Preview: Leeds Indie Food Festival 2019

The Festival, now in its 5th year, will take place from 9 – 27 May and will include more than 75 events across the City, involving 150 collaborations. Variety and quality are key to Leeds Indie Food, so a wide range of collaborations is on offer. Exclusive supper clubs, workshops, and one-off events showcasing the […]
Review: Leeds Lit Fest: Adverse Camber’s The Shahnameh

Of the events I attended during the first Leeds Literature Festival, this humble, forty-five minute family show was, somewhat surprisingly, the highlight, and its richness deserves an article on its own. As regular readers of my reviews will know is certainly not my custom, I actually arrived early to this show. The extremely bare stage […]
Leeds Lit Fest: Review – A Trio of Events

Charles Eager reviews 34 Years of Peepal Tree Press, Anna Beer: Patriot or Traitor – The Life and Death of Sir Walter Raleigh, and Nunkie Theatre: A Pleasing Terror- Two Stories by M R James. I have always been somewhat sceptical of Literature Festivals, given my conviction that almost all literary figures worth seeing are […]
PREVIEW: The Sounds Like THIS Festival

The Sounds Like THIS Festival provides a stage for new music and musicians to perform work which is challenging and intriguing. It also provides both leading and emerging artists the opportunity to show their visual installations and sound art. The work being featured is either new or a maximum of five years old, with a […]
Leeds International Festival 2019: Full Programme

Leeds International Festival 2019 has revealed its full programme for 2 – 12 May. It’s clear to see that the organisers have worked hard to ensure that we are presented with an innovative and diverse line-up, which includes a wide spectrum of talent and expertise drawn from the UK and beyond, and of course the special […]