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A Discovery Day / Thu 9 Apr 2026 / Leeds Discovery Centre
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3 Apr 2026 - 19 Apr 2026
Easter Holidays in Leeds

This Easter in Leeds why not eggsplore what's out there for children and families across Leeds.

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A man wearing glasses and a dark shirt stands in thought in front of a background of plants and vegetation.
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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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Buds, 2020 © Charlotte Verity photo Ben Westoby 
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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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LYR

Black and white, textured, collage-style image of the three members of LYR sitting candidly on a brick wall.
Mon 4 May 2026
LYR
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Leeds 400
Music
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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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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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Free
A curator holding a very large egg, next to red draws with more eggs from our collection in
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Egg-celent Easter
Leeds Discovery Centre
Creative Workshop
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
School Holidays
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Under £10
Mini LEGO figures holding up a mini LEGO earth
Until Thu 16 Apr 2026
LEGO® Build the Change: Rewild our Museum!
Leeds Industrial Museum
Activity
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Black-and-white photograph of uniformed soldiers and civilians standing in front of a tram decorated with banners reading “Leeds Pals Recruiting Car” and draped with Union flags. The tram is filled with men in military uniform, and a church building is visible in the background.
Thu 16 Apr 2026
The AGM and lecture: Consensus and Dissent in Wartime Leeds, 1914-1918
The Leeds Library
Heritage
Leeds 400
Talk
12 Musicians from the band Grande Familia with instruments
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Billy Marrows’ Grande Família
Seven Arts
Music
Performance
Gigs
Jazz
Whisky & Sherry Tasting in Ambiente Leeds
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Whisky & Sherry Night
Ambiente Tapas Leeds
Food & Drink
Under £10
Headliners Faraway
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Roots X Seymour presents: Faraway with support from Char & The Luca
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Music
Free
Charlie Smith
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Charlie Smith - MVT Fundraiser
Northern Guitars Cafe Bar
Music
Performance
Visual art of caterpillar with red face and tongue sticking out
Fri 17 Apr 2026
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
Free
Man giving a tour of the store room, surrounded by taxidermy
Until Fri 17 Apr 2026
Easter Store Tours
Leeds Discovery Centre
Family Friendly
Guided Tour
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
A person stands on a stage with their hands splayed at either side of their head, an audience is in the foreground making the same gesture.
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Carriageworks Theatre
Comedy
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Theatre
Free
A cat in a space shuttle, a fish in coral reef and a frog among leaves
Until Fri 17 Apr 2026
Story Explorers: Craft a Story, Create Your Own Lego World and Out of This World Coding
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Craft
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Free
A close-up of Zanib Mian's face
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Planet Omar with Zanib Mian - Author Event
Leeds Art Gallery
All Library Events
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Literature
Free
Drawing of a greenhouse with plants
Until Fri 17 Apr 2026
Easter Holiday Fun at Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Arts of Kindness
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Arts of Kindness – Fun Art Session for Over‑60s
Jamaica House
Visual Arts
Activity
Adults Only
YUNGBLUD
Fri 17 Apr 2026
YUNGBLUD
first direct bank arena
Gigs
Music
Yeadon Town Hall Theatre
Fri 17 Apr 2026
GOLD: An Audience With Will Burns & Stacey Leadbeatter
Yeadon Town Hall Theatre
Comedy
Music
A Cher tribute performer sings into a handheld microphone beside a guitarist on stage. She has long, black, curly hair, leather jacket, knee-high boots and a glittery leotard.
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Strong Enough: The Ultimate Tribute Concert to Cher
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Theatre
Promotional image for Bollywood Time Machine including images of actors in iconic Bollywood films against a backdrop of smoke and spotlights
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Bollywood Time Machine
City Varieties Music Hall
Dance
Music
The Burning Hell
Fri 17 Apr 2026
The Burning Hell + Carsie Blanton
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Sip & Sketch
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Sip & Sketch - Night Out at Jamaica House
