Friday, 13 May 2022

Things to do this weekend in Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Scotland, Ireland and more

 Got plans for the weekend? Here are few ideas of things to do:

WIN a cocktail class in your office, get free bus travel and bag your chariot racing tickets!

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This week...

 

·         The best beer gardens in Leeds

·         Get free bus travel

·         Amazing cocktail masterclasses

·         Get your tickets as chariot racing comes to Leeds

·         7 exciting tech companies that just bagged investment

·         WIN a cocktail masterclass at your office & drinks

·         11 must-see Yorkshire ruins

·         15 incredible lunch spots

·         5 underrated indies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







 

 

 

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Hard Times @ Seven


On Friday 13th May 7.30pm, Mewl Music – Earl Okin at 75. Earl Okin is probably the UK’s premier Jazz and Bossa Nova singer, as well as being a fine songwriter. His one man show features the Great American Songbook with Earl’s self-accompaniment on piano and guitar, not to mention his legendary ‘vocal-trumpet’ solos. £15 advance / £18 on the door.

This weekend's Pop-up – The Ball Box serves next level meatballs and vegballs, all from a vintage 1930’s horsebox. Friday 13th May from 5pm. Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th from 12 noon.

On Sunday 15th Mayl, 1.30pm,  JazzLeeds – Jazz Main Band. Hailing all the way from Scotland, the Jazz Main band was formed in 2003 by tenor sax player Nick Gould, and plays jazz inspired by the Blue Note classics. £10 full / £8 conc. Under 25s £5.

Also, on Sunday 24th April, 7pm, don't forget the Sunday Quiz,, a great way to excercise those little grey cells and end the weekend with friends and family. £5 per team, with prizes.

We  look forward to seeing you at Seven very soon. Every £ spent at Seven helps support high quality arts in a local setting.

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When the sun is shining, there’s no better place to take it all in than from some of Leeds’ best rooftop bars and restaurants.
There’s plenty of al-fresco dining options here in Leeds so to help you choose, we’ve rounded up some of the best rooftop and terrace locations.

 

 

Restaurant Offers and Events...

 

Love Brownies

Raspberry, White Chocolate and Rose blondie

Their café and shop offers a mouth-watering menu of indulgent handmade chocolate brownies in a variety of our tempting flavours, magnificent brownie milkshakes (with vegan alternatives), and their range of premium, freshly-brewed coffees. As their flagship location, Victoria Gate is also their innovation store meaning it’s the best place to try the new flavours and menu items before they are rolled out across the Love Brownies network.

Head to their website now! 

I Am Doner 
Camel Kebab
Wednesdays


I Am Doner are changing the meaning of hump day, serving up camel kebabs every Wednesday. In a nod to its new Arabian outpost, founder Paul Baron has worked with a local food influencer to create a unique recipe putting this Emirati delicacy at the centre of the dish - the spiced and aromatic slow cooked camel rump is accompanied by basmati rice and vegetables and topped with garlic mayonnaise.

Find our more here!

 

 

Restaurant Spotlight...

Crowd of Favours offer a wide selection of real ales and delicious cocktails in a welcoming setting. 

Food from @schnitfaced is served Wednesday - Sunday 

Find them down Harper Street, just off Kirkgate Market.



 

 

 


Singh’s prepare their dishes from scratch with blend of all famous Indian spices from good old spices box to get the true flavour and make their customers feel as they are eating in India.

Their most famous dishes are Chaats, Kulchas, Butter Chicken, Butter Paneer, Maharaja Thali (King Non Veg big Thali) and Maharani Thali (Queen Veg big Thali) that are thoroughly enjoyed by customers.

 

Within the decorated stone exterior of this magnificent 19th Century building, you’ll find a light and airy restaurant, with high ceilings and stunning chandeliers. In the daytime, the skylight running the entire length of the main dining room floods the restaurant with natural light. Serving selection of over 70 carefully sourced Spanish wines, as well as delicious tapas, Spanish cheeses, and serrano and Ibérico hams. Join them for a tapas lunch or after-work drinks, a night out with friends or a romantic meal for two.

 

 

 

In the heart of the city centre, PizzaLuxe, is an anchor tenant of award-winning Leeds Trinity Kitchen and offers all the pizzas and gourmet toppings that they have been made famous for.

PizzaLuxe’s all-day bar and restaurant serves up gourmet, handmade thin-crust pizza and cocktails, and its retail centre location boasts hundreds of shops as well as a luxurious Everyman Cinema.

