The Carriageworks

About the venue

The Carriageworks also gives opportunities for members of the local community to take part in a variety of high quality arts activities, and is home to the Leeds Civic Arts Guild. This is an umbrella group of performing societies offering the opportunity for local people to experience making theatre in a fully-functioning professional venue.

How to get there by bus.

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58, 61, 62, FCB

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Events being held at The Carriageworks

A Children’s History of Leeds with Gillian Rogerson at The Big Bookend Festival

Local author, Gillian has written A Children’s History of Leeds as well as a number of very successful children’s picture books. Join Gillian for a session for all the family to find out all about Leeds and its history and take part in the Leeds quiz and Gillian’s fun activities. www.bigbookend.co.uk www.gillianrogerson.net

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Astrosaurs and Beyond With Steve Cole at The Big Bookend Festival

Steve Cole is the slightly crazy, highly frantic, millions-selling, non-stop author of Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, Astrosaurs Academy, The Slime Squad, Z. Rex and many other books. Come along to this frantic funny session with Steve. Suitable for the whole family. www.bigbookend.co.uk www.stevecolebooks.co.uk

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K9 and Me with Mat Irvine at The Big Bookend Festival

Mat is a special effects designer who has worked extensively on Doctor Who (he has operated K9 on the most recent Doctor Who series and The Sarah Jane Adventures) and other shows such as Blake’s 7; The Sky at Night and Robot Wars which he co-created. He has written BBC VFX: The Story of the BBC Visual Effects Department with Mike Tucker. Find out about Mat’s life in special effects and meet K9! An event for the whole family! www.bigbookend.co.uk

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Kate Pankhurst Family Illustration Workshop at The Big Bookend Festival

Kate is a Leeds based illustrator. She has a particular passion for finding peculiar looking people/animals to draw and is pleased that this has lead to a very exciting job as a children's book illustrator. Join Kate for a fun-filled drawing session to get the family drawing together. www.bigbookend.co.uk www.katepankhurst.com

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Meet bestseeling author Cathy Cassidy at The Big Bookend Festival

Summer Dreaming with Cathy Cassidy Cathy is the best selling author of many hugely popular books for young people. Her latest series is The Chocolate Box Girls. Join Cathy to hear about Summer’s Dream, the latest Chocolate Box book and what she has in store for us in the future. www.bigbookend.co.uk www.cathycassidy.com

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Nonsense Room Productions presents Hairy Maclary & Friends

‘Out of the gate and off for a walk, went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy.’ Anyone with young children will recognise these immortal words instantly as the opening lines of the book ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’ by Lynley Dodd. Following a Sell-Out run at the Fringe 2010, a UK Tour in 2011 and the Christmas season at the Sydney Opera House, Hairy Maclary and his friends are springing off the page once again this summer. Featuring many of the characters from the books like Hercules Morse, as big as a Horse - Bottomley Potts, covered in spots – Schnitzel von Krumm, with the very low tum and Scarface Claw – the toughest tomcat in town. With music, singing and several of your favourite Hairy Maclary stories, this show is a must for the whole family. "a vibrant, fun filled show that cleverly brings Lynley Dodd’s much-loved children’s books to life." PRIMARY TIMES

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Tall Stories presents The Snail and the Whale

‘How I long to sail,’ said the tiny snail… Tall Stories (creators of the Gruffalo and Room on the Broom stage shows) are proud to present their latest collaboration with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. A tiny snail longs to see the world, so she hitches a lift on the tail of a huge humpback whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, experiencing sharks and penguins, icebergs and volcanoes. The little snail is amazed by it all, but starts feeling very small in the vastness of the world… Then disaster strikes – the whale becomes beached in a bay… Can the tiny snail save the day? Created in Tall Stories’ unique style, The Snail and the Whale combines physical storytelling, live music and lots of laughs – for everyone aged 4 and up.

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The Knife That Killed Me author event with Anthony McGowan at The Big Bookend Festival

Anthony McGowan is the author of several books for children and young people including the acclaimed Henry Tumour and the Bare Bum Gang series for younger readers. Anthony will be talking about his novel for young people, The Knife That Killed Me, which is set in Leeds and is currently being filmed in York.

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The Wardrobe Ensemble presents Riot

10 February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British public punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store. Riot is a true story set in a lamp-lit flat-pack universe bursting with violence, chaos and more characters than you can throw a meatball at. Hammered together with physical theatre and music, The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a comedic tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind. Performance supported by Breeze International Youth Festival.

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