Headingley LitFest: January 2019

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Cabaret Thirty returns

Cabaret Thirty last year

Headingley’s contribution to the first Leeds LitFest is

Cabaret Thirty 2019

7.30pm Friday 8 March

Headingley HEART Centre, Bennett Road, LS6 3HN

YOUNG FILMMAKERS - LATEST NEWS - MARTHË TAYLOR AND KAREN BRIDGETT WILL BE SHOWING CLIPS FROM THEIR SHORT FILM 'RUN KARA'. This previews at the Harrogate Film Festival on Sunday.

Do you still love to tread the boards? Love open mic events? If you are under thirty, or okay if you look under thirty, this is your chance to perform. It could be original poetry, short stories or song lyrics, or stand-up comedy, in a group or on your own.

If you think you’ve got it, then flaunt it!

At the last Headingley LitFest, there was an astonishing range of acts for this wildly popular event. There’s no age limit for the audience. Get in touch now to make sure you are on the list if you want to perform.

Contact wilcocks@ntlworld.com with all the details.

Poet Kirsty Taylor at Ralph Thoresby School

New poet Kirsty Taylor is working with young people in a series of after-school poetry workshops at Ralph Thoresby high school. Kirsty is a freelance poet, sometime teacher, new contributor to Radio 3's The Verb where she tells the untold stories of children growing up in the care system.

Kirsty Taylor poems on PoemHunter -
https://www.poemhunter.com/kirsty-taylor/

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LITERARY HEADINGLEY

Headingley is just the place for it! Don't expect a big circus with marquees, though: we're not at that stage yet. We're all volunteers as well.

Our venues include the HEART Centre on Bennett Road, the New Headingley Club on St Michael's Road, friendly cafés, historic local cinemas, Headingley Library, people's houses and the historic Leeds Library in Commercial Street, city centre.

Headingley's Literary Links

Headingley has strong connections with many writers:

Arthur Ransome was born in Headingley, J R R Tolkien lived at 5 Holly Bank and also at 2 Darnley Road, West Park when he was reader in English Language at the University of Leeds 1920 - 25, Alan Bennett lived over a butcher's shop opposite the Three Horseshoes, now Royale Dry Cleaners.

Lucy Newlyn has published poetry about her early life in Headingley, George Orwell stayed at 21 Estcourt Avenue with his sister Marjorie and her husband Humphrey 'Humpy' Dakin (with whom he visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth), T S Eliot used to visit his mother-in-law in Weetwood Lane, William Fryer Harvey was brought up in Spring Bank, Trevor Griffiths lived just off Victoria Road on Winstanley Terrace, Jon Silkin's first office of STAND magazine was his flat at 144 Otley Road, Sir Geoffrey Hill lived in Shire Oak Road, Peter Redgrove lived in Headingley between 1962 and 1965 when he was Gregory Fellow of Poetry at the University of Leeds, and playwright Kay Mellor still lives near The Hollies in Far Headingley.

Wilson Barrett, the charismatic first manager of the Grand Theatre, Leeds (a prolific playwright as well), lived in Beech Grove Terrace, Woodhouse in the 1870s. His house was a meeting place for many writers, artists and visitors to Leeds - such as W. S. Gilbert, George Grossmith and Atkinson Grimshaw.

Headingley LitFest 2020 was the thirteenth. The fourteenth will take place from March 2021 and will be adapted to the rules of the Covid pandemic. We are now a proud part of the annual Leeds Lit Fest.