In this photo blog Leeds based international photographer Casey Orr takes us through the evolution of her pop up portrait studio documenting youth culture which started in 2013...

As a part of their signature programme, LEEDS 2023 are working with 33 Neighbourhood Hosts to create a mini-festival in every ward across the city. Over the last two months, they have received over 400 applications for the Community Grants, and they’re reopening the scheme for six wards that have received less applications than others.

This April the Henry Moore Institute is celebrating 30 years since it opened. They are marking the occasion with a new display in their library, A Site for Sculpture: Building the Institute, exploring the history of the building, a creative competition inviting you to reimagine the building and sharing memories from the last three decades.

The highly anticipated full programme for the Leeds International Festival of Ideas (LIFI23) has been released, featuring an impressive line-up of speakers, performers and thinkers from all corners of the world. The festival will run from September 27th-30th at Leeds Playhouse and promises to be an exciting and thought-provoking event for all who attend.

The Out of Many Festival, organised by the Jamaica Society Leeds, takes its name from Jamaica’s motto Out of Many, One People and launched in 2022 to celebrate 60 years of Jamaican independence. The festival continues into Summer 2023.

Printed Bound is a celebration of contemporary print and artists’ bookmaking. Join us for a weekend of workshops, demonstrations, food, drink and shopping.

This year, Printed Bound will take place on the first floor of our iconic 1912 Mill, with over 40 printmakers, studios, artists and collectives selling and exhibiting their work. Expect to see screenprints, monoprints, risographs, etchings, zines, handmade books and more. 

LEEDS 2023 has partnered with National Youth Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Compass Collective to provide a free ten-day acting course for young people across Leeds and West Yorkshire. Everyone who has completed the course will get to take part in a large-scale immersive outdoors performance about climate change later in September, as a part of a LEEDS 2023 signature event.

This year LIFI23 will take over Leeds Playhouse from 27th-30th September to present its diverse programme of inspiring and educational discussions.

How would you choose to define ‘The Dash’ that separates the year you’re born from the year you die?



Come and experience Existence Theatre Group’s brand new, original, student-led performance, exploring themes of duality, necessity, legacy and fulfilment.

Set in Britain, ‘The Dash’ follows Edith, an obituarist who receives a mysterious unsigned and unpublished painting that holds a remarkable resemblance to her younger self.

Scarborough, presented by Leeds Arts Centre, is a play about a forbidden weekend away, where a couple does all the things you might expect a couple to do. But fear is in the air, and they daren't leave their seaside hotel. After all, at just fifteen years old, one of them is just a child... the other their teacher.