Join us at the Michael Sadler Building, room number (LG.10), University of Leeds, with Urban Zulu's latest innovative styles and sustainable practices shaping the fashion industry's future. Fashion is a creative expression connecting the observer, the body, and the surroundings. Congolese-born South African designer Papy Kaluw and guest artists will explore the intersection between textiles, activism and movement to envision a fashion-forward world.
Join us for an evening of spoken word, prose, poetry, and visual arts!
Expect powerful words, creative energy, and a welcoming space to share and experience art in all its forms.
Whether you’re performing or just soaking it in, we’d love to see you there!
Presented by All Wax All Wick.
What is Kuluhenna Drama?
Kuluhenna Drama is a free, weekly drama group run by Mafwa Theatre every Thursday morning in Leeds.
Join our free, friendly gardening group in the heart of Leeds - no experience needed.
Lincoln Greeners is a weekly gardening group run by Mafwa Theatre, open to everyone. We grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers in the Roxby Community Garden, a peaceful green space tucked away in Lincoln Green.
Sessions are hands-on, welcoming, and a great way to connect with nature, learn how to grow your own food, meet new people and look after your wellbeing.
Absolutely Made Up
(Jack Flash & Jamettone)
World champion freestyle rapper Jack Flash joins forces with live hip-hop jazz band Jamettone for a one-of-a-kind improvised experience. Fuelled by audience suggestions and the moment’s energy, no two shows are ever the same. Expect razor-sharp wordplay, electrifying live instrumentation, and an unforgettable night where anything can happen.
HashFinger
DJ set from WY’s own globally renowned hip-hop producer
Oliver Rees with DJ Agent M
Two shining stars of local hip-hop talent
ExP
We are proud to announce that Leeds Legend, Kevin Sinfield will be joining us in the shop again to meet fans and sign copies of the paperback publication of Try.
Try, by fundraising heroes, rugby legends and best friends Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, is a big-hearted picture book about a friendship between two young boys. What makes someone a hero? That’s what best friends Rob and Kevin are trying to find out.
Offshoots is at The Vinyl Whistle for the first time, featuring Jack Williams and Elio Tome, Oli Reeves and Joe Cross.
Combining the detailed synth work and live looping of Elia Tomé with the ambient soundscapes and striking string textures of Jack Williams. This collaboration fuses elements to create evocative and rich sonic landscapes, bore from guided improvisation combined with audio visual elements.
Come join us at The Old Fire Station for an evening full of up-cycling, mending and reusing clothes.
Drop in workshops led by Angie from The Curious Closet, Kim from Darn It and Harriet from Leeds Beckett University.
Let's celebrate the power of fashion to create positive change in the world together. See you there!
The film is a fictionalised portrait of the late “avant-garde and misunderstood” artist Audrey Amiss, starring Monica Dolan as the artist and Kelly Macdonald as her fictional psychiatric nurse.
Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist, whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions, on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work. The Guardian
Tickets ££6.50/£5.50 concessions available from HEART reception and online
Dir Carol Morley/1hr 48mins/Certificate 12A/2022
Doors 7pm Film 7.15pm
Live in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen!
Readings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome TIM BROOKES.
Tim has lived in West Yorkshire most of his life. He started writing after recovering from a Stroke in 2017. Now he helps run a food bank and Under the Lobby Lights (previously Getting Gobby in the Lobby) spoken word night in Wakefield. His first pamphlet Taking 6 away from 100 was published in December 2023.