Since the focus of this edition of Art Avenue is to establish and discuss the local arts scene here in Leeds it would have been rather a large oversight not to include the hot spot that is the Seven Arts Centre in Chapel Allerton. We asked the producer of Look North, Sean Stowell, to interview Penny Sanders and Anne Skevington to find out how it all began and what is current right now. Most poignantly the subject of funding, and the role of the Arts Council in establishments such as this, is called into question. Do innovations like Seven Arts Centre have to maintain themselves or can we rely on the council to help them flourish?

There is much more to the new Leeds Museum than stuffed animals and coin collections - Curator Gabriella Hamilton tells us about the opening of the street-wise, multi-cultural, centre for Leeds heritage.

A Leeds sucess story tells us about urban regeneration, and a lack of city centre art spaces.

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