Got plans for the weekend? Here are a few ideas of things to do this weekend in Leeds, Bradford and Scotland:
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Take your career to
the next level with a postgrad & have your say on the future of
transport in Leeds…
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Find
Out How a Postgrad Could Seriously Improve Your Career Prospects
Ever thought about doing a postgraduate
qualification? This is your chance to improve your prospects, move into a
new specialism or even change careers entirely. Find out how to get the
ball rolling, including how to fund it, at the University of
Bradford's Virtual Open Day.
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The
Roast Dinner Takeaways You Need in Your Life And Your Belly
Roll on Sunday because you can get a
delicious roast dinner delivered to your door. Just think of those crisp
roast potatoes, fluffy Yorkshire puds, oh-so-tasty veggies and stacks of
juicy meat, covered in oodles of gravy – all delivered with minimum effort
and maximum belly-busting satisfaction.
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Leeds
Agencies Are Driving Digital Transformation with Impressive Effect
Digital transformation is about stepping
out of your comfort zone and finding new ways of working. It’s about
solving complex problems with new technology. It’s rarely ever easy, but
the results are worth all the blood, sweat and tears – something these Leeds
agencies are all too aware of.
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New
Leeds Film Player titles for February and March, including
Charter, Assassins and more...
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Charter & Sami
Blood: LIFF presents the
Award-Winning
Features of Amanda Kernell
Leeds Film Player has an exciting
new line-up of films launching this week for the February and
March period. We have selected a few of the best new releases and
other recent highlights and are presenting them alongside another
small batch of previous LIFF Favourites. This time we are
offering low cost passes for each category - LIFF Selects
and LIFF Audience
Favourites - to enjoy multiple films.
The line-up includes an online UK
exclusive of the gripping second feature by Amanda Kernell. Charter is a psychologically complex
study of motherhood by the Swedish, Southern Sami director and
screenwriter. In the middle of a contentious custody battle,
Alice takes her children on an illicit trip, determined to
re-assert her role as mother and protector.
Also streaming is Amanda
Kernell’s outstanding debut feature Sami Blood,
which was an audience favourite at LIFF 2017 and also won the
European Parliament’s Lux Prize for Best European Film.
Elle, a teenage reindeer herder in 1930s Sweden, faces a society
rife with prejudice where she is forcibly removed from her family
and sent to a state boarding school.
Charter (15 Feb - 31
March) & Sami Blood (1 Feb - 16 March) on Leeds Film Player
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Extraordinary new
documentary Assassins
Assassins is one of the new releases coming soon to Leeds
Film Player and it’s one of the most extraordinary documentaries
of recent years. The story zones in on the bizarre assassination
of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam in
a Malaysian airport. CCTV footage appears to show clear evidence
of those responsible but the truth is it’s an astonishing
cover-up.
Coming soon to Leeds
Film Player (date TBC)
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More fantastic titles
now available on Leeds Film Player...
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Last and First Men: The Visionary Work of
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Based on Olaf Stapledon’s cult sci-fi novel, Last and First Men is
the only film directed by the late Icelandic composer
Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival). Set two billion years
in the future, the last survivors of an advanced society,
voiced by Tilda Swinton, reflect on their existence.
Combining hypnotic 16mm black-and-white images of
Yugoslavian monuments and an ethereal score, Jóhannsson
creates a profound meditation on the end of days.
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Past Love and Lost Innocence in Luxor
Zeina Durra’s beautifully understated drama Luxor builds from a subtle and complex central
performance by Andrea Riseborough as a burned out British
aid worker on leave in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor.
It’s a hauntingly beautiful place where she once lived for
a short time many years before. When she comes across
Sultan (Karim Saleh), an archeologist and former lover, it
stirs up old feelings and regrets.
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A White, White Day: Hlynur Pálmason's
slow-burning Icelandic drama
A White, White Day is one of the best Scandinavian dramas of the
last few years and a highly distinctive second feature for
director Hlynur Pálmason. Ingvar Sigurdsson puts in an
intense central performance as Ingimundur, a police chief
who is mourning the death of his wife. He becomes obsessed
with the idea that she was having an affair with a local
man, with troubling consequences for everyone he knows.
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LIFF Audience Favourites:
And Then We Danced & more
We're presenting a selection of previous
LIFF audience favourites. These include And Then We Danced, an
intense love story set in the dynamic but
ultra-conservative world of traditional Georgian dance and Atelier de conversation
about individuals from across the world gathering to
practice the French language. Rain the Colour Blue with a Little
Red in it is a desert remake of Prince’s 80s
rock-u-drama Purple Rain set in Saharan Africa and Chuck Norris vs Communism
is the inspiring story of a courageous female VHS translator
in 1980s Romania.
