Six More Writers Join The Northern Short Story Festival Academy 2022
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy has announced that a further six promising Yorkshire writers are to join its now well-established Academy programme in 2022. The Academy has been supporting and championing writers in Yorkshire since 2018, providing monthly workshops where they can read and critique others’ stories, under the guidance of tutor Anna Chilvers. The […]
Red Ladder Theatre Company in Film
Three of Red Ladder’s stage productions – Smile Club, The Damned United and Glory – are now available to a much wider audience, having been filmed whilst theatres were still closed under pandemic restrictions. However, plans for filming were thrown into disarray when one key member tested positive for COVID. Rod Dixon, Artistic Director: “Throughout […]
Bad Manners Christmas Tour
Bad Manners is at The Warehouse Leeds on 23 December, with support from MAX SPLODGE. BAD MANNERS, featuring vocalist BUSTER BLOODVESSEL, are some of the most pinnacle spearheads of Ska. The group was at the forefront of the genre’s revival movement in England in the late ’70s, quickly becoming the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, […]
Opera North – It all starts in Leeds
Opera North’s 2022 Winter Season opens at Leeds Grand Theatre in January with two new shows. Rigoletto (Verdi) – opens Sat 22 January Making his opera directing debut is Nigerian-British theatre artist Femi Elufowoju Jr, in a production ‘mapping identity and inequality onto a contemporary canvas’. Eric Greene returns in the title role, and Sir Willard White as Count Monterone, […]
Not just a new ankle….
Yorkshire businessman, Mick Fogarty, doesn’t just have a new ankle; he also has a new lease of life. Mick has done more exercise in the last few months than he has for many years. Having lost 20 kgs in weight, completed two rigorous boot camps in Spain and regularly walking 12.5 kilometres, he has come […]
