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14 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
Leeds Lit Fest

Leeds Lit Fest is back! A festival of words and imagination. 14th - 22nd June 2025. 

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Summer
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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Summer
Theatre In Leeds

Our collection of theatre listings in Leeds taking place in venues and spaces across the city.

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Mindful Market in full swing with shoppers browsing each stall holder.
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Summer
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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Spring
Gigs In Leeds

Listen up! Dive in to our gig listings page and go wild on the dancefloor. 

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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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Summer
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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Helen Bauer: Bless Her /Tue 9 Sep 2025 / City Varieties
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Summer
Comedy in Leeds

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

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Mon 16 Jun 2025
MAWANGA Dance Workshop. Move, Connect, Empower!
RJC Dance
Dance Workshop
an illustration
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Celebrating the life & work of Nell Smith
The Brudenell Social Club
Film Gig Music Social
Yoga Teacher Amy in a Warrior pose with her arms lifted above her head
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Yoga Essentials: Hips and Heart
Yoga Hero
Healthy Living Workshop
the zine club
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Zineophilia: The Zine Social Club
Hyde Park Book Club
Craft Workshop
someone looking at work on a wall
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Dirty LAUndry
Hyde Park Book Club
Performance Spoken Word
Simon Price & John Robb
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Goth night: the darker side of books
Hyde Park Book Club
Discussion Talk
Jamie, a white male, holding a microphone up to his mouth. Wearing a blue polo top and blue and white bomber jacket
Mon 16 Jun 2025
The Poet Within - Performance Poetry Workshop with Jamie H Scrutton
Swarthmore Education Centre
Music Workshop
Looking up from the centre of a pylon
Tue 17 Jun 2025
The Power of Photography
St Edmund's Church Hall
Photography Talk
the artists
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Love Is Not All
Chapel FM Arts Centre
Gig Literature Music
an illustration
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Wild Women Writing the North
Hyde Park Book Club
Discussion Literature
James Nash
Tue 17 Jun 2025
James Nash: ‘Notes of Your Music’
The Leeds Library
Social Spoken Word
Christopher R. Moore
Tue 17 Jun 2025
What Have You In Your Heart
Hyde Park Book Club
Discussion Literature Talk
an armchair with text on it
Tue 17 Jun 2025
The Poetry Chair
Trinity Leeds
Exhibitions Visual Art
Fishing4Compliments
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Tuesday Night Live: Fishing4Compliments
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Gig Music
national dress
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Who am I? North African Narratives
Leeds Civic Hall
Craft Food & Drink Music Performance Workshop
A woman with long ginger hair sits in a sunlit library reading a book
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Radical Reading: Discussing Diverse Stories and Book Swap Social
Treasures of the Brotherton
Discussion Literature
James Nash Author
Tue 17 Jun 2025
James Nash: 'Notes of Your Music'
The Leeds Library
Literature Spoken Word
Two people talking over a laptop
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Hyde Park Picture House
Film
Photo of author Tawseef Khan
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Refugee Week: Northern Bookshelf Live with author Tawseef Khan
The Compton Centre
Literature Talk
Four comedy actor/ musicians in Elizabethan dress on an open air stage
Tue 17 Jun 2025
The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I - at Kirkstall Abbey
Kirkstall Abbey
Comedy Outdoor Theatre
Drakeford
Wed 18 Jun 2025
From Nashville - Drakeford in concert
The Barn Coffee Shop
Gig Music
A man and a woman backing each other.
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Esther's Revenge
Leeds Minster
Theatre
Mary and Zac
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Embodied Word
Hyde Park Book Club
Spoken Word Workshop
Andrew McMillan & Maria Ferguson
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Poetry, Yorkshire & Beyond
Hyde Park Book Club
Spoken Word
Hand sewing a scrunchie
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Scrunchie Making Workshop
Water Lane Boathouse
Craft Workshop
Photo of people socialising at Pride Place
Wed 18 Jun 2025
LBGTQ+ Social Gaming
Pride Place
LGBT+ Quiz / Gaming Social
Illustration of the Sugar Hill Gang
Wed 18 Jun 2025
The Sugar Hill Gang ft Melle Mel & Scorpio
The Old Woollen
Gig Music
Shoulders and head of Jack Dee wearing a suit lying on his side next to a globe.
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Jack Dee: Small World
Leeds Grand Theatre
Comedy
Image of author sitting at white table, wearing blue jeans, white short and colourful headscarft
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Cosy Crime with a Windrush flavour – with debut author Mel Pennant
Truman Books
Discussion Literature
Close up shot of an impressionist style painting of a boat on a river.
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Exhibition on Screen: Dawn of Impressionism - Paris 1874
Otley Courthouse
Exhibitions Film Visual Art
Lagos based playwright, Kenneth Uphopho
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Esther’s Revenge – Meet the Writers
Leeds Minster
Craft Literature Workshop
A woman on her knees raises her arms to shoulder height and looks towards one palm. The moon with a face fills a screen behind her.
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Troubled
The Gate at Belle Isle TMO
Theatre
A group of writers.
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Our City, Our Lives, Our Stories
The Compton Centre
Literature Performance Spoken Word
a group
Thu 19 Jun 2025
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Next Chapter Books
Discussion Literature
Lucy Vine
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Lucy Vine, Laura Wood & Rebecca Ryan
Waterstones Leeds
Discussion Literature
daisies
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Another Midsummer Cushion
School of English
Literature Spoken Word
A drawing of two fruits wearing 3D glasses and sitting on cinema seats while they eat popcorn and drink soda.
Thu 19 Jun 2025
North by Northeast Goes Cinema
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
the band
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Osees
The Leeds Irish Centre
Gig Music
Featuring the sensational Dance Anthems Orchestra on Friday 20th June 
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Dance Anthems Orchestra
Harewood House
Gig Music Outdoor
singer and guitarist
Fri 20 Jun 2025
The Milk Men
Cross Keys
Gig Music
Budapest Cafe Orchestra press shot where they're all holding their instruments.
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Budapest Café Orchestra
Otley Courthouse
Gig Music
5Rhythms® Waves Workshop
Fri 20 Jun 2025
5Rhythms® Waves Workshop
We Are Wellness
Healthy Living Workshop
urban flo creative @photo_diensen
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Esther's Revenge
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Theatre
a still from the film
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Wax Print
Hyde Park Picture House
Discussion Film
the artist
Fri 20 Jun 2025
But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?
Mill Hill Chapel
Discussion Gig Literature Music
Black and white photograph of Fyfe Dangerfield (white male in his early 40s with brown hair) with his fingers to his lips.
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Fyfe Dangerfield (Guillemots) Live at The Attic
The Attic
Gig Music
Bringing the sensational UK Proms Orchestra on Saturday 21st June fresh from their sell out 2024 tour.
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Harewood House Proms Weekend
Harewood House
Gig Music Outdoor
the band
Sat 21 Jun 2025
The Monochrome Set
The Lending Room
Gig Music
The Bootleg Shadows playing on stage.
Sat 21 Jun 2025
The Bootleg Shadows
Otley Courthouse
Gig Music
The three members of The Wandering Hearts stood amongst grass and some shrubbery.
Sat 21 Jun 2025
The Wandering Hearts
City Varieties
Gig Music