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Theatre In Leeds

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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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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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Gigs In Leeds

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

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Three actors control puppets of different dinosaurs, one is pink, one is blue and one is orange.
Mon 16 Mar 2026 - Sat 21 Mar 2026
Zog
Carriageworks Theatre
Family Friendly
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Andy Zaltzman stands in a suit jacket and patterned shirt. A globe emitting electricity and lightning bolts hovers above his outstretched hand.
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
A white man with dark hair and a moustache poses with a microphone against a blue brick background.
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Wreck the Mic - Live Stand Up
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Comedy
Food & Drink
Free
Interior of Leeds Corn Exchange
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Leeds Fine Artists Society at The Sculpture Gallery
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibition
Visual Arts
A scan of Leeds PALs image - a black and white photograph of a group of uniformed men.
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Home Education: First World War: Beyond the Trenches
Leeds Discovery Centre
Family Friendly
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Honeycomb darning example on sleeve
Until Mon 2 Mar 2026
Monday Mending with Lorna Johnstone - a four week course
Leeds Central Library
Workshop
Craft
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, standing poised on stage in a blue dress and blazer, holding a handbag.
Mon 2 Mar 2026
National Theatre Live: The Audience (Screening)
City Varieties Music Hall
Film
Theatre
A still from the film "Adabana"
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Adabana (15 TBC)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Free
A montage of writing instruments including ballpoint pens, fountain pens, quills, inkpots and a type writer, from the Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries, on a lined paper backdrop with turquoise ink splodge shapes.
Until Tue 3 Mar 2026
The 1152 Club: over 55s heritage talks series
Abbey House Museum
Adults Only
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Talk
A repeated graphic design of oak leaves and acorns being screen printed in black ink on green fabric
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Textile Screen Printing
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Irish traditional music
Tue 3 Mar 2026
The Rowan Leslie Trio presents The Rad Trad Tour 2026
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Fleeced
Tue 3 Mar 2026
TNL: Fleeced
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Music
Performance
Gigs
Free
Soul of the City
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Soul of The City - R&B Open Jam - Ft. Mary-Jane Collins
The Domino Club
Gigs
Music
Social
Under £10
A baby on its belly playing with sensory items
Mon 2 Mar 2026 - Wed 4 Mar 2026
A Sensory Sea Story
Leeds Libraries
Activity
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Jordan Gray with two smoking guns
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Jordan Gray
The Wardrobe
Comedy
The Zoo Story, by Edward Albee
Wed 4 Mar 2026
The Zoo Story, by Edward Albee
The Cardigan Arms
Theatre
Performance
Looking panicked in the corner of a white room, Seann Walsh holds onto the walls with stretched arms and legs.
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Seann Walsh: This is Torture
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
3 FRIENDS ENJOY A PIZZA
Until Wed 4 Mar 2026
Sela's Big Music Quiz
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Food & Drink
Social
Young woman playing first violin in an orchestra.
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Lunchtime Recital: Leeds Conservatoire
Otley Courthouse
Music
Concerts
Under £10
The Joiner's Shop at Temple Newsam Home Farm
Thu 5 Mar 2026
World Book Day
Temple Newsam
Family Friendly
Craft
Leeds Museums & Galleries
A photograph of three people stood at easels drawing a life model, in the foreground is a man with a green sweater drawing in charcoal
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (March)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Visual Arts
Workshop
Creative Workshop
A selection of beaded textile charms attached to an iridescent purple curtain in the Gallery
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Overtime Art Club - Making Eye Charms with Reece Kelly
Sunny Bank Mills
Craft
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
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Thu 5 Mar 2026
Patchwork and Quilting Evening Taster Workshop
Stitch-Up Craft School
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
VENETIA CONSTANTINE
Thu 5 Mar 2026
An Evening with Venetia Constantine & A.S. Webb
Waterstones Leeds
Literature
Talk
Under £10
Lauren J Joseph
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Lean Cat, Savage Cat: In Conversation with Lauren J. Joseph
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Literature
Talk
The Cords
Thu 5 Mar 2026
The Cords
The Lending Room
Gigs
Music
Mermaid Chunky
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Mermaid Chunky
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Image of a projector
