Festival Press
Below is a section of press articles for the I Love West Leeds Festival. It is by no means exhaustive..
2007
Simply Shed - Yorkshire Evening Post
Casey Orr Exhibition - Yorkshire Evening Post
Bramley Firestation Project - Yorkshire Evening Post
Flood hit radio staion makes plea for help - Yorkshire Evening Post
They all Purl Together - Yorkshire Evening Post
Festival Spreads Summer Love - Yorkshire Evening Post
Guerrilla Knits - Yorkshire Evening Post
CURRENT FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASES
For all press enquires please contact Sally Brown on 07950 870 864
or email sally-brown@btconnect.com
Current press releases available for download..
(all releases are in Microsoft Word format)
Move over Dame Shirley Bassey! Centre stage at this year's I Love West Leeds Festival on Sunday 8th July (Pudsey Park) will be held by a life-sized knitted shed complete with woolly window boxes, knitted creepy crawlies, sun flowers, hanging baskets, watering can and gardening tools.
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FROG MAN SURFACES AT WORTLEY HIGH SCHOOL!
"Surreal, twisted and absolutely funny" - Edinburgh Guide
"Wonderfully sardonic pitch-black comedy. Glorious and innovative - left me breathless" - Three Weeks Festival Magazine
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'WOODY GUTHRIE' RETURNS TO LEEDS AFTER EXETER FESTIVAL SUCCESS
Following packed performances, and standing ovations, at the recent Exeter Festival, Interplay's latest production, This Land, which tells the story of American folksinger Woody Guthrie, returns to Leeds for three nights only.. The show transports you back to the America of the 1930s and 40s using rousing folk songs and hilarious characterisation to tell Woody's story as the man and his music emerge from the dustbowls of Oklahoma into the bright lights of New York City.
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BRASS BAND SERENADES SWIMMERS AT BRAMLEY BATHS!
Take a dip with a difference at 3pm on Sunday 15th July when the Yorkshire Evening Post Brass Ensemble will be serenading swimmers at Bramley Baths on Broad Lane, Bramley.
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DRIVE-IN MOVIES SET TO CHILL AND THRILL AT FESTIVAL
Nostalgia returns to Pudsey in Leeds next week with a 'one-off' opportunity to see three classic films at your local drive-in movie venue.
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'BY WATER' - PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION RECORDS BIKE RIDE FROM LEEDS TO PENNSYLVANIA
A forthcoming exhibition, by Leeds-based photographer Casey Orr, will record the extraordinary journey she made by bicycle and container ship all the way from Armley in Leeds to her home County of Pennsylvania in America.
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FESTIVAL LIGHTS UP LOCAL LANDMARK
Local Leeds photographers will be illuminating an unusual location as part of their contribution to this year's I Love West Leeds Festival. The group, including photographers Stephen Griffin and Lloyd Spencer will be projecting images of West Leeds onto the Northern Gas Networks gasholder at the side of Armley Gyratory roundabout on Sunday 15th July at 9.45pm.
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I LOVE WEST LEEDS FESTIVAL 2007 - Festival Listings
The ever-changing, ever-fresh, ever-green I Love West Leeds Festival returns this July with ever such an exciting line-up of events including the unmissable Festival Day in Pudsey Park from 12 noon-5pm on Sunday 8th July - admission free. Here are just some of the events which make this festival a must for young, old and everyone else in-between...
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FESTIVAL DAY SET TO TRANSFORM PUDSEY PARK
Sunday 8th July 12 noon-5pm
This year's I Love West Leeds festival day on Sunday 8th July is set to transform Pudsey Park (Church Lane, Pudsey) into a giant garden party. Live music, artists, performers, face painting, old fashioned fete games, community stalls, willow weaving, gnome painting, hat making, nail art and fortune telling are just some of the free activities which local people can enjoy.
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2006 Press
Festival Feature - BBC Leeds
Postcards from the West - Yorkshire Evening Post
Shedopolis - Yorkshire Evening Post
Festival scoops West Leeds Culture award - Yorkshire Evening Post
Drive-ins and canal boats - Yorkshire Evening Post
Drive-ins saved at Final Reel - Yorkshire Evening Post
Ironmongers of illusion - Yorkshire Evening Post
2005
I Love West Leeds - BBC Leeds
Pot Idol at Farnley Park - Yorkshire Evening Post
Its time to love West Leeds - Yorkshire Evening Post
Farnley Park Totem Pole - Yorkshire Evening Post