 

 

 

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A dad and his son in Top Secret

 

Think like a spy this May

We might be saying goodbye to Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cyber Security soon, but not before a fun-packed family day and your chance to test your cyber skills. Keep scrolling to find out more.

The museum is open Wednesday – Sunday and every day during school holidays. To visit the museum please book a free museum admission ticket in advance.

 

 

Last chance to see

 

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Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cyber Security

Closes 5 June

Challenge your friends and family in our puzzle zone and discover the world of codebreaking and secret communications in Galleries 1 and 2.

Whether you're seeing the exhibition for the first time or you can't get enough, don't miss Top Secret before it closes next month.

Free tickets for Top Secret are available to book now for half term. To enter you will also need a free museum admission ticket.

 

 

 

 

Even more for families

 

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Super Cyber Skills

Thursday 26 May, 15.00–18.00

Did you know you already have a lot of the skills needed to work in cyber security? Put them to the test in this fun, informal evening where you and your family can meet people from Bradford and beyond working in cyber.

 

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Top Secret Family Day

Saturday 28 May

Explore the history of codebreaking with our Top Secret Family Day.

Work with experts in a decryption workshop; create your own secret messages, and discover what GCHQ is all about.

 

 

Big screen adventures at Pictureville Cinema

 

For younger children

 

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Kids' Club

Every Saturday and Sunday, 10.30

See the best in family film every weekend for £3. Upcoming screenings include The Lego Movie and Dumbo.

 

For older children

 

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IMAX: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (12A)

The boundaries of the superhero universe are pushed further than ever before in the latest mind-bending Marvel epic. Experience it on the biggest screen in Yorkshire, our IMAX.

 

 

 

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What's on at Pictureville

Welcome to the Pictureville weekly film listings. As well as a very special one-off screening for Mental Health Awareness week, we've also got tickets on sale now for Tom Cruise's hotly-anticipated return to the skies in Top Gun: Maverick. And the dates have been announced for our annual film festival Widescreen Weekend, which promises a host of unmissable screenings.

 

Love cinema? Don’t forget that you can receive free and discounted cinema tickets, plus money off in our bar and shop by becoming a Pictureville member.

 

WEEKLY LISTINGS (13–19 MAY)

 

 

Mental Health Awareness Week: Bhai and Dia

 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK: SCREENING OF BHAI AND DIA (12)

Screening 15 May 14.00

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we welcome film producer and psychiatrist Dr Mina Husain to screen and discuss two of her short films, which give voice to South Asian experiences of mental health, neurodiversity and diaspora.

 

 

Downton Abbey: A New Era

 

DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA (12A)

Mon 19.30; Thu 16.15

 

Operation Mincemeat

 

OPERATION MINCEMEAT (12A)

Sat 13.30, 19.30; Sun 16.00; Wed 16.00; Thu 13.45

 

 

Compartment No. 6

 

COMPARTMENT NO. 6 (15)

Fri 17.25; Sat 15.30; Sun 18.30; Thu 11.00

 

Top Gun Maverick

 

CASABLANCA BEATS (15)

Fri, Sat, Wed 20.00; Sun 15.30; Thu 19.45

 

 

The Velvet Queen: Snow Leopard

 

THE VELVET QUEEN: SNOW LEOPARD (12A)

Fri, Wed 19.30; Sat 16.30; Sun 13.30; Thu 16.45

 

Ali & Ava

 

ALI & AVA (15)

Fri 17.00; Wed 17.30

 

 

Kids' Club: The LEGO Movie

 

KIDS' CLUB: THE LEGO MOVIE (U)

Sat, Sun 10.30

 

Royal Opera House Live: Swan Lake

 

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIVE: SWAN LAKE (TBC)

Screening 19 May 19.15

 

 

  IMAX

 

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IMAX: APOLLO 11 (U)

A brand new addition to our regular IMAX 45-minute specials. Rub shoulders with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and experience NASA’s most celebrated mission—the 1969 moon landing.

 

 

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IMAX 3D: ANTARCTICA (U)

 

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IMAX 3D: BEAUTIFUL PLANET (U)

 

 

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IMAX 3D: SUPERPOWER DOGS (U)

 

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IMAX 3D: WALKING WITH DINOSAURS

 

 

COMING SOON

 

Top Gun Maverick

 

IMAX: TOP GUN: MAVERICK (TBC)

Screening from 25 May; see website for full dates and times

Tom Cruise returns as rule-breaking fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the pulse-pounding sequel to the 80s classic. See it on the biggest screen in Yorkshire—Bradford's IMAX.

