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14 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
Leeds Lit Fest

Leeds Lit Fest is back! A festival of words and imagination. 14th - 22nd June 2025. 

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Theatre In Leeds

Our collection of theatre listings in Leeds taking place in venues and spaces across the city.

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Fourteen everyday wooden objects, including a plug, chip fork, lolly stick, peg are arranged in a line on a wall. They have all been 'decorated' with different patterns of black lines, burnt by the sun.
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Summer
Exhibitions And Visual Art In Leeds

Take a tour of all the artwork on display across Leeds in art galleries, cafes, museums, shops, community centres and outdoor spaces.

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Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Summer
Pop Up Markets in Leeds

Crafts, gifts, clothes, junk, art, farmers, vintage, food & drink, seasonal, makers - you name it Leeds is shopping there.

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A pastel green hospital food tray on a pastel green table. In the left half of the tray are brown and purple spotted balls on sticks. In the right side of the tray is a wire basket filled with colourful pills.
Multiple dates
Wed 2 Apr 2025 - Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sarah Roberts: SICK
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Exhibitions
Visual Art
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Gigs In Leeds

Listen up! Dive in to our gig listings page and go wild on the dancefloor. 

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Summer
Film in Leeds

Discover award winning documentaries, films with live music, screenings including directors talks and Q&As, timeless classics in black and white, family favourites, foreign language films and animation.

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Helen Bauer: Bless Her /Tue 9 Sep 2025 / City Varieties
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Comedy in Leeds

Our hilarious round-up of comedy events in Leeds for the coming months!

