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Dancers wearing carnival costumes sway to music in front of the Wavy Bacon statue on the University of Leeds campus.

Thousands flock to Light Night on campus

Published
Tuesday 29th October, 2024
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News
Arts & Culture

More than 13,000 visitors including young families, students and staff enjoyed a spectacular Light Night at the University of Leeds.

Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, Lord Mayor of Leeds, and poet Khadijah Ibrahim view the plaque

Blue plaque highlights anti-slavery history of Leeds

Published
Wednesday 2nd October, 2024
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University
Arts & Culture
Research

Campaigners who were at the forefront of the global movement to abolish slavery, including Wilson Armistead, are being honoured at the University of Leeds.

A graphic white light display projected onto the Laidlaw Library.

Dazzling displays return to brighten campus

Published
Friday 27th September, 2024
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Arts & Culture
University

Light Night celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with the University presenting its most exciting programme yet from 24-25 October.

Etching of the Royal Exchange, showing the courtyard and people socialising within it.

Multilingual gossip in Elizabethan London

Published
Wednesday 25th September, 2024
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Arts & Culture
Research

Stranger churches in early modern London had ‘eyes everywhere’ to hear, spread and dispel gossip in multiple languages, according to new research.

A pianist plays a Steinway piano

Yorkshire plays key role on world’s musical map

Published
Wednesday 11th September, 2024
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Working with our region
Arts & Culture

Almost two million people in the region will hear or play public pianos as part of this year’s Leeds International Piano Competition, which brings a new Piano Trail to Bradford.

Two people dressed in armour pose for the camera, holding their swords up,

World’s medievalists flock to Leeds

Published
Friday 5th July, 2024
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Global
Research
Arts & Culture

Thousands of medieval enthusiasts have flocked to the University of Leeds for the largest humanities research conference in Europe, featuring fighting knights, music and rare works by JRR Tolkien.

Group shot of Walking to Zero participants

Sketching helps students and staff connect to landscape

Published
Tuesday 11th June, 2024
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Arts & Culture
Research

A sustainability project is using sketching as a tool to encourage students and staff at Leeds University Business School (LUBS) to appreciate the power of walking.

Poster for the 1944 film, Gaslight

Language change harms ability to communicate and understand

Published
Wednesday 22nd May, 2024
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Arts & Culture

Changes to the definitions of conceptual words like ‘woke’ and ‘gaslighting’ are harming our ability to communicate and understand our experiences, a Leeds academic argues.

Dillon Jaxx, winner of the 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize, with Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, at the Awards Ceremony.

Winner of Brotherton Poetry Prize announced

Published
Thursday 16th May, 2024
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Arts & Culture

A poet who once wrote in secret has been awarded the University of Leeds Poetry Centre’s 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate and Professor, Simon Armitage. 

Artist Mohammad Barrangi smiles in front of works from 'One Night, One Dream, Life In the Lighthouse' displayed on a red wall

Exhibition explores migration, memory and disability

Published
Thursday 2nd May, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

An exhibition by Leeds-based Iranian artist Mohammad Barrangi opens on 1 May at the University of Leeds, as part of the year-long Smeaton300 celebrations.