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Tue 11 Oct
|Hyde Park Book Club
Community Building in Leeds - 3 West Yorkshire Walks Films
Please join us for a preview screening of three Same Skies short films about inspirational West Yorkshire people and organisations.
Time & Location
11 Oct 2022, 18:00 – 19:30
Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Ln., Headingley, Leeds LS6 1BL, UK
About the Event
Event by Same Skies Thinking
The story of Frontline Self Build is about community power, anti-racism, self education and the determination to keep going for nearly a decade to make it happen. Our film revisits Frontline after 25 years with founder Claude Hendrickson, and explores what community-led housing is offering people and places across West Yorkshire today.
Our Gipton film captures a West Yorkshire Walk that introduced us to the history and culture of Gipton, a 1930s "garden suburb" of Leeds. The walk was guided by local residents Kerry Harker and Claire Irving of East Leeds Project, an arts organisation that makes its home in the area and is committed to using art for community building and transformation in Gipton over a long time frame.
The screening programme begins with a short filmed interview with Bill and Alison Phelps, two of the founders of Chaco, Chapeltown Co-housing, which was recently featured…