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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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Brazilian music stars Gustavo Andrade & The Brasukas play a free show at Brudenell Social Club Leeds on 6th March
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Gustavo Andrade & The Brasukas / FREE SHOW
Brudenell Social Club
Dance
Gigs
Music
Cuore Chamber Orchestra Launch Concert, Royal Hall Harrogate
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Cuore Chamber Orchestra - Leeds Launch Concert
Howard Assembly Room
Concerts
Leeds 400
Music
Performance
Country Night in Nashville Poster with performers holding their instruments on stage
Until Fri 6 Mar 2026
A Country Night in Nashville
City Varieties Music Hall
Gigs
Music
Performance
Marcus Brigstocke: Vitruvian Mango
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Marcus Brigstocke: Vitruvian Mango
Otley Courthouse
Comedy
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Fri 6 Mar 2026
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Music
Reeling in the Dan
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Reelin' in the Dan
The Old Woollen
Gigs
Music
Performance
A group of seven dancers performing with one thrown high above them.
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Hidden
Leeds Playhouse
Dance
Dance (Li)
Performance
A colour photograph of a recreated Victorian backstreet (Abbey Fold at Abbey House Museum), featuring different dwellings. Anti-clockwise from the right is the widow washerwoman's house, with her mangle. Next is the artisan's cottage with whitewashed walls. In the centre is the pawnbrokers shop with the pawnbrokers house top left, leading down to the mourning warehouse window in the bottom left corner.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Rebraiding History: A Creative Writing Workshop, with Becky Cherriman
Abbey House Museum
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
Free
Autumn sketching at Garforth Nature Journal Club
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Garforth Nature Journal Club
The Lord Gascoigne Pub Community Garden
Workshop
Craft
A white tshirt laid on a table with a repeat pattern of a sun freshly printed onto it. To the right is an ink palette filled with pink and red ink and sponge brushes
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Intro to Block Printing on Textiles - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Three ceramic bottles sit on a wooden table, they are mid brown in colour and are organised in height order with the smallest being on the left.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Bottles and Vases Throwing Masterclass with Jeannie Waterhouse
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A red neon hand praying
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Thackray Insights: Religion and Medicine
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Talk
Free
Two cozy collaged birdhouses in front of green hills. Two birds and a bee fly overhead.
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
A little birdy told me… Look out! Stories are nesting!
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Visual Arts
Free
A person wearing a leather jacket and stripped orange trousers stands on a dark stage pulling a surprised face.
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Aladdin and the Stolen Stories
Leeds Libraries
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Theatre
Prints of a medieval style letters printed from lego plates. The prints are laid out in rows on a drying rack.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Lego Relief Printing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
A person's hands rolling navy ink onto an abstract collagraph plate during a previous workshop.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Introduction to Collagraph Printing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Two silver rings stand on their outer edge, on a grey fluffy surface. they are chunky with texture on the outside and a smooth inside.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Make a Textured Silver Ring in a Day with Toby Cotterill
Swarthmore Education Centre
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A selection of marbled paper in shades of blue, orange and cream laid out on a white background.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Suminagashi Marbling and Orizome Workshop - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
A glass jar filled with avocado ink, sealed with a white lid, placed beside three large avocado stones and their skin, against a roughly painted piece of paper.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Avocado Ink Notebook Making Workshop - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
A squeegee being used to screen print an image of plant pots in shades of blue and yellow ink
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Paper Screen Printing – 2 Day Course
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
Free
Kimberly Campanello
Sat 7 Mar 2026
WRITING WORKSHOPS: Creative Translation & the Seacroft Canto
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Creative Workshop
Literature
Workshop
Under £10
A group of dancers on stage with their arms stretches out in all directions, dressed in white t-shirts and various coloured skirts
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
RJC Dance Showcase Watch Party 2026
RJC Dance
Film
Dance
Under £10
A crowd gathered around artist Linda Cassels during her performance at last year's Ones to Watch exhibition in the Gallery.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Ones to Watch 2026 Performance Night
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Performance
Group of dancers facing out to right with blurred dancers around
Fri 6 Mar 2026 - Sat 7 Mar 2026
VERVE 26 | Premiere
The Riley Theatre
Dance
Dance (Li)
Under £10
A Palestinian woman with three children sat under an olive tree
Until Sat 7 Mar 2026
Aisha's Story - a film & food event for International Women's Day
All Hallows Church
Film
Food & Drink
International Women's Day
Bootleg Eagles press shot.
