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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover / Presented by Poisoned Peach Cinema
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September 2026
Scalarama Leeds

The DIY celebration of alternative cinema and pop-up film exhibition in non-traditional venues returns! September 2026.

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2026
Leeds400

In 2026 Leeds commemorates a remarkable milestone — 400 years since receiving its first Royal Charter from King Charles I. Leeds 400 will showcase the diversity of the city and its people through events and activities held throughout the year.

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PAT RIOT

Red fork painted on nose
Fri 11 Sep 2026 - Sun 8 Nov 2026
PAT RIOT
Hyde Park Book Club
Exhibition
Visual Arts
A visitor inside the busy Print Fair at last year's festival inside the 1912 Mill. The space is a former textile mill with red brick walls, white pillars and strings of festoon lights hanging from the high beams. The space is filled with stalls of original prints and handmade books.
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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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Gigs In Leeds

Our regular listings guide to Leeds gigs, club nights, DJs, rock, jazz and pop.

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Room picture at Sounds Familiar Music Quiz
Fri 7 Aug 2026
Sounds Familiar Music Quiz - Summer Launch Party
Belgrave Music Hall
Music
Granny's Attic (@grannysatticfolk) • Facebook
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Granny's Attic + Nick Battle | Chapel Allerton Arts Festival
The Barn Coffee Shop
Festival
Gigs
Music
A photograph taken over someone's shoulder showing them drawing a figure
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (September)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Woman demonstrating paper clay technique to people sitting around a wine tasting table in a sculpture gallery
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Wine&Sculpture: Meet the Artists
The Sculpture Gallery
Visual Arts
Food & Drink
Three women sing into handheld microphones, surrounded by purple haze and fireworks.
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Women in Rock
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Image shows bats against a starry night sky with some trees in the background
Until Thu 3 Sep 2026
Nocturnal Wildlife Walk - RSPB St Aidan's
RSPB St Aidan's
Adventure
Guided Tour
Outdoor
Matt Anderson’s “Wild Flower”: Celebrating 60 Years of Wayne Shorter
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Matt Anderson’s “Wild Flower”: Celebrating 60 Years of Wayne Shorter
Seven Arts
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
Free
Brew+Poetry at CAAF
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Brew+Poetry at CAAF, featuring Helen Mort and Kristina Diprose
Brew+Bao: Chapel Allerton
Literature
Performance
Spoken Word
Under £10
Image of young man on bed answering phone
Thu 3 Sep 2026
Scalarama 2026: Forbidden Letters (1979)
The Nests
Film
LGBT+
Scalarama
Social
Photo by Diego Catto on Unsplash
Until Fri 4 Sep 2026
Summer Strum-And-Sing
Woolpack Music Studios
Creative Workshop
Music
Workshop
Sans Froid band
Fri 4 Sep 2026
Sans Froid + Cateyes + Fern Veh
Wharf Chambers
Gigs
Music
Marty Wilde sings into a microphone on stage, wearing a suit and bolo tie.
Fri 4 Sep 2026
Marty Wilde and The Wildcats: A Lifetime in Music
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Rose Lucy and Eve
Fri 4 Sep 2026
She Says Improv
The Attic
Comedy
Under £10
Maya Blandy - Anglo-Portuguese independent soul singer - performing at Hyde Park Book Club Leeds 04.08.2026
Fri 4 Sep 2026
Maya Blandy
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
Under £10
John Smeaton
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Smeaton at Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam
Guided Tour
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Talk
2 women smiling in a woodland in front of a gong
Until Sat 5 Sep 2026
Sound Bath with Reiki in the Woods
Chevin Forest Park
Healthy Living
Outdoor
Free
Cultural Art Workshop
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Celebrating Nature & Mindfulness ~ Cultural Art Workshop
Leeds Black Elders Association
Creative Workshop
Healthy Living
Workshop
SoC
Free
Leeds Libraries
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Meet & Code - Code to the Beat
Otley Community Hub & Library
Activity
Craft
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Free
Sew Social
Until Sat 5 Sep 2026
Saturday Sew Social
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Illustration of Elizabeth Blackwell against a background of an illustrated plant
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Thackray Insights: Herbal Heroines
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Talk
Heritage
various handtools, drill, screwdrivers, hammer spirit level
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Introduction to Woodwork - Hand Tools Level 1
Leeds Wood Recycling
Workshop
Creative Workshop
