Join us at Mahogany Market for our grandest event yet, as we transform the Archive Leeds into the Pre Carnival Fam Fest! Get ready for an exciting line up of Leeds' finest DJs to get your waists warm for Carnival Weekend. Enjoy authentic Caribbean cuisine from our vendors and sip on drinks from the house bar. Explore market stalls offering carnival outfits, accessories & more.
The day will be divided into two sessions:
Join Leeds Art's Centre this July for a raucous and colourful rendition of Shakespeare's captivating comedy; A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pulling the tale of rival lords and ladies, star crossed lovers and eager mechanicals, into a twenty first century setting. Where the modern industrial heart of Athens clashes with the mystical neon forest of dreams.
Mischief will be sown, substances consumed, forms transfigured, and no one will make it out of the woods quite the same as they were before. But that's OK, with lessons learned all things will end with one hell of a party.
As part of Chapel Allerton Arts Festival, presented by Folk Roots Fringe.
Open to all. Led by local musicians.
Ireland is famous for their traditional music sessions and their pub singalongs.
So to warm up the trad music session at Seven Arts we are bringing you a bit of the craic found in an Irish pub with a few popular singalong songs from the local duo Celtic Cowboys.
Everyone welcome to listen.
Or bring an instrument or a song and join in.
presented by Chapel Allerton Arts Festival: Folk Roots Fringe.
An inimitable songwriting partnership singing songs from their collaboration album recording: "Things Found In Books", an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing, integrated with a number of popular past and present songs from their solo catalogues.
BOO HEWERDINE
Explore the art of zine-making in the gorgeous setting of the Leeds Library.
You’ll be introduced to what a zine is: a DIY, creative, experimental way of putting together words and images, which can be about whatever you want.
The workshop leader will demonstrate different ways of folding paper to make a classic zine format. Then we will work with collage, stamps, stencils and cut n’ paste to make a unique zine.
For inspiration, you will be able to look through a collection of zines, or find ideas from everything surrounding you in the library.
THE GARDEN PARTY 2024
The Garden Party returns on Saturday June 22nd at Scott Hall Farm, a secluded 200-year-old Grade II listed farmhouse on the edge of Scott Hall Woods. It’s a 15-minute walk from Leeds City Centre and a short walk from Chapeltown, Meanwood and Woodhouse.
MUSIC & SOUNDSYSTEM
There will be music throughout the day and late into the evening, showcasing the mountain of local talent we have on our doorstep, with Cornerstone Hi-Fi providing the sound.
FOOD & DRINK
Scott Hall Farm
Leeds
LS7 2HR
United Kingdom
‘STRIKE’, published by Stairwell Books in January 2024, is the latest book by award-winning Leeds/Doncaster poet Sarah Wimbush. It is an exploration of both famous and previously unseen photographs of the 1984 miners’ strike, through the lens of poetry.
2024 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike, one of the longest industrial disputes in British history. In conversation with poet Joe Williams, himself born in the north east colliery town Ashington, Sarah will discuss the process of writing the book and her personal experiences of the strike.
Join Leeds-based author Sarah Brooks as she talks about and reads from her stunning debut novel The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands. Read more here.
It is the end of the Nineteenth Century, and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow.
An unmissable reading from two Leeds-based poets with debut collections from the mighty Peepal Tree Press.
Emily Zobel Marshall’s Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality.
Adam Lowe’s Patterflash is a PBS Recommendation, receiving acclaim from The Big Issue and featuring on BBC radio. Find them at peepaltreepress.com