North Leeds Life Magazine. May 2015 Edition. LS7, LS8, LS17

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CONNECTING YOU TO THE COMMUNITY SINCE 2005

The First Tour de Yorkshire

Age of Glamour at Lotherton Hall

Ilkley to Host Aegon Trophy

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NORTH LEEDS Life F R E E M AY 2 0 1 5 | LS7 | LS8 | LS17

CONNECTING YOU TO THE COMMUNITY SINCE 2005

The First Tour de Yorkshire

Age of Glamour at Lotherton Hall

Ilkley to Host Aegon Trophy

Cover: Marcel Kittel Photo: SWPix

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DEAR READERS,

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fabulous,

An exhibition showcasing fifties’

fashion in Lotherton Hall’s newly refurbished Fashion Galleries

The First EVER Tour de Yorkshire!

German sprinter Marcel Kittel and Dame Sarah Storey will

join Sir Bradley Wiggins for this exciting event.

new

fashion

exhibition

showcasing fifties’ fashion opens in the newly

renovation works and is looking fantastic! And, Oakwood Farmers’ Market can now return to its rightful place in its shadow. Chapel Allerton Park is about to be upgraded; Chapeltown unveils a ‘Welcome’ plaque; and Darius Brubeck plays Seven.

But, food seems to be taking over – #LIF15, the first Indie Food Festival showcasing independent restaurants and food producers all over Leeds, runs from 7th – 24th May, followed by Leeds Food and Drink Festival until 7th June, and The Great British Food Festival returns to Harewood House.

refurbished fashion galleries at Lotherton Hall;

There’s lots to read about and we hope you

the original play ‘The King’s Speech’ comes to

enjoy it all! Don’t forget to get your news to us in

Leeds Grand and promises to deliver far more than

good time for the June edition – deadline 1st May

you expect; and tickets for the Yorkshire Cancer

for editorial, 8th May for advertising (1st & 9th June

Centre’s September Ball, which will be a great

for July).

night, are now on sale.

Kind regards, Carole, Jack and the team.

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The Age of Glamour

The Oakwood Clock has returned from

Well, it’s exciting times for Leeds and Yorkshire! The first Tour de Yorkshire has cycling enthusiasts hyperventilating. Ilkley Lawn Tennis and Squash Club will soon welcome international professional tennis players to the inaugural Aegon Ilkley Trophy Championship. There are festivals busting out all over…and dare I mention the General Election?!

06 The Oakwood Clock is Back!

The Oakwood Clock has returned from renovation works and is looking fantastic!

22 Waterloo 1815 – The Art of Battle Exhibition The Royal Armouries marks the anniversary with a special exhibition, bringing together works of art, arms and armour.

64 Ilkley Tennis Club Prepares to Host International Tournament International professionals are bound for Ilkley for the inaugural Aegon Ilkley Trophy Championship in June.

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The Oakwood Clock is Back!

The Oakwood Clock has returned from renovation works and is looking fantastic!

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Carole Carey-Campbell

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he renovated ‘pegacorns’ (Pegasus unicorns) are casting a watchful eye across Oakwood as the remainder of the area surrounding the clock is paved and renovated, ready for Oakwood Day on Saturday 2nd May, from 12 – 9pm.

The Lord Mayor will unveil the clock at 1.30pm, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant will unveil the brick pavoirs that local residents have bought as part of the fundraising, and a time capsule will be buried – to be opened in 2112 to mark the bicentenary of the clock.

Local bands will perform and there will be a range of local artists and food stalls. Guided Heritage Trail and Nature Walks will run throughout the day, starting from the clock. Listen to oral history, collected during the clock

Both the clock and Oakwood Farmers’ Market are back home

renovation, at Oakwood Library, and catch two clock-based films in the evening (free) – just bring your chairs and a picnic and enjoy the films.

Oakwood Farmers’ Market will continue the celebrations as it returns to its home beneath the Clock on 16th May. There will be a steel band, activities for children, a celebration cake, made

by Cutting Cake Patisserie, and a prize hamper.

All the regular stalls will be there, plus some fabulous guest stalls, including Pextenement Cheese, Leeds Bread Coop and Beal’s early strawberries.

Oakwood Farmers’ Market takes place every third Saturday of the month from 9am to 12.30pm.

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JACOB KRAMER (1892-1962) ARTIST

In 1921 when Leeds Art Gallery reopened after the First World War, some striking new works went on show. Two pictures in particular stood out and provoked controversy – ‘The Day of Atonement’ and ‘Hear Our Voice, O Lord Our God’, both by the young Jewish artist Jacob Kramer, born in Russia but brought up in Leeds. The Jewish community in Leeds had commissioned them as gifts to the Gallery, and almost a century later they remain among the most powerful images in the city’s collection, still resonant today and a reminder of the tragic story of this gifted and passionate Leeds artist. acob Kramer was born in the

major exhibition in Harrogate, and was

Ukraine in 1892, the first child

in demand for talks and comments on

of Max and Cecilia Kramer. His father

art. He was becoming a Leeds celebrity.

was a court painter, his mother was

After a further couple of years in

musical; they had a favoured, cultured

London, he settled permanently in Leeds

life. But the violent anti-Jewish pogroms

around 1924, living in lodgings in Little

of the 1890s finally forced the family,

Woodhouse. He continued to exhibit,

like many others, to flee. Around 1900,

and to produce his striking, sometimes

when Jacob was eight, they arrived

controversial, portraits of the famous and of friends and family. In the 30s

in Leeds where Max had a chance of work. After a brief period in the back

Pictured: Fred Lawson & Jacob Kramer. Leeds

he founded the Yorkshire Luncheon

streets of the Leylands they moved to a

College of Art with permission of Sonia Lawson

Group, to foster discussion of art and culture. But as the years went on and

small house in Beecroft Grove, Leopold Street, Chapeltown, (demolished now),

and critic and Michael Sadler, the new Vice-Chancellor of the

his vibrant energies declined, although

where over the next years more children

University, who was to become his foremost supporter and

there were some flashes of brilliance,

arrived. Jacob, with his three sisters

generous patron.

quick, sketchy portraits were his bread

and young brother, led a crowded

With support from the Jewish Education Aid Society,

and butter. Drink and poverty took their

family life, with Yiddish and Russian

Jacob was accepted at the Slade School of Art in London in 1912.

toll – Alan Bennett recalls mistaking him

as their language. Max worked as a

He did not fit in easily, with his Russian accent, his large frame

in the 50s for a tramp, dirty and drunk.

photographer, but money was always

(six foot six), Jewish identity, and challenging views on new

However, he had many loyal friends.

tight.

forms of artistic expression. He began to achieve recognition

A major exhibition of his work was held

Jacob went to Darley Street

for his sometimes startling work, while acquiring a taste for

in Leeds in 1960, with warm tributes to

Elementary School in the Leylands, in

the bohemian life of the capital – feeding his wilder side,

him. When he died in 1962 this ‘gentle

the Jewish quarter. He did well, but

particularly his drinking. He divided his time between London

giant’ was remembered by many with

was restless and unsettled, as he was

and Leeds, exhibiting forceful works on religious themes,

true affection and respect. Much of

to remain all his life. At 13 he ran away,

brilliant figure studies, and portraits. His family ties were

his work is here: the Art Gallery has a

taking odd photographic jobs and

close, and he suffered when first his young brother and then

fine collection, and a powerful bust of

some art courses in other towns, but

his beloved father died, in 1916. Jacob, always bad with money,

him by his friend Jacob Epstein. Leeds

was encouraged finally to apply for a

became the family’s prop, a further strain on his volatile nature.

University has many of his works and

scholarship at the Leeds School of Art.

Nevertheless this was a time of inspiration and success.

an important archive of his letters and

He proved a brilliant but erratic student,

In 1919 he was commissioned to paint the two great Jewish

memorabilia. What a pity the College

often threatened with expulsion but

pictures for the Gallery, and the next year he was invited by

of Art dropped the title Jacob Kramer

producing some fine work, notably some

Michael Sadler to contribute to an ambitious scheme for

College, adopted in 1968 – he surely

outstanding portraits. During this period

frescoes in the Town Hall commissioned from young artists

deserves to be remembered.

he joined the radical, avant-garde Leeds

like Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash. He submitted his design

Arts Club and made some significant

but failed (ever unreliable) to attend planning meetings;

friends, including Herbert Read the poet

the project finally collapsed. Meanwhile he was busy with a

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This month we thought we’d shine a light on an aesthetic that has literally endured for millennia. Referring to it simply as a ‘style’ feels sacrilegious.

African art, design and culture has made major contributions to European art, and its fingerprints can be found all over historical and contemporary music, sculpture, dance, fashion and art in general. frican style has waxed and waned in terms of its influence, but right now – it’s hot! Artists like Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Moore, and Pollock, to name but a few, knew what they were doing when they tapped into the inspirational, powerful and beautiful abstraction of African art. And dare we mention the explosion of free Jazz around the same time, with rhythms and an improvisational shtick that was solidly based on African music.

Now, fast forward to today and you’ll find a plethora of design blogs, runway collections and interior design magazines inspired

by African fabrics, art and culture.

If you don’t have the guts to dress head to toe in African fabric, Dolapo James of Urban Knit, based in London, makes beautiful designer clutch bags from colourful African fabric. Imagine black skinny jeans and sloppy black pullover combo with heels and a jewel bright African clutch. And for the boys, check out Samson Soboye - full of quirky, funky takes on tailored jackets, shirts, and jewellery for men inspired by tribal symbols. Totally cool. (www.soboye. com)

African Wax Fabric

African Mud Cloth

There are several different types of African fabric, but the one you will be most familiar with is wax printed. Extremely vibrant and colourful, the designs are often kaleidoscopic, psychedelic and wonderfully geometric but never, never dull! Faint hearted and retiring types beware: it screams ‘look at me!’ but in Africa people dress head to toe in it, embracing life, colour and fun. It has very gradually crept in and is beginning to be used by some

If bright colours are not your thing then another African fabric which has been popping up on the pages of Elle Deco and Pinterest is Mud Cloth. Hailing from Mali, it’s made from narrow strips of handwoven cotton, stitched together into a whole cloth, painted with geometric patterns and symbols using natural dyes, including aged river-mud. It is usually black & white, or brown & white geometric patterning, but always really earthy. Looks great hanging on the wall, made into cushions, or used to reinvigorate vintage armchairs. Incorporated into a mid century modern backdrop, and especially with teak furniture, they have a harmony that’s hard to beat.

forward thinking designer makers, not just for clothing, but to dress furniture and for accessories too! Right here in Leeds we have Heather Linnitt of Eclectic Chair Upholstery using African fabric to reupholster 1950s cocktail chairs, and Sally Stubbs of Twenty Watt using it to make splendidly vibrant statement lampshades.

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‘Shy? Why? -- Confidence Hi!’ is a two hour communication skills workshop run by the Leeds Voice Day team, Jo Donnelly and Jane Oakshott MBE. Now in its seventh year, Leeds Voice Day offers voice and body language skills to help you become more at ease in social and business situations, and to speak effectively at parties, or more formal networking and public speaking situations.

Shyness can mean that your interactions with other people are

Shyness can mean that your interactions with other people are often spoilt by an insistent, selfcritical voice inside your head

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The irrepressible folks behind Duke Studios, the innovative, collaborative workspace, are launching a stunning new site in the city centre.

uilding on the resounding success of their first home in Munro House, the Duke team has expanded into to a former ironworks and belt factory on Sheaf Street and they are positively brimming with ideas for their second home.

Since Laura Wellington and James Abbott Donnelly launched Duke Studios in 2011 it has become a thriving hub for creative talent, opening the doors to a host of creatives, including web developers, online marketing & management for the music industry, an actors’ agency, designer makers, interior designers, photographers, film makers, music and event PR, architects, graphic designers, and a record label. While a plethora of businesses operate out of Duke Studios, it has the feel of being one company operating as a new type of creative agency.

Part of the impetus behind Duke Studios was Laura and

A space where business could be

James’ frustration at seeing a brain drain of some of the brightest creative minds of Leeds lured away by other cities perceived as having more opportunities for the creative industries. They decided to create a space where business could be pursued in an environment conducive to creative thinking and where there was an emphasis on sharing skills and ideas.

Other cities have tried to coax

Duke away to galvanise their own creative communities, but the team remains fiercely and passionately Leeds-centric – sitting on the board at Leeds Inspired and the Civic Trust, working closely with the Council, opening lines of communication between local agencies and institutions, and striving to make Leeds the best city it can be.

What’s brilliant about Laura, James, and more recent additions to the Duke team, Gem Smith and Kate Stevens, is that they don’t just dream up ideas and talk about them, they actually get things done. The Munro House location is already internationally recognised as one of the coolest workspaces around and the team is now looking to take it up a notch with the new digs on Sheaf Street, where a major addition will be a versatile events space which launches in May and will play host to everything from exhibitions to classical concerts. The team welcomes enquiries from anyone with a great idea who’d like to hire the space.

There’s an outside yard for Summer barbeques and events. Duke Sheaf St will also feature a café bar where those who favour a coffee shop office can get unlimited broadband and coffee for £15 a day. And, the space will be open to the public so that they can gain an appreciation for the great things going on right under our noses and contributing to the culture of our city. www.duke-studios.com Twitter: @DukeStudiosLeeds

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The exhibition covers the journey of these designs to the high street, with insights into shopping and leisure in the 1950s, combined with

‘Age of Glamour’, an exhibition of women’s fashion from the fifties, opens at Lotherton Hall, Aberford LS25, on 8th May and runs until 31st December 2015.

achieving the classic 1950s silhouette, underwear, swimwear, new materials and accessories.

