Leeds Book Club has been participating in the Arts and Minds Network‘s Sharing Stories Project for the last few years.
This project has been set up to raise awareness of mental health; learning difficulties and autism through – in our case – the depiction of these in works of fiction.
In previous years, we read and discussed books – you can find the list below – however, in 2015, we decided to broaden our scope.
Tom of the Arts and Mind Network and I will be meeting up every few months to discuss books, music, TV, films, comics and anything else we can think of, with an eye towards increasing awareness about mental health.
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03 – CULTURALLY MINDED – Episode Three – with Tom
Tip 03 – Visit one of the Love Arts Festival exhibitions across Leeds
Check out the locations HERE – AML
02 – CULTURALLY MINDED – Episode Two – with Tom
Tom and I meet up to discuss comics – the Movement, Look Straight Ahead, 2 Kill and Psychiatric Tales; books – The Girl on the Train; Tom’s Recommendation – In and Out of the Kitchen and exciting events coming up soon!
Tip 02 – In and Out of the Kitchen – A radio comedy!
01 – CULTURALLY MINDED – Episode One – with Tom – “Structured yet nicely vague…|
Where we say hello and discuss our ideas and hopes for the podcast; how we define culture and cultural snobbery(!) and different aspects of the arts, films, books, gardens and sculpture parks that have inspired us!
Tip 01 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park or Hyde Park or any green place!
Mobile Link to the episode.
If you’d like to get involved – either recording (with us or as a roving reporter with audioboom) or with a suggested book, tv, film, comic or place to visit – please drop us a line!
Follow @artsmindsleeds Follow @leedsbookclubHave a look at the books that we’ve read and discussed over the last few years.
2014
JAN and FEB: The Shock of the Fall – Nathan Filer
MAR and APR: Marbles – Ellen Forney
MAY and JUN: The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
JUL and AUG: Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healy
SEP and OCT: The Examined Life – Stephen Grosz
NOV and DEC: Stranger than Kindness – Mark A Radcliffe
2013
EXTRA – Magnificent Joe
Feb: The Silver Linings Play Book – Matthew Quick
Mar: The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson
Apr: I had a black dog – Matthew Johnson
May: Why be happy when you can be normal – Jeanette Winterson
Jun: Poppy Shakespeare – Clare Allan
Jul: 01 – Birthday Letters – Ted Hughes
Jul: 02 – Ariel – Sylvia Plath
Aug: Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
Sep: Day – A L Kennedy
Oct: Notes from an exhibition – Patrick Gale
Nov: A life too short – Ronald Reng
Dec: Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
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Fab site, my first visit. Where are the pictures from the Love Arts Leeds Awards night?