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2023: A year of stories with people at the heart. We're no longer monitoring our social accounts. Explore more culture in Leeds @LeedsInspired & @VisitLeeds.
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Letting Culture Loose: The Power of Creativity 🤩 . Watch a new documentary marking the end of our Year of Culture; connecting every community, celebrating Leeds’ creativity and showcasing world class culture. 🎬 Explore it here: @SodiumFilms
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It just had to be 🥳🥳🥳. Big love and congratulations to everyone at @bradford2025. Bring on #CityofCulture2025!. What a few years we're going have in West Yorkshire 😘.
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From Armley to Adel, Beeston to Burmantofts, Kirkstall to Cross Gates, this city has a story to tell. That’s why, for one whole year, we’re tapping into our collective creativity and Letting Culture Loose. Be part of it!. #LEEDS2023 #LettingCultureLoose
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The countdown has begun🙌. This time next year we'll be kicking off an incredible 12 months celebrating everything that makes Leeds brilliant through art, music, food, sport and more. Join us on our journey as we do what we do best and let culture loose!. #OneYearToGo
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WE'RE ON THE #EUROVISION SHORTLIST 💥. We stand ready and able to host @Eurovision and put on a dazzling show with our Ukrainian family in 2023. Here's what our Chair @GabbyLogan had to say 👇
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We’re very excited to hear today that #Leeds cultural gem @HydeParkPH has secured a #NationalLottery grant for the #PictureHouseProject 👏🏽🎉securing the future of the 104yr old cinema!
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Leeds 2023 will see the creation of a £35m cultural programme culminating a year of celebration in 2023 🎉.
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Today we're absolutely thrilled to announce that ground-breaking and highly respected theatre director, Kully Thiarai will be the new creative director of Leeds 2023! @kully_ntw
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Leeds City Council’s Executive Board gives its official approval to submit the bid for European Capital of Culture 2023🎉🎉🎉🎉.
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We are aware of a letter from the European Commission regarding the cancellation of the European Capital of Culture competition for all UK bidding cities and are seeking urgent clarification from DCMS.
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Well did anyone ever have any doubt! We are absolutely thrilled: thank you @Channel4. Also a big well done to Bristol and Glasgow for being chosen as Creative Hubs. Manchester and Birmingham were excellent bidders too, and very stiff competition.
Channel 4’s Chief Executive, Alex Mahon and the Channel 4 Board have today confirmed that Leeds will be the location of its new National HQ and Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations of its two new Creative Hubs. #4AlltheUK
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Please say a big hello to our new Chair @GabbyLogan 👋. Born and raised in Leeds we're thrilled to welcome Gabby to the team as we countdown to our extraordinary Year of Culture!. Full story 👉
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We did it!! #Leed2023 won the EUROCITIES award for cooperation. This wouldn’t have been possible without all our fantastic partners THANK YOU 😆😆🎉🥂🍾 #EUROCITIES2018
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What a way to start our #YearofCulture! #TheAwakening has been an epic display of collective creativity. Thousands of you showed up last night, awakening the world to exactly what makes our city so great. Leeds, this is just the beginning ✨. 📽️ @SodiumFilms #LEEDS2023
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What next for #Leeds2023? Join us at our public meeting, 31st Jan, 4-6pm @ Leeds Town Hall to hear our exciting plans! Register here:
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We’re starting 2023 with a bang with The Awakening; an epic show at Headingley Stadium that celebrates Leeds' past, present and future. This is a once in a generation display of Leeds' culture you won’t want to miss 🙌. #TheAwakeningLEEDS2023 #LEEDS2023
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IT'S ON PEOPLE!!! CANCEL EVERYTHING!! @DCMS JUST LAUNCHED THE COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2023 #Leeds2023 👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿👊🏻
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NEWS! We are delighted to announce @ProducerBev will be our Exec Producer! Exciting times ahead! Read more here 👇.
