The Summer is finally here! And we’re ready to celebrate in the only way we know how.

By letting children fuel our storytelling with their crazy, creative minds. So if your children would like nothing better than to tell a bunch of supposed grown ups what to do and say then come join us and bring their make believe to life.

LET'S MAKE SOMETHING SPECIAL

“I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing so much! Your team are so talented and downright hilarious!”

"Love this idea! A fantastic way to capture imaginations and great entertainment" Scarlet (Mum)

We are proud to be supporting Refugee Week in Leeds this week at The Pack Horse and we're privileged to have Sanctuary's Got Talent, a 100% collective of refugees and asylum seekers in the city who will be sharing their experiences through song, dance, poetry and story telling.

Of course, as an open mic, we welcome anyone to come and perform, wherever you're from and whatever you play.

Audience also welcomed for a night of live music and obviously, awareness of the experiences that refugees and asylum seekers face.

Free in and doors open at 7.30pm.

We invite you to celebrate local independent creatives at our evening art market, where we will host a collection of artists selling prints, jewellery and more!

We will also have a ticketed event later on in the evening with sets from up and coming local dj's and musicians, we'd love for you to stick around and join! More info can be found on our instagram @b23.presents

A true celebration of Caribbean culture, colour and mesmerising costumes, Carnival is always a spectacle that sees people travelling from all over the city and beyond for what is Europe’s Oldest Authentic Caribbean
Carnival.

With colourful costumes, tropical music, and mouth-watering food Leeds West Indian Carnival has something for everyone to enjoy.

Get ready for a cultural explosion! Black Music Festival is Europe’s biggest free open-air reggae concert will bring together local, national and international artists from a range of genres, with arts, crafts and funfair rides to keep you busy all day long.

Don’t miss out on incredible performances from the legendary Luciano bringing his fire and energy to Leeds, the award-winning queen of grime, Nadia Rose, the soulful songstress, Kelly Le Roc, reggae royalty Teddy Dan and rising star Wohdee and MORE surprise guests. 

Set up camp for a day of wildness in the woods at TCV Skelton Grange...

Activities will vary from session to session depending on the season and the group - but past Wild Play days have included:

Wide games, shelter building, fire lighting, campfire cooking, field games, hammock hanging, wild food walks, woodwork crafts, string making, bows and arrows, stalking and tracking, pyro-carving and charcoal making.

The cost per child is £30 (+ Eventbrite booking fee) and includes a day of outdoor games and bushcraft activities led by experienced leaders.

Jake Vaadeland is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Saskatchewan, Canada. His traditional sound and unique style could be defined as a blend of Bluegrass and 50’s Rockabilly, with Jake also specializing on guitar and banjo in addition to his impressive vocals. Jake strives to write and play with a focus on storytelling and messages that he hopes his audience can relate to, all packaged in foot stomping, high energy performances with The Sturgeon River Boys.

Early into Santa Cruz, the poignant third album in David Bazan’s ongoing musical memoir of his sometimes-uncanny life, he discovers the Beatles. He is the new kid from Arizona in a new school in the famous California coastal town where his dad has accepted another post at a Bible college.

The fourth album from Spanish indie rockers Hinds opens with a song called “Hi, How Are You,” and at the time they were writing it, best friends Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote would’ve responded: Not great. “Hey, you ok?” Perrote sings to Cosials, who responds: “I’ve been better tbh.” It’s an apt introduction to VIVA HINDS, an album Cosials and Perrote made after emerging from a creative rut that began when they released their last album, Prettiest Curse, in 2020 and ended when their bassist and drummer decided to leave the band.

A leap of faith reaps extraordinary rewards on Black Bay, the debut album of depth, atmosphere and daring from the collective known as Silver Moth. Black Bay is the sound of storied musicians yielding to shared goals, a policy of trust in action. Between hushed incantations and molten guitars, 15-minute noise-rock epics and healing psalms, their music is a testament to connectivity and receptivity: to a union of disparate minds committing to something greater than the sum of its parts.