Come and experience a unique collection of drawings by artist Paul Digby showcasing hands in movement – from a woman using sign language, ICU ward nurses in action, to a dentist and a barber’s skilled hands at work.
Meet the artist, explore the process and discuss the work.
This event is funded by Leeds City Council's Cultural Investment Programme.
The Greatest John Lennon In The World.
Tyson Kelly is IMAGINE LENNON in his own show, announcing an October 2025 UK Tour this Autumn.
Experience an unforgettable and intimate evening celebrating the legacy of John Lennon, brought to life by the internationally acclaimed Tyson Kelly as John Lennon - renowned for his striking portrayal of Lennon in Broadway’s “Let It Be” and in the UK & World’s #1 Beatles Tribute “The Bootleg Beatles” for seven years.
Green Carnation Film Club presents Girl 6 which is a gem in Spike Lee’s filmography. In 90s New York City, an aspiring actress takes a job as a phone sex operator to pay the bills. Contending with misogynoir in all aspects of her life, she strives to realise her dreams and explore her own desires. Featuring wild cameos from Naomi Campbell and Madonna - and a rollicking soundtrack by Prince - it makes for a strange and unforgettable experience.
Doors 18:15, Film 19:00.
A chilling cult-horror that follows Martin Ward, a cove fisherman driven apart from his brother, Steven, by the extractive tourism of their Cornish harbour home.
Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a low-budget, equal-part torturous, equal-part mesmerising critique of London money, displacement and gentrification, set against the gorgeous backdrop of seaside Cornwall.
This screening is part of the Scalarama Leeds 2025 Film Festival, a DIY celebration of pop-up cinema and independent film exhibition.
A collaboration between Lamberto "son of Mario" Bava and giallo king Dario Argento, this is a gooey, bad-taste thrill ride about audience participation gone wrong. After being offered free tickets by a mysterious masked man, a motley crew of cinemagoers become trapped when the horror movie they're watching starts to seep into real life.
Featuring gory practical effects, a hair metal soundtrack, stilted dialogue, and the vomiting, neon-eyed demons themselves, Demons is an experience you won’t forget.
Join us for a very special Scalarama Leeds 2025 Opening Gala event, which celebrates the life and legacy of the late Liverpool-born cinephile Robin Little. The evening features a screening of SCALA!!! - the riotous documentary about London’s legendary Scala cinema (the original inspiration for the Scalarama festival), with appearances from John Waters, Stewart Lee, Mary Harron and more - plus a surprise film, making it a double-bill in true Scala tradition.
We are thrilled to welcome special guests SCALA!!! co-director Ali Catterall and composer Barry Adamson.
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite his oppression at the hands of the Iranian government. Now, as the international film community vehemently denounces his summer 2022 arrest and continued imprisonment for his vocal support of a fellow artist’s independence.
Join us for an evening of discovery with award-winning writer Rob Cowen as he takes us on an unforgettable exploration of Britain’s great highway. Hailed one of the UK’s most original voices on nature, place and people, expect to be captivated by stories from and about Rob’s latest, genre-defying book The North Road.
At the heart of this book, written in kaleidoscopic prose is the A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years.
If you were to choose 100 weird and wonderful objects to represent our history, what would they be? Join the acclaimed author of A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects and the forthcoming A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects, in an engaging and humorous journey through 12,000 years of British life, told through some its strangest artefacts.
Bestselling author and columnist Sally Coulthard has spent the last two decades writing about her favourite things – the natural world, the history of interesting things, and practical stuff.
