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22 Apr 2025 - 27 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week 2025

A series of events focusing on how we buy, wear, care and dispose of clothing, 22 April - 27 April.

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Sisters 360 / Wed 7 May 2025 - Sat 10 May 2025 / Leeds Playhouse
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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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Spring
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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Ribbons - Artist Pippa Hale - Celebrating 400 Inspirational Women of Leeds (Adjacent to Leeds Playhouse) Cited at Leeds Quarry Hill Cultural Quarter 2024
Multiple dates
Thu 27 Feb 2025 - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Milele Lullaby Choir
Leeds City College, Quarry Hill Campus
Music
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Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Spring
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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Spring
Gigs In Leeds

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

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A white, female tour guide with brown hair, a black cloak and a microphone gestures with a ghoulish expression as she tells a scary story. She is stood in front of a dark stone wall at night time.
Multiple dates
Sat 5 Apr 2025 - Sat 20 Dec 2025
Otley Ghost Tour
Otley Market Place
Guided Tours
Heritage
Outdoor

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Stalls in Dortmund Square with 'IDAHOBIT' chalked into the pavement
Single date
Sat 17 May 2025
IDAHoBiT Leeds 2025
Dortmund Square
Craft
LGBT+
Market
Social
Workshop
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Cinema Africa: Camp De Thiaroye / Sun 25 May 2025 / Hyde Park Picture House
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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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Comedy in Leeds

