Headingley LitFest: Volunteer for the Leeds Lit Fest?

Sunday, 10 February 2019

Volunteer for the Leeds Lit Fest?

Headingley LitFest is one of the groups represented in the team behind the brand-new Leeds Lit Fest which begins 6 March 2019. Here's a message asking for volunteers:

We're inviting you to come along to a briefing which will take place on Monday 25th February, 6pm for a 6.15pm start at the Leeds Library. Please note that the Library is NOT Central Library but the subscription Library that is on Commercial St next to Paperchase: https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/.

The full Lit Fest programme can be found here: https://www.carriageworkstheatre.co.uk/whats-on/festival/. It would be a good idea just to have a look and familiarise yourself with what's in the programme and what events you might be interested in helping out at.

If any of you are on social media, please follow us @LeedsLit and help us spread the word and if there's anything else you can do to promote the festival to family, friends and colleagues that would be really appreciated.

We are also looking specifically for photographers to document the festival so if you have any expertise in that direction please let me know.

If you can come along to the briefing night then please email enquiries@leedslitfest.co.uk

Best wishes and we hope to meet you soon.

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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.