Throughout the week-long festival relax and take a walk down the canal where artist Barney George has used Calverley Bridge, over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Rodley, to provide an eye-catching artwork specially for I Love West Leeds.
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Other festival events include a traditional tea-dance and village fete. And for something a bit different, there will be a series of sky-high projections onto the gasholder at Armley Gyratory. Watch out for these projections during the evening of Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July. Also on that Sunday afternoon you find another unusual art project, again on the locks and bridges over the Leeds-Liverpool canal, consisting of ten dancers, ten bikes and a boat full of musicians.
There will also be a series of drive-in movies, including Grease, with a supporting feature of short local films. Bluegrass music, a poetry slam and a theatre performance by Armley-based Interplay are all part of the mix. Then on the Saturday morning, Festival Day, the local Primary Schools battle it out for the West Leeds World Cup. The menu for Festival Day in Bramley Park includes an internationally-renowned acrobatic female trio, Mimbre, with their new show Trip-tic. The show is performed at the top of three high towers and is a real cliff-hanger. There will also be a line-up of 15 fantasy garden sheds, each one designed and decorated by a local artist, community group or school. Designs this year include a Jackanory story-telling shed for young visitors to the festival, a fortune-telling shed and a music shed, complete with band.
Bramley Park is off Town Street and Westover Road, the Festival Day events run from 12noon to 5pm, on Saturday 15 July, and are free. For further details on the festival email Jane Earnshaw at incomposmentis@hotmail.com | 
