Leeds and You events

Summer in Leeds 2025

Discover the events taking place in and around Leeds this season.

Week commencing 30 June

Friday 4 July

The Only Wrap to Bee 

Education Leeds School of Architecture Show 

Sociable History Club: The Wonderful World of Miffy 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Young Musician 2 – Charlotte Spruit 

School Food Matters – Young Marketeers 

Swarthmore Education Centre Pop-Up 

Wellbeing: Weekly Meditation Classes

Sketch Club 

Listening to Succeed at University, with Peter Matthews

Meet and Make 

Summer Festival 2025: Voices of the North – Love is a Spectrum, Neil Balfour and Jonathon Drummond 

Presenting with Confidence

Summer Festival 2025: Voices of the North – Under the Cover of Night: Elizabeth Hardman, Beth Moxon and Jonathan Drummond 

Amy Annette and Grace Mulvey – Work in Progress 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Gigs at Gaia – Orchestra For The Earth 

Saturday 5 July

5k Community Parkrun 

Beginners Sewing Workshop 

Education Leeds School of Architecture Show 

Leeds Festival of Gothica: Alternative Market

Paper, Collage and Stitch Textile Workshop with Hayley Mills-Styles 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Our World – Family Workshop with Orchestra for the Earth 

Waterfront Festival Party 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Sublime Science’s Wacky Workshop 

RinkyDink Birthday Wax Melts Workshop 

Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Young Musician 3: Jali Bakary Konteh 

Pencil Case Making Evening Taster Workshop 

Sunday 6 July

4 Hour Mosaic Taster Workshop 

Waterfront Festival Party 

Grandpa Poseidon 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Second-Hand and Antiquarian Bookfair 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Ahmed Dickinson 

Sean Morley – Work in Progress 

Ian Smith – Work in Progress 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Leeds University Union Medieval Society Film Night: The King 

Sketches [Life Drawing & Live Jazz]

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Gigs at Gaia – The Marian Consort

Week commencing 7 July

Monday 7 July

International Medieval Congress 2025: Second Hand and Antiquarian Bookfair

Weekly Crochet Group 

Let’s Chat 

Global Cafe 

Marching On-Line Together: A History of the Leeds United Email List

International Medieval Congress 2025: Institute of Medieval Studies 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Bookfair 

See You Naked Mondays | July 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Journal of Medieval History, Routledge 

Medieval Fashion Show 

Monday Night Comedy 

Lucy The Pianist 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival:  Gigs at Gaia – Anthony Gray 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Early Medieval Europe

International Medieval Congress 2025: Mediävistikverband 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Society Pub Quiz 

Tuesday 8 July

International Medieval Congress 2025: Second Hand and Antiquarian Bookfair 

Yoga at The Attic

International Medieval Congress 2025: Special Collections Lunchtime Drop-Ins 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Middle East Medievalists 

Period Pack Sewing Group

International Medieval Congress 2025: Hidden in Plain Sight – Scratching the Surface 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Animals, University of Wales Press

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Worlds: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Society of the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool University Press 

Music, Football, Fanzines 

Molly McGuinness and Joe Kent-Walters – Work in Progress

International Medieval Congress 2025: Creature Features – A Hands-On Play Testing of Monstrum 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Gigs at Gaia – Connaught Brass 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Open Mic Night 

SIX: Opening Night

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Academy of America 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Arc Humanities Press 

International Medieval Congress 2025: York Medieval Press / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York 

Wednesday 9 July

Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee 

Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling 

Horizon Students pop-up 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Craft Fair 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Special Collections Lunchtime Drop-Ins 

Write on Wednesday 

International Medieval Congress 2025: International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 

Weekly Sewing Studio 

Performative Calligraphy Workshop 

AHC Chill Study Session 

Edek’s Doodle Chats | July 25 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Hidden in Plain Sight – Below the Surface 

Mindful Yoga and Somatics 

International Medieval Congress 2025: British Archaeological Association 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Croatian-American Research Center for Premodern History, Croatian Institute of History 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol 

Left Bank Plate Up | Pay As You Feel 

Make Your Own Mug Rug – Punch Needle Workshop Created by Char

International Medieval Congress 2025: Amis and Amiloun 

Ceramic Bird Feeder Workshop with Mel from Earth Paper Fibre 

Susie McCabe and Marjolein Robertson – Work in Progress 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Yevgeny Sudbin 

LGBTQ+ Collaging Workshop with Leeds LGBT+ Community Consortium 

International Medieval Congress 2025: German Historical Institute, London and Paris / German History Society 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Hands on History – Arms and Armour Replica Handling Session 

International Medieval Congress 2025: An Interactive Introduction to the Medieval Night Sky 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (IMAREAL), Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Assassins and Templars in Popular Culture – A Battle in Myth and Blood 

International Medieval Congress 2025: The Tale of Jaufre 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, University of Leeds / Digital Medievalist 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Storytelling Circle 

International Medieval Congress 2025: IMC Dance 

Thursday 10 July

Monthly Community Sewing Class

Horizon Students pop-up 

The Only Wrap to Bee  

International Medieval Congress 2025: Medieval Craft Fair 

International Medieval Congress 2025: Historical and Archaeological Societies Fair

The Picture Library Selection Weekend 

International Medieval Congress 2025: IIIF Digital Image Workshop 

To Improvise a Mountain – Lunchtime Talks  

Free 15 minute meditation session 

July Volunteer Session | Community Vegetable Garden 

Let’s Chat 

Dave Chawner and Robyn Perkins – Work in Progress 

Chris Turner: Spontaneous 

Brainstorm – Opening Night 

International Medieval Congress 2025: ‘Rys up an let us daunce!’

Friday 11 July

The Only Wrap to Bee  

The Picture Library Selection Weekend 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Young Musician 4 – Alannah Saphir 

Sketch Club 

Meet and Make 

Study Afternoon: Sweepiana - The Ernestine Henry Collection 

Presenting with Confidence 

Sharon Wanjohi and Thor Stenhaug – Work in Progress 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: House of Burlesque and Silent Disco

Rugby League: Leeds Rhinos versus St. Helen’s Saints 

Saturday 12 July

5k Community Parkrun 

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

Leeds Record Fair 

Kirkstall Festival 

The Picture Library Selection Weekend 

Beaded Ring Workshop 

Leeds Peoples Choir Performance 

Botanical Art – Watercolour Lilies with Artist Monair Hyman 

Leeds’ Queer History Tour – LS6 Ticket 

Big Strong Man 

Sunday 13 July

Craft Markets

Heritage Craft Workshop – Traditional Arabic Calligraphy 

The Picture Library Selection Weekend 

Youth Collective – Sunday Special 

LS6 Junk Yard Sale July 

Breadcrumbs 

Seven by Seven: Vinyl Record Social 

Cirque: The Greatest Show Reimagined: Opening Night

Josie Long  - Work in Progress 

Contact

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