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Amazing Animated Shorts for 8 - 15 year-olds / Sun 24 May 2026 / Hyde Park Picture House
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23 May 2026 - 31 May 2026
Spring Half Term in Leeds

Family friendly things to do across the city for Spring Half Term, 23 May 2026 - 31 May 2026.

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LGBTQ+ monthly drinks hosted by Angels of Freedom
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Summer
LGBTQIA+ Leeds

 A wide range of events happening across the city hosted by, and supporting, our varied LGBTQIA+ community.

 

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Alabama Shakes - Sounds Of The City
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Summer
Gigs In Leeds

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

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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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The Turin Horse (15) / Mon 22 Jun 2026 / Hyde Park Picture House / Image: Curzon Film World Limited
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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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Buds, 2020 © Charlotte Verity photo Ben Westoby 
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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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Free
Plants being grown for plant sale
Sun 31 May 2026
Hollybush Plant Sale
Hollybush Conservation Centre
Sale
Market
Under £10
Piglets at Temple Newsam Home Farm
Until Sun 31 May 2026
Springtime Babies
Temple Newsam
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Outdoor
Free
Red illustrated poppies on a beige background
Until Sun 31 May 2026
Petals and Poisons Trail
Kirkstall Abbey
Activity
Family Friendly
Guided Tour
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Walk
Under £10
The Hole In Wall
Until Sun 31 May 2026
The Serpent’s Bite: Taste the Venom, Claim the Power
The Hole In Wand Leeds
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Free
Linen, beeswax, linseed oil, wire Pulled threads, machine and hand stitch
Until Sun 31 May 2026
Touchlines
Sunny Bank Mills
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Cartoon bone and heart smiling and looking surprised
Until Sun 31 May 2026
May Half Term: Amazing Anatomy
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
School Holidays
Jack Brindle as Lionel Ritchie
Sun 31 May 2026
Lionel Ritchie Tribute
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Food & Drink
Music
Performance
Girl twirling in fancy historic dress
Until Sun 31 May 2026
May half term: Find your Happy!
Temple Newsam
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Women on Tarzan Swing at Go Ape Temple Newsam
Until Sun 31 May 2026
May half term at Go Ape Temple Newsam
Go Ape Temple Newsam
Adventure
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Under £10
Illustration of an explorer looking at the world, surrounded by animals
Until Sun 31 May 2026
Conservation: Today and Tomorrow
Tropical World
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Neeta Sarl from sarl sound healing playing a Himalayan singing bowl in the sunshine
Sun 31 May 2026
Blue Moon Sound Bath
Meanwood Community Centre
Healthy Living
Performance
Workshop
Three young children sit on cut tree stumps in a shaded woodland area, gathered around a larger stump being used as a table. They appear focused on a simple activity with small round wooden pieces and a bowl. Sunlight filters through the trees, creating a bright opening along the path behind them and giving the scene a calm, playful outdoor atmosphere.
Until Sun 31 May 2026
May Half Term: Bugs and Beasties
Harewood House
Adventure
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Two singers with microphones perform on stage, surrounded by a soft halo of purple light.
Sun 31 May 2026
The Real Thing: 50th Anniversary Tour
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Large ensemble photo of Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox of a variety of musicians posing with their instruments or candidly smiling in front of a gold curtain, all wearing glamorous ball gowns and vintage suits.
Sun 31 May 2026
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: The Future is Vintage
Leeds Grand Theatre
Gigs
Music
Theatre
Free
Exterior view of The Sculpture Gallery on Balcony of Leeds Corn Exchange
Until Mon 1 Jun 2026
The Sculpture Gallery Presents David Cruickshank Exhibition
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Black and white image of Craig Revel Horwood looking pensive wearing a black leather jacket.
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Craig Revel Horwood Revelations: Songs Boys Don't Sing
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Performance
Under £10
runner 1
Mon 1 Jun 2026
Runstock 3
Left Bank Leeds
Festival
Healthy Living
Social
Sports
Jack Dee holds a neutral expression, wearing glasses, a grey suit and red tie, positioned in front of a red curtain and lit by a spotlight.
Mon 1 Jun 2026
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy
Free
Criminal using a computer
Tue 2 Jun 2026
Fraud & Cyber-Crime Awareness Workshop
Work Café, Leeds
Talk
Workshop
Free
Three photographs showing the process of stone felting, from a ball of colourful felt strands held in a hand, to rubbing with soap and water, to a solid felted stone.
