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6 Apr 2025 - 22 Apr 2025
Easter Holidays in Leeds

This Easter in Leeds why not eggsplore what's out there for children and families across Leeds.

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mending
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22 Apr 2025 - 27 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week 2025

A series of events focusing on how we buy, wear, care and dispose of clothing, 22 April - 27 April.

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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.

Green

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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Ribbons - Artist Pippa Hale - Celebrating 400 Inspirational Women of Leeds (Adjacent to Leeds Playhouse) Cited at Leeds Quarry Hill Cultural Quarter 2024
Multiple dates
Thu 27 Feb 2025 - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Milele Lullaby Choir
Leeds City College, Quarry Hill Campus
Music
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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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A white, female tour guide with brown hair, a black cloak and a microphone gestures with a ghoulish expression as she tells a scary story. She is stood in front of a dark stone wall at night time.
Multiple dates
Sat 5 Apr 2025 - Sat 20 Dec 2025
Otley Ghost Tour
Otley Market Place
Guided Tours
Heritage
Outdoor
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Cinema Africa: Camp De Thiaroye / Sun 25 May 2025 / Hyde Park Picture House
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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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Winter
Comedy in Leeds

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

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Helen and Ellie of Scummy Mummies in sparkly red outfits sat on a sofa a two different levels with a bottle of bubbly on ice on the table next to them and a neon sign reading 'Hot Mess' behind them.
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Scummy Mummies: Hot Mess
City Varieties
Comedy Show
Black and white image of woman on the floor leaning against a window holding sheets of paper.
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Pervert Pictures Presents: Structuring S**
Outlaws Yacht Club
Film
Photo of the Leeds Art Library, showing tiles archways, bookshelves and a long study tables and chairs.
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Leeds Zine Library Lates! Stephen Lawrence Day with the School of Law, University of Leeds
Leeds Central Library
Craft Discussion Talk Workshop
Laurel Canyon Union
Tue 22 Apr 2025
TNL: Laurel Canyon Union
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Music
Illustration of the bands imagery
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Transglobal Underground
The Old Woollen
Gig Music
David Cross from the shoulders up with a neutral expression wearing a black t-shirt stood against a charcoal background.
Wed 23 Apr 2025
David Cross: The End of the Beginning of the End
City Varieties
Comedy
illustration of a rider on a rearing horse
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Spear of Destiny
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Bowers Allerton Hall
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Open Mic Night
Bowers Allerton Hall
Performance Show Social
Wild at Heart - directed by David Lynch
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Films at Heart: Wild at Heart
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Film
People chatting & laughing while they network.
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The Creative Meet Up
The Attic
Discussion Social Talk
closs up photo of a gold coloured cahinmaille bracelet accross some plastic plants
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Byzantine Chainmaille Jewellery Bracelet Workshop
Open Source Arts
Craft Workshop
Graphic of a ball of wool
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Hyde Park Stitch Club
Hyde Park Book Club
Craft Workshop
selection of charms and cartoon cats
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Pop Up Charm Station
Left Bank Leeds
Craft Social Workshop
A young woman with blonde curly hair and a large white fur coat sits at a table next to two drinks glasses
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Almost Famous
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
the band
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Chat Pile
The Leeds Irish Centre
Gig Music
The band / Credit Jason Thomas Geering
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Bambara
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Cava y Mas Event - 2 bottles of Cava and 2 glasses cheers together in the winery.
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Cava y Mas with Cava Mastinell
Ambiente Tapas Leeds
Food & Drink Social Talk
5 Men dressed in Shakespearean Dress sat in a red room.
Thu 24 Apr 2025
School Of Night
Slung Low at Temple
Comedy Theatre
A tinted postcard (1903) of Park Row, Leeds with a tram passing by elegant Victorian buildings
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Study Day: Building 19th Century Leeds
Abbey House Museum
Discussion Talk Workshop
Georgia Mancio with Alan Broadbent in a garden
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Georgia Mancio and Alan Broadbent Quartet
Seven Arts
Gig Jazz Music
huge drawing of a woman's face on bright blue wall
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Overtime Art Club O2W Special - Drawing Heads and Faces
Sunny Bank Mills
Craft Workshop
