Category Archives: Events & Activities

Lunchtime Fish and Chips to your door

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Dear all,

A fish and chip lunch has been coming directly to the door for some members. See below.  If you would like to have some brought to you then please get in touch.  Lisa – Mobile: 07436 530073 or email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk
The next time I will be going is Friday 9th April 2021 at 12.30pm
Lunch time special of Medium Haddock, Chips, Peas or Curry is £5.05. I can only take cash.

Caring Together’s Elevenses was online and in person today!

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Dear all,

We are a year on and our Elevenses group continues to meet online once a week. And today we had four more members join us for Elevenses; in person  I took the technology and the online group to them. It was their first time on zoom and mine hosting the online, and in person (s) session together. It was a surprise for those who regularly meet. We all loved it and enjoyed getting together, safely and without breaching lock down rules! It even incorporated an IT session beforehand too. It was a bit cold but well worth it and something we are definitely doing again.

Elevenses every Thursday with Caring Together 11am to 12noon

If you wish to join us, get in touch; lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call 07436 530073

TALKING: NATURAL ENCOUNTERS A series of talks from staff and volunteers at Leeds Art Gallery

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Listen to the series here

Enjoy a journey through Natural Encounters listening to a series of short talks from the team at Leeds Art Gallery.

The exhibition spans 400 years of nature in art, exploring the different strategies artists have used to approach, interpret or respond to nature. In Talking: Natural Encounters, staff and the gallery’s Youth Collective share their personal response and interpretation of individual artworks and invite you to do the same.

The series was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leeds Art Gallery • Leeds Museums and Galleries • Journal

Shared Moments: ‘graveyard walk’ written by Oliver Cross

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Dear all,
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Sometimes we like to spend our officially-approved daily exercise periods wandering through the disused St George’s Fields cemetery in the grounds of Leeds University.
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There are wide paths paved with the flattened common gravestones of people who died without having the foresight to make a responsible funeral plan and as a result are entitled to only one line of plain lettering listing their name, date of death and their age they departed this life, although ‘departing this life’ contains too many letters to be within the budgets of most of the cemetery’s inhabitants.
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Many of the deceased in the common graves, if they achieved adulthood, died in what we would call early middle-age, their 40s and early-50s. The more elaborate still-standing headstones, with big lettering and unnecessary wordage, are typically of people who died in their 60s or 70s and had occupations, such as victualler or merchant, that paid better than being an ordinary worker in a country built by workers.
I expect common people visiting common gravestones would have noticed this inequality in death but I shouldn’t think it worried them. It was just how things were; there was no secret injustice to be discovered, everything was spelled out in stone, inevitable and unchangeable.
But big events do shake things up. I’m not sure that that the present pandemic is an event on the scale of the world wars or the great depression or even some past epidemics, but it will change things.
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If I were of an age which would allow me to report back to you in 15 or 20 years time, I would be interested to see how many people still work from home, how much life remains in city centres, whether it’s permitted to get mildly drunk in pubs – if there are pubs – and how many packs of dogs, bought to alleviate lockdown boredom, are now wandering the streets, possibly joined by liberated Llandudno goats and the odd stranded walrus.
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It would be interesting to see whether we still rely on home deliveries and the army of low-paid, though very skilled, people who keep us fed, watered, furnished and amused but would mostly end up piled into common graveyards if there were still such things.
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It’s possible that the that the economic consequence of the pandemic, which are as yet uncounted, might bring about a realignment that makes the rich slightly poorer and the poor slightly richer, so the figures add up more sensibly. Don’t wait up though.
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Incidentally, the St George’s Fields cemetery also contains the gravestone of the circus owner Pablo Fanque (real name William Darby) who died in 1871, aged 61, and should be remembered as a pioneering black entrepreneur but is in fact remembered for contributing a couple of lines to the to the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album: “The Hendersons will all be there/ Late of Pablo Fanques fair, what a scene.”
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The joint gravestone also commemorates the tragic death in a circus accident of Pablo’s wife Susannah, but it still never fails to cheer me up.
picture from foursquare
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Thank you Oliver for sharing this with us, until next time….
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Shared Moments: Making the most of the beautiful weather

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We have had a glorious few days and we definitely made the most of it. We were up on Woodhouse Moor on Tuesday (minus the barbecues and alcohol), with a trip to our allotment (thanks Ben), the Woodhouse Moor bowling greens and then in Little London today. More walks/strolls to follow. Get in touch if you would like to join us next time.