Lotherton Hall is the home of Leeds Museums and Galleries extensive collection of fashion and textiles dating from the 1600s to the present day. It

his is the first exhibition to open following the extensive refurbishment of the Hall’s Fashion Galleries. It will showcase famous pieces from leading couturiers like Balenciaga and Norman Hartnell, and includes Dior’s red cocktail dress ‘Ecarlate’ from 1955 - a major loan from the V&A.

exclusive labels sold in department

opened in 1970 as a museum providing

stores, to the home dressmaker. Stores

exhibitions of British designers.

such as Marks & Spencer, Marshall &

This

exhibition

includes

Snelgrove, Schofields and Lewis’ all

collections from the M&S archive, a

helped to bring this exclusive style to

blue wedding dress bought from a

the high street.

Leeds boutique in 1953; a family trail

The displays will also feature

‘From Paris to Leeds’ where you can

luxury, ready to wear dresses from

become a 1950’s fashion buyer and

British designer labels like Frank

make your way round the exhibition

Usher, Susan Small and Horrockses,

completing activities to create your

and will explore the post-war period

own collection; and listen to people’s

when fashion delighted in a return

memories of shopping in Leeds in the

to elegance.

1950s. There will also be talks and tours, a workshop on vintage make up, and a ‘Fabulous Fifties’ Family Day on 9th August.

“Lotherton Hall has over 30 years of history showcasing major fashion exhibitions”, said Natalie Raw, Curator of Costume and Textiles. “It has evolved as the host of ever-changing displays and a repository for one of the nation’s most important collections of fashion and textiles, containing over 20,000 items. Our new galleries give us the opportunity to accept loans from some of the most important fashion houses, and allow easy access to exciting

The famous names of French

exhibitions perhaps traditionally not

couture may have led the way in

seen outside London. We’re proud

creating the fifties style, but it was

that these new galleries are in West

really the era which saw the coming

Yorkshire, which enjoys the legacy of

of age of ‘off the peg’. The glamour of

being at the cutting edge of the textile

Paris was copied and recreated - from

and retail industries.”

or people who freelance, work from home or run a small business, Jelly is a mixture of work, chat, sharing ideas, swapping tips and sometimes could even spawn a new project.

It’s NOT a way to find new business, pitch your product or to sell your business.

Jelly was first established in 2006 by two New York freelancers as they discussed the drawbacks of working alone – namely the lack of company. They decided to invite a group of freelancers to bring their laptops and work together in their apartment for the day, and called it ‘Jelly’ as they were eating jelly beans at the time! Jelly started in the UK in 2009 and today over 50 groups meet regularly, from

Edinburgh to Plymouth.

Nicola Sykes, a home-based marketing consultant from Oakwood, and Bhupinder Dev, a local government town planner who also often works from home in Moortown, heard about Jelly and decided to set one up in North Leeds.

“Working from home can feel isolating and a change of scenery and opportunity to meet new people is always good”, said Nicola. “That’s why we looked into a suitable venue for Jelly and were lucky to find a space conducive to both working and socialising.”

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A year ago six dance organisations came together to highlight the strength of dance in Leeds, its contribution to the local economy and its influence on a national and international level.

Now Balbir Singh Dance Company, Northern Ballet, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Phoenix Dance Theatre, RJC Dance and Yorkshire Dance, have been joined by Dance Action Zone Leeds (DAZL) and Leeds Beckett University in an updated map which shows the work and reach of these groups in the year 2013/14: www.cityofdance.co.uk

An Exciting Spring LineUp at Howard Assembly Room This Spring, Howard Assembly Room stops off in Spain, Turkey, Libya, Palestine and Italy, for a series of concerts, talks and films.

Highlights include pizzica from Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (20 May), the Palestinian oud trio Le Trio Joubran (5 June), and Turkish rembetika singer Çi dem Aslan and her band (6 June).

Pictured: Sebastian Loe & Filippo Di Vilio Photo: Jevan Chowdhury

“Young people and health are at the heart of what we do here at DAZL”, said Ian Rodley, Director.

“We wanted to be a part of the City of Dance Map to highlight our work bridging the gap between professional companies and the city’s most deprived communities, and the contribution we make to a wider dance community in Leeds, which is influencing dance on a national and international level.”

In 2013/14 almost 300,000 people watched a live dance performance by the partners involved; 75,000 people took part in a dance workshop or project; nearly 600 were employed on a full-time, part-time or freelance

A great series of concerts, talks and films

basis, and income and investment

Once again Leeds has demonstrated that, outside of London, it

generated by these companies exceeded £11.9 million.

“Once

again

Leeds

has

demonstrated that, outside of London, it is the UK’s City of Dance”, said David Nixon, Artistic Director of Northern Ballet. “We are working together to build a Dance Hub for the North with Leeds at its core. Both Arts Council England and Leeds City Council have

is the

underlined their commitment to dance

UK’s City of

organisations in the city and we look

Dance

Leeds City Council’s bid for Capital of

by continuing to support the dance forward to playing a major part in Culture 2023.”

Romanian gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks appears on 18th May, there’s neo-roots music from the Heritage Blues Orchestra 4th June, and legendary singersongwriter Vashti Bunyan is in Leeds on 13th June, and Italian jazz piano virtuoso Stefano Bollani performs on 21st May. In addition, there are talks from broadcaster and commenter Tariq Ali on 28th May, and Libyan novelist Hisham Matar on 12th June.

Films include Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert on 1st May, following a concert by award-winning folk, opera & jazz singer/songwriter Elena Piras, and Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca on 30th May.

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Adapting a famous classic like Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ can’t be easy, but it is clearly a challenge that writer Jo Clifford relished. She was originally commissioned to do this by Sheffield Crucible about 15 years ago, but the production was shelved when the artistic director who had commissioned it left the theatre. The play, which is at West Yorkshire Playhouse from 9th May – 13th June, is now in its third production and Jo is immensely proud of it.

“It looks beautiful, the actors are fabulous and I’m in love with them all!” she told us. “And, it’s a multi-racial cast which is very much what I wanted. I’m working with a designer and director who understand what it’s about – it is so close to what I originally intended.”

Directed by Olivier-nominated Ellen McDougall, with design by Joanna Scotcher, this more modern adaptation presents one of the most famous love stories of all time, exploring what happens when two very different couples grapple with their emotions.

Anna is the envy of St. Petersburg society. Glamorous and admired, but locked in a lonely marriage, her sudden but passionate affaire with Count Vronsky puts everything she has ever known at risk. In a parallel story, Levin is trying to live justly in a social system built on injustice.

When his love for a childhood friend ends unhappily, he tries to deny its existence. But like Anna he can’t.

Although there have been other stage adaptions, and a number of

films of Anna Karenina, Jo had not seen any of them. “It is a wonderful book”, she said. “In adapting it I literally immersed myself in it – becoming the characters and letting them speak to me, then playing all the parts. You have to find your own response and trust your instincts. I loved doing it.”

This is the Playhouse’s second partnership with Birmingham’s Royal Exchange Theatre, following the huge success of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Ony Uhiara takes the title role and the cast also includes Robert Gilbert as Count Vronsky, Anthony Barclay, Donna Berlin, Claire Brown, John Cummins, Ryan Early, Jonathan Keeble and Gillian Saker.

Jo Clifford is the author of over 70 plays, which have been performed all over the world. She is currently working on her ‘Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven’, which will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Anna Karenina is in The Courtyard at West Yorkshire Playhouse, running alongside the Royal Exchange’s production of Chris Urch’s 2013 Bruntwood Prize winning ‘The Rolling Stone’ (12th – 23rd May).

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Paul Merton and his famous Impro Chums are on the road again and will be at City Varieties on 9th June.

St Peter’s Singers Have Vacancies for Lower Voices St. Peter’s Singers, based at Leeds Minster and directed

by Dr Simon Lindley, currently have vacancies for lower voices – particularly altos and tenors.

aul and chums like Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster will be taking audience suggestions and spinning them into comedy gold, weaving fun and laughter together into a richly hilarious mesh of jollity!

Every show is a new adventure. He and his chums are some of the most seasoned performers in this field and know how to work the suggestions and the audience to maximum effect.

Paul, a founder member of The Comedy Store Players, is well known for his appearances on ‘Have I Got News for You’ and ‘Just a Minute’ and shows like his ‘Silent Clowns’. Mike Mcshane claims to have squandered his life by improvising with his friends and making friends by improvising!

Lee Simpson, also a member of the Comedy Store Players, is Artistic Director of Improbable Theatre and, along with Richard

They can work an audience to maximum effect.

Vranch, he wrote and performed on Paul Merton – The Tour, and Paul Merton – The Palladium, he also directed Paul Merton – And This is Me. Richard Vranch is half of the science/hula-hoop act Dr Hula.

He’s toured the world from Mexico to Palestine acting in sketch shows, and does stand-up in French!

Suki Webster is a regular guest of The Comedy Store Players and has toured the world with Paul Merton And His Impro Chums.

More recently she co-wrote and was Assistant Director on Paul Merton’s Birth of Hollywood (BBC2). Suki’s play, My Obsession, which she wrote and starred in was a great hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.

The choir performs mainly sacred music, ranging from unaccompanied Renaissance Polyphony, through to large scale Baroque, Classical and Romantic works with orchestral accompaniment.

Its most recent CD, ‘One Equal Music’, was recorded in the Victoria Quarter and reflects its commitment to exploring 20th Century and contemporary composers.

This is an opportunity to join a successful, well established and enterprising Chamber Choir that offers a wide range of performance experiences, including concerts, church services, recitals and European tours.

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Thursday 18th June 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when an allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington finally defeated the Emperor Napoleon, bringing an end to major Europewide conflict for the next half century.

oyal Armouries Leeds is marking the anniversary with a special exhibition, running from Friday 22nd May to Sunday 23rd August, and bringing together works of art, arms and armour.

Highlights include the monumental ‘cartoon’ by Daniel Maclise, on loan from the Royal Academy of Arts, and on display to the public for the first time in over forty years; and the magnificent painting ‘Scotland Forever!’ by Lady Elizabeth Butler from Leeds City Art Gallery. These stunning works will be displayed alongside unique objects from the Royal Armouries own collections, which together will help to unfold the dramatic story of the events of 18th June 1815.

Daniel Maclise’s ‘cartoon’ for ‘The Meeting of Wellington and General Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo’ was considered to be a masterpiece and took over a year to complete. When it was first shown in

Nearly every inch of the surface is finished in incredible detail

1859, it caused a sensation. Produced as a full-scale preparatory drawing for a wall-painting that can be seen in the House of Lords, it measures nearly 14 metres in width and over three metres in height. Nearly every inch of the surface is finished in incredible detail.

Waterloo 1815 Study Day As part of the Royal Armouries’ commemorations, they will be hosting a Study Day on Saturday 13th June (9.30am – 4.30pm) to explore the significance of the battle both today and at the time; examine the arms and armour used; look at how weapons were depicted in

contemporary art; and re-examine the recently conserved Siborne model.

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Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Chapeltown recently received an ‘Outstanding’ rating for its Foundation Course in Contemporary Dance.

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ne of only eight schools forming the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, NSCD’s year long course provides over 16s with a springboard to degree level training and a career in dance.

Following a rigorous first time inspection at the end of last year, the Ofsted inspectors praised NSCD for the quality of its teaching, learning and assessment.

Ofsted also recognized the school’s community work, commenting: “Residents of the city benefit highly from the excellent learning and participation activities at NSCD”.

The Foundation Course complements NSCD’s degree and postgraduate programmes. Many of the school’s 200 UK and overseas students go on to work with highprofile national and international companies, including Hofesh

Shechter Company, Vincent Dance Theatre and Protein Dance. NSCD alumni, like choreographer Akram Khan MBE, also set up their own successful dance companies.

“Leeds has a rich performing arts heritage”, said Principal Janet Smith MBE. “The School has produced some of the dance industry’s most talented artists and arts leaders, as well as inspirational performing companies. Our dance sector is pulling out the stops to raise the profile of Leeds as a dance destination. NSCD’s ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted report is not only brilliant for the school but also a boost to efforts to showcase the city as the premier home for high quality dance.”

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As the world stands on the brink of war, King Edward VIII sparks controversy with his affaire with Wallis Simpson. As his position becomes increasingly untenable, his brother Bertie, who has always shied away from the public eye because of a terrible stammer, is thrust into the spotlight as his successor. ertie meets maverick speech therapist and failed actor Lionel Logue (played by Jason Donovan) at an office in Harley Street and together they embark on an unlikely journey to prepare Bertie to lead his country as King George VI. That pretty much sums up the story, as everyone who has seen the film with Colin Firth will know. However, when we caught up with Raymond Couthard (Miles Egerton in ITV’s Mr Selfridge and James Schofield in Hotel Babylon) who plays Bertie, we learnt that the play is very different.

“The film changed lots of the lines and structure of the play”, he told us. “There is a lot more to it.

It’s like a political thriller really.

There’s much more on the political backdrop. WWI was not that long ago and now they were about to embark on it again.

“It’s almost impossible to compare it with the film. The story is stronger. It ups the stakes between the two men. This is the journey of a man who never expected to be in this position.

He is totally unprepared and is up against one of the greatest orators of all time – Hitler.”

