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PRESS RELEASES & ARTICLES
Welcome to the Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival Press Release / Articles archive. Please click on a news item below to read the full article. If you are a member of the press and would like to contact the Festival organizers, please call Ellie Ruhan on 0113-268-0899.
Festival crowds flock to Leeds for arts showcase
Jewish Chronicle web site
Over 2,500 advance tickets were snapped up for the ninth Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival, which was opened on Sunday at the Carriageworks Theatre by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Judith Elliott.
Leeds Jewish Performing Arts Festival 2009
BBC - Leeds - web site
This popular exposition of Jewish culture is unique in Europe, filling the Carriageworks' three theatre spaces with music, dance and theatre from around the world. Billed as a mini-Edinburgh Fringe for Jewish culture, the festival acts a showcase for many film and performance premieres.
BBC Leeds Entertainment web site article
Just the Ticket!
Jlife Magazine, June 2009
With now only three weeks to go, the Box Office is frantic with ticket buyers for the big June event – the 9th Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival (21st-25th June).....download the pdf
Jlife Magazine Advert May 2009 for this year's festival
(please click the thumbnail below to download the full pdf image)
2008 Releases:
Survivor of the Holocaust to visit festival
Peter Lazenby - Yorkshire Evening Post, 30 June 2008
HOLOCAUST survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister to diarist Anne Frank, will visit Leeds Jewish International Festival in July....download the pdf
Jlife previews next month's entertainment extravaganza - the 8th Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival (13th - 17th July)
Jlife Magazine, June 2008
Have you got your ticket yet? This year's Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival at the Carriageworks, Millenium Square, promises to be the best to date with an eclectic mix of entertainment covering 30 shows over five nights...download the pdf
Get ready for the most exiting event of the year!
Bima Magazine, May 2008
Entertainment like you’ve never seen it from the UK and abroad will be showcased at this year’s Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival...read more...
2007 Releases:
FESTIVAL RAPTURE OVER THIS 'BAD GUY' CAPTURE...
Howard Williamson, Yorkshire Evening Post, 17th July 2007
A SHOWCASE of Jewish culture and talent has attracted its biggest name yet – celebrated screen villain Steven Berkoff. read more...
ALL SYSTEMS GO AS 100 VOLUNTEERS SIGN UP
David Saffer, Jewish Telegraph, 27th July 2007
WITH five weeks to go, tickets are being snapped up for the seventh Leeds Jewish Performing Arts Festival.
Around 100 volunteers have signed up to help pull the extravaganza together. read more...