Gim Fest 2 - All Day Shoegaze Alt Rock Festival

The second edition of GIM FEST returns for the first time since xmas 2022 ! A celebration of all things Alternative Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze , Noise and Guitar Feedback !!! In support of underground bands from Leeds & Yorkshire at the worlds sickest rock venue BOOM.

Featuring:- 

Last Tourist

Last Victorian Death Squad 

Forming

Bean King 

Lost Trends

New Ghost 

DJ Colourblind Bob playing between the bands. Plus more bands to be announced! 

Hosted by at BOOM Leeds (Main Stage) by LVDS. 

SLAP Collective: Brightside


Brightside is a ride through a lifetime soundtracked by millennial anthems.

This new workout experience combines the energy of a fitness class with a live dance theatre performance.

Led by instructors Lydia Nutter, Freddie Hayes and Tiia Ojala this 50-minute immersive journey delves into the past, present and future of a millennial. Together we’ll climb the hills of childhood dreams, face the sprints of expectation and take on the challenge of financial crisis.

Black Sheep Coffee

Black Sheep Coffee

Black Sheep Coffee
8 Bond Street
Leeds
LS1 5HD
United Kingdom

Alisa Oleva: Sounds Like Home

Sounds Like Home creates sonic connections to distant hometowns through a series of sound stations.

Join one of the collective listening walks to discover these sounds from far away places, reflecting on ideas of migration, home and belonging.

Building on relationships artist Alisa Oleva developed during her residency in Leeds last year, the project began as one-to-one walks with people who moved to Leeds from other countries.

Quarantine: Building of Spines

Over 7 days in Leeds Central Library, Quarantine artist Kate Daley hand makes a book containing a work of collective fiction based on conversations with people in the library.

The finished book enters the library’s collection for future readers.

A beautiful object, carefully made, the book is an offering to the people who shaped it, an alternative portrait of the library and the knowledge it holds.

Installation: Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown

Addressing the climate crisis through intervening in our food systems, Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown is an installation that combines data science and Chinese diasporic food culture.

This two-week installation at Kirkgate Market showcases an experimental food farm and data pop-up store, housing locally grown ingredients that will be used in a one off Supper Club hosted at Kirkgate Market on Friday 15 November, 6.30–8.30pm.

Leeds Venturers

Venturer groups are for young people aged from thirteen to fifteen. 

Venturers take more responsibility for shaping their own group activities, with support and advice from adult volunteers.

Woodcraft Folk is a movement for young people, open to everyone from birth to adult, offering a place where children will grow up in confidence, lern about the world and start to understand how to value our planet and each other. 

Armley Park Lantern Parade - Lantern Decorating Workshop 2

This is the second purly decorating lanten workshop, you will be given a premade paper lantern to decorate with your own design in glue and tissue paper.

The Armley Park Lantern Parade will take place on the evening of Sunday 10th November from 4pm.

Because space is limited and because of the layout of the venue, we need you to read this carefully and book the space you need for the participants you'll be bringing.

Compass Festival 2024 Opening Party

Compass Festival 2024 and Leeds Sauce Week begin with a party at Fearns.

Join Compass Festival for a special drink and a snacks menu inspired by Popeye Collective’s Leeds Sauce.

Discover more about Compass Festival 2024 and some of the festival artists, as well as share more about the 2024 edition of Leeds Sauce.

Celebrate the beginning of a whole month of interactive art across Leeds (1–30 November) and the first day of Leeds Sauce Week, a celebration of Leeds’ incredible independent food and drink scene.

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