The play explores why Bertie is the man he is. He had a miserable childhood due largely to this debilitating stammer. He

Logue, this extraordinary free spirit, changes his life and becomes his first friend – it is a true ‘bromance’

had no friends and Logue, this extraordinary free spirit, changes his life and becomes his first friend – it is a true ‘bromance’.

“It is such a heart-warming story”, said Raymond. “I am thoroughly enjoying it and audiences are loving it. You can’t help but be moved by this man’s struggle to overcome his stammer and deliver an iconic speech that is broadcast across the globe to inspire his people.”

Directed by Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the play also stars Nicholas Blane, Jamie Hinde, Felicity Houlbrooke, Claire Lams Katy Stephens and Martin Turner.

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he Thackray Medical Museum recently received a first round pass for £1.6 million funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its Healthy Future project, which aims to provide new exhibitions and updated visitor facilities, as well as covering essential repairs and environmental improvements to the building. The museum will also receive £154,600 to help the museum progress its plans to apply for a full grant at a later date.

The project aims to develop galleries with wide appeal, showcasing the historic

Pictured: Joanne Bartholomew

contributions of Leeds medics and the medical technology industry. Museum staff will work with community groups and industry partners to explore how modern medicine has developed and how it continues to progress.

The museum first opened in 1997, supported by an HLF grant of £3 million, and is now home to over 70,000 medical artefacts and books and attracts over 60,000 visitors a year.

“We’re absolutely delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has renewed its support for the Thackray Medical Museum”, said Joanne Bartholomew, Museum Chief Executive. “The museum is a major asset to the Yorkshire region, and we aim to ensure that, in years to come, thousands of visitors will continue to be inspired by the fantastic medical heritage that we care for.”

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he Eccup Beer Festival 2015 is on Saturday 30th May, 12 noon until late at Lineham Farm Children’s Centre, Swan Lane, Eccup LS16 8AZ.

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The Festival will also be running a free shuttle bus every hour from the hotel at Golden Acre Park. Tickets are just £5 and include a limited edition pint glass. Tickets and further information are available from www.eccupbeerfestival.co.uk Every year over 1,400 deserving and disabled children from Leeds (aged 8-12) benefit from an exciting activity holiday at Lineham Farm with its extensive woodlands, wetland and farm animals.

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The Swine That Dines is the evening hours supper club alter ego of favourite café and breakfast/lunch hotspot The Greedy Pig, and it’s an absolute must for those partial to some porcine delicacy. ne of The Swine’s specialties is a nose to tail feast, which is amazing! It showcases a passionately inventive approach to dishes featuring offal or uncommon cuts of meat, as well as promoting The Swine’s waste not, want not ethos.

Supper club numbers are limited to around 12, due to the modest size of the premises, but this only enhances the lovely, cosy and intimate vibe of the evening.

Not to mention that one couldn’t ask for more welcoming and hospitable hosts than The Swine that Dines Jo and Stu. With Stu at the helm, we were quickly and acutely made aware that here was a man who really knows his meat and his experience, ingenuity and enthusiasm was brought deliciously to bear in a fantastic procession of dishes.

The meal got off to a cracking start with the home-smoked pig’s liver with parsley, shallot and chive salad and brandied fruit. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a less than entirely easy relationship with liver; while I have, from time to time, been pleasantly surprised, I wouldn’t usually be inclined to select it from a menu. This, however, was a revelation, the smokiness of the meat, cooked just-so to retain a delicate texture, chimed brilliantly

with the oniony salad and the boozy sweetness of the fruit. An impressive opening act that had our taste buds standing to attention.

Next up was the phenomenally tasty crispy pig’s head, served with green lentils, salsa verde, apple and confit garlic. A personal highlight of the evening’s menu this was really something; the crispy exterior coating of the compact slab we were presented with giving way to a blend of various cuts from the head (cheek, jawbone and a little brain among them) served up in a

texture close to that of a terrine and sumptuous flavour which entwined wonderfully with that sharp hit of garlic and the vinegary tang of the lentils and salsa verde.

Perhaps to return our palates to somewhat more familiar territory we were next treated to ox tongue pastrami, which had been diligently home cured and brined by Stu. The rigorous pastrami prep had really done the job as the slices, ever so slightly charred at the edges, delivered a rich, lip-smacking saltiness accentuated by the accompanying beetroot and almond, the stealthy spiciness of the confit green peppers adding a hidden kick.

Fittingly, the de facto ‘main’ course was, very literally, the heart of the matter. This lamb’s stuffed heart with sourdough, lemon and

Serrano ham and served with peas and a root veg puree (somewhat dal-like in flavour and consistency) was a real beast of a dish; intensely rich and gamey flavour with a dense yet succulent texture it was, pardon the pun, outrageously hearty. By this stage in the proceedings some of us were feeling the strain and tackling the heart did require a measure of exertion. For a couple of our party who, heretofore, had managed to overcome any offal-based reservations or squeamishness, this was the point at which they finally met their match (I’m happy to say I soldiered on, leaving my plate spotless) but special mention must go to one of our fellow diners who, having demolished his own portion, wasted no time in wolfing down his defeated neighbour’s leftover!

Dessert was a heady, aromatic and spicy affair; chai-steamed pudding with An evening rhubarb and cardamom Anglaise and ginger snap which definitively drew of fantastic a line under an evening of fantastic food with charming company. This is food with a supper club certain to attract ardently devoted regulars. charming What I find appealing among the myriad charms of The Swine that company Dines and their approach is that they appear utterly unconcerned with

fitting in with the try-hard, ultra-hip (and often rather pretentious) foodie scene, content instead to carve out their own inimitable niche doing what they do tastefully and with good humour. Approachable, friendly and possessed of a miraculous way with food, you know where you are with Jo and Stu. And that is a very good place indeed!

If nose to tail isn’t your thing, The Swine That Dines also does amazing things with fish/

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The Great British Food Festival is back at Harewood House from 23rd – 25th May (bank holiday weekend), 10am – 5pm.

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Leeds is set to welcome a month of food and drink eve n t s .

Independent businesses are at the heart of Leeds’ foodie revolution and the Leeds Indie Food Festival (#LIF15) will celebrate their achievements from 7th – 24th May. Then Leeds Food and Drink Festival will take over from 22nd May – 7th June.

Over 100 businesses are taking part in #LIF15

here will be more than 80 top local and artisan producers, stunning hot food, real ale and wine bars, lots of children’s activities, top chef demos, a cake competition, and the popular Men V Food – plus lashings of excellent live music.

The main chef demo area hosts great local and TV chefs.

All demos are free, so everyone can pick up some top foodie tips.

There are also regular artisan foodie talks and the Great British Cake off for you to get involved with.

The Great British Food Festival has attracted lots of producers showcasing the best in local, seasonal and specialty food and drink. It’s a great opportunity to get a taste of the best of Yorkshire and British produce.

A great opportunity to get a taste of the best of Yorkshire produce

With the UK’s amazing mix of cultures and cuisines, it would be a shame to overlook some of the more exotic elements – so, you can try Thai, Mexican, Asian as well as pulled pork, prime steak, local burgers and sausages.

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More Trees for Allerton Grange Fields Friends of Allerton Grange Fields secured funding from the Leeds Housing Advisory Panel (HAP) late in

Avery Walters Raise over £4,000 for St Gemma’s

2014, as part of a Community Tree Planting Project.

The funding was used to purchase parkland trees, including broad-leafed Lime, Common Alder, Silver Birch, Hornbeam and Oak.

The law firm Avery Walters, whose head office is in Chapel Allerton, participated in the St. Gemma’s Hospice Will Month again last year and raised £4,325 for the hospice – almost 20% of the total cash raised for the Charity, and surpassing last years’ achievement.

he Housing Advisory Panel aims to empower local residents and tenants to improve local housing services and the local environment, and to tackle tenant priorities. It also helps shape communities by investing in environmental or community related projects like the environmental improvements at Allerton Grange Fields. The Friends previously benefited from HAP funding for the boundary fence painting project with Voluntary Action Leeds and ASDA. The Community Tree Planting project in March was delivered by Leeds City Council’s Countryside Ranger Jon Dunster, with support from local residents, and Leeds Wildlife

Volunteers. The trees will help to create an attractive landscape along the path linking Lidgett Lane with Talbot Avenue.

Friends of Allerton Grange Fields continue to work with Leeds City Councils Parks & Countryside Service to protect, maintain and enhance Allerton Grange Fields as a public green space for present and future generations.

If you would like to get involved, visit www. friendsallertongrange.org for further information.

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Chapeltown ‘Welcome’ Plaque Unveiled A new ‘Welcome’ sign outside the Reginald Centre, recognising the diversity of Chapeltown, was recently unveiled by local councillors.

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he plaque, made by Clark Memorials Ltd., is part of a £258,000 redevelopment of the area, financed by the Leeds City Council Town & District Centre Regeneration Fund. It says ‘Welcome’ in 12 different languages and is part of the public ‘piazza’ in front of the Reginald Centre.

The councillors were joined by community groups and there were performances from Hillcrest, Holy Rosary and Bracken Edge Primary Schools.

“Chapeltown is one of the most diverse communities in Leeds, evidenced by the large number of cultural events that take place in the area”, said Councillor Mohammed Rafique. “The plaque recognises this diversity and welcomes everyone to the new ‘piazza’ and the Reginald Centre.”

Upgrade for Chapel Allerton Park Children will soon be able to enjoy making use of a fantastic new play area at Chapel Allerton Park thanks to a £20k scheme by Leeds City Council. ollowing requests from parents and Chapel Allerton Residents Association (cara), Councillors Mohammed Rafique, Eileen Taylor and Jane Dowson worked with Council officers to secure £20,000 funding for improvements to the play area at Chapel Allerton Park.

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he Yorkshire Cancer Centre’s September Ball, now in its nineteenth year, promises to be another fantastic glamorous and memorable evening, with a champagne reception, four course dinner, big band, cabaret and dancers, inspirational speaker, table gifts, charity auction, fun casino and bacon butties after midnight! The Ball is on Saturday 26th September at The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, starting at 7.15pm.

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by Christmas, based largely on the September Ball.

The 2015 Ball Appeal will enable the purchase of the PlasmaJet Surgery System, for the treatment of selected cases of ovarian cancer. This equipment is used to remove tumour deposits and it is

expected that at least 50 to 75 ovarian cancer patients at Leeds Cancer Centre will benefit from this innovative device every year.

This year’s Ball is sponsored by the Lowell Group, specialists in credit management services, and

by Cofely Healthcare and Education, who are a leading Facilities Management Services business across healthcare, public and private sectors.

Tickets are £90 each and all proceeds will directly benefit patients at Leeds Cancer Centre. Tables for six, ten and twelve are now available from www.yorkshirecancercentre. org.uk, or Sheila O’Shea, Appeal Director, Yorkshire Cancer Centre, Fundraising Department, Level 7, St. James’s Institute of Oncology, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF. T: 0113 206 8444 E: sheilao’shea@nhs.net

Councillors Asghar Khan and Mohammed Rafique have received numerous complaints from residents about the theft of paving stones in their areas and are working with the Police and the Council to address the problem.

All instances have been reported to the Police and a Bradford resident was recently charged with stealing paving from the Richmond Hill area.

Councillors Khan and Rafique are asking residents to be watchful and report any instances to the Police by calling 101.

“The theft of Yorkshire paving slabs is an issue throughout the city that spoils the appearance of neighbourhoods”, said Councillor Rafique. “We urge residents to report any instances to the Police so that appropriate action can be taken and the message is sent that this sort of criminal behaviour will not be tolerated.”

etired environmental health officer Frank Boshell, from Meanwood, recently attended a reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by Her Majesty The Queen to mark the 50th anniversary of The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, of which she is patron.

Frank was one of 245 men to attend, representing every decade since 1965 and including representatives from Australia, and the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.

Since 1965, over 5,000 British citizens have been awarded Churchill Fellowships to travel overseas to study areas of topical and personal interest. The knowledge and ideas they bring back are shared, for the benefit of

Frank went to the USA to investigate air pollution control

their profession, their community, and, in lots of cases, the nation. For many people, a Churchill Fellowship proves transformational, and they go on to achieve great things effecting positive change within society.

Frank’s Fellowship in 1966 took him to the United States to investigate air pollution control and its remedies. On his return he continued to work for Leeds City Council until his retirement in 1992, in a career spanning 44 years. Many of the control measures seen on his Fellowship travels have now been implemented in this country.

To mark its 50th anniversary, the Trust has just awarded 150

Travelling Fellowships – investing at least £1.3m in British citizens.

This year’s Fellows will travel to 58 countries, across six continents, where they will carry out a wide range of projects. The average length of a Fellowship is six weeks.

In addition, many events will be held during the year to celebrate Sir Winston’s life and legacy.

“We were delighted and honoured that the Queen hosted a reception to mark our anniversary year”, said Jamie Balfour, Director General of The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. “Sir Winston’s legacy lives on through our Fellows – individuals who, like him, have vision, leadership, a passion with a purpose, and a commitment to help their fellow citizens.”

For further information, contact 0207 799 1660 or visit www.wcmt.org.uk

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ouncillor Javaid Akhtar (Hyde Park & Woodhouse) is leading discussions with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on improving their approach to managing bereavement, following concerns raised by community groups.

As a member of the Council’s Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Board, Councillor Akhtar recently met with Clare Linley, Deputy Chief Nurse, and Krystina Kozlowska, Head of Patient Experience, at Leeds Civic Hall to discuss the Trust’s policy. Additional work will be undertaken over the next three months and changes will be made to address some of the concerns raised.