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Scalarama Leeds 2026 Fundraiser // Welcome Meeting // Goodnight Brooklyn Screening
The Holbeck
Film
Social
Talk
Ebony Milestone
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Women Wear Their Stories ~ International Womens Day Celebration 2026
Social Club Moortown
International Women's Day
Market
Social
A still from the film "Lilo & Stitch"
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Lilo & Stitch (U)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Two children taking part in a hands-on science experiment with a pink substance.
Until Fri 6 Mar 2026
Little Scientists
Abbey House Museum
Activity
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Free
Will Duerden and Svitlana Kosenko
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Will Duerden and Svitlana Kosenko
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Concerts
Music
Under £10
A photographic portrait of Salma Zaman
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Dance and storytelling with Salma Zaman
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Dance
Dance (Li)
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Cuore Chamber Orchestra Launch Concert, Royal Hall Harrogate
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Cuore Chamber Orchestra - Leeds Launch Concert
Howard Assembly Room
Concerts
Leeds 400
Music
Performance
Country Night in Nashville Poster with performers holding their instruments on stage
Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Fri 6 Mar 2026
A Country Night in Nashville
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Performance
Marcus Brigstocke: Vitruvian Mango
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Marcus Brigstocke: Vitruvian Mango
Otley Courthouse
Comedy
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Fri 6 Mar 2026
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Reeling in the Dan
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Reelin' in the Dan
The Old Woollen
Gigs
Music
Performance
A group of seven dancers performing with one thrown high above them.
Fri 6 Mar 2026 - Sat 7 Mar 2026
Hidden
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Performance
A colour photograph of a recreated Victorian backstreet (Abbey Fold at Abbey House Museum), featuring different dwellings. Anti-clockwise from the right is the widow washerwoman's house, with her mangle. Next is the artisan's cottage with whitewashed walls. In the centre is the pawnbrokers shop with the pawnbrokers house top left, leading down to the mourning warehouse window in the bottom left corner.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Rebraiding History: A Creative Writing Workshop, with Becky Cherriman
Abbey House Museum
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Autumn sketching at Garforth Nature Journal Club
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Garforth Nature Journal Club
The Lord Gascoigne Pub Community Garden
Workshop
Craft
A white tshirt laid on a table with a repeat pattern of a sun freshly printed onto it. To the right is an ink palette filled with pink and red ink and sponge brushes
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Intro to Block Printing on Textiles - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Three ceramic bottles sit on a wooden table, they are mid brown in colour and are organised in height order with the smallest being on the left.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Bottles and Vases Throwing Masterclass with Jeannie Waterhouse
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A red neon hand praying
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Thackray Insights: Religion and Medicine
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Talk
Free
Two cozy collaged birdhouses in front of green hills. Two birds and a bee fly overhead.
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
A little birdy told me… Look out! Stories are nesting!
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Visual Arts
Free
A person wearing a leather jacket and stripped orange trousers stands on a dark stage pulling a surprised face.
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Aladdin and the Stolen Stories
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Theatre
Prints of a medieval style letters printed from lego plates. The prints are laid out in rows on a drying rack.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Lego Relief Printing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
A person's hands rolling navy ink onto an abstract collagraph plate during a previous workshop.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Introduction to Collagraph Printing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Two silver rings stand on their outer edge, on a grey fluffy surface. they are chunky with texture on the outside and a smooth inside.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Make a Textured Silver Ring in a Day with Toby Cotterill
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A selection of marbled paper in shades of blue, orange and cream laid out on a white background.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Suminagashi Marbling and Orizome Workshop - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
A glass jar filled with avocado ink, sealed with a white lid, placed beside three large avocado stones and their skin, against a roughly painted piece of paper.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Avocado Ink Notebook Making Workshop - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop