The Moon Festival is coming to Leeds! 

Join Peng Mandarin on Saturday 4 October for an afternoon of storytelling, food tasting, mooncake making and fun traditions from Taiwan.

What to expect:

Learn to patch and repair holes using honeycomb darning.

This strong and relatively quick visible mending technique is perfect for darning socks and reinforcing worn areas of clothing and creates an attractive circular pattern. Lorna will guide you in choosing the right tools and materials for each item of clothing and show you step by step how to make a beautiful lasting repair.

Learn to darn an item of clothing using the woven darning technique. This versatile method is great for knitted or woven textiles, and can be used to patch holes, cover stains, and reinforce worn areas. Lorna will guide you in choosing the right tools and materials and show you step by step how to make a beautiful lasting repair.
All sessions are free. 

We ask you to fill in a form for our funders and let us know if you do not wish to be photographed.

In the 250th year since JMW Turner’s birth, join poet Clare Wigzell in walking through the abbey and park, looking in a mindful way, and hearing a few poems to help us to appreciate colour and light like Turner did when he painted the Abbey. Please dress weather appropriately.

Part of the 2025 Mindfulness Festival which also takes place at Abbey House Museum.

Join meditation teacher Zeenat Cameron for a guided practice on Saraswati, Hindu Goddess of intelligence, harmony and creativity. Bestowing eloquence, insight, and inspiration, she aids artists, scholars, and seekers, aligning our creative endeavours with divine wisdom. Ultimately She is the force of the cosmos supporting our path towards spiritual liberation.

A woman only session as part of a women's practise day for the Leeds Mindfulness Festival. 

Through music, story sharing and other interactive activities, community music worker and songwriter Nicky Bray invites you to join her in a playful exploration of the theme of 'mindful hobbies'. Part of the Leeds Mindfulness Festival 2025.

Mindfulness and meditation offer ways of responding to stress and pain. In this short introduction we will learn how to orientate in our experience drawing on breath anchor and bodyscan. The event takes place in the Gatehouse, Abbey House Museum. No prior experience of meditation necessary. 

Join Charlotte Russell (CW MA) for an evening of guided journaling as part of Farsley Literature Festival.

This brand-new journaling journey will help writers and non-writers alike, journal their way to a place of happy well-being, contentment, clarity and ease of mind.

Remember when you were a child and the whole world was filled with possibility? When any dream was possible and imagination ruled? The Ship is a fantastic journaling journey, designed to explore themes of change, adventure, excitement, and learning to say “yes!” and lean into childlike wonder.

Leeds has a healthy history of different Buddhist communities in the city. Hear ordained members of the Triratna Buddhist community share the basics of Buddhist vision and relate this to city life. The event takes place in the Abbey House Museum Gatehouse. Part of the Leeds Mindfulness Festival.