Gledhow Valley Road will be closed for most of its 1.5 Km length on Sunday 14 July between 11am and 4pm for a Green Fair.
The Green Fair will be a unique opportunity for the local community to come together to enjoy Gledhow Valley Woods without the noise and pollution associated with a busy road.
Join us this August at The Compton Centre, Seacroft Community Hub & Library and The Reginald Centre, for more free creative workshops run by professional artists!
Sessions are for primary aged children.
The Compton Centre - 3.45pm to 4.45pm
30th July Circus Skills
6th August Movement/Yoga
13th August Movement/Dance
20th August Drama,
Reginald Centre - 2pm to 3pm
7th August Circus Skills
Seacroft Library - 2pm - 3pm
14th August Movement
Artist Talk by Peter Mitchell accompanied by a slide show and followed by a book signing.
One of the most renowned photographer’s of the 20th century, Peter Mitchell is perhaps most well known for his documentary photography of Leeds across the 1970s and 80s while working as a delivery truck driver.
We begin our 2024 Mindfulness Festival with this session hosted by Steve Hart, using soothing self talk in meditation to be kind to ourselves and trust our intrinsic soundness.
Session takes place in the Gatehouse, Abbey House Museum, book your place via Tickets below.
Test your brand knowledge with rounds including lost logos and made in Yorkshire. Bring a team or buddy up when you arrive.
Book your place via Tickets below.
The wait is nearly over, our refurbishment is almost complete and we can’t wait to welcome you back to the Institute from 12 July 2024.
We've been closed since November 2023 for the first significant refurbishment in our thirty-year history. Working with Leeds-based Group Ginger architects, the renovations have focused on creating more welcoming spaces for visitors, with enhanced events, creativity and meeting rooms.
We have asked two of our favourite guitar-pop bands to help curate an all day party in Leeds at the Brudenell Social Club.
In part an excuse to celebrate the release of Personal Trainer's brand new album on Bella Union, and similarly Bull's great 2nd record 'Engines Of Honey' (which landed at the beginning of the year), but also just to celebrate celebrating with friends at the end of our summer.
Personal Trainer
Over the last two years, Merseyside Rockers, The Dream Machine have released a trio of 4-track EPs that have seen them explore three separate lyrical aesthetics while maintaining their appealingly rich sonic style.
Influenced by iconic psych-rock songwriters such as Patti Smith and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, they blend smooth vocal harmonies with tantalisingly hypnotic Americana grooves. These three uniquely cohesive EP’s have earned extensive support from BBC London and Steve Lamacq at 6 Music who made them a spotlight artist.
On July 21st, 2016, a user on 4chan’s /mu/ board posted a photo of a demo CD they’d discovered in an Oxfam charity store in Nottingham, UK: titled D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, purportedly released in 2000. The listener uploaded the ripped audio to file-sharing sites, and later YouTube, where it began circulating around web forums.
Newen Afrobeat is a Chilean band, pioneer in the Afrobeat genre in Chile and one of the current references of this musical style born in the late 60's in Nigeria by the hand of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. With 15 years of trajectory, they have been opening space within the world music, jazz and global afrobeat music scenes with outstanding appearances in important events such as Womad, Womex, Felabration Nigeria, Jazz Festival in Montreal and presentations in more than 20 countries in Latin America, North America, Africa and Europe.