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Vaynols can be found in only five locations in the UK. The herd at Temple Newsam stems directly from the first herd that was established in North Wales in the late 19th Century.

Vaynols can now be found in five locations in the UK, with Temple Newsam’s Home Farm currently home to one bull, 14 breeding cows, five heifers (females yet to calve) and the five calves born in the last month.

One of the rarest cattle breeds in the UK has had calves at Temple Newsam’s home farm.

One of the rarest cattle breeds in the UK has had calves at Temple Newsam’s home farm.

Vaynol cattle are categorised as ‘priority’ by the Rare Breed Survival Trust. They originate from North Wales and were first established in the late 19th Century.

‘Far, Far Away’ is one of the highly anticipated pieces that will transform Leeds as the festival returns during half term, on 28 and 29 October. The projection invites the audience to follow children on their journey through deep, dark woods towards a magical palace, encountering curious creatures, mysterious spells and unexpected surprises. Co-produced by Light Night Leeds, the British Library and Hungarian art collective Lightspray Visual.

'Eternal Ensemble' will be shown at Leeds Minster. As a cellist appears to perform across multiple points, spatial audio and immersive projection repeat, layer and transform the performance, surrounding each listener with sound and image.

Meet IOLA 2.0, a sparkling robot queen from the future, and her extraordinary troupe of illuminated dancers and drummers, who will be performing in the main atrium at Trinity Leeds.

‘Far, Far Away’ is unique in that it’s fully analogue, using repurposed overhead projectors that will bring the story to life above the shopfronts of Briggate.

'In Dual Light' is a collaboration with City of Maths, which Leeds is the first to have been anointed for 2026-27. For the artwork, Belgian artists Nele Fack and Niels Blondeel were inspired by the mathematical idea of duality, and the piece explores how two apparently different things can be alternative expressions of the same underlying form.