Leeds Combined Arts

LCA Book Group
2020-09-14 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
We are currently reading ‘The Miner’s Daughter’ by Jennie Felton.

When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she must find a way to support herself and her two young daughters, Kitty and Lucy, and marriage to widower Algernon Pierce seems to be the answer to Annie’s prayers. For a time, all is well. But beneath her new husband’s respectable veneer, lies a darkness which deepens as the years roll by. Annie begins to fear for her daughters’ futures, particularly vibrant, headstrong Lucy, whose defiance of Algernon alters the course of their lives forever.
All reading takes place in the two-hour slot, including a break. All welcome to read or just sit and listen. Entrance is £3.00 and includes refreshments. Further details on 07708 230333.

Music Event: The Roman Empire
2020-09-12 20:00
The Roman Empire return to the Heart Centre – or at least, just outside in the gazebo – to entertain the sacred and scared folks of Leeds! With song-based tales of pets, tentacles and nuclear war. We encourage you to donate your ears to what we are lovingly calling our One Stop Plague Tour 2020. So join us, won’t you, for a warm night of fun and desanitised instrument swapping. Live music in the Courtyard from 7.30pm – 45-minute set. Bar available for drinks and snacks (payment by card preferred). Please feel free to stay and chat (socially distanced of course) in our delightful outside space. While this event is free – donations are appreciated. Numbers are restricted. If the event is full there is also a bar available in the Carpark, so you can at least have a drink and a socially distanced chat! There is no booking just turn up in good time!

Walk around Swinsty Reservoir with Poetry on the theme of ‘Forests/Trees’.
2020-09-06 12:45 - 15:15
Join Richard on a 4.5-mile walk around Swinsty Reservoir (2nd reservoir upstream in Washburn valley, a few miles north of Otley). Meet in car park next to “beach” just downhill from Fewston village. There are unrestricted & delightful views around this reservoir. Please bring a packed lunch.
We can visit the cafe in Washburn Heritage Centre or ice-cream van in car park, after walk.
For further details please contact Richard on 0113 2347688 or Carol on 07708 230333.

LCA Annual Break
2020-08-27 - 2020-09-06

Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton.
2020-08-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Tuesday 25th August 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. HEART Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley LS6 3HN.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Institute as well as Meanwood Park (weather permitting). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.00 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton
2020-08-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Tuesday 18th August 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. Meet at Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Institute as well as Meanwood Park (weather permitting). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.00 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

Day Trip to Heartbeat Country & Whitby.
2020-08-15 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday 15th August, 9.00 a.m. Day Trip to Heartbeat Country & Whitby. (Meet at Leeds Coach Station Dyer Street).
Goathland is an incredibly attractive but busy village in the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. It is the setting for the fictional “Aidensfield” in ITV’s popular TV programme Heartbeat. There is also a station there for the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors steam railway line. It is a popular tourist destination and has many useful amenities including a pub, tea room, shops, and a post office. We’ll then be heading over to Whitby to spend the rest of the day. From the atmospheric Abbey towering over winding cobbled streets to the windswept beach and working harbour, Whitby is not your traditional coastal town. An Enjoy England award winner for Best Day Out, be sure to sample Yorkshire’s best fish and chips, discover ancient vampire legends and sit under the whale bone arch, watching the brightly coloured fishing vessels passing by. All seats £15.00. Please send payment all cheques to be made payable to ‘Leeds Combined Arts Theatre Group’ to us at – Leeds Combined Arts HEART Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley LS6 3HN. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton
2020-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Tuesday 11th August 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. Meet at Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Institute as well as Meanwood Park (weather permitting). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.00 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

LCA Book Reading Group.
2020-08-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2020-08-03 16:00 - 18:00, 2020-07-27 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN

Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton
2020-08-04 15:15 - 17:00
Tuesday 4th August 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. HEART, Bennett Road, Headingley LS6 3HN.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Institute as well as Meanwood Park (weather permitting). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.00 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

Walk around Meanwood Woods & Park with Poetry on the theme of Woods, Parks and Water.
2020-08-02 13:00
PLEASE NOTE: This walk is now fully booked.
Join Carol for a 5 mile circular walk from Meanwood Park, through Meanwood Woods, Adel, and into the Hollies. Again the above information may apply and we will contact you by e-mail nearer the time to let you know. Meet at 12: noon in Meanwood Park Car Park.
Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton
2020-07-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Tuesday 28th July 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. Meet at Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD. The Workshops will be held in Meanwood Park..
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Park (for the time being). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.00 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

