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Ferg's Imaginary Big Band playing live on stage
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22nd - 27th May 2025
Leeds Jazz Festival 2025

Leeds Jazz Festival is back for its fourth year from 22nd - 27th May 2025.

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A figure in a bedroom sits backwards on a chair with a pillow covering their head and limbs contorted.
Multiple dates
Thu 22 May 2025 - Sun 25 May 2025
Drift by Meg Erridge
Assembly House
Exhibitions
Visual Art

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.

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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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Free
the cast
Single date
Wed 14 May 2025
Dreamers Q&A
Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Discussion
Talk
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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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Free
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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Stalls in Dortmund Square with 'IDAHOBIT' chalked into the pavement
Single date
Sat 17 May 2025
IDAHoBiT Leeds 2025
Dortmund Square
Craft
LGBT+
Market
Social
Workshop
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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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Old photos of Gordon Strachen and Gary McAllister in their Leeds United kit with Elland Road in the background.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Leeds Legends
City Varieties
Discussion Show Sport
the band
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Benefits
The Attic
Gig Music
the artist
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Alabaster DePlume
The Brudenell Social Club
Mosaics of a bird, robin and bee.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Mosaic Workshop – The Birds and the Bees
Otley Courthouse
Craft Workshop
Lord Mayor of Leeds, Abigail Marshall-Katung
Wed 30 Apr 2025
A Community Conversation with the Lord Mayor of Leeds
The Reginald Centre Community Hub and Library
Discussion Talk
Graphic of a Celtric Triple Horn Knot. Of woven branches or wicker, surrounded by a circle of leaves.
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Funcho! presents: Beltane Kibitz
Open Source Arts
Food & Drink Gig Social
sketchbook, brush and pencil
Wed 30 Apr 2025
April Creative Club - Spring on a Postcard
The Terminus
Craft Workshop
Clay sculpture on a canvas background. The words art market are imprinted in the clay
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Art Market
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Market
Eddie Kadi wearing a black jacket that has the shape of the continent of Africa featuring a lion's face on his left arm with his right hand behind his head.
Thu 1 May 2025
Eddie Kadi: Let Me Land
City Varieties
Comedy
life drawing
Thu 1 May 2025
Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (May)
Swarthmore Education Centre
Workshop
Two men in black and white. The one on the left has shaggy dark hair and a beard and the one on the right is wearing glasses and a bowler hat.
Thu 1 May 2025
Have A Word: Murderers Row Stand-Up Tour
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy Radio & Podcasts
Nabil in an orange top
Thu 1 May 2025
Nabil Abdulrashid: Urban Battuta
The Wardrobe
Comedy
the artist
Thu 1 May 2025
Anika
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Open note book with written words.
Thu 1 May 2025
Craft and Create: Creative Writing.
Leeds Discovery Centre
Craft Literature Workshop
A musicians looking into the distance.
Thu 1 May 2025
Parable
Testbed
Concert Music Music (Classical)
Cloth the band
Thu 1 May 2025
In Store At Jumbo Records: Cloth
Jumbo Records
Gig Music
Illustration of the film poster
Thu 1 May 2025
Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail
The Old Woollen
Film Music
Image of Alana and Gary from the film Licorice Pizza
Thu 1 May 2025
Licorice Pizza
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Cream and brown sculptered form resembling vessel
Thu 1 May 2025
Victoria Ferrand Scott at The Sculpture Gallery
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibitions Social Visual Art
John Power looking down at the camera wearing a camo bomber jacket leaning against a concrete wall with a tall concrete building in the background.
Fri 2 May 2025
John Power: Cast, The LA's and Me
City Varieties
Gig Music Show Talk
graphic score
