What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Trigger warning: this article discusses suicide There was a packed house at St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck on Wednesday, World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September 2025) for a performance of Men’s Talk ahead of a visit from the Baton of Hope. This powerful production was performed by six men
The end of June/beginning of July saw three performances in a week involving students from the three Cockburn secondary schools. On the Monday, Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy hosted their annual Shakespeare Festival. Cockburn John Charles Academy students performed a hilarious “Love Island” version of Twelfth Night. Cockburn School performed a
The incredible worlds of graphic novels, orchestral music and electronic soundscapes will come together in a captivating, immersive performance in Leeds next week. Award-winning turntablist, DJ and producer NikNak will join forces with Chineke! Orchestra for the world premier of ‘Parable’, a brand new piece created as part of the
Embark on a captivating journey with The Hunslet Rogues as we proudly present their latest showcase which is made up of four separate performances: Alice’s in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, Schools Out, and An Inspector Calls. Immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of emotions, where every scene unfolds with precision and
Visitors to Leeds Central Library can take a spellbinding step into an enchanting storybook world this Christmas thanks to a series of immersive live performances. From Saturday 10 December 2022, the library’s atmospheric Room 700 will be the setting for Libellule Theatre’s magical production of The Storymaker’s Apprentice throughout next
Leeds theatre company The Performance Ensemble is on a quest to grow its company and gather 1,000 stories from the city’s older population that will ultimately create a piece of theatre for the Leeds Cultural Festival in 2023. The Performance Ensemble is a company of performers over the age of
After many years of working as a senior professional in the field of information science, Paul Walsh became frustrated by a job which he perceived to “produce nothing”. From this frustration came a period quite literally in the wilderness working as an environmental conservationist before finally returning indoors, and into
Having opened my previous article for South Leeds Life with a latin phrase this time I turn my attention to the French phrase avant-garde, or in English the Advance Guard. The origin of the term is a military one indicating a body of soldiers preceding and making preparations for the
March saw the beginning of, not only the 2018 programme at BasementArtsProject, but also the beginning of our eighth year as an arts organisation based at the heart of South Leeds. Whilst we may be small in scale our ambitions are somewhat larger. For seven years now we have been