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

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Joel Dommet smiling in a black t-shirt pointing with both hands at his face.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Joel Dommett: Happy Idiot
City Varieties
Comedy
at the clothes swap
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week at SCRAP – Clothes Swap
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Fashion Market
The Steelers stood on stage with their instruments.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Steelers: The Music Of Steely Dan
Otley Courthouse
Gig Music
A selection of Lino prints in black and red ink
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Lino Printing - An Introduction
NorthLight Arts Centre
Craft Workshop
A selection of watercolour paintings of flowers in various colours
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Floral Watercolours with Joanne Whitaker
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
A still life painting featuring a glass vase with orange flowers, a striped blue and white bowl with lemons and an orange, and a draped white cloth against a soft blue background.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Bringing Fruit to Life: A Still Life Oil Painting Experience
The Mill Gallery
Craft Workshop
If your anger has nowhere else to go, can you put it into your art?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Channeling Your Anger Into Art
Open Source Arts
Craft Healthy Living Workshop
a green image of a shire
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Music of The Lord of The Rings: A Tribute to Howard Shore
St George's Church
Music Concert Music (Classical)
The image shows a destroyed and overgrown cityscape.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Contemporary Dystopia: The Return of Apocalyptic Thinking
Mill Hill Chapel
Discussion Talk
A group of people rummaging through white baskets full of clothes in a community centre hall with high wooden ceilings.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange: Fashion Revolution Week Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Market
HEART's hall with stallholders
Sat 26 Apr 2025
HEART's Springboard Market
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Market
Bright summer flowers, creative colourful art and a yoga mat laying on soil
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Yoga & ART in the Woods Workshop
Otley Chevin Forest Park
Craft Healthy Living Workshop
mending
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week at SCRAP – Drop in Mend, Repair, Upcycle Saturday
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Craft Workshop
A colourful poster showcasing a woman with half an alien face. The text spells out "Mars Attacks!" coming down from a UFO.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Rat Depot Presents: Mars Attacks! (1996)
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Film
Dionne Warwick smiling at the camera wearing a white shirt with an image of Betty Boop on a motorbike stitched into it.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Leeds Grand Theatre
Gig Music
Image from Richard Dawson's album 'End of the Middle'. Illustration of a red bus stop shelter with a brick wall behind it and houses behind.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Rich(ard) Dawson
City Varieties
Gig Music
A drag queen with a large red dress on is emerging from a window with flowery curtains
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Kate Butch: Wuthering Sh*tes
Carriageworks Theatre
Comedy Musical Show
Nikki Iles seated
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at Howard Assembly Room
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
A photograph of the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
Black man on landline phone
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Comrade Tambo's London Recruits
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
Crowd in The Attic, Leeds.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Tom Sharp Jazz Orchestra + LCSU Big Band
The Attic
Gig Jazz Music
Photo by Becca McHaffie on Unsplash
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week: Vintage & Sustainable Fashion Market
Fabrication Crafts
Fashion Market Social
Crispian Steele Perkings in a church holding a Natural Trumpet
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Sound the Trumpet: A Fanfare for Leeds Baroque’s 25th Anniversary
Fulneck Moravian Church
Music Concert Music (Classical)
image shows pinned butterflies and pretty paper with frames
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Pinned Butterfly Frame Workshop with Pokaty Artwork
The Northern Market
Craft Workshop
Leeds Conservatoire student competes on a Steinway piano
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Leeds Conservatoire Piano Competition Finals 2025
Besbrode Pianos (main showroom)
Music Concert Music (Classical)
In black and white a man and a woman kiss through a chain-link fence
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Letter to Brezhnev
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
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Sun 27 Apr 2025
Paint & Pose - A Creative Night For Friends and Couples
Nyla's
Craft Social Workshop
Charcoal Character
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Spring Exhibition Art Demo - Charcoal Drawing
Horsforth Arts Society
Exhibitions Visual Art
Matt Goss wearing a fur-collared black jacket and beige fedora looking pensively at the camera.
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Matt Goss: The Hits & More
Leeds Grand Theatre
Gig Music Performance Show
the artist
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Margo Cilker
The Attic
Gig Music
A close up shot of someone practising calligraphy.
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Modern Calligraphy Beginners Workshop
Otley Courthouse
Craft Workshop
A silver and black fountain pen in laid on an open notebooks, there is some handwritten words on the paper but it is blurry so you can't read what the text says
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Memoir Writing with Chris Bartlett
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Literature Workshop
Beginners Yoga Course
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Beginners Yoga Course
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
art journal
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Zine Making Workshop
Flamingos Coffee House
Craft LGBT+ Workshop
Grainy image of Jamali Maddix with his iPhone to his ear looking slightly shocked stood in the corner of a shop.
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Jamali Maddix: Aston
City Varieties
Comedy
Tote bag with a pattern lino printed onto it.
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Lino Print A Tote Bag Workshop
Otley Courthouse
Craft Workshop
Samia by the beach
Tue 29 Apr 2025
In Store At Jumbo Records: Samia
Jumbo Records
Gig Music
The HuncH
Tue 29 Apr 2025
TNL: The Hunch
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Music
A leaf design in black being screen printed onto green fabric.
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Textile Screen Printing
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
A person in a red anorak stands in a field between two electricity pylons and stares at the cloudy sky
Tue 29 Apr 2025
The Reason I Jump
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
RSL
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Scour Cinema presents: Red Spirit Lake / We Await
The Northern Market
Film
Old photos of Gordon Strachen and Gary McAllister in their Leeds United kit with Elland Road in the background.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Leeds Legends
City Varieties
Discussion Show Sport
the band
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Benefits
The Attic
Gig Music
the artist
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Alabaster DePlume
The Brudenell Social Club
Mosaics of a bird, robin and bee.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Mosaic Workshop – The Birds and the Bees
Otley Courthouse
Craft Workshop
Lord Mayor of Leeds, Abigail Marshall-Katung
Wed 30 Apr 2025
A Community Conversation with the Lord Mayor of Leeds
The Reginald Centre Community Hub and Library
Discussion Talk
Graphic of a Celtric Triple Horn Knot. Of woven branches or wicker, surrounded by a circle of leaves.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Funcho! presents: Beltane Kibitz
Open Source Arts
Food & Drink Gig Social
sketchbook, brush and pencil
Wed 30 Apr 2025
April Creative Club - Spring on a Postcard
The Terminus
Craft Workshop
Eddie Kadi wearing a black jacket that has the shape of the continent of Africa featuring a lion's face on his left arm with his right hand behind his head.
Thu 1 May 2025
Eddie Kadi: Let Me Land
City Varieties
Comedy
life drawing
Thu 1 May 2025
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (May)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Workshop