OPERA NORTH ANNOUNCES JOURNEY BACK FROM LOCKDOWN
Opera North has announced new live performances, with Fidelio the first large scale production for over 12 months. Fidelio Beethoven’s only opera was originally scheduled for November 2020, but, nothing daunted, Opera North livestreamed Fidelio to huge acclaim, The Guardian reviewing it as ‘electrifying’. The same cast will perform to a socially distanced audience on […]
Chilled Events: The Sensory Hideout at The Lockup, Leeds
A live event (not virtual) celebrating a collaboration of technology, art and music and welcoming the first sensory projection room in the North. Another first for Leeds! Chilled Events invite you to “Explore, discover and immerse yourself in our 360 digital art gallery with artwork produced by local Leeds creatives. Ground yourself within our digital […]
Breaking The Mould – an Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
The Exhibition, which explores the work of fifty female sculptors over seventy years, visits Longside Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park on 29 May until 5 September. Breaking the Mould ‘provides a radical recalibration, addressing the many accounts of British sculpture that have marginalised women or airbrushed their work out of the art historical canon altogether.’ […]
Straight out of lockdown and into a tour – Judy & Liza at City Varieties Music Hall on 20 May
Described as ‘dazzling and heartwarming’, the show charts the careers and relationship of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, and will be the first out of lockdown for some of the UK’s re-opened theatres. This will mean that measures will be in place to ensure audience safety. Judy & Liza is produced by Bill Elms Productions […]
Leeds Photographer Wins English Heritage Commission ‘England’s New Lenses’
Megan Mechelle Dalton has been commissioned by Photoworks and English Heritage for England’s New Lenses, and her body of work will re-tell The War of The Roses in a Yorkshire castles inspired fashion editorial. Three other artists aged 18 – 25 have won commissions: London-based Kemka Ajoku will work with Wrest Park, Bedfordshire to create […]
