Leeds Combined Arts

Historic Headingley with Claire Randall
2021-07-15 14:30 (Europe/London)
Photography and Landscape Summer 2021 Leeds Combined Arts
This July Leeds Combined Arts offers the first pair in a series of walks in which we shall be photographing some places of local interest around Headingley and building collages from the views we capture.
On Thursday 15th July we shall be walking from the recently reclaimed Sparrow Park on Cardigan Road, Headingley, up Chapel Lane, which is one of the oldest streets in Leeds, to the Cenotaph and the former location of the Shire Oak, the heart of old Headingley, photographing the historic village landscape and architecture.

LCA Walk at The Mill, Batley
2021-07-18 13:15
Join Rob at The Mill: 418 Bradford Rd, Batley WF17 5LZ for a walk of just under 6 miles and will take in the historic ruins of the 16th century Howley Hall and may include Grade 2 listed Woodkirk church”. 16th century” will be the literature theme. Further details including train times and parking facilities will follow by e-mail. http://www.themillbatley.com/
To book contact Carol: carol@leedscombinedarts.org.uk

LCA Book Reading Support Group, 'The Taxidermist's Daughter'
2021-07-19 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-07-26 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead.
As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years . . .
All welcome to read. Those who prefer not to read are welcome to just come along and sit and listen. Entrance is £3.00. Further details on 07518 627109.
Entrance £3.00. For further information please see www.leedscombinedarts.org.uk

Cancelled - Singing and Voice Workshops – ‘Life-lines in the Community’
2021-07-20 14:30 - 16:00 | Meanwood Institute, Green Road, Meanwood LS6 4LD, Green Road, Leeds, LS6 4LD, United Kingdom
Join Carol for some voice and singing for pleasure workshops at Meanwood Institute as part of our Lifelines in the community project.
We will be singing songs in different languages as well as some familiar songs and old favourites.

Special Commemorative Event for Carol Downing.
2021-07-21 20:15 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
The monthly Poetry Evening is this month dedicated to the memory of our sadly departed late Project Co-ordinator Carol Downing. We invite members to read poems that remind them of Carol or to relate personal recollections of her.

Theatre Visit: Piaf
2021-07-27 20:45 | Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UP, United Kingdom
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.

The Wharfedales Meanwood
2021-07-29 14:30
Photography and Landscape Summer 2021 Leeds Combined Arts
This July Leeds Combined Arts offers the first pair in a series of walks in which we shall be photographing some places of local interest around Headingley and building collages from the views we capture.
The second walk will be on July 29th along Woodhouse Ridge to the wonderfully characteristic Wharfedales on Meanwood Road which must be amongst the steepest streets in Leeds, taking in the high summer landscape of the Ridge along the way.
Please meet outside at the Arndale Centre near Sainsbury’s, Headingley.
Several more walks in the series are to be announced shortly.

LCA Book Reading Support Group, ‘The Taxidermist’s Daughter’
2021-08-09 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-08-16 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-08-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-09-01 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead.
As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years . . .
All welcome to read. Those who prefer not to read are welcome to just come along and sit and listen.

Day Trip to Barnard Castle & Northallerton.
2021-08-11 10:00 - 19:00 | Leeds Central bus Station, Leeds, United Kingdom
Meet at Leeds Central Bus station outside Greggs.
Join us for a day trip to Barnard Castle & Northallerton. Set on a high rock above the River Tees, Barnard Castle takes its name from its 12th century founder, Bernard de Balliol. It was later developed by the Beauchamp family and then passed into the hands of Richard III. With fantastic views over the Tees Gorge this fortress sits on the fringe of an attractive working market town also known as ‘Barney’ so there is plenty to do for families on a day out. Try and spot Richard’s boar emblem carved above a window in the inner ward or visit the ‘sensory garden’ of scented plants and tactile objects.
Set between the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the west and the North York Moors National Park to the east the town has been a centre of communications for centuries. Northallerton’s wide High Street is a pleasant busy shopping centre, with many independent shops, cafes and pubs. There is a busy market on Wednesday and Saturday. All seats are £15.00. Social distance rules apply and all places must be pre-booked in advance and only those from the same house-hold may be seated together.
Contact Anna: anna@leedscombinedarts.org.uk

Theatre Visit: 'The Promise of a Garden'
2021-08-17 19:15 | Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UP, United Kingdom
Nature has been our faithful companion in lockdown. In parks, pastures, allotments and gardens, it has helped us through the tough times. Now, a new botanical paradise is growing in the heart of the city as we transform the Quarry Theatre into a horticultural haven where a company of older performers will share their personal stories, visions and dreams of times past, present and future as they create the garden out of nothing before your eyes The Promise of a Garden blends performance, dance, music, film and photography to create blossoming moments of joy and reflection as we begin to explore and gather strength in our new reopening phase

Theatre Visit: Dangerous Liaisons - Playhouse
2021-09-09 20:30 - 23:00
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 Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer and iconic retelling Cruel Intentions, this dangerous story has been thrilling audiences for over 200 years.
This bodice-ripping ballet, choreographed by David Nixon OBE, is set to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia.

