Which will you choose?
1. Leeds Museums and Galleries
To celebrate 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale, Leeds Museums and Galleries is putting on an online exhibition where you can find out more about the famous lady with the lamp and her fascinating links to Leeds and Lotherton. Florence Nightingale’s vision, thoughts and research not only developed nursing, but inspired change in healthcare and the development of healthy housing and hospitals. The exhibition can be found on the Leeds Museums and Galleries website.
2. Leeds Lieder
Renowned British mezzo soprano Dame Sarah Connolly will give a rare performance of Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer in the piano accompanied version forms, paired with folk-inspired songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler. A collection of the finest English songs rounds off their programme. Passes for the live stream can be bought from the Leeds Town Hall website. Image credit: Christopher Pledger.
3. Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens
An audio walk that gives you the chance to take a guided stroll through the story of the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The Gardens existed in Headingley between 1840 and 1858 and, although it proved a doomed venture, signs of it can still be seen around the area, including the bear pit on Cardigan Road. The walk begins and ends at the Chapel Lane entrance to Burley Park station in Headingley, taking around two hours to complete. There are ten stopping points along the route. The walk can be done at any time and audio files are available through Leeds Inspired.
4. Leeds Industrial Museum
1152 Club Online: Stories introducing the printing industry in Leeds is a printing exhibition collection at Armley Mills which is now available online. You can take a look at the history of printing in the city through objects in the collection at Leeds Industrial Museum. Join assistant community curator Chris Sharp for a short, pre-recorded talk to introduce topics including letterpress and lithography. Discover both well-known and surprising stories about the companies and communities who made Leeds an important centre for printing.
5. Song of the Female Textile Workers
Song of The Female Textile Workers is a newly awarded project by UK Research and Innovation in response to the Arts and Humanities Research Council call on UK-China Creative Partnerships. The online exhibition hosted by Leeds Industrial Museum sees six specially created documentary films hosted on the museum's website. They rediscover a different facet of the UK-China textile industries as well as telling the stories of industrial and cultural development in Shanghai.
6. Leeds Libraries Code Club
Leeds libraries code club is an online coding club that gives youngsters the chance to animate a folkloric creature and explore how this tradition strengthened the connection of Leeds with nature and the local environment. You can reserve a BBC micro:bit to use which can be collected at a local library for free. Just search for microbit on the Leeds gov. libraries site.