Discussions focused on the Trust’s handling of bereavement with the Muslim and Jewish communities specifically, particularly at weekends and bank holidays, when it is important that funerals take place quickly to meet faith requirements. Councillor Akhtar is confident that these issues have been acknowledged by the Trust and will be addressed in their new policy.

“Muslim and Jewish residents from across the city have contacted the Council regarding their concerns over the handling of family bereavements by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and officers have worked really

well with the Health Scrutiny Board to address these concerns”, said Councillor Akhtar. “I think the draft policy discussed at the last meeting addresses all these concerns and I hope it will be approved following the consultation period.”

“It is really important that we listen and respond when members of the community who use our services tell us that we need to do better to deliver the care that they need”, said Krystina Kozlowska.

“The new bereavement policy shows that we have taken the concerns raised into account and it will support our staff to ensure that at these very difficult times, we get our care right, for every family.”

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News From Your Councillor CLLR DANIEL COHEN

Alwoodley Ward Our Councillors’ street surgeries have been in full swing over recent months. As councillors we really look forward to these.

They are, undoubtedly, one of the best ways of meeting lots of constituents and hearing and seeing first hand, some of their issues and concerns that need addressing.

Bus service leaves something to be desired

One issue that has been mentioned a number of times relates to poor bus services.

Too often buses have been late, or not arrived at all and, in parts of the ward, the frequency of bus service really does leave something to be desired. With this is mind I have asked the Operations Manager of First Bus to come to a public meeting at the Civic Hall on 11th June at 4.30pm, to hear first hand from residents about their bus complaints.

We will follow this up with another meeting later in the year, to see how things have improved.

If you would like to come to the meeting, please do let me know, so I can ensure we get a big enough room.

Another messy issue that has raised its head is that of dog fouling – not a glamorous topic, but it is of

real concern to many. The problem is caused by a small minority of dog walkers, the vast majority clean up after their pets and to all of them a big thank you. I am compiling a list of the worst areas and in the coming months dog wardens will be on patrol, ready to hand out fines to offenders. If you have a suggestion for areas to put on the list, do let me know.

As always if you have any problems or issues, do get in touch.

Have a great month, with your help and support I hope to still be your Councillor next month to write my column for June.

Have a great month!

Daniel.cohen@leeds.gov.uk 0113 204 1094

NSPCC Roundhay Plant and Gift Fair t is nearly ten years since the first NSPCC Roundhay Plant and Gift Fair was held at St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Park Road, LS8 1JN. Once again it will take place on the late May bank holiday weekend – Saturday 30th May, 10am – 1pm

The event has become an annual fixture attended by numerous people from Roundhay and Oakwood and many from further afield. This is where garden lovers and those seeking unusual plants at reasonable prices come to find them. Many of the plants have been grown from seed or cuttings by NSPCC committee members’ and helpers’.

The fair is also attended by

gardeners wanting to make a truly colourful display with bedding plants – and there is a huge variety for sale.

Besides plants, the fair also has gifts, cards, books, cakes, toys and bric-a-brac and the popular cafe is always busy. The fair raises funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which runs Childline, the helpline founded

by Esther Rantzen. The money raised will support the NSPCC children’s service centre in Leeds where professional staff work with children and their families, as well as Childline’s online service centre in the city.

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Sometimes a warm day in May can feel like Summer is truly here, but remember there can still be frosts right up until the end of the month.

Maintenance

Hedges may need trimming too, but

Summer Pots and Baskets Grow Your Own You can plan what you’re going to plant in your hanging baskets and containers, but it’s too early to put any bedding plants outside until the end of the month. If you have a greenhouse or bright shed then you can get your containers planted up and ready to go, enabling your plants to get a head start indoors so that your pots and baskets will look full and established as soon as you place them in position.

Try the eye catching lime green foliage of Ipomoea Sweetheart ‘Light Green’ with bright blue Heliotrope and add a lipstick pink Pelargonium to give you a vivid summer show.

You can plan what you’re going to plant in your hanging baskets and containers

Sow Green Beans, Courgettes and Sweetcorn in pots on your windowsill ready to plant out next month or plant the seeds of more hardy vegetables straight into the soil outside. These include Broad Beans, Beetroot, Broccoli, Carrots, Peas, Lettuce, Radishes and Spinach.

There are lovely things to harvest in May too including Asparagus, Rhubarb and Spring Cabbage. Keep everything free of weeds and well watered to ensure you have plenty of crops later on.

make sure there are no nesting birds before you get out the hedge trimmers

Lawns are growing quickly now and need regular trimming. Hedges may need trimming too, but make sure there are no nesting birds before you get out the hedge trimmers.

Keep removing weeds from your borders and staking herbaceous perennials as they grow. Now that the daffodils have finished flowering, you can lift and divide groups that are getting too crowded and plant some elsewhere

Wage War on Slugs Lovely young green shoots are adored by slugs so it is especially important to protect your plants this month. Barriers such as copper rings and wool pellets are good defences around single plants. For a larger area slug nematodes can be applied to give up to six weeks of slug control and these have the advantage over slug pellets that they continue to work in wet weather and don’t harm other wildlife.

Tracy is teaching two workshops at Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens, York, in May. Wednesday 13th May, 10am – 12 noon, ‘Design Your Garden for Year Round Colour’ Wednesday 20th May, 10am – 12 noon, ‘ A Garden Designer’s Trade Secrets’.

Cost: £35 each or £60 for both. www.stillingfleetlodgenurseries. co.uk

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ay is the best month of the year to see birds. Not only are all our resident species in the full frenz y of breeding ac tivity, but they will have been joined by mig rants who have spent the Winter further south.

The earliest, the chiffchaff, you will have heard singing its name in late March, and it will have been followed by willow warbler, blackcap and many others. One of the loveliest is the wood warbler. Found mostly in sessile oak woodlands, it is a tiny bird with a greenish back, a lemon yellow breast and very pale underparts. Although it builds its nest in vegetation on the ground, it spends a lot of its time flitting about in the

sessile oak

tree canopy in search of insect food for its young. It has two completely different songs, one a descending trill, which has been described as the sound of a coin spinning on a hard surface, and the other a plaintive “tiutiu-tiu”.

Its favoured habitat is sadly in short supply in the northeast. The best place to see wood warblers locally is Strid Woods at Bolton Abbey, but they have been reported on Otley Chevin and at the St Ives estate near Bingley in the past.

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ummer is just around the corner and that means only one thing...gardening! If you love your garden and would love an opportunity to display it, register now for the St Gemma’s Hospice ever-popular Open Gardens.

In recent years we seem to have grown even more passionate about gardening, and visiting other people’s gardens is a great way to gain some inspiration for your own patch.

St Gemma’s invites you to grant people access to your private garden for one or several days this Summer. Large or small, paved or turfed, whatever style or size, they would love you to take part!

Each Summer their Open Gardens raises thousands of pounds – all of which goes directly towards caring for patients with life-limiting illnesses.

Visiting other people’s gardens is a great way to gain some inspiration

“People who open up their gardens always get such a fantastic response from visitors who share their love of gardening”, said Emily, a fundraiser for St Gemma’s. “It makes them feel really proud, and it’s a great way to raise funds for a really worthy cause through one of your passions.”

The Hospice’s own award winning gardens will be open to the public on 27th June, from 10am – 2pm. You can explore the grounds, browse plant and gift sales, enjoy refreshments and much more.

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ne of the biggest name in jazz is Brubeck and Darius Brubeck is bringing his quartet to Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, on Thursday 7th May (8pm) featuring Darius on piano, Dave O’Higgins on sax, Matt Ridley on bass and Wesley Gibbens on drums.

Son of the famous Dave Brubeck, Darius has developed a reputation as a great, swinging pianist. The quartet has been together for eight years and their mutual understanding and interaction is always a pleasure.

They recently released ‘Cathy’s Summer’ containing many new Darius Brubeck compositions.

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Ron’s Jazz Orchestra is full of top soloists who rarely have the opportunity to rehearse together – so the musicians have no more idea of what the arrangements will be like than the audience!

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’ve been aware of but unfamiliar with Lau for some time. The highly esteemed Scottish folk trio are preceded by a formidable reputation and with a cursory listen to a preview of tracks from their latest album, The Bell That Never Rang (followed by many replays), it is easy to see why.

brassy retro-soul sound on her last release. Her desk-work here seems to have harnessed Lau’s improvisational impulses as they put flesh on the bones of their skeletal arrangements.

Interestingly, this latest album is produced by Joan Wasser (aka Joan As Police Woman) who was last heard making a delightfully

Lau appear to inhabit the space where traditional folk fuses with contemporary chamber pop while maintaining an exploratory and experimental approach to composition.

The centrepiece of this wonderfully evocative album is the incredible title track, a collaboration with London-based strings outfit Elysian Quartet. The stunning, epic seventeen minute piece is a real showstopper, by turns beautiful and unnerving. The pairing of these two groups seems a perfectly intuitive and harmonious conjoining of like musical minds.

Anyone with a taste for expansive, idiosyncratic modern folk would be well advised to obtain The Bell That Never Rang and the live show promises to be something very special indeed.

Lau play Howard Assembly Room on 19th May.

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Details and tickets www.sevenjazz.co.uk

Saturday 9th May 2015 Glyde House, Bradford 7.30pm Saturday 16th May 2015 The Grove Inn, Leeds 7.30pm “Beautiful, clean guitar tones with intricate arrangements and a magical voice are the powerful ingredients for Dariush’s music. I’m jealous!!!”

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STARRING: :BEN STILLER, NAOMI WATTS, ADAM DRIVER, AMANDA SEYFRIED CERT: 15 - RUNNING TIME: 97 MINS Noah Baumbach, one time Wes Anderson collaborator and director of ‘The Squid and the Whale’ and ‘Greenberg and Francis Ha’, is an auteur who, much like Alexander Payne, specialises in making smart, emotionally complex comedy/ dramas and doesn’t shy away from having deeply flawed characters at the centre of his films.

While billed as comedies, his films are more likely to elicit wry smiles or rueful chuckles than gutbusting guffaws.

His latest, ‘While We’re Young’, is no exception and is a shrewdly observed, incisive take on the theme of aging and youth in contemporary culture. It’s certain to resonate with viewers rounding the four decade mark.

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are mid-forties couple Josh and Cornelia who feel a creeping sense of stagnation in their personal and professional lives. The feeling of an age threshold being passed is compacted by their friends settling into comfortable domesticity, particularly the newly babied Marina and Fletcher (a telling appearance

by Adam Horovitz, the Beastie Boy formerly known as Ad-Rock looking every bit of his forty-something years).

When Josh and Cornelia cross paths with freewheeling, charismatic twenty-something couple Jamie and

Darby, Josh is immediately charmed by their youthful exuberance and the analogue trappings of their Lo-Fi, DIY lifestyle. Cornelia is initially reticent but soon she, too, is swept up in their rejuvenating aura.

Josh is a documentary filmmaker whose latest project has been stalled for years. As it turns

contemporary culture.

It’s certain to resonate with viewers rounding the four decade mark

out, Jamie is also a budding docmaker and his admiration for Josh’s work initially endears him to Josh.

As they set about working together the cracks begin to show, especially when Cornelia’s father, a revered film-maker in his own right, enters the frame and Josh begins to doubt Jamie’s motives.

The background theme of documentary filmmaking is an effective touch here, bringing together elements of authenticity (that quality so highly prized by hipsters), ethical integrity and the nature of truth, particularly how the truth can be hard to perceive when one is not being honest with oneself.

The film accurately manages to show how, as we age, we regard

youngsters (youngsters?! Geez, I’m sounding old!) with a mixture of jealousy and disdain. Josh and Cornelia forging their friendship with Jamie and Darby could be seen as accessorising with people, and it does initially put some pep back in their step as they bask in the energising glow of endless opportunity. It could easily be said that their bridging of the generation gap smacks of desperation. What is more frequently glimpsed in the faces of the older couple is bewilderment and fear; fear of dwindling into irrelevance and bewilderment at how people with half as many years under their belts can be so certain of who they are.

In less assured hands, ‘While We’re Young’ could have been a fairly broad, knockabout comedy packed with obvious gags riffing on clueless youth, jaded middle age and the pathetic tragedies of mid-life crises. Here though, sharp writing and solid work by a great ensemble cast deliver an astute, honest and wise treatment of the subject. The film echoes themes explored in Greenberg, Baumbach’s previous collaboration with Ben Stiller, who turns in one of his more finely tuned, nuanced performances

here.

The always watchable and often superb Naomi Watts shows off a too rarely seen knack for comic timing and a gift for physical comedy.

The standout here, though, would probably have to be Adam Driver, whose star has been in the ascendant since his breakthrough role on HBO’s Girls. His odd, gangly physicality and indefinable strangeness is put to good use and he pretty much steals every scene he’s in. We can expect to see a lot more of this guy.

‘While We’re Young’ takes an interesting, considered approach to situations and issues bound to be familiar to many of us without coming across as either too curmudgeonly and cynical, or naïve and sentimental.

What I thought might have been heading for something of a cop out ending actually hits an amusingly ambiguous and subversive note in the final shot. Smart, funny, often surprising and unexpected, ‘While We’re Young’ will strike a chord with those leaving their twenties behind, looking back on the self-centred preoccupations of youth and those experiencing the onset of middle age anxieties and invites us to laugh at both.

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Fri 1 May, Leeds University Union, £13.75. Riotous punk/metal crossover with speed-fuelled thunderous guitars, high-octane vocals & screeching hardcore jams.