A flat lay photograph of a selection of lino printing tools and materials
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Introduction to Reduction Lino Printing with Joanne Whitaker
Swarthmore Education Centre
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Free
graphic
Sat 5 Sep 2026
The Original T'ART FAIR
Left Bank Leeds
Market
Visual Arts
Free
Beige flowers on green background
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Botanical Embroidery & Flower Printing with Elnaz Yazdani
Living Potential Community Garden
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Children having a tea party with udl
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Chapel Allerton Arts Festival - Children's Section
Regent Street Festival Stage, Chapel Allerton
Activity
Family Friendly
Leeds 400
Charcoal life drawing sketch on white paper
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield
Treasures of the Brotherton
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Free
A boy making a monoprint on a table in the woods. There are tubes of ink on the table.
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Skelton Grange Environment Centre Fundraising Open Day
Skelton Grange Environment Centre
Family Friendly
Festival
Free
Two stills from two films
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Scalarama Leeds 2026: Happy Returns and 5th QTR - Thingy Double Bill
Leeds Industrial Museum
Comedy
Film
Scalarama
Photo by Katherine Hanlon on Unsplash
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Country Music Special
Creative Workshop
Music
Workshop
two female wrestlers in ring
Sat 5 Sep 2026
PROGRESS Wrestling: The Odyssey Tour
O2 Academy Leeds
Sports
Performance
Three illustrated figures stand facing away from the camera towards a sparkling light, hands on hips and holding croquet mallets. They wear matching blazers, knee-high socks and short skirts in vibrant green, red and yellow.
Until Sat 5 Sep 2026
Heathers: The Musical
Leeds Grand Theatre
Music
Theatre
Melded Faces
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Melded Faces
Flamingos Coffee House
Creative Workshop
LGBT+
Visual Arts
Workshop
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Scalarama 2026: In the Mouth of Madness (1994) and Horror Writing Workshop
The Nests
Creative Workshop
Film
Scalarama
Workshop
Group of musicians with guitar, fiddle and whistle
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Simply Dylan
Otley Courthouse
Gigs
Music
Portrait of the band
Sat 5 Sep 2026
Space
The Old Woollen
Gigs
Music
Performance
A young boy hugs his precious acolyte.
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Beautiful Thing
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Free
A selection of pots on a stall, made by members of sunken studio.
Until Sun 6 Sep 2026
Leeds Ceramics Market at Sunken Studio
Sunken Studio
Exhibition
Market
Free
Three images of human and fantasy creature hybrids
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Fidelma Massey At The Sculpture Gallery: Launch
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Kirkstall Abbey nave during the beer festival
Until Sun 6 Sep 2026
Leeds International Beer Festival
Kirkstall Abbey
Festival
Food & Drink
Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash
Until Sun 6 Sep 2026
The House Cup
The Hole In Wand Leeds
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Free
The crowd in Regent Street at Jazz Sunday
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Jazz Sunday at the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival
Regent Street Festival Stage, Chapel Allerton
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
Emilio Santoro performs as Elvis into a microphone, wearing a gold jacket and black shirt with open neckline.
Sat 5 Sep 2026 - Sun 6 Sep 2026
Emilio Santoro as Elvis
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Exhibition On Screen: Turner & Constable
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Exhibition On Screen: Turner & Constable
Otley Courthouse
Film
Exhibition
Under £10
Funeral Parade of Roses still
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Funeral Parade of Roses
Wharf Chambers
Film
Festival
Scalarama
A white man with dark hair, a moustache and a jazzy black and white shirt talks into a microphone on a red lit stage.
Sun 6 Sep 2026
Wreck The Mic
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Comedy
Totally Tina Tribute
Until Sun 6 Sep 2026
Totally Tina Tribute
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Music
Food & Drink
Jon Ronson smiles in a relaxed pose against a bare wall.
Mon 7 Sep 2026
Enter The Castle with Jon Ronson: Mystery, Crime & Unmoored Men
City Varieties Music Hall
Literature
Talk
Twin Town
Mon 7 Sep 2026
Twin Town
Serf
Film
Scalarama
Military tank
Tue 8 Sep 2026
Royal Armouries: Weapons in Society Conference
Royal Armouries Museum
Heritage
Workshop
Free
A grassed outdoor space with two large rocks in the foreground and a bench set further back. A woman is sitting on the nearest rock, looking up at another woman who is standing
Tue 8 Sep 2026
Public Art Walk & Draw
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Visual Arts
Guided Tour