Leeds label and development organisation Come Play With Me have reopened submissions to artists, aiming to platform a new selection of artists and bands as part of their mission to showcase, support and develop the incredible emerging talent across the region. The call out is the latest in their search for exciting new releases from the Yorkshire region. 

A partnership of colleagues from Culture, Active Leeds and Public Health in Leeds City Council has secured funding of £4,000 to deliver a project which will bring benefits to the city in terms of increasing levels of physical activity, promoting walking routes in areas including Chapeltown and Harehills, celebrating a Leeds cultural phenomenon, and developing a range of products to embed and showcase intergenerational story-telling.

Hyde Park Picture House are presenting the first wave of a new African film strand, supported by Leeds African Communities Trust.

African cinema has historically been excluded and underrepresented locally, nationally and internationally. This film strand aims to raise awareness of African life and culture through excellent films for the African and non-African audiences in Leeds.

Here's a review of Cook Off (2017, Zimbabwe) the first film in the series, which is being screened at Headingley HEART on 4th March at 7.30pm. The review is by Leeds writer Lucy Ndlovu.

Daniel Maher, member of the LGBT+ community in Leeds and proud volunteer with Angels of Freedom Leeds offers an insight into the world of LGBT+ support available in Leeds, as the organisation celebrates its fourth year and is campaigning for more volunteers.

After a long period of uncertainty and Covid-related delays, we’re pleased and somewhat relieved to report that the Picture House’s redevelopment project is now well under way and making good progress.

This means we can now look ahead to the cinema’s reopening, which all being well should be late summer next year. But in order to reach that milestone, and complete the project as planned, we still have some final funds we need to raise. 

Carrieanne Vivianette introduces a new theatre piece from CVIVArts exploring desire, societal rejection, and resilience against a backdrop of the COVID pandemic.

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the relationship between desire and desires not being fulfilled.

We have always experienced wanting things we cannot have, day-to-day, but perhaps now our desires are stronger and the lack of fulfilment is even more apparent? So, we are all plunged into facing further challenge, finding methods to a life of satisfaction and a rhythm with contemporary society.

@WHYHydePark is a new social feed highlighting all that is wonderful in Leeds' Hyde Park.

The Zine comes out four times a year and will feature artwork from local artists as well as a snapshot of all the fantastic things to be proud of in the area.

Do you play/create music and find yourself going back to the same rhythms and sounds? Are you looking to shake things up? Come and join me for a visually immersive experimental sound session with people from randomly different styles and genres.

This will be the first session for a larger project I'm developing called Collaborative Audio-Visual Experimentation Sessions (CAVE sessions). Creative sessions where people come together to explore sound in a visually stimulating space.

Earlier this year we commissioned Leeds based illustrator Taaryn Brench to create illustrations for some of our well used event pages like gigs, film listings and school holiday events.