Wardrobe, £13.20. 8 piece band & DJ collective offering sophisticated nu-soul & 21st century disco funk.

Nordic Giants Sun 3 May, Brudenell Social Club, £9.35 Post-rock duo performs original soundtracks to backdrop of award winning short films. Visual storytelling of a cinema experience, with raw energy of a live gig.

Only Real Mon 4 May, The Wardrobe, £7.70. Raw, grimy guitar pop.

CW Stoneking Wed 6 May, Brudenell Social Club, £17.60.

Songs range from lonesome field holler blues & hokum blues duets, to full blown jungle epics drawing influence from pre-war blues, jazz, 1920’s calypso & folklore.

Mobb Deep Thu 7 May, O2 Academy, £30.50. One of the most successful & hardcore rap acts. Their lyrics paint a harshly realistic picture of New York street life.

Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes Thu 7 May, City Varieties. £19 - £22. Top guitarist, red hot pianist & singer with some of the best known rock ‘n’ roll & country players in Britain.

Gordie Mackeeman & His Rhythm Boys Fri 8 May at Victoria Hall, Saltaire. £13.50.

From Prince Edward Island, Canada - acoustic bluegrassbased music + exceptional showmanship & dancing from Gordie! Details www. saltairelive.co.uk

Shamir Mon 11 May, Belgrave Music Hall, £8.96. R&B/ Electro with 80’s pop vibes, drum machines, synths & colourful harmonies.

Frankie & The Heartstrings Tue 12 May, Brudenell Social Club, £8.80.

Indie 5-piece influenced by Housemartins, The Smiths, Orange Juice & Dexys Midnight Runners.

Cheatahs Wed 13 May, Brudenell Social Club, £7.70.

Electrifying blend of raucous guitars & breathy vocals, honey-dripped with ennui & emotion. Also No Joy The Manfreds Thu 14 May, City Varieties Music Hall, £20.10. Maximum rhythm ‘n’ blues with former members of the original Manfred Mann LAU 19 May Howard Assembly Room Stretching folk music’s boundaries & exploring new musical territory. New album out this month.

Celtic Fiddle Festival Fri 22 May at Victoria Hall, Saltaire. Featuring Kevin Burke (Patrick St, Bothy Band).

An extravaganza of fiddle from Ireland, Quebec & Brittany. £15. Details www.saltairelive. co.uk

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Thurs 28 May, from 8.30pm at Grove Inn, Back Row, Holbeck. (off Water Lane).Live acoustic, Americana roots/ Bluegrass/ Country music. Resident bands & guests. Picking sessionsmusicians welcome. £3.

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New Roots: Serious Sam Barrett & guests Fri 29 May, 8pm New Headingley Club. 56 St Michael’s Rd LS6.

Songwriter whose unique sound draws from blues masters & home tradition – always fascinating.

The People Under The Stairs Fri 15 May, The HiFi Club, £9.90 - £12.65. LA producers & rappers, among the most highly regarded & influential hip-hop groups.

Sleaford Mods Sat 16 May, Brudenell Social Club, £11. grotty, cheap, abrasive, two-bit punk ferocity.

Daddy Long Legs Sun 17 May, Brudenell Social Club, £8.96. One of the wildest & most exciting groups of the current roots & blues revolution.

Sticky Fingers Tue 19 May, Belgrave Music Hall, £8.80.

A mash of reggae, psych, soul, garage & pop.

Indiana Wed 20 May, The Wardrobe, £12.10. Singer/ songwriter with unique voice, championed by Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank, Annie Mac & Huw Stephens.

Colt 45 Thu 21 May, Milo Bar, £3.30. Punk/alt rock band with big hooks & big riffs.

Young Fathers Fri 22 May, Brudenell Social Club, £11.

Mercury winning UK hip-hop outfit.

The Julie Ruin Sat 23 May, Brudenell Social Club, £12.50.

Alternative punk rock band, fronted by Riot Grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna.

Chas & Dave Sun 24th May, O2 Academy, £20. Witty songs about life in London, performed in no-nonsense rock n roll style with a strong affection for all things English.

Gold Sounds Mon 25 May,

Leeds University Union, 2pm, £22. Featuring: Fat White Family, The Wytches, F***ed Up, Hinds, Honeyblood, Big Deal, PINS, Happyness, Pity Sex, Colleen Green, Theo Verney

Pokey LaFarge Wed 27 May, Brudenell Social Club, £16.50 Wonderfully quirky, combines Delta-meets-Appalachia song-writing with the kings of swamp-drenched ragtime, & the legendary bluesmen of the Cotton Kingdom.

Hozier Thu 28 May O2

Academy. £34. Hozier was raised on the building blocks of popular music: rhythm & blues, soul, jazz & the deep dark stuff stretching from Chicago to the Delta.

Black Bombain Thu 28 May, Wharf Chambers, £6.60.

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Otley Sailing Club and its Sailfree section recently unveiled its brand new facilities, thanks to a Sport England ‘Inspired Facilities’ grant, together with £10,000 of the Club’s own money - a total investment of £47,883.

P Greg Mulholland and Otley Town Mayor Councillor Nigel Gill were on hand to help with the celebrations. Sailing was the order of the day, together with tours of the new facilities - which include a wheelchair accessible wet room, a new, level access path, antislip flooring, new doors and new changing room benches.

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The Leeds Coeliac Group organises an annual Food Fair, cookery demonstrations and monthly outings to local restaurants to enjoy a gluten free meal.

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Yorkshire Dales – Six Dales – 30 Walks

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Heart Research UK’s nineteenth annual Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on 20th June gives you the chance to hike three of the highest peaks in the Yorkshire Dales - Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough – and entry is free!

All Heart Research UK asks is that people raise as much money as possible to support its groundbreaking research into helping hearts near you.

If you’re not quite ready for the full three peaks challenge, the charity has introduced a 16 mile Valleys Walk – a guided trek around the foothills of this beautiful part of Yorkshire. Again, all walkers have to do is raise as much money as they can for Heart Research UK. All funds raised go towards the charity’s work, which has made such a difference for people like Imogen Tankard, aged four, who had life-saving heart surgery when she was just six months old. Her mother Vicky said: “We can’t thank research enough because it has

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John has lived in Wharfedale for 30 years but has been walking the Yorkshire Dales for over 50. The book features five walks from each of the six North Yorkshire Dales – Ribblesdale, Airedale, Wharfedale, Nidderdale, Wensleydale and Swaledale.

It includes walks to suit all ages and capabilities, ranging from short easy four-mile walks, to more strenuous walks of up to twelve miles.

A former Scout leader and founder of The Wainwright Society, John’s walking has taken him to many parts of the UK and abroad but he still reckons The Yorkshire Dales is one of the finest walking areas with its variety of scenery.

For the past four years he has been researching and walking these routes. As well as the route descriptions, the book contains a plethora of historical and local details of the areas covered.

John has been a regular contributor to Dalesman & Cumbria magazines, and has presented his one-man show, An Evening with Alfred Wainwright, to audiences throughout the North of England.

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Preparations are underway at Ilkley Lawn Tennis and Squash Club (ILTSC) to welcome international professional tennis players to the inaugural Aegon Ilkley Trophy Championship from 13th – 21st June.

This will be the highest ranking tournament ever held in Yorkshire and is part of the grass court season in the run up to Wimbledon.

A Plaque for Jane The Yorkshire Society recently unveiled a plaque in Victoria Gardens, on The Headrow, in honour of the late Jane Tomlinson CBE. Victoria Gardens became a landmark for Jane and her fundraising efforts, with many of her epic bike rides, including Rome to Home and Lands’ End to John O’Groats, passing through or finishing here.

“Watching Jane finish events here, and to see her legacy continue with the Leeds 10K finishing here and the Leeds Half starting in this very spot, is just fantastic”, said Mike Tomlinson, Jane’s husband. “Victoria Gardens is such an important place for our family and brings back a lot of memories. It was an honour for Suzanne and I to represent Jane to unveil the plaque.”

The Jane Tomlinson Appeal was set up by a very determined Yorkshire woman to help cancer charities. Before her death in 2007, Jane had raised £1.85 million through a series of

LTSC is the newest addition to the international Men’s ATP Challenger and the Women’s ITF Pro Circuit Tours, which attract both world-class players and rising stars from across the globe. The 135-year old club, which is the only venue in the region with the quality of grass courts and level of facilities required to host such a competition, is set to deliver a superb spectator experience.

“Over the week of the Aegon Ilkley Trophy our grounds will host over 100 matches and some of the best players in the world, as well as the next generation of tennis stars”, said Charlie Maunder, ILTSC General Manager. “We look forward to welcoming visitors and players alike to what we believe will be the friendliest tournament of 2015.”

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Director for the LTA, added: “2015 is the first year when there will be three weeks, instead of two, between the French Open and Wimbledon and it is fantastic that we have this opportunity to stage the Trophy in Ilkley - the first new venue for Challenger grass court tennis in the UK for several years.”

ILTSC is enlisting the help of volunteers as official ‘friends’ to ensure the smooth running of the event; invigorating Yorkshire’s appetite to support world-class sporting events following the triumph of the 2014 Grand Depart.

Tickets for the Aegon Ilkley Trophy are available at www. iltsc.co.uk

physical challenges. She knew her life was limited but wanted to create a vehicle that would give others the opportunity to raise money for good causes and share the excitement and fulfillment she had experienced through her own fundraising events.

To date, the Appeal has raised over £7.6 million, supporting a range of charities, helping to fund refurbishment projects and purchase vital medical equipment.

“To honour Jane with a Yorkshire Society plaque has been a true pleasure and a personal goal of mine”, said Peter Barber from the Society. “What she achieved was just phenomenal. ” For more information on the Appeal, contact 0113 826 7754, www.janetomlinsonappeal.com

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Window cleaner Chris Stoneman from Woodhouse is undertaking a 1,000-mile marathon bike ride - from Land’s End to John O’Groats - in just 10 days this July, in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Eight years ago, Chris slammed into a wall and broke his neck after his motorbike hit a patch of diesel near Settle and he was subsequently airlifted to hospital, becoming the Air Ambulance’s 2,000th patient.

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German sprinter Marcel Kittel and Dame Sarah Storey will join Sir Bradley Wiggins for this first exciting event. Kittel returns to Yorkshire having worn the first yellow jersey in Harrogate last year.

The Tour de Yorkshire takes in places missed out on last year’s Tour de France.

Stage one on 1st May starts in Bridlington and heads along the Flamborough Head Heritage Coast before turning in to the North York Moors National Park, through Dalby Forest and towards Pickering.

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On Sunday the peloton returns to roads raced in the Grand Départ, only with a twist; starting in Wakefield, riders travel to Barnsley before heading to Holmfirth where they pick up the Grand Départ route in reverse, racing to

Ripponden before riding the iconic Cragg Vale – which was the country’s longest continual climb in the Tour de France, but now becomes the longest continual descent. Riders then make their way to Hebden Bridge, Oxenhope and through the cobbled streets of Haworth.

This is a stage for punchers and climbers as a series of short, sharp climbs punctuate the entire route. After a steep climb at Goose Eye they’ll see Ilkley, before a sprint point at Arthington and then on to the finish in Roundhay Park (167km).

The ‘Tour de Yorkshire Ride’, the mass participation ride, promises to be one of the most challenging and popular sportives on the

Pictured: Leeds club Alba Rosa, who are planning a number of tour- focused rides and riders will head off across the route throughout the Summer. .

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Organised by Human Race, it features three distances – 50km, 108km, and 140km – and takes place before the pro race on Sunday morning.

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The Tour de Yorkshire will be annual event and the organisers – Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) – hope it will grow to be one of the biggest events in the cycling calendar, positioning Yorkshire at the heart of cycling in Europe.

Details of the Tour de Yorkshire route and timings can be viewed at letouryorkshire.com/timings

The first Tour de Yorkshire will feature a women’s race on the York circuit on Saturday 2 May. This is open to British Cycling licensed riders from Elite, 1st, 2nd and 3rd categories and will cover four laps of a 20km circuit around York with the same infrastructure as the Tour de Yorkshire later that afternoon.

It’s hoped the Tour de Yorkshire women only race, together with The Cycletta – the women only mass participation ride on Sunday 3rd May – in which hundreds of women are expected to take

part, will encourage more women to see the benefits of cycling.

“This is a fantastic new addition to the calendar and a great showcase for women’s racing”, said Bob Howden, President of British Cycling.

“The York circuit is set for huge crowds and a superb atmosphere, so we look forward to an action packed day.”

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Macmillan Official Charity Partner for Brownlee Tri

Macmillan Cancer Support will be the official charity partner for The Brownlee Tri 2015 at Harewood House on Saturday 26th September.

The event offers fantastic super-sprint and sprint courses on closed roads, almost all within the grounds of the Harewood estate, along with the opportunity to meet Alistair and Jonny before or after the race.

Entrants can sign up for one of Team Macmillan’s guaranteed free places, where they are asked to raise a minimum of £300 in sponsorship in the Individual Super-Sprint or Sprint, or a

minimum of £500 in the Team Relay. Or, you can sign up and pay for your own place and tick the Macmillan box – this allows you to be part of Team Macmillan and start fundraising to your own target.

You will be provided with a triathlon training and fundraising guide, regular e-newsletters packed with training and fundraising advice, and a free Macmillan vest or t-shirt to wear on race day.

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Children Get Creative to Tackle Litter Children at Hillcrest Primary Academy recently took part in a competition to design posters encouraging people to stop littering, which will be displayed on litterbins in the area.