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All Leeds Film
Player titles available until 31 March unless otherwise
noted.
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Other excellent
titles streaming in February...
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Beginning, LIFF Selection The Twentieth
Century & more on MUBI
Films either now streaming or coming up on
MUBI throughout February include Dea Kulumbegashvili's
award-winning debut feature Beginning,
the film selected as Georgia's official 2021 Oscar
entry. There's also LIFF 2020 selection The Twentieth
Century, a fantastical political satire from Canadian
director Matthew Rankin, plus new features Cenote, Digger,
All the Dead Ones and more.
Explore the MUBI
selection
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Female Gaze Takes Centre Stage on Curzon
Home Cinema
Curzon Home Cinema is streaming two bold
titles by female directors that were selected for Cannes
2020. Charlène Favier’s gripping début, Slalom,
follows a 15-year-old pushed to the limits by her abusive
instructor at an elite French ski school. Simple Passion
(Danielle Arbid) is a bewitching portrait of a mother whose
psyche progressively dissolves after starting an addictive
affair with a Russian diplomat.
Watch Simple Passion (available now) and
Slalom (from 12 Feb) on Curzon
Home Cinema
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Dogwoof on Demand: A Glitch in the Matrix
& IWOW: I Walk on Water
The latest Dogwoof releases available to
view on its streaming platform include A
Glitch in the Matrix, the latest conspiracy
investigation from Rodney Ascher, who made The Shining
documentary Room 237, this time profiling those who believe
reality is an illusion. Streaming later in February is IWOW:
I Walk on Water, an extraordinary Harlem
diary film by filmmaker/photographer Khalik Allah.
Watch A Glitch in The Matrix (now available)
and IWOW: I Walk on Water (from 26 February) on Dogwoof
on Demand
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Rams, Willy's Wonderland and I Care a Lot now
streaming on demand
Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) stars as farmer
forced to unite with his estranged brother in Rams (now available),
a funny and warm-hearted Australian remake of the Icelandic
film of the same name. Other films released on demand in
February include horror-comedy Willy's
Wonderland (from 12 February), in which
Nicholas Cage battles possessed animatronic creatures and
I Care a
Lot (from 19 February), a black comedy
thriller starring Rosamund Pike as a con artist who runs
into trouble with the mob.
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Reclaim the Frame: Dead Pigs Mistress-class
with Director Cathy Yan & more
Reclaim the Frame returns this month with two
online events. Galentine's Valentine's Talk &
Workshop (Sat 13 Feb, 5pm-7pm) brings
speakers together to talk about love in all its forms on
screen. Dead Pigs + Mistress-class presents the first film by Cathy Yan, the
director of DC superhero film Birds of Prey. Dead
Pigs is a bitingly humorous social satire set in a
rapidly modernising Shanghai. The film will be followed by
a mistressclass session with Cathy Yan. (Tue 16 February,
7pm).
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Scalarama Sunday Service: Bringing Up Baby
& The Grass is Greener
The new
Scalarama Sunday Service is about watching fantastic,
fortnightly films together online. Taking place from
mid-afternoon on Sundays, there will be a zoom greeting and
chat half an hour before the film, and sometimes an extra
halfway interval chat break too! The first films lined up
are Bringing Up Baby (Sun 14 February) and The
Grass is Greener (Sun 28 February), two classic
comedies starring Cary Grant.
Find out more from Scalarama
Leeds
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The Criterion Collection Competition: Win
February's releases on Blu-ray
Our exclusive monthly competition gives you
the chance to win one of two bundles of the latest Blu-rays
from The Criterion Collection. February's releases include The
Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Ascent (1977)
& Charade (1963). To enter, answer the following
question: Which 2015 film based on a novel by Colm
Tóibín did Saoirse Ronan (who appears in The Grand Budapest
Hotel) also star in? Please email answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk by
midnight on Sunday 28 February 2021.
The competition is open to UK residents
only.
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Film
industry events and opportunities...
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Audiences Beyond The Multiplex:
Understanding The Value Of A Diverse Film Culture
University of Glasgow is hosting a two-day
virtual conference on the diversity of film audience
experience in the UK. The Beyond the Multiplex
research project conducted extensive research into how
audiences engage with film. By bringing together academic
research and industry expertise the conference will provide
a platform to discuss insights on changing patterns of film
consumption and offer opportunities to share new thinking.
