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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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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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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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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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A photograph of people stood at easels, sketching
Sat 23 May 2026
Go Figure Life Drawing - Self-led Saturday (May)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Under £10
A circular rail filled wit colourful clothing. Long rails line the walls behind it.
Sat 23 May 2026
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange May 2026 Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Social
Market
Free
Paul Murphy standing against a wooden background
Sat 23 May 2026
Paul Murphy: In Conversation
Hyde Park Book Club
Music
Talk
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Under £10
Bobak Champion plating Saxophone, drinking tea and with bubble machines
Sat 23 May 2026
I'm Muslamic Don't Panik!
The Warehouse In Holbeck
Dance
Theatre
The Ancient Infinity Orchestra lined up and holding their respective instruments in a bright room laden with rugs.
Sat 23 May 2026
Ancient Infinity Orchestra
City Varieties Music Hall
Concerts
Gigs
Leeds 400
Music
Free
A band of 4 people playing on stage.
Sat 23 May 2026
Retrospect
Northern Guitars Cafe Bar
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Genesis Songbook
Sat 23 May 2026
Genesis Songbook
Otley Courthouse
Gigs
Music
Two men in vintage prison gear look sternly at the camera, accompanied by a suspicious suited man behind them. In the background is a stylised illustration of a prison block.
Tue 19 May 2026 - Sat 23 May 2026
The Shawshank Redemption
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre
Performance
The Lemon Twigs
Sat 23 May 2026
The Lemon Twigs
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
A mirror-ball illuminated by purple and blue light casting a colourful light pattern.
Sat 23 May 2026
HAR Late: Reach Up Disco Wonderland with Andy Smith and Nick Halkes
Howard Assembly Room
Music
Performance
Gigs
A still from one of the animations
Fri 22 May 2026 - Sun 24 May 2026
Amazing Animated Shorts for 0-7 year-olds (U TBC)
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
School Holidays
A still from one of the animations
Sun 24 May 2026
Amazing Animated Shorts for 8 - 15 year-olds PG TBC
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
School Holidays
Paul Murphy sitting down with a glass on a wooden background
Sat 23 May 2026 - Sun 24 May 2026
Jazz Dance Party with Paul Murphy
Hyde Park Book Club
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
3 musicians standing with their instruments.
Sun 24 May 2026
The HEART House Jazz Band
HEART Headingley
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
5 musicians standing and sitting.
Sun 24 May 2026
Fight the Giant
Seven Arts
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Free
5 musicians playing different instruments on stage.
Sun 24 May 2026
Abtuse
Northern Guitars Cafe Bar
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Free
A grid of blue circular cyanotype prints
Thu 21 May 2026 - Sun 24 May 2026
the sun & us (Invisible Performance)
Assembly House
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Emma Rawicz
Sun 24 May 2026
Emma Rawicz’s INKYRA at Leeds Jazz Festival
Howard Assembly Room
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
2 musicians playing instruments on stage.
Sun 24 May 2026
Tian Qiyi + Crowd Work
The Wardrobe
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Under £10
A blurred picture of Sela Bar venue.
Sun 24 May 2026
Any Given Sunday
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
That's So 90s
Sun 24 May 2026
That's So 90s
Yeadon Town Hall
Gigs
Music
Performance
On the left, image of Jo Harrop singing into a microphone on-stage. On the right, image of Hannah Horton smiling candidly and playing a saxophone.
Sun 24 May 2026
Jo Harrop Quartet and Hannah Horton Quartet
City Varieties Music Hall
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Under £10
David Kayode, London jazz saxophonist
Sun 24 May 2026
Warriors RISE Showcase / Leeds Jazz Festival / David Kayode + Yamikani + Miles Hardy Quartet
Brudenell Social Club
Leeds Jazz Festival
Dance
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Free
The Zak Parlby Quartet playing on stage.