Tue 2 Jun 2026
Make it Social: Stone-Felting
Treasures of the Brotherton
Workshop
Craft
An image of a Willow Obelisk in the Walled Garden at Temple Newsam
Tue 2 Jun 2026
Willow Obelisk Workshop at Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam
Craft
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Fishing4Compliments
Tue 2 Jun 2026
TNL: Fishing4Compliments
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Music
Performance
Gigs
Suzi Ruffell
Tue 2 Jun 2026
An Evening with Comedian Suzi Ruffell
The Old Woollen
Comedy
Literature
Dermot Kennedy
Tue 2 Jun 2026
Dermot Kennedy
first direct bank arena
Gigs
Music
Free
Two people looking at a taxidermy penguin and other items in Leeds Discovery Centre's collection store
Until Wed 3 Jun 2026
Behind The Scenes Store Tour
Leeds Discovery Centre
Activity
Guided Tour
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Free
Selection of archival material relating to LGBTQIA+ histories at the University of Leeds, including GaySoc adverts and newsletters.
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Tracing Queer Pasts, Imagining Queer Futures
LGBT+
Online
Talk
MC Hammersmith
Wed 3 Jun 2026
MC Hammersmith
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Under £10
Old portrait of a woman
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Queer History Club: Silences, Signals, and Subtext - A Queer Look at Emma Novello
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Talk
Visual Arts
Lit by a solitary spotlight against a dark, hazy backdrop, Rebecca Ferguson looks into the distance with elegant makeup and red lipstick.
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Rebecca Ferguson: 15 Years Stripped
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Veasey//Ticciati Duo
Wed 3 Jun 2026
WNL: Veasey//Ticciati Duo
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
Joanne McNally looks to the side and sits cross-legged in shiny black trousers and an oversized, frilly purple top, in front of a purple background.
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Joanne McNally: Pinotphile
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy
Under £10
Sela Bar customers sitting down enjoying pints.
Until Wed 3 Jun 2026
Sela's Big Music Quiz!
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Activity
Music
Quiz / Gaming
Sugar - Love You Even Still Tour
Wed 3 Jun 2026
Sugar - Love You Even Still Tour
The Irish Centre
Music
Gigs
A still from the film "Backrooms"
Until Thu 4 Jun 2026
Backrooms (15 TBC)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A still from the film "Hen"
Until Thu 4 Jun 2026
Hen (15)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A still from "Power Ballad"
Until Thu 4 Jun 2026
Power Ballad (15)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A still from one of the Lagos Fringe Shorts
Thu 4 Jun 2026
LIAAF Presents... Lagos Fringe Shorts
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
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Thu 4 Jun 2026
Circular Weaving Evening Taster Workshop
Stitch-Up Craft School
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
MC Hammersmith holding a croquet mallet in a menacing way!
Thu 4 Jun 2026
MC Hammersmith
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A photograph of three people stood at easels drawing, in the foreground is a man with a green sweater drawing a life model with charcoal
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (June)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Visual Arts
Workshop
Creative Workshop
A print of a bird in shades of blue and green with the tetra pak image it was printed from
Thu 4 Jun 2026
Tetra Pak Printing Taster
Leeds Print Workshop
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
A woman posing in a dark setting, framed by vibrant, flowing streaks of red and blue light. She's wearing a dark corset and jacket, looking upward with a confident expression.
Thu 4 Jun 2026
SAA - uk presents: Maya: Birth of a Superhero
Howard Assembly Room
Music
Performance
Sound Bath by Candlelight
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Sound Bath by Candlelight
We Are Wellness
Workshop
Healthy Living
Free
Angelic Reiki Training - OPEN DAY
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Angelic Reiki Training - OPEN DAY
We Are Wellness
Workshop
Healthy Living
Under £10
Photograph of a woman holding a small holly branch
Fri 5 Jun 2026
Unruly Bodies: Herbal and Creative Writing Workshop
The Bookish Type
Creative Workshop
Talk
Workshop
The Bug Club
Fri 5 Jun 2026
The Bug Club
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
a young woman in a throne
Until Sat 6 Jun 2026
Perfect Show For Rachel
Leeds Playhouse
Theatre
Performance
DJ deck playing music for a crowd
Until Sat 6 Jun 2026
Project 80's Rewired
The Wardrobe
Dance
Gigs
Music
A split-screen style image showing a man with curly hair and glasses on the right, and his artistic workspace on the left, which includes a vibrant fantasy map, a spiral notebook, and several colourful pens.
Sat 6 Jun 2026
The Worldbuilder
Carriageworks Theatre
Leeds LitFest
Creative Workshop
Literature
Workshop
A graphic illustration, on the right is a demonstration with people waving placards in protest. On the left is a toppled statue falling into a river pushed in by a large crowd of people.
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Placards & Panels
Hyde Park Book Club
Talk
Leeds LitFest