Lisa Argyle Mobile: 07436 530073 or email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk

Send in your Playhouse memories/sounds of Leeds

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Two invitations from Leeds Playhouse for you to contribute to a 50 years of the Playhouse exhibition and a sounds of Leeds project.  They both have deadlines for contributions this week:  Details from Leeds Playhouse below:

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Monday Mind Workout: Monday 29th March 2021


				

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Dear all,




Today’s Monday Mind Workout is themed around chocolate and sweets.




Eg. I can’t believe it’s not whisky     Answer: Butterscotch




1. A US Coin


2. Vehicle + a coat


3. Evil


4. Fierce Caged Animal


5. Tramp


6. Dating Agencies


7. Subject


8.Wobbly Infants


9. Teddy Bears had one


10. Nine


11. Roman God of War


12. Sport for a Prince


13. Keep this quiet


14.Wise Guys


15. Pigs Tail maybe?




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Have your say at a Focus Group on Transport in Leeds


				

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Leeds Involving People and Leeds City Council would like to invite you to a focus group to hear your opinion on the upcoming Transport Strategy for Leeds, where you will learn about the draft strategy and be able to put your opinions forward or ask any questions:








The draft Connecting Leeds Transport Strategy sets out how we propose to achieve our vision and respond to the Climate Emergency declaration whilst also ensuring inclusive economic growth and also improve health and wellbeing across the city.






We simply don’t know what the long term impacts of COVID-19 on business and individual travel behaviour will be, but we do know that people need to be connected and have access to opportunities.






This consultation seeks input to what further measures we should be considering going forward.






Come along to one of our sessions to have your say and share your views with Leeds City Council & Leeds Involving People!






Follow this link to view the proposals: https://leedstransportstrategy.commonplace.is/overview… and review the strategy.






Book your place at one of our consultation sessions here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/leeds-transport-strategy…






Choose one session from:


-31st March 2021 – 10:30am-12pm


-1st April 2021 – 1:30pm-3pm


-1st April 2021 – 6pm-7:30pm






You can also join the zoom meetings with the codes from the picture below






			

	
	


				
					



	

		
					

		
Live comedy online – Sunday 28th


				

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Mock The Week mainstay and co-host of hit podcast Off Menu, Ed Gamble, joins star of Live At The Apollo, QI, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and fellow Taskmaster champion, Lou Sanders, for the final FREE Your Place Comedy live streamed show in the current series.


Hosted by Tim FitzHigham (writer and star of Radio 4’s The Gambler, presenter of CBBC’s Super Human Challenge and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee), Your Place Comedy presents warm, intimate and unique live streamed shows mixing chat and stand-up. The project has been put together by a group of 12 small, independent theatres and arts centres from across Yorkshire and the Humber, supporting performers and continuing to bring live entertainment to their audiences during some challenging times.


The event is FREE to watch but there will be an option to donate if you have enjoyed the broadcast, with all money raised being distributed equally among the participating venues (including Leeds Carriageworks) to help support them while their doors remain closed.


To watch the show, just visit the Your Place web site at 8pm on Sunday 28th March. https://www.yourplacecomedy.co.uk/


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Poetry Corner: ‘‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers’ by Emily Dickinson


				

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‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –


That perches in the soul –

And sings the tune without the words –

And never stops – at all –


And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –

And sore must be the storm –

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm –


I’ve heard it in the chillest land –

And on the strangest Sea –

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb – of Me.