| March
Free
city lunchtime concert
Monday 8 March 1.05pm, Leeds Town
Hall
Leeds Philharmonia, orchestra of the School
of Music, makes a guest appearance at the
Town Hall, directed by Eno Koço. Programme
to include Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.
2. All welcome
A
midsummer night’s dream
Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 March, 7.30pm, Great
Hall
Performances by LUU theatre group. Tickets
£3.50, £4.50, £5.50 available
from the Union foyer from 1 March LUU_the_dream@yahoo.co.uk
Free
lunchtime recital
Thursday 11 March, 1.10pm,
Parkinson
Court
African drumming and Latin music ensembles
from the School of Music. All welcome
Rush
hour concert
Friday 12 March, 6pm, Great Hall
To
include the School of Music chorus performing
a repertoire by former honorary graduands.
All welcome
Centenary
concert ‘Symphonic Dances'
Friday 19 March, 7.30pm, Refectory
Leeds University Union Music Society Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Ben Oliver. With LUUMS
Choir, conductor Graham Barber. Proceeds to
Cancer Research UK. Music by Leonard Bernstein,
Mark-Anthony Turnage and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Tickets £5 students/concs and £10
non-concessions
April
OSA
dinner
Wednesday 7 April, 7 for 7.30pm, University
House
Dinner organised by the Leeds University Old
Students’ Association in Yorkshire.
Open to all former students of the University.
For tickets, please contact Gillian Roche
on 0113 261 4564 (tel/fax), gmroche@leedsalumni.org.uk
Centenary
opening ceremony & supper
Thursday 22 April, 6.30pm, Parkinson Court
Opening of the centenary exhibition and conferment
of honorary degrees on Emeritus Professors
Zygmunt Bauman, Maurice Beresford and Duncan
Dowson followed by supper. A limited number
of tickets available. Please contact Helen
Pickersgill
0113 343 4036, h.j.pickersgill@adm.leeds.ac.uk
Centenary
exhibitions
23 April to 23 July Centenary Gallery, Art
Gallery, Brotherton Library
(all accessed through the Parkinson Court).
Open 10am-6pm, Monday to Friday
Alumni
Day
Saturday 24 April
A celebration of 100 years of Leeds graduates
with a range of events open to all former
students as well as reunions and activities
targeted at particular groups of alumni by
departments. See:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/alumni2/alumniday.htm
or email alumni@leeds.ac.uk for more information
Union
open house
Saturday 24 April
Leeds University Union welcomes back all former
students to an open house throughout the day.
There is a packed programme of events including
displays showing LUU then and now, reunions
and stories-over-a-beer-or-two in the Old
Bar and The Terrace, displays in the Riley
Smith and guided tours of what the union offers
in 2004. See http://www.luuonline.com/alumni
Convocation
AGM lecture and lunch
Saturday 24 April
Convocation annual general meeting
9.45am, Council Chamber, open to all graduates.
The Convocation lecture, Making the difference
– the secret life of the BBC, 11.30am,
Rupert Beckett lecture theatre, will be delivered
by Leeds alumnus and BBC director of drama,
entertainment and children’s programmes
Alan Yentob, open to all. Lunch is open to
all graduates, cost £15, tickets from
Rosie Akerman on 0113 343 6683, r.akerman@adm.leeds.ac.uk
Faith
in the University: a celebration of the centenary
of the University of Leeds
Sunday 25 April, 4.30pm, Leeds Parish Church
An ecumenical service of thanksgiving and
celebration led by the University’s
Liturgical Choir with an address by the Rt
Rev John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds.
Centenary
lectures
Monday 26 April, 6pm, Rupert Beckett theatre
Professor ACT ‘Tony’ North on
Bragg, Astbury and the foundations of molecular
biology; Dr Peter Evennett on Irene Manton
and early electron microscopy in Leeds and
‘9+2’ structures. Break for refreshments
between lectures. Presented by the Leeds Philosophical
and Literary Society; for more information,
contact secretary Dr John Lydon on 0113 343
3036 j.e.lydon@leeds.ac.uk Open to all
Centenary
Celebration Ceremony
Thursday 29 April, 2.45pm, Great Hall
The
ceremony will include the conferment of honorary
degrees upon Jack Charlton, Tony Harrison,
Dame Julie Higgins, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir
Ken Morrison, Baroness (Usha) Prashar and
Professors David Rhodes and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Tickets available from Helen Pickersgill.
0113 343 4036, h.j.pickersgill@adm.leeds.ac.uk
May
Centenary conference ‘From Yorkshire
college to international university’
Wednesday 12 May, 9am-5pm, Council Chamber
Keynote
speaker is Leeds alumnus Richard Hoggart,
founder of the first university centre for
contemporary studies in 1964 and author of
seminal text The uses of Literacy; Aspects
of working class life. Organised by Dr Graeme
Gooday, director of the Centre for Heritage
Research. See www.leeds.ac.uk/heritage/centconf.htm
or telephone 0113 343 3274
Centenary
play, Encounter with Africa
May, various locations.
Devised with students from Leeds University
and the City of Leeds School, the play looks
at young people’s perceptions of culture
and society between Africa and the UK. Touring
the first two weeks of May to Leeds secondary
schools, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the
University, and finale on May 14 at the Leeds
University Centre for African Studies conference
Performing Africa at Weetwood Hall
June
Re-opening
of the Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert
Hall
Friday 25 June
Recital by Murray Perahia. Further information
will be published in the Reporter
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