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Bootleg Eagles: History Of The Eagles
Otley Courthouse
Music
Gigs
A hand reaching out to a coptic bound white notebook, which is positioned on a bright yellow cutting mat on a wooden table.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Coptic Sketchbook Workshop (with pencil holder!) - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Image shows various marbled papers made into decorations, cards and bookmarks
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Paper Marbling and Collage with Esk Haus
Activity
Craft
Creative Workshop
Workshop
A digital illustration of a girl with a cat waving and smiling whilst climbing out of a window. In the foreground is a hand with a pink pencil that is illustrating the girl.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Comic Drawing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
A minimalist relief print of an apple tree, with a burgundy textured background.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Relief printing from Polystyrene Plates - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
The cast and crew of "Shorties"
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Shorties (18)
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Under £10
Image of the author Kate Pankhurst
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Kate Pankhurst – Fantastically Great 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Leeds Art Gallery
All Library Events
Family Friendly
Leeds Storytelling Festival
Literature
A purple lino print of a canal boat in front of a row of town houses, with bunting hanging over the top.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Lino Printing - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Visual Arts
Workshop
Craft
Creative Workshop
Wet experimental prints of daffodil heads on glossy paper in shades of blue and brown, with labels of each developer's name positioned underneath.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Cyanolumen: Light, Chemistry & Botanical Traces - Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Craft
Creative Workshop
Visual Arts
Workshop
Free
Two people using musical PA equipment
Sun 8 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day: Music Leeds Us
Leeds City Museum
International Women's Day
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Performance
Workshop
Disney On Ice presents Into the Magic
Until Sun 8 Mar 2026
Disney On Ice presents Into the Magic
first direct bank arena
Family Friendly
Performance
Under £10
A repeating pattern of objects that feature in the exhibition on a background that looks like lined notepaper, including a typewriter, medieval tile, ipod, laptop, champagne bottle, Victorian ladies boots, ancient Greek coin, old style library card, model of a building (the Moot Hall), variety of pens (quill, fountain and medieval stylus), ink well, police truncheon and a bird (stonechat)
Until Sun 8 Mar 2026
Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays
Abbey House Museum
Exhibition
Heritage
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Spoken Word
Free
studio holder Zoe wearing green overalls and a headband talking to a pair of visitors in the corridor of her studio space, which is filled with art materials and plants.
Sat 7 Mar 2026 - Sun 8 Mar 2026
Open Studios
Sunny Bank Mills
Activity
Exhibition
Visual Arts
Under £10
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.
Sat 7 Mar 2026 - Sun 8 Mar 2026
Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2026
Sunny Bank Mills
Fair
Festival
Market
Craft
Creative Workshop
A still from the film "My Night With Maud"
Sun 8 Mar 2026
My Night with Maud PG
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Promotional image for Othello.
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Othello
Otley Courthouse
Film
Them There Cowboys: Campfire Tales
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Them There Cowboys: Campfire Tales
The Bookish Type
LGBT+
Music
Performance
Spoken Word
Free
Maya Angelou & Angela Davis - Empowering Women
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Nwanyi - Women's Open Decks
The Vinyl Whistle
Gigs
International Women's Day
Music
a person on a canal towpath
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Andrew Wasylyk
Brudenell Social Club
Gigs
Jazz
Music
A family sit harnessed and perched on the side of a large cliff face, all are smiling up at the camera
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Leo Houlding: Exposed
Carriageworks Theatre
Talk
A dance teacher corrects a young dancer's posture. They are both smiling.
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Academy of Northern Ballet - Vocational Training Auditions
Northern Ballet & Phoenix Dance Theatre
Dance
Dance Class
Workshop
A picture of foraged spring foliage
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Spring Equinox Foraged Wreath Workshop
Abbey House Museum
Craft
Creative Workshop
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Workshop
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