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Gigs In Leeds

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Three actors control puppets of different dinosaurs, one is pink, one is blue and one is orange.
Mon 16 Mar 2026 - Sat 21 Mar 2026
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Carriageworks Theatre
Family Friendly
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A photograph of a pair of blue jeans with different stitched patches on them.
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Beginners Guide to Visible Mending with Jane
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
Peter Spafford
Mon 9 Mar 2026
SOUNDBITES - Monthly Poetry Open Mic
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Performance
Spoken Word
A smiling Adam Frost in navy knitwear and a coat casually looks off-camera in a luscious green garden.
Mon 9 Mar 2026
An Evening with Adam Frost
City Varieties Music Hall
Theatre
Talk
Screen printed abstract shapes on paper in muted tones of grey, lilac and orange
Until Tue 10 Mar 2026
Screen Printing with Natural Colour (for Paper) – 2 Day Course
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A still from the film "London Boys"
Tue 10 Mar 2026
London Boys (15)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Dan Tiernan playing cards with a couple of dogs!
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Dan Tiernan
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A female looking into the distance.
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Khanh Nhi Luong
Leeds Conservatoire
Concerts
Music
The Wild Geese
Tue 10 Mar 2026
TNL: The Wild Geese
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Music
Performance
Gigs
Author Jennie Godfrey
Tue 10 Mar 2026
An Evening with Jennie Godfrey
The Old Woollen
Literature
Talk
Seamus Fogarty
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Seamus Fogarty
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Music
Free
flowery fabric
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Freedom4Girls Reusable Sewing Pads
Leeds Central Library - Art Library
All Library Events
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
Photograph showing exterior of Leeds Central Library with a paved area in front of it. The clock tower of Leeds Town Hall can be seen behind the library.
Until Wed 11 Mar 2026
Family History for Beginners Workshop
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Heritage
Workshop
Image of woman playing a harp
Wed 11 Mar 2026
The Music of Nature
Lotherton
Concerts
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Music
Performance
Free
Three people holding coding devices
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Code Club at Yeadon Library
Yeadon Community Hub & Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Workshop
Under £10
Guitars lined up ready to be played
Until Wed 11 Mar 2026
Improvers Guitar for ages 11-18
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Family Friendly Workshop
Music
Workshop
Free
Professor Duncan Sharp
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Inaugural professorial lecture of Professor Duncan Sharp | Serendipity, Strategy, and the Power of Partnerships
Leeds Beckett University The Rose Bowl
Talk
Under £10
A photo of Dr Richard Bärnthaler
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Café Economique: Beyond Net Zero: What Wartime Britain Can Teach Us About Rapid Social-Ecological Transition. A Talk by Dr Richard Bärnthaler
Seven Arts
Talk
a woman crawling on the floor in front of a wall mural of a kingfisher bird capturing a fish
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Amy Mason - Behold!
Hyde Park Book Club
Comedy
Free
A colour photograph of a bust of Queen Victoria, sitting on the bar of the Hark To Rover pub in Abbey House Museum's Victorian Street display
Wed 11 Mar 2026 - Thu 12 Mar 2026
Street Tours: Women in Victorian Leeds
Abbey House Museum
Guided Tour
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Ian Smith
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Ian Smith
The Wardrobe
Comedy
A 3 piece wooden sculpture of a brown and white patchy horse in the centre of the Gallery exhibition space during Ones to Watch 2026. The horse has a cartoonish face with an open mouth and a large eye facing upwards.
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Overtime Art Club - Absurdist Sculptures with Charlotte Miles
Sunny Bank Mills
Craft
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Pencil drawing of Shakespeare.
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Fakespeare
Otley Courthouse
Theatre
Members of the Pocket Ellington band with instruments
Thu 12 Mar 2026
“The Pocket Ellington” featuring Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi
Seven Arts
Music
Performance
Gigs
Jazz
A man in a prison cell is stood holding a phone to his ear.
Thu 12 Mar 2026 - Fri 13 Mar 2026
Please Do Not Touch
Leeds Playhouse
Theatre
Free
Colour photograph of a store interior with rails full of dresses
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Guest Speaker: Fashioning the 1950s, with Dr Liz Tregenza
M&S Archive
Talk
Heritage
Free
Olaya
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Olayá
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Dance
Music
Concerts
Free
Close up of gamelan
Fri 13 Mar 2026
The Golden Thread: Music for Gamelan
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Music
Concerts
Free
closeup of gamelan
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Come and Play: Gamelan
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Music
Workshop
Concerts
Santosh
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Films at HEART FilmFeast celebrates India
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre
Film
International Women's Day
Jens Lekman
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Jens Lekman
Howard Assembly Room
Gigs
Music
Smoove & Turrell
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Smoove & Turrell
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Press shot of Daoirí Farrell.
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Daoirí Farrell
Otley Courthouse
Music
Gigs
the band
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Blackbeard's Tea Party
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Under £10
Pleiades
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Pleiades + Red Sun Alert + Death Rituals
Santiago Bar
Gigs
Music
A group of people
Thu 12 Mar 2026 - Sat 14 Mar 2026
Pied Piper
Leeds Playhouse
Music
Theatre
children on a swing
Sat 14 Mar 2026
My Brother's A Genius
Leeds Playhouse
Family Friendly
Theatre
A picture of blue white and green felt flowers on a wooden counter top with art pottery in the background.
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Make a Felt Flower Bouquet
Abbey House Museum
Craft
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Nathan from Hawthornearts draws a face on a flipchart board
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Create a Comic Book Hero with Hawthornearts
Leeds Libraries
Family Friendly
Workshop
All Library Events
Family Friendly Workshop
Free
Storyteller Ian Douglas entertains a big crowd outdoors
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Storytelling with Ian Douglas
Leeds Central Library
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Performance
Free
Two people sat at a desk
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Wales in Venice: Manon Awst and Dylan Huw in conversation
Henry Moore Institute
Visual Arts
Talk
A photograph of someone using a soldering iron to melt solder onto a stained glass piece. There are shards of different coloured glass in the foreground.
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Sam Yates (March)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
black and white photo of a 1960s fashion show
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Sparky Saturdays: Fashion by Design with special guest Percy Pig
M&S Archive
Exhibition
Family Friendly
Free
Buttercrumble illustrate a portrait on an iPad.
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Be Illustrated for Buttercrumble’s Leeds 400 Drawathon
John Lewis & Partners Leeds
Family Friendly
Leeds 400
Visual Arts
JS Bach / Tim Knight
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Come and Sing Day - Bite-sized Bach and Friends
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
Creative Workshop
Music
Workshop
Free
a montage image
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Leeds Ceramic Fair
Heart Centre
Craft
Market
In a dark background, and dancer is captured mid-movement surrounded by a cloud of smoke.
Sat 14 Mar 2026
HUMANHOOD - Vortex
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre
Dance
Dance (Li)
4 dancers on stage in a circle
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Area Jeune Ballet | Double Bill
The Riley Theatre
Dance
Dance (Li)
Richard Todd Trading
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Tainted Love presents DARKSIDE : 80s Alternative
The Key Club
Dance
Gigs
Music
A group of burlesque performers in glimmering red dresses and extravagant feather plumes stand together on stage beneath smoky spotlights.
Fri 13 Mar 2026 - Sat 14 Mar 2026
An Evening of Burlesque Cabaret
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Dance
Crime and Punishment
Thu 12 Mar 2026 - Sat 14 Mar 2026
Crime and Punishment
Chroma Q Theatre
Theatre