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6th - 14th June 2026.
Leeds Lit Fest 2026

A festival of words and imagination. 6th - 14th June 2026.

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LGBTQ+ monthly drinks hosted by Angels of Freedom
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LGBTQIA+ Leeds

 A wide range of events happening across the city hosted by, and supporting, our varied LGBTQIA+ community.

 

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Alabama Shakes - Sounds Of The City
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Summer
Gigs In Leeds

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

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A visitor inside the busy Print Fair at last year's festival inside the 1912 Mill. The space is a former textile mill with red brick walls, white pillars and strings of festoon lights hanging from the high beams. The space is filled with stalls of original prints and handmade books.
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Summer
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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The Turin Horse (15) / Mon 22 Jun 2026 / Hyde Park Picture House / Image: Curzon Film World Limited
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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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Buds, 2020 © Charlotte Verity photo Ben Westoby 
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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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Free
Keyboard with computer games characters on individual keys
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Retro Computing & Gaming Day
Horsforth Community Hub and Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Quiz / Gaming
Social
Free
keyboard and games characters
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Retro Computing & Gaming Day
Horsforth Community Hub and Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Quiz / Gaming
Social
A photograph of a stained glass squirrel on some blue paper with a hand poised over it with a paintbrush
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Sam Yates (June)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
Photo by freddie marriage on Unsplash
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Northern Fiction Alliance Book Fair
Hyde Park Book Club
Literature
Market
Leeds LitFest
Free
A group of models wearing summer clothes
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Sparky Saturdays: Summer Styling
M&S Archive
Exhibition
Family Friendly
A low-angle shot of a man speaking or performing into a microphone on a stage. He has a focused expression and is gesturing with one hand, illuminated by a warm, bright yellow spotlight
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Poetry & Rap Workshop with Lence
Carriageworks Theatre
Leeds LitFest
Creative Workshop
Literature
Spoken Word
Workshop
A blue and green floral print lay on a table
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Introduction to Stencil Fabric Printing with Megan Carter
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Under £10
Mothering and Wuthering: Maria and Emily Brontë
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Mothering and Wuthering: Maria and Emily Brontë
Carriageworks Theatre
Literature
Talk
Leeds LitFest
Northern Poets Collective
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Northern Poets Collective
Carriageworks Theatre
Leeds LitFest
Literature
Performance
Spoken Word
Free
Flock Foto Salon
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Flock Foto Salon
MAP Charity
Visual Arts
Social
5Rhythms® Waves Workshop
Sat 13 Jun 2026
5Rhythms® Waves Workshop
We Are Wellness
Dance
Healthy Living
Under £10
A man in drag sits behind a stage cow
Until Sat 13 Jun 2026
A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny
The Warehouse In Holbeck
LGBT+
Performance
Theatre
Pink mortarboard graduation cap balanced on some old looking books with a chihuahua peeking out from behind the books.
Until Sat 13 Jun 2026
Legally Blonde: The Musical
Leeds Grand Theatre
Theatre
Under £10
Close-up of a modern glass hourglass with pink sand against a blurred background of newspaper text, symbolizing the passage of time or a deadline.
Sat 13 Jun 2026
And Not a Second More
Carriageworks Theatre
Comedy
Literature
Leeds LitFest
two people on a stage, one holding a book, another holding a guitar
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Improvised Musical Galactic Deathmatch
Seven Arts
Comedy
Performance
Sunburst Deluxe
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Sunburst Deluxe
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Gigs
the band
Sat 13 Jun 2026
UB40
first direct bank arena
Gigs
Music
Adults Only
A still from "Moomins on the Riviera"
Until Sun 14 Jun 2026
Moomins on the Riviera (U)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Under £10
Poetry books
Sun 14 Jun 2026
New Northern Poets Take Wing
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Literature
Talk
Leeds LitFest
Spoken Word
Eddie Gripper trio in doorway
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Eddie Gripper "Americana"
Seven Arts
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
Under £10
Portrait of a person with short hair wearing a tan cardigan and scarf, featuring dramatic yellow lighting and a contemplative expression
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Alice Hattrick: Fancy Work
Hyde Park Book Club
Literature
Talk
Leeds LitFest
