An unmissable reading from two Leeds-based poets with debut collections from the mighty Peepal Tree Press. 

Emily Zobel Marshall’s Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality. 

Adam Lowe’s Patterflash is a PBS Recommendation, receiving acclaim from The Big Issue and featuring on BBC radio. Find them at peepaltreepress.com

Dietrich, Lemper, La Voix…The cabaret has given rise to some of the most boundary- pushing female performers of the 20th & 21st Centuries. Yet the songwriters that get remembered remain staunchly male. No more, we say!

Amy J Payne, Anna Pool and Oliver Rundell invite you to a relaxed and intimate cabaret of words and music from a dazzling array of female songwriters. Expect riotous laughter, quiet reflection, and plenty of joyful surprises as we journey from Piaf to protest song to…penguins?

Museum Bums takes a cheeky look at butts in art and this will be a fun afternoon for those interested in history, art and peaches of the past!

This free Queer History Club event will take place at Leeds City Museum where you can join a talk with book signing.

Jack Shoulder and Mark Small – co-authors of Museum Bums – will use bums in the collections to explore some of the themes covered in the book, with their book chapters "They're Just Good Friends!", "When is a Bum not a Bum?" and "All Women Are Venus(?)" as jumping off points.

International drag artist* and Drag Idol runner-up Ruby DeLong dazzles Leeds with her sensational one woman show, "Painting The Town Ruby”.

Following the sold-out success and rave reviews of the February debut, Ruby is ecstatic to bring the magic to LEEDS, the birthplace of her drag odyssey!

“Prepare for uproarious stand-up comedy, outrageously campy performances, and captivating tales, all revolving around everyone's favourite subject: me” - Ruby DeLong

Indulge in cabaret-style seating with intervals to ensure you can drink the bar dry!

Prepare to hear Aled Jones as you’ve never heard him before. He was the boy treble who captivated the world with his angelic voice. Selling over seven million albums, Aled was the original, classical crossover star. His recording of Walking in the Air, from the animated film The Snowman, firmly established him as a household name and he has become an integral part of the nation’s festivities.

Join us at Chapel FM Arts Centre in Seacroft for a festive community forum, broadcast live on the radio, about plans to bring the buses of West Yorkshire back under public control along with music, poetry, performances about the adventures of travelling by bus! 

A diverse evening of music, poetry, stories from and about Palestine.

Presented by The Red Shed with Chapel FM Arts Centre

Leeds-based charity the Bone Cancer Research Trust is hosting its annual charity ball on Saturday 6th July at the Elland Road Centenary Pavilion, Leeds. The Bone Cancer Ball is an evening dedicated to making a difference to the lives of bone cancer patients, while enjoying delicious food, live music, and unforgettable moments. Whether you're passionate about supporting local causes or simply love a good excuse to dress to the nines, this is the event for you!

A game show. A nurse. A chicken shop. Dolly Parton. A golden umbrella. Making it rain. Quite a lot of hopping. Some bingo. Zero hours contracts. You better work bitch.I Hate it Here is an interactive devised piece about zero hours contracts and instability. It centres on Plang, an elderly care worker who loves a boogie, Tara, a nurse with a penchant for Anne Robinson, and Spud, a teenage fast-food worker who would just love a date with fit Clare. Join them for their shift but expect some interruptions from the BIG BOSS.

Meet flatmates Mary and Liz, one a musician and the other a poet, as they battle over integrity, ownership, the spotlight and whose turn it is to buy the f*cking toilet roll.