THOR'S Leeds City Square: Summer of Sport 2024 on the BIG screen

Wednesday 10th July 

1PM: Tour De France (Stage 11) 

3:30PM Wimbledon

Thursday 11th July 

1PM: Wimbledon (Mixed Doubles Dinal) 

7PM: Tour De France Stage 12 Highlights 

Friday 12th July 

1PM: Tour De France (Stage 13) 

5PM: Wimbledon

Saturday 13th July 

11AM: Wimbledon (Womens Singles/Males Doubles Final) 

7PM: Tour De France Stage 14 Highlights 

Sunday 14th July 

11AM: Wimbledon (Mens Singles/Womens Doubles Final) 

Summer creative fun for families in Artspace

'Make a Connection with Home' invites young people and their adults to join artist Kalisha Piper Cheddie to get up close to the photographs of Leeds by Peter Mitchell and then add drawing, colour and collage to show links with home, a place they feel connected to or within the city of Leeds.

This free activity is inspired the gallery's current exhibition of Peter Mitchell's photographs 'Nothing Lasts Forever' on display until 6 October.

Big Summer Party

Everyone is welcome to our BIG SUMMER PARTY! 

Join us for a day of all the good stuff and good people in and around Left Bank... with great music indoors and out and loads of fun stuff for people of all ages so bring yourself, your kids, your gran... tell your neighbours, lets just enjoy a sunny afternoon celebrating ourselves and our community!

Expect a kids disco, competitions with rubbish prizes, BINGO, art activities, BIG DOODLES, games, live music, DJs and lots more!

An evening with best-selling author Cecelia Ahern

With Gaby Roslin.

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we are delighted to announce, an evening at the Old Woollen with multi-million bestseller and contemporary fiction powerhouse, Cecelia Ahern. Cecelia constantly defies expectations. Ever evolving, she is most recently known for her provocative, mind-bending collection Roar, adapted for TV by Nicole Kidman.

Cecilia will be taking about her latest gripping novel ‘Into the Storm‘ which is about motherhood, escaping the past, and what really happened on one wild, stormy night.

An afternoon with award-winning historical novelist Kate Mosse

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we are delighted to announce, An afternoon with Kate Mosse at the Old Woollen. Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have sold over five million copies, been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Kate will be talking to us about her latest novel The Map of Bones, which will be released on 10th October.

Films at HEART: Rose Plays Julie

The film is set in Dublin and London, Rose played by Ann Skelly, is at university in Dublin studying veterinary science. An only child, she has enjoyed a loving relationship with her adoptive parents. However, for as long as Rose can remember she has wanted to know who her biological parents are and the facts of her true identity…

Dir. Joe Lawlor + Christine Molloy/1 hr 40 mins/ Cert.15/2019

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Community Creative Drop-ins

Join us for free adult creative drop-in sessions at Thackray!

We’ll be running a different creative activity on select Fridays this summer. Get involved or simply bring your own project to work on.

Here’s what you can try:

Block Printing - 12 July

Embroidery - 26 July

Cyanotypes - 3 August

Still Life Drawing - 10 August

Drop-in any time between 12.30pm and 3pm.

No booking required – just check in at the front desk upon arrival.