Showcasing William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ available to watch at 7pm tonight (Monday 16th November) and then for one week
Starring Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, Rupert Goold‘s immediate and visceral film is set in an undefined and threatening central European world.
Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare’s intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama. Recently honoured with a highly prestigious Peabody Award, the film is based on the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the play that enjoyed sell-out runs in the West End and on Broadway. Patrick Stewart won Best Actor and Rupert Goold Best Director in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for the stage production and both Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood were nominated for Tony Awards for their performance. Director of the critically-acclaimed plays, ENRON and American Pyscho, Rupert Goold has been described as ‘the hottest, most exciting director around’, and Macbeth is his debut as a film director. When the film was screened by the BBC December in 2010, the critics were unanimous in their enthusiastic praise.
| Good morning, this weeks Monday Mind work is to fill in the blank on the below wise sayings – all the best
Wise Sayings |
| 1. Many hands make light …………………. |
| 2. Look before you …………… |
| 3. Fools rush in where …………… fear to tread |
| 4. Don’t put all your ……….in one basket |
| 5. Up the ……..without a paddle |
| 6. ……….is always greener on the other side |
| 7. It never rains but it …….. |
| 8. The heart is willing but the ……..is weak |
| 9. Make…….while the sun shines |
| 10. A little of what you ……. Does you good |
| 11. Like two……..in a pod |
| 12. Once ……..twice shy |
| 13. A ……………in the hand is worth 2 in the bush |
| 14. Too many ……..spoil the broth |
| 15. He who laughs last laughs ……… |
| 16. Bright as a …….. |
| 17. ……..and time waits for no man |
| 18. Two …….. don’t make a right |
| 19. The world is your ……… |
| 20. If you can’t be good be ……… |
Kind Listening Circles are warm, welcoming practice spaces for a small number of participants to practice the habits of listening with close attention, exploring questions that matter to us on self-care and kindness, and appreciating each other. Purposeful and conscious practice of these skills can help us develop kinder ways of relating to both ourselves and to others.
Monday 16th November – 8pm –9.30pm Facilitated by Angela Green: More Info / Register
Tuesday 17th November – 9.30am-11am Facilitated by Angela Green: More Info / Register
Leeds City Council have announced that they are rescheduling the city’s first ever virtual Christmas Lights Switch On. It was originally planned for this Sunday, November 15th but is being moved to Wednedsay December 2nd, when it should coincide with Leeds, and the rest of England coming out of the four week national lockdown.
This does mean that if you have pictures or videos that you would like to be included in this event you now have up until Sunday November 29th to submit them. The organisers are asking for video clips and images of your Christmas light displays at home (past and present) so they can feature in a dazzling digital montage that will be the climax of the exciting virtual Lights Switch-On.
The finished video will be set to a very special performance of Light up the Sky by pop band The Dunwells and the event will also feature performances from panto and theatre stars along with messages from local sporting celebrities and the Lord Mayor of Leeds.
To submit your pic or video message please send by email by Sunday, November 29 to: lightupleeds@sonderstudios.co.uk
The virtual switch-on event will be free to watch on the Millennium Square YouTube channel and Facebook page on Wednesday, December 2 from 6.30pm.
The Leeds United Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of a brand-new health and well-being initiative for our older generation of supporters, Sporting Memories. @LeedsUnited
Read below for more information:
https://www.leedsunited.com/…/foundation-launch-sporting-me
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A lockdown special celebrating the very best of London’s West End
In this edition we welcome the talents of Alice Fearn (WICKED / COME FROM AWAY / LES MISÉRABLES) Tim Howar (RENT / ROCK OF AGES / PHANTOM OF THE OPERA) Sandra Marvin (WAITRESS / SHOWBOAT / CHICAGO / HAIRSPRAY) Aisha Jawando (TINA / MOTOWN / BOOK OF MORMON / THE LION KING) Ben Goddard (JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR / SWEENEY TODD) and Mazz Murray (MAMMA MIA! / CHICAGO / WE WILL ROCK YOU / FAME)
It is on tonight (Friday 13th Nov) at 7pm – click on the picture to watch. It is unclear how long this will be available to view.
The show is free to watch but optional donations in support of three charities: Backup-The Technical Entertainment Charity, Help Musicians UK, and the Theatre Artists Fund. https://westendunplugged.com
Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service will be starting their ‘Live Well in Later Life’ class on Wednesday the 18th November. The class is designed for older adults or for anyone who can relate to difficulties older adults may face (e.g. retirement, loss, isolation, physical health difficulties).
The class will run for 5 weeks from 18th Nov-16th Dec and starts at 10:00. Due to current covid restrictions they are delivering the class online though the Microsoft Teams platform.
Here’s a little bit of information about the class from their website.
Later life can be a big time of change, which can lead to us feeling low or perhaps more worried or stressed. You may have noticed little changes, or started not feeling like yourself. Sometimes we can experience big life stressors that have a big impact on our wellbeing.
The Live Well in Later Life course aims to help manage these difficulties by teaching you techniques that you can use everyday to tackle low mood and worries.
You may benefit from the course if you have:
What we cover in the class:
The classes are based on guided self-help cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which is an effective therapy for treating depression and anxiety symptoms. You will learn how your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and physical symptoms interact and impact emotional wellbeing. The classes are run by qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners.
These are psychoeducational classes, not group therapy – The idea is to watch, listen, and learn about mental health and ways to improve it, and clients are encouraged to make changes outside of the classes to improve how they feel.
If they would like to join the class, you can sign up on their website – https://www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services-a-z/leeds-mental-wellbeing-service/online-group-classes/live-well-in-later-life/
You will receive information and instructions on how to join using Teams when you have signed up. You will need to have access to a computer or tablet to be able to join.
Anxiety is an ordinary consequence of being sane and if you fail to feel it during a major pandemic, you probably need help. Depression, too, is to be expected if you’re dealing with broken work routines, precarious earnings, threadbare television, confusing government announcements or the scores of things we’ve recently had to add to our worry lists.
But I’m a ‘vulnerable’ 70-year-old, so all this is overshadowed by the raw reality that the possible effects of the virus include, as well as anxiety and depression, a lonely and unpleasant death.
We tend, even if we’re in the undertaking or terminal care trades, to think that death, the only certainty in life, won’t apply to us. This is why, over the centuries, millions of people have marched willingly to war and why, right now, so many are stressing the possible psychological or economic effects of the virus rather than acknowledging the fact that, worldwide, it will leave hundreds of thousands dead, possibly including me.
Of course fretting about the non-fatal effects of the virus can be dismissed as a predictable displacement activity – a feeling that, with death knocking at the door, it’s time to change the subject. But the current spike in depression and anxiety is real enough and may be terrible for some; it’s just that diphtheria or smallpox would generally be a lot worse.
I’ve long been suspicious of the idea, which has become a sort of universally-agreed wisdom, that we should give the same status to mental illness as we give to physical illness, assuming there are enough physiologists in the world to separate the two, which there probably aren’t.
Like all 70-year-olds, I’ve seen the awful effects of severe illnesses, both ‘physical’ and ‘mental’, but most diseases, complaints and conditions could best be regarded, especially in the age of Covid-19, as trivial, or at least bearable.
Ordinary headaches, ordinary colds, indigestion, feeling anxious while waiting for exam results, feeling down because you can’t cheer on your team… they all, as they so often put it now, have an impact on your mental wellbeing, but they hardly ever kill you.