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LBT Hosts Junior Aquathlon Leeds & Bradford Triathlon Club is once again hosting the Junior Aquathlon (swim/run) on 17th May at The Edge Sports facility at Leeds University.

Four pupils from Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School recently won the Leeds final of the UK Maths Challenge. hloe Facun (12), Chaewon Park Shim (12), Eamon Boyle-Smith (14), and Sean Carey (13), overcame teams from across the region. They will now compete against teams nationwide in the final at the Royal Horticultural Halls, London, on Monday 22nd June.

The competing schools in the regional round were Abbey Grange CE Academy, Allerton High School, Carr Manor Community School, Cooperative Academy, De Lacy Academy, Fulneck School, Garforth Academy, Gateways School, Harrogate Grammar School, Harrogate Ladies’ College, Horbury Academy, Horsforth School, Kettlethorpe High School, King James School, Lawnswood School, Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Rodillian Academy, Roundhay School, St Aidan’s CE High School, St Mary’s Menston, Tadcaster Grammar, Farnley Academy, Freeston Academy, The Grammar School at Leeds, Morley

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For more information on the above events please contact us:

www.roundhayschool.org.uk 0113 393 1200 info@roundhayschool.com

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COMMUNITYNOTICES ACTIVE Alwoodley Community Association Badminton Club Friendly group welcomes all abilities for badminton & social events Mon from 9pm & Wed from 8.30pm. Details:

FREE FOR charities, churches, social clubs & non-profit community groups

give it a try. Details: Brian K.

Junior Footballers Wanted

07527 730022

Quality players for North East Leeds Juniors U17s for 201415 season. Training & games at Scott Hall. Details: Mark

Get Running For YCC! Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal has guaranteed places in Great North Run, Leeds Half Marathon, Yorkshire Marathon & Leeds 10K. Whatever your distance we’ve got a challenge for you. Details: Tif 206 8620,

Vicky 07561 292699, Phil 268 9996, acabc@gmx. co.uk, www.alwoodley communityassociation.co.uk

tifaine.carter@nhs.net

Alwoodley Community Association Indoor Carpet

Join Team St Gemma’s for Leeds 10K Guaranteed

Bowls Section Meets Fri, 7.30 – 9.30pm. Mixed membership, mostly aged 60+ but younger age groups most welcome.

Friendly social atmosphere & good light exercise. Drop in &

places Sun 12 July – £25 each.

Runners are asked to raise as much sponsorship money as possible. Details: 218 5505,

beckyh@st-gemma.co.uk

Bramfitt 07970 863483, bramfitt_m@yahoo.co.uk

Leeds Area Disabled Swimming Club Do you have

group – all ages & abilities welcome. Adm £1.50 Details:

268 0266/ 01977 510508

Leeds 10K Sun 12 July.

Guaranteed places available.

Challenge yourself & raise funds for Yorkshire Cancer Centre, St James’s Hospital. Details: Tif 206 8620, tifaine.carter@ nhs.net

a condition where swimming could help? LADSC meets Mon 7.15 – 8.15pm Holt Park Active.

Safe & relaxed environment.

Leeds Penguins Lacrosse Club trains Mon 7.15pm at

Details: Roger 267 4716, Paul 225 7035

Adel, matches Saturdays. New & experienced players welcome.

Leeds Folk Dance Group

Details: leedslacrosse@ hotmail.co.uk

meets Wed (term time), 7.30 – 9.30pm at Baptist Church, Moortown LS17 6AA. Friendly

• 24hr Service

An independent husband and wife run business with over 35 years’ experience offering you our support day or night and personally supervised

by Phillip and Thea Thomason.

• Private Chapels of Rest • Qualified Funeral Directors and Embalmers • Memorials / Headstones • Funeral Prepayment Plans • International Repatriation • Green / Woodland Funerals • Also Horse Drawn / Motorcycle Hearse

137 Easterly Road, Oakwood, Leeds LS8 2RY

0113 248 2899

120A-122 Crossgates Road, Leeds LS15 7NL

0113 264 1405

email: phillip@thomasonsfunerals.co.uk

www.thomasonsfunerals.co.uk

Leeds Softball Indoor training Wed 7 – 8.30pm at Notre Dame College, St Mark’s Ave. Softball is a fun, friendly sport. New players very welcome - first session free! Details:

LeedsSoftball@gmail.com, www.LeedsSoftball.com

Lindy Hop Dance Classes Mon 8 – 11pm, Moortown Social Club, LS17 5LA. Beginners 8pm, Intermediate 9.30pm, Followed by social dancing. £5.

Details: Joyce 278 9891, www. swingjiveleeds.com

North Leeds Leopards are looking for new players for their U15 team (Year 10) for 2015.

Details: coach Lee Baines, 07913 385533

Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon Sun 11 Oct. Run the Yorkshire Marathon for St Gemma’s Hospice. They have 20 places & would love you to join the team. Details: beckyh@

st-gemma.co.uk

Pudsey & District Rambling Club Walks of 5 - 10 miles Sun & alt Thurs. Members from all around the district & new members welcome. Annual membership £8. Try before you join. Details: 01943 430657,

Moortown Rugby Union Club All junior age groups (6 –17) welcome to train & play Rugby Union. Located at Far Moss Sport Ground, off The Avenue, LS17 7NT. Details:

pat_barnett@yahoo.com

Run for Yorkshire Cancer Centre Limited places available in Leeds Half Marathon (May), Yorkshire Three Peaks (6 June), Leeds 10K (July), Great North Run (13 Sept), & Yorkshire Marathon (Oct). Raising funds for cancer patients at the Bexley Wing St James’s Hospital. Details: Tif

206 8620, Tifaine.carter@ nhs.net

Ramgarhia Sports Centre Adults: Circuit Training (Mon & Wed 6.30 – 7.30pm; Fri 6 – 7pm). £5 per class. Children: Cricket (ages 8-16, Sun 10am – noon); Hockey (Fri, 5 – 6pm). £2 per class. All abilities welcome. Details: 262 5657,

‘Ramgarhia Sikh Centre’ on facebook.

Roundhay parkrun Sat 8.45am for 9am start, at the bandstand near The Mansion.

Free 5k timed run for all ages & abilities. Details: www.parkrun.

org.uk/roundhay

Row, Row, Row Your Boat!

Teams of 2 - 8 can row 10 miles (20, 21 or 27 June) or 21 miles (28 June) across Lake Windermere, whilst raising money for St Gemma’s. Race for fastest time or enjoy the challenge with colleagues, friends & family. Details: 218

5296, tracieh@st-gemma. co.uk

Tai Chi Classes Mon & Wed, 7 - 8pm Chapel Allerton Primary School, Harrogate Rd, LS7 3PD.

Details: 07581 217074

Damian Curtis 07703 755645, www.pitchero.com/clubs/ moortownrufc

0113 288 8855

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82 Try Korfball! Free tryouts for men & women Mon 7pm at Notre Dame College, St Marks Ave. LS2 (opp Leeds University).

Details: leedskorfball@gmail. com

Walkabout! Alwoodleybased friendly group that enjoys short, medium or long walks, at weekends, evenings & midweek, both local & further afield. Social activities too. All welcome. Details: Barbara

Wakefield 285 7136, Sarah Barnes 261 9212, Nicky Whitfield 267 9867 www. alwoodleywalkabout.org.uk

Walking Group Alternate Mon & Wed 6pm from St Martin’s Practice. Run by Walk Leader. Walks take place on well-lit streets. Please wear suitable footwear & clothing.

Details: 262 1013

White Rose Canoe Club meets on Roundhay Park Lake & Fearnville Sports Centre swimming pool. Club sessions Sat afternoons & Tues pm.

Catering for beginners to World Champions. ‘Come & Try It’ sessions held monthly.

Details: www.whiterosecc. org.uk, wrcc-committee@ googlegroups.com

Community Notices Yorkshire 3 Peaks Sun 6

Roundhay Art Group

June. Join Yorkshire Cancer Centre Team for this walking challenge & raise funds for cancer patients at St James’s Hospital. Details: Tif 206 8620,

Meets Mon 7.30 – 9.30pm at St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Pk Rd. Roundhay LS8 1JN. A group of principally watercolour painters who meet to share skills. Regular demonstrations by local artists. New members with some experience welcome.

tifaine.carter@nhs.net

ARTS & CRAFTS Alwoodley Art Group Meets Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm at The Community Hall, The Avenue, Alwoodley, LS17 2NZ. Practical meetings, workshops, demonstrations & talks. Details: 2251546,

info@5dpublicity.com, www. alwoodleyartgroup-leeds. com

Chinese Brush Painters Society Saturday 23/ Sun 24

Details: John Irving 293 1465

Stainbeck Art Club 2nd & 4th Tues, 1.45 – 4pm Methodist Community Centre, Town St. Chapel Allerton. Practicals & demonstrations. 12 May: Practical with Mick Burton: Continuous line drawing. New members all abilities welcome.

Details: Pam McFetridge 268 4734, www.stainbeckarts. co.uk

& help available. Followed by craft club.

Leeds Feline Friends Cream Tea & Plant Fair Sat 30 May, 1.30 - 3.30pm Alwoodley Community Hall, The Avenue, LS17 7NZ. Wide range of plants & goods for sale. Delicious cream scones.

Oakwood Farmers’ Market 3rd Sat, 9am – 12.30pm.

Catch Gusto Italiano, Hebden Seafoods, Country Pies & many more, plus Sawley Kitchen. Details: www.

oakwoodfarmersmarket.com, Twitter @oakwoodmarket

Plant Fair Sat 9 May,

meets Wed 27 May, 2pm Almscliffe Village Hall, Huby LS17 6EG, for demonstration

by Jean McClure entitled ‘Fascinating Jubilee’. Visitors welcome. Details: 267 1886

10.30am – 12.30pm at Lidgett Lane Allotments. Stock your gardens from a large selection of vegetable plants, fruit bushes, herbaceous perennials, bedding plants, herbs, house plants etc.

Plus homemade cakes & coffee for small fee. Roadside parking.

Free entry. All welcome.

Details: Anne Allan 01422 368482, mail@cbpsyorks. co.uk

COFFEE MORNINGS, FAIRS & MARKETS

Roundhay NSPCC Plant & Gift Fair Sat 30 May, 10am

Make It Free craft drop-in

11am – 2pm at Stainbeck United Reformed Church. Bookstall, ENEHL Debt & Benefit Advice, Police Contact Point, free wifi

May, 10am - 4pm at Pool-inWharfedale Memorial Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool.

Workshops on painting flowers, birds & a zen landscape with internationally renowned artist Qu LeiLei, from London New members most welcome.

Thurs 12.30 – 2.30pm at Stainbeck Church, Stainbeck Rd. LS7 2PP

Yorkshire Flower Club

Community Cafe Thurs

– 1pm at St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Pk Rd. LS8 1JN. Huge variety of plants plus gifts, cards, books, cakes, toys & bric-a-brac. The money raised supports NSPCC children’s

centre in Leeds & Childline’s online service centre in the city.

Shadwell Methodist Church Coffee Morning 1st Sat 10am – 12 noon run jointly with St Paul’s C of E in Methodist Church Hall.

Shadwell Horticultural Society Annual Plant & Cake Sale Sun 24 May, 2 – 4pm at Shadwell Grange, 400 Shadwell Ln LS17. Bedding, perennial & veg plants just right for planting out. Lots of good advice. Entry £1 incl. tea/ coffee. Everyone welcome. New members welcome £11 single £18 dual. Details: Susan 273

8821

Tack, Rugs & General Goods Sale every 2nd Sat, 11am – 2pm at Hope Pastures (corner of Ring Rd & Weetwood Lane). Quality donated tack, rugs, horsey items & general goods. Refreshments available.

GROUPS/CLUBS Air Yorkshire Aviation Society Interested in aviation, aircraft old and new, airports?

Why not try Air Yorkshire regular guest speakers, trips & social events. Details:

Dave Senior 282 1818, www. airyorkshire.org.uk

Alwoodley Chess Club meets Wed, 7pm in the Council Room at Alwoodley Community Centre, The Avenue, LS 17 7NZ. New members welcome.

those interested in decorative arts, particularly mid/ late 18th century. Lectures, study days, visits. Details:

275 9562, enquiries@ thechippendalesociety.co.uk, www.thechippendalesociety. co.uk

Friends of Allerton Grange Fields Friendly group of volunteers working to maintain & enhance Allerton Grange Fields off Lidgett Lane, LS17.

New volunteers welcome.

Details: foagf@outlook.com, www.friendsallertongrange. org

Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods Action Mornings Sat 9.45am –12 noon. Meet on carriageway in the woods, near lake jetty. The Friends protect, preserve & enhance the Woods, carrying out variety of tasks such as bench installation, footpath construction, litter picking & bulb planting. Details: www.

fgvw.co.uk

Friends of Wigton Moor Woods Friendly group meets monthly at Wigton Moor UR church hall, High Ash Dr. Varied programme of activity days with litter picks, tree & bulb planting, nature quizzes & walks. New members welcome. Details:

Debs 07943 277867, Anne 07530 040349, friendsof wigtonmoorwoods@gmail. com, & Facebook

Gledhow Valley Conservation Area Group

The Calls). Join the growing action to protect our forests, oceans & stop climate chaos.

Details: Joe 07929 610773, www.greenpeace.org.uk/ groups

Human Writes in Leeds (HWIL) meets Fri 22 May, 1pm in café of West Yorkshire Playhouse. Participants bring short pieces of their writing for discussion. Details:

humanwritesinleeds. wordpress.com

Kaleidoscope Social Club for over 50s & unattached.

