Join us for an evening of poetry and spoken word at Chapel Allerton’s newest venue, Brew+Bao, as part of the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival.

Join Transform for this one-off event with an exciting line-up of artists as they explore what happens when they surrender themselves to forces they don't control – to the rigours of technique, to an inescapable rhythm, to a secret code, or by tuning in to other powers.  

Expect a day of playful experiment and serious entertainment, with food and conversation. How does it feel to surrender together?

Tickets are Pay What You Can and include lunch and refreshments.

The Pleasuredome Must Be Built x Transform 

Queer communities have been refining the skills for resistance under capitalism since its beginning. Summoning collective joy amidst harrowing circumstances is key. This is a party at the end of the world as we know it…or the beginning of a new dawn.  Join Transform 25's grand finale, hosted by the creators of iconic Leeds club night Love Muscle. 

22:00 - 05:00 

Presented by Love Muscle in collaboration with Transform.

Join Transform for a vulgar, visceral and vampy performance of  IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!! exploring the artists’ fascination with the filthy and the glamorous, the pathetic and the perverse.  

Bear witness to the bare arses of Samir Kennedy and Sean Murray in this whirlwind performance.

References abound to familiar double acts alongside double entendres as they unearth the only real concrete thing there is in this business: instability.

Join Transform in this performance of Magic Maids interweaving performance, pageantry and possession. This feral incantation connects the European witch hunts to the exploitation of migrant women’s labour today.  

The female figures of the witch and the maid are powerful and powerless, feared and revered, used, accused and discarded. The tropes are not mere hearsay and history but deeply rooted in today’s psyche.   

Nearly time to go back to school! How about one last bit of summer fun to get your creativity in tip top form for all that learning! Bring your crazy, creative minds and have fun telling a bunch of supposed grown ups what to do and say.

Come and join us and become one of our star storytellers! LET'S MAKE SOMETHING SPECIAL

“I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing so much! Your team are so talented and downright hilarious!”

"Love this idea! A fantastic way to capture imaginations and great entertainment" Scarlet (Mum)

Join Transform for Eve Stainton’s unnerving choreographic performance exploring societal suspicion and the construction of threat. As a solo figure moves amongst us, the Airedale Symphony Orchestra play a live soundtrack – the music from 80s horror film The Thing.

The Joystick and The Reins interrogates who decides who and what is a ‘threat’ within society, and how these ideas are reinforced through systems of oppression and authoritarianism.