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10 & 11 July 2026
Ageless Festival

Dance is universal. Dance transcends age. Join Yorkshire Dance for a two-day festival reimagining age. 10 & 11 July 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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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 still from "The Turin Horse"
Mon 22 Jun 2026
The Turin Horse (15)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Free
A warmly lit vintage-style living room featuring a floral upholstered sofa, striped area rug, round wooden coffee table with red roses in a vase, and eclectic décor including framed artwork, indoor plants, and a record player. The room is bathed in orange-red ambient lighting, creating a cozy, nostalgic atmosphere with artistic and retro accents throughout.
Mon 22 Jun 2026
In The Front Room
The Riley Theatre
Dance
Dance (Li)
Theatre
Shirt with colourful stitching repairs
Until Mon 22 Jun 2026
Monday Mending - two week course with artist Lorna Johnstone
Leeds Central Library
Activity
All Library Events
Craft
Creative Workshop
A still from "The Road"
Tue 23 Jun 2026
The Road (15)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
An image of two people wearing 1940's clothes. One is sat down wearing a hat and white shirt with a tie. The other is standing wearing a white dress, with their arm on the other person's shoulder. There is text above that reads 'WINDRUSH BY SONG'.
Mon 22 Jun 2026 - Tue 23 Jun 2026
Windrush By Song
Leeds Playhouse
Theatre
Free
Still from stop motion animation: featuring a bouncing ball with a face on. The ball has arms and legs and is bouncing up and down in a spotlight
Until Tue 23 Jun 2026
Free Introduction to Procreate Dreams Workshop (digital animation)
Armley Community Hub and Library
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
A stylised print of a woman in a red hat
Mon 22 Jun 2026 - Tue 23 Jun 2026
Gel Plate Printing & Mixed Media Collage (2 Day Course)
Leeds Print Workshop
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
A Blue Plaque remembering the Who's Live at Leeds performance in 1970.
Tue 23 Jun 2026
University of Leeds Heritage and History Walk
University Of Leeds
Guided Tour
Heritage
Walk
Olly Smith
Tue 23 Jun 2026
An Evening of Wine and Crime with Wine Expert Olly Smith
Cargo Wines
Literature
Food & Drink
Mambo Jambo
Tue 23 Jun 2026
TNL: Mambo Jambo
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Music
Performance
Gigs
Two women in a park, wshrouded by the shade of overhead trees on a path, they are posed one holding the other up in the air. An opening to light through the trees is in the background
Until Tue 23 Jun 2026
AcroYoga
Open Source Arts
Healthy Living
Free
Image of Leeds Coat of Arms
Until Wed 24 Jun 2026
Leeds Owl Trail exhibition
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Exhibition
Heritage
Under £10
Black and white photograph of a library. Long tables are filled with people studying.
Until Wed 24 Jun 2026
Heritage Tour of Leeds Central Library
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Guided Tour
Heritage
Sketch of a woman holding a child
Tue 23 Jun 2026 - Wed 24 Jun 2026
Florence Nightingale Experience
Lotherton
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Jess is hanging split legged on the aerial silks at open source arts, a good 10 ft high, but smiling and posing calmly at the camera. Jess is being watched from below by one of her class attendents
Until Wed 24 Jun 2026
Youth Aerial Class - intro to aerial
Open Source Arts
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Healthy Living
Free
A biro drawing by Mik Artisitik of Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle - Emmerdale)
Wed 24 Jun 2026
'Bags of Life' with Mik Artistik
Headingley Community Hub and Library
Visual Arts
Talk
All Library Events
Develop strength and agility, practising aerial silks.
Until Wed 24 Jun 2026
Aerial Silks with Jess
Open Source Arts
Activity
Healthy Living
Workshop
Under £10
Illustration of 5 graphic novel characters in purple tones
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Arcana: Book Talk & Tarot Workshop
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Literature
Workshop
Free
Performer sings in a darkened room with green light in back ground
Until Wed 24 Jun 2026
Open Mic - at Leeds Libraries in partnership with Launchpad
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Gigs
Music
Performance
Under £10
Bramley Baths garden launch plant swap event
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Grow Your Own - workshop and talk
Bramley Baths
Outdoor
Workshop
Drawings of people writing
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Creative Writing with Jess Austin
Left Bank Leeds
Creative Workshop
Literature
Workshop
Elnaz and example work
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Embroider with Nature with Elnaz
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Under £10
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Films at HEART Retrospective: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Film
Hattie Go Lucky presents The Sweet Affair Cabaret
Wed 24 Jun 2026
Hattie Go Lucky presents The Sweet Affair Cabaret
Lost and Found Leeds Club
Comedy
LGBT+
Performance
Theatre
A still from "Grave of the Fireflies"
Wed 24 Jun 2026 - Thu 25 Jun 2026
Grave of the Fireflies (12A)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
A graphic for "North by Northeast Goes Cinema"
Thu 25 Jun 2026
North by Northeast Goes Cinema 1(8)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Four dancers perform in darkness, all crouching down. The dancer in the middle leans on the others. One dancer is sat, watching from behind them.