Poetry Evening with Richard Smith - ‘The Passage of Time’
2021-09-15 20:15 - 21:45 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
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.

Theatre Visit: Freedom Project
2021-09-17 20:00 - 23:00 | Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UP, United Kingdom
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 Carol Downing Memorial Walk.
2021-09-18 13:15
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 are aiming for is 11.58 out of Leeds station, arriving at Woodlesford station at 12.07. Assuming the train is on time it’s less than 5 minutes from the station to the rendezvous point.
We would aim to finish the walk at the Two Pointers Pub for refreshments. Bring suitable walking gear, water and a packed lunch. The paths are good throughout with a steady climb to the highest point of the Country Park. There are no public toilets en route but the pub is scheduled to open at 12 noon so they may let you use the toilet there if necessary, on the understanding that we will be returning to the pub after our walk.
My feeling is that any poetry or song we choose to perform should relate to our memories or thoughts of our friend, Carol.
If you require further details, phone Rob on 0113 216 4492 in good time or try 07421 043 614 on the day. Please only use the mobile number on the day as I rarely answer it otherwise. Ring the mobile if I don’t show up on time as it will mean that the train is late or cancelled.

LCA Book Reading Group - 'Death of an Old Master’ by David Dickinson
2021-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
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 experts, Christopher Montague, is found dead in his study. When Lord Francis Powerscourt is called in to investigate, he finds that every book, notepad, and scrap of paper has been removed from the scene of the crime. Montague had been working on something that would have rocked the art world. Did the article that claimed a number of the “Old Masters” had been painted recently by a single hand have anything to do with his death?
Powerscourt embarks on an odyssey through a treacherous world of art dealers and picture restorers in pursuit of a master forger. He travels to Sicily where the trail grows cold, but, after the thrills and dangers of that lawless island, it is in a remote corner of the English countryside where the truth is finally revealed.

MBS evening with film: A Conscious Universe? – Dr Rupert Sheldrake
2021-09-22 20:15 - 21:45 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
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 renewed interest in panpsychist philosophies, according to which some form of mind, experience or consciousness is associated with all self-organizing systems, including atoms, molecules and plants. Maybe the sun is conscious, and so are other stars, and entire galaxies. If so, what about the mind of the universe as a whole? Rupert Sheldrake will explore some of the implications of this idea. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers, and was named among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013.
Entrance fee £4.00/£3.50 members and concessions.

LCA Book Reading Group – ‘Death of an Old Master’ by David Dickinson
2021-09-27 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-11 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-18 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-10-25 16:00 - 18:00 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN

Theatre Visit: Dracula: The Untold Story - Playhouse
2021-09-28 20:45 | Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UP, United Kingdom
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 chilling new version of the classic gothic vampire tale that you thought you knew so well.

Local heritage art and photography walk
2021-10-07 14:30
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.

Walk with Richard Bojanowski. Walk taking in Paul's Pond and Adel Dam in Golden Acre area.
2021-10-17 13:15
Short leisurely stroll of around 4 miles to Paul’s Pond and Adel Dam – good spot to observe the wildlife around water, and the surrounding paths.
Meet at 12.15 in entrance for car park and on bus stop side of X84 from Leeds.
X84 leaves Leeds Bus station at 11.00 and 11.30 (every half hour on Sundays) and arrives at Golden Acre around 11.25 and 11.55.
We can go to cafe at the end of the walk where we can sit outdoors.
Any Question? Contact Richard Bojanowski on 0113 234 7688 and/or 07724866313.

Theatre Visit: Jitney
2021-10-19 20:45 | Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UP, United Kingdom
Regular cabs won’t travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1977, local residents turn to the unlicensed taxi company of Jim Becker and his fellow ‘jitney’ rivers. When Becker’s son returns from prison, a struggle to reconcile the past begins, and the future of the company and its drivers is threatened. Jitney explores the fragile bond between eight men, as they live, love and work in a racially segregated, post-Vietnam America.

Poetry Evening with Linda Marshall
2021-10-20 20:15 - 21:45 | HEART – Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HN
Linda Marshall, poet and one-time co-editor of Aireings poetry magazine, has had her latest book published this year by Yaffle Press. It is called Cloud Cuckoo Café, and if you enjoy the coffee experience, some poems in this collection will especially appeal to you. Her previous publications include Brakken City (Fighting Cock Press 1997) and Half-Moon Glasses (Flux Gallery Press 2009). In 2012 Linda was commissioned to write a poetic tribute for the centenary of Cottage Road Cinema in Far Headingley. She has written ekphrastic poetry, and her word-pictures have adorned local artist Lilliane Gosling’s magical, Indian-themed Theyyam paintings. She took part in a Leeds Lieder event in 2013, collaborating on a feminist song/poem performed at Leeds College of Music. Recently she co-edited Corona Ceoil, an anthology of prose, memoir and poetry contributed by the Leeds Irish community and published by LIHH.
Entrance £3.50/£3.00 members and concessions. Pay on the door.