Tue 2 - Weds 3 March. Register
for free
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Recruiting: Live Cinema UK Non-Executive
Board of Directors
Live Cinema UK is seeking innovative and
experienced individuals to join as members of its
non-executive board of directors. Live Cinema UK is the
country’s leading organisation dedicated to producing,
promoting, and researching live cinema events. The board
will work with the Director to ensure Live Cinema's broad
portfolio of commercial and non-profit projects offer an
exciting future in a post-pandemic world.
Apply by Weds 3 March 2021
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Covid-19 Update
Leeds Film is part of the Leeds Arts, Events &
Venues Team, which programmes events at Leeds Town Hall,
Millennium Square and Carriageworks Theatre including Leeds
International Film Festival, Leeds International Beer Festival
and Leeds International Concert Season. Please visit the Leeds Town Hall website for the
latest news and updates about future activities, as they continue
to follow the latest government guidance about live events.
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Leeds Film is supported by the
British Film Institute
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We're all works of art.....
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On 21st March at 2pm, Yaffle is proud and
excited to be asking you to come along and help us celebrate our latest
collection and pamphlet: 'Cloud Cuckoo Cafe' by Linda Marshall and 'Learning
from the Body' by Sue Butler. Readings from both books and open mic slots.
'Cloud Cuckoo Cafe'
'When Linda Marshall casts her eye over the world, from lattes to love, from
cafes to the cosmos, she reframes the narrative with mischief and a delicious
humour which makes you laugh out loud.'
Lesley Quayle
'Learning from the Body'
'In these beautifully crafted, deeply felt poems, we find a wealth of personal
experience combined with medical knowledge, giving a unique view of what it is
to be human.'
Sarah Law
this is the zoom link
gill lambert is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom
meeting.
Topic: Launch of Cloud Cuckoo Cafe and Learning
from the Body
Time: Feb 21, 2021 02:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
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We're All Works of Art
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The theme for LGBTQ+ Month in
February 2021 is Body,
Mind and Spirit.
The title of the children’s
book, We’re all works of art
by Mark Sperring says very
much what LGBTQ+ month is all about celebrating -
that diversity and difference is
what makes all of use perfect. We are all works of
art in our own special way. For those
parents/carers and teachers who are looking for
books that celebrate, educate or
portray LGBTQ+ experience for children and young
people, Bradford Libraries have
selected some titles that are available for loan.
Many of these books have been
published within the last few years, a happy indication
that more and more families are
celebrating diversity in gender and sexual
identity. Vote for Effie by Laura Wood, was
shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2020
(and one of my favourite reads of the
year), with a wonderful set of characters and
spot-on message about welcoming
difference. George by Alex Gino, (another great read) is about a young
transgender
girl. It was the winner of the 2016 Stonewall Book Award as well as the
2016 Lambda
Literary Award in
the category of LGBT Children's/Young Adult. These are just three
great reads and hopefully, you will find lots more
from the suggestions below. You will
also find some links to organisations providing
resources to use with children and
young people for LGBTQ+ Month.
If you want to borrow books, Bradford Libraries
offer an Order and Collect service.
Simply ring up your local library, order the books you would
like to read from the Library
Catalogue and arrange a time and date to collect.
Or, if you prefer eBooks or eAudio books you can
visit our Borrow Box eBook collection
here. You will only need your library card and PIN to select
books.
And if you or your child need a Library Card click
on the Online Joining Form here.
If you have suggestions of books you would like
the library to have please let us know
via email to christinea.donnelly@bradford.gov.uk
Development Officer for Children
and Young People.
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City of Bradford
Metropolitan District Council · Bradford Council · City Hall
· Bradford · BD1 1HY
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Kinnoull Hill, Perth
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DREAMING OF TRAVEL?
There’s nothing
quite like a lovely photograph to conjure up holidays. Check out our
favourite city hotspots, from romantic castles to exotic botanical
gardens, which will you add to your wishlist?
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Inveraray
Castle, Argyll
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MOST FAMOUS CASTLES
Scotland's castles never fail to leave you awestruck. We've
narrowed it down for you to
explore these historical favourites.
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Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie
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Romance of Scotland
Looking forward to take a loved one for a well-deserved
break? Discover hundreds of magical locations such as enchanting
waterfalls, Caledonian landscapes and tropical islands.
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Highland Coo
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They miss 'coo'
Our Highland Coos have been missing their
sightseers, check out what they have been up to with our coo
cams.
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Queen Elizabeth
Forest Park, Aberfoyle
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Forest bathing
You read it right! Find out what we mean and discover
health benefits that bring a sense of calm.
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Stay safe
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LATEST GUIDANCE
Travel across the country is not possible right now,
please check out the latest advice to stay informed of
restrictions.
Stay Local, Love Local.
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