Wed 24 Jun 2026 - Thu 25 Jun 2026
Fireflies at Dawn
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Performance
A lilac delphinium in flower in the Walled Garden
Thu 18 Jun 2026 - Thu 25 Jun 2026
Delphinium Walk and Cream Tea
Temple Newsam
Food & Drink
Guided Tour
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Walk
Free
Abstract watercolor notebook with floral human silhouette and butterflies.
Thu 25 Jun 2026
poeMS: How Can We Use Poetry to Talk about Multiple Sclerosis and Other Chronic Health Conditions?
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Creative Workshop
Literature
Spoken Word
Workshop
A typewriter
Thu 25 Jun 2026
The Bookish Type Writes
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Literature
Workshop
Free
Two cream flowers on a green background
Until Thu 25 Jun 2026
Growing Through Grief
Living Potential Community Garden
Healthy Living
Outdoor
Under £10
Sweet Sorrows
Thu 25 Jun 2026
From Ireland - Sweet Sorrows in concert
The Barn Coffee Shop
Gigs
Music
Performance
Image of person with make up and a shaved head. Image is focused on the head, arm and shoulders. They are smiling and look to be in the middle of a dance
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Jam on Toast
Open Source Arts
Dance
Dance Class
Social
Workshop
Two individuals in doctors scrubs with their arms crossed.
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Thackray Lates: Scrubs on Screen – The Reality of Medical Dramas
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Film
Social
Talk
A woman wearing a white shirt standing in front of a colourful background.
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Manchester Collective: Patterns in Repeat
Howard Assembly Room
Music
Performance
Gigs
The Music of the Lord of the Rings
Fri 26 Jun 2026
The Music of The Lord of The Rings. Tribute to Howard Shore
St George's Church
Concerts
Music
Three faint figures with outstretched arms reach out through thick grey mist.
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Medea
City Varieties Music Hall
Theatre
Performance
Under £10
Photo of Elvin James Mensah in a pink suit on a pink background
Fri 26 Jun 2026
White Spaces: Book Talk
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Talk
Workshop
Under £10
Disco Ball
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Creative Summer Party and DeStash Market
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Market
Melanie Baker
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Melanie Baker
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
LGBT+
Music
One Leg One Eye
Fri 26 Jun 2026
One Leg One Eye
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
The Orchestra Of Opera North performing on stage at Millennium Square in front of a crowd of people
Fri 26 Jun 2026
Utah Saints presents Club Classical Ibiza
Millennium Square
Summer Series
Festival
Gigs
Music
A newspaper with the headline 'A Bright Room Called Day', there is an image of an aeroplane on the cover
Wed 24 Jun 2026 - Sat 27 Jun 2026
A Bright Room Called Day
Carriageworks Theatre
Theatre
Free
Black and white photograph of a busy street in Leeds with a large war memorial in view.
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Military History - Special Collections Handling Workshop
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Creative Workshop
Heritage
Workshop
Performers are dancing on stage. One performer is in a wheelchair.
Sat 27 Jun 2026
National Youth Dance Company x Alleyne Dance
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Performance
Joanna Jowett
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Eco-Friendly Darkroom Workshop: Plant-based Developers
Aire Street Workshops
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
cotton reels
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Scrap Crafters & Makers DeStash Market
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Social
Market
Mini Magic Flute / CBBC Summer Social 2018 / Mark McNulty
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Opera North Little Listeners: Mini Magic Flute
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Concerts
Family Friendly
Music
Woman holding whale puppet performing.
Sat 27 Jun 2026
The Tale of the Loneliest Whale
Stage@Leeds
Family Friendly
Theatre
Free
A woman holds her hands up in the air as part of a performance surrounded by children
Sat 27 Jun 2026
play up
University Of Leeds
Family Friendly
Festival