Top Picks
Guides
What’s on
Where to go
See all

A Soft Disturbance at Assembly House

Maja Lorkowska, Exhibitions Editor

Visit now

A Soft Disturbance by Abigail Elizabeth & Sam Jones

Assembly House in Leeds, Leeds
26-28 June 2025
Date
Time
Session Features
26 Jun 2025
6:00 pm-10:00 pm
27 Jun 2025
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
28 Jun 2025
10:00 am-3:00 pm

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

Free
A woman sits on a crochet covered armchair, wearing a crochet costume and holding a crochet eyeball to her face
Image supplied by Leeds Inspired
Book now

Surrealist textiles and an escapist soundscape – sounds good, right? Come along to A Soft Disturbance at Assembly House in Leeds where fibre artist Abigail Elizabeth and sound designer Sam Jones have joined forces to create a magical sensory playground.

The soft pieces on display are designed to be touched, felt and played with, a rare treat in a world of ‘please don’t touch’. The artists are offering a guided experience too, while the audience feel and use the works on display.

Come along to the opening night on 26 June, or, if you can’t make it, the show is open for two days until 28 June.

Where to go near A Soft Disturbance at Assembly House

Demonstration taking place at Leeds Industrial Museum
Leeds
Museum
Leeds Industrial Museum

Leeds Industrial Museum, housed inside the Grade II listed Armley Mills, explores the history of manufacturing in Leeds since the 18th century, including textiles, printing, film and engineering.
Event venue
Leeds Aerial Arts

Step out of their comfort zone and realise what you’re truly capable with Leeds Aerial Arts and their diverse range of classes.

Leeds
Event venue
Freedom Mills

Freedom Mills is a multi-platform events space which runs a regular night programme alongside a range of events, including rave nights.

Test event
Leeds
Gallery
Aire Place Studios

Aire Place Studios is a creative studio in Leeds which prides itself on an upholding of equality, solidarity and safe-space values.
Event venue
Open Source Arts

Open Source Arts is a place for people to learn new skills, develop existing ones and become inspired in Leeds.

Leeds
Music venue
Project House

What do you get when you bring together some of the best-loved names in the worlds of music, culture, food and drink in Leeds?

Threshold is an artist-led project space for sculpture, located in the front garden of a traditional back-to-back house in Burley, Leeds. Exhibitions are open for all to view. Encounter sculpture on your daily walk, or way to work or school.
Leeds
Event venue
Threshold Leeds

Threshold is an artist-led project space for sculpture, located in the front garden of a traditional back-to-back house in Burley, Leeds.

Archive Leeds
Leeds
Café or Coffee Shop
Archive Leeds

Archive is a coffee house, cafeteria, bar and event space based in the site of a former TV archive in Leeds.

Leeds
Restaurant
Archