Leeds International Festival of Ideas: Is the UK media broken?

Evan Davis, who is an economics expert and probably best known as the presenter of Dragons Den, facilitated an interesting discussion amongst five speakers, all of whom are interested in or play a role in the UK media. As is often the case with Leeds International Festival events, the session was a stimulating and provocative […]

Leeds International Festival of Ideas – Do we have enough food?

This Leeds International Festival of Ideas event took place at City Varieties Music Hall, with a panel of experts in food and drink led by food critic Grace Dent. Much is being promulgated about the challenges that we face in the future as our population grows. Recent estimates suggest that we’re going to have a […]

Leeds International Festival of Ideas – Living in a Future City: George Clarke

George Clarke’s work with Channel 4 has widened understanding of architecture, restoration, home design and the importance of social housing. His excitement about interacting with a live audience at this LIFI event, after months of zoom calls, was palpable. Leeds Corn Exchange was the ideal venue to host George Clarke. Cuthbert Broderick’s nineteenth century building […]

In Conversation With Treeboy and Arc

With Long Division Festival right around the corner, I wanted to get to know some of the bands a bit better. The first act in this series of interviews with Leeds Living, is the brilliant Treeboy and Arc. A little bit of background for people who may not be familiar with Treeboy and Arc, they […]