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Likkle Lit Fest

Black children listening attentively to a story
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Likkle Lit Fest
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Festival
Half Term
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Spoken Word

Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Winter
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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Hedera

Hedera is a five-piece folk ensemble, as at home in the woods, as in a concert venue or community centre.
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Hedera
The Loft (Re:establish)
Gigs
Music
Performance

A.A. Williams
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Winter
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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Winter
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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Pied Piper / Leeds Playhouse / Thu 12 Mar 2026 - Sat 14 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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Under £10
A circular rail filled wit colourful clothing. Long rails line the walls behind it.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange February 2026 Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Social
Market
Free
A necklace of two sculpted oak leaves made from wood.
Sun 1 Feb 2026 - Sat 28 Feb 2026
February at The Sculpture Gallery - Giles Newman
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Harlem Globetrotters
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Harlem Globetrotters 2026
first direct bank arena
Sports
Performance
A brass band sat down on a stage ready to perform.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Black Dyke Band
Pudsey Civic Hall and Art Forms Music
Concerts
Music
Lisa O'Neill sits in an autumnal forest, wearing a red jumper and grey blazer as she looks skywards.
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Lisa O'Neill
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Production shot from Sunny Afternoon of someone playing an electric guitar and drummer with The Kinks logo on the bass drum.
Tue 24 Feb 2026 - Sat 28 Feb 2026
Sunny Afternoon
Leeds Grand Theatre
Music
Theatre
A stylised image showing a fisherman standing on a cliff edge, looking out over a rough, stormy sea.
Fri 13 Feb 2026 - Sat 28 Feb 2026
Peter Grimes
Leeds Grand Theatre
Music
Performance
Theatre
Free
The Leeds Markets
Sun 1 Feb 2026 - Sun 1 Mar 2026
Alwoodley Food & Craft Fair
Alwoodley Community Association
Fair
Market
Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Music For the Sun King
Grammar School at Leeds
Concerts
Music
Performance
Andy Zaltzman stands in a suit jacket and patterned shirt. A globe emitting electricity and lightning bolts hovers above his outstretched hand.
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
David Jason holds his hand to his chin with a slight smile, dressed in a suit in front of a red curtain.
Sun 1 Mar 2026
An Evening with Sir David Jason
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre
Talk
A white man with dark hair and a moustache poses with a microphone against a blue brick background.
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Wreck the Mic - Live Stand Up
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Comedy
Food & Drink
Honeycomb darning example on sleeve
Mon 2 Feb 2026 - Mon 2 Mar 2026
Monday Mending with Lorna Johnstone - a four week course
Leeds Central Library
Workshop
Craft
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, standing poised on stage in a blue dress and blazer, holding a handbag.
Mon 2 Mar 2026
National Theatre Live: The Audience (Screening)
City Varieties Music Hall
Film
Theatre
Free
A montage of writing instruments including ballpoint pens, fountain pens, quills, inkpots and a type writer, from the Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries, on a lined paper backdrop with turquoise ink splodge shapes.
Until Tue 3 Mar 2026
The 1152 Club: over 55s heritage talks series
Abbey House Museum
Heritage
January List
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Talk
Adults Only
A repeated graphic design of oak leaves and acorns being screen printed in black ink on green fabric
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Textile Screen Printing
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Jordan Gray with two smoking guns
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Jordan Gray
The Wardrobe
Comedy
Looking panicked in the corner of a white room, Seann Walsh holds onto the walls with stretched arms and legs.
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Seann Walsh: This is Torture
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
3 FRIENDS ENJOY A PIZZA
Until Wed 4 Mar 2026
Sela's Big Music Quiz
Sela Bar & Pizzeria
Food & Drink
Social
A photograph of three people stood at easels drawing a life model, in the foreground is a man with a green sweater drawing in charcoal
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (March)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Visual Arts
Workshop
Creative Workshop
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Thu 5 Mar 2026
Patchwork and Quilting Evening Taster Workshop
Stitch-Up Craft School
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
The Cords
Thu 5 Mar 2026
The Cords
The Lending Room
Gigs
Music
Mermaid Chunky
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Mermaid Chunky
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Two children taking part in a hands-on science experiment with a pink substance.
Fri 6 Feb 2026 - Fri 6 Mar 2026
Little Scientists
Abbey House Museum
Activity
