Transform 25 is a festival of powerful international performance, happening right here in Leeds from 21-25 October 2025.
Over 5 days this autumn, Transform 25 creates a meeting point for the bold, the electrifying, the reflective and hopeful. Join artists from across the globe to explore urgent perspectives and look to the future. Expect vivid, visceral theatre, dance, performance and intimate experiences across iconic venues and unusual spaces.
Dust off your wildest Hawaiian shirt, grab a deckchair, and soak up the summer’s most skin-tingling experience
After five consecutive sell-outs, Thackray Lates are back! And for one night only, we’re peeling back the science behind the body’s largest organ: skin.
Expect myth-busting talks, craft workshops, and pop-up performances, both inside and outside the museum. From tattooing to tanning, skincare to scar tissue – you’d be a flake to miss it.
The café will serve hot food, snacks and soft drinks, with a pop-up bar by Kirkstall Brewery serving drinks.
Discover more about the rich history and diversity of batik in Indonesia with our exhibition curators.
For Indonesians, batik is more than just a cultural product. It is a storytelling art deeply woven into the nation’s identity. Let us share some of these stories with you, surrounded by examples of the craft.
Tom’s talk will address the following key issues:
1. How dentistry fits in healthcare as a whole (mentioning hospital and public health).
2. The family dentist - and the funding structures
3. The disease burden presently facing the profession - and why
4. The impact this has on services - and the nation as a whole
5. Solutions that may help - or not!
6. Where will dentistry be in 10 years
About Tom Thayer
A new meeting for all in our communities to talk about crossovers between being LGBTQIA+ and other characteristics to better understand and support each other.
This session we'll have friendly and constructive conversation together about how we interact as LGBTQIA+ folks with others under our rainbow umbrella with LGBTQIA+ identities and lives which are different to ours.
This session will be facilitated by Grant Denkinson, but if you’d like to help co-host please get in touch!
Donations to Pride Place welcome as affordable.
No booking required.
On Saturday 28 June from 1PM head to HEART to watch some short films all about nature and the environment! PAYF raffle too!
These are the shorts you will see on the afternoon in two sections. There will be a draw a long from Alicia Hayden who made THE LOST SONGSTRESS so we can all draw curlews
PRAISE SONG FOR AN ACORN - animation celebrating the acorn
THE MAN OF TREES - about the brilliant Daniel Balima who has polio but has planted more than a million trees
Join the Curator of Dress and Textiles at Lotherton for a talk exploring the clothes and styles women have worn during pregnancy across the centuries.
This will be a relaxed, informal talk and babes in arms are welcome. The talk will be followed by tea in the servants’ rooms with the curator.
This talk complements the exhibition Fashion at Play: Children’s Clothing Through the Ages.
Ticket price includes general admission to Lotherton, so make sure you leave time to explore the wider estate.
Bills and Beats is a creative finance project that helps young musicians and makers build confidence with money. Through live events, film, and 1:1 advice, it connects the creative and financial worlds to spark new skills, stories and opportunities.
Forget panel chats that preach or dull lectures about budgeting. Bills and Beats is a live, local lab where young creatives, musicians, and makers come to swap stories, tackle money myths, and meet the people who can actually help them make it work.
Join us for an evening of radical reading where we will be discussing Andre Bagoo’s ‘The Dreaming’, followed by a book swap social!
Are you interested in discovering a broad field of literature, supporting independent publishers and bookshops, and platforming marginalised authors? Join us in Treasures of the Brotherton for an evening of radical reading!
We are delighted to welcome legendary American DJ and record producer Arthur Baker to Jumbo for a very special book talk, Q&A session with James Smith of Yard Act. Arthur will be chatting about his new book and memoir, 'Looking For The Perfect Beat', an account of his life and career in the music industry.
Arthur and James will take to the Jumbo stage at 2pm on Sunday 29th June for an in depth conversation about the book, with questions welcomed from the audience.
Arthur will then play a special vinyl only DJ set in the shop for an hour.