Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

  The #Leicester Open Streets series of events comes to Jarvis Street and teams up with Visit Leicester, Ride Leicester, Active Leicester, Leicester City Council and Street Art Collective Graffwerk for a Street Art Jam. The film opens on the arches of the old Great Central Railway where artists are creating various works, the camera then pans left to reveal the Wheels For All area where people of all ages and abilities are able to try various pedal powered forms of transport. Moving into the Street Art Jam itself under the bridge and a custom 80`s themed tandem bike by Cyclone Works is blasting out tunes to create a fun atmosphere. Artists in the back of shot are up and down ladders creating art on the walls as people watch on and join in the fun. With activities for all ages at the jam we see staff from Graffwerk running an spray can up cycling, painting workshop popular especially with the younger visitors. Along the opposite side of the street more artists are creating work and...

  On BBC East Midlands Today a Weather Watcher photo from a viewer featured a spectacular bright red Poppy field noting its location as Witherley a small village in Leicestershire and only 20 mins drive from home one evening we set off to find and capture the stunning sight. As we arrived on the edge of the village the low hum of drones and sight of multiple parked cars told us we where close, sure enough through glimpses in the hedge we saw flashes of red colour, parking in an open gateway we where greeted by a spectacular carpet of bright red poppies stretching as far as our eyes could see. In the distance the village church spire could just be seen over the hedges and the birds where singing in the hedgerows and trees around us. Soon as the evening sun began to cast long shadows and back lit the flowers, bees moved buzzing between them and various smaller insects completed the scene. Overhead a plane makes a trail through a near cloudless sky as the warm graduations of sunset i...

  A short film looking at the various ways Leicester City Fans said #GoodByeGoat to ​⁠LCFC 's Jamie Vardy. The legend or "GOAT" (Greatest Of All Time) played his last game in a Foxes shirt on Sunday 18th May 2025 on his 500th appearance for the club against Ipswich scoring his 200th goal. We begin at the ​⁠ @highcrossleicester Shopping Center where BBC Radio Leicester had partnered with local street art collective @Graffwerk to create a "leaving card" which Fans where able to sign and leave messages for the player. Next we arrive at the ​⁠ @kingpowerofficial stadium where the #VardyParty is well underway with flags proclaiming #ThankYouVards and #GoodbyeGoat is displayed on screen as the famous Post Horn Gallop is almost drowned out by chants from thee crowd of "ooh, Jamie Vardy". After the game a guard of honour featuring players from across #vardy`s time at the club is formed as he enters the pitch to thank the fans and receive a special presentatio...

After successful displays of Museum Of The Moon and Gaia aka Earth, (See previous videos on this website), Artist  Luke Jerram brings Mars War & Peace to the Leicester Cathedral . The #MarsArtwork, Like his previous pieces uses high resolution images of the planets surface mapped in scale onto a inflated sphere giving the viewer a sense of the grandeur and scale of the real planet and a chance in this sacred space to contemplate our place in the universe. Leicester Cathedral has always lead the way in hosting artworks within it's impressive space, a beautiful space, recently refurbished and extended, that with it`s tall stone columns, roof held up by golden angels and own grandeur complements the other worldly artwork hanging inside. Mars War & Peace is at the Leicester Cathedral from 16th May - 8th June 2025.

The Nagar Kirtan parade makes its way from the Guru Nanak Gurdwara through the streets of Leicester in a parade of tradition, celebration of the festival of Viasakhi and a public display of a follower of the Sikh faiths personal connection to the teachings of their Gurus and a chance to come together in worship. 2025 marks the 40th year of the event in Leicester and sees thousands of followers of the Sikh faith taking part in a route across the city.  My film begins with the Sikh Motorcycle Group ahead of the procession and brings the sights and sounds of the well attended event as it makes it's way around St Nicolas Circle and along a number of city streets.

In 2025 Leicesters Old Town Festival took on a Roman flavour with a Roman encampment on Jubilee Square featuring a life sized forum and exploring Leicester`s Roman past. Alongside the Romans the usual fun of the festival could be found at the @LeicesterCathedral Gardens with St George and his Dragon (inferno) FACT: St George was a solider in the Roman Army !. We start our day in a fiery way with Inferno the dragon breathing smoke and meeting visitors. Then from New Street we hear the unmistakable sound of bells as Leicester Morris arrive and perform a traditional dance in the Cathedral Gardens. After the excitement of the dance we move to the relative calm of the @LeicesterMuseums Guildhall where a Roman style mosaic is being created inspired by those soon to be displayed at @JewryWallRoman160AD (Re-Opening 26th July 2025). A brief march with a passing troop of Roman Soldiers brings us to Jubilee Square where Bill Brookman and Christine Parsons of www.billbrookman.co.uk welcome...

A look at a Roman Forum by artist @oliviergrossetete382 and built using cardboard boxes and parcel tape in Leicesters Jubilee Square as part of the Old Town Festival. @leicestercouncilnews In this film we follow the construction of a cardboard Roman Forum from public workshops in the @highcrossleicester shopping centre through to assembly Minecraft style on the location it once stood for real in Ratae (Leicester) in the modern Jubilee Square. The public (and Sir Peter Soulsby Mayor of Leicester) come together to help with the construction of the impressive structure using parcel tape and a willingness to work together, after several hours work the structure towers over the roman encampment beside it and a building from Leicesters past once again graces the skyline. Then as was the fate of the empire from which it came the temporary structure is raised to the ground and children gather to squash the cardboard before it`s taken to a waiting Rubbish (refuse) truck to be recycled....

Join the Roman Soldiers as they take a march around the city of Leicester or as they know it Ratae Corieltauvorum they form together at the impressive cardboard forum in Jubilee square before marching in tandem past BBC Radio Leicester and their own encampment. Turning left they pass Leicesters oldest building The Guildhall before a right turn into the Cathedral Gardens where they meet St George and his dragon in a unique meeting of eras and legend that could only happen at Leicesters Old Town Festival. Up past the KRIII centre and even the Romans get briefly held up by that most modern of chariots a delivery bike !. Now at the clock tower and into the Highcross Shopping Center where they surprise a number of shoppers with a loud chant. Marching onward along the high street they pass the Ride Leicester Roman themed bike ride with bikes and riders decorated in a Roman theme. Past the Highcross Pub and back into Jubilee Square the Leicester Viasakhi parade is passing through making f...

A look at the beacon which was lit at Bosworth Battlefield on Thursday 8 May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The anniversary, commemorates 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. The beacon lighting was hosted by Leicestershire County Council in conjunction with the Sheepy Beacon Society. It took place at 9.30pm and was part of a series of similar events taking place across the length and breadth of the UK. We start the film with the light fading and standards from a much earlier historic battle on this site (The Battle Of Bosworth Field) flying high across the Battlefield the beacon filled with material ready to be lit stands surrounded by a perimeter featuring union flag bunting. As the sun sets we are asked to remember all who served and the beacon is lit, an emotional moment on a former battlefield. we see the gathered crowd lit by the burning beacon as it burns brightly joining many others across the country in remembrance and coming together to give t...