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An image of clay being carved by an artist taking part in Leeds Open Studios
Single date
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Leeds Open Studios
Various Locations
Exhibitions
Guided Tours
Visual Art
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Tony Burkill plays saxophone
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Autumn/Winter 2025
Jazz Leeds Autumn

This Autumn Jazzleeds presents forty concerts, with something to suit all tastes. 

 

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Fourteen everyday wooden objects, including a plug, chip fork, lolly stick, peg are arranged in a line on a wall. They have all been 'decorated' with different patterns of black lines, burnt by the sun.
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Autumn
Exhibitions And Visual Art In Leeds

Take a tour of all the artwork on display across Leeds in art galleries, cafes, museums, shops, community centres and outdoor spaces.

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Pay what you can
sewing
Multiple dates
Sat 6 Sep 2025 - Sat 10 Jan 2026
Saturday Sew Social
Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project
Craft
Social
Workshop
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A reinterpretation of ‘The Last Supper’ painting with people gathered around a table. In the background, the original artwork.
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Autumn
Theatre In Leeds

Our collection of theatre listings in Leeds taking place in venues and spaces across the city.

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Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Autumn
Pop Up Markets in Leeds

Crafts, gifts, clothes, junk, art, farmers, vintage, food & drink, seasonal, makers - you name it Leeds is shopping there.

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Free
Photo shows two Artists, Mel Davies and Kim Coley, Wearing paint stained aprons, seated in front of large scale and colourful art works.
Multiple dates
Sat 30 Aug 2025 - Sun 21 Sep 2025
Joint & Several
Sunny Bank Mills
Exhibitions
Visual Art
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Three people singing together around a microphone
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Autumn
Gigs In Leeds

Our regular listings guide to Leeds gigs, club nights, DJs, rock, jazz and pop.

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An iconic still from the film Psycho of Marion in the shower scene screaming
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Autumn
Film in Leeds

Discover award winning documentaries, films with live music, screenings including directors talks and Q&As, timeless classics in black and white, family favourites, foreign language films and animation.

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Ria Lina
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Autumn
Comedy in Leeds

Our hilarious round-up of comedy events in Leeds for the coming months!

