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.

People of Leeds – do you know an Uber driver? A butcher? A watchmaker? How about a stockbroker? A factory worker? A philosopher? An ICU nurse?

Transform are seeking Leeds workers to be part of an extraordinary event that will create a portrait of the city, this October.

Each person will be invited to work a shift on stage at Leeds Playhouse – and be paid for their time. They’ll demonstrate what they do and respond to questions about their work and lives.

LIFF are looking for people to join the LIFF 2021 volunteer team who:

• are passionate about film, especially world cinema;
• are reliable and available across at least four different days from 3 to 18 November 2021;
• enjoy being part of a team and collaborating with others;
• are driven to help make LIFF one of the best annual experiences for audiences in the UK.

The benefits of being part of the LIFF 2021 volunteer team will include:

Here at the Art Doctors, we have produced a series of very short films of the activities in our Toolkit for Gallery Visits.