Category: Community News

Plastic Recycling in Leeds – A Guide from Leeds City Council

Plastic recycling can be confusing! Here’s our guide to recycling plastics in Leeds. Recycle plastic types 1, 2, 4 and 5 in your green bin! Look for the triangle with a number in it Type 1 – pop bottles, fruit punnets Type 2 – milk bottles, cleaning product bottles Type 4 – frozen veg bags,… Continue reading Plastic Recycling in Leeds – A Guide from Leeds City Council

Nature Revealed+Caring Together Nature Writing Project: web series concludes

Dear all, To conclude this web series on our nature writing workshop with Caring Together, we are very pleased to be able to share a downloadable curated booklet, which includes the handwritten pieces and typed transcriptions, for everyone to enjoy. We are especially grateful to the workshop participants for giving us their permission to share… Continue reading Nature Revealed+Caring Together Nature Writing Project: web series concludes

Two Shows from The Shows Must Go On

From Here To Eternity This weekend’s musical performance is a remembrance special and Sir Tim Rice’s musical adaptation of From Here To Eternity! Pearl Harbor, 1941, where the girls sing “don’cha like Hawaii”, the men of G Company sing the blues, and where even on an army base, love and desire are never very far away.… Continue reading Two Shows from The Shows Must Go On

‘Remembrance Day Commemorations’

Dear all, see below a message from Leeds City Council – note the dates below Our annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations will look very different this year, due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic. Due to the risks posed there won’t be the usual service or military parade at Victoria Gardens in Leeds. People are… Continue reading ‘Remembrance Day Commemorations’

Leeds Libraries

Leeds Libraries The following libraries/hubs will be open from Fri 6 Nov The following libraries/community hubs will be open from Friday 6 November providing limited services throughout the lockdown:- Central Library (opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11am – 3pm) Community Libraries: • Armley • Compton Centre • Dewsbury Road • Headingley • Reginald Centre •… Continue reading Leeds Libraries

Nature Revealed+Caring Together Nature Writing Project

Dear all, A final reflection on our Caring Together Nature Writing Workshop. In this piece, Dr Lucy J Rowland considers how the group’s writing reflects on the challenges of Climate Change in fascinating and creative ways……. Click on the link below to read more: https://landlinesproject.wordpress.com/climate-change/

Opera North: From Couch to Chorus: The Festive Edition – 11th Nov to 15th Dec 2020

Always wanted to learn how to sing opera? Now’s your chance! Join Opera North for a five-week series of festive workshops where you’ll learn all the best singing tips and tricks from a professional choral director. By the end of the course, you will be able to sing excerpts from Puccini’s famous opera La bohème, as… Continue reading Opera North: From Couch to Chorus: The Festive Edition – 11th Nov to 15th Dec 2020

Shared Moments: Remember, remember the 5th November written by Maureen Kershaw

Dear all, Remember, remember the 5th November – well,  we’ll certainly remember this one! Going into Lockdown 2, Bonfire Night will be vastly different from those we’ve known before. I don’t recall celebrating ‘Halloween’ as a child, probably because we didn’t. Preparations for Bonfire Night started, however,  I suppose from early October. Any old furniture… Continue reading Shared Moments: Remember, remember the 5th November written by Maureen Kershaw

Poetry Corner: Remember, Remember….

Remember, Remember…. Immortalized in this nursery rhyme, the Gunpowder Plot is introduced early into the young minds of children throughout the United Kingdom. Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! Guy Fawkes, guy, t’was his intent To blow up king and… Continue reading Poetry Corner: Remember, Remember….

Nature Revealed: Caring Together Nature Writing Blog Series- Day 2

The next entry in this week’s web series – reflections on our Nature Writing workshop is here. In this piece, Dr Lucy J Rowland considers how the group’s writing represents nature through memory. Read it here!- click on the link below: https://landlinesproject.wordpress.com/nature-and-memory/