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12th October - 23rd November
Farsley Lit Fest 2026

The fifth annual Farsley Lit Fest returns with Jay Rayner, John Boyne and Joanne Harris headlining. 12th October to 23rd November 2026.

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Wetherby Festival
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2 Oct 2026 - 11 Oct 2026
Wetherby Festival 2026

Wetherby Festival is now in its 49th year, held across Wetherby from 2nd to 11th October.

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2026
Leeds400

In 2026 Leeds commemorates a remarkable milestone — 400 years since receiving its first Royal Charter from King Charles I. Leeds 400 will showcase the diversity of the city and its people through events and activities held throughout the year.

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PAT RIOT

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Fri 11 Sep 2026 - Sun 8 Nov 2026
PAT RIOT
Hyde Park Book Club
Exhibition
Visual Arts
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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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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Gigs In Leeds

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

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Free
A man holding a VR180 camera smiles as he records. A woman wearing colourful clothes holds a boom mic audio recorder
Until Fri 2 Oct 2026
VR180 Filmmaking Masterclass
Leeds City Library
All Library Events
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Under £10
Badges
Fri 2 Oct 2026
It Takes A Community
Leeds City Museum
Exhibition
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Salsa de Cuba
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Friday Night Party Salsa De Cuba
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Music
Food & Drink
The Pussycat Dolls - PCD Forever Tour
Fri 2 Oct 2026
The Pussycat Dolls - PCD Forever Tour
first direct bank arena
Gigs
Music
Performance
Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Call My Wine Bluff - Wetherby Festival Event
St James' Parish Church, Wetherby
Food & Drink
Social
Wetherby Festival
Free
An photograph of the reflection of the photographer in a wet bin lid
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Gathering Exhibition - Opening Event
Space2
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Jacob Clark-Reyes
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Jacob Clark-Reyes Solo Piano Performance
Seven Arts
Concerts
Dancers in black & white
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Ballet Nights
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Theatre
Moustachioed Troy Hawke wears a shiny blue floral smoking jacket and matching neck tie against a plain grey background.
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Troy Hawke: Never Stop, Never Change!
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy
Elanor Moss
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Elanor Moss
The Attic
Gigs
Music
Performance
Picture of two women with short scruffy hair and cheeky smiles, they are wearing casual clothes and sunglasses, they look like their gig will be a lot of fun
Fri 2 Oct 2026
While & Matthews
Otley Courthouse
Gigs
Music
Gustavo Andrade & The Brasukas play live at Brudenell Social Club on 02.10.2026
Fri 2 Oct 2026
Gustavo Andrade & The Brasukas + Banda Zuêra + roda de samba / The Big Leeds Brazilian Music Party
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Performance
Gigs
Chunky Arm-Knitted Blanket Workshop
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Arm Knitting Blanket Workshop
Hoc Loco
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Wetherby Light Music Singers
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Wetherby Light Music Singers - Wetherby Festival Event
St James' Parish Church, Wetherby
Concerts
Music
Performance
Wetherby Festival
various hand tools, hammer, drill, screwdrivers
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Introduction to Woodwork - Hand Tools Level 1
Leeds Wood Recycling
Workshop
Creative Workshop
Free
Beige flowers on green background
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Grief & The Gut: An Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop with Sabine Horner
Living Potential Community Garden
Creative Workshop
Food & Drink
Workshop
SoC
Free
Young people are drawing onto some pottery designs at a messy table space.
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Community Get Together
Convention House
Visual Arts
Social
Free
John Poulter in rehearsal with rainbow umbrellas with The Performance Ensemble
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Bloomin' in the Garden
The Rose Garden Bandstand at Roundhay Park
SoC
Theatre
Free
A person with short brown hair and wearing a black shirt looks at a bronze bust of a man with a moustache on a wooden plinth. They are in a wood-panelled room.
Until Sat 3 Oct 2026
Who am I to you?
Treasures of the Brotherton
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Theatre Lighting - Photo by Wesley Pribadi on Unsplash
Until Sat 3 Oct 2026
Made In Dagenham
Carriageworks Theatre
Music
Theatre
Wash Day: Hair, Water & History
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Wash Day: Hair, Water & History
Bramley Baths
