and Galleries the joint winner of the Children in Museums Award for the Leeds Curriculum. Developed in partnership with…
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Emii Alrai, Coude
3rd February 2023
2 mins read

Leeds Art Gallery’s new show will be a love letter to art in Leeds

An exciting new cultural showcase will see the remarkable talent and diversity of Leeds’s artists celebrated at the city’s art gallery. Leeds Art Gallery has gathered a stunning selection of contemporary artworks submitted by artists working across different disciplines for the first open exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery in more than a decade, which…
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Leeds Central Library's naval battle
3rd February 2023
2 mins read

All hands on deck as library’s epic naval battle unfolds

An epic, century-old “Instagram Story” featuring pivotal scenes from a dramatic naval conflict waged by British ships has unfolded during research by librarians in Leeds. The step-by-step, illustrated account, estimated to be more than 50 feet in length, documents every cannon blast and flaming sail from the pivotal battles of Solebay and Texel which…
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Leeds Kirkstall Abbey
4th November 2022
2 mins read

City’s museums welcome continued funding

Leeds Museums and Galleries have secured essential funding after a successful grant offer of support from Arts Council England. The grant that sees Leeds Museums and Galleries continue as a National Portfolio Organisation means they will receive £1,619,256 of funding each year from ACE for the years 2023-26. The crucial funding will be used…
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Song- The Future
14th October 2022
2 mins read

Opera star turns virtual virtuoso to inspire museum performance

One of China’s top opera stars has teamed up with a Leeds museum to create a unique digital performance telling the story of two cultures coming together. Using the latest motion capture technology, Wang Rousang, a star performer with the famed Shanghai Yue Opera House, has helped create a virtual reality character who will…
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The World Reimagined Leeds
19th August 2022
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Leeds welcomes the World Reimagined Globe Trail

What do you know about the transatlantic slave trade? It is a huge piece of British history that many people don’t seem to really understand, and that has to change. This summer, a unique outdoor sculpture trail is on the streets of the City of Leeds to encourage visitors, workers and residents to take…
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Leeds Piano Trail
29th July 2022
1 min read

Funding boost for city’s arts and culture projects set for approval

A year-long funding pot aimed at boosting innovative arts and cultural activity in communities all across the city is set to be approved by senior councillors in Leeds. The latest Arts@Leeds grants programme, which supports more than 40 Leeds-based cultural, voluntary and community organisations delivering activity in every council ward, will go before the…
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Shifting Perspectives
27th May 2022
2 mins read

City’s diverse communities explore 300 years of Shifting Perspectives

Members of Leeds’s diverse communities have come together to re-examine and re-define more than 300 years of artwork ahead of a pioneering new exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. Shifting Perspectives will explore different and sometimes complex representations of people of African, Caribbean and Asian heritage in almost 100 works dating from the 17th Century…
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Kirkstall Abbey Leeds
13th May 2022
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New chapter begins to help secure future of Kirkstall Abbey

An exciting new programme of events and activity is being put together as part of innovative plans to invest in a sustainable future for historic Kirkstall Abbey. Following a public consultation earlier this year, the project will see new entrance charges introduced for non-Leeds residents visiting the abbey ruins, helping to generate crucial income…
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Reflections on the Aire Highres
4th February 2022
2 mins read

Artist’s captivating moonlit masterpiece comes home to Leeds

An atmospheric riverside scene created by one of the city’s most celebrated artists is coming home after being acquired by Leeds Art Gallery. Reflections on the Aire – on strike was painted by Leeds-born John Atkinson Grimshaw in 1879, a rare example of one of his signature ‘moonlit’ scenes combined with a social message. Showing…
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Georgian Library
4th February 2022
2 mins read

Library messages reveal fascinating chapter in the story of Temple Newsam

A trove of centuries-old keepsakes, footnotes and family crests has been discovered inside the antique tomes of a Leeds mansion’s beautiful Georgian library. Staff at Temple Newsam House carrying out meticulous conservation work on the stunning room made a series of fascinating finds in a select few of the library’s 500 books, some of…
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Reading the Realness
12th November 2021
2 mins read

Gallery tunes in as artist takes on TV talk show format

An innovative new performance has brought art enthusiasts of all ages together to reinvent a series of TV talk show debates at Leeds Art Gallery. Harold Offeh’s new artwork Reading the Realness has seen members of the gallery’s Youth Collective working alongside older people from its regular Meet and Make sessions to take to…
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