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Camera Obscura (L to R - McKeeve Dunbar Campbell Maciocia Thomson)
Tue 3 Jun 2025
Camera Obscura
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
A lino cut and print depicting a building in blues, greens and yellows, alongside a selection of lino cutting tools
Tue 3 Jun 2025
Linocut Taster Session
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
Stuart Maconie
Tue 3 Jun 2025
An Evening with Stuart Maconie
The Old Woollen
Literature Talk
Alun Cochrane
Tue 3 Jun 2025
Alun Cochrane: Work In Progress
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Midlife Magic ladies who are the panellists in the event
Tue 3 Jun 2025
Victoria Leeds Midlife Magic Style Brunch
Victoria Quarter Shopping Centre
Fashion Show
the band
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Jadu Heart
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Matt Forde wearing a pale pink bejewelled suit with blue details and white shirt underneath. He is holding a microphone down by his right side and is against a pink and orange wispy background. The image is mimicking Taylor Swift's Eras Tour artwork.
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Matt Forde: The End of an Era
City Varieties
Comedy
Seann Walsh
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Seann Walsh: WIP
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Ahir Shah
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Ahir Shah: Work In Progress
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Murder Inc Members
Wed 4 Jun 2025
Murder Inc - The Improvised Murder Mystery
Seven Arts
Theatre
the band
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Shonen Knife
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
the band
Thu 5 Jun 2025
The Get Up Kids
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
life drawing
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (June)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Workshop
Production show from Irish Annie's with the cast on stage.
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Irish Annie's
City Varieties
Music Theatre
Pencil sketch of a vase of daisies.
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Craft and Create: Still Life Drawing
Leeds Discovery Centre
Craft Workshop
A monoprint of abstract shapes being printed in shades of pink
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Monoprint Taster Session
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
A book with a picture of a bear and a dog (Sooty and Sweep). Sooty is wearing a clown hat and Sweep is jumping through a hoop.
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Throwback Thursday: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Children's TV Favourites
Abbey House Museum
Heritage Talk
Neeta sits peacefully cross-legged under a tree surrounded by singing bowls
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Community Sound Bath
Open Source Arts
Healthy Living Workshop
Winner of the 2024 Elvis Presley Enterprises Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Emilio Santoro as Elvis
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Gig Music Show
Victoria Leeds Fashion Show on the 5th June
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Victoria Leeds Fashion Show 2025
Victoria Quarter Shopping Centre
Fashion Show
Portrait of Andy with his guitar
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Andy McKee
The Old Woollen
Gig Music
Six middle-aged men in varying blue shirts and jeans stood against a concrete wall.
Fri 6 Jun 2025
The Manfreds
City Varieties
Gig Music
Tom Lawrinson
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Tom Lawrinson - Buried Alive (And Loving It)
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A headshot of Justin Moorhouse smiling.
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Justin Moorhouse: The Greatest Performance Of My Life
Otley Courthouse
Comedy
Photo by Magic Bowls on Unsplash
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Singing Bowl Sound Bath
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
Tiff Stevenson getting married to Tiff Stevenson
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Tiff Stevenson: Husband Material
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A photo of your host, Quinn a non-binary person with long hair wearing a peach coloured dress, black and white striped tights and red heels singing in front of a karaoke projection screen
Fri 6 Jun 2025
It's a Sing! LGBTQ+ Inclusive Karaoke!
Pride Place
LGBT+ Music Show
FRIDAY NIGHT PARTY - 90S vs 00s
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Friday Night Party - 90s vs 00s
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Gig Music Show
people smiling at the camera
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Leading From Your Centre
The White House, Function Room
Healthy Living Workshop
Lucy wearing red sat at a grand piano in a rehearsal studio.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Lucy The Pianist
City Varieties
Concert Music Music (Classical)
A group of dancers jump in the air. They are lit in red and white lighting. There are shadows reflected onto the stage.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Emergence | Triple Bill
The Riley Theatre
Dance Performance
Spice Girls Drag Themed Bottomless Brunch
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Spice Girls Drag Bottomless Brunch
Playroom
Food & Drink Music Show
A colourful image of a puppet pixie
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Pixiematosis
The Warehouse in Holbeck
Theatre
A green field with a deer grazing in it.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Wildlife Friendly Otley and Otley Green Fair present the film ‘Wilding’
Otley Courthouse
Discussion Film
Disco ball and projections on a wall in a busy club.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Tainted Love 80s Party
Project House
Gig Music
A person cutting out some glass ready to use in a stained glass design
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Sam Yates (June)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
Photo of a little girl playing in the woods with her grandfather
Sat 7 Jun 2025
The Big Wild Play Out
TCV Skelton Grange
Play Outdoor
Hand stitched image of legs and shoes with the beach in the background
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Drawing with Thread - Hand Embroidery and Applique Workshop with Hayley Mills-Styles
Leeds Central Library
Craft Workshop
Picture of Rev. Richard Coles sitting on garden bench. Wall and daffodils behind him.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
An Afternoon with The Reverend Richard Coles
The Old Woollen
Literature Talk
Canned Heat Garden Party
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Canned Heat Garden Party
Scott Hall Farm
Food & Drink Gig Music Social
A man stood in front of a hammock.
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Eric Chenaux (France/Canada, Constellation Records) + Nika Ticciati + Fondant
Wharf Chambers
Gig Jazz Music
Kieran Hodgson point to Brooklyn Bridge
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Kieran Hodgson Saves America (WIP)
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Rob Mullholland
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Rob Mulholland: Allegations
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Rob Auton
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Rob Auton: ‘CAN’ The Story of a Man Called Can (Work in Progress)
The Wardrobe
Comedy
The Old Fire Station in the background, an old fire engine in the foreground
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Fire Engine Day 2025
The Old Fire Station
Social Talk
Big water drop over blue water
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Mass in Blue/Songs of Love
Leeds Conservatoire
Music Concert Music (Classical)
Charcoal sketch of a nude female figure laid on her side, on white paper
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield
Treasures of the Brotherton
Craft Workshop
Screengrabs of the faces of five Bollywood actors in the film Sholay.
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Yeh Dosti: Celebrating 50 Years of Sholay
City Varieties
Film Musical Performance Show
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop