The Northern Swing Orchestra Big Band and Jenny Chamberlain Smith

Swing Into Sunday with The Northern Swing Orchestra! Featuring the Sensational 16-Piece Big Band and Jenny Chamberlain Smith!

Swing into Sunday with The Northern Swing Orchestra 16 piece Big Band.

Jenny Chamberlain Smith is a professional and versatile vocalist, and though rooted in jazz and popular music she effortlessly moves between various genres and styles.

Family Friendly Creative Workshops with LAU

On Monday 5 May, we welcome Leeds Arts University Students to host two creative workshops, open to all! 

Please see more information about the workshops below:

Comic Art Workshop 11pm - 12pm

This session will introduce the comic medium in a simple but engaging way. Participants will be guided through the process of creating their very own short comic; sketching fun stick figures, superheroes, and nonsensical speech bubbles, making the process lighthearted and accessible.

Fun With Origami 12.15pm - 2.15pm

Deep Listening Workshop

Environments are living compositions. What happens when we listen to and play with environments?

Price = Pay as you Feel or Can

Deep Listening is an interdisciplinary awareness and attention practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros, using as main resources listening and sounding scores or meditations, somatic exercises, and imaginal/dream play.

Duo Compass: Live

A solid folk duo hunting down tunes of the North, on their UK tour.

Karoliine-Lisette Kõiv (fiddle and vocals) and Stuart Ironside (guitar and vocals) are a folk duo from Estonia and the U.K., finding links between the Nordic-Baltic region and the British Isles through their tunes and songs. 

With both of them having feet in multiple musical worlds, they bring music from the Nordic, Baltic and British nations together with grooves from jazz and African music in a cultural melting pot that will inspire. 

Dragon School with Cressida Cowell - Author Event

Join multi-million-copy selling, award-winning author Cressida Cowell to celebrate the launch of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL, her first (hilarious) novel in the Dragon world for 10 years. It’s an exciting year for Dragons, with a new live action film coming out in June: Cressida will talk about her inspiration and give writing and drawing tips; her events are energetic, inspiring and unmissable! Cressida will be signing books and copies of her books will be available to buy at the event.

Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield

Join us in our monthly life drawing class with Gallery favourite, experienced artist and tutor, Rob Oldfield.

This workshop is open to everyone, from newcomers who want to take up a hobby through to experienced artists looking to hone their sketching skills.

Materials including various papers, pencils, charcoal and drawing boards will be supplied, but please feel free to bring your own too.