Middleton Railway reopens on Saturday with Community Day
Middleton Railway will open its 2025 season on Saturday (5 April 2025) with its traditional Community Day. The day offers a platform to a wide range of community groups to promote themselves to visitors and hopefully gain some new members. People visiting the railway will get a chance to find out
Know Yr Enemy! (and it’s not who you might think)
The ability of people to gather and acknowledge common interests is key to creating a community. This happens in a limited way with things such as sporting events but such events could be seen as a model for how things could work at a more local level when removed from the constraints of commerce.
Pyramid: Take A Seat -Exhibition at Seagulls Paint Thursday 10th October | 5:30-8:30pm
Holbeck-based arts organisation Pyramid and Seagulls Paint, which has recently relocated to Water Lane, have partnered on a new project transforming unwanted furniture into unique works of art. This creative initiative has been undertaken by Next Step Pyramid, a group of artists who meet weekly at Pyramid, in Holbeck, and will be shared in a new exhibition, opening at Seagulls on 11 October
Power To The People
This year BasementArtsProject has received funding from Arts Council England towards the first stages of a project that will culminate in an exhibition and public sculpture for South Leeds. Annabelle Richmond-Wright is an artist based in Middleton; South Leeds and 2021 graduate of Leeds Arts University.
Lending to save money and carbon
Do you have things you use infrequently or are looking to borrow something briefly? It’s a real shame when we have stuff doing nothing sitting on our shelves in our home and it’s also a shame when we need something for a small project or event or trip, but know
Home: Lost and Found FREE CONCERT
In the 19th century, Italian opera was heard not only in the opera houses but at home and on the street: far from being an elite form of entertainment this was people’s music, and it told universal and timeless stories of the quest for love and home.
West Yorkshire Youth Commission’s Big Conversation
Young people in South Leeds are being asked for their views on the issues impacting their local community including violence and attitudes towards women. Two short online surveys have been set up by the West Yorkshire Youth Commission, a peer-led organisation supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. They are
The Banshees of Beeston
Each morning, here on the corner of Dewsbury and Tunstall Road, we are awoken by the sounds of a lost soul crying in the streets outside. The crying is continual and punctuated with screams and shouts.
