Screening this Wednesday 24.9! Pay as you feel, 5:15-6:30, Compton Rd Library, Leeds LS9 Exciting selection of animated short films, local + international!

@heidialexander.bsky.social weownit.org.uk/news/stop-pr...

Don’t miss this exhibition! University of Leeds, Brotherton Building, free and open to all, til 20th December

bsky.app/profile/goac... Local radio: under threat on both sides of the Atlantic

also eg: theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-l-thktkt...

Nuclear power? no thanks. for manymany reasons. eg: theconversation.com/the-future-o...

This Sunday 4th May, 2-4 pm: Animated short films by Bolivian women’s collective! @ Wharf Chambers, Leeds. CineClub Azúcar: “11 films by Bomba Animada on environmental issues & folklore: Food from 2 pm. Film at 3 pm.  £4 entry / NOTALOF Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/cineclub-azu…”

Animated Activism: Women Empowered, ongoing exhibition at Treasures of the Brotherton, Parkinson Bldg, University of Leeds - Thanks for a review full of soul! www.northernsoul.me.uk/animated-act...

Oh, canada

great to hear about this, thanks!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... For those who’ve been enjoying the #AnimatedActivism show at @lulgalleries.bsky.social this year: another exhibition to check out, featuring a Yorkshire animator from an even earlier generation (more animation here, less activism)

Good to see this press interview from 1978 in Leeds Other Paper - one of the very few publications that’s ever understood why we prefer not to use individual names when discussing collective matters. Good old LOP.

interesting to see what’s changed in almost half a century eh - and what has not…

Launch event - Thursday 11th Feb., 17:30. Exhibition continues til - 20 December

“Oh come on love, give us a smile” This #SexualViolenceAwarenessWeek we’re taking a deep-dive into our current exhibition, Animated Activism: Women Empowered. First, the Leeds Animation Workshop collection, and their 1983 film ‘Give Us a Smile’. @leedsanimation.bsky.social #ItsNotOk [1/7]

Getting good responses to this show - it’s open to all: Admission: FREE Tues – Sat, 10:00 – 17:00 at University of Leeds, Parkinson Building Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

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Abbey House museum: don’t let them wreck it!

Funny you should mention that. More evidence can be found in the exhibition…

also linked to our film “Pretend You’ll Survive” - in gestation at this time… www.leedsanimation.org.uk/films/37/

And here's a link to full details of the 'Animated Activism: Women Empowered' opening tomorrow at @universityofleeds.bsky.social 3/3 library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Here's a #LeedsOtherPaper splash from 1981, after @leedsanimation.bsky.social had been attacked by another local paper for making a film about violence against women. 2/3

What looks like an interesting @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social exhibition opens tomorrow at @universityofleeds.bsky.social featuring archives of @leedsanimation.bsky.social as well as #WomensAid, two organisations that often appeared in the pages of #LeedsOtherPaper over the years. 1/3

Film Histories Volunteer needed in Leeds at the wonderful Industrial Museum in Armley Mills app.betterimpact.com/PublicOrgani...

Animation Obsessive animationobsessive.substack.com?r=2468fe&utm... Many great things in here!