Improve your social life & make new friends. Not a dating agency. Details:

217 1747/ 267 0282, www. kaleidoscopeleeds.weebly. com

Leeds Bridge Club Moor Allerton Sports & Social Centre (MASSC), Stonegate Rd, LS17 Beginners classes: Mon 2 – 4.15pm, Fri 7 – 9.15pm, Thurs 1.30 - 3.45pm. Improvers: Tues 12.45 – 3pm, Thurs 7 9.15pm, Fri 10 – 12.15pm, Fri 7 – 9.15pm from 1 Oct. Details: Gill Copeland 225 7237, www. leedsbridgeclub.com

Leeds Budgerigar Society meets 1st Tues, 8pm at Troydale Recreational Club, Troydale Grove, Pudsey, LS28 9LA. Old friends & new members welcome. Details: Ronnie

Simpson 252 0976, www. leedsbs.webs.com

Leeds Caledonian Society New members welcome. Details: www.

leedscaledonians.org.uk

Leeds Cat Rescue rehabilitate lost, neglected & forgotten cats & kittens. If you can offer a cat a loving home, please contact them. Details:

268 0488, leedscatrescue@ googlemail.com, www. leedscatrescue.btck.co.uk

Leeds Elmet Probus Club provides a social gathering for retired men from professional & business backgrounds. Meets last Tues of month, 12 noon at Leeds 17 Restaurant, Nursery Lane, for lunch followed by guest speaker & short business meeting. Details: Keith

Robson 230 1559

Leeds Feline Friends Can you give a rescue cat a safe & loving home well away from a busy road? Details: 216 0593,

mail@leedsfelinefriends.org. uk, www.leedsfelinefriends. org.uk

Leeds Horticultural Society meets 1st Tues, 8pm St Chad’s Centre, Otley Rd. Annual membership £12 single/ £18 couple – includes all events & admission to Leeds Flower, Vegetable & Craft Show.

Details: Pat 225 0030, www. leedshs.org.uk

Leeds Hospital Alert

Details: Paul Gelder 269 7111, pagelder@hotmail.co.uk, www.alwoodleychessclub. org.uk

Voluntary group focusing on the heritage of area. All welcome.

Leeds Cactus & Succulent Society meets 18 May, 7.30pm

Small group campaigning for preservation of NHS. Meets Tues 12 May (11 June) at Muir Court, St Michael’s Rd. LS6.

Details: gvcag@yahoo.co.uk, www.gledhow.org.uk

at St Columba’s United Reform Church, Headingley Lane LS6.

Details: 278 5495, info@ leedshospitalalert.org.uk

Chippendale Society –

Greenpeace Leeds meet 1st

Details: Peter Smith 07817 688110, smitpt6@aol.com

widely dispersed membership centred around Otley welcomes

Mon of month, 6.30pm Wharf Chambers, Wharf St, LS2 (by

Community Notices

84 Leeds Microscopical Society meets Thurs 14 May, 7.15pm Alwoodley Methodist Church Hall, The Avenue, LS17 7BX, for a talk & demonstration

by Chris Hammond. 28 May: AGM & gossip evening.

Leeds Oxfam Group Campaigners who have raised thousands of pounds over the past year. All welcome to join their programme of interesting & informative events. Details:

www.oxfamleeds.org.uk & facebook

Leeds Photographic Society meets Tues, 7.30pm St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Park Rd, LS8. New members welcome. Details: www.

lps1852.co.uk

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Leeds Probus Club for retired professional/ businessmen, meets 2nd Thurs, 10.30am – 12 noon at St Matthew’s Church Meeting Room, Wood Lane LS7 for social gatherings with speakers.

Details: 266 2310

Leeds N.E. Probus Club meets 2nd Mon, 10am – 12 noon Parochial Hall, Fitzroy Dr. Oakwood, LS8 4AB for speaker’s meeting on interesting topic, & other Mondays for bowls or snooker. The club is for retired professional & business men. Details: 265 7064,

good causes. Help needed with upcoming charity collection event. New members welcome.

the local environment including proposed Moortown Park.

New members welcome.

Details: www.facebook.com/ leedsrotaractclub

Details: 266 8480, moortown communitygroup@ hotmail.co.uk, wwwmoor towncommunitygroup.co.uk

Leeds RSPB Group May Bird Walk Sun 17 May, 10am at Rodley Nature Reserve, LS13 1HP. Meet at car park. All welcome. Details: rspbleeds@

googlemail.com

Leeds National Trust Association meets monthly

Moortown Social Club Cranmer Gardens LS17. Mon 7.30pm Lindy Hop; Wed 7.30pm Rock ‘n’ Roll (£2); Thurs 8pm Bingo; 1st Fri of month Northern Soul & Motown; Sat 7.30pm Free & Easy with drummer & organist plus Bingo (£1.50); Sun - Artist & bingo.

dongoodman48@msn.com

at St. Chad’s Parish Centre, Otley Rd. Far Headingley.

New members welcome (£8pa). Details: 01924

Leeds Rotaract Group

892681cmsherborne@ btopenworld.com

National Vegetable Society meets 12 May, 8pm

Moortown Community Group. Friendly volunteers

at Paxton Horticultural Hall, 186 Kirkstall Lane, Headingley, LS5 2AB, when David Thornton FNVS will give an illustrated

18-30s professionals & students meet 2nd & 4th Wed, 7pm at Cosmopolitan Hotel, Leeds, to socialise, network & support

working to maintain & enhance

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talk on ‘Growing better veg this season’. Everyone welcome. Free entry.

North Leeds Friendship Centre Friendly group for retired & over 50s – outings, lunches, ten pin bowling, theatre visits & more. Social afternoons with speakers 2nd Fri, 2pm at Moor Allerton Sports & Social Centre, Stonegate Rd. New members welcome. Details:

Eileen 269 0084

Otley & Wharfedale MacMillan Cancer Support Fundraising Group covers NW Leeds & meets monthly to plan events.

Looking for new members.

Details or to book a speaker: 261 3758/ 01943 467299

Roundhay Planning Forum works with local people, councillors & City Council Officers to influence local planning decisions & deliver key actions & aspirations from the Roundhay Ward Neighbourhood Design Statement. New members welcome. Details: https://

sites.google.com/site/ roundhayplanningforum/nds

Slaid Hill In Bloom Next working party Sat 9 May, 10am -12 noon. Meet outside Dexter Pub, Slaid Hill LS17 8TX. Friendly group of volunteers.

Details: www.slaidhillinbloom. org

The 52 Club provides a social gathering for retired & semi retired men from professional & business backgrounds. Meets 2nd Mon of each month, 12 noon at Leeds Golf Centre, Wike Ridge for lunch, followed by guest speaker. Details: Peter Spence 269 4269

West Yorkshire Fuchsia Society meets 3rd Wed,

Bands/Musicians/ Entertainers Wanted!

Jazz Improvisation Group with Dom Moore

7.30pm at Moorside Tenants & Residents Community Centre, St Catherine’s Dr. Bramley LS13. Varied programme.. New members & visitors welcome.

for Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods Annual Family FunDay on Sat 13 June (1.30 – 5pm). To perform without electricity or amps. Details: Stephen Johns

meets fortnightly on alt Tues & Fri, 7 – 10pm 1st Floor, Providence House, Authorpe Road, Meanwood LS6 4JB. £8 per session. Details: 07800

Details: 256 3055

393 0930/ 07968 558 988, Stephen.Johns@dlapiper. com

816 086, dominicgmoore@ hotmail.com

Yorkshire Heraldry Society Sat 9 May Heraldry Day at The Royal Armouries.

Morning & afternoon lectures.

Details: Melia@btopenworld. com

MUSIC African Drum Class Tues 8 – 10pm, Inkwell Arts, Potternewton Lane. Learn African rhythms on Djembe & Percussion. Beginners welcome (drum loan available) £5 per session (1st class free).

Details: 07765 943107, ianto. knockonwood@gmail.com

Alwoodley Community Choir meets Wed, 5.45 – 7.15pm in Lord Darcy, Harrogate Rd. Friendly group, all ages & abilities, singing pops, standards, shows songs. New members welcome. Details:

Jean 0785 5059990

Alwoodley Singers Spring Concert Sat 9 May, 7.45pm Alwoodley Community Association Hall, The Avenue, LS17 7NZ. Entry £4 incl refreshments.

Alwoodley Singers Wanted, new members! Ability to read music preferable but not essential. Rehearsals Thurs 8 - 10pm at ACA Hall, The Ave, LS17 7NZ. Details: Alan 294

3370

Filey Festival of Music 23 – 31 May. Filey Methodist Church is hosting the annual festival. Music for all tastes, jazz, classical, full choirs, individual artists & brass bands.

Comfortable surroundings in top seaside resort. Details:

Jazz Voices Choir meets alt Mon, 7 – 9pm at Inkwell, Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton. Led by Tessa Smith.

All welcome. Sing your favourite jazz songs. £5 per session. Details: 237 0700, jeanwatsonlifeskills@hotmail. com

www.fileymethodistchurch. org.uk

Leeds Folk Fiddle Group is

Instrumental Jazz Workshop - alt Sat 2.30

urgently seeking more violinists!

They rehearse Thurs, 7pm at 1 St Mark’s Ave. Details: Iveta

- 4.30pm at Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Rd. LS7. Classes for people who want to play jazz & improvise. Enjoyable, supportive atmosphere. £10/£8 per class. Details: Jean

Watson jeanwatsonlifeskills@ hotmail.com

James Farrell Concert Band rehearses Tues 7.45 – 10pm at Dewsbury Rd Social Club. Friendly community band playing show/film music, marches & more. New players welcome. Details: 293 1779,

www.jfconcertband.com

Leeds Guild of Singers Confident sight-reader?

Like to sing renaissance & contemporary music in a small friendly choir? LGS welcomes new members in all voice groups, especially tenors & basses. Rehearsals Tues 7.30 – 9.30pm at Leeds University.

Details: secretary@ leedsguildofsingers.org.uk

07547 112171, leeds.violin@ gmail.com

Leeds People’s Choir meets Wed 7.30 – 9.30pm (term time) at Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Sq. Leeds, singing songs from around the world, under direction of jazz & folk singer Lorraine Cowburn.

Ability to read music useful but not essential. New members welcome. Details: www.

leedspeopleschoir.org.uk

Mixed Voices Choir Mon 7.45 0 9.45pm at Tree Tops Community Centre, Shadwell Lane, LS17. Singing musicals, pop & light classical songs.

Perform at prestigious concerts throughout the year. Details:

Anne or Tracy 07914 833394

Community Notices

86 Otley Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert Sun 17 May, 7.30pm at Methodist Hall, Boroughgate, Otley. This is their first concert under their exciting young Slovenian conductor, Aljosa Skorja. They will perform Weber’s Overture Euryanthe, Beethoven’s 1st Symphony & Dvorak’s 8th Symphony. Tickets from Otley Courthouse or on door.

Phoenix Concert Band Community concert band for players of Grade 6 standard & over. Rehearsals Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm at The Grammar School at Leeds, Tebb Room in music department. To join or book the band for a concert visit www. phoenixband.co.uk or email: secretary@phoenixband.co.uk

Players for Pleasure offers playing opportunities to adult amateur musicians. All levels, instruments & ages over 18.

New performers welcome.

Friendly, informal & supportive atmosphere. Details: www.

playersforpleasure.co.uk

Roundhay Ukulele Group Meets Wed 8 – 9.30pm at The New Highwood, Brackenwood Dr LS8. All abilities welcome. £6 per session. Details: jen@

bighooha.co.uk, www. roundhayukulelegroup.

wordpress.com

Seven Jazz Voices Choir meets alt Mon 7-9pm at Inkwell 31 Potternewton Lane Chapel Allerton LS7. Fun blues, jazz, cuban & gospel numbers, led by jazz singer Nicki Allan. £5 per session. Details: Jean Watson

Yorkshire Clarinet Ensemble Rehearses alt

Lunch Club & Over 55s Club Wed 12 – 3pm. Two

Wed, 8 – 9.45pm (term time) at HEART, Bennett Rd, Headingley. For players of Grade 5+ standard. New players welcome. Details: Deborah

course meal £3.50 followed by fun activities. Northcall Community Centre, Cranmer Bank, LS17. Details: 268 9993

Pennington 07910 414586, mpenn.dpenn@ntlworld.com

jeanwatsonlifeskills@hotmail. com

SENIORS

Society of Recorder Players – meets 2nd & 4th Sat

Chapel Allerton Good Neighbours (CAGN)

pm in Bingley & Headingley.

Different conductors take each meeting. Intermediate players, all recorders. New members welcome. Details: Caroline

welcomes local seniors 1st Tues, 2pm at Chapel Allerton Methodist Centre. Interesting speakers, refreshments & laughter. Details: Daisy 887

01943 467348

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Songbirds Choir meets Wed, 7.30 – 9.30pm at Yorkshire College of Music & Drama, St Mark’s Hse, St Mark’s Ave, LS2.

Singing songs from classical to pop. Ability to read music preferable. Vacancies for 2nd soprano & altos. Details: Tracy

Chapel Allerton Town St Lunch Club Tues 12.15 – 1.45pm in the Methodist Centre.

Hot Meal £4, friendship & chat.

Transport can be provided.