Sun 24 May 2026
The Zak Parlby Quartet
The Northern Market
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Free
flowers
Mon 25 May 2026
Bank Holiday Market - Books I Art I Stationery I Zines
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Market
a person in a chefs outfit holding a pan over a grill, with a person in an apron next to them
Sat 23 May 2026 - Mon 25 May 2026
Great British Food Festival
Harewood House
Family Friendly
Festival
Food & Drink
Market
Outdoor
3 musicians playing their instruments together
Mon 25 May 2026
Jazz Sabbath
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Low light photo of 2 women leading the Decofit session, dressed in full cowgirl clothing and mid-stomp
Until Mon 25 May 2026
Decofit
Open Source Arts
Dance
Dance Class
Healthy Living
Workshop
Kit Downes on a blurred background.
Mon 25 May 2026
Kit Downes
Mill Hill Chapel
Music
Leeds Jazz Festival
Gigs
Jazz
Under £10
A close up picture of someone snapping some celery near a microphone
Tue 26 May 2026
Behind the Magic: Film vs Theatre Workshop
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Film
School Holidays
Practising balance and flow, using a suspended hoop.
Until Tue 26 May 2026
Morning aerial hoop class
Open Source Arts
Dance
Healthy Living
A still from "Beauty and The Beast"
Tue 26 May 2026
Beauty and the Beast (U)
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
School Holidays
Free
Nicky Bray, a woman with dark hair wearing red glasses, with face paint on, next to a cat
Tue 26 May 2026
Spiky Singing With A Side of Silliness
Leeds City Museum
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Music
Workshop
Jim and Nancy Moir smile and pose cheerily in sailor's caps and beachwear, in front of a circular sea backdrop.
Tue 26 May 2026
Chin Wag Chit Chat with Jim and Nancy Moir
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Talk
Life-Drawing-Leeds-Northlight-Arts-Centre
Tue 5 May 2026 - Tue 26 May 2026
Life Drawing in May
Northlight Arts Centre
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Bingo and Plant Graphic
Tue 26 May 2026
Plant Bingo
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Quiz / Gaming
Hardtimes Orchestra
Tue 26 May 2026
TNL: Hardtimes Orchestra
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Music
Performance
Gigs
Free
Sharing skills and ideas with other performers
Until Tue 26 May 2026
Circus Open Training
Open Source Arts
Activity
Healthy Living
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 26 May 2026
AcroYoga
Open Source Arts
Healthy Living
Workshop
The four members of Opus13 Quartet in black concert dress.
Tue 26 May 2026
Opus13 - May 2026
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire
Music
Performance
Concerts
Carla J Easton
Tue 26 May 2026
Carla J Easton
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman
Tue 26 May 2026
Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman
The Attic
Gigs
Music
illustrations of sewing equiptment
Until Wed 27 May 2026
Textile Art with Ling
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
Image shows a man holding an open book showing fossil illustrations
Wed 27 May 2026
Who Read Our Overdue Book? A Geological Bestseller at the Dawn of the Victorian Age - History Talk
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Heritage
Literature
Two artists looking at a selection of cyanotypes drying on a drying rack
Wed 27 May 2026
Cyanotypes
Leeds Print Workshop
Workshop
Craft
Creative 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
Wed 6 May 2026 - Wed 27 May 2026
Youth Aerial Class - intro to aerial
Open Source Arts
Family Friendly
School Holidays
Healthy Living
Workshop
Practising balance and flow with aerial hoop.
Until Wed 27 May 2026
Aerial Hoop with Jess
Open Source Arts
Activity
Dance
Healthy Living
Workshop
Develop strength and agility, practising aerial silks.
Until Wed 27 May 2026
Aerial Silks with Jess
Open Source Arts
Activity
Healthy Living
Workshop
Charcoal life drawing depicting a reclining figure
Until Wed 27 May 2026
Introduction to Life Drawing - 6 week course
Leeds City College Quarry Hill Campus
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Painting of a finished plate
Wed 27 May 2026
Paint Your Plate: A Painting Workshop with Liz Nast
Left Bank Leeds
Activity
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop