Headingley LitFest: Unsung Sports

Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Unsung Sports

Chapel FM's Celebration Event is on Thursday 12 May, 7.30 - 10.30pm, at the Irish Centre on York Road, Leeds.

Headingley LitFest contributed to the funding of this. See you there.

Full details - 

https://allevents.in/leeds/unsung-sports-celebration-event/10000315198636607  

					UNSUNG SPORTS 
What do you love about your sport?

How did you get involved?
Fancy talking about it, writing about it,
helping to write a song about it?

					UNSUNG SPORTS is an arts project that celebrates sports in Leeds.

Not the sports that talk the loudest, but the well-kept secrets. I’m working
with 3 brilliant artists – photographer Lizzie Coombes, film maker Emilie
Flower, and musician Dave Evans - to create:

					• A SONG ABOUT YOUR SPORT

					• A FILM ABOUT YOUR SPORT

					• A PODCAST ABOUT YOUR SPORT

					• AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLAYERS AND SUPPORTERS

					And we need your help! If you’d like to know more, please email me,
Peter Spafford: 
spaffordpeter@gmail.com / 07590 028327
COMING UP IN 2022

					JANUARY: Lizzie takes photo-portraits of players at training venues

					FEBRUARY: Peter & Dave run creative writing and songwriting sessions

					MAY: Final social event showcasing photos, films, and songs

					UNSUNG SPORTS aims to celebrate the range of amazing

sports that happen in our city, tell the stories of the people and
communities who play them, and attract more people to forms of
physical and social activity they may never have dreamt existed!

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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.