What hidden Electromagnetic Fields (EMF's) exist in your home? The dangers that this electrical stressor presents upon your health and how you can protect yourself, with Craig Taylor.
2020-07-22 20:00 - 22:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
This talk will provide you with an understanding of the influence that EMF’s played upon my diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, M.E and Lyme Disease in 2015, using industry meters will make this an interactive evening using the group members to show how Environment Healing measures the forms of EMF’s so you can see at first hand the influence on illness at a cellular level in the body and how we then need to protect the body. With 5G, the next generation of communications we need to understand how this differs from previous networks and how this becomes even more of a health concern that you need to be educated upon. Entrance £4.00/£3.50 concessions & members. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

New Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton
2020-07-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Tuesday 21 July 2-4 p.m. Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma. Meet at Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD. This weeks Workshop will be held in Meanwood Park.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Park (for the time being). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.50 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

LCA Book Reading Group.
2020-07-20 16:00 - 18:00
We are currently reading ‘The Miner’s Daughter’ by Jennie Felton.

When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she must find a way to support herself and her two young daughters, Kitty and Lucy, and marriage to widower Algernon Pierce seems to be the answer to Annie’s prayers. For a time, all is well. But beneath her new husband’s respectable veneer, lies a darkness which deepens as the years roll by. Annie begins to fear for her daughters’ futures, particularly vibrant, headstrong Lucy, whose defiance of Algernon alters the course of their lives forever.
All reading takes place in the two-hour slot, including a break. All welcome to read or just sit and listen. Entrance is £3.00 and includes refreshments. Further details on 07708 230333.

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Kirkstall and Gotts Park with Poetry on the theme of ‘Industrial Revolution’
2020-07-19 13:00
“Rob has decided that, at this critical period of lock-down easing, he would prefer to lead a Leeds-based walk on 19th July and will defer the Outwood/Lofthouse Colliery walk to a later date.”
The walk will start at 12 noon on Sunday 19th July at Kirkstall Retail Park, Savins Mill Way, Leeds, LS5 3RP. This is the car park at Kirkstall Morrisons – it’s probably easiest for us to meet near that store. We will walk from there down a little known path beside Kirkstall Goit to reach Redcote Lane and the Leeds Liverpool Canal. Following the canal back to Armley we will walk up the road past Armley Mills to Armley Park and Gott’s Park. If the weather is fine there could be a short detour to pass the Grade II listed Gott’s Mansion, once home of Leeds industrialist, Benjamin Gott, erstwhile owner of Armley Mills (great spot for a packed lunch too), then on through the park and down Armley Ridge Road back to Kirkstall. There is a refreshment possibility at Kirkstall Bridge Inn but at this stage it is not known what arrangements the pub will have made for safe access. More should be known about this shortly before the walk.
The walk is just over 5 miles.
Bring packed lunch, water and suitable clothing for good quality footpaths but unpredictable weather. Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

LCA Poetry, Prose & Music Evening. (FULLY BOOKED)
2020-07-15 20:00 - 22:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
Join us for an ‘Open Mic’ Poetry & Prose and Music Evening all welcome to sing, play or read, themes for this evening include, summer, nature, environment and freedom!!. Entry £3.50/3.00 members and concessions including refreshments. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

New Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton at HEART, Headingley
2020-07-14 15:00 - 17:00
This week we meet at HEART, Headingley, Bennett Rd, LS6 3HN. For next weeks please check on our website just before the event. Please note that places must be pre-booked due to a restriction on numbers.
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held both indoors and outdoors (weather permitting).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Park (for the time being). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.50 members and concessions.

LCA Book Reading Group.
2020-07-13 16:00 - 18:00
We are continuing to read ‘The Miner’s Daughter’ by Jennie Felton.

When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she must find a way to support herself and her two young daughters, Kitty and Lucy, and marriage to widower Algernon Pierce seems to be the answer to Annie’s prayers. For a time, all is well. But beneath her new husband’s respectable veneer, lies a darkness which deepens as the years roll by. Annie begins to fear for her daughters’ futures, particularly vibrant, headstrong Lucy, whose defiance of Algernon alters the course of their lives forever.
All reading takes place in the two-hour slot, including a break. All welcome to read or just sit and listen. Entrance is £3.00 and includes refreshments. Further details on 07708 230333.

