In celebration of Swarthmore opening on Saturdays we're offering a selection of fabulously affordable workshops throughout 2025.

These two hour sessions are perfect for you if you're wanting to try something new or if you'd like to refresh your skills!

Enjoy this Easter inspired workshop exploring techniques in watercolour. Produce chicks, eggs and bunnies.

Make four watercolour images which can be inserted into greetings cards to take home and gift to friends.

This month Films at Heart’s regular monthly screening is being held at the Hyde Park Picture House (Screen One) and in collaboration with Irish History Month.

This immersive workshop offers a unique opportunity to experience the benefits of both sound healing and massage in a serene, therapeutic and calming environment. The session is designed to calm the mind, release physical tension, using a combination of soothing sounds and skilled touch.

Amy uses sound healing including gong, crystal bowls and other instruments for the sound bath. Creating a relaxing atmosphere the sound and vibrations wash over you whilst you bathe in sound.

This immersive workshop offers a unique opportunity to experience the benefits of both sound healing and massage in a serene, therapeutic and calming environment. The session is designed to calm the mind, release physical tension, using a combination of soothing sounds and skilled touch.

Amy uses sound healing including gong, crystal bowls and other instruments for the sound bath. Creating a relaxing atmosphere the sound and vibrations wash over you whilst you bathe in sound.

Brighton Beach returns to Leeds on bank holiday Sunday 4th May for an early start, early finish clubnight at Project House. 

From 5pm - 10pm, expect to hear a heady cocktail of Britpop, 60s Soul, Motown, R&B and Northern Soul. 

Brighton Beach will take over Project House's kitchen & bar, Galleria, from 3pm, with the main event room opening from 5pm. 

Tickets are on sale now! 

After premiering at the Director's Fortnight at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Sister Midnight is a festival favourite which begins with a newly arranged marriage. A pairing of an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls.

They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai and its inhabitants lead her to face her own strange behaviours.

We are thrilled to announce that Yorkshire born BBC Gladiator ‘Fury’ will be joining us in the shop, to meet fans and sign her new book, ‘Keep Smashing It: Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Confident.’ But there is so much more to this Gladiator!

Join us for an evening at the Old Woollen as we talk to Bradford based writer A. A. Dhand about his latest adrenaline-filled, compulsive page-turner ‘The Chemist.’ A. A. Dhand is the author of five previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store.