Leeds Street Art: How Well Do You Know It?
n Leeds, there are wonderful works of striking street art that add character and tell stories across the city, from pieces decades old to vibrant new designs. Whilst many...
Where to buy art supplies in Leeds
Delve deeper and there are plenty more too, with smaller organisations and pop up exhibitions all across Leeds by artists and groups doing it themselves. There are indivi...
Who knew, Armley has been ‘storing’ a secret?
As a society, we are becoming increasingly more affluent. Although houses are becoming smaller, people are accumulating more and more possessions, with ultimately less sp...
Yorkshire Breweries to look out for
Remember the days when Leeds had world class breweries knocking out knock out beers? No, we don’t mean 1852 when John Smith joined Joshua Tetley to lead the city’s bi...
Leeds Eye View: Tatiana Hepplewhite
Here are Tatiana Hepplewhites @mydearyorkshire‘s snaps from around the city…...
Sign of the Times with Chalking Heads
Over the past year and a half I have been working as a freelance sign writer under the name ‘Chalking Heads’; something I never expected would happen, but I’m certa...
With These Hands: potyertitsawayluv
I'm Emma, a recently turned 28-year-old, originally from Edinburgh. Since then I’ve been a bit of a nomad and called Glasgow, Manchester, and now Leeds, home. I live wi...
Airey Sharey
You would think in an innovative, vibrant city like Leeds that there would be no more hidden gems left to find….. but there is. And believe it or not, this place has be...
Going Underground in Leeds
The current Leeds creative scene is thriving and Emma Hardaker am grateful to be a part of it. There are many emerging spaces that function to house the artists, exhibiti...
The rise of Toria Garbutt’s punk poetry
Chiara Amendola explores poetry and spoken word with Knottingley performer and poet Toria Garbutt....
The Power of Words
Khadijah Ibrihiim is known across Leeds as an arts practitioner, as the poet who nurtures, mentors and directs young writers. Khadijah tells us in her own words how the t...
Feeding My Habit
I tend to attract two responses when I tell people that I’m a full-time poet. At first, folk are baffled that poetry can exclusively provide enough income to survive. A...