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the artist
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Jake Vaadeland
The Attic
Gig Music
Tony Christie in a patterned suit smiling and facing to his right.
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Tony Christie The Great Farewell Tour
City Varieties
Gig Music Show
A black and white patch with a moon and clouds
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Stitch a Felt Patch with Jane Gibson
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
Peter Kay
Mon 8 Sep 2025
SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Performance Spoken Word
Still from The Wrong Arm of the Law
Mon 8 Sep 2025
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Bridge End Social
Film
A hold holding a pen over a salmon coloured dressmaking pattern
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Pattern Cutting Intro and Dressmaking Pattern Adapting Workshop with Alison Teece UK
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
Helen Bauer wearing a beige sheer dress with a black underlay laughing, looking off to the side.
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Helen Bauer: Bless Her
City Varieties
Comedy
A colour print of a large Ciesterian monastery with bell tower (Kirkstall Abbey). Trees and a river are in the foreground, while people in boats row on the river.
Tue 9 Sep 2025
The 1152 Club: Levelling Up in the 12th Century
Abbey House Museum
Talk
Still from 5,000 fingers of Dr. T.
Tue 9 Sep 2025
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Hyde Park Book Club
Film
Portrait of Gill Landry
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Gill Landry
The Old Woollen
Gig Music
Fran Wyburn of The Presence Effect Choir
Tue 9 Sep 2025
JVL - Inspire to Inspire - Ocean Voices
Moda
Music Workshop
Fabric hexagons with a postcard that says Our Freedom: Then & Now
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Threads of Freedom : Storytelling with Fabric and Thread with Hayley Mills-Styles and Elnaz Yazdani
Yeadon Community Hub and Library
Craft Workshop
photo of people playing board games at Pride Place
Wed 10 Sep 2025
LGBTQIA+ Board Games Night
Flamingos Coffee House
LGBT+ Quiz / Gaming
Disco Boy
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Films at HEART: Disco Boy
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Film
Group of people gathered together holding placards.
Wed 10 Sep 2025
The Organiser (screening)
The Cardigan Arms
Film
Still from Yellow Sky
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Yellow Sky
The Social
Film
The Yorkshire Speak Their Name quilt will be in the Joshua Van Leader - Inspire to Inspire exhibition space from Tuesday 26th August to Friday 6th September and then from Wednesday 10th September (BoH and World Suicide Prevention day) to Friday 19th September.
Wed 10 Sep 2025
JVL - Inspire to Inspire - World Suicide Prevention Day (Morning Events)
Moda
Discussion Talk Workshop
Baton of Hope / designed and made by Thomas Lyte
Wed 10 Sep 2025
JVL - Inspire to Inspire - World Suicide Prevention Day (Afternoon Events)
Moda
Discussion Healthy Living Talk
Northern Rascals
Wed 10 Sep 2025
JVL - Inspire to Inspire - World Suicide Prevention Day (Evening Event)
Moda
Discussion Film
Trish Heenan singing
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Trish Heenan and Ed Kainiek
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
The Ardent and The Ghoul
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Beowulf: A Play About Stories
The Warehouse in Holbeck
Theatre
Film still from Death to Smoochy
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Death to Smoochy
Archive
Film
Still from the film She is Conann
Thu 11 Sep 2025
She is Conann
Wharf Chambers
Film
Ichi on stilts
Thu 11 Sep 2025
ICHI
The Attic
Gig Music
A collection of colourful felted bowls against a white backdrop
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Wet Felt a Small Bowl with Penny Lewis
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
An orange typewriter sat on a desk
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Memoir Writing with Chris Bartlett
Swarthmore Education Centre
Literature Workshop
Huey Morgan - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Thu 11 Sep 2025
An Evening with Fun Lovin’ Criminal Huey Morgan
The Old Woollen
Discussion Literature Talk
Illustrated image of Myra DuBois wearing a dress that's leopard print on the top
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Myra DuBois: Cosmic Empath
City Varieties
Comedy
a singing bowl
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Singing Bowl Sound Bath
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
George Corson
Fri 12 Sep 2025
George Corson - His Life and Times
The Meanwood Institute
Heritage Talk
Sans Froid
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Sans Froid (Art-Rock) + A-Tota-So (Math-Rock) + Beluga (Jazz-Rock)
Wharf Chambers
Gig Music
A still from the film 'The Jungle Book'
Fri 12 Sep 2025
The Jungle Book
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
an audience watching a big industrial mule in a mill space
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Leeds Industrial Museum Free Heritage Open Day
Leeds Industrial Museum
Still from The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Fri 12 Sep 2025
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Chapel FM
Film
The girl with the pearl earring painting.
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Exhibition on Screen: Girl with a Pearl Earring, and other treasures from the Mauritshuis
Otley Courthouse
Exhibitions Film Visual Art
Ceramic plant pot decorated with a large yellow sun flower.
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Heritage Open Day: Burmantofts Pottery
Leeds Discovery Centre
Discussion Heritage Talk
gaelforce on stage
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Gaelforce
Seven Arts
Gig Music
Film still of a sun
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Ben Rivers: Urthworks
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
Babatunde Aleshe in a black jacket and a white t-shirt underneath looking seriously at the camera.
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Babatunde Aleshe: High Expectations
City Varieties
Comedy
Two boys explore the M&S Archive exhibition
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Sparky Saturdays: An M&S Mystery...
M&S Archive
Museum
Rivers MEET Cafe
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Sketcher's Society
Rivers Meet Arts & Crafts Cafe
Heritage Workshop
Some drawings of birds laid on a table and a womans hand holding a pencil in the background
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Bird Drawing and Construction with Michael Rios
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
Gurudwara
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Architecture and Faith Connections: the GNNSJ Gurudwara
Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (Leeds)
Guided Tours Heritage Talk
Church
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Roundhay's Hidden Gem
St John's Church
Guided Tours Heritage
St James hospital ICU ward staff members hands relaxing
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Open Studio: The Art of Hands in Motion
NorthLight Arts Centre
Discussion Exhibitions Workshop
A dark lit old industrial mill room with a light blue peeling painted wall and uneven wooden flooring cover in dust and dirt. There are light and pipes hanging down and a single metal chair off to the right side.
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Mills Transformed with Neil Horsley
Sunny Bank Mills
Discussion Heritage Photography
studio photo of Cezza. The image is very warm, in background and clothing with the jacket and glasses. Cezza looks at the camera very casually, but posed as such. A small green plant stands out, jutting out the bottom left corner of the image
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Cezza Sean EP Launch Party
Open Source Arts
Gig Music
Two groups of people stand withing an industrial Gallery space surrounded by large photography pieces and instillations.
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Many Hands - Working Class Creatives Database Social Event
Sunny Bank Mills
Discussion Heritage Social
Pottery demonstration at Sunken Studio with visitors watching ceramic decorating process
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Sunken Studio Open Day
Sunken Studio
Craft Exhibitions Social Visual Art Workshop
Jessica (with guitar) and Eli
Sat 13 Sep 2025
Offshoots & Elusive Jazz Presents: Eli Wallace, Jessica Ackerley + Special Guests
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Jazz Music