A story of sexual power, cruelty and deceit. In 18th century France, letters fly between the mansions of two bored aristocrats as they spin a web of heartbreak and ruin. It might seem like a game, but lives will be ruined and love irrevocably lost. From the original scandalous novel, the acclaimed film starring John ... Read more
For the first poetry event of our autumn programme this presentation will consist of poems and other creative pieces covering events from the first two decades of the 21st Century. The whole of life will be represented. Entrance £3.50/£3.00 members and concessions. Pay on the door.
Melding lived experience with creative theatre-making, refugees Mo and Hossein share stories – both personal and global – that explore the very different journeys taken by unaccompanied minors as they leave their home countries in search of sanctuary.
The walk is about 4 miles, taking in a pretty stretch of the Aire and Calder Navigation and a circuit of Rothwell Country Park with fine views of Leeds from the top. Meet in Woodlesford at about 12.15 outside the Two Pointers pub (LS26 8RE). Car drivers should find street parking nearby. The train we ... Read more
The LCA Book Reading Group meets every Monday at 3 – 5 p.m. HEART, Headingley. 'Death of an Old Master’ by David Dickinson - England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition opens, one of Britain's ... Read more
The sciences are pointing toward a new sense of a living world. The cosmos is like a developing organism, and so is our planet, Gaia. The laws of Nature may be more like habits. Partly as a result of the ‘hard problem’ of finding space for human consciousness in the materialist worldview, there is a ... Read more
The LCA Book Reading Group meets every Monday at 3 – 5 p.m. HEART, Headingley. ‘Death of an Old Master’ by David Dickinson – England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition opens, one of Britain’s leading art ... Read more
New Year’s Eve, 1963, London, England. Just before midnight, as revellers celebrate the beginning of another year, a young woman claiming to be Mina Harker enters Marylebone Police Station and confesses to a brutal murder. Unfolding on stage as a live graphic novel, the latest co-production from Leeds Playhouse and imitating the dog is a ... Read more
The LCA Book Reading Group meets every Monday at 3 – 5 p.m. HEART, Headingley. ‘Death of an Old Master’ by David Dickinson – England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition opens, one of Britain’s leading art ... Read more
Meet at Sainsbury’s at the Arndale Centre to walk with Claire Rae Randall in the backstreets from Oakfield Terrace to Monkbridge. This is the third of Claire’s local heritage art and photography walks.
