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Ferg's Imaginary Big Band playing live on stage
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22nd - 27th May 2025
Leeds Jazz Festival 2025

Leeds Jazz Festival is back for its fourth year from 22nd - 27th May 2025.

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A CGI cuboid bee flying.
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Sat 24 May 2025 - Sun 1 Jun 2025
Summer Half Term in Leeds

What's the buzz? The Leeds Inspired Summer Half Term Holiday List, that's what! Packed with family friendly things to do from 24 May - 1 Jun.

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A piece of red coloured art being held up.
Multiple dates
Thu 22 May 2025 - Tue 27 May 2025
First Pressings
Holding Patterns
Exhibitions
Visual Art

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A figure in a bedroom sits backwards on a chair with a pillow covering their head and limbs contorted.
Multiple dates
Thu 22 May 2025 - Sun 25 May 2025
Drift by Meg Erridge
Assembly House
Exhibitions
Visual Art

Sisters 360 / Wed 7 May 2025 - Sat 10 May 2025 / Leeds Playhouse
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Spring
Theatre In Leeds

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

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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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Spring
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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Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Spring
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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A pastel green hospital food tray on a pastel green table. In the left half of the tray are brown and purple spotted balls on sticks. In the right side of the tray is a wire basket filled with colourful pills.
Multiple dates
Wed 2 Apr 2025 - Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sarah Roberts: SICK
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Exhibitions
Visual Art
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Shonen Knife
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Spring
Gigs In Leeds

Listen up! Dive in to our gig listings page and go wild on the dancefloor. 

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Spring
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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Abi Clarke
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Comedy in Leeds

