Join the Leeds illustrator meet-up, Brew, to bust the winter creative block.

January and February are slow, hibernation months, and it can be hard to feel inspired. So for our meet-up this month, we’ll be doing some fun exercises to beat the creative block. Come along for a relaxed evening of activities and a chance to chat with other illustrators. Who knows, you might leave with ideas for a new creative project!

Do I need to bring anything?
If you can, please bring:
Paper or a sketchbook
Your favourite drawing materials

Join us at Leeds Arts University Creative Networks as we chat to British brand consultant and designer Gary Aspden, about his career connecting brands and pop culture.

About the speaker

We are delighted that Julia Chapman will be joining us in the shop to share the final instalment of her much loved Dales Detective Series, ‘Date with Destiny‘ which is due for publication on 27 March.

From death to danger and malice to mystery, Samson and Delilah have weathered many storms. Finally, things should be going smoothly. Except life’s never that simple in Bruncliffe, is it?

To celebrate International Women's Day 2025, we've assembled a panel featuring three of the very best writers around - Naomi Booth, Lara Pawson and Rose Ruane - for a discussion about women in contemporary literature.

This is an amazing opportunity to hear the voices behind some of the best books of the last few years talk about themselves and their work, including discussion about portrayals of women in contemporary literature and sharing their experiences of being women writers in the modern publishing industry. 

A Talk By Dr Eric Kemp- Benedict, the University of Leeds.

About the Talk 
How to make sense of the present moment? This talk presents one framing, drawing on the notion of the ‘Market Turn’ introduced by the Oxford economic historian Avner Offer. Beginning in the 1980s, the UK, together with the US and some other high-income countries, began to shift away from social democracy towards market liberalism – the Market Turn.

Jay Rayner is going back on the road! Join the ever-tasteful, often hilarious, always readable writer and broadcaster as he celebrates 25 years as The Observer’s award-winning restaurant critic with the publication of Nights Out At Home, a memoir-in-recipes. Throughout his quarter of a century eating professionally in some of the world’s best (and frankly worst) restaurants, Jay has always reverse-engineered his favourite dishes; now he’s ready to share those brilliant recipes with you and his memories of the restaurants that served them.

The Creative Meet Up returns to The Attic Leeds. 

Doing things a little bit differently to last time we have guest panel of industry professionals answering questions on todays hot topics within the creative industry. 

Doors open at 6pm makes sure to get your tickets on Eventbrite, see Tickets below.

We're proud to be coordinating the Leeds LGBT+ community marketplace for LGBT+ History Month 2025 again this year, bringing together a range of LGBTQ+ community groups, charities and support organisations.

Come along on the day to chat to our attendees and find out about social and support activities available across Leeds and beyond.

Stall enquiries to Rob at info@angelsoffreedom.org.uk

#LeedsLovesDiversity #LeedsLGBTHM25

Join us for an interesting and inspirational evening!

An audience with multiple British national record holding freediver Ruth Osborn - the second deepest British woman ever, with Kendal Mountain Festival nominated filmmaker Zoe East, Opal Video and hosted by Michelle Hands, She Who Dares Wins Podcast.

FREE EVENT - booking not needed.

Ruth will be sharing some of her photos and videos and the stories behind them, weaving technical aspects of freediving with personal experiences and reflections on freediving and what it takes to become a British champion.