Chow Down Winter Village
Since mid-November, the Winter Village has been welcoming everyone with festive spirit to its permanent home at Temple Arches. Summertime no longer has the monopoly on warm days and nights for fun and food with family and friends. At the Winter Village, there are fire pits, heaters, winter snugs in the Chow Down Ski Lodge, […]
Welcome to Leeds : Make it Magical This Year
A lot of people are working hard to put smiles on everyone’s faces over the Christmas season. There are so many things to watch, do and enjoy, from light installations to music, family fun and festive art – and the Christmas Market starts on 19 November. The ‘Dear Leeds’ light installation returns to Briggate and […]
Greetings!
You may have noticed that for the last eight months, the emphasis on our content has been about the work of local charities and those people and businesses who have supported all their efforts and come up with some initiatives themselves. It’s our privilege to let readers know what they can do to help. Now, it’s […]
NORTHERN OPERA GROUP’S CINDERELLA
And one for the pre-teens … Firstly, a word about a composer, now largely forgotten, who may merit a chapter to herself in an adequate tome of music’s history. Pauline Viardot lived a long life. She was six in the year that Beethoven died, yet lived until just five weeks shy of the sensational première […]
Opera North’s Cinderella
With theatres most definitely closed by decree and Christmas all but cancelled, here is forty minutes of family fun, for a fiver, to be enjoyed at any time during our isolated festivities. Ready the children, with a brief explanation of what cinders once were, fashion a wand with which to help the magic along, and […]
