Category: Community News

Snapshot in Time: ‘Knitting things Together’ – Volunteers Week in Woodhouse, Little London and parts of City Centre

Dear all, This week was volunteers week. And at Caring Together we celebrate this event every year for volunteers and helpers. We recognise everyone’s offers of help and supportive gestures in whatever way it is given, this can even be from our regular dedicated volunteers, to ad hoc offers of help from members, and their… Continue reading Snapshot in Time: ‘Knitting things Together’ – Volunteers Week in Woodhouse, Little London and parts of City Centre

The Shows Must Go On

This week’s show is ‘Hairspray Live’ featuring Ariana Grande Streaming from 7pm Friday 29th May and available for 48 hours. Watch it on YouTube “The story of Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Maddie Baillio), in 1962 Baltimore who wins a spot on a local TV dance program and ignites a campaign to integrate the show. The three-hour… Continue reading The Shows Must Go On

National Theatre at Home – This House

This week’s play is This House by James Graham and it streams from 7pm today (Thursday 28th May) Watch This House on YouTube “It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of the nation.… Continue reading National Theatre at Home – This House

National Theatre at Home ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ from Thursday 21st May

  National Theatre continue to stream a show each week while they have to be closed.  The shows go out on YouTube at 7pm on Thursday and then are available for 7days Watch the Young Vic’s hit ★★★★★ production of Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, with Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby and Ben Foster. … Continue reading National Theatre at Home ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ from Thursday 21st May

Lockdown Leeds – more pictures

An update on the  the solitary swan from last week.  I found 3 swans looking majestic in Leeds dock, I’ve only previously seen the one pair so far this year, but then a 4th appeared to join them so I think all is well with the Swan family i And a couple more herons –… Continue reading Lockdown Leeds – more pictures

National Theatre at Home – Antony and Cleopatra

National Theatre at Home Antony and Cleopatra On YouTube from 7pm today and for 7 days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWc6_aCTqI0 Watch Antony & Cleopatra directed by Simon Godwin. At the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a… Continue reading National Theatre at Home – Antony and Cleopatra

National Theatre At Home

This weeks performance from the National Theatre is Frankenstein Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), this production of Frankenstein sees Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange, Hamlet, Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. This week you are able to choose between 2 versions… Continue reading National Theatre At Home

Great British Home Chorus

British choirmaster, composer and TV presenter, Gareth Malone, has launched an ‘at home’ digital choir to boost the nation’s morale during coronavirus self-isolation. His heart-warming new initiative, ‘The Great British Home Chorus’, has been designed to bring together both amateur and professional performers around the UK by encouraging them to sing with others online. The… Continue reading Great British Home Chorus

Local History

We had our penultimate research session in Leeds Central Library for the ‘Women Reflecting on Women’ project last week. There were still lots to discuss. For one of our members the subject of the workhouse in Holbeck came up. This resulted in maps being brought out of the area, past and present. She recollected her… Continue reading Local History

Lighting the way!

As part of the ‘Nature Revealed: Making the Invisible Visible’ project, Caring Together will be working alongside the University of Leeds, Schools, other organisations and various artists which involves coming together at intervals in the year using creative techniques to explore the natural world of migrational and nocturnal birds, hedgehogs and bats etc. For the… Continue reading Lighting the way!