Leeds and You events
Discover the events taking place across Leeds in your third term.
Week commencing 26 May
Wednesday 28 May
Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee
- 8 – 9am
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £6.50
Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling
- 10am – 12pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your £3 ticket
Turn Back the Clock
- 10am – 12pm and 1 – 3pm
- Leeds Discovery Centre, LS10 1LB
- Get your PAYF ticket
LinkedIn Insider: Standout with AI in the job market
- 11am
- Online
- Register now
Tea and Talk: Inspired by Temple Newsam – Martin Pearson
- 11am – 12pm
- Temple Newsam, LS15 0AE
- Learn more
FREE Family Activities:MAY MAYHEM
- 11am – 3pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market
- Learn more
FREE Family Activities: STAY AND PLAY
- 11am – 3pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market
- Learn more
Meditation – Student Counselling Service
- 12 – 1.30pm
- Room 6, LUU
- Learn more
Wu Qin Xi
- 12.15 – 12.45pm
- Jade Studio, LUU
- Learn more
PAYF Colouring Culture Family Friendly Pop-In | with Jude
- 12 – 3pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Learn more
Write on Wednesday
- 12.30 – 3.30pm
- Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery
- Learn more
Campus Gardening Sessions
- 1 – 3pm
- Sustainable Garden, beside Roger Stevens
- Book a session
Tomato Planting
- 1 – 3pm
- Temple Newsham, LS15 0AE
- Learn more
Dante Reading Group
- 1.30 – 2.30pm
- Wilson Room, Emmanuel Centre, LS2 9JT
- Learn more
Edek’s Doodle Chats | May 25
- 3 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Let’s Play... with our hands
- 4 – 5pm
- The Language Zone, Parkinson Building SR 2.31
- Check their Sharepoint
May Poetry Book Club | Leeds Poetry Festival
- 6 – 7pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £5
Dog Life Drawing
- 6 – 7.45pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £8.30-13.17
Left Bank Plate Up | PAYF
- 6 – 8pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Learn more
Pluto Press’ Radical Reading Room with Sarah Autumn
- 6.30 – 8pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Stencil Screen Printing with Jenny May
- 6.30 – 8.30pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £25
LS6 Readers Club
- 7 – 8.30pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Leeds Lit Club for Women
- 7 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Learn more
Crafting Culture | Maletese Tile Painting with Jude
- 7 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £15
Leeds Writer Collab Meet Up
- 7 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Learn more
An Evening with Hazel McBride in Leeds!
- 7pm
- Waterstones, LS1 5JS
- Tickets are £5-23
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Opening Night
- 7:30pm
- Quarry, Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP
- Tickets are £15-47.50
Tess – Opening Night
- 7:45pm
- Courtyard, Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP
- Tickets are £15-35
K-Pop'd!
- 9pm – 1am
- Terrace, LUU
- Learn more
Thursday 29 May
PAYF Kids & Family Crafts & Games | May Half Term
- 10am – 2pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
The Only Wrap to Bee
- 10am-4pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
- Learn more
Sensory room for Families with Additional Needs
- 10.30 – 11.30am and 12.30 – 1.30pm
- Leeds City Museum, LS2 8BH
- Learn more
Inspired by Temple Newsam: Artist Workshops – Martin Pearson
- 11am and 1.30pm
- Temple Newsam, LS15 0AE
- Learn more
Behind Closed Curtains
- 11am and 2pm
- Alec Clegg
- Book your free ticket
FREE Family Activities: MAY MAYHEM
- 11am – 3pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market
- Learn more
FREE Family Activities: STAY AND PLAY
- 11am – 3pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market
- Learn more
Rainbow Junktion PAYF Community Cafe
- 11,30am – 3pm
- All Hallows Church, LS6 1NP
- Learn more
Student Counselling and Wellbeing Meditation group
- 12 – 1pm
- Room 6, Level 2, LUU
- Learn more
Anthroposcenes: in the words of Chekhov
- 12.30pm and 3.30pm
- Stage One
- Book your free ticket