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The amazing team @LightNightLeeds were on form yesterday welcoming international artists to Leeds 🙌🏻🙌🏾🙌🏿🙌🏽
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*Breaking news* .We pause our commentary of #TheAwakening as this just in - something has awoken Leeds! 👀 Broadcasting LIVE from the River Aire. #TheAwakening #LEEDS2023
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"COVID-19 will not stop the extraordinary creative energy of this great city!".On the eve of another national lockdown, the performing arts sector in #Leeds has issued a statement of solidarity and hope: .#hereforleeds .#stayathome
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Building a barn in 24 hours isn't easy, but we did it! ⚒️.In partnership @wowglobal, and thanks to the support of @MayorOfWY @WestYorkshireCA @LeedsCC_News @ace_national @civicengineers @WeAre_LCB we showed women, girls, and non-binary folks everywhere that anything is possible🙌
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Big news! We're absolutely thrilled to announce that @ruthpitt1 will be joining us as Chair of the new Leeds 2023 Trust! Ruth will head up the new Trust to deliver our landmark cultural celebration in 2023. 🎉🎉 Read more @
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“Kings Cross was a rehearsal” says Hiro Aso, architect for Leeds Station which will be 10 times the size Kings X 🚆🚈🚉
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WELCOME TO LEEDS👋. Congratulations to those receiving their results today and heading to @UniversityLeeds @leedsbeckett @LeedsTrinity @LeedsArtsUni @LeedsMusicDrama 🥳. You'll soon find out Leeds is THE BEST. You're also coming along just in time.
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In one years time we will be marching on together and #LettingCultureLoose🙌. 🗣️Here to tell you more we have @LUFC's very own no. 23 @Kalvinphillips, our Chair @GabbyLogan and some faces you'll recognise from our #OneYearToGo film!. #MOT
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GO ON BRADFORD 🙌. We'll be cheering you on all of the way tonight. You've got this!.
Today we find out if Bradford will be named #CityofCulture2025 💥. Thousands of people have been involved in shaping this process, generating energy and excitement across the district like never before 🌍. Tune into @BBCTheOneShow for the live result, tonight from 7pm on @BBCOne.
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Leeds - we've always been a city full of creativity and now it's time to show the world what we've got. For our #YearOfCulture, our city is our stage. 🏟️ It's time for #TheAwakening. 🎥 Leeds Cultural Heritage film by @SodiumFilms .🎶 @UtahSaints .
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NEWS | With #OneYearToGo we’re delighted to announce the backing of major investment partners to support the development and delivery of our Year of Culture. £1m funding secured from @phf_uk @EsmeeFairbairn @BritishArts @kpmguk @hbdplaces @MottMacDonald.
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Spotted in Mabgate 👀 @addfuel's new mural ECHOES celebrating Leeds’ important ceramics heritage. The mural is the latest in @EastStreetArts series A City Less Grey designed to bring unique artwork to the streets of #LEEDS2023. Read more: 📸 Doug Gillen
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After 3 exciting weeks on Cinder Moor, we are delighted to share the news that #TheWOWBarn has found a new home! 🏠 It will be travelling to @KV_Farm where the team there has plans to use it as an outdoor classroom. Read more here: @WOWisGlobal #LEEDS2023.
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Happy #LeedPride everyone 🌈 love how much Leeds has embraced pride this year, share your rainbow finds with us today, this crossing is ace 🌈
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So ecstatic and grateful to have received funding to help us develop our heritage projects centred around the wonderful communities of Leeds!! 🥳. Big thanks to @HeritageFundUK and @HeritageFundNOR for the support 🙌.
Funding news! 🚨 Today we’re awarding £13.7m #NationalLottery #funding for six transformational heritage projects which will aid recovery for #nature, #communities and #culture. Find out more 👉
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Leeds, you showed up! ✨.Saturday was an epic display of collective creativity, share your most memorable moments of #TheAwakening by hitting reply with your pics👇👇👇. 📸 @JMA_Photography
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We're thrilled to be backing Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage in his vision to create a National Poetry Centre in #Leeds. We look forward to working with Simon & partners .@UniversityLeeds @LeedsCC_News.to bring these ambitious plans to life. Read more here -
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Throughout 2023, the city of Leeds will burst into life fuelled by creativity. We will celebrate the world in our city, and our city in the world. Are you ready?. Tune in Friday as we'll reveal something exciting to mark 100 days to go. #LEEDS2023 #LettingCultureLoose #100DTG
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"Leeds is already dusting down its sequins in preparation for LEEDS 2023, our year-long celebration of culture, so we'd be honoured to host #Eurovision during our special year" 🗣️@GabbyLogan . ✅Leeds knows how's to throw a party and 2023 is our time to show the world.
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MESSAGE: "Working together, in peaceful creative protest, we will collaborate with all the communities we serve to find a better day, encouraging all cultural leaders, politicians + fellow decision makers to do the same." #Blacklivesmatter.@kullyLeeds2023
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Today we are absolutely thrilled to announce that @Mark_Hollander will be Leeds 2023's Executive Director! 📷 Jack Thomson
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We are absolutely thrilled to hear that our neighbours in Bradford are bidding to be UK City of Culture in 2025! 🥳.
