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Leeds Jazz Festival / 21 - 26 May 2026 / various locations / image: Sam Hopkins
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21st - 26th May 2026
Leeds Jazz Festival 2026

Leeds Jazz Festival - a celebration of jazz in Leeds. 21st - 26th May 2026.

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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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Death of a Bureaucrat / Hyde Park Picture House / Sun 10 May 2026 / Image: ICAIC
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Spring
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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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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Rails of colourful clothing in a brightly lit room
Sat 26 Sep 2026
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange September 2026 Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Social
Market
Sindhu Vee spins around a flowing yellow dress and looks behind her shoulder with a smile in front on a pale brown backdrop. She has a blowout hairdo and gold earrings and bangle.
Sat 26 Sep 2026
Sindhu Vee: Swanky
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Jane McDonald
Sat 26 Sep 2026
Jane McDonald
first direct bank arena
Adults Only
Music
Performance
Lucy Porter
Sun 27 Sep 2026
Lucy Porter
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Celluloid strip of four photos with Lenny Henry in a polka dot shirt, looking pensive and laughing in different candid poses.
Sun 27 Sep 2026
Sir Lenny Henry: Still at Large
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy
A man in yellow sunglasses and blue shirt poses on a chair and smoulders with two fingers held to his chin.
Sun 27 Sep 2026
Jazz Emu: The Pleasure is All Yours
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Music
Pencil sketch of life model
Mon 7 Sep 2026 - Mon 28 Sep 2026
Life Drawing : Four Week Course with Life Model
Leeds Central Library - Art Library
Visual Arts
Workshop
All Library Events
Creative Workshop
Vittorio Angelone with a turtle neck pulled up over his mouth and his finger over where is mouth would be in a 'be quiet' gesture.
Mon 28 Sep 2026
Vittorio Angelone: you can't Say Nothing any more
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
The Slackers
Tue 29 Sep 2026
The Slackers
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Stood at a prop balcony, an actress in period costume rests her head in her hands and looks off-camera. In front of her, another actor is sat on the floor in a red tunic and boots, drinking from a bottle of gin beside an empty bottle and discarded dagger.
Tue 29 Sep 2026
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Romeo & Juliet
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Theatre
Lemn Sissay sits on a wooden chair, smiling and resting his head on his hand, wearing a yellow jacket in front of a paper-textured illustration of a yellow sun.
Wed 30 Sep 2026
Lemn Sissay: Let the Light Pour In LIVE
City Varieties Music Hall
Spoken Word
Talk
Theatre
Kane Brown
Wed 30 Sep 2026
Kane Brown
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Headshot of Thomas Green wearing a black t-shirt under a pale cream light shirt stood against a grey background.
Until Thu 1 Oct 2026
Thomas Green: Brainstorm
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
The Rock Orchestra show picture for their show at first direct bank arena leeds on 1 October 2026
Thu 1 Oct 2026
The Rock Orchestra
first direct bank arena
Concerts
Music
Moustachioed Troy Hawke wears a shiny blue floral smoking jacket and matching neck tie against a plain grey background.
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Troy Hawke: Never Stop, Never Change!
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Free
A person with short brown hair and wearing a black shirt looks at a bronze bust of a man with a moustache on a wooden plinth. They are in a wood-panelled room.
Until Sat 3 Oct 2026
Who am I to you?
Treasures of the Brotherton
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Image of Diana Ross
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Women of Soul Play Left Bank
Left Bank Leeds
Dance
Gigs
Music
Imagge shows daffodils, tulips and other spring flowers in a victorian jam jar on top of a table cloth
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Connect: Floristry through the Seasons (Part One: Stepping Into Spring)
stocked. (Horsforth)
Activity
Workshop
Creative Workshop
Free
Artisan Fayre in Temple Newsam Amphitheatre
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Artisan Fayre
Temple Newsam
Craft
Food & Drink
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Market
Members of The Delines all wearing sunglasses and casually posing along a brick wall.
Sun 4 Oct 2026
The Delines
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Bill Callahan
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Bill Callahan
Leeds Irish Centre
Music
Gigs
Grace Campbell sat in a cream bathtub wearing underwear, having red lipstick applied by a person off-camera. A plate with a sandwich and glass of champagne rests in front of her.