Fri 2 May 2025
LSTwo
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Music Concert Music (Classical)
James Rowland jumping in the air with homemade wings on his arms.
Fri 2 May 2025
Learning To Fly
Otley Courthouse
Comedy Music Show Theatre
We Are Wellness
Fri 2 May 2025
Authentic Relating Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
Neil Sadler Band
Fri 2 May 2025
Neil Sadler Band
Cross Keys
Gig Music
Connor Selby
Fri 2 May 2025
Connor Selby
Cross Keys
Gig Music
An image of Karine Polwart singing into a studio microphone
Fri 2 May 2025
Karine Polwart At The HAR
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Music
Picture shows Irish fiddle and wooden flute players making music with a banjo player in the background.
Fri 2 May 2025
Bealtaine: An evening of Traditional Irish Music & Song
The Terminus
Gig Music
Terra Invisus
Fri 2 May 2025
FNL: Terra Invisus
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Music
bold colourful screenprint of a jumpsuit and a panther
Fri 2 May 2025
Darktown Comes to Print Town - Exhibition Launch
UpCo
Exhibitions Social Visual Art
The gloved hand of an archaeologist inspecting a skull.
Sat 3 May 2025
Thackray Insights: Left for Dead
Thackray Museum of Medicine
Discussion Museum Talk
Man with long hair and a beard in a black top looking slightly down with an image of him looking up merged into the top of his head.
Sat 3 May 2025
Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show
City Varieties
Comedy Show
the band
Sat 3 May 2025
Sorry
The Brudenell Social Club
Gig Music
Abba Drag Themed Bottomless Brunch
Sat 3 May 2025
GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! The ABBA Inspired Drag Bottomless Brunch
Playroom
Food & Drink Music Show Social
Man in a white vest and denim jacket points
Sat 3 May 2025
Undermined
The Warehouse in Holbeck
Theatre
REVISITED: Dave Angel / Together - DAYCLUBBING (The Backroom, Leeds. 3rd May 2025, 3pm-10pm
Sat 3 May 2025
REVISITED: Dave Angel / Together - DAYCLUBBING
The Backroom
Gig Music Social
Ed Patrick wearing scrubs holding a stethoscope in front of a yellow background.
Sat 3 May 2025
Ed Patrick: Catch Your Breath
Otley Courthouse
Comedy
Promotional image in the style of the musical Hamilton's treatment. Milton Jones wearing a floral purple shirt in the middle of a black star holding up a microphone.
Sat 3 May 2025
Milton Jones: Ha!Milton Jones
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy Show
An artist's workspace with paint tubes, brushes in a glass jar, a palette, and a sketchbook on a paint-stained table. Landscape paintings hang on the wall in the background.
Sat 3 May 2025
From Sketch to Masterpiece: Elevate Your Oil Painting
The Mill Gallery
Craft Workshop
Marigold Addams as Jane McDonald
Sat 3 May 2025
Marigold Addams presents Jane McDonald
Flamingos Coffee House
Comedy Gig LGBT+ Performance Show
Two women screen printing an image on to t-shirts and tote bags. The image one of the women is printing is of Frida Kahlo
Sat 3 May 2025
Screen Printing Tees & Totes
Leeds Print Workshop
Craft Workshop
A woman dances with her hand to her ear in a graphic floral dress
Sat 3 May 2025
Equilibrio Dinamico | Through Her Eyes – Three Female Voices
The Riley Theatre
Dance Performance
Shop Front
Sat 3 May 2025
Siren Sounds x Rudegal Studios : Street Party
Canned Heat
Gig Music
Chapel FM Musicathon
Sat 3 May 2025
Musicathon: Leeds Live Music & Radio Festival
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Gig Music Radio & Podcasts Show Social
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Andy Eastwood wearing a beige fedora smiling against a Union Jack background
Sun 4 May 2025
Spirit of the Blitz
City Varieties
Music Musical Performance Show
Lunchtime Conversation: Paul Walsh (March 2019)
Sun 4 May 2025
Lunchtime Conversation: Helen Wood
BasementArtsProject
Food & Drink Talk Visual Art
Reiki Infused Meditation Workshop
Sun 4 May 2025
Reiki Infused Meditation Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
A composite of three people's faces.
Sun 4 May 2025
Neil Cowley Trio
Howard Assembly Room
Gig Jazz Music
Image of musicians against a colourful background
Sun 4 May 2025
Brighton Beach Clubnight
Project House
Gig Music
The Orchestra of Opera North on stage with the Opera North logo on a screen behind them.
Sun 4 May 2025
Orchestra of Opera North Presents: Star Wars in Concert
Leeds Grand Theatre
Film Music Concert Music (Classical)
Brown Fang being interviewed in a recording studio
Sun 4 May 2025
Delia Recordings and Balearic Social present… BROWN FANG [live]
Outlaws Yacht Club
Gig Music