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Did you spot our Volunteers looking sharp in their electric blue?. They are the beating heart making events like #TheAwakening tick. Thank you team, you smashed it tonight 🎉. See what they were up to tonight at #TheCityIsOurStage
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Official statement following the European Commission letter to DCMS:
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It’s almost time. Join us to celebrate sending off the #Leeds2023 bid with food, music, dance, art & more.12-8, 27th October, Quarry Hill
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Want to help #makeleeds2023? Meet us on the grass @The_Tetley at 12.15pm tomorrow to take part in our official bid photo
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It's #OneYearToGo until we let culture loose across Leeds!. ➡️Time to hear from @GabbyLogan, Chair of LEEDS 2023, on why she's excited to be part of the team and why you should get involved 👇
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We are excited to announce .@taneeshaahmed will be joining our team as Producer for Community, Collaborations and Partnerships!.Read more here
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Morning! You're waking up in the region that has won @artfund Museum of the Year twice!! Congratulations @HepworthGallery 🎉🎉🎉
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We've launched the bid, imagine what your city could be like then collaborate with us to make it happen:
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Ready to see, hear, taste, touch, feel Leeds like never before?. Prepare to immerse yourself in new experiences as we start our Year of Culture. Welcome to Part One, and to a year like no other ✨ . #LEEDS2023.📸 Lucy Hind by Lorne Campbell @guzmedia
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📢WE'RE HIRING📢 We're building our team and are on the look-out for talented people who share our passion, enthusiasm & commitment to delivering #Leeds2023. Could you be our new Head of Development: or Fundraising Officer:
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Delighted to announce we've been awarded a grant from the Government's Cultural Recovery Fund, enabling us to commission artists to work in communities in #Leeds over the coming months. With thanks @dmcs @ace_national #HereForCulture #HereForLeeds.📷Simon K. Allen Photography
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Ey Up London 👋. Live tonight from the @britishlibrary telling our friends in London all about #LettingCultureLoose 💫
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We are not going to let last night’s hateful crime deter us from celebrating and remembering what a historic moment for Leeds and for David Oluwale’s legacy yesterday’s unveiling was. Please join us by sharing your images from yesterday and let us celebrate this momentous,.
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We’re oh so proud to have Simon Armitage as a Patron of LEEDS 2023! ✨☄️. With the National Poetry Centre on its way to Leeds we look forward to working with Simon to nurture learning, talent and creativity over the next few years. #LettingCultureLoose #LEEDS2023
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Announcing the first part of the #LEEDS2023 story, Part One: Awakening - our invite to the world 🌍 to come and experience our city like never before. Read all about it here 👉 #LEEDS2023 #PartOne #Awakening #LettingCultureLoose
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Thank you for all the support so far as we recast plans for #Leeds2023 we’ve updated our FAQs but let us know if you have other questions or email us at hello@leeds2023.co.uk 👉🏾👉🏼👉🏿👉🏽👉🏻
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🤩@channel4 #Leeds HQ looking gorgeous! What an asset right in the heart of our creative city! Congrats @RushbondPLC !.
We’re delighted to announce that our #Majestic development has reached practical completion. Please see the full story here
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50 days to go and we've already reached our target of 2,023 pledges!!. Europe we are waiting. #MakeLeeds2023.
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“At a time when schools are focusing on STEM subjects, we in Leeds want to put Art at the heart of our education provision” @CllrJaneDowson Lord Mayor of Leeds addressing the @leedsyoungfilm Golden Owl Awards.
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We're thrilled to announce Baroness Judith Blake as our latest Patron🤩. A long term supporter of LEEDS 2023 this role .continues Baroness Blake's commitment to culture in Leeds!. ℹ️
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Just over a week to go to the Big Send Off with @WYPlayhouse @LeedsIndieFood @NorthBrewCo @LeedsMusic @YorkshireDance @northernballet &more
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Go #Bradford! We’re backing you all the way!! 💪💪💪.
"This is a defining moment for Bradford". Today we submit our official bid to become UK #CityofCulture2025 💥. Young people from across the district came together for a celebratory send-off, as the document heads to @DCMS 📮. #Bradford2025
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We're excited to announce our new community-led programme, My World, My City, My Neighbourhood 🎉 These incredible artists are connecting Leeds to the people of Leeds! Read more👇. #LettingCultureLoose #Leeds #LEEDS2023.
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The giant has woken. "This is day one! Can you imagine what we will be able to do together by the end of the year."- Local hero and global superstar @CorinneBRae finishes what has been an epic night to mark the beginning of our collective #YearofCulture. #TheAwakening
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What a turn out 😍 in true Leeds style.