FREE 15 Minute Meditation Session
- 1 – 1.30pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
- Learn more
Volunteering Drop In
- 1 – 2pm
- Crossroads, LUU Union Square
- Learn more
Wellbeing Walks
- 1 – 2.30pm
- Leeds Art Gallery, LS1 3AA
- Book your spot
Tomato Planting
- 1 – 3pm
- Temple Newsham, LS15 0AE
- Learn more
May Volunteer Session | Community Vegetable Garden
- 2 – 4pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Let’s Play
- 4 – 5pm
- The Language Zone, Parkinson Building SR 2.31
- Check their Sharepoint
Harper Moko and Isabella James present: No Mother, Not There – Market and Live Music
- 6 – 10pm
- Wharf Chambers, LS2 7EQ
- Tickets are £2-5
SpeedQuiz
- 7pm
- Archive, LS3 1HD
- Book your free table
Harry Baker | Wonderful 2.0
- 7.30pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £13.70
Burlesque Workshop with Hattie Go Lucky
- 6 – 8pm
- Swarthmore Education Centre, LS3 1AD
- Tickets are £30
Friday 30 May
Tiny Tigers
- 10 – 11.45am
- Leeds City Museum, LS2 8BH
- Learn more
PAYF Kids & Family Crafts & Games | May Half Term
- 10am – 2pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
The Only Wrap to Bee
- 10am – 4pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
- Learn more
Atelier of Spring at SCRAP
- 10:30-11:30am & 1-2pm
- Scrap Creative Reuse, LS28 5UJ
- Learn more
FREE Family Activities: STAY AND PLAY
- 11am – 3pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market
- Learn more
Rainbow Junktion PAYF Community Café
- 11.30am – 3pm
- All Hallows Church, LS6 1NP
- Learn more
Anthroposcenes: in the words of Chekhov
- 12pm
- Stage One
- Book your free ticket
Wellbeing: Weekly Meditation Classes
- 12.15 – 12.45pm
- Mango Studio, LUU
- Learn more
Sketch Club
- 12.30 – 3.30pm
- The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
- Find out more
Behind Closed Curtains
- 11am and 2pm
- Alec Clegg
- Book your free ticket
Forward Leeds: Drug & Alcohol Advice Weekly Drop In
- 1 – 4pm
- Room 3, LUU
- Learn more
Student Counselling and Wellbeing Feel Better Faster group
- 2 – 3pm
- Group Room, Student Counselling and Wellbeing, 19 Clarendon Place
- Find out more
Illustration Workshop with Tim Gomersall
- 2 – 4pm
- Abbey House Museum, LS5 3EH
- Get your £10 ticket
Presenting with Confidence
- 4 – 5pm
- The Language Zone, Parkinson Building SR 2.31
- Check their Sharepoint
Harry Baker | Wonderful 2.0
- 7.30pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £13.70
Pocket Rocket – Opening Night
- 8pm
- Barber Studio, Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP
- Tickets are £15
Saturday 31 May
GOGA Walk: Explore Bakewell and Chatsworth Estate, Peak District
- 8am – 6pm
- Meet at Parkinson Steps
- Tickets are £19
5k Community Parkrun
- 9am
- Woodhouse Moor
- Register before attending
Little Fox Charity Craft Market
- 10am – 4pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
- Learn more
Woolfest 2025
- 10am – 5pm
- Leeds Industrial Museum, LS12 1QF
- Tickets from £2.90
Volsung Vikings
- 10am – 5pm
- Lotherton Hall, LS25 3EB
- Learn more
Leeds Rhinos vs. Wakefield Trinity
- 2.30pm
- AMT Headingley Stadium, St Michael’s Lane, LS6 3BR
- Get your 40% off discount code
Salvation Army Junior Choir Performance
- 3 – 4pm
- Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
- Learn more
Kate-Lois Elliott – How to Belong Without Joining a Cult
- 7.30 – 9pm
- Hyde Park Book Club, LS6 1BL
- Tickets are £6.60
Sunday 1 June
Volsung Vikings
- 10am – 5pm
- Lotherton Hall, LS25 3EB
- Learn more
Neurodiverse Creative Network (For Female and Non-Binary Creatives)
- 1 – 3pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Sketches (Life Drawing & Live Jazz)
- 7 – 10pm
- The Attic, 3 Sheaf Street, LS10 1HD
- Get your ticket
Week commencing 2 June
Monday 2 June
2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference
- All day
- University of Leeds
- Learn more
2025 Further Education Show: Made It - Launch
- 10am-7pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
Care Creatives
- 11am – 1pm
- Leeds Art Gallery, LS1 3AA
- Learn more
Rainbow Junktion PAYF Community Café
- 11.30am – 3pm
- All Hallows Church, LS6 1NP
- Learn more
COMMUNI-TEA!
