Welcome to I Love West Leeds Arts Festival 2011!

We are back! Ward off those winter blues with our Festival Weekend this November. Two great events in two stunning locations. The grounds of Armley Mills will become an open air cinema screening a movie of your choice and the old spinning room in Farsley's Sunny Bank Mills will be transformed into a live radio theatre for the recording of six specially commissioned radio pieces.

Saturday 12 November - FREE Outdoor Cinema Night

An I Love West Leeds and Love Arts Festival collaboration.

We'll be Singin in the Rain on saturday night. (well we'll be showing the movie we are actually hoping it doesnt rain)

Wrap up warm (wooly hat recommended) and bring something to sit on.
Love Arts Festival will be dishing out the cocoa.
12 November 6pm


Tickets Free! Just turn up on the night.
Armley Mills, Canal Road, Armley, LS12 2QF

Sunday 13 November - 15 Minutes Live

An I Love West Leeds Festival and Slung Low collaboration.

Six writers present 15 minute slices of Leeds.
Performed live in front of an audience with on-stage sound effects and live music these snapshots of our city are part love story, part musical, part goon show.

Recorded live at the event, these short pieces will later become a CD to be given away free to older people in west Leeds. They will also be available for download by anyone, for free!



Join us for the afternoon and help make radio come alive.

The 15 Minutes Live writers are Alice Nutter, Aisha Khan, Ben Tagoe, Rommi Smith, Boff Whalley and Emma Adams.



Sunday 13 November 2-5pm

Tickets £5 (most suitable for adults and young people over 12)

Box Office 0787 058 1566 or 15minuteslive.eventbrite.com
Sunny Bank Mills* Town St, Farsley. LS28 5UJ (look for the festival banners)

Drinks and snacks will be on sale to keep everyone fuelled for the afternoon.
*The event is situated on the first floor of the mill and is accessed via a short staircase.

Also going on in West Leeds…

Lucy Skaer Film for an abandoned projector

Lyric Picture House, Armley
November 12th, 12 - 3 pm
Free! Just drop in.

In the darkness of the derelict Lyric House in the Armley area of Leeds, the cinema's old Kalee projector plays a new 35mm film. Specific to its place, Skaer's sculptural film work is the imagined subconscious of the projector itself ... Through repeated screenings, the film slowly bears witness to its own presentation through scratches and marks that visibly scar and efface the surface of the image. At the end of the project the cinema will once again be dormant.
Come and view Lucy Skaer's film and visit the projection room with the old Kalee projectors still in situ.
Admission FREE. For more information visit www.pavilion.org.uk

Community Ceilidh
The Leeds Gathering - A celebration of Irish & Celtic Music & Arts

Fri 18th November 8.30pm-10.15pm
St Peters Church Hall, Hough Lane, Bramley, Leeds LS13 3JF
Free!
Bring your own drinks and refreshments.
A ceilidh is great fun, good excercise and a fantastic way to meet new people. This evening features a caller to show you the moves and four piece ceilidh band to dance along to.

www.irisharts.org.uk

Water Music - Swimming with Handel

In July we staged a very unusual concert in a swimming pool. A lot of people have been asking how we did it. This time lapse film from Lizzie Coombes reveals the secret.

Water Music: Swimming With Handel from I Love West Leeds Arts Festival on Vimeo.

look at Lizzies incredible photos from the day (including the underwater build)

Hear the gossip first...
twitter.com/@ilovewestleeds or facebook.com/ilovewestleeds
Join the mailing list by emailing ilwl.mailings@gmail.com