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🥳 Massive congrats to our sister city #Bradford! Together we can #LetCultureLoose right across #WestYorkshire!.
Bradford is on the shortlist to become UK #CityofCulture2025 💥. We're thrilled to annouce we're one of four places through to the final stage of the contest. This is the time to tell the world our own story. This is Our Time, Our Place #Bradford2025 ❣️.
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We are backing @leeds_2023. 🤩. We’ve had so much support from our fans from Leeds and we want to do the same. Leeds is a great city, brimming with culture, and it now even has a touch of Argentinian flair. 🇦🇷. Newell's Old Boys is a #LEEDS2023 supporter. #LettingCultureLoose.
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Leeds - .we've got gold in our veins, .we've got silver bones, .we've got diamonds for brains, .we've got neon souls. 💎.#simonarmitage + @LYRband get it! #TheAwakening
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Stars including @CorinneBRae & @KaiserChiefs come out to back #Leeds2023 bid for European Capital of Culture
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2018 has been a momentus year for art and culture in Leeds, not least for #Leeds2023. Amazing, world class and innovative events sum it up nicely. And here's a few snapshots.
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The 2nd shift is done just as the sun rises, meaning we’ve hit the half way point!🌞 3rd team are arriving on site to start the final half of #TheWOWBarn build 🔨 @WOWisGlobal
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It's been some journey to get here but we're finally underway!. It's time to let culture loose.
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“Our momentum is even stronger than it was during the bid. Taking this forward is not a choice, it is a necessity” @cllrjudithblake #Leeds2023.
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A very warm and special thank you to our 33 Neighbourhood hosts - the fantastic folk who showed up represent their ward of Leeds for our ribbon ceremony today. A beautiful moment to show the power of community, arts and culture. ✨ .#LEEDS2023
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"Leeds is a powerful city, it is not pleading for help it is offering its greatness to Europe" Lord Melvyn Bragg on the #Leeds2023 bid.
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Our #LEEDS2023 adventure is well underway. Now we’ve awakened your senses, it’s time to let your inner explorer loose. Welcome to Part Two of our #YearOfCulture, where we’re bringing out the playful side in all of us. So, Leeds, who’s coming out to play?
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We are recruiting TWO amazing producing roles! Could you be our Executive Producer or our Producer (Community Collaborations and Partnerships)? Take a look at our website to find out more! .
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It’s time to make some noise for another local legend! 🎸🎸. @curlywand from Leeds rockers @KaiserChiefs is another one of our brilliant Patrons here to make some noise and help us shout about the amazing stuff in our city.
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"No matter where I go Leeds is home, I'm proud to be supporting #Leeds2023" @CorinneBRae helping to #MakeLeeds2023
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The previous and future hosts of the title have also written to the European Commission urging positivity over punishment and requesting that the decision is reconsidered
"Positivity rather than punishment. Friendship rather than fragmentation. Inclusion rather than exclusion" 23 former and future European Capitals of Culture request @EU_Commission to rethink. @leeds_2023
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We’re so proud to support @RememberOluwale efforts to create an extraordinary legacy to honour the life of David Oluwale working with world renowned artist @SHONIBARESTUDIO to bring an extraordinary #sculpture to the city’s new Aire Park. Read more 👇
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Plans for Leeds 2023 - the city's landmark year of culture - begin to take shape. Read more in today's @leedsnews!
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In the centenary year of suffrage Leeds welcoming the elite of female athletics with huge cheers from the grandstand crowds #WTSLeeds
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Our city is becoming a centre for incredible street art - and there’s demand for it! .Great work @EastStreetArts Leeds Street Collective @RushbondPLC @LeedsCC_News
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A recap of #TheWOWBarn 24-hour build so far.⚒️First briefing of the build.⚒️Our Barn Raisers get stuck in.⚒️Our very own @kullyLeeds2023 was also amongst the first team Barn Raisers .⚒️The frame of the barn starts to rise🏗️.@WOWisGlobal @WestYorkshireCA @TracyBrabin @LeedsCC_News
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What a response! More than 300 tickets for this event gone in 24 hours!! We are so proud and grateful for the overwhelming support for Act II - still plenty of space for everyone to find out What Next for #Leeds2023
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Tomorrow is the day we've all been waiting for, as we take over Headingley Stadium with #TheAwakening 🙌. Our performers have been hard at work preparing to take the stage 👀 . Who are you most excited to see perform tomorrow night? ✨ . 📸 James Phillips
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Also huge thank you to everyone that came to Brewery Wharf to celebrate what marks our 100 Days to Go until #LEEDS2023 kicks off. 🌈
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