What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, invite you to join them in their new performance space, The Concert Room at The Holbeck on Saturday (2 March 2019). To mark their arrival at The Holbeck they have gathered some of their most talented friends to create an evening showbiz splendour. Poets,
Back in October we reported that Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, was moving from under the viaduct to The Holbeck club. I caught up with Artistic Director Alan Lane to find out how the move was going. I arrived to find the power off at the club as workmen
After a hugely successful first term at their Cultural Community College, the acclaimed Leeds theatre company Slung Low have unveiled an exciting new programme of Pay What You Decide cultural classes for their second term. The new term, which will start on Sunday 17 February at Slung Low’s new location The Holbeck in South Leeds, will offer an
When the Spotted Cow Inn in Holbeck was demolished several years ago the figure of the cow’s head above the main front door was saved and taken for storage at the premises of Slung Low underneath the railway viaduct. The idea was that, as part of Holbeck’s heritage, it could
Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company have struck a deal with The Holbeck (formerly Holbeck Working Men’s Club) which is set to strengthen both organisations. A members’ meeting on Sunday 28 October approved the plans which will see Slung Low take over the day to day running of the club,
As part of Slung Low Theatre’s annual Christmas Fayre on Saturday 8 December 2018, there will be a special afternoon performance at The Holbeck (WMC) as Freckle Productions present Tabby McTat from the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Interwoven with original songs, Tabby McTat is the heart-warming tale of
Slung Low’s How To Festival returns on Sunday 7 October 2018 with a distinctly 80s/90s party vibe. How to…Party will be a celebration of the way people get together to have a good time – eat, drinks, rave, tell stories, share a magic moment or two. Included in the events
It’s somehow appropriate that a play created to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1984-5 Miners Strike and the 2015 closure Hatfield Main colliery, should come to an industrial wasteland in South Leeds, the historic birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, powered by coal. Ironic though that Holbeck Underground Ballroom, a
Marking the closure of one of the last deep seam mines, Hatfield Main Colliery, and fifty years after the closure of South Leeds last coal mine, Middleton Broom Pit, a powerful new play The Last Seam comes to Holbeck’s own theatre: Slung Low’s HUB this Sunday (23 September 2018). During the
Would you like to learn how to put up a shelf? Or cook Indian food? Perhaps you’d like to try stargazing or decorative blacksmithing? All these subjects and more are on the syllabus at a new college starting in a converted double decker bus in Holbeck. Slung Low, Holbeck’s own