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Grace Campbell: The Lady is a Tramp
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Donny Benét
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Donny Benét
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
Kiell Smith Bynoe smiles onstage, wearing a white t-shirt and gold pendant chain under warm lighting.
Tue 6 Oct 2026
Kiell Smith Bynoe's Kool Story Bro
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Westlife
Tue 6 Oct 2026
Westlife
first direct bank arena
Adults Only
Gigs
Music
Performance
Male figure in formal wear holding an acoustic guitar, the background is a historic building
Wed 7 Oct 2026
Flamenco Concert
Lotherton
Concerts
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Music
Performance
Free
Sandro Ford
Wed 7 Oct 2026
Sandro Ford
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Catherine Bohart lounges on purple fabric in a long floral dress, surrounded by flowers in the background.
Wed 7 Oct 2026
Catherine Bohart: Borrowing Trouble
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
James McMurtry
Wed 7 Oct 2026
James McMurtry
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
Surreal cartoon illustration of Mike Wozniak in three stages of dropping a magnifying glass. The image texture is of a blue plaid suit.
Thu 8 Oct 2026
Mike Wozniak: The Bench
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
The World of Hans Zimmer
Thu 8 Oct 2026
The World of Hans Zimmer
first direct bank arena
Adults Only
Concerts
Music
Performance
Shawn Colvin smirks with hands across her chest, wearing a furry green jacket, sat on a bright white bed.
Fri 9 Oct 2026
Shawn Colvin
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Free
Black and white photo showing a window display of children's clothing
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Sparky Saturdays: Looking Good
M&S Archive
Family Friendly
Activity
Collage of three images, featuring two men playing saxophones, a man in a tuxedo singing into a microphone, and a big band line-up on stage, all lit by hazy purple spotlights.
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Northern Swing Orchestra: An Evening with Frank and Basie
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Professor Brian Cox - Emergence World Tour
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Professor Brian Cox - Emergence World Tour
first direct bank arena
Talk
Adults Only
Apollo Junction
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Apollo Junction
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Performance
Gigs
Free
Kae Kurd
Sun 11 Oct 2026
Kae Kurd's Comedy Club
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Free
a busy outdoor market
Until Mon 12 Oct 2026
Real Markets at Wellington Place
Wellington Place
Market
Outdoor
Black and white image. Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger play their violins on a low-lit, smoky stage.
Mon 12 Oct 2026
Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Gigs
Ignacio Lopez
Wed 14 Oct 2026
Ignacio Lopez
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Shaun Ryder holds a neutral gaze, donning a pair of Ray Bans and navy jacket. The background is blurred but busy with lights and activity.
Wed 14 Oct 2026
Shaun Ryder: Happy Mondays, and Fridays, and Saturdays, and Sundays
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Talk
Harriet Kemsley
Thu 15 Oct 2026
Harriet Kemsley
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Vonda Shepard lightly tips the brim of her black hat, from a candid camera angle.
Thu 15 Oct 2026
Vonda Shepard
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Theatre
Panchiko
Thu 15 Oct 2026
Panchiko
Project House
Gigs
Music
Free
Illustration showing models wearing bras and panty girdles
Fri 16 Oct 2026
Guest Speaker – 100 Years of Bra History, with Lorraine Topper
M&S Archive
Talk
Heritage
A grainy, black and white image of a woman with long dark hair, wearing a long white shirt.
Fri 16 Oct 2026
Beth Orton
Howard Assembly Room
Gigs
Music
Performance
Digital photo of Scott Bennett comforting and holding a baby with an oxygen tube in his arms.
Fri 16 Oct 2026
Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Performance
Harriet looking off to the right in a crocheted jumper.
Sat 17 Oct 2026
Harriet: Trying To Get The Feeling Again
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
LSD and the Search for God
Sat 17 Oct 2026
LSD and the Search for God
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
A ceramic artwork, depicting a bowl-shaped vased filled with white, purple, orange and red ceramic flowers.
Until Sun 18 Oct 2026
Botanically Beautiful: Art and design inspired by nature
Lotherton
Exhibition
Leeds Museums & Galleries