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Start Your Story in Early Years

The Department for Education’s Do Something Big campaign is coming to Trinity Leeds where the team will be hosting an exciting pop-up designed to inform and inspire those possibly considering a role of working with children in a nursery. 

Whether you're looking for a new challenge, returning to work, or curious about starting out in an apprenticeship, this is a chance to find out if a career in early years is right for you. 

Poetry & Listening

An evening of discussions and readings with acclaimed poets Michael Nardone (Montréal) and Steven Zultanski (Copenhagen) alongside writers from the postgraduate Kerning workshop group.

Join us at the Workshop Theatre for a special evening of conversations about contemporary poetry, cross-arts collaboration and editorial practice with two special guests: Montréal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone, and Copenhagen-based poet and essayist Steven Zultanski.

Dreamers Q&A

Join us for a chance to meet the team behind Dreamers, a new Channel 4 drama about the Chapeltown Collective, an eclectic troupe of dancers made by Leeds-based Duck Soup.

This is your chance to hear about the unique way in which Dreamers was made. Find out how the show auditioned over 1000 young people. Hear from the trainees who worked behind the camera and with the support of Screenskills. And talk to the writers and producers about why Dreamers couldn’t be made anywhere but Leeds.

An Evening with Lisa Jewell

This July, Lisa Jewell is back with her latest addictive read ‘Don’t Let Him In’. We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting an Evening with Lisa, the number one New York and Sunday Times Author who has sold over ten million books worldwide.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and find out more about an international, bestselling Author’s new, page-turner and gain an insight into Lisa’s astonishing writing and publishing journey.

The New Book

The Origins of Haute Couture: From Opéra to Le Sentier

During this hour long talk, the intriguing history of luxury textiles and fashion will be revealed through the geography of the winding streets and wide boulevards of Paris.

Travelling from Opéra to Le Sentier, we'll meet kings, politicians, spies cloth merchants, milliners, glove-makers, feather-workers, embroiderers and the fiercely independent Midinettes.

About Rebecca Devaney

An Evening with the Artists: Loops Meet & Make

Experience an evening with the artists featured in our latest exhibition, Loops.

During this 2 hour Meet & Make session, Netherlands-based artists Gea van Eck, Monika Loster, Hanneke van Broekhoven and Yorkshire-based artists Andi Walker, Hannah Robson & Jane Claire Wilson will come together to share the journey behind their collaborative project.

They'll discuss the process of designing and making the centrepiece of the Loops exhibition - an installation created across many months and hundred of miles.

Wax Print

Wax Print traces the vast and multi-stranded global history of a fabric that has become an iconic symbol of Africa and her children worldwide. This beautiful, transnational two-year journey has taken director Aiwan Obinyan around the world, in search of African wax prints and the untold story of how wax print fabric came to symbolize a continent, its people, and their struggle for freedom.

SEND Next Choices - Getting ready for adult life 2025

SEND Next Choices - Getting ready for adult life is returning to Leeds first direct arena on Tuesday 24th June 2025!

The event is an opportunity for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their parents, carers, support workers and teachers to prepare themselves for adult life. You will be able to find out about jobs, training, apprenticeships, college courses, voluntary work, leisure activities, finances, support and benefits available in Leeds. Over 70 organisations will be there on the day with support and information.