New Dance & Movement Workshops with Emma Sutton at HEART, Headingley
2020-07-07 15:00 - 17:00
Emma will commence some new 8 week dance and movement workshops at the beginning of July. The workshops will be held outdoors (for the time being).
The workshops will continue throughout July and August finishing on Tuesday 25th August and we’ll take a break over the last week in August and re-commence again in September.
We invite you to join us for Line-Dancing. Our new workshops mean that we can return to meeting and dancing together as a group whilst also observing the physical contact guidelines. Modern Line Dance retains its Folk and Country & Western roots whilst also including other styles. The music and routines will be varied so each week you might find yourself dancing Cha cha, Bollywood or even Samba steps as well as sometimes doing the old traditional Heel & Hook. Our Tuesday classes will be relaxed, fun and friendly with easy to pick up dances. Come along to learn a new skill – which is good for the brain, make new friends – which is good for the spirit and at the same time gain the benefits of physical exercise. Please wear comfy clothes and shoes. We will dance in Meanwood Park (weather permitting). All classes will commence at 2.00 p.m. and finish at 4.00 p.m. including a short break. For any further information required please contact emma@leedscombinedarts.org.uk
Entrance £3.00/£2.50 members and concessions. Please note: Places must be pre-booked due to the current restriction on numbers.

LCA Book Reading Group.
2020-07-06 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN

Qi Gong Classes
2020-06-28 16:00, 2020-06-21 16:00
White Crain Qi Gong classes with Mark Tarver is continuing in Hyde Park (just behind the children’s playground) with Mark Tarver every Sunday at 3.00 – 3.40 p.m. with social distancing. Qi Gong is a centuries-old system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training.
There is a great advantage in gathering the light from the sun as it becomes stronger and stronger and doing this outdoors.

MBS Evening: ‘TROPIC’ – Green Beauty, Presentation, Talk & Demonstration with Emma McCullock.
2020-06-24 20:30 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
Unfortunately due to the nature of this event and the physical contact involved we have had to postpone this talk and workshop for the time being. We will however hope to re-arrange this event in the Autumn. Please check this site for further updates. Emma, a Senior Ambassador from Tropic Skincare, will be doing a presentation on the importance of clean, green beauty. She will be discussing how what we put on our skin affects our overall health and wellbeing and how we should pay attention to the beauty industries environmental impact. We will all get a chance to indulge in Tropics gorgeous products and receive a mini hand treatment too!
www.tropicskincare.com
Entrance, £4.00/£3.50 members & concessions.

LCA Book Reading Group.
2020-06-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom

LCA Poetry Evening on Zoom
2020-06-17 20:30
Join us on Zoom for our June mixed Poetry Evening. Further details will be sent out by e-mail nearer the time with a link and password. All welcome to read one or two poems or just join us and listen.

LCA Book Reading Group Re-commences.
2020-06-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD, Green Road, Leeds, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Join us as we re-commence our Book Reading Group at Meanwood Institute on Monday 15th June at 3.00 p.m.
We are currently reading ‘The Miner’s Daughter’ by Jennie Felton.

When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she must find a way to support herself and her two young daughters, Kitty and Lucy, and marriage to widower Algernon Pierce seems to be the answer to Annie’s prayers. For a time, all is well. But beneath her new husband’s respectable veneer, lies a darkness which deepens as the years roll by. Annie begins to fear for her daughters’ futures, particularly vibrant, headstrong Lucy, whose defiance of Algernon alters the course of their lives forever.
All reading takes place in the two-hour slot, including a break. All welcome to read or just sit and listen. Entrance is £3.00 and includes refreshments. Further details on 07708 230333.

Theatre Visit: 'Piaf’, Leeds Playhouse. Postponed until next Spring 2021.
2020-05-30 20:45
This production has now been postponed by the Playhouse to next Spring. Born Edith Gassion in 1915, no one could have predicted Edith Piaf’s phenomenal rise to fame – from singing in the streets of Paris to becoming one of France’s biggest international stars, her voice is still revered to this day. But her extraordinary talent was matched with an equally extraordinary personal life… Pam Gems’ sensational and emotionally-charged play explores the highs and lows of the enigmatic yet fragile singer’s life and features some of Piaf’s most famous songs, including La Vie en Rose, Hymne à l’amour and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. Piaf is directed by Adam Penford (An Enemy of the People, The Madness of George III, Wonderland) and stars Tony-nominated and Olivier Award-winning actress Jenna Russell in the title role.
