If you didn’t manage to see the brilliant SCRAP at the Kirkstall Festival a couple of week’s ago you missed out on our local children (and parents) getting creative building colourful art projects out of, well for want of a better word – rubbish. SCRAP are a social enterprise based in Leeds, focused on helping …
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SCRAP at Kirkstall Festival
July 29th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Festival | Schools/Kids - (Comments Off on SCRAP at Kirkstall Festival)New superclub to open in Kirkstall!
July 29th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Our Community - (7 Comments)
All you hedonistic revellers will be excited to learn that there is a new superclub opening in Kirkstall! Don’t worry if your not a fan of a late night rave, it will be located in the Cardigan Fields complex. Here’s a bit more about it: Control, to be opened in September is a new project …
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Kirkstall Festival Photographs 2013
July 13th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Festival Photographs 2013)
We are posting photographs of the Festival throughout the day on our Facebook Page. If you are not able to get to the festival or you want to relive the day, please feel free to take a look and leave a comment. The first photographs are being added now and as we receive more during …
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Hope & Social at Kirkstall Festival!
July 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Hope & Social at Kirkstall Festival!)
As promised in the most recent edition of Kirkstall Matters, here is an interview with a long time favorite of Kirkstall Festival goers, Hope and Social! Here’s a little bit of info about them if this is the first time you have come across them: We’re a band who do things a little bit differently. …
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Creative Work Initiative – Creative & Social Media Skills for Kirkstall
July 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Our Community - (Comments Off on Creative Work Initiative – Creative & Social Media Skills for Kirkstall)
Calling all those interested in volunteering whilst also learning some creative and social marketing skills! We have come across this local initiative which many of you may be interested in called The Creative Work Initiative (C.W.I.). It is a volunteer network that was set up to develop the creative and social media skills of the people of …
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Momentous Filming at Kirkstall Festival 13 July 2013
July 2nd, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Momentous Filming at Kirkstall Festival 13 July 2013)
Leeds Inspired (www.leedsinspired.co.uk) will be at Kirkstall Festival with our pop up green screen to film festival goers, stall holders, performers and anyone else who want to be part of ‘Momentous’, a large scale projection that will transform the entire façade of Civic Hall into an animated mechanical clock for 3 nights in early October …
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Festival of Archaeology comes to Kirkstall Abbey
June 26th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | History | Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Festival of Archaeology comes to Kirkstall Abbey)
Come and take part in Kirkstall Abbey’s photography trail (photo trail), discovering how the Abbey looked in 1888 and contribute your own pictures of the Abbey today to their Flickr page. Feel free to use your own imagination to interpret Leeds industrialist Godfrey Bingley’s beautiful photos (see the example opposite and see more on the Flickr …
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Walking Festival – Yorkshire Dales
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Kirkstall Festival – Saturday 13th July
June 22nd, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Festival | Kirkstall Matters - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Festival – Saturday 13th July)
Don’t miss this years Kirkstall Festival on Saturday 13th July! We expect this years to be the best yet with a special guest, some brilliant acts and every kind of stall you can think of. The 2013 Kirkstall Festival will take place on Saturday 13th July in the picturesque grounds of the 12th Century Kirkstall …
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Abbey House – Community Gallery
June 22nd, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on Abbey House – Community Gallery)
Abbey House Museum aim to involve people more in the way we plan and design our exhibitions. We are planning to change the existing nursery room into a community-themed gallery, and we want your ideas about what it should look like, and the best ways to get a range of local people involved. We will …
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Born at the wrong time – a portrayal of Leeds Life by local writer Dave Foxton
June 22nd, 2013 | Posted by in History | Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on Born at the wrong time – a portrayal of Leeds Life by local writer Dave Foxton)
Local writer Dave Foxton, who lives on Kirkstall Avenue has recently published a biography charting the life of another local man Cyril James during WWII. Born and raised in Burmantofts, Cyril James is a fascinating character whose story illustrates some key times in both Leeds and European History. The story of Cyril, who now lives on Cockshott Drive, follows his childhood growing up in the …
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Kirkstall Matters Issue 113
June 22nd, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Matters Issue 113)
Dear Readers, The next issue of Kirkstall Matters has now been published. In this issue: – Paralympic Gold Medalist Open’s Kirkstall Festival – New blood for the KVCA – Kirkstall Abbey Museum – Hawksworth Wood Funding Update – Sport We have posted some of the articles which required more explanation on Kirkstall Online. You can …
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