Pinch me. It seems like a dream, to perform at the Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe 2015, and I have to keep pinching myself to see if I am dreaming or not. But it’s all...
This year the Leeds Big Bookend Festival will become a living map of the city What is Leeds? A place defined by its history, by the stories we recount and the events that have...
Chris Nickson tells us some tales of Leeds that are all but forgotten. You can hear about his Leeds, The Biography: A History of Leeds in Short Stories at the Big Bookend festival on Saturday 6th...
Frances Brody reminisces about the Silverdale Children’s Holiday Centre and how it was the inspiration for two of her earlier books. Frances, along with Oliver Cross and Richard Wilcocks will be recounting Extraordinary Tales...
In February this year, Jon Silkin’s Complete Poems was published by Carcanet, following several years’ work by co-editors Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner. Despite being well known during his lifetime as a poet, editor...
In advance of the Oluwale Partnership Symposium being held at Leeds Beckett University on Friday 17th April, Ian Duhig remembers how he first came to hear about David Oluwale’s story and the mark it left...
Meet the Authors- Jonathan Geldert, The Thoughts of Chairmen Now Event date: Apr 21 2015 18:00 to 19:30 The Business Confucius Institute, Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, Room G.02 Jonathan Geldart has interviewed some...
Event date: Apr 18 2015 10:00 to 13:00 The Business Confucius Institute, Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, 1.03, Leeds University This is a unique opportunity to get inspired by ancient objects from Leeds City Museum, using...
Lynsey Jones, a Leeds based actor, talks about her work on an exciting new show, Drink with a Chimp. “Once you are free from addiction, you are free from everything.” Spacious Places Client For the...
Escape:CYT is a youth theatre where young people are writers and theatre makers in their own right. Their new show One Plus One Equals Three opens on Thursday and group director Simon Brewis tells us...