Volunteers welcome. Details:

Vivienne & Paul 268 2513, Jenny & David 266 1502, paul_chaplin@hotmail.com

07914 833394

Yorkshire Late Starter Strings (YLSS) rehearse Sat, 10am – 12.30pm. Friendly, informal string orchestra of adult learners who play a stringed instrument. Players of all abilities welcome. Specific beginners’ group for those new to playing.

Don’t Act Your Age A social improvisation drama group for the over 50s meets at Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd, Chapel Allerton on Tues 10.45am – 12.45pm.

All welcome – just go along.

RVS Chapel Allerton Good Neighbours Dementia Café Mon 12.30 – 2pm at Inkwell Café, Potternewton Lane, LS7. Also Singing for the Brain, arts & crafts, Tai Chi, & Knit & Natter sessions. Details:

887 3595

RVS Community Action for Roundhay Elders (CARE) welcomes people over 65 on Thurs, 1.30-3.30pm at Brackenwood Community Centre. Wide range of entertainment, activities, speakers, trips & special interest clubs. Details: Andrew or Sue

887 3595

RVS MENA Community Café Fri am Meanwood Community Centre. Activities include Tai Chi, tea & dance, knit & sew, & soon walking & poetry clubs. Currently seeking volunteer walkers to support group. Details: Gina or Sarah

887 3596

Details: Ron Wiener 266 7722

Details: www.ylss.org

BED SHOWROOM NOW OPEN 176 Easterly Road, Oakwood, Leeds LS8 3AD

Oakwood Flooring supply and fit a wide range of floor coverings including carpet, laminate, cushion floor, vinyl, luxury vinyl tiles and wood flooring for both domestic and commercial use.

Tel: 0113 240 9213 / www.leedscarpetcentre.co.uk FREE PARKING FOR SHOWROOM

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Roundhay Tea & Chat Club

Drop in Group Meditation

pain & stress management.

Tues 1.45 – 3.30pm at Terry Yorath House, Devonshire Ave. Club for over 65s who would like to make new friends & take part in wide range of activities.

(free) Sun 7- 8pm (except 3rd Sun: 6.30 – 7.30pm) Experience peace & calm with periods of silence & guided meditations.

Brahma Kumaris, West Park.

Details: 244 5256, www. leedsbuddhistcentre.org

Details: Carole 269 6632

Details: 275 7727, leeds@ uk.brahmakumaris.org, www. brahmakumaris.org/uk/leeds

Roundhay. Sunday Service & Junior Church 10.30am.

For evening services midweek activities, see website.

Community Coffee Morning 1st Sat 10 – 11.45am. Details:

Stainbeck URC Lunch Club Stainbeck Rd. Mon & Wed, 11am – 1.30pm (£4).

Meal, friendship, gentle exercise.

Transport provided. Volunteers welcome. Details: Avril or

Brian 293 5847, Angela 225 3766, www.stainbeck.urc. org.uk

Wigton Moor Friendship Guild meets 3rd Wed, Wigton Moor UR Church, High Ash Dr. LS17. Speakers, slide shows, presentations, & outings. Try them out for just £2 (incl refreshments). Details:

Maureen 268 0815, Alan 294 3370.

SPIRITUAL Buddhist Meditation Classes 7.30 - 9.30pm in Oakwood, Leeds City Centre & Horsforth. Details: 265 2118,

info@meditationinleeds.org, www.meditationinleeds.org

Christian Science Church Sunday Services & Sunday School 11am. Testimony Meeting 1st Wed 8pm.

Devonshire Ave. (next to Texaco petrol station) off Street Lane LS8. Bible based, Everyone welcome.

Chapel Allerton Methodist Church Sunday Services: 10.30am & 6.30pm. Aĺl welcome. Monthly Explorers’ group for children on Tuesdays.

Chapel Allerton Youth Project meets in Methodist Centre (opp church) weekday evenings.

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Group meets Mon, 7.30 9.30pm Friends Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay LS8.

Share Eckhart’s DVDs & silent meditation. £3 - £5 suggested donation. All welcome. Details:

07884 332644, www. peacenowhere.com

Introduction to the Quaker Way Sat 30 May, 11am – 3pm at Quaker Meeting House 188 Woodhouse Ln. LS2 9DX. Speakers, discussion & literature. Who are the Quakers & what do they believe? Learn about their worship & witness.

All welcome. Simple lunch provided. Details: 242 2208,

www.leedsquakers.org.uk

Julian Meetings 1st & 3rd Tues, 2pm at St Edmund’s Church, Roundhay, LS8 1JN. Silent meditation in the Christian tradition. Details: 240 3048/ 273 5865

Kagyu Buddhist Group Tues, 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Drop-in meditation class practising calm-abiding, reflective meditation suitable for all. £4. Details: 01282 841570,

yorkshire@dechen.org, www. dechen.org

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FWBO Leeds Buddhist Centre.

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Lidgett Park Methodist Church,Lidgett Place,

Trust. 7pm - 8.30pm at The Friend’s Meeting House, 136 Street Lane, Roundhay, LS8.

Details: 07949 972690, www. leedshealingcentre.org

Roundhay Evangelical Church Sun services 10.30am

www.leedsnandemethodist. org.uk/lidgett.php

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Meditation for Beginners

Details: www.roundhay evangelicalchurch.com

Tues 12.30 – 1pm & 6.15 – 7.15pm; Thurs 12:30 – 1pm at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, 31 St Paul’s St LS1. Details: 07866

760 460, www.jamyangleeds. co.uk

Meditation in Leeds Dropin classes at Ratnasambhava Centre, 22 Back Wetherby Rd, Oakwood, LS8 2QD (Tues 7.30pm) & HEART, Headingley (Thurs 7.30pm). £5 per class.. Details: 265 2118,

meditationinleeds@gmail. com, www.meditationinleeds. org

Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel (City Sq Leeds) Sunday Services 10.45am; Contemplative service 6pm; Mid-week Recharge Wed 1.15pm - a half-hour reflection.

A space of spiritual enquiry sanctuary for the soul

Moortown Baptist Church 204 King Lane, LS17. Sunday services 10.30am & 6pm.

Range of toddler, children’s, youth, house groups & senior projects through week.

Details: 269 3750, www. moortownbaptistchurch. org.uk

Natural Healing Centre Healing offered Thurs by members of NFSH Healing

Roundhay Quaker Meeting for Sunday Worship, 10.45am at 136 Street Lane, Roundhay LS8. Enjoy an hour of generally silent worship.

Children welcome to Sunday School at same time. Details:

293 3684, www.leedsquakers. org.uk

Shadwell Methodist Church Sunday Services: 9.30am. Creche for under 5s & Junior Church (9.45-10.30am).

Coffee after each service.

Details: Margaret Walker 225 1826

St Andrew’s Roundhay URC (Shaftesbury Ave) Sunday worship 10.30am - family worship with children & young people’s groups followed by refreshments. Communion 1st Sunday; Evening service 6pm 2nd Sunday; Early communion 9.30am 3rd Sunday. Details:

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88 St Barnabas C of E Church The View, LS17 7NA. Sunday Services 10am (with children’s activities) Families welcome.

Coffee drop-in 3rd Wed, 10.30am – 12; Busy Bs, 10.30am – 12.30pm for good company, conversation, activities; Church Lunch, 12.30 – 1.30pm (details: 268 2591/ 226 8269)

Details: 265 4926, www. stbarnabasleeds.org.uk

St Edmund’s North Park Ave, Roundhay. Sunday services 8am, 10am (with children’s groups) & 6.30pm.

Exploring faith, building community. Many groups & activities. Details: 266 4532,

www.stedmundsroundhay. org.uk

St John’s Church, Moortown Sunday Services

8am, 10am & 6.30pm at the junction of Harrogate Rd & Ring Rd, LS17 7BZ. Everyone welcome. Details: www.

stjohnsmoorallerton.org

St John Mary Vianney Parish - Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 294 Harrogate Rd, LS17 6LE. Masses: Mon Fri 9.15am, Sat 10am, Sun 8am, 9.30am, 11am & 6.30pm. St Paul the Apostle Church, Buckstone Cres. Masses: Sat 6.30pm & Sun 10am.

St Martin’s Church, St. Martin’s View, Potternewton, LS7 3LB. Sunday Service 10am – Parish Communion, Sunday Club & refreshments.

Wednesday Service 9.30am – Holy Communion. Open Afternoon Tues 2 – 4pm for quiet reflection & prayer. All

welcome. Details: 262 4271, www.st.martinleeds.org.uk

Stainbeck United Reformed Church Stainbeck Rd. Sunday Worship 10.45am - family worship & Sunday Club followed by refreshments.

Communion 2nd Sunday. Praise & reflection: Thurs 7.30 – 8pm.

Details: www.stainbeck.urc. org.uk

SUPPORT Arthritis Care Leeds meets 3rd Tues of each month, 7.30 – 9pm, St Chad’s Parish Centre, Far Headingley. New members welcome. Details: Pat 275 7694 Association of Blind Asians Leeds is looking for

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Details: Sonal 210 3347

Crohn’s & Colitis UK Support for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) & their families in North & West Yorkshire.

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0845 130 6809, Leeds@ crohnsandcolitis.org.uk, www. groups.crohnsandcolitis.org. uk/Leeds

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Details: 07840 686618

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Gluten-Free Social Event Fri 15 May 7pm at Sheesh Mahal, 346 Kirkstall Rd. LS4 2DS. Details

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Leeds LAS (Living After Loss Through Suicide) Peer support meetings in Leeds. Details: Sue Watts, Leeds Bereavement Forum 225 3975, sue.watts@ lbforum.org.uk @Leeds_LAS

Leeds Multiple Sclerosis Society uses Armley Leisure

Leeds Samaritans

6789, 08457 909090

Leeds Weekend Care Association (LWCA) provides respite care to families with children who have complex care needs via weekend playgroups, trips for teens & one-to-one home-based care. Details: 216

5133, angela.roberts@lwca. co.uk

Centre for activity classes

Support network for children with a disability & their families.

Run by parents. Details:

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Parkinson’s UK Leeds meet 2nd Wed, 2pm at St Chad’s Parish Centre, Headingley.

Support for anybody affected

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Details: Linda Thompson 01943 461640

01937 573166, or John & Ann 274 9074. www. marigoldwellbeingcentre. org.uk

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) Support group

Panpals - Yorkshire Pancreatic Cancer Support Group meet every 3 months, in Headingley.

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Bower 258 8143

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Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society Thurs 21 May, 7.30pm at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills Industrial Museum - Talk by Derek Rayner on ‘John Fowler & his Steam Plough Works’.

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Royal Meteorological Society (Yorkshire) Monthly informal public talks on all aspects of weather & climate at School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds. 21 May: Forecasting the impacts of space weather. 10 June: Advances in weather forecasting & their potential in building resilience.

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‘Seven Secrets of Successful Relationships’ Sun 31 May, 7pm Weetwood Hall, Otley Rd. LS16. Free.

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Talking Allowed in Leeds (TAIL) meets Mon 11 May, 1.45pm at Veritas, 43 Great George St. Topic: Justice in Plato’s Republic. Details:

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14 May, 7.30pm in St Andrew’s Church Hall, Shaftesbury Ave, LS8, when they will have an evening of fun games & confirm resolutions to the National WI.

Huntley 230 1584

Alwoodley Townswomens’ Guild meets 4th Mon, 7.15pm at the ACA, The Avenue LS17 7LT. Variety of speakers, outings, coffee mornings. Friendly group.

New members/visitors welcome.

Details: Pat 225 0030

Chapel Pie WI Friendly, fun women’s group for all ages.

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chapelpiewi@gmail.com, www.chapelpiewi.com

Darling Roses WI meet 2nd Sat (no meeting Aug), 11.30am at St John’s Church Hall, Harrogate Rd, Moortown. Details: darlingroseswi.org

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Joan McShane 225 1166

Details: Hilary 266 5648

Soroptimist International Meet 2nd Mon, 7pm at Weetwood Hall. All ladies welcome. Details: www.sigbi.

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University of Leeds Ladies’ Club welcomes women connected to the Uni as either serving or former staff members, partners of staff, or grads.

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White Rose Ladies Speakers Club meets 2nd & 4th Mondays (11 May with AGM; 8 & 22 June) 7.45pm at Horsforth Museum. It follows a national training scheme to help women improve their public speaking skills & boost selfconfidence. Visitors welcome.

Details: Pauline Neale 269 3542, pauline.neale@ntlworld. com, www.the-asc.org.uk

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Harehills Movement & Music Playgroup Parent run playgroup at Harehills Lane Baptist Church Hall (access via Hilton Pl), LS8. Tues: music & parachute fun; Wed: movement & developmental play. 10 – 11.15am term time. £1 per family incl refreshments.

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MISC/ EVENTS Community Action Day Sat 30 May, 10am-2pm at Hope Pastures (Corner Ring Rd & Weetwood Ln). Volunteers needed to help with regular maintenance jobs. Last Sat each month a team tackles some major jobs. Details: kim@

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Geology Walk with Bill Fraser,

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Leeds Geological Association Sun 17 May. Meet 2.15pm at roadside parking – GR SE380424 - for walk around Hetchell Wood, Scarcroft & Thorner. Walk will show that between 320 – 280m years ago, conditions here changed from tropical river delta to hot dry desert, then became inundated by shallow seas.

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A MASTERFUL PIECE OF STORYTELLING... PACKED WITH WARMTH AND HUMOUR’ STAGE REVIEW

RAYMOND COULTHARD AS KING GEORGE V1

JASON DONOVAN AS LIONEL LOGUE

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