Better late than never!! Click on the image of the delightful Sarina Del Fuego above and treat yourself to a slideshow of all the fun and frolics we had at Dr Sketchy Leeds in April! If you fancy finding out a bit more about Sarina you should definately head over to her website

Come and join us for an evening of drawing pleasure in our homage to Eric Stanton featuring our two fabulous models MIMI DEMURE and MISS CISSY P

Doors at 7pm – drawing starts prompt at 7.30pm. Don’t forget your pens, pencils and paper but please leave anything too messy or smelly at home!

All drawing levels encouraged and welcomed!

Competition prizes from our lovely sponsor BABY TATTOO BOOKS

Click on image to pre-order Scarlett takes Manhattan

On July 8^th, Fugu Press will release “Scarlett Takes Manhattan,” the first graphic novel by Dr. Sketchy’s creator Molly Crabapple and her longtime collaborator John Leavitt. Set in the demimonde of Gilded Age New York, “Scarlett Takes Manhattan” tells the story of poor Bowery girl Shifra Helfgott, who rises to become the premier fire-eater of her age.

Chock full of rigged boxing matches, dirty politics, and turn of the century lesbian culture, “Scarlett” has been described as “disgustingly wonderful” by Warren Ellis and led Margaret Cho to call Molly “THE artist of our time.”

Whoop Molly!!

Our next Dr Sketchy Leeds will be a shimmytastic session featuring the fabulous belly dancer Yorkshire Rose.

Yorkshire Rose has been performing for over two years She regularly travels across the UK taking workshops to expand her knowledge of different genres of belly dance, and especially enjoys performing tribal fusion, incorporating lots of spins and barrel turns. Yorkshire Rose is truly at her happiest when lost in dance!

Audiences have said of Yorkshire Rose…

“Yorkshire Rose is very sexy, elegant and graceful, she captures the essence of the music beautifully”

“a real joy to behold!”

“wonderful to see a woman with curves know how to use them”

“she took my breath away when she did the barrel turns and the music soared”

“shimmytastic”

and you lucky guys and gals get to draw her at Dr Sketchy Leeds on March 25th at The Lounge Bar, Merrion Street, Leeds. Doors open at 7pm and drawing starts at 7.30pm prompt!! We have even been promised a short shimmytastic performance from Yorkshire Rose prior to drawing!

Cecilia Rouge-International burlesque performer appearing at Dr Sketchy’s 25th Feb

Cecilia Rouge has been living, eating, drinking and breathing burlesque for nearly 18 months now. She set up Leeds first burlesque workshops and pioneered a growing and welcoming scene in Leeds. As a performer her surreal, elegant and sometimes twisted comedic routines has taken her across to New York and the infamous Slipper Room and soon Paris. In between running top class burlesque events, eating her flowers and taming her birdcage, Cecilia can be found sticking herself to innate household objects thanks to a bizarre fondness of glue guns. She also loves giant cous cous. ” Find out more about Leeds Burlesque and Cecilia at www.leedsburlesque.co.uk

Come and join us for some sketchy fun on 28th January from 7pm at The Lounge Bar, Merrion Street, Leeds. Our fantastic model for the evening is Ryvita Von Cheese and we are also hoping to get a visit from Betty Bingo who will treat us to her very own special take on the traditional game of bingo….

Glamourous doyenne and larger than life character Ryvita Von Cheese has been performing burlesque since 2006 when she ran away with the circus. Ryvita Von Cheese’s comedy approach to routines is more “Carry on Camping” than “Cabaret”! Her performances and characters makes her a brilliant addition to any line up! Furthermore Ryvita is the organiser of the occasional Leeds Burlesque & Cabaret nights – The Wet Spot…another reason to love this lady more!!

A Bit About Betty….

Name: Betty Bingo
Age: OOOH! A lady never tells. As old as my gums but older than my teeth!
Hobbies: Tutting at young ‘uns who go out galavanting without coats on, drinking tea, BINGO!
Favourite Animals: Our Bryans whippets – ohh theyre lovely things they are. Could do with feeding up mid – theyre far too skinny.
Favourite drink: a nice mug of tea, or a cheeky gin and tonic.

Tickets cost £6 in advance or £5 if you have a valid NUS card (which you will need to bring down with you or risk being charged full price on the door!!) or reserve tickets at advance rates by emailing drsketchyleeds@googlemail.com with the names of all the members of your party.

Don’t forget that sketching starts at 7.30pm prompt – can’t wait to see you….

Warren Speed is perhaps Europe’s leading male burlesque performer and regularly performs at all kind of events and shows as far afield as Rome, Oslo and Amsterdam, as well as all over the UK. Warren has been a stand-up comedian for ten years and also performs on stilts and as one half of the slapstick double act Cheeky Chappies. Warren is also the director of Growling Clown Entertainment who produce all manner of cabaret, burlesque, circus, freakshow and stand-up comedy shows mainly in the North of England, and they recently shot a 30minute TV sitcom pilot called “Freakarama”.
Warren likes badgers, sheds and wellington boots.

Find out more about Warren at:
www.growlingclown.com
www.myspace.com/growlingclown

Get your pencils sharpened sketchers and see you soon x

In addition to our regualr monthly event we will be holding a special Dr Sketchy as part of the Leeds Erotica Festival on Sunday 2nd November from 6.30pm at The Lounge Bar, Merrion Centre, Leeds. Our model for the evning will be the cheesecake bombshell Anna Fur Laxis, a seasoned burlesque performer and pin up model.

To purchase tickets for this event please visit the Leeds Erotica Festival website and while you are there be sure to check out all the other exciting stuff going on over that weekend