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Writing On Air Festival / Chapel FM / 20 Feb 2026 - 1 Mar 2026
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20 Feb 2026 - 1 Mar 2026
Writing on Air Festival

Writing on Air is Chapel FM Arts Centre's annual festival of words on the radio. Seven days and more than 75 events of inventive and exciting radio performed at Chapel FM Arts Centre in Seacroft, East Leeds. 20 Feb 2026 - 1 Mar 2026.

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Theatre In Leeds

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

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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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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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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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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
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Carriageworks Theatre
Family Friendly
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Beginners Course
Until Mon 23 Feb 2026
Beginners Yoga Course
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living
Workshop
Maria Somerville
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Maria Somerville
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Under £10
A person sat on a gymnasium floor surrounded by confetti and a suitcase.
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Search for the Missing Sparkle
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Theatre
Kirkstall Abbey about 200 years ago. With trees in the foreground and background and a river to the left. People are riding horses in the foreground and there are hills, and clouds in the sky. The ruined Abbey is in the middle of the picture.
Tue 24 Feb 2026
A Creative Workshop: Explore Kirkstall Abbey
Abbey House Museum
Craft
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
book cover of Stitch it, don't ditch it
Tue 24 Feb 2026
SCRAP TALKS: “Stitch It, Don’t Ditch It” Interactive Clothing Repair Talk
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Talk
Craft
Desiree Burch
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Desiree Burch
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A performer on the main stage at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Grand Final
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2026: Leeds heat
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Literature
Performance
Spoken Word
Desiree Burch
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Desiree Burch - The Golden Wrath
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Kristina Stead
Tue 24 Feb 2026
TNL: Kristina Stead
Heart Centre
Gigs
Music
Performance
Free
Sharing skills and ideas with other performers
Until Tue 24 Feb 2026
Circus Open Training
Open Source Arts
Activity
Healthy Living
Workshop
a graphic image
Tue 24 Feb 2026
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O2 Academy Leeds
Gigs
Music
Gordon Buchanan
Tue 24 Feb 2026
Lions and Tigers and Bears with Gordon Buchanan
City Varieties Music Hall
Theatre
Visual Arts
A stil from the film "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain"
Until Wed 25 Feb 2026
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (PG)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Free
A photograph of Boar Lane in the 1970s, black and derelict
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Leeds In Your Lunch Hour Lecture 4: ‘A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
Leeds Minster
Leeds 400
Talk
An artist adding ink to a screen
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Mono-Screen Printing
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Simon Brodkin on stage in a blue t-shirt
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Simon Brodkin
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Free
Molly Pukes
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Leeds Zine Lates LGBTQ+ History Month Special - Comic Drawing Workshop with Molly Pukes
Leeds Central Library - Art Library
All Library Events
Craft
Creative Workshop
LGBT+
Workshop
Under £10
Mariana Villa-Gilbert (1937-2023)
Wed 25 Feb 2026
A Jingle Jangle Song - In Conversation with D-M Withers Hosted by Kit Heyam
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Literature
Talk
A female musician sat at the piano.
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Leeds Conservatoire
Concerts
Music
the band
Wed 25 Feb 2026
The Wave Pictures
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Free
A selection of nature-related books with scissors, pens and paper.
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Blooming Zine Workshop
Leeds Art Gallery
Activity
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Lutenist playing lute in crowded room
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Lute-song duo Ava Lewis and James Logan - Leeds Libraries Thursday lunch time pop up events
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Concerts
Music
Performance
Free
Lille Leeds Groups
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Leeds & Lille – Twin Cities Celebration & Stories
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Festival
Performance
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Ian Stone
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Ian Stone
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Free
Through the Looking Glass
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Through the Looking Glass
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Theatre
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Free
A drawing of a frog with it's face emerging from water.
Thu 26 Feb 2026
A Bigger Bestiary - Roy Best Solo Exhibition - Private View
Swarthmore Education Centre
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Image of Ian Stone
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Ian Stone: Looking for the Wow
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A woman singing on stage (Lucy Rose) with a guitar
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Lucy Rose live at Howard Assembly Room
Howard Assembly Room
Gigs
Music
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Thu 26 Feb 2026
National Theatre Live: The Audience
Otley Courthouse
Film
Theatre
Free
Stories from the Sofa
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Stories from the Sofa
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Performance
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Girl with a ballon in the snow
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Paint a Pic: Winter Balloon Girl
Brasserie Blanc
Creative Workshop
Social
Visual Arts
Paul Merton and Suki Webster stood in front of an image of the moon with illustrations of clouds, a rocket ship, a small bird and a gramophone surrounding them and the moon.
Wed 25 Feb 2026 - Thu 26 Feb 2026
Paul Merton & Suki Webster's Improv Show
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Performance
Under £10
A blonde woman in a beige coat looks off camera in front of a white wall.
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Poems For Parents with Liz Berry
Sunny Bank Mills
Literature
Performance
All Library Events
Spoken Word
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Free
Abstract artwork to illustrate Bend and Break exhibition
Until Fri 27 Feb 2026
Bend and Break – MA Fine Art Interim Show
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Exhibition
Free
Grades of Execution
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Grades of Execution
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Theatre
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Free
Rise & Howl
Fri 27 Feb 2026
The Lines Between
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Performance
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Under £10
Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Films at HEART: The Harder They Come
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Film
Music
Image of Scott Bennett from the shoulders up lying on a pile of electronics including wires, a keyboard and hold phones.
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Scott Bennett: Stuff
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Free
Journeying with Dante
Fri 27 Feb 2026
This Place to All Places Linked: Journeying with Dante
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Performance
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Theo Vandenhoff
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Theo Vandenhoff
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Music
Still from Stitch Head
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Stitch Head
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
a child in a wood
Until Sat 28 Feb 2026
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Leeds Playhouse
Theatre
a red house
Fri 27 Feb 2026 - Sat 28 Feb 2026
It Walks Around The House At Night
Leeds Playhouse
Theatre
Free
Todd Murphy
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Writing Workshop: Haiku
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Workshop
Radio / Podcast
Writing On Air
Free
A gallery space with an abstract white marble sculpture in the foreground, a metal ring installation to the right, and rectangular bronze works attached to the wall in the background.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Tour of Beyond the Visual with Lucia Beijlsmit and Aaron McPeake
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibition
Guided Tour
Talk
Free
A photographic portrait of author RAMZEE
Sat 28 Feb 2026
RAMZEE Author Event
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Workshop
Under £10
Golden-haired girl in a grey tower opposite a witch in a forest against a yellow background.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Wrongsemble presents… Rapunzel
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Theatre
Image shows the preserved walking dragline 'Oddball' with a field of buttercups in bloom in front of it
Until Sat 28 Feb 2026
History Walk- RSPB St Aidan's
RSPB St Aidan's
Guided Tour
Outdoor
Free
A group of people facing each other in a circle all put their hands together in the middle
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Enneagram Retreat Day: Bridges and Blockades - Our Types and Our Relationships
Leeds Sanctuary
Healthy Living
Free
story performer is engaging a group of children with sensory play using a blue octopus prop.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Embracing Arts - Under the Sea
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Theatre