- 12.30pm
- Emmanuel Centre, LS2 9JT
- Learn more
Weekly Sewing Studio
- 1 – 3pm
- Meanwood Community Centre, LS7 2QU
- Learn more
Global Café
- 5.30 – 7.30pm
- Common Ground, LUU
- Learn more
Glenn Moore – Work in Progress
- 6.30pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
See You Naked Mondays | June
- 6.30 – 8.30pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £8.50
Pub Quiz
- 7pm
- Water Lane Boathouse, LS11 5PS
- £5 entry per team
Monday Night Comedy
- 7.30pm
- Headrow House, LS1 6PU
- Tickets are £5
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, starring Jason Donovan: Opening Night
- 8pm
- Leeds Grand Theatre, LS1 6NZ
- Tickets are £31-61
Leeds Comedy Fest: Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (preview)
- 8.15pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Tuesday 3 June
2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference
- All day
- University of Leeds
- Learn more
1152 Club Talks at Abbey House Museum
- 10 – 11.15am
- Abbey House Museum, LS5 3EH
- Learn more
2025 Further Education Show: Made It
- 10am-7pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
Community Litter Pick
- 11am – 1pm
- Woodhouse Moor
- Learn more
Harm Reduction: Liquid-Pour Activity – Win a Hangover Care Package!
- 11am – 5pm
- LUU foyer
- Learn more
Yoga at The Attic
- 12 – 1pm
- 3 Sheaf Street, LS10 1HD
- Tickets are £6.13
Get Out Get Active: Social Run
- 12.05 – 12.45pm
- Meet at Cromer Terrace Studio
- Sign up
Monthly Embroidery Group with RVS
- 1 – 3pm
- Meanwood Community Centre, Stainbeck Avenue, LS7 2QU
- Learn more
Plus Programme: Focus on your Finances – Budgeting 101
- 2-3:30pm
- Register for location
- Sign up
CrAFTERwork
- 5-7pm
- Leeds Central Library, Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB
- Tickets are £4
Northern Ballet’s Sketches: Past, Present, Future
- 7.30pm
- Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, LS2 7PA
- Tickets are £18, £10.25 under 30s
Leeds Comedy Fest: Alun Cochrane – Work in Progress
- 7pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Wednesday 4 June
2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference
- All day
- University of Leeds
- Learn more
Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee
- 8 – 9am
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Tickets are £6.50
Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling
- 10am – 12pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your £3 ticket
2025 Further Education Show: Made It
- 10am-7pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
The Financial Wellbeing Project – Stands
- 11am-1pm
- LUU Foyer
- Learn more
Bike Maintenance: Bleeding Hydraulic Brakes
- 1 – 2pm
- Bike Hub
- Learn more
Weekly Sewing Studio
- 1 – 3pm
- Meanwood Community Centre, LS7 2QU
- Learn more
Dante Reading Group
- 1.30 – 2.30pm
- Wilson Room, Emmanuel Centre, LS2 9JT
- Learn more
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Northern Ballet’s Sketches: Past, Present, Future
- 3.30pm and 7.30pm
- Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, LS2 7PA
- Tickets are £18, £10.25 under 30s
Keep Crafting
- 3 – 4pm
- Leeds City Museum, LS2 8BH
- Learn more
Edek’s Doodle Chats | May 25
- 3 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Mindful Yoga and Somatics
- 5 – 6pm
- Meanwood Community Centre, LS7 2QU
- Find out more
Left Bank Plate Up | PAYF
- 6 – 8pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Learn more
Exhibition Launch | Transitions of Season by Dawn Smallwood
- 6 – 8pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Zine Make and Share with Bethan | June 25
- 6 – 9pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your PAYF ticket
Leeds Comedy Fest: Ahir Shah – Work in Progress
- 6.30pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Gay, Broke & Balding – Stand Up Comedy Night
- 7 – 9pm
- Hyde Park Book Club, LS6 1BL
- Tickets are £6.60-£8.80
Leeds Comedy Fest: Seann Walsh: Work in Progress
- 8.15pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £13.95
Thursday 5 June
2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference
- All day
- University of Leeds
- Learn more
2025 Further Education Show: Made It
- 10am-7pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
Harm Reduction: Liquid-Pour Activity – Win a Hangover Care Package!
