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Leeds Met Gallery - Civic Quarter

Friday 2 March – Thursday 5 April 07 Christopher Campbell | Epoch

Christopher Campbell’s paintings are improbable but believable, creating a world that is fantastical, beautiful, humorous, yet darkly disturbing. They depict England awash in a pseudo apocalyptic environment. Views of a desolate suburbia swathed in unnatural light. Animals venture into view. Horses and livestock normally tethered or penned in roam brazenly. Wildlife encroaches from the shadows and deer unabashed stand in plain sight, ‘posing for portrait’ in the middle of what would normally be a busy street.

Whether the animal kingdom is foraging or just lauding their supremacy, the question of what has happened to the human race remains.

Friday 16 – Saturday 31 March Single Shot

A collection of specially commissioned film and video, single take works, by well known artists and new talent.

While the artists chosen for Single Shot demonstrate a wide diversity of approaches, what they share is a desire to create a work of power and complexity from the most basic cinematic form – the single, unedited shot. Whether humorous or poignant, seductive or disturbing, or indeed all of these things, each work attempts to catch the viewer’s eye and hold it, unblinkingly, until the end.

The final stop on the Single Shot tour is this double header of presentations across the two cities of Leeds and Bradford. As well as encompassing cinemas, galleries and other public sites the gallery presents works in and around Leeds Met University and on the big screen in Millennium Square.

Leeds Met Studio Theatre - G Building, Civic Quarter

Wednesday 28 February & Thursday 1 March Lone Twin | Nine Years

Nine years ago two friends decided to see the world. Mainly on foot and latterly on bicycles the two have since travelled the length and breadth of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Australia. As they moved around the world Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters offered theatrical presentations as a gift to the people they met on their journey. Nine years and seven hundred performances later they have returned home, the journey is complete.

This new performance by the internationally acclaimed duo attempts, for the first time, to bring together their entire body of work in one ninety-minute show.

Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm Sean Tuan John | Kill the Klowns

Three bitter, failed comedians taunt and torment each other as they re-enact and destroy old vaudeville dreams of hysteria and happiness. Darkly humorous Kill the Klowns delves behind the brittle veneer of the iconic clown face revealing strange secrets and dangerous games of fame and failure. Choreographer and performer Sean Tuan John crafts everyday foibles and behaviour patterns into dance comedy which is both entertaining and disconcerting. Last seen at Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre with The Brothers Very Grim in 2005, Sean’s work is brash, decadent, ridiculous and movingly insightful.

Thursday 15 March, 7.30pm Scratch

Fragments of new work in the early stages of development followed by audience discussion and feedback with the artists. Early booking is recommended – audience members will be invited to pay what they can on the night.

If you are creating a new piece of work or have an idea you wish to scratch please contact us on s.burke@leedsmet.ac.uk or call 0113 283 3499.

“If it’s traditional theatre you’re after, Shakespeare in the parks will suffice, or for a more modern take, venues like Leeds Met Studio Theatre can offer just the thing.” Northern Exposure

Thursday 22 March, 7.30pm An Unlimited Theatre co-production with Oxford Playhouse & Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre | The Ethics of Progress

In the course of researching quantum teleportation for their new show Tangle, Unlimited Theatre have been working with Professor Vlatko Vedral who heads up the Quantum Information Science department at the University of Leeds.

Already, scientists working in the invisible world of quantum physics can teleport very small "balls" of atoms, estimating that it may only be another hundred years before we’re able to teleport objects and ultimately people. In this warm, accessible and witty performance Unlimited's artistic director Jon Spooner explains superposition, quantum entanglement and teleportation. With the science bit under his (and your) belt Jon looks at the ethical, political, religious and philosophical impacts that this extraordinary, new science will have on human civilisation. All in under an hour.

Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm Niki McCretton | Space 50

A Theatrical Voyage to Mark 50 Years of Space Travel

Driven by her lifelong passion Niki takes us on an epic expedition of extraordinary moments from history and her imagination. As the moon beckons, ambition exceeds logic and men risk their lives to touch down in a tiny tinfoil spacecraft. But when you achieve this astronomic goal and see the earth from outer space, what do you do with the rest of your life?

This spectacular show promises to engage from ignition to landing unpicking our astonishing journey to the heavens since 1957 as award-winning performer Niki McCretton brings together an outstanding team of performers, filmmakers, musicians, writers and animators to present this milestone production. Space 50 is directed by theatre maker Guy Dartnell.

Student tickets are £7 (£5 tickets available until two weeks prior to performance) Call the box office on 0113 283 5998 or pop into G105 in the Civic Quarter to book. For more information go to [1]