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Date:

From Thursday 28th January 2010

to Sunday 4th July 2010

Opening Times:
Closed Mondays
10.00am – 5.00pm Tuesdays
10.00am – 5.00pm Wednesdays
10.00am – 7.00pm Thursdays
10.00am – 5.00pm Fridays
11.00am – 5.00pm Saturdays
11.00am – 5.00pm Sundays

Address:

Leeds City Museum

Millennium Square

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS2 8BH

Tel: 0113 224 3732

Leeds City Museum Website

Beginners Photography Workshop
10.30am – 5.00pm

Dates:
30th April 2010
28th May 2010
11th June 2010
16th July 2010
13th August 2010
24th September 2010
22nd October 2010

One day beginners photography workshop in the glorious surroundings and interiors of Harewood House.

The course includes coffee on arrival, camera set up, focus and composition technique tuition as we work around the House & grounds.

The course is ideally suited to digital SLR users wishing to improve or learn landscape photographic techniques and a tripod would greatly enhance the learning process.

Adult Price: £95.00

Harewood Box Office can be found on the website via the link below or on 0113 218 1000 The booking office is open between 10.00am and 5.00pm seven days a week.

Address:

Harewood House

Harewood

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS17 9LG

Tel: 0113 218 1010

Harewood House website

How To Find Harewood House

Harewood House is located seven miles north of Leeds city centre in the village of Harewood.


By Car: from Leeds take the A58 out of the centre and then the A61 Harrogate Road for just over eight miles. Once on the A61 near Harewood follow the signposts for Harewood House.


By Bus: from Leeds, you can get the number 36 bus to Harewood. This bus runs three times an hour from Monday to Saturday and twice an hour on Sundays.

St George’s Day Tea Dance

After last years fantastic Tea Dance was such a great success, Harewood is hosting a family Tea Dance to celebrate St George’s Day this year.

There’ll be friendly dance enthusiasts on hand to take the lead and plenty of tea, jam tarts, cakes and butterfly buns for you to refuel between dances!

Harewood Box Office can be found on the website via the link below or on 0113 218 1000 The booking office is open between 10.00am and 5.00pm seven days a week.

Address:

Harewood House

Harewood

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS17 9LG

Tel: 0113 218 1010

Harewood House website

How To Find Harewood House

Harewood House is located seven miles north of Leeds city centre in the village of Harewood.


By Car: from Leeds take the A58 out of the centre and then the A61 Harrogate Road for just over eight miles. Once on the A61 near Harewood follow the signposts for Harewood House.


By Bus: from Leeds, you can get the number 36 bus to Harewood. This bus runs three times an hour from Monday to Saturday and twice an hour on Sundays.

Kill for a Seat Comedy

Wednesday 28/04/2010 8.30pm Tickets : £10 /£8(conc)

This month Silky introduces Bruce Moreton and Toby Hadke. Buy tickets early to avoid depression!

Scotland ’s acclaimed comic, storyteller and social commentator, Bruce Moreton, was a founder of the Funny Farm Comedy Collective which in 1989 helped kick-start the Scottish stand-up scene. UK attention soon followed for Bruce with his appearances on C4’s Halfway to Paradise in 1990, before writing and performing his own C4 shows, Shoe Fetishist’s Guide and, in 1993, the series Sin with Bruce Moreton.

Toby Hadoke is the highly regarded regular compere at XS MALARKEY, Manchester ’s multi-award winning comedy venue. He has also headlined at many Northern comedy venues and is an accomplished serious actor with experience on television, the stage and even in an opera! Toby’s stand-up is renowned for its topicality and occasionally uncompromising political slant, and his delivery giddily straddles the humbly self-deprecating to the ferociously in-your-face. He is a frequent broadcaster on BBC radio, and live audiences can get drenched in his saliva (sorry, entertained by him) at XS Malarkey and Manchester’s The Comedy Store on a regular.

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.

Screen Seven – A Bunch of Amateurs

Monday 26/04/2010 8pm Tickets : £5 /£3.50 conc

A Hollywood has-been slums it in an amateur British production: it’s a description that covers both plot and film in this amiable but scattershot comedy.

Burt Reynolds is Jefferson Steel, a pampered action star desperate to make a comeback. He accepts an offer to do Shakespeare in Stratford, little knowing that it’s not upon Avon, but the (fictional) village of Stratford St John in Suffolk.

Naturally, the amateur theatre group is in raptures about the arrival of their LA King Lear, but the man himself is less than enthused about acting alongside pig farmers and staying in a B&B with no ensuite facilities. It’s a reasonably amusing idea, and the script duly has fun with the contrasts between LA-la land and sleepy Suffolk. Steel pops his shoes outside his bedroom door only for a dog to chew on them. Later, the local mobile library is hurriedly transformed into a makeshift trailer.

Such antics raise a smile, but no belly laughs. Those are reserved soley for Imelda Staunton, who puts in a jolly performance as the owner of the B&B and Steel’s biggest fan. Derek Jacobi also acts a bland Reynolds off the screen in a no-brainer role as a Shakesperian purist. But the story is completely preposterous, as anyone with a passing knowledge of Hollywood and agents (ie ‘Entourage’ viewers) will know. It’s also hastily edited and, in places, poorly cast. The talents of Staunton, Jacobi and love interest Samantha Bond aside, the title may be more accurate than originally intended.

Director: Andy Cadiff, UK, 2008, 97 mins, 15.

Cast: Burt Reynolds, Camilla Arfwedson, Samantha Bond, Derek Jacobi, Imelda Staunton

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.

