Walking Home – Sound Journeys From Opera North
Now we can exercise more outdoors, Opera North has announced its commission for BBC Arts and Arts Council England’s Culture in Quarantine programme. Walking Home: Sound Journeys for Lockdown builds on the Leeds-based company’s history of award-winning and innovative sound walks and installations. New works are currently being written and will be recorded by five […]
Bundobust Launches Online Bottle Shop
Bundobust, renowned for Indian street food and craft beer, has launched an online beer bottle shop, Patel’s Off Licence, named after co-founder Mayur. The bottle shop was considered a great way to sell Bundobust’s existing stock and generate some income whilst their eateries are closed. Mayur and business partner Marko Husak were delighted, however, to […]
Local Musician Launches Music Platform During Lockdown
The 99 Second Playlist is a new music platform, the brainchild of Yorkshire musician George Reid. George has spent lockdown in collaboration with other musicians to offer music people may well not have heard before. George’s YouTube page releases a video every week – which is never more than 99 seconds long – and this […]
Leeds COVID Diaries Project
People of all ages across Leeds are being asked to share their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic, in their choice of format, including video diaries, blogs, social media posts, photographs, artwork, songs and poems. This initiative stems from a partnership between Leeds City Council and CEG,with the aim of collecting stories from as many local […]
A Special Community Magazine Hits The Streets
Leeds Living and some of our team of writers were very pleased to be involved in the generation of content and the overall editing. The digital version was launched on 18 May. The original idea stemmed from Leeds Indie Food and was consolidated by Chapter 81, FYI, Leeds Living and Leeds City Council. Leeds Indie […]