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Cuore Chamber Orchestra Launch Concert, Royal Hall Harrogate
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Cuore Chamber Orchestra - Leeds Launch Concert
Howard Assembly Room
Concerts
Music
Performance
Country Night in Nashville Poster with performers holding their instruments on stage
Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Fri 6 Mar 2026
A Country Night in Nashville
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Performance
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Fri 6 Mar 2026
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Reeling in the Dan
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Reelin' in the Dan
The Old Woollen
Gigs
Music
Performance
A group of seven dancers performing with one thrown high above them.
Fri 6 Mar 2026 - Sat 7 Mar 2026
Hidden
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Performance
A colour photograph of a recreated Victorian backstreet (Abbey Fold at Abbey House Museum), featuring different dwellings. Anti-clockwise from the right is the widow washerwoman's house, with her mangle. Next is the artisan's cottage with whitewashed walls. In the centre is the pawnbrokers shop with the pawnbrokers house top left, leading down to the mourning warehouse window in the bottom left corner.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Rebraiding History: A Creative Writing Workshop, with Becky Cherriman
Abbey House Museum
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Autumn sketching at Garforth Nature Journal Club
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Garforth Nature Journal Club
The Lord Gascoigne Pub Community Garden
Workshop
Craft
A red neon hand praying
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Thackray Insights: Religion and Medicine
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Talk
Two silver rings stand on their outer edge, on a grey fluffy surface. they are chunky with texture on the outside and a smooth inside.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Make a Textured Silver Ring in a Day with Toby Cotterill
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A squeegee being used to screen print an image of plant pots in shades of blue and yellow ink
Sat 28 Feb 2026 - Sat 7 Mar 2026
Paper Screen Printing – 2 Day Course
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Group of dancers facing out to right with blurred dancers around
Fri 6 Mar 2026 - Sat 7 Mar 2026
VERVE 26 | Premiere
The Riley Theatre
Dance
Dance (Li)
Under £10
Image of the author Kate Pankhurst
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Kate Pankhurst – Fantastically Great 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Leeds Art Gallery
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Literature
Free
Two people using musical PA equipment
Sun 8 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day: Music Leeds Us
Leeds City Museum
Creative Workshop
International Women's Day
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Music
Performance
Workshop
Disney On Ice presents Into the Magic
Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Sun 8 Mar 2026
Disney On Ice presents Into the Magic
first direct bank arena
Family Friendly
Performance
Under £10
A repeating pattern of objects that feature in the exhibition on a background that looks like lined notepaper, including a typewriter, medieval tile, ipod, laptop, champagne bottle, Victorian ladies boots, ancient Greek coin, old style library card, model of a building (the Moot Hall), variety of pens (quill, fountain and medieval stylus), ink well, police truncheon and a bird (stonechat)
Until Sun 8 Mar 2026
Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays
Abbey House Museum
Exhibition
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Spoken Word
Andrew Wasylyk
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Andrew Wasylyk
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
a person on a canal towpath
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Andrew Wasylyk
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
A family sit harnessed and perched on the side of a large cliff face, all are smiling up at the camera
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Leo Houlding: Exposed
Carriageworks Theatre
Talk
A picture of foraged spring foliage
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Spring Equinox Foraged Wreath Workshop
Abbey House Museum
Craft
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
A smiling Adam Frost in navy knitwear and a coat casually looks off-camera in a luscious green garden.
Mon 9 Mar 2026
An Evening with Adam Frost
City Varieties Music Hall
Theatre
Talk
Screen printed abstract shapes on paper in muted tones of grey, lilac and orange
Mon 9 Mar 2026 - Tue 10 Mar 2026
Screen Printing with Natural Colour (for Paper) – 2 Day Course
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Dan Tiernan playing cards with a couple of dogs!
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Dan Tiernan
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A female looking into the distance.
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Khanh Nhi Luong
Leeds Conservatoire
Concerts
Music
Author Jennie Godfrey
Tue 10 Mar 2026
An Evening with Jennie Godfrey
The Old Woollen
Literature
Talk
Seamus Fogarty
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Seamus Fogarty
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Music
Free
Photograph showing exterior of Leeds Central Library with a paved area in front of it. The clock tower of Leeds Town Hall can be seen behind the library.
Until Wed 11 Mar 2026
Family History for Beginners Workshop
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Heritage
Workshop