Sound & Massage
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Sound & Massage
We Are Wellness
Music
Healthy Living
Under £10
An illustration of a bustling, futuristic city street filled with diverse people and a high concentration of drones.
Sun 14 Jun 2026
GIGS: How to make a worryingly prescient graphic novel
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Leeds LitFest
Creative Workshop
Literature
Workshop
Free
Poets Talking Bollocks
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Poets Talking Bollocks
Hyde Park Book Club
Leeds LitFest
Literature
Social
Spoken Word
Under £10
Two people sit on a vibrant orange abstract sculpture in the MoMA sculpture garden, with modern museum architecture and other art installations in the background.
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Exploring Gender and the Body
Hyde Park Book Club
Leeds LitFest
LGBT+
Literature
Performance
Spoken Word
John Hegley is wearing a blue suit and light blue shirt with small polka dots. He is holding up a ukelele towards the camera with one hand whilst peering through the space in its tuning pegs with one eye closed.
Sun 14 Jun 2026
John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes
Hyde Park Book Club
Leeds LitFest
Gigs
Literature
Music
Spoken Word
Three people in regal period dresses and a dinner suit stand in front of a plain pink backdrop.
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Austentatious
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy
Theatre
Jennifer Saint
Mon 15 Jun 2026
An Evening with Jennifer Saint
The Old Woollen
Literature
Talk
On the left, Matt Forde smirks in green face paint, witch hat and all black suit in the style of Wicked. On the right, a second Matt Forde is whispering, wearing a tiara and sequined pink outfit. The backdrop transitions from golden, green-tinted clouds to shadow.
Until Mon 15 Jun 2026
Matt Forde: Defying Calamity
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
A colourful globe sits on a table.
Tue 16 Jun 2026
Refugee Week: A Sketch Walk
Leeds City Centre
Heritage
Guided Tour
A sheet of bright blue lino being carved with curved lines.
Tue 16 Jun 2026
Lino Printing Workshop
Northern Monk Refectory Leeds & Garden
Craft
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
The four members of Opus13 Quartet in black concert dress.
Tue 16 Jun 2026
Opus13 - June 2026
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire
Music
Performance
Concerts
Seven people in matching black suits strut around a plain white backdrop with exaggerated movements, some holding a ukulele .
Tue 16 Jun 2026
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Music
Leeds-art-film-James-Joyce-Northlight-Arts-Centre
Tue 16 Jun 2026
Bloomsday at Northlight: 100 Years of Ulysses + Des Hurley & Friends
Northlight Arts Centre
Film
Gigs
Music
Two sides of the same bronze coin, featuring the profile of Napoleon Bonaparte
Wed 17 Jun 2026
Napoleon Archive Talk
Lotherton
Talk
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Free
A view through a stone arch shows a group of young people around a piano.
Until Wed 17 Jun 2026
Song writing for ages 15-18 (6 Week course) partnership with Cloth Cat
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Music
Free
Bonfire Night Trial defendants and friends outside Leeds Town Hall, 1976. © Max Farrar
Wed 17 Jun 2026
The Bonfire Night Trial — 50 Years On
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Heritage
Leeds 400
Visual Arts
Ivo Graham smirks at the camera, in a bright orange suit and sunglasses, with orange-dyed hair.
Wed 17 Jun 2026
Ivo Graham: Orange Crush
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Alison Cotton
Wed 17 Jun 2026
Alison Cotton
The Attic
Music
Performance
Gigs
Jane Morland, the performer wearing an vintage metal fire helmet
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Trailblazing at Seven Arts
Seven Arts
Heritage
Performance
Theatre
Under £10
Photograph of a woman with a dark background
Thu 18 Jun 2026
The Bed Trick: Book Talk With Izabella Scott
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Literature
Talk
Yellow and blue toned collage of musicians playing instruments along with icons of footsteps, drums and the portrait of a face.
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Charanga del Norte
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Free
Disco ball on a dark ceiling, casting scattered light reflections.
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Cabaret Mystic
Rowland Road WMC
Visual Arts
Performance
A still from "Threads"
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Threads (18)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Under £10
A still from "All Dogs Go To Heaven"
Fri 19 Jun 2026
All Dogs Go To Heaven (U)
Hyde Park Picture House
Family Friendly
Film
The Romano Ensemble
Fri 19 Jun 2026
The Romano Viazzani Ensemble London Tango Spring Tour 2026
The Wardrobe
Gigs
Music
One hand placing a sensor on another persons wrist.
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Parkinson's Steppers
Clothworkers Building South
Dance
Dance Class
Healthy Living
Music
Workshop
The Herbalist Yoga Workshop
Fri 19 Jun 2026
The Herbalist Yoga Workshop
We Are Wellness
Workshop
Healthy Living
Summer solstice Wellbeing Ceremony (Litha)
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Summer solstice Wellbeing Ceremony (Litha)
We Are Wellness
Workshop
Healthy Living
Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton
Fri 19 Jun 2026
Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton: Kathleen’s Songbook
Leeds Conservatoire
Concerts
Music