Lino Printing - An Introduction

Learn the art of lino printing with multidisciplinary artist and experienced tutor Annie Cunniffe.

This workshop will introduce you to safely using the various tools needed to produce stunning prints.  No experience of drawing, painting or printing is needed and this workshop is suitable for all abilities to just experiment and play. Learn how to successfully turn your lino cuts into beautiful prints using a printing press or brayer.

All materials, including paint, lino and cutting tools are provided at no additional cost.

Palette Knife Painting - with Heather Burton

We are thrilled to be bringing this follow up to the popular Painting with Knives workshop with professional artist Heather Burton.

Heather will guide you through the process of making a bold and expressive painting from beginning to end and ensure you create a magnificent painting to take home. Using the palette knife you will learn how to correctly apply and layer colour to a canvas to give you a strong composition and tonal value.
 
This event is for both experienced and beginner artists who want to try something bold and new.  

Blues like Showers of Rain and Jazz is Our Religion

Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970) provides an unflinching insight into the conditions that gave birth to the blues in America, charting the evolving sound of the blues as musicians moved from rural areas into the cities. As both director and editor Jeremy deftly combines the field recordings and still photographs of the British blues historian Paul Oliver (1927 – 2017) gathered on a trip through the United States in 1960.

Memory Matinee - Carmen Jones

Set during World War II, the Story focuses on the seductive Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge) who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina. She lures handsome GI Joe (Harry Belafonte) away from his sweetheart Cindy Lou (Olga James) when he is assigned to escort her to court after she's involved in a brawl in her factory.

Dorothy Dandridge became the first black woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in this critically acclaimed and popular adaptation of Bizet’s opera. 

Fix Your Hearts Or Die: Transgender Day of Visibility show

"When you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die." - Gordon Cole, 2017.
 
Poltergeist Promotions' gig celebrating some of Leeds' finest transgender alternative musicians for Transgender Day of Visibility 2025 at Wharf Chambers. We're hoping to get angry and fix some hearts together. Featuring the Teesside protest singer-songwriter That Clare, the banterous Football Crazy, pop-rock bangers from National Citizens, and lo-fi emo tunes from Shaene.
 

Preview Screening - Santosh with Director Q&A

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Our preview screening of Santosh on Thursday 20th March will be accompanied by a Q&A with the film's director, Sandhya Suri and is being presented in associated with Reclaim the Frame.

The Artist - Part of Memory Matinees

When upcoming actress Peppy Miller meets George Valentin, the most celebrated silent movie actor in Hollywood, at a movie premiere, she is inspired to audition for and wins a dancing bit-part in his latest film. The year is 1927 and with the silent film era slowly fading away and with the advent of talking pictures, their fortunes and careers spiral in opposite directions.

Writing Workshop: Light & Shadow

A free workshop, open for everyone, no experience needed, if you prefer, bring your own notebook and pens.
 
The workshop is a space for free-expression through creative writing. You will be offered to touch vulnerable parts of your soul to itensify the relationship to yourself. You will dive into a process with prompts and exercises crafted for you to deeply connect to your unconsciousness and complex identities.
 
Hosted by participants Milena amd Miles from @yip17.official.

Handel's Messiah

Leeds Festival Chorus will be joined by York Guildhall Orchestra, Seb Williman (trumpet) and four incredible soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music: Jane Burnell (soprano), Kieron-Connor Valentine (countertenor), Sam Rose (tenor), and Christian Loizou (bass).