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

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Awen Ensemble group sitting in a forest.
Thu 22 May 2025
Awen Ensemble + Metatrons Cube
The Attic
Gig Jazz Music
Jay Phelps holding a trumpet
Thu 22 May 2025
Jay Phelps Presents – Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue”
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
Lence singing into a microphone
Thu 22 May 2025
Blur the Lines featuring Jamettone
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
A man singing into a microphone on stage in front of a light
Thu 22 May 2025
Blur the Lines featuring Jamettone
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music Spoken Word
Black and white image of St Stephen's Church, with spire
Thu 22 May 2025
Walk Around Kirkstall
Abbey House Museum
Healthy Living Outdoor Social
A person dancing
Thu 22 May 2025
Verve
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
image shows the outside of The Wardrobe in Leeds
Thu 22 May 2025
The Full Moon Market at The Wardrobe
The Wardrobe
Fair Food & Drink Market
A woman on her knees with her arms raised to should height and head turned to face an open palm. A picture of the moon with a face fills a screen behind her.
Thu 22 May 2025
Troubled
HOPS at Hawksworth Wood Village Hall
Theatre
Two men sit on a seesaw art installation, made of steel beams, church pews, and grandfather clocks, against a red brick background
Thu 22 May 2025
'Staying with the Struggle' Film Screening
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Film
Jazz Musicians outside a house
Thu 22 May 2025
Jazz Supper Club I Leeds Jazz Festival
Left Bank Leeds
Gig Jazz Music
A pile of red clothes sits on a white floor
Thu 22 May 2025
forest of the (dance) floor
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Dance
Image still from Something Left Behind
Thu 22 May 2025
The Wedding Present: Something Left Behind + Q&A
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
wave
Thu 22 May 2025
Paint Hokusai’s Great Wave
Revolution Electric Press
Craft Workshop
Farah Ashraf (Salima) and Sara Abanur (Fatima) in Sisters 360. Pic by Tasha Best (10)
Thu 22 May 2025
Sisters 350 Community Tour - Gipton & Harehills
Bankside Primary
Theatre
Francisco Petrucci is looking deep in thought and listening, eyes closed, facing forward, holding headphones or listening devices to just below her ears.
Thu 22 May 2025
Deep Listening Workshop
Open Source Arts
Healthy Living Workshop
A picture of two pom pom gnomes. One has a red face and a green hat, the other has a white face and a turquoise hat
Thu 22 May 2025
Chat and Craft - Gnomes
Abbey House Museum
Craft Workshop
close up image of textured and creased tissue paper, the crafting kind. May not be representative of paper made in workshop
Thu 22 May 2025
Paper Making with Charlotte Hullah
Open Source Arts
Craft Workshop
4 musicians standing and female singer seated
Fri 23 May 2025
Dirty Ruby
Cross Keys
Gig Music
the band
Fri 23 May 2025
Limehouse Lizzy
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Black and white drawing of Chris Ingham.
Fri 23 May 2025
Chris Ingham Trio: The Jazz Of Dudley Moore
Otley Courthouse
Gig Jazz Music
Image from Deep Red of a god sculpture
Fri 23 May 2025
Deep Red with Live Score by Slow Knife
Hyde Park Picture House
Film Gig Jazz Music
an illustration
Fri 23 May 2025
Northern Roll X Pink Lemonade Roller Disco
Leeds Beckett University, Carnegie School of Sport Building
Craft Music Social Sport Workshop
Dancers inhale, exhale and turn their breath into movement.
Fri 23 May 2025
5Rhythms® Body & Breath
We Are Wellness
Dance Workshop
A variety of images of different performers
Fri 23 May 2025
Alt-Jazz X Breaks LJF-25
Hyde Park Book Club
Gig Jazz Music
Sultan Stevenson in front of a organ with leeds jazz festival branding
Fri 23 May 2025
Sultan Stevenson Trio – support Amelie Payne Heneghan Quintet
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
Camila George with a saxophone on a yellow background.
Fri 23 May 2025
Camilla George
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
A vinyl record being played in a cafe
Fri 23 May 2025
Jazz Kissa - ジャズ喫茶 - Opening Party
Galleria
Gig Jazz Market Music
Flatmoon Band standing together on a background of shapes
Fri 23 May 2025
Flat Friday with Flat Moon & Guests
The Vinyl Whistle
Gig Jazz Music
Portrait of Omar with Violins
Fri 23 May 2025
Omar Puente Charanga Jazz Sextet
The Old Woollen
Gig Jazz Music
George Fripp painting of Kirkstall Abbey, 1860. Lush green grass and a green tree on the right in the foreground, with the abbey in the centre and blue skies above. Livestock can be seen in front of the Abbey.
Fri 23 May 2025
Singing in the Abbey!
Kirkstall Abbey
Music Performance
Band on stage playing a variety of instruments
Fri 23 May 2025
Orchestra Mambo International + DJ Gia Fu (Hong Kong) + Sabroso Dance Company
Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen
Gig Jazz Music
Left of Leeds Live: Experimental Music
Fri 23 May 2025
Left of Leeds Live: Experimental Music
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Gig Music
Reflection of children playing with shapes on a white background
Fri 23 May 2025
Early years Atelier of Jazz
Leeds Art Gallery
Gig Jazz Music Workshop
COUNTRY FRIDAY NIGHT
Fri 23 May 2025
Country Friday Night
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Gig Music Show
Martin Fry sat in a middle row of some traditional red theatre or cinema auditorium seats.
Sat 24 May 2025
ABC: An Intimate Evening with Martin Fry
City Varieties
Discussion Gig Music
Grace Petrie
Sat 24 May 2025
Grace Petrie
The Leeds Irish Centre
Gig Music
the band
Sat 24 May 2025
Mclusky
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Two singers mid-show in front of their band and a projection screen.
Sat 24 May 2025
Let There Be House
City Varieties
Gig Music Show
HMS Morris
Sat 24 May 2025
HMS Morris at The Attic
The Attic
Gig Music
Portrait of Ginger
Sat 24 May 2025
The Wildhearts
The Old Woollen
Gig Music
A big group of musicians playing music together
Sat 24 May 2025
Ferg's Imaginary Big Band + Sophie Speed
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
DJ Coco Maria sitting on a chair surrounded by music equipment
Sat 24 May 2025
Jazz Dance Party - Coco Maria + El Caspete
Hyde Park Book Club
Gig Jazz Music
Face of the lead host - couple.
Sat 24 May 2025
Safeguarding Session for Parents & Leaders in Faith Communities in Leeds
Foursquare Gospel Church
Workshop
Yoga Teacher Kath in a high lunge with her arms raised high, and her right knee bent and left leg extended back
Sat 24 May 2025
Yoga for Runners
Yoga Hero
Healthy Living Workshop
Benet McLean playing violin
Sat 24 May 2025
Benet McLean Quintet (jazz violin) with support from “Cork Slacks”
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
DJ's playing music
Sat 24 May 2025
Herbie Underwood and Tom McEwen - Heavy Rotation Residents
The Vinyl Whistle
Gig Jazz Music
A group of people rummaging through baskets and rails of clothes in a community centre hall with high wooden ceilings.
Sat 24 May 2025
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange May Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Market
Interstellar
Sat 24 May 2025
Interstellar: Tribute to Hans Zimmer
St George's Church
Music Concert Music (Classical)
watercolour pallet and pan set with watercolour painting
Sat 24 May 2025
Watercolours - An Introduction with Lydia Rain
NorthLight Arts Centre
Craft Workshop
The site for Methley Farmers Market, by the old Library
Sat 24 May 2025
Methley Farmers Market
Methley Library
Market