“It’s the learning we got as a city and a sector, that will continue the drive...” Even just having this conversation and listening to @kullyLeeds2023 @ProducerBev felt part of the learning handover that makes the YoC valuable - thank you for your time and honesty 🙏

Great to have The State of The Arts with us to record this podcast 🎧 Listen to LEEDS 2023 directors @kullyLeeds2023 & @ProducerBev discuss the year of culture, highs, lows, challenges and achievements w editor Will Baldwin-Pask The State of the Arts Eve Roodhouse Tom Riordan Same Skies Think Tank

🚨 Readers, writers, friends… The 6th annual Leeds Lit Fest returns 15 - 23rd June, 2024 🚨 Join us & take part in a celebration of words & thought from great writers of the city & beyond. Keep in touch here / join our mailing list pass it on ✨

🎭Culture is a major growth sector, generating £160bn for the economy. It's also key to pride of place + regeneration, creating places people want to live, work + invest in. With the right focus, now is an opportunity to nurture + grow cultural clusters across the UK 🎨

Bringing folk drama + jazz heat to a full Royal Northern College of Music tonight 🔥 We’re at Future Yard in Birkenhead tomorrow – then Bristol, Brum, London + Oxford next week!

Last year we announced that we were leaving The Tetley building. We’d planned to open a new venue in 2024 but these plans are no longer viable. Whilst we search for a new permanent home, we’re continuing to deliver on our mission. Read our full statement thetetley.org/the-tetley-tea…

Lovely article on Leeds culture in today’s Guardian A proper celebration of loads of the smaller orgs that make the city special Leeds Leeds Leeds theguardian.com/travel/2024/ma…

I’m bias but… one of the most exciting 2 hours of music I’ve ever experienced 🎻🎹🥁 listen back on BBC Radio 3 tonight Manchester Collective x Fergus McCreadie

🎉 Announcing our new Co-Artistic Director, Jasmin Kent Rodgman! Jasmin is a British-Malaysian composer & artist, pushing boundaries of contemporary classical & electronic. She'll shape our artistic programme alongside Co-Founder and AD Rakhi Singh. manchestercollective.co.uk/articles/jasmi…

More narrative on the iconic gallery FKA The Tetley up on The State of the Arts – courtesy of Dr Kerry Harker 👏 wonderful insight thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/lesso… Yorkshire Contemporary

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Introducing our 24/25 season 🧵 We kick off the season with a retrospective – but not as you know it. For 1 night only, we take to the Wigmore Hall stage with singular pianist/composer vijay iyer and Duncan Ward. ‼️manchestercollective.co.uk/crisis

Beyond chuffed to see this feature for the New Humanist on the page. In it, I explore the cultural craze for ‘kidulting’ and why many modern adults are tapping into nostalgia as a coping mechanism. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6308/…

Right now we’ve got Oasis out the way, fancy getting into some other Northern culture you might have missed? The summer wrap-up newsletter out later from TSOTA 👇👇

Huge. Great band, great record. English Teacher win The Mercury Prize 🙌💪 ✨✨✨ theguardian.com/music/article/…

A big display from West Yorkshire too at the Mercury Prize, with Nia Archives and Corinne Bailey Rae nominated alongside 2024 winners English Teacher! 👀👏👏 #mercuryprize2024