Yorkshire

A Yorkshire Day Celebration

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Thank to all our members who took part in the recent vote for our Yorkshire Day screening. The winning film was Lad: A Yorkshire Story.

Two people, an older man and a young boy, are sitting and standing near a stone fence in a green rural field, conversing, both are holding mugs.


Eleven years on from its first release Lad has continued to defy expectations and reach new audiences around the world with its charming and heartfelt story of friendship and the landscape.

Documenting the story of a teenage boy, Tom, as he grapples with the heartache of grief until an unlikely friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales offers an opportunity for healing.

Book your tickets now and join us in Screen 2 on Thursday 1st August at 6pm. If you come along early from 5:30pm there will be free hot drinks and some popcorn. Afterwards there will be an opportunity to share your feelings about Yorkshire and the film!

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If you’re unable to attend this screening you may be able to meet up on future ‘First Thursdays’ starting on September 5th when a group of Friends plan to see the early evening film and meet in the bar afterwards.

Yorkshire Day: Sculpture On Screen

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Thursday 1st August 6:15pm

Yorkshire Day

Our Yorkshire Day screening this year is a special programme of films, showing as part of Yorkshire Sculpture International, celebrating some of the regions most famous sculptors.

Tickets are free for all members/friends.

Damien Hirst: Thoughts, Work, Life (2012) was directed and edited by BAFTA award winner Chris King (Senna) and features an exclusive interview with the artist, and rare early archive footage and stills.

Figures in Landscape (1953) is a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the otherworldly Cornish landscapes which inspired her.

Henry Moore Recollections of A Yorkshire Childhood (1981) is a documentary, taken from the Yorkshire Film Archive, of Moore looking back at his childhood, aged 83. And a previously unseen clip from Henry Moore on Film (1971) shows the sculptor at work – made available to screen thanks to the Frank & John Farnham Archive and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Yorkshire Day – 1st August

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Yorkshire Day Poster

Every year on August 1st we celebrate YORKSHIRE DAY, a wonderfully daft occasion where we screen a great movie from these here lands… Well this year we’ve decided to go all out, bringing you a day-long bonanza of free screenings, original artworks & fun activities, all celebrating film making and watching in Yorkshire!

We’ll be showing family friendly classic The Railway Children, contemporary short films from local filmmakers and artists, archive moving image from the Yorkshire Film Archive and a screening of the excellent Leeds Young Authors’ doc We Are Poets.

Alongside these screenings, there will be an exhibition of re-imagined Yorkshire film posters, featuring artists Lucy Sherston, Sam Hutchinson, Jake Blanchard, Siân Westcott, Karl Vickers and Kristyna Baczynski. We’ll also have projection room tours. And outside our friends at &/Or Emporium will be inviting local artists and makers along, plus there’ll be some tasty food stalls from the likes of That Old Chestnut, Leeds Bread Co-op and more TBC!

And the neat thing is, thanks to Leeds Inspired, everything here will be totally FREE, so you can come and go as you please!

Visit the Hyde Park Picture House website for more information about the day.  Continue reading →