Please come and join us at Bowers Allerton Hall for our first open mic night. We are hoping that this will be a monthly event. We will be running the evening as a fundraiser for our beautiful building that is in desperate need of repair and refurbished in order to keep it open for the use of our local community.
Most Saturdays between 10.00 and 12.30
Arbeau, our dancers in residence, rehearse in the Picture Gallery on most Saturdays. With a repertoire spanning 500 years of historic dance, you are invited to watch the rehearsal or even join in!
These are not polished performances but give you a glimpse of what goes in to recreating dances of the past.
If you are visiting especially to see this, please check with us first to ensure the group are in residence. Included in normal admission fees.
The annual 'North East Early Music Forum Day Out' at Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
An opportunity to hear NEEMF members and their friends perform throughout the day in this magnificent setting.
11.30 Leeds Waits, mid-17th century instrumental
12.00 Roger Blomfield, viol and lute solos
12.30 Peter Bull, Stuart vocal and instrumental
2.00 Primavera, late Medieval instrumental
2.30 Gillian Chippett and Carmen Troncoso, Baroque recorder duets
3.00 Doncaster Waites, Renaissance instrumental
3.30 Simon Nisbett, lute solos
Chemistry is back on Friday 28 March, with another night of poetry and spoken word, two brilliant headliners and our amazing open mic. This time round our headliners are the brilliant Helen Kay (with her sidekick Nigella the hen) and all the way from Suffolk, Sue Wallace-Shaddad.
The events are themed on the elements of the periodic table, so this time it’s element number 18, which is Ar for Argon. The theme is entirely optional, but we hope you might use it as a creative prompt to come up with some new work to reveal on the night.
A Night To Remember takes you back in time to 1960s Detroit. Be prepared for a high-energy show, packed with the greatest Motown hits of all time.
Starring The Voice UK finalist, Bizzi Dixon, and backed by the soulful vocal dynamics of The Motown Divas, this musical celebration will have you singing along and dancing in the aisles and the streets.
Don’t look any further! Reach out and grab your ticket to find out how sweet it is to party all night long. This live show is guaranteed to be a night to remember!
A nightmare is about to break free…
Herbert grew up in the Metropol. The eerie old cinema was his playground and prison – but what lurked in the Metropol’s darkness?
Now Herbert’s back, searching for answers to long-buried questions. But for him and you, the real horror has only just begun…
Inspired by classic theatre ghost stories and cinema’s greatest frights, Shock Horror is full of shivers, shrieks and shocking revelations. Take a chilling journey into an unravelling, haunted past.
Join us for this brilliant double-header as two truly distinct and unflinching voices, Rob Miles and Kath McKay, read from their new collections, and explore the creative process in conversation with writer and Senior Librarian Stu Hennigan.
Both Kath and Rob are teachers and will also be keen (indeed nosey) about attendees sharing their own experiences of reading and writing poetry, so there will be a chance for questions from the floor too.
Everyone is welcome to join in at the Royal Armouries at our Queer-ying the museum event to celebrate the end of LGBTQ+ history month, which explores the Royal Armouries collection through a queer perspective.
From a museum mansplaining drag king and self-defence workshop, to queer history tours of our collection and thought-provoking talks, there’s a host of activities for everyone to enjoy.
Live in the Assembly Bar + Kitchen!
Readings by a different local published poet each month, and this month we’re delighted to welcome ROB MILES
Rob Miles is from Devon, and he has lived in Leeds. He is Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and multiple anthologies, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry Prize, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, and the Poets & Players Prize, judged by Sinéad Morrissey.