We are heading straight into our 2025 events programme and bringing you an evening with one of Truman Books best selling authors of 2024, the talented Emilia Hart. Emilia’s debut novel Weyward has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, including 200k in the UK. Her second novel ‘The Sirens,’ due for release on 13 February, is already receiving amazing reviews. Emilia will be in conversation with historical fiction bestselling author Jennifer Saint, writer of mythological novels Ariadne, Elektra and Hera.

Leeds Apprenticeship Recruitment Fair returns to first direct arena. Free tickets are available to book anytime between 1pm-7pm, see Tickets below.

You’ll have the chance to talk to major employers from a wide range of sectors, including accounting, business and administration, catering and hospitality, construction, creative design, care services, digital, education, engineering, finance, hair and beauty, health, law, protective services and many more.

The days of the Supergroup may be long past... but surely The Guilty Men would qualify for that description! The band is made up of five of the finest musicians from the Northwest of England. Between them, they have played over 10,000 gigs on planet Earth, recorded thousands of songs and made countless radio and TV appearances. To say they’re experienced would be an understatement!

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

Nick van Eede formed Cutting Crew in 1985 and within two years this Grammy nominated, Anglo-Canadian band had scored multiple worldwide hits including of course, their 1987 USA number one, the timeless, majestic “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”. The song has earned countless prestigious awards including 7 million radio plays in the USA alone!

Many years of hard touring has kept their brand fresh as a daisy, witnessed by inclusion in countless movies and TV shows like The Lego Batman movie, USA Super Bowl and Stranger Things!

When 4 best friends decided to combine their experience of standing ovations at the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium, a wealth of West End theatres, as well as their history as major label artists with numerous national tours & Radio 2 playlisting under their belts, the results were always going to be exceptional.

Yorkshire's very own tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival!

Join us for a fun and interesting workshop exploring collograph and monoprinting techniques to create your own unique series of prints onto paper.
You’ll learn how to use our specialist equipment, etching presses and oil based inks. These collograph techniques will focus on creating a printing plate using various textures and you’ll use stencils to combine the process with monoprinting.

Explore the exciting process of Gelli printing on this taster session.

On this one day workshop you will explore the basics of etching metal printing plates such as zinc and aluminium using hard wax grounds and copper sulphate solution.

Etching is an intaglio printmaking process where etched lines or grooves are created on a metal surface which are then inked up and printed from using an etching press. Using copper sulphate to etch is a much safer and less toxic alternative to using traditional nitric acid to etch copper plates.