‘Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing' permanently lives on in the collective memory of filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross. The elegant, smiling Black woman in the cream suit marching off to her high-rise job on the cover of the package and the Black hands with 3inch - long acrylic fingernails, overlaid on the screen that clattered as Beacon typed in tandem with her users.
When a group of women in London mysteriously fall silent, no one can work out why. The team at an all-female podcast decides to investigate.
Their journey to the truth causes them to butt heads with their new corporate sponsors and long held secrets of past epidemics are revealed. As they dig deeper, the lines between past and present blur, revealing a shocking journey through 500 years of history.
The Maladies is a new play by Carmen Nasr, originally devised with the Almeida Theatre Young Company (18-25). This production is directed by Lizi Patch.
Following seven West End seasons, a record-breaking UK and Ireland tour and 30 productions across the globe, the stage phenomenon 2:22: A Ghost Story now comes to Leeds.
Hot on the heels of his fourth sell-out UK tour, the nation’s favourite clairvoyant medium, from Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights, Clinton Baptiste is back with a new live show for 2026 and beyond!
In a rudderless world, mankind needs an envoy to gather solutions from the all-knowing, all-seeing Afterlife.
But who should it be?
Of course, there’s only one man for the job – Clinton Baptiste.
Receiving the audiences’ queries and earthbound dilemmas, Clinton will then reach out to spirits for answers.
Fear not. He will probe sensitively.
We are delighted to be able to bring you an event and give you the opportunity of spending time with a very special person. You will hear all about the life of an achiever who has given himself a reason to go on and do superhuman things, superhuman things that now seem normal to him.
Due to phenomenal demand, award winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker Gordon Buchanan will hit the road again in 2026, continuing the success of his biggest ever live tour – Lions and Tigers and Bears.
Join Gordon as he recounts thrilling encounters with pandas, grizzlies, tigers, jaguars and more. Learn about the heart-stopping moments, the mud, sweat, and tears, and the tender interactions that have shaped his extraordinary career.
WARNING… WARNING… EXTREME FUN ALERT!
This brand-new, exciting and educational show will amaze and astound all ages from four years and upwards, as we put the ‘exciting’ back into ‘science’. (See what we did there!)
With fun- and fact-filled experiments, watch in amazement as we recreate a volcanic eruption, turn a vacuum cleaner into a missile launcher or take aim at you with our smoke blaster!
So, stand clear and prepare for action, as this show is full of wiz, bang, pop… and splurt.
Exciting Science – prepare to be amazed!
Like protest songs? Neither does Grace Petrie – and she’s been singing them for 15 politically disastrous years. No longer able to meet the deadened eyes or desperate hopes of left-wing audiences, she reckons there’s no better time for a feel-good show! Depressed by fascism, misogyny and eco-destruction? Sounds like YOUR climate needs a change!
A journey of original choral music, featuring works by Kerensa Briggs, Knut Nystedt and Robert Schumann, as well as by members of the choir. Come with us on a musical voyage of longing and hope in the beautiful setting of All Souls' Church.
In this final concert of our 2024-25 season, we will perform the complete cycle of Nystedt's "Prayers of Kierkegaard", which we have been building up during the year, as well as all four of Schumann's songs for double choir. We also introduce two works by contemporary British composer, Kerensa Briggs.
Jan Bulley is a mixed media artist, ceramicist and printmaker based in Boston Spa near Wetherby (venue no.9). With a previous background in garden design, plants and landscape are integral to Jan’s work which has evolved into a fluid semi-abstract style capturing ephemeral tranquility and atmosphere.
Jan is one of the 27 artists and makers opening their studios for the annual Artists Around Wetherby Open Studios.
Each venue provides refreshments, including homemade cakes, for a donation to our chosen charity - this year we are supporting Yorkshire Cancer Research.