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Veggie Pride UK

11-04-2009 13:28

Veggie Pride UK 2009 Veggie Pride UK will be a fantastic fun-filled festival and carnival procession, celebrating and promoting compassionate, healthy, eco-friendly vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Taking place in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday 16 May 2009. It`s the first event of it`s kind in the UK!

Transport is being arranged from the Leeds/Bradford area as well as from other locations from around the country.There`s only 5 weeks to go, so get your coach seats booked soon! See also their Urgent Appeal for Funds.

Ladyfest Leeds - 10th-15th April 2007

04-04-2007 12:00

Celebrating creativity, diversity and gender equality in Leeds, Ladyfest Leeds will showcase female artists and performers in a number of venues across the city centre from 10th-15th April 2007.

Ladyfest Leeds is set to be the biggest Ladyfest the UK has ever seen with well over one hundred events across all the arts- spoken word, comedy, dance, theatre, visual arts, film, performance art, live music and workshops. As Amy Brachi, one of the organisers comments:

"Since we started preparations for Ladyfest Leeds, we have been amazed at the interest and support which we have received. Over 50 people are already involved in the festival as organisers, helping to secure venues, artists and to manage what looks like will be one of the largest events in Leeds in 2007. It is really fantastic to see many of our organisers learning new skills as well as others mentoring fellow volunteers.”

For further information, either read more or visit the event website.

'The Revolution will be Televised'

05-11-2005 16:07

The Common Place Social Centre in Leeds has relaunched with an incredible 10 days of radical films, talks gigs and art. Called The Revolution will be Televised, the festival is also the main political fringe of the Leeds International Film Festival. Hundreds of people have passed through the building, a former disused factory in the yuppified Calls district of Leeds city centre .

[Over 100 people attend First Day] [Newsire Details and Programme] Download Programme (RTF format)

Leeds Queer Film Festival

14-10-2005 09:57

Queer Mutiny North Invites you to...
the first ever Leeds Queer Film Festival and...
their MAGNIFICENT DRESSING UP PARTY!!

The DIY collective will be showing a diverse range of films by queer film makers and around subjects of queerness, transgender, genderqueerness. On the weekend of the 14-16th October. The event is free. Movie style snacks and refreshments will be availiable for donations.

Later in the month they are holding a Dressing up Party with music, performance and a DRESSING UP RO0M! There are still slots for DJ's and performance so get in contact if you wanna play

For more info:
Movie festival program | Dressing Up Party | Queer Mutiny North website

Hyde Park Unity Day

12-08-2005 14:55

Saturday, 13th August, saw the 10th Annual Hyde Park Unity Day. It has grown and grown. This year's was an exciting mix with music, stalls, sports and more.

[ Pictures | Background ]

Projectile festival in Newcastle

03-02-2005 21:27

PROJECTILE is a major event taking place between 11th - 13th February 2005 in central Newcastle. The festival will feature rare and radical films. The evenings will have music and entertainment, the daytimes will have talks and discussions between the films. It will also be an occasion where anarchists and left libertarians from all over the UK can get together, and where those interested in ideas can find out much more. Check out what is happening (.pdf summary) | Films | Talks and Discussions | Anarchists in Academia Conference | Cabaret

"Films to hound the anarchist consciousness": a report from projectile

A new social centre for Leeds?

03-05-2004 19:43

Do you think Leeds needs a radical space for information, to hang out and to hold meetings and events?

If so come to the next Leeds ARC (Action for Radical Change) meeting on Thursday May 6th 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church Café on Boar Lane.

Through the Dissent! network (a network of resistance against the G8 - the Group of Eight most industrialised nations, whose 2005 summit will be held in Britain.) cash (max £10 K) may be available for local groups involved in the Dissent! network to set up and run a local Social Centre.

A number of people involved in Leeds ARC (Leeds’ Dissent! info point) have been discussing whether to open a rented social centre in Leeds. If this is to happen it will need to involve as many people as possible in the process right from the start deciding exactly what the project is, finding a building, plus organising and running of the centre. We hope for a radical space, 'owned' by many people and groups, beyond Leeds ARC, who we see as a facilitator in getting this idea off the ground.

At our last meeting we brainstormed some ideas of our vision for a social centre, which included an autonomous space, not focused on consumerism, which presents people with alternatives. It could include a café, library, info space, food coop, a large room (for meetings, gigs, workshops etc), a free shop, office space, creche, health space and garden. Obviously a lot of this will depend on the people involved and the space it ends up in.

We decided that we need a big meeting of everyone who might want to be involved in a social centre in Leeds, and decide how to move forward from here.

So come along and lets talk about what kind of a social centre you think Leeds needs and get involved... Read more | 2 comments >>

Hyde Park Unity Day 2003: Saturday August 2nd!

30-07-2003 18:11

This year's Hyde Park Unity Day takes place on Hyde Park, Leeds 6, on Saturday 2nd August. Unity Day is a day of celebration for the local community in Hyde Park, designed to show it at its best. Hyde Park lost a local pub - The Newlands - through riots in 1995, and this attracted intense national media coverage resulting in a negative portrayal of the area. The local community rallied to redeem the area's reputation, and Unity Day was born. Read more >>

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