Yorkshire Sculpture International – Damien Hirst Sculptures
Seven of Damien Hirst’s sculptures will be part of the first Yorkshire Sculpture International Festival, which is to take place in Leeds and Wakefield from 22 June until 29 September. Leeds Art Gallery will be temporary home to Black Sheep With Golden Horns (2009). (Feature photograph.) In the City Centre, Hymn (1999 – 2005) and […]
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 […]
