Monthly Archives: December 2020
Leeds City Council’s Woodland Creation Initiative
Follow The Arium website to keep updated with news about Leeds City Council’s Woodland Creation Initiative at www.theariumleeds.co.uk/woodland-creation
They have some Treemendous 💚🌳resources information packs and tree identification cards you can download from the Arium website.
If your interested in attending tree planting events, please contact the Woodland Creation Team at woodlandcreation@leeds.gov.uk to register has a volunteer and book a place on one of our future events, which will be taking place between December and February
#TreesForLeeds 💚🌳
Countryside Ranger Team 🦉😀👍
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Christmas bin collections!
There will be some changes to bin collection dates between 20 December – 3 January. The service will only be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day to ensure your bins are emptied. Check your bin day here: http://orlo.uk/1md1i
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Leeds Discovery Centre Video Advent Calendar
We are in December, and Leeds Discovery Centre have created a Video Advent Calendar. Every day you can open a door to see what object their curators and staff have found in the Store 🎅🤶 🎄
You can catch up by opening doors 1 to 13 and each day thereafter there will be another one to open.
Click on the link below
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Leeds Looks Back… Windows on a Modern World
Online Event – Thursday 17th December 6pm – 7pm
City Centre exhibition runs until 17th December
To coincide with the recently launched ‘Windows on a Modern World’ city installation, featuring posters drums of Leeds scenes from the 70s set in the original locations. Leeds Modernist are delighted to invite you to a special online event in collaboration with Leeds Civic Trust!
Hear from a panel of special guest speakers, including ‘Concretopia’ author and social historian, John Grindrod, architectural historian and author of ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism’, Elain Harwood, and local artist Clifford Stead. The event will be chaired by Transport Planner David Ellis.
Through David Hick’s rare and striking images, the panel will explore the societal, economic and architectural legacies of the 1970s, which continue to impact on us today.
Book your free tickets here!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leeds-looks-backwindows-on-a…
And if you are out and about in the city centre you could look out for the posters around the area – locations below or find out more here: https://modernist-society.org/events
From Friday 4th December – Thursday 17th December wander through the 6 following locations:
1.WELLINGTON STREET
2.CITY SQUARE
3.EASTGATE
4.BRIGGATE
5.THE HEADROW
6.WESTGATE
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Blast from the past
Caring Together will be moving into our new base in Charing Cross at some point early in the New Year. I popped down there yesterday as the shutters were being replaced. Removal of the old ones exposed part of the old Advice Centre sign from back in the 1980s/90s. It was being covered up by the new shutters so I thought that I would get a picture while it was still visible. Does anyone know when it first opened and when it closed? I know that Caring Together had a presence there early on in its existence. Hopefully it is a good omen and that we are returning home.
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Meanwood Valley Urban Farm Virtual Christmas Market
Meanwood Valley Urban Farm are hosting a virtual Christmas Market for local crafters in the run up to Christmas. They will start posting content from people selling their products on facebook shortly. If you are interested in selling contact them directly.
Tel: 0113 262 9759
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RUTHLESS! The Musical from The Shows Must Go On
This weekend join The Shows Must Go On for the cult classic musical that spoofs the musicals! Starring Jason Gardiner & Kim Maresca.
Showing Friday 11th December at 7pm and then available for 48 hours
The camp cult classic from Joel Paley with music by Marvin Laird is filmed from London’s West End following critical acclaim off-Broadway. Ruthless! The Musical famously spoofs Broadway musicals from Gypsy to Mame as well as iconic films including The Bad Seed and All About Eve. Talented eight year old Tina Denmark will do anything to play the lead in her school musical. Anything! As Tina discovers where her talent comes from, she shows us just what it takes to succeed… Premiering in 1992, the show is responsible for discovering young performers Britney Spears and Natalie Portman. This production features Jason Gardiner (Dancing on Ice UK) as overbearing agent Sylvia St Croix who encourages Tina (Anya Evans) to pursue her dreams of a career in showbiz. Kim Maresca is Judy Denmark, ‘Tina’s Mother’, the bland housewife who has ‘absolutely no talent whatsoever’, or does she…? Tracie Bennett (Follies) is Tina’s grandmother, the famously spiky theatre critic Lita Encore, and Harriet Thorpe (Great Britain) is Tina’s teacher and ex-actress Myrna Thorne.
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Coffee on the Crescent have left space under the tree to be filled with gifts…..
Coffee on the Crescent have teamed up with our local council Headingley & Hyde Park News, the University of Leeds Sustainability team to to support our great friends at Rainbow Junktion. They provide food and essentials for those who are finding it particularly tough at the moment. Throughout December if you are heading to the supermarket and are able to purchase one extra item please do. Bring it here and we’ll ensure it gets to those who need it the most. (They are on Woodhouse Lane, 2 The Crescent, LS6 2NW, opposite Woodhouse Moor near Hyde Park Corner).
We’ve left space under the tree so we can fill it with the gifts that really will make a difference. Pictured here are the things most in need but we can accept anything as long as it’s in date and unopened. Every Little helps. This year more than ever. Thankyou:)
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Woodhouse Window Christmassy trail with Gateway Church
For one night only it is the Woodhouse Window Christmassy trail with Gateway Church tomorrow: Saturday 12th December at 4.30pm – see map below.
🎅 If you head to St Mark’s church a socially distance Santa will greet you from his outdoor grotto!
