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Discover the events taking place across Leeds in your third term.

Week commencing 26 May

Wednesday 28 May

Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee 

Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling 

Turn Back the Clock 

LinkedIn Insider: Standout with AI in the job market

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 

Wu Qin Xi 

  • 12.15 – 12.45pm 
  • Jade Studio, LUU ​​​​​
  • Learn more

PAYF Colouring Culture Family Friendly Pop-In | with Jude 

Write on Wednesday

  • 12.30 – 3.30pm
  • Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery
  • Learn more

Campus Gardening Sessions

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 

Let’s Play... with our hands 

May Poetry Book Club | Leeds Poetry Festival 

Dog Life Drawing 

Left Bank Plate Up | PAYF 

Pluto Press’ Radical Reading Room with Sarah Autumn 

Stencil Screen Printing with Jenny May 

LS6 Readers Club 

Leeds Lit Club for Women 

Crafting Culture | Maletese Tile Painting with Jude 

Leeds Writer Collab Meet Up 

An Evening with Hazel McBride in Leeds!

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Opening Night 

Tess – Opening Night 

  • 7:45pm 
  • Courtyard, Leeds Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP 
  • Tickets are £15-35

K-Pop'd! 

Thursday 29 May

PAYF Kids & Family Crafts & Games | May Half Term 

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 

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

Anthroposcenes: in the words of Chekhov 

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  

Tomato Planting 

May Volunteer Session | Community Vegetable Garden 

Let’s Play

Harper Moko and Isabella James present: No Mother, Not There – Market and Live Music 

SpeedQuiz 

Harry Baker | Wonderful 2.0 

Burlesque Workshop with Hattie Go Lucky 

Friday 30 May

Tiny Tigers 

  • 10 – 11.45am 
  • Leeds City Museum, LS2 8BH 
  • Learn more

PAYF Kids & Family Crafts & Games | May Half Term 

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  

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 

Forward Leeds: Drug & Alcohol Advice Weekly Drop In 

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 

Presenting with Confidence 

Harry Baker | Wonderful 2.0 

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 

5k Community Parkrun 

Little Fox Charity Craft Market

  • 10am – 4pm
  • Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY 
  • Learn more

Woolfest 2025 

Volsung Vikings 

  • 10am – 5pm 
  • Lotherton Hall, LS25 3EB 
  • Learn more

Leeds Rhinos vs. Wakefield Trinity

Salvation Army Junior Choir Performance

  • 3 – 4pm
  • Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY
  • Learn more

Kate-Lois Elliott – How to Belong Without Joining a Cult 

Sunday 1 June

Volsung Vikings 

  • 10am – 5pm 
  • Lotherton Hall, LS25 3EB 
  • Learn more

Neurodiverse Creative Network (For Female and Non-Binary Creatives) 

Sketches (Life Drawing & Live Jazz)

Week commencing 2 June

Monday 2 June

2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference 

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!

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 

See You Naked Mondays | June 

Pub Quiz

Monday Night Comedy 

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, starring Jason Donovan: Opening Night

Leeds Comedy Fest: Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (preview) 

Tuesday 3 June

2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference 

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

Harm Reduction: Liquid-Pour Activity – Win a Hangover Care Package! 

Yoga at The Attic

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

Leeds Comedy Fest: Alun Cochrane – Work in Progress 

Wednesday 4 June

2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference 

Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee 

Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling 

2025 Further Education Show: Made It

  • 10am-7pm 
  • Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH 
  • Learn more

The Financial Wellbeing Project – Stands 

Bike Maintenance: Bleeding Hydraulic Brakes

Weekly Sewing Studio

  • 1 – 3pm
  • Meanwood Community Centre, LS7 2QU 
  • Learn more

Dante Reading Group

Keep Crafting 

  • 3 – 4pm 
  • Leeds City Museum, LS2 8BH 
  • Learn more

Edek’s Doodle Chats | May 25 

Mindful Yoga and Somatics 

  • 5 – 6pm 
  • Meanwood Community Centre, LS7 2QU 
  • Find out more

Left Bank Plate Up | PAYF 

Exhibition Launch | Transitions of Season by Dawn Smallwood 

Zine Make and Share with Bethan | June 25 

Leeds Comedy Fest: Ahir Shah – Work in Progress 

Gay, Broke & Balding – Stand Up Comedy Night 

Leeds Comedy Fest: Seann Walsh: Work in Progress 

Thursday 5 June

2025 International Image Interoperability Framework Conference 

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! 

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 

Throwback Thursday: Kids’ TV 

  • 2 – 4pm 
  • Abbey House Museum, LS5 3EH 
  • Learn more 

Go Figure – Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing 

Craft & Create – Still Life Drawing 

Cards or Die: Board Games Night 

Leeds Tattoo Expo 10th Anniversary w/ THANK 

Phobia

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 

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 

Phobia

Saturday 7 June

GOGA Walking Trip: Explore ambleside, Lake District

5k Community Parkrun 

Pottery Taster Session – Hand-building and Throwing on the Wheel 

Stained Glass Saturday Workshop with Same Yates 

2025 Further Education Show: Made It

  • 10am – 4pm 
  • Leeds Arts University, Vernon Street, LS2 8PH 
  • Learn more

Cyclist Magazine Presents: Leeds Track Day

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

Inspired by Temple Newsam: Tour & Meet the Artists 

Leeds International African Arts Festival: Heritage Walk with Joe Williams 

Yonder at the Castle

Leeds Comedy Fest: Kieran Hodgson Saves America – Work in Progress 

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 

Leeds Comedy Fest: Rob Mulholland: Allegations 

Sunday 8 June

LS6 Junk Yard Sale 

The Big Leeds Vintage Flea Market 

Leeds Tattoo Expo 

Seven by Seven: Vinyl Record Social

Chloe Petts – Work in Progress 

Leeds Comedy Fest: Pierre Novellie – Work in Progress 

Contact

If you have any questions or feedback about Leeds and You events, email the Leeds and You team at leedsandyou@leeds.ac.uk.

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