Mikkel Ullah - Dynamite

The Dynamite Project is a collective established in 2014 by local urban artist Mikkel Ullah.

Mikkel says "It felt important that I could help young musicians, dancers and artists from Leeds access opportunities and connections for creative projets, whilst staying connected to the city myself."

How To Experience FORGE

From 31st March 2022 - 2nd April 2022 at new experimental warehouse venue Testbed, informed by her Jewish history, artist Rachel Mars will be making an exact replica of the 100kg steel ‘welcome gate’ which was stolen from the Dachau concentration camp. Accompanied by a live sound-scape by sound artist Dinah Mullen, audiences are invited to watch as Rachel welds a replica of the replica gate over the course of three days.

Love Exploring Carnival Celebration

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.

Seeing Africa! A New Film Strand

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.

The Picture House Winter Fundraiser

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.