City-wide celebrations are planned including music, stage, activities and exhibitions. Among the events is an exhibition looking at black history and culture, to be held in the Town Hall Crypt venue (20 to 25 October), featuring a history of reggae music display, assisted by BBC Radio Leeds. Other exhibitors will include the Barbados Association, the Jamaican Society and Leeds' Racial Harassment Project. Also lined up will be a celebration of the New World Steel Pan Orchestra at the Town Hall on
Friday 24 October 2003 at 7pm. The orchestra was formed in 1984 in Chapeltown. At Abbey House Museum there will be a Wonderful World multicultural craft fair (Tuesday 28 October, 1pm - 3pm. No booking necessary. Normal admission charges apply. Wednesday 29 October, from 10.15am for playschemes and larger groups. Booking essential, cost 50p per person). Leeds Central Library will hold a day to celebrate Black History on Saturday 8 November with activities and exhibitions for the whole family including story-telling, music, poetry, displays and talks.
The African Children's Choir, which has previously performed around the world, will perform in the Town Hall in a fundraising event organised by BBC Radio Leeds. The concert takes place on 7 and 8 December at Leeds Town Hall. For information and tickets see African Children's Choir | 