 

 

SAVE THE DATE: WIDESCREEN WEEKEND, 13–16 OCTOBER

 

Curved Cinerama screen in Pictureville

 

Our annual film festival, and celebration of all things widescreen, returns for 2022! Join us for a communal watching experience of archive film, family favourites and cult classics - all presented with Pictureville's world-leading projection facilities.

It's the 70th anniversary of Cinerama this year, so we’re very excited to be kicking off the festival with beloved classic The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm: the newly-restored Cinerama version, in its UK premiere. We'll also be continuing to celebrate women in widescreen with our 'Rebels and Dames' strand, celebrating tradition-shattering female characters. And much more. 

More programme announcements to come - keep your eyes peeled!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Carolina parakeets from Birds of America by John James Audubon

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What's on this month at our museums

 

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There’s just over one week left to see our five-star, critically acclaimed exhibition Audubon’s Birds of America. Don’t miss your final chance to see this once-in-a-lifetime display about one of the rarest and most coveted books in the world, until Sunday 8 May at the National Museum of Scotland.

Elsewhere this month, explore wartime Britain at the National Museum of Flight, celebrate all things woolly at the National Museum of Rural Life, go behind the scenes at our Collection Centre, enjoy a Children’s Festival takeover at the National Museum of Scotland, and much more.

 

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LEGO® display at the National Museum of Flight with aircraft in the background (c) Andy Catlin

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Awesome Bricks now on sale

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Sat 18 & Sun 19 Jun
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Tickets are now on sale for our popular LEGO® event, which returns to the National Museum of Flight.

See amazing LEGO® constructions, including a 3D hot air balloon festival, have a go at our speed build challenge and get hands-on in our blue brick build zone.

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Close-up of woven fabric in yellow, pink, orange and light and dark brown, by Bernat Klein, 1964

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National Museum of Scotland

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Marking the centenary of his birth, Bernat Klein: Design in Colour celebrates the work of the influential émigré textile designer.

Explore Klein’s creative process and varied career, from providing couture fabrics for fashion designers to his influence on modernist architecture and interior design in the UK and Scandinavia.

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What's on across our sites

 

 

Woman at the Dig for Victory event at the National Museum of Flight (c) Ruth Armstrong Photography

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Dig for Victory

Sun 8 May, National Museum of Flight
Find out how people grew their own food and created thrifty recipes during the Second World War with cooking demonstrations, hands-on family activities, talks and tours of East Fortune Airfield. Free with museum admission.

 

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Inside the National Museums Collection Centre, viewed through a porthole in a door

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Collection Centre Tours

Wed 25 May & Wed 29 Jun
National Museums Collection Centre
Go behind the scenes on a tour of our state-of-the-art collections and research centre in Granton, Edinburgh. Places are limited, so book now to see how we store our collections and how objects and specimens are used in international research.

 

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Nose of the Vulcan aircraft at the National Museum of Flight

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Falklands 40 and the Vulcan at War

Sat 28 & Sun 29 May, National Museum of Flight 
Learn about the role of the Vulcan in the Falklands War, with talks and tours to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the conflict, and find out more about the museum’s own Vulcan aircraft, XM597. Free with museum admission.

 

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Man shearing a sheep at the National Museum of Rural Life (c) Andy Catlin

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Woolly Weekend

Sat 28 & Sun 29 May, National Museum of Rural Life
Head to the museum and farm for a weekend filled with all things woolly! Meet alpacas and speciality breeds of sheep, see a shearer at work with our Scottish Blackface flock, and take part in wool-themed family activities. Free with museum admission and our Annual Pass.

 

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Shop the exhibition

 

 

Spring has sprung and what better time to brighten up your bookcase with some beautiful books on birds. Our Audubon’s Birds of America exhibition shop has a huge selection of fascinating books on the subject, including a faithfully recreated edition of Birds of America, featuring all of Audubon’s 435 images – the perfect keepsake from our exhibition.

 

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What's on at the National Museum of Scotland

 

 

Open, illustrated prayer book associated with Mary, Queen of Scots (c) Neil Hanna

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Book of Hours

Until Tue 2 Aug, National Museum of Scotland
See an illustrated prayer book featuring a poem handwritten by a young Mary, Queen of Scots in our free display. See the book in the Kingdom of the Scots gallery alongside other objects associated with Mary, Queen of Scots.

