Colourbration is a two day celebration of creativity for colour loving peeps in the heart of the city centre.

It's the brainchild of Leeds indies including: Flavour Like Fancy, March Makes, Holy Doughly and Seagulls Paint aiming to create fun day out for all the family with a whole lot of something for everyone.

Featuring a makers market filled with colour loving creators of jewellery, ceramics, art prints homewares and more. Free crafts and sensory play for kids, creative workshops, street food, chill out zones, music and good vibes!

Canteen Bar has made it to the ripe old age of 5!!! And what better way to celebrate than with a proper knees up at our 5th Birthday Yard Party weekender!

Expect DJs, live music, cocktail specials, pizza and beers!

Free entry in Canteen’s (and friendly neighbours’) very own back yard.

Join us in the shop for something very different, with drinks and escape room challenges, as author L.D. Smithson talks to us about her gripping new thriller – The Escape Room.

In February 2024 Leona published her first stand-alone thriller, The Escape Room, under the name L.D. Smithson. Her second standalone, The Shame Game, is due in 2025. All Leona’s novels draw on her experience as a psychologist. 

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we will be joined in the shop for an evening with qualified immigration solicitor, Tawseef Khan as he discusses his latest modern contemporary fiction ‘Determination’.

London Chamber Ensemble

Madeleine Mitchell, Gordon MacKay, violins

Bridget Carey, viola

Joseph Spooner, cello

*Sian Griffiths, mezzo soprano

*Chloe Hanslip, violin

Programme:

Herbert Howells - String Quartet “In Gloucestershire” 
Herbert Howells - Luchinushka arr. Madeleine Mitchell for string quartet
Vaughan Williams - Folk song for voice and violin

*Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer - Intonations (European Première)

SOUND OUT LEEDS 2024/25
Manchester Collective
Abel Selaocoe – cello
Rakhi Singh – violin
Simmy Singh – violin
Ruth Gibson – viola
Alan Keary – bass guitar
Sidiki Dembele – percussion

Joy, warmth and irrepressible energy. Sirocco is a great storm of music from across the world, played with heart and virtuosity. Earning standing ovations from New York to Frankfurt, its infectious spirit will have you up on your feet and singing along.

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES 2024/25
Benjamin Grosvenor
Johannes Brahms - 3 Intermezzi
Robert Schumann - Fantasie
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES 2024/25
Stephen Hough – piano

Cécile Chaminade - 6 Études de Concert Op 35, No 2: Automne
Cécile Chaminade - 6 Pièces humoristiques Op 87, No 4: Autrefois
Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178
Cécile Chaminade - Thème varié
Cécile Chaminade - Les Sylvains
Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES 2024/25
Leeds International Piano Competition 2024 winner
This will be the first opportunity to hear the newest winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition performing in Leeds just months after the 2024 competition. The winner follows an illustrious line of past winners including Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida, András Schiff, Lars Vogt, and more recently Eric Lu and Alim Beisembayev.

Programme and performer to be confirmed, please check back from September 2024 for updates.