Pixote - a film about Brazilian street children is one of the films showing during LIFF 2025 This weekend, cinemagoers in Leeds are in for a treat as the Leeds International Film Festival shines a spotlight on Brazilian cinema, in partnership with the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds . Deslocamentos: Brazilian Cinema on the Move , reflects literal and metaphorical movements and displacements within Brazilian society, particularly concerning regional ident

Tony Cooke, from Leeds City Council attended the City Science Initiative seminar in Milan In September a small team from Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds travelled to Milan to talk with European colleagues and give a presentation at a conference on how cities, universities and research institutions can work together to improve the places we live. The event was part of the City Science Initiative , launched by the city of Amsterdam in 2019. This is a transnationa

This November, Leeds will be holding a two-week celebration of languages, cultures and global connections. The Leeds City of Languages festival will run between 10th - 24th November 2025 and follows on from the the success of Leeds Language Week in November 2024, where hundreds of people tried a new language for the first time in a University of Leeds initiative to celebrate the city’s linguistic diversity and promote language learning. It proved so popular, that the festiv