Boardgame Builders

Dive into the world of boardgame design in our weekly craft sessions! 

Invent your own unique game using paper and card, create eye catching boards and make up your own rules. 

Personalise a jigsaw, make your own Ludo board or create your own game from scratch with a dice to match! 

Drop in anytime between 10-12pm and 1-3pm on every Wednesday and Thursday until 21st August. 

Child Friendly Leeds Takeover Day

Ever wanted to design your own board game? Child Friendly Leeds are celebrating the MONOPOLY Leeds Takeover by hosting a free and playful space with board games and other fun activities. Not only can you play the games, but you can also create a board game, and the best designs will WIN a board game to take home!

The afternoon sessions will also have face painters to add to the child-friendly fun!

Tower Works

Tower Works

Tower Works
2-10 Globe Road
Leeds
LS11 5QG
United Kingdom

Tower Works Street Fest

Thursday and Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays are soon to be jam-packed with some of the very best street food, drink, music and entertainment with the launch of new street food and makers’ market, Tower Works Street Fest.

The team behind the award-winning North Leeds, Harrogate, Ilkley & Riverside Food & Drink Festivals has collaborated with Mustard Wharf, the celebrated rental development with community at its heart, and will open its doors for the first time at the end of August on Leeds’ South Bank, Tower Works.

Power On/Pressure Off - we are stronger than we know - public talk

Free public talk and dialogue. Accessing inner strength is now more important than ever. Join us to explore practical insights and tools to activate your innate resilience.

About the speaker:
Sister Manda is a gifted and experienced teacher of Raja Yoga meditation. She speaks with warmth, clarity and authenticity, and makes the spiritual journey feel accessible. She is based at the Global Retreat Centre, near Oxford.

Also featuring local community leaders sharing their experiences.

Free Event | No need to book | Free Parking | Disabled Access

Botanical Art, Cacti - Watercolour Painting with Artist Monair Hyman

Gently but expertly guided by Monair, you will be observing from life and the examples in Art Library books and Special Collections to produce botanical drawings.You will learn colour mixing and transfer all your ideas to a final piece using Winsor and Newton watercolour paints.

All materials are included and the paint palette will be yours to take home.

Open to all abilities

Age 14+

Guy Shrubsole in conversation with Boff Whalley. The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we bring you an evening at the Old Woollen with Sunday Times Best Selling Author, Guy Shrubsole in conversation with Boff Whalley. They will be discussing Guy’s new book The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming

Blenheim Walk Gallery is pleased to present Sheila Gaffney’s exhibition 'Embodied Dreaming'. Representative of her entire oeuvre, the exhibition, brings together for the first time a number of sculptures, drawings, video installation and image works, lightboxes, as well as unseen process-based models, and research material, highlighting the importance of process in her practice. The title of the exhibition is inspired by her doctoral thesis titled 'Embodied Dreaming' as a Sculptural Practice.