To coincide with the UNESCO 24th session of the ‘Return & Restitution’ Committee, we’re hosting a debate on the future of museums.

Join Leeds Art's Centre this July for a raucous and colourful rendition of Shakespeare's captivating comedy; A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pulling the tale of rival lords and ladies, star crossed lovers and eager mechanicals, into a twenty first century setting. Where the modern industrial heart of Athens clashes with the mystical neon forest of dreams.

Mischief will be sown, substances consumed, forms transfigured, and no one will make it out of the woods quite the same as they were before. But that's OK, with lessons learned all things will end with one hell of a party.

As part of Chapel Allerton Arts Festival, presented by Folk Roots Fringe.

Open to all. Led by local musicians.

Ireland is famous for their traditional music sessions and their pub singalongs.

So to warm up the trad music session at Seven Arts we are bringing you a bit of the craic found in an Irish pub with a few popular singalong songs from the local duo Celtic Cowboys.

Everyone welcome to listen.

Or bring an instrument or a song and join in.

Michael Grayshon’s debut solo exhibition, Sound and Fury, offers a résumé of his practice as it has grown in the last year.

We are invited to see drawing as an expanded practice in a mixed-media display of paint, graphite, ink, canvas, paper, and collage.

He brings drawing to painting and painting to drawing in a practice that finds truth in a fundamentally open and intuitive way of making. The pencil does what it wants.

Does music need sound? Does writing need language? Is anger red?

presented by Chapel Allerton Arts Festival: Folk Roots Fringe.

An inimitable songwriting partnership singing songs from their collaboration album recording: "Things Found In Books", an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing, integrated with a number of popular past and present songs from their solo catalogues.

BOO HEWERDINE

Explore the art of zine-making in the gorgeous setting of the Leeds Library.

You’ll be introduced to what a zine is: a DIY, creative, experimental way of putting together words and images, which can be about whatever you want.

The workshop leader will demonstrate different ways of folding paper to make a classic zine format. Then we will work with collage, stamps, stencils and cut n’ paste to make a unique zine.

For inspiration, you will be able to look through a collection of zines, or find ideas from everything surrounding you in the library.

Please visit us during the month of May when we’ll be hosting our latest Guest Artist.  It’s the turn of Neil Wood, a sculptor with an illustrious career in sculpting for exhibitions and large-scale public artwork commissions, in addition to his work as a lecturer. Through his exploration of the human figure, he explores human experience and social injustice.

We really hope you can come to the Gallery over the coming weeks, as we present this and other varied artworks. 

We invite you to discover synergies of movement and energy through breath, and gentle, intentional tapping on the energy centers of the body. Through touch 'tapping' and guided improvised movement we initiate a profound dialogue between mind and body, inspiring intuitive movement exploration.

Our somatic movement workshop focuses on individual exploration through improvisation in community with open ots to explore in weal me previous dance experience is necessary, but an interest in movement and an openness to explore is welcomed.

THE GARDEN PARTY 2024

The Garden Party returns on Saturday June 22nd at Scott Hall Farm, a secluded 200-year-old Grade II listed farmhouse on the edge of Scott Hall Woods. It’s a 15-minute walk from Leeds City Centre and a short walk from Chapeltown, Meanwood and Woodhouse.

MUSIC & SOUNDSYSTEM

There will be music throughout the day and late into the evening, showcasing the mountain of local talent we have on our doorstep, with Cornerstone Hi-Fi providing the sound.

FOOD & DRINK