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A selection of previously unseen ephemera from iconic TV programmes and films from Channel 4
Multiple dates
Fri 11 Apr 2025 - Sun 13 Apr 2025
Photo North Festival #6
Carriageworks Theatre
Exhibitions
Festival
Photography
Talk
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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.

Red

Free
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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Shonen Knife
event collection
Spring
Gigs In Leeds

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

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black record store owner owner wearing all black sat in his store surrounded by records
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Spring
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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A toned, bruised body stands wearing a dirty vest with the skull of a pig as its head. Green PVC butcher’s curtains hang in the background and white text displays ‘Animal Farm.’
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Spring
Theatre In Leeds

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

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A colourful stained glass window depicting Jesus standing with a shepherd's crook and surrounded by lambs
Single date
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Handel's Messiah
St Edmund's Church, Roundhay
Music
Concert
Music (Classical)

Middle-aged woman dancing at night in crowd outside.
Single date
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Crossing
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
LGBT+
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Abi Clarke
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Winter
Comedy in Leeds

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

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Free
The colours of Crossgates – the flags of the countries and regions represented by the members of Crossgates Cricket Club.
Single date
Wed 9 Apr 2025
Game Changer
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Film

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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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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image of wooden joint
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Introduction to Woodwork: Hand Tools Level 2
Leeds Wood Recycling
Craft Workshop
A selection of cyanotype prints of various designs
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Cyanotypes
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
Just my imagination Motown tribute
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Bibi's Showtime: Just My Imagination - Mowtown Tribute
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Food & Drink Gig Music
Lunchtime Conversation: Fray (Oct 2023)
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Lunchtime Conversation: Mo Robertson
BasementArtsProject
Food & Drink Talk Visual Art
An orchestra dressed in black sits in front of a theatre stage
Sun 23 Mar 2025
West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra goes to the opera!
Yeadon Town Hall Theatre
Music Concert Music (Classical)
Leeds Haydn Players Concert
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Leeds Haydn Players Concert 23rd March
All Souls’ Church
Music Concert Music (Classical)
An actor wearing a top hat with a feather in it.
Sun 23 Mar 2025
The Complete Works Of Jane Austen (Abridged)
Otley Courthouse
Comedy Theatre
Jeanne Dielman peeling potatoes
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Worth the Weight event
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Worth The Weight Leeds: Vintage Kilo Sale
Left Bank Leeds
Fashion Market
Wayward Wines Sunday Sessions Party with live music, natural wine food and good times
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Wayward Wines Sunday Sessions
The Attic
Food & Drink Gig Music Social
A musician looking at the camera.
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Rachel Mahon
Leeds Cathedral
Concert Music Music (Classical)
Person standing and speaking into a microphone inside a town hall surrounded by guests seated at tables
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Visiting Artist’s Talk – Heather Peak
University of Leeds
Discussion Talk
the artist
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Charles Moothart
The Lending Room
Gig Music
A black and white image of Frida Kahlo being screen printed onto a white t-shirt
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Screen Printing Tees & Totes
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
Topaz
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Tuesday Night Live: Topaz
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Jazz Music
Woman with braids and a man with a earring play a rock concert
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Tuesday Wonder: DIG! XX
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
The four members of Caerus chamber ensemble, all smiling, photographed from the shoulders up.
Tue 25 Mar 2025
CAERUS Chamber Ensemble
Leeds Conservatoire
Concert Music Music (Classical)
The organiser Martin Trippett in the studio.
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Leeds Improvisors Orchestra
The Grove Inn
Gig Music
Rachel Fairburn
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Rachel Fairburn: Side Eye
The Wardrobe
Comedy
the band
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Ditz
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
A portrait of a person in an abstract style in blacks and greys.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Portraiture: Drawing & Monoprinting
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
Phil Baggaley
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Beyond the Blue in concert
The Barn Coffee Shop
Gig Music Spoken Word
guitar
Wed 26 Mar 2025
University of Leeds School of Music: Band Project
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer
Gig Music
Various zine covers in red, orange, pink and white
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Leeds Zine Library Lates! Women's History Month
Leeds Central Library
Craft Workshop
Black girl sat in prison-like school setting with a metal bar around her head.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Philosphy and Film: The Girl with All The Gifts
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A drum kit in the middle of the room played by Oli Reeves infront of a wall with paintings of distorted faces.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Offshoots at The Vinyl Whistle
The Vinyl Whistle
Gig Music
the band
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Panchiko
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
the band
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Thus Love
The Attic
Gig Music
The five members of The Delines stood in different coloured shirts against a beige slightly-patterned wall either looking at the camera or looking in a different direction.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
The Delines
City Varieties
Gig Music
Phil Chapman
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Phil Chapman – Figures
The Wardrobe
Comedy
the band
Thu 27 Mar 2025
The Loft
The Lending Room
Gig Music
Donna Marie as Lady Gaga
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Bibi's Showtime: Lady Gaga By Donna Marie
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Food & Drink Gig Music
Remi Harris trio with instruments
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Remi Harris Hot Clun Trio. Support from Joe Moore
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
People sat listening to a talk with a speaker at the front.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Science Cafe
Otley Courthouse
Discussion Social
A row of cardboard bunny silhouettes in yellow, orange, green, turquoise, purple and red.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Chat and Craft: Cardboard Bunnies
Abbey House Museum
Craft Workshop
A picture of socks (multicoloured)
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Chat and Craft: Sock Bunnies
Abbey House Museum
Craft Workshop
Black pencil with letters spilling out of the end, and the work Poetry spelt around the black individual letters. Blue background.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Poetry Reading and Q&A with Rob Miles and Kath McKay
Chapel Allerton Library
Literature Performance Spoken Word
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Sound Bath & Massage Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
image shows a dried floral wreath
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Dried Floral Wreath Workshop
The Northern Market
Craft Workshop
ROB.GREEN standing in a sunny field, staring out into the distance
Thu 27 Mar 2025
ROB.GREEN: Jungle Child - A UK Tour
Hyde Park Book Club
Gig Music
Deirdre O'Kane in a suit jacket, black tie, white shirt and just semi-sheer tights and black heels holding a cane across her chest with both hands stood against a pink background.
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Deirdre O'Kane: O'Kaning It
City Varieties
Comedy
Pop Rock Band
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Friday Night Party: British Rock Pop Party
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Food & Drink Gig Music
A man at the top of a sand dune sticks a bisexual pride flag into the ground
Fri 28 Mar 2025
BI-TOPIA
Carriageworks Theatre
LGBT+ Theatre
the band
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Brett Domino Trio In Space
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
david preston
Fri 28 Mar 2025
David Preston 'Mµ Trio' - featuring Elliot Galvin & Sebastian Rochford
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Gig Jazz Music
hands holding scores
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Ensemble Performance: Brahms' Requiem
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Music Concert Music (Classical)
Attendees of the previous Launchpad Conference engaging in networking.
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Launchpad Conference 2025
Leeds School of Arts @ Leeds Beckett University
Discussion Talk Workshop
A picture of glass laboratory equipment on a blue background.
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Chemistry 18: Helen Kay, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, and Ar for Argon
The Chemic Tavern
Performance Spoken Word
Oasish // The Killaz UK + indie afterparty - The Leeds Irish Centre
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Oasish // The Killaz UK // + indie afterparty
The Leeds Irish Centre
Gig Music
Jan Hunt wearing a very big red hat and red dress looking like she's whispering with her hand at her mouth with a stage screen in the background.
Sat 29 Mar 2025
The Magnificent Music Hall
City Varieties
Comedy Performance Show Theatre