Dive into the world of portraiture with our captivating workshop inspired by the renowned Leeds based artist Philip Naviasky!

Join us for an immersive introduction to portraiture, where you'll draw inspiration from Naviasky's mesmerizing artworks showcased throughout our amazing building. Under the guidance of the amazing Jemima, a local artist based at Assembly House, you'll learn essential techniques and tips to bring your portrait to life.

Tap into your creativity and travel back in time!  

We will be building, coding and paper-folding our way through the past and celebrating Local and Community History Month by exploring our online archive, Leodis. Using Lego, origami and basic robotics we will recreate old images of Leeds and navigate Victorian maps. Will you construct a knee-high town hall? Or programme a Bit:Bot to travel down the Headrow? Let's make history! Taking place a various venues on different dates across the city:

Tuesday 28th May, 11am-12noon - Dewsbury Road Community Hub and Library

Join us over the May Half Term holiday for SCRAP Playful Makers - two rooms of open ended loose parts play and creative maker activities.

For children aged 6 and under. Lots of space for building, making and playing with mountains of wonderful scrap.

Our little cafe will be open serving hot/cold drinks and cakes.

Parents to stay with their children, each session lasts an hour and a half. Booking essential.

Tickets are £6 per child.

Northern Roll 2024 is one of the UK's largest Roller Skate festival held in Leeds set over 3 days. 

Some of the world best skaters flying over from across the world are attending to run a range of master classes for beginners all the way to pro skaters. 

The biggest, most exciting day is Saturday 11th May where we are taking over the Royal Armouries Exhibition Hall to host family friendly roller disco followed by an over 18's event. 

Join us for our monthly get together of BREW – the illustration meetup for Leeds.

On the first Wednesday of every month we’ll be meeting up at Water Lane Boathouse. We’ll have a reserved area, and be ready there to meet you.

There will be a friendly group of local artists and illustrators to chat to - lots of people come alone, or in small groups. No need to bring anything, but if you fancy, feel free to bring along a sketchbook or any work you’d like to chat about.

Summer nature playscheme for 8-13-year-olds at TCV Skelton Grange

This week-long playscheme is ALL about getting outside and we aim to be out in the fresh air for most of the day, every day!

Past events have included:

Shelter building, fire lighting, outdoor games, nature study, campfire cooking, field games, hammock making, wild food walks, wood work crafts, string making, bows and arrows, stalking and tracking, pyro-carving, and charcoal making.

Join Keavy for Hatha yoga with meditation. Shed your tired skin and allow your body to relax.

Shed your tired skin and join Keavy for Hatha yoga with meditation.

‘Ha’ (sun) and ‘Tha’ (moon) yoga is the balance of these two opposite energies within us and creating a peace within the body and mind.

Keavy’s classes are slower paced and involve holding poses for a few breaths- a lovely place to start for beginners or those who want to deepen their practice.

A night of Improvised Dance Music, showcasing the best of the Leeds jazz scene and beyond. 

Unique support acts, interactive art pieces and inspiring workshops, lead by local facilitators of all creative disciplines.

If you love to dance, sing, explore then join a new growing community of improvisers, creatives and human experience seekers!

Hosted by Tariq Megrisi, a jazz drums student from Leeds Conservatoire, who has previously run a successful jam night in Newcastle.

Join Mick Marston for an evening of experimental drawing. You'll be introduced to a range of drawing techniques, interventions and experiments.

The emphasis is on exploration, enjoyment and play to promote confident approaches to the practice of drawing.

If you think that you can’t draw, then this workshop is for you. And if you can draw, this is also the workshop for you.

A little about Mick...

Mick is an award winning illustrator, printmaker and senior lecturer in Illustration and graphic design. https://mickm.art

Don't wait for the future to happen, come along to our Apocalypse Remix workshops with Edek Thompson and invent it!

Edek is an artist who is looking at how nature will adapt to the future in an era of accelerated climate change but with a large dose of humour.

Come and join us for one, several or even all of our workshops to work with Ed as he assembles his coterie of creatures; adaptations and mutations all spliced with the funny gene.

No art experience needed . . .