- 11am – 5pm
- LUU foyer
- Learn more
Rainbow Junktion PAYF Community Café
- 11.30am – 3pm
- All Hallows Church, LS6 1NP
- Learn more
Student Counselling and Wellbeing Meditation group
- 12 – 1.30pm
- Room 6, Second floor, LUU
- Learn more
Get Out Get Active: Social Run
- 12.05 – 12.45pm
- Meet at Cromer Terrace Studio
- Sign up
Volunteering Drop In
- 1 – 2pm
- Crossroads, LUU Union Square
- Learn more
June Volunteer Session | Community Vegetable Garden
- 2 – 4pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
Throwback Thursday: Kids’ TV
- 2 – 4pm
- Abbey House Museum, LS5 3EH
- Learn more
Go Figure – Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing
- 6 – 8pm
- Swarthmore Education Centre, LS3 1AD
- Tickets are £7.50
Craft & Create – Still Life Drawing
- 6 – 8pm
- Leeds Discovery Centre, LS10 1LB
- Tickets are £25
Cards or Die: Board Games Night
- 6 – 9pm
- Archive, LS3 1HD
- Book your free table
Leeds Tattoo Expo 10th Anniversary w/ THANK
- 7pm
- Belgrave Music Hall
- Learn more
Phobia
- 7.30pm
- Stage One
- Tickets are £12, concessions £5-£9
Friday 6 June
2025 Further Education Show: Made It
- 10am-4pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
Sociable History Club: Riots and Protests in Leeds
- 10.30 – 12pm
- Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, LS2 8BH
- Learn more
Wellbeing: Weekly Meditation Classes
- 12.15 – 12.45pm
- Mango Studio, LUU
- Learn more
Guest Speaker: Day Tripping into the 60s & 70s with Steph Hoy
- 12.30 – 1.15pm
- Marks and Spencer Archive, Western Campus
- Learn more
Forward Leeds Drug and Alcohol Advice Weekly Drop In
- 1 – 4pm
- Room 3, LUU
- Learn more
Student Counselling and Wellbeing Feel Better Faster group
- 2 – 3pm
- Group Room, Student Counselling and Wellbeing, 19 Clarendon Place
- Learn more
Community Choir
- 2.30 – 4pm
- Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, LS2 8BH
- Learn more
Leeds Comedy Fest: Tiff Stevenson: Husband Material
- 6.30pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £17.25
Phobia
- 7.30pm
- Stage One
- Tickets are £12, concessions £5-£9
Saturday 7 June
GOGA Walking Trip: Explore ambleside, Lake District
- 8am-6pm
- meet at Parkinson Steps
- Tickets are £21
5k Community Parkrun
- 9am
- Woodhouse Moor
- Register before attending
Pottery Taster Session – Hand-building and Throwing on the Wheel
- 10am – 1pm
- Swarthmore Education Centre, LS3 1AD
- Tickets are £45
Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Same Yates
- 10am – 3.30pm
- Swarthmore Education Centre, LS3 1AD
- Tickets are £85
2025 Further Education Show: Made It
- 10am – 4pm
- Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH
- Learn more
Cyclist Magazine Presents: Leeds Track Day
- 10am – 4pm
- The Brownlee Centre, Bodington Avenue, Adel, LS16
- Tickets are £38.62, free for spectators
Drawing with thread – Hand Embroidery and Applique Workshop with Hayley Mills-Styles
- 11am-3:45pm
- Leeds Central Library, Municipal Buildings, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB
- Tickets are £24
Leeds Tattoo Expo
- 11am – 9pm
- First Direct Arena, LS2 8BY
- Tickets are £20.05-£27.75
Inspired by Temple Newsam: Tour & Meet the Artists
- 11.30am – 1pm
- Temple Newsam, LS15 0AE
- Tickets are £20
Leeds International African Arts Festival: Heritage Walk with Joe Williams
- 2.30 – 4pm
- Meet at Parkinson Steps
- Get your PAYF ticket
Yonder at the Castle
- 4 – 10pm
- Pontefract Castle, Castle Chain, WF8 1QH
- Tickets are £22.38
Leeds Comedy Fest: Kieran Hodgson Saves America – Work in Progress
- 4.45pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Inspired Music Night
- 6 – 7pm
- Emmanuel Centre, LS2 9JT
- Learn more
Leeds Comedy Fest: Rob Auton, ‘CAN’ The Story of a Man Called Can - Work in Progress
- 6.30pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Learn more
Leeds Comedy Fest: Rob Mulholland: Allegations
- 8.15pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £17.25
Sunday 8 June
LS6 Junk Yard Sale
- 11am – 3pm
- Left Bank, LS6 1LJ
- Get your free ticket
The Big Leeds Vintage Flea Market
- 11am – 4pm
- Testbed, LS10 1ES
- Tickets are £3
Leeds Tattoo Expo
- 11am – 8pm
- First Direct Arena, LS2 8BY
- Tickets are £20.05-27.75
Seven by Seven: Vinyl Record Social
- 3 – 9pm
- Wharf Chambers, LS2 7EQ
- Find out more
Chloe Petts – Work in Progress
- 4.45pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Leeds Comedy Fest: Pierre Novellie – Work in Progress
- 6.30pm
- The Wardrobe, LS9 8AH
- Tickets are £11.75
Contact
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