Mythic mayhem, human clap-o-meters, and audience power! Brace yourselves for tales to make you rip up the rules and riot!
Stand-up tale-tellers slam down stories of super-women and unstoppable goddesses who don’t care what anyone says – they’re going to do their thing.
Who will you crown Ultimate NotHootNorToot?
Presented by Story Jam.
Age Guidance: 12+
Join Leeds Playhouse's storytelling sessions on the last Saturday of the month. We’ll be exploring lots of exciting stories taking little people on big adventures with magical characters and tonnes of fun along the way.
Led by a professional storyteller, the sessions will take place in our Brooke Room on Level 2 and cost £5, suitable for children aged 3-7.
April - Jack and the Beanstalk
May - Venturing into the forest
June - The Mystery of the Story Suitcase (build-a-story)
He’s the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour.
The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on – including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others – redefined the sex ’n’ drugs ’n’ rock ’n’ roll lifestyle during the halcyon age of Madchester.
He’s touring in support of his new book: Happy Mondays and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.
Global Rehabilitation is a small Leeds-based charity which trains and supports rehabilitation doctors and other medical professionals in countries in the Global South, in particular Madagascar, mainly through the transfer of skills and knowledge.
Madagascar is a huge island nation off the east coast of Africa and has very poor health systems and health infrastructure and a small number of extremely dedicated medical professionals who work hard to improve the lives of patients living with disease and disabilities in very challenging conditions.
The Pitmen Poets perform at The Varieties with a night of songs and stories laced with North East humour and humanity.
Lindisfarne singer and songwriter Billy Mitchell, Warhorse Songman Bob Fox, Master of Tyneside song Benny Graham, and award-winning songwriter Jez Lowe.
“Whoever’s idea it was to bring these four together for a show should be awarded a gold medal for services to music”
Ed Waugh
Theatre Critic
“A great evening of stories and wonderful voices”
Dave Burland
Folk Singer
Blur The Lines is a creative platform based in Leeds, showcasing an array of artists from different backgrounds and disciplines. This peripatetic event features rappers, comedians, poets and musicians all under one roof, bringing people together and blurring genre lines.
The Geraldine Connor Foundation and Heritage Corner commissioned four performance artists to create new responses to the Leeds Black History Walk, a walk created by Joe Williams around Leeds University campus that explores the African history of Leeds. The four artists performed to the public live on two walks and the performances were filmed and shared via social media.