Afternoon Jazz – Garforth Jazz Rock Band

Date: Sunday 25/04/2010

Time: 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Tickets : £5/4 concessions, kids under 16 free

Garforth Jazz Rock Band is a community/youth big band with members from Leeds, Wakefield and the surrounding region that has over the years collaborated with an impressive list of musicians.

GJRB was formed in the October of 2003. Since this time the band has performed on more than 125 individual occasions! The band has had two tours, the most recent to Dublin earlier this year and the other to the Black Forest region of Germany in the summer of 2006.

Over the years of its existence the band has collaborated, in the form of workshops, projects,commissions and joint gigs with an impressive list of musicians including Dave O’Higgins, Barnaby Dickinson, The Grand Union Orchestra, Claude Deppa, Ken Marley, Hannah Meriden, Dennis Rollins, Sean Hargreaves, Harvie S and, most recently, Soweto Kinch.

During the course of our gigging schedule we have come to perform on the same stage and at the same events as such artists as Dennis Rollins, Sean Hargreaves, Chumbawamba, Courtney Pine, James Taylor Quartet, Kate Rusby, Soweto Kinch and Jazz Jamaica to name a few.

The band is directed by jazz pianist and festival organiser (also leader of the Fruit Tree band) Dave Evans who is constantly looking for new members to join this exciting, eclectic and sometimes anarchic band.

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.

ArtForms Chamber Music Competition – Winners’ Concert

Sunday 25/04/2010 7pm

ArtForms hosts an annual Chamber Music Competition to encourage group music-making skills amongst young people.

The competition, which is open to all Leeds High Schools, is held in the historic gallery at Temple Newsam House. There are classes for string, woodwind, brass, guitar and vocal ensembles as well as a composition class. Performance pieces may be original compositions or arrangements in any genre of music.

Judging is by a panel of experienced, professional musicians, who make all decisions in a supportive and constructive way. More consideration is given to musicianship skills such as ensemble playing and communication with the audience than to technical ability.

Winners from each category receive a prize and perform at the winners’ concert.

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.

Paul Curreri

Friday 23/04/2010 doors 7.30 Tickets : £8 in advance /£10 on the door

Following the release of his ‘luminously produced’ (Mojo) 6th Album, California, Charlottesville, Virginia’s, Paul Curreri, returns to the UK with his most excellent band.

“He is something of a quiet genius, having a gift for skewed, elliptical or downright dutch arrangements of the familiar tropes of American music… He is so quietly, persistently musical that he might be the JJ Cale or Jesse Winchester of our time.” — THE INDEPENDENT

With a deeply rooted guitar style – seemingly flecked by Gary Davis, Frisell, Ali Farka, Marc Ribot – this April,
Virginia songwriter Paul Curreri will be touring the UK with his consistently impressive English quartet – featuring fellow Tin Angel Records label mates Lucy Ann Sale on percussion & keys, Joe Carvell (DON’T MOVE!) on bass, and Euan Rodger (Black Carrot) on drums.

The group’s previous tour last November concluded with 3 sold-out nights at London’s Betsey Trotwood. “Yeah, well,” Paul laughs, “it’s a pretty small joint.” That tour marked Curreri’s first UK tour in ages, due to a severe throat injury that he suffered in July of 2008. Forced off the road for the bulk of 2009, Curreri holed up and assembled his sonically vivid 6th album, California.

Uncut gave it 4 stars. Said MOJO, “His multi-instrumental skills consistently impress. Never less than accomplished, and at their best, give Dylan, Joe Henry, and Springsteen a run for their money.” As he did on his critically heralded previous effort, 2007’s snarling The Velvet Rut (which MOJO gave 5 stars), the album was recorded and performed solely by Curreri – with the exception of an appearance by his enchanting wife Devon Sproule on a duet of Michael Hurley’s “Wildgeeses.” (Curreri also produced Sproule’s recent release ¡Don’t Hurry For Heaven!)

Considering the health circumstances, California is surprisingly upbeat and harmonius. When asked how he managed to create such a forward-leaning, positive album while dealing with what many would regard as a career and personal crisis, a long moment passes before he replies. “Well, c’mon. We all live with hardship. But maybe it’s the price paid for being surrounded by and involving oneself with only what feels authentic and important. I get to play music, even if – yeah – on occasion it’s just at home. But I dunno… sometimes I wonder if fishing for more doesn’t rip something from someone who – for better or worse – wants or needs it more deeply. It was a really peaceful year.” Yeah, but what of hitting the road again? “Oh forget it, man,” he laughs, “I absolutely can’t wait.”

Tickets £8 in advance from www.wegottickets.com or www.jumbotickets.com or £10 on the door.

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.

Verbalise South Africa & UK Poets Tour

Thursday 22/04/2010

A dynamic journey through the streets of Johannesburg, Leeds, London & Capetown. Ten poets from SA & the UK bring a unique one off performance full of rich soul stirring song & explosive lyrical injection.

From the UK, curator Zena Edwards features alongside Khadijah Ibrahiim, Kayo Chingonyi, Dzifa Benson & Avaes Mohammad. From South Africa, featured poets are Mpho ya Badimo, Naima Mclean, Mbali Vilakazi, Masana Mulaudzi & Bulelwa Basse.

Supported by Sustained Theatre, the British Council & South African State Theatre, the Verbalized tour is a unique collaboration between ten inspirational & exciting performance poets, part of a long term cultural exchange linking artists & arts companies in Britain & South Africa.

Address:

Seven Artspace

31a Harrogate Road

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3PD

Tel: 0113 2626777


Seven Art Space Leeds website
Seven Jazz website

How To Find Seven Artspace

Close to the centre of Chapel Allerton and opposite the library, Seven is well served by a regular bus service from the city centre (2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (91).

On-street parking is available on Harrogate Road and out of hours behind the Somerfield Market.