A Bizarre True Tale of Tabloid England
Thu 24 Apr 2025
The Great Satanic Swindle
The Old Woollen
Comedy Performance Show Spoken Word
Photo of hand building pottery.
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Pottery Hand-building Workshop
Flamingos Coffee House
Craft Workshop
A young lady, in mid-close up, holds a microphone stand with hands almost clasped together, as she sings into the microphone with eyes closed. Her frizzy hair is coloured red and brushed to full volume. Her vintage polka-dotted halter-neck dress contrasts with the background's futuristic neon-pink lines and dark blue-purple background.
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Bills and Beats - Bridge the gap between creativity and financial knowledge
The Attic
Discussion Music Talk Workshop
Two hands crocheting a blue granny square
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Beginners Guide to Crochet with Ingrid Bolton-Gabrielsen
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
Elvis tribute act with the classic Elvis black quiff in a golden suit jacket, wide open black shirt underneath, black trousers and holding a retro-looking microphone.
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Emilio Santoro as Elvis
City Varieties
Gig Music Show
Fleetwood Mac: An Orchestra Tribute - DEPOT Cardiff, September 2024
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Fleetwood Mac: An Orchestra Tribute with Live Vocalists
The Venue
Gig Music
Women with curly brown hair in a DIY tshirt that says Deconize Fashion on it
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Threads of Change: Fashion Revolution Week 2025
The Old Fire Station
Craft Workshop
Angelic Reiki Training
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Angelic Reiki Training
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
Retro Microphone
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Queer Open Mic
Flamingos Coffee House
Gig LGBT+ Performance
Joel Dommet smiling in a black t-shirt pointing with both hands at his face.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Joel Dommett: Happy Idiot
City Varieties
Comedy
at the clothes swap
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week at SCRAP – Clothes Swap
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Fashion Market
The Steelers stood on stage with their instruments.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Steelers: The Music Of Steely Dan
Otley Courthouse
Gig Music
A selection of Lino prints in black and red ink
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Lino Printing - An Introduction
NorthLight Arts Centre
Craft Workshop
A selection of watercolour paintings of flowers in various colours
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Floral Watercolours with Joanne Whitaker
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft Workshop
A still life painting featuring a glass vase with orange flowers, a striped blue and white bowl with lemons and an orange, and a draped white cloth against a soft blue background.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Bringing Fruit to Life: A Still Life Oil Painting Experience
The Mill Gallery
Craft Workshop
If your anger has nowhere else to go, can you put it into your art?
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Channeling Your Anger Into Art
Open Source Arts
Craft Healthy Living Workshop
a green image of a shire
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Music of The Lord of The Rings: A Tribute to Howard Shore
St George's Church
Music Concert Music (Classical)
The image shows a destroyed and overgrown cityscape.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Contemporary Dystopia: The Return of Apocalyptic Thinking
Mill Hill Chapel
Discussion Talk
A group of people rummaging through white baskets full of clothes in a community centre hall with high wooden ceilings.
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Leeds Community Clothes Exchange: Fashion Revolution Week Swap
Woodhouse Community Centre
Market
HEART's hall with stallholders
Sat 26 Apr 2025
HEART's Springboard Market
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Market
Bright summer flowers, creative colourful art and a yoga mat laying on soil
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Yoga & ART in the Woods Workshop
Otley Chevin Forest Park
Craft Healthy Living Workshop
mending
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Fashion Revolution Week at SCRAP – Drop in Mend, Repair, Upcycle Saturday
Scrap Creative Reuse Art Project
Craft Workshop
Dionne Warwick smiling at the camera wearing a white shirt with an image of Betty Boop on a motorbike stitched into it.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Leeds Grand Theatre
Gig Music
Image from Richard Dawson's album 'End of the Middle'. Illustration of a red bus stop shelter with a brick wall behind it and houses behind.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Rich(ard) Dawson
City Varieties
Gig Music
A drag queen with a large red dress on is emerging from a window with flowery curtains
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Kate Butch: Wuthering Sh*tes
Carriageworks Theatre
Comedy Musical Show
Nikki Iles seated
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra at Howard Assembly Room
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
A photograph of the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
Black man on landline phone
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Comrade Tambo's London Recruits
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
Crowd in The Attic, Leeds.
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Tom Sharp Jazz Orchestra + LCSU Big Band
The Attic
Gig Jazz Music