A singing storytelling session for World Book Day with freelance community music worker Nicky Bray in our beautiful museum, to tie in with this year's 'Story Time' exhibition.
Join us for an hour of light hearted literary and lyrical fun. All ages welcome. Especially suited to pre-schoolers!
This event is free, and drop-in, but voluntary donations are welcome on the day.
From the team that brought you The Doodle Dance Show, join us for a magical hour of building, music and dancing.
Let your imagination run riot as hundreds of boxes are stacked, squashed and rebuilt. Help create enticing caves, wonky castles and fabulous creatures, as together we learn that the strongest thing we can build is friendship.
Award winning performers Anatomical create an enchanting, ever-changing playground constructed and inhabited by its audience.
Set shortly after the Great Famine in a small village in Ireland, eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell, a young girl, played by Kila Lord Cassidy, who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. Is the village harbouring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or is something else going on? Florence Pugh plays the English nurse Lib Wright who is brought to a tiny village to observe the situation. William Byrne, played by Tom Burke is a journalist who grew up locally and is back to cover the story for the Daily Telegraph.
In Lionheart (2018), Adaeze, a determined and stylish young woman, is thrust into the spotlight when her father’s transport business faces a crisis. With the support of her strong, close-knit family, and despite sexist challenges, she battles against tough odds to save the company.
A strange serial murder case unfolds in Sendai, nine years after the city was ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami: two social workers are found starved to death after being tied up and abandoned. Both were involved in the processing of welfare benefit claims after the disaster.
As part of a new programme, Back to Bollywood, reintroducing Bollywood to Hyde Park Picture House.
Chandni is a classic Yash Chopra love story, softly lyrical, throbbingly beautiful and filled with exquisite locales, lilting melodies and the sound of three hearts hopelessly in love.
Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.
Seacroft Village Hall
980 York Road
Leeds
LS14 6JS
United Kingdom
Join us for a one-day retreat, held at Seacroft Village Hall, where we’ll explore the art of shamatha (sometimes simply called ‘concentration’) meditation — an ancient practice designed to calm the mind and arouse focus and clarity.
What is Shamatha?
Shamatha, or “calm abiding,” is a practice that helps you develop focus, ease, and mental clarity. By learning to settle the agitations of the mind, you can experience a deep sense of relaxation and alertness, creating space for emotional balance and inner peace.
Formed by Sue Mingus after Mingus’ death in 1979, Mingus Dynasty Septet performs exclusively the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus.
Charles Mingus was an iconic, trail-blazing bassist who said he was in fact first and foremost a composer, leaving behind over 300 compositions.
The Mingus Dynasty Septet aims to keep Charles' work alive and bring it to a new audience, and has become a New York institution for locals and tourists alike, with its weekly residency in its fourth decade.
Harder Than The Rock chronicles the incredible journey of Britain's first reggae band, Cimarons. Formed by teenage Jamaican immigrants in a London bus shelter in 1967, the band were at the forefront of the reggae explosion in the 1970s. Thousands of miles from Jamaica, they brought excitement, experimentation, and sheer anticipation to Black British youth, connecting them to their roots and identity through their powerful music.