Jamaica House
Food & Drink
Social
Martin Mylkebust
Fri 17 Apr 2026
KEiiNO - Chromium Heart World Tour
The Wardrobe
Gigs
Music
Performance
Alchemy Live performing on stage.
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Alchemy Live: A Tribute To Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits
Otley Courthouse
Music
Gigs
Comedians Andrew Maxwell and Maxine Wade.
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Andrew Maxwell and Friends Live at Guiseley Theatre
Guiseley Theatre
Comedy
Temple Newsam House
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Dawn Chorus
Temple Newsam
Guided Tour
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Walk
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Sat 18 Apr 2026
Beginners Knitting Workshop
Stitch-Up Craft School
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A playful cartoon character running with a net, reaching towards multicoloured floating bubbles of various sizes. Amongst the bubbles are images of workshops with young people.
Until Sat 18 Apr 2026
Explore
Leeds Grand Theatre
Family Friendly
Festival
School Holidays
Two chunky silver rings sit on top of a chunk of gritstone. The rings have a textured outer edge and a smooth inside
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Make a Textured Silver Ring in a Day with Toby Cotterill
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A woman is sat at a pottery wheel and is throwing a small vase
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Throw to the Soul - Pottery Throwing with Jeannie Waterhouse
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
A rubbish Romeo trying to kiss a very reluctant bearded Juliet
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Rubbish Romeo and Juliet
St Bartholomew's Church Hall
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Theatre
An abstract print on blues and greens being revealed on paper
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Monoprint & Collograph
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Under £10
thebookishtypeleeds@gmail.com
Until Sat 18 Apr 2026
Leeds Queer History Tour - City Centre
The Bookish Type
Guided Tour
Heritage
LGBT+
Life drawing sketch in yellow and pink pastel on yellow paper
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield
Treasures of the Brotherton
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Free
Shipley School of Art (1871), Exhibition Road, Shipley
Until Sat 18 Apr 2026
John Beck and Matthew Cornford | The Art Schools of Yorkshire
Blenheim Walk Gallery
Exhibition
Free
Seacroft Canto
Sat 18 Apr 2026
The Seacroft Canto: Poetry & Performance
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Performance
Spoken Word
A group of young dancers perform on stage
Sat 18 Apr 2026
FRESH 2026 Matinee
Leeds City College Quarry Hill Campus
Dance
Dance (Li)
Leeds 400
Performance
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
St George's Church
Concerts
Music
A woman poses as if she's about to start a race.
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Leila Navabi: Relay
Carriageworks Theatre
Comedy
LGBT+
Performance
Theatre
A group of young dancers perform on stage
Sat 18 Apr 2026
FRESH 2026 Evening Performance
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Leeds 400
Performance
A brass band stood on the steps outside the Royal Albert Hall.
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Rothwell Temperance Band
Pudsey Civic Hall
Concerts
Music
Performance
A glamorous blonde lady with shiny blonde hair and flowy silk dress stands atop a silver podium and raises a champagne flute against a stark black background
Until Sat 18 Apr 2026
The Constant Wife
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre
Rick Astley
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Rick Astley - The Reflections Tour 2026
first direct bank arena
Gigs
Music
Adults Only
The sign of Retro Heaven
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Retro Heaven @ Space >> Leeds
The Space Club
Gigs
Music
Meryl Streek & Darkher
Sat 18 Apr 2026
StrangeForms 2026
Brudenell Social Club
Festival
Gigs
Music
A still from "Tomás Gutiérrez Alea… A Restoration Double Bill"
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea… A Restoration Double Bill (15 TBC)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A still from the film "Goat"
Sat 18 Apr 2026 - Sun 19 Apr 2026
GOAT (PG)
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
School Holidays
A cartoon dragon and five cartoon dragon eggs, against a purplish sky.
Until Sun 19 Apr 2026
Dragon Quest: The Search for the Lost Eggs
Lotherton
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Under £10
An adult lifting up a child to look at a car in the museum
Until Sun 19 Apr 2026
Felted Egg Hunt
Leeds Industrial Museum
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Free
golden eggs
Until Sun 19 Apr 2026
Easter Dragon Egg Hunt
St John's Centre, Leeds
Activity
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Drummer Gareth Hughes, seated
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Gaz Hughes Trio
Seven Arts
Music
Performance
Gigs
Jazz
An oval frame hung on green patterned wallpaper. The frame picture is Africa by F Solimena
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Special Tour: Traces of Empire
Temple Newsam
Guided Tour
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries