Arts & Culture News

A young person is pictured from the side as they edit footage in a TV production studio.

Behind the scenes of social class on TV

Published
Friday 13th October, 2023
Categories
Working with business
Arts & Culture

A Leeds researcher has teamed up with the BBC, Channel 4 and Candour Productions to analyse the role of social class, on screen and behind the scenes of TV production.

Glowing fireflies fly around a forest path at night.

Art, music and performances shine on campus for Light Night

Published
Wednesday 4th October, 2023
Categories
Working with our region
Arts & Culture
Research

Visitors can experience the magic of the UK’s largest annual arts and lights festival, Light Night, on the University of Leeds campus on 12 and 13 October.

Members of Mafwa Theatre sketching their surroundings at Askham Bog with Katie Surridge. The landscape is lush and green, with long grass, trees and other plants filling the background.

Living wall on campus will honour precious peatlands

Published
Wednesday 20th September, 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture
Working with our region
Environment

An artist is collaborating with a community arts group to create a living wall for the University of Leeds, inspired by carbon-storing peatlands.

Two knights in chainmail fight with swords in front of a crowd of spectators.

Medieval knights clash swords on campus

Published
Monday 3rd July, 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture

Europe’s largest Medieval celebration is taking place in Leeds with over 2,500 enthusiasts from 60 countries coming together both in person and virtually to immerse themselves in the Middle Ages.

Lucy Illingworth plays a grand piano in the Clothworkers Hall, sat next to her teacher Daniel Bath

Summer Music Festival uncovers untold stories

Published
Friday 23rd June, 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture

Internationally renowned acts, rising stars and homegrown talent will be performing at the University of Leeds for this year’s International Concert Series Summer Music Festival.

The Lord Mayor of Leeds Al Garthwaite and others look at bright pink and yellow sculptures, as a student explains the work

Art graduates ask the art world: Can you let us in?

Published
Thursday 8th June, 2023
Categories
University
Arts & Culture

Talented emerging artists who have persevered through the turbulent years of Covid are bursting onto the art scene with a plea to “let us in”, as the Lord Mayor of Leeds opens their degree show.