Black History Month
Heritage
Workshop
Lilith: The Other Side of the Story
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Lilith: The Other Side of the Story
Carriageworks Theatre
Theatre
Dancers pose on a raft
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Company Chameleon | Obscura
The Riley Theatre
Dance
Performance
Dance (Li)
Mat Hunsley
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Mat Hunsley
Hyde Park Book Club
Gigs
Music
Performance
Packed Theatre
Sat 3 Oct 2026
5 Mistakes That Changed History
Leeds Playhouse
Comedy
Performance
Reggae performer on stage at the black music festival
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Roots to Rhythm – 40 years of Black Music Festival
Leeds Playhouse
Black History Month
Exhibition
Talk
The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican
Sat 3 Oct 2026
The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican
Otley Courthouse
Comedy
Music
cult Ethiojazz band The Sorcerers play a rare live show at Brudenell Leeds on 03.10.2026 with support from DJ Andy Votel
Sat 3 Oct 2026
The Sorcerers (ATA Records) + DJ Andy Votel / Brudenell Leeds
Brudenell Social Club
Music
Performance
Gigs
Image of Diana Ross
Sat 3 Oct 2026
Women of Soul Play Left Bank
Left Bank Leeds
Dance
Gigs
Music
A still from "Children of Heaven"
Sat 3 Oct 2026 - Sun 4 Oct 2026
Children of Heaven (PG)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Family Friendly
Imagge shows daffodils, tulips and other spring flowers in a victorian jam jar on top of a table cloth
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Connect: Floristry through the Seasons (Part One: Stepping Into Spring)
stocked. (Horsforth)
Activity
Workshop
Creative Workshop
Free
Abstract plaster sculpture on a white backdrop
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Arp: The Plasters
Leeds Art Gallery
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Free
Artisan Fayre in Temple Newsam Amphitheatre
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Artisan Fayre
Temple Newsam
Craft
Food & Drink
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Market
Free
Wetherby Bridge photo
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Wetherby Town Walk - Wetherby Festival Event
Wetherby Riverside Bandstand
Guided Tour
Heritage
Wetherby Festival
Free
Exterior of The Sculpture Gallery on Balcony
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Anna Whitehouse At The Sculpture Gallery - Launch Event
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Under £10
Steam punk market
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Leeds Steampunk and Alternative Market
Leeds Industrial Museum
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Market
Visual Arts
a black and white photograph of a woman in front of a fence, with an ornate black and white striped dress on and large hat with feathers
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
Cecil Beaton: Staging Icons
Harewood House
Exhibition
Ian Bostridge
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Ian Bostridge & Joseph Middleton
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire
Music
Performance
Concerts
Matt Ford and The Northern Swing Orchestra Big Band
Sun 4 Oct 2026
A Evening with Frank Sinatra and Count Basie - The Northern Swing Orchestra Big Band
City Varieties Music Hall
Music
Performance
Gigs
Jazz
Under £10
James and Band
Sun 4 Oct 2026
The Northern Swing Orchestra Big Band and James Barrington Stephens
Swillington Miners Welfare, Sports & Social Club
Gigs
Jazz
Music
Performance
A colourful drawing of two people, one person is directing the other how to paint using proportions.
Until Sun 4 Oct 2026
See You Naked Monday
Left Bank Leeds
Creative Workshop
Social
Visual Arts
Workshop
Mark Radcliffe
Sun 4 Oct 2026
An Evening with Mark Radcliffe - Wetherby Festival Event
Wetherby Town Hall
Music
Talk
Wetherby Festival
Jamie Jones-Buchanan MBE
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Bramley Baths presents an evening with Jamie Jones-Buchanan MBE
Bramley Baths
Talk
Heritage
Members of The Delines all wearing sunglasses and casually posing along a brick wall.
Sun 4 Oct 2026
The Delines
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Eerie depiction of someone if indeterminate age and gender walking down a woodland path as the trees curve overhead in sinister fashion
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Wordweaver Stories: Sun, Stars and Straw
Otley Courthouse
Music
Talk
Emilio As Elvis
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Emilio Santoro as Elvis
Bibis Italianissimo Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Music
Food & Drink
Bill Callahan
Sun 4 Oct 2026
Bill Callahan
Leeds Irish Centre
Music
Gigs
Free
Black and white image of two librarians moving a large number of books on a trolley while smiling
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Book Club
Leeds City Library
All Library Events
Healthy Living
Literature
Beginners Yoga Course
Until Mon 5 Oct 2026
Beginners Yoga Course
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living
Grace Campbell sat in a cream bathtub wearing underwear, having red lipstick applied by a person off-camera. A plate with a sandwich and glass of champagne rests in front of her.
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Grace Campbell: The Lady is a Tramp
City Varieties Music Hall
Comedy