Join Opera North for a fun, family-friendly adventure into the forest. Our adventure takes place in a mystical woodland where a Vixen meets a Fox. As their friendship grows, they discover how working together is vital to protect their home and the habitat around them.  

Based on the music and story of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen and led by a cast of professional opera singers and musicians, join us for this interactive and relaxed concert where singing and moving around is encouraged. Experience the magic of opera, storytelling and music, whatever your age!

We are proud to be supporting Refugee Week in Leeds this week at The Pack Horse and we're privileged to have Sanctuary's Got Talent, a 100% collective of refugees and asylum seekers in the city who will be sharing their experiences through song, dance, poetry and story telling.

Of course, as an open mic, we welcome anyone to come and perform, wherever you're from and whatever you play.

Audience also welcomed for a night of live music and obviously, awareness of the experiences that refugees and asylum seekers face.

Free in and doors open at 7.30pm.

Join Leeds Libraries as we celebrate #MakeMusicDayUK with performances and workshops throughout the day.

Atrium performances: 

At intervals throught the day (times at performers TBC)

Workshops include:

10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to sound production - Studio 12 

3:45 - 4:30 Djembe Drumming workshop Room 700 - Artforms

All events are free and inclusive - no tickets required! 

Join Leeds Playhouse on Wed 19 June to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Leeds Playhouse becoming the world’s first Theatre of Sanctuary. Over the last decade, we’ve been privileged to meet and work with hundreds of people from the refugee and asylum-seeking community in Leeds. Offering safety, hospitality and support as we connect through the power of creativity.

Living legend and internationale Avant Garde Performance-Artiste David Hoyle is coming to the Old Woollen, teaming up with our local high energy dance troupe Glitterbomb Dancers for one night only.

A 70s variety show, a drag night, a pop concert, an art lesson and a political rant all rolled into one FABULOUS night of camp surprises!

an event to celebrate stories about nature!

“Our story is in the land ... it is written in those sacred places.” Bill Neidjie of the Bunitj clan, Australia.

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With current challenges both in England and globally, it feels like stories of anger and confusion dominate our communities. The Story Gathering aims to offer a supportive remix to this narrative by meeting in community with the natural world and co-creating the stories we choose to live with.

The poems and folk songs of Sh@nty tell a story of discovery, betrayal, obsession and recovery. Using language borrowed from traditional navigation as well as the jargon of digital space, the narrative is enriched by songs of the sea and original music for concertina.

Poet Lydia Kennaway and musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne present ‘… a form of contemporary metaphysical poem where scientific and technological vocabularies are brought into the service of the poetic imagination.’ – Sean O’Brien.