The Canal and River Trust bring their wildlife themed family activities and games to Leeds Dock. Experience a glow in the dark bat cave which highlights the important conservation work protecting our fantastic creatures of the night. There’ll be plenty of games too, with glow in the dark bowling and giant noughts and crosses.
Relive Leeds’ rich history with SLIDESHOW, a stunning array of vintage photographs from the 1970s to the 1990s. Curated by local historian and artist Clifford Stead, these rarely-beforeseen images will be projected using a traditional slide projector. A bespoke audio track using field recordings has been created by sound artist Fran Bundey which evokes the city’s past and present.
Produced by Anna Burns, Community Lead for Department Leeds Dock, and commissioned by Department Leeds Dock.
Artists: Clifford Stead & Fran Bundey (UK)
A 5-metre fire-breathing dragon has landed at Leeds Dock. Inspired by carnival from Trinidad and Tobago, and accompanied by high energy percussion and special fire effects, you won’t want to miss this magical performance.
Supported by Royal Armouries Museum Leeds
Performances by Positive Productions (UK)
Projected onto a mist of water, Monad unites the elements of life: fire, air, water and earth and presents a circle as a symbol of time, the perpetual motion of life. This stunning and poetic artwork invites us to reflect on birth, life, death and rebirth – the giant rhythm of the universe. A highlight of Light Night Leeds, Monad creates a sense of wonder and reflection about life itself.
Supported by Leeds Dock
Artwork by Anastasia Isachsen (Norway)
Come along and join us in celebrating 10 years of Assembly House.
We’d love to invite you to our fancy dress party, featuring local artists and performers throughout the evening with a DJ set from Merrez Bal to end the night!
Make sure to come in full costume to be in for a chance of winning our best dressed competition! You can also expect a raffle with some unmissable prizes, as well as an creepy cocktails.
Instructions not Included by Amanda Hall will be on display at Bramley Baths on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of October.
Inspired by an aqua aerobics class, this fascinating project explores how we think and feel about aging with humour, creativity and powerful insight. After its debut in Bristol this summer, Bramley Baths is the first stop in Amanda’s aspirations to tour the exhibition.
Join us for the public launch event of the 'Ribbons' sculpture.
Nearly 400 inspirational Leeds women, voted for by members of the public, are being celebrated with a new sculpture in the heart of the city’s cultural quarter.
Created by artist, Pippa Hale, 'Ribbons' will be located at the top of the gardens between Leeds City College’s Quarry Hill campus and Leeds Playhouse at the gateway to the SOYO development at Quarry Hill, from October 2024.
Free activities including:
Ribbons themed kids activities
Meet the women from the Ribbons sculpture
Come and join us on Saturday 7th December for a special Open Studio & Christmas Shopping Event! .
Drop in anytime between 11am- 1pm to have a look around the studio, learn about what we do, book onto workshops and shop from our range of craft kits, craft supplies, yarns, samples and stocking fillers all with special discounts on the day!
We’d love to see you and help make Christmas Shopping a bit easier this year.
Free Coffee and Cake
In celebration of Green Libraries Week 2024, Balbir Singh Dance Company (BSDC) proudly presents ‘Our Bond with Nature’—an exhibition that strengthens our connection to the environment
through a shared commitment to sustainability.
New works inspired by the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery collections.
Furnace Fruit debuts new artworks created especially for Leeds Art Gallery, which consider themes of labour, migration, memory and empire. The exhibition takes as its starting point the story of migrant labourers from Punjab, including members of Panesar’s own family, who came to the UK and found themselves working in automotive foundries in the 1950s and 1960s.