Arts&Culture Leilah Babirye: Obumu (Unity) Opening on Friday 29 March 2024, Leilah Babirye’s exhibition Obumu (Unity) will feature new sculptures made at YSP specifically for this exhibition, largely from materials found onsite. “My work is basically using trash, giving it new life and making it beautiful. It is always influenced by where I am By The Editor • 3 min read
Arts&Culture Double delight for Yorkshire Sculpture Park at 2023 Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) scooped two top awards at last night’s Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards for 2023. YSP was presented with the Tourist Attraction of the Year Award as well as the inaugural Culture Award at the glitzy ceremony held at the new Dock Hall, Leeds. YSP Deputy Director By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Harehills architectural gem awarded much needed funding Ten places of worship from across Yorkshire are celebrating this month after receiving a share of £74,000 to help towards the cost of repairs and maintenance work. The grants have come from the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust (YHCT), a charity set up to help churches, chapels and meeting houses By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture Only Fools and Horses The Musical is on tour in 2024 & 2025 Stick a pony in your pocket – The Trotters are back and coming to the Leeds Grand Theatre as well as York, Sheffield and Bradford! The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking sold-out four-year run in London’s West End - featuring Del By The Editor • 3 min read
Arts&Culture ‘My Mate’s a Footballer’ Footballer Patrick Bamford and comedian Joe Wilkinson front new BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live podcast A new podcast promising sport and comedy is available on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live from Thursday 16 November. In this 20-part series, comedian Joe Wilkinson reveals that he’s always By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture ACS creates 400 statues for Remembrance Day Yorkshire-based manufacturer ACS Stainless Steel Fixings helped communities up and down the country commemorate Remembrance Sunday this year, creating more than 400 Silhouette Soldiers and raising thousands of pounds for the armed forces. It is the third year in which ACS has run its initiative, one which sees the company By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture It’s vinyl! a new record shop opens at Sunny Bank Mills A brand-new specialist vinyl record store has opened at Sunny Bank Mills, the award-winning mill complex in Farsley, near Leeds. Managed by vinyl obsessives Choque Hosein, Colin Richardson, Jamie Styan and John-Paul Craven, Record Plant opened its doors on National Album Day. Choque was a member of the Leeds band By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture The BACIL Awards 2023: celebrating the unsung heroes that make Leeds a safer city. Recently, saw the return of the BACIL Awards 2023, with over 200 guests from both the retail and night-time economy attending the prestigious event along with the guest of honour, recently appointed Lord Mayor, Councillor Al Garthwaite. BACIL (Business Against Crime in Leeds) is a dedicated organisation protecting business premises By The Editor • 4 min read
Arts&Culture Leeds performing arts college announces new owner One of Yorkshire’s most prestigious performing arts colleges has been taken over by a West End musical theatre actor and director, marking an ambitious new era for the Leeds establishment. SLP College in Garforth, Leeds, has announced Kenneth Avery-Clark as its new owner, who is also the principal and By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture Yorkshire garden centre group sponsors blogger awards A Bradford-based garden centre group sponsored two categories in the Yorkshire Blogger Awards that were held in Leeds recently. Yorkshire Garden Centres, owners of Tong, Tingley, Bingley and Otley Garden Centres, was one of the sponsors of the awards that celebrate talented, inspiring and creative bloggers throughout Yorkshire. Yorkshire Garden By The Editor • 1 min read
Arts&Culture Hundreds celebrate opening of the Utopia Theatre Creative Hub More than 130 people attended the celebratory opening of a vibrant new creative hub in Sheffield which will widen arts and cultural participation in the city. The Utopia Theatre Creative Hub on Rockingham Gate in the city centre officially opened to the public on Thursday 21 September, with an array By The Editor • 2 min read
Arts&Culture There’s trouble at Sunny Bank Mills Trouble At Mill, the acclaimed Leeds-based events company, now has a permanent home on a 10-year lease at the Sunny Bank Mills complex in Farsley and will host year-round shows at the 500-capacity Old Woollen venue. Dick Bonham, one of the directors of Trouble At Mill, explained: “This is tremendous By The Editor • 3 min read