 

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Red Olivetti Valentine typewriter, c. 1970

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The Typewriter Revolution

Until Sun 11 Sep, National Museum of Scotland
Tap into typewriters in this free exhibition that explores their social and technological influence. See iconic models from our collections and discover how typewriters helped revolutionise the world of work and change the lives of working women in particular.

 

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Sculpture made from silver in the shape of a pine cone, entitled New Pinecone Silver Organism, Junko Mori, 2007

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Japanese Contemporary Design

Opens Fri 6 May, National Museum of Scotland
From striking statement jewellery to glass and porcelain sculptures, this new free display explores the rich and varied practice of Japanese contemporary designers over the past five decades.

 

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Three Edinburgh International Children's Festival performers wearing leopard print headbands and red clown noses

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Festival Family Encounters Day

Sat 7 May, National Museum of Scotland
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival opens on Saturday 7 May with free pop-up performances and hands-on activities at the National Museum of Scotland. Come along to get curious, creative and enjoy specially commissioned performances from Scotland-based artists.

 

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The Carolina parakeet is the poster bird for our Audubon’s Birds of America exhibition. In this new blog, our Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Biology, Zena Timmons, explores the decline of this bird species, the information revealed by our specimens, and how an extinct species can be recreated through taxidermy.

 

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What’s happening in Edinburgh in May 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s no time like springtime, and there’s no time like springtime in Edinburgh!


As the weather starts to warm up, fill your days with an array of family friendly events, discover the city’s variety of neighbourhoods, explore Edinburgh’s hidden gems and marvel at the gorgeous cherry blossom-lined walkways that brighten our parks and gardens.


So, with a spring in our step, join us as we explore all that Edinburgh has to offer this month!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s on in Edinburgh this month

 

 

Edinburgh plays host to an amazing range of festivals throughout the year, and this month is no exception. Jam-packed with an exciting and thrilling programme that’s sure to delight & inspire young minds, The Edinburgh International Children's Festival features the best of children’s theatre & dance from around the world. Returning this month with a full and half marathon, as well as the team relay, Edinburgh Marathon Festival is a great way to raise money for charity and improve your fitness. Or why not soak up the sun while enjoying an array of homegrown performing arts at the 2-day StagEHd Festival

Step aboard The Royal Yacht Britannia and Meet the Yotties, former Royal Yachtsmen on Her Majesty The Queen’s former floating palace. Hear their stories about life on the Royal Yacht as it sailed over one million miles around the globe.

Discover the work of artists William McTaggart, John Duncan, Anne Redpath and Joan Eardley at National Treasure: The Scottish Modern Arts Association, a major exhibition which celebrates Scottish art at the dawn of modernism.

Or delve into the history of Scotland’s national drink and join award-winning attraction The Real Mary King’s Close for Casks & Closes, a unique whisky tasting tour underneath Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrate Whisky Month in Edinburgh

 

 

Did you know – May is Whisky Month in Scotland, a whole month dedicated to our national drink!


Arriving as it does before the summer festivals, it’s the perfect time for both whisky novices and connoisseurs to jump headfirst into Edinburgh’s whisky culture.


Get into the “spirit” and discover how you can join in the celebrations in Edinburgh….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resident Rewards Edinburgh

 

 

The start of a new month means the start of a new Resident Rewards Edinburgh – an outstanding local reward only available to Edinburgh residents.


This month, in partnership with Johnnie Walker Princes Street, we are delighted to offer Edinburgh residents 40% discount on the Journey of Flavour Tour throughout May 2022.


This multi-room immersive tour explores the rich history of Johnnie Walker through personalised drinks, theatre and impressive light shows. Book today and discover Scotland’s national drink like you’ve never seen it before!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explore Edinburgh’s Museums

 

 

In celebration of International Museum’s Day on 18 May, why not pay a visit to one of Edinburgh’s fascinating museums.


Whether you're into science, medicine, world culture, history, economics or even teddy bears, there's a museum in Edinburgh that's sure to intrigue, thrill and fascinate you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edinburgh’s Colourful Cherry Blossoms

 

 

Their colourful blooms are currently brightening up our parks, gardens & streets.


Take a look at some of our favourite images and find out where to see Edinburgh's glorious cherry blossoms before they blow away!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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