Leeds and You events

Summer in Leeds 2025

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

Week Commencing 30 June

Tuesday 1 July

Swarthmore Education Centre Pop-Up 

Yoga at The Attic

Let’s Play… with language(s)

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Oddsocks 2025 

Wednesday 2 June

Wednesday Wake Up Yoga and Coffee 

AHC Chill Study Session 

Explore Creative Textile Art with Ling 

Swarthmore Education Centre Pop-Up 

Write on Wednesday 

Local Voices, Independent Media 

Language Zone Social

Weekly Sewing Studio 

Talik: Batik as Indonesia’s Living Art

Let’s Explore Leeds

Keep Crafting 

Edek’s Doodle Chats  July 25 

Left Bank Plate Up - Pay As You Feel 

Zine Make and Share with Bethan 

Art, Power & People: Art History Group with Amy 

Lino Printing Workshop with Megan Dobbyn 

Summer Festival 2025: Voices of the North – Tom Harris ft. Lucy-Anne Daniels and Anna Chandler-King 

Queer on the Street Arts and Crafts Club 

Lindsey Santoro & Jen Nolan – Work in Progress 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Oddsocks 2025 

A Thing of Beauty

Thursday 3 July

Swarthmore Education Centre Pop-Up 

Throwback Thursday: Getting Around Town 

July Volunteer Session | Community Vegetable Garden 

Let’s Chat

Go Figure – Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing 

Craft and Create – Copper Embossing 

Cards or Die: Board Games Night

Free Motion Machine Embroidery Taster Evening Workshop 

Drop Dead Gorgeous – Film Screening 

Summer Festival 2025: Voices of the North – Charlie Cooper and the CCs 

Josh Jones and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Work in Progress 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Alistair McGowan 

Sofar Sounds 

A Thing of Beauty

Friday 4 July

Sociable History Club: The Wonderful World of Miffy 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Young Musician 2 – Charlotte Spruit 

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 

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 

HACS Harrogate Music Festival: Sublime Science’s Wacky 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 

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

Contact

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

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