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We’ll also be screening a new short documentary film exploring Myths & Legends of Leeds’ Heritage, created by recent Northern Film School graduates Sarah Wigham and William Taylor along with a group of students from Elliott Hudson College in Beeston.
Following film screenings Dr Emily Zobel-Marshall will host a panel discussion about local and international myths and legends with the film’s creators, as well as Classics academic Dr Harriet Lander and the British Library’s curator of Urdu Collections, Olivia Majumdar.
The films start at 19:00pm, but arrive at 16:30pm to get your FREE drink and popcorn goodie-bag and view the pop-up ‘Classically Leeds’ art exhibition curated by students at Elliott Hudson College.
Luca Procopio and Jacob Robbins graduated from the Northern Film School in 2023. Their animated film ‘Sounds of Leeds’ was chosen for the international film school festival CILECT.
Khadijah Ibrahiim is a literary activist, theatre maker and writer from Leeds. She is the founder and artistic director of Leeds Young Authors and executive producer of the documentary ‘We Are Poets’. She and her work have appeared on BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4.
Harriet Lander is a writer, teacher and critical theorist currently based in Manchester. Her work explores the interplay between academic writing, research and playful curiosity. She gained her PhD from the University of Nottingham and has exhibited her texts and led workshops in Leeds, Nottingham and Manchester.
Emily's research is informed by postcolonial theory and includes examinations of constructions of identity, race and racial politics and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is particularly interested in forms of cultural resistance and cross-cultural fertilisation in the face of colonialism.
Emily is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and has published widely in these fields, including her books Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012, University of the West Indies Press) and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (2019, Rowman and Littlefield). She is also a published poet with two poetry collections published by Peepal Tree Press, Bath of Herbs (2019) and Other Wild (2025).
Emily is a qualified Mountain Leader and a Black Girls Hike Leader with research interests and publications in decolonising the countryside and The Black Outdoors.
