Saturday 28 January 2012

Good stuff this Feb at 7 Arts...

Wicked Words Open Mic

01/02/2012

Wicked Words is the longest running live literature event in Leeds and we’re entering our 10th year! Come along to listen to an eclectic mixture of poetry and words on the first Wednesday of every month and get the chance to read your own literary musings.

Seven Jazz - Zoe Rahman

02/02/2012

Popular and highly acclaimed pianist Zoe Rahman shot to wider public awareness when her luminous album Melting Pot was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, returns to Seven with her fifth album Kindred Spirits, part of an extensive UK tour.

LBA presents Leeds Finest - 2 Nights of Word, Rhyme and Song

03/02/2012

Singers Night featuring Vixxen, Rae Rae, PJ, Tyrone Henry, K-One, T & T, Marqus Romelle, Cherie Johnson and Bianca Gerald backed by Unbound. Hosted by Gemma Lake.

Sunday Jazz - Nikki Allen Sextet

05/02/2012

Nicki Allan is back in Leeds at Seven Arts by popular demand for another round of hot arrangements from her legendary sextet. With a new album under her belt she will sing some new songs, some original and standard favourites but always with the classic stamp of unique brass and syncopated jazz to flavour them.

Jamilah Barry - Lost In The World

05/02/2012

Jamilah Barry is a talented 16 year old Singer/Songwriter from Leeds. With original songs and covers, this will be an unmissable evening, showcasing a range of impressive local talent. Special guest is Tom Milner.

Screen Seven - True Grit

06/02/2012

True Grit beats a path back to the original Charles Portis novel to spin the tale of 14-year-old Mattie Ross, a pig-tailed angel of vengeance, hellbent on finding the man who robbed and killed her father.

NUEMusicTheatre - Raise Your Voice

07/02/2012

An evening of song and dance plus small section of songs from NUEMusicTheatre's upcoming production of 'Bare: A Pop Opera.'

Leeds University Theatre Group - Look Back In Anger

09/02/2012

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles).

Leeds University Theatre Group - Look Back In Anger

10/02/2012

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles).

Leeds University Theatre Group - Look Back In Anger

11/02/2012

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles).

Photo - Tom Swire

Afternoon Jazz - Yoruba

12/02/2012

Pianist/composer Aron Kyne was been awarded Jazz Futures funding by Jazz Yorkshire to help him develop as a jazz musician here in Yorkshire. Anyone who saw Yoruba at Seven in June last year will understand how well deserved that award was.

Screen Seven - The Big Picture (L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)

13/02/2012

In this Highsmithian thriller, Romain Duris is on intense, smouldering form as Paul, a wealthy corporate lawyer who secretly despises his own bland, conformist life; he has artistic longings and a general discontent exacerbated by dislike of his neighbour: a dishevelled, bohemian individual whom he suspects of having an affair with his wife.

Black Film Club

14/02/2012

Black Film Club is an independent organisation screening films on the second Tuesday of each month at Seven. Please tell someone or bring someone with you.

Ellen and the Escapades

15/02/2012

Ellen and the Escapades play a special gig at Seven to celebrate the success of their pledge campaign. Each ticket comes with a free download of their debut album 'All the Crooked Scenes', available from the 6 February, 2 months in advance of general release.

Seven Jazz - The Jim Mullen Reunion Band

16/02/2012

Jim Mullen moved to London from Glasgow in 1969, going on to work in the groups of Pete Brown, Brian Auger, Vinegar Joe and Kokomo. In 1975 he met sax player Dick Morrissey and began a 15 year association.

LBA presents Leeds Finest - 2 Nights of Word, Rhyme and Song

17/02/2012

Lyricist Lounge featuring Dread Man, J Bravo, Dialect, Asher Don, Jay Grant, Nathaniel Benson, Leeds Young Authors, Kama Kazie, Triple M, Jay C-Town and K-One. Hosted by Saima Bouden.

Urban Sprawl - Wrecked

18/02/2012

Urban Sprawl, Yorkshire’s only homeless theatre company presents the world premiere of new play, Wrecked.

Sunday Jazz - The Fruit Tree Band

19/02/2012

Fruit Tree are favourites of the Seven Jazz audience led by the skilled and energetic pianist (and Garforth Festival organiser) Dave Evans. They take on grooves and at times semi-free excitement equally to create a thrilling array of sounds.

Screen Seven - Brighton Rock

20/02/2012

An adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who witnessed him murdering a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent.

Cafe Psychologique - Conversations in the Art of Life

21/02/2012

Chat and think over a drink hosted by Chris Powell with special guests, Dr Fiona Thorne and Dr Andrew Wilson. Café Psychologique builds on the idea of the Café Scientifique movement and other Cafés such as Café Philosophique.

SAA-UK - An Evening of Sacred Music

23/02/2012

An evening that brings together two award-winning international musicians, Ustād Harbhajan Singh (winner of Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2010) and Ustād Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari (featured on the Grammy Award winning CD “A Meeting by the River” in 1994).

Chance Theatre Company - The Importance of Being Jeff

24/02/2012

Jeff is about to die. He knows this; he planned it. What he didn't plan was spending his last few hours in the company of two strangers debating the finer points of his soon to be ex-existence.

Chance Theatre Company - The Importance of Being Jeff

25/02/2012

Jeff is about to die. He knows this; he planned it. What he didn't plan was spending his last few hours in the company of two strangers debating the finer points of his soon to be ex-existence.

Sunday Jazz - Centre-Line

26/02/2012

Centre-Line are a fresh, vibrant and creative jazz group that prides itself on the spontaneity, creativity and empathy among its musicians. The group is directed by Darren Altman and features Leeds favourite and LCM tutor Russell van den Berg on sax.

Screen Seven - Armadillo

27/02/2012

The film depicts six months in the posting of a handful of young soldiers and includes a frightening sequence in which a patrol faces a Taliban ambush. The hellish skirmish ends with a Danish hand grenade killing several insurgents.

Kill for a Seat Comedy

29/02/2012

Another rip-roaring line-up introduced by genial host, Silky. Buy tickets either at Seven or via www.ticketweb.co.uk early to avoid depression!

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