Join us for an exciting night of up-and-coming independent artists. South coast artist Charlie Smith travels to Leeds on his '50 beer and breweries tour' 2025 May tour, putting together a line-up filled with local talent. Let's celebrate local talent and have a beer (or drink of your choice) together.
Headingley Development Trust in Partnership with HEART Fest '25 and Leeds Jazz Festival are proud to present Elliot Galvin performing and special one off solo piano performance at our very own HEART Centre in Headingley.
An all star line up from the Leeds jazz scene pays tribute to the legendary drummer Elvin Jones.
Best known as a member of the era-defining John Coltrane Quartet, Elvin Jones also recorded with such jazz icons as Grant Green, Wayne Shorter, Larry Young and Joe Henderson.
This Leeds Jazz Festival show will focus on the numerous albums Jones made as a leader, including Coalition, Mr Jones, The Ultimate and the legendary Live At The Lighthouse.
Ben Powling - tenor saxophone
Matt Cliffe - tenor saxophone, flute
Sam Jackson - bass
Josh Smout - drums
Back-To-Back is a series of photographs from the terraces of Leeds - 2006-2024.The photos, taken by Ricky Adam, are the result of years of going round the houses (quite literally), all over Leeds, in all manner of weather, taking snapshots in and around the red brick terrace houses that surround the city like a giant donut made from red bricks.
Published by: Audit / This is Ours
With support from British Culture Archive.
Last Unicorn Airways is a spellbinding sensory-immersive journey around the world and into the heart of Hand Christian Anderson's timeless tale, The Flying Trunk.
Art that breaks boundaries, challenges norms, and reclaims space—Behind the Spaces is an exhibition like no other! Running from 4th April to 2nd May, this powerful showcase highlights the work of Sarah Francis and Lucy Fiona Morrison, two trailblazing artists who create while shaping the artistic communities around them.
Join us for a taster session exploring linocut relief printing techniques and print a range of your own greeting cards, or designs onto paper.
Your tutor will guide you through designing an image for linocut. You will be shown how to carve the lino block, apply the inks, and print it – both with our traditional Albion and Imperial relief printing presses, and burnishing by hand. You will be shown examples of lino prints and advice on the kind of designs that work best.
Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.
The course will teach you the fundamentals of screen printing onto paper, introduce you to the equipment and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. By the end of the course, you will be able to use various stencil making techniques and understand their effects. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens.
Explore the beautiful photographic process of cyanotype to create your own cyan-blue prints.
You will learn how to produce a set of cyanotypes where thin objects or acetates are placed directly onto specially-coated paper and then exposed to UV light. When these objects are removed and the paper is washed with water a blue image remains. You will also learn how to use a variety of effects called toning, intensifying and reducing which alters the blue-ness of the prints.