Hesco Lounge: Opening in Roundhay on 9 October
The former Banyan site on Street Lane has been transformed into a home from home, catering for all tastes with an innovative all-day menu. Heavily patterned wallpapers, tiling and stripped wooden floors now feature alongside oversized vintage sofas, upholstered lounge chairs, eclectic artwork and statement wall and pendant lighting, creating a variety of cosy and […]
Yorkshire Writer Wins BBC National Short Story Award
Yorkshire novelist and short story writer, Ross Raisin has won the nineteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) for ‘Ghost Kitchen’, a tense, cinematic story narrated by a bicycle courier and inspired by the gig economy and the ‘dark kitchens’ of the restaurant industry. The news was announced live on BBC Radio 4 Front Row on Tuesday 1st October during a […]
Thackray Museum: Autumn Winter Programme – Unique Experiences For All Ages
Major new exhibitions, new Lates, more boffins and one brilliant Christmas, plus an Insights programme featuring leading voices, including Dr. Adam Rutherford. IMAGE: Projecting Grief launches at Thackray Thackray Museum of Medicine has just unveiled a vibrant programme of events for this Autumn and Winter, offering an array of exhibitions, creative installations and unique experiences for all […]
Compass Festival: across Leeds 1 – 30 November
The seventh edition of Compass Festival offers a whole month of interactive art across Leeds – and everything’s free or Pay What You Can. Join an after-hours communal feast hosted by Ling Tan in Kirkgate Market’s 1904 Hall as part of Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown – Artists SLAP Collective stage ALT+R, a digital wellness spa […]
The Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery: Poetry or Bust
An oboe buried on a moor; a lichen-encrusted name carved into a rock; a lost grave; an empty plinth in a Bingley park; a chipped Burmantofts ceramic plaque… A new display in The Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, University of Leeds, tells the cautionary tale of ‘The Bingley Byron’, John Nicholson – and playwright and […]
