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Travel facts

Divisa: £ GBP.

Visas:
Generally tourists from Europe, USA and the Commonwealth do not require Visas for UK holidays. Check out: www.ukvisas.gov.uk
Getting there:
Leeds City centre coach station is the nearest National express coach station to Leeds Bradford airport. You can catch a bus from the adjacent bus station to the airport.
Getting around:
Leeds has a very good system of public transport via independent bus operators. Most main routes have a 10 minute, or more frequent service during the business day. The independent bus operators are operated through MetroLine.
Tipping:
10-15% is normal in cabs and restaurants (where a service charge is usually included in your bill).

Theatre

When We Are Married
Quarry Theatre
Playhouse Sq, Quarry Hill Tel. 0113 213 7700
Directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Ian Brown, J.B. Priestley?s classic farcical comedy features an exciting cast that includes renowned comic actor Les Dennis. A timeless satire of self importance, When We Are Married is packed with larger than life characters and hearty laughs.
Kellerman
Courtyard Theatre
Playhouse Sq, Quarry Hill. Tel. 0113 213 7700
Kellerman is a gothic tale of obsessive desire, demonic doctors and monstrous nurses, a story that explores how meddling with the past can have tragic consequences and how the search for origins can lead to the mind?s disintegration. Combining film, animation and live action, it is a moving, accessible new performance by the creators of the critically acclaimed Hotel Methuselah.
Queen Bee
Courtyard Theatre
Playhouse Sq, Quarry Hill Tel. 0113 213 7700
A contemporary gothic ghost story with a psychological twist directed by Wils Wilson and designed by Imogen Cloët. When a psychiatric nurse takes a job as a live-in carer she is looking forward to an easy ride after her former employment in a busy hospital. Locked in an isolated Northumberland house with her patient and an elderly housekeeper, the three women are soon competing to be in control.

Cinema

Various Showings
Vue Cinema
The Light, The Headrow, Leeds. LS1 8TL Tel: 08712 240240
Located in The Light Shopping Centre on The Headrow, Vue Leeds Light is a 13 screen cinema with approximately 2,890 seats.The LightShopping Centre has ample parking spaces and is surrounded by various restaurants and shopping facilities making for a great day out
Various Showings
Showcase Cinema
Gelderd Road,Birstall, Batley,West Yorkshire. WF17 9TB Tel. 0871 220 1000
Showcase Cinemas are committed to providing you with the ultimate movie going experience. Their luxurious cinemas feature state-of the art Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Stereo SR and Dolby Ex sound systems; custom-designed, deep-cushioned, rocking recliner seats with convenient cup-holder armrests, wall to wall screens and stadium-style seats that elevate you above the rows in front for a spectacular view of the screen.

Exhibitions

The Black and White Show
The Craft Centre and Design Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds Tel. 0113 247 8241
The Craft Centre and Design Gallery is thrilled to present a selection of outstanding prints from this diverse group of esteemed printmakers. Each printmaker has been carefully selected to demonstrate their unique style in printmaking under a black and white theme, showing a range of techniques in the process. Collectively the show makes a striking exhibition for everyone to enjoy.
Box, Body, Burial: The sculptural imagination of Keith Arnatt
Herny Moore Institute
The Headrow, Leeds Tel. 0113 246 7467
Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) is best known for his conceptual photographic work from the late 1960s and early 70s and his subsequent documentary photography of people and objects in the landscape, but this exhibition shows that his artistic roots are also firmly grounded in sculpture. Through his preoccupations with the box, body and burial in the early part of his career, Arnatt challenged sculptural convention long before he was seen as a photographer.

Music

Various Artists all year round
The Cockpit
The Cockpit, Swinegate, Leeds. LS1 4AG Tel: 0113 2441573
The Cockpit opened in 1994, and was previously called the Cock of the North pub. The alternative, live music venue was set up by Colin Oliver(still the main band promoter at The Cockpit now) while Richard Todd (who joined him a few months later) took charge of our alternative club events and began the now legendary club, Brighton Beach.
Rock Of Ages
Union Bars and Clubs
Leeds University Tel. 0113 380 1342
Two rooms of rock and metal every 1st Saturday of every month at Leeds University`s Mine Venue. The Rock room plays: Ac/dc to Wildhearts via Aerosmith Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Kiss, Led Zep, Motley Crue, Ozzy, Pearl Jam, Queen, Rainbow, Skid Row, Terrorvision, Thin Lizzy, Velvet Revolver. The Metal room plays: Archenemy to Rob Zombie via Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Children Of Bodom, Disturbed, Dragonforce, Fear Factory, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, Megadeth, Metallica, Nightwish, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rammstein, Slayer, System Of A Down, Tool, Trivium and lots of other good metal shit including power, death & thrash metal.
Leeds Festival 2009
Bramham Park
Bramham Park, West Yorkshire. Tel: 0115 912 9000
The Reading and Leeds Festival has always been the moment of the summer when bands rise to prominence. Now, it?s back. The ELEVENTH year of the Leeds Festival, still the North of England?s only music festival, coincides with the TWENTYFIRST Reading Festival since the people at Festival Republic rescued the event from a slow slide and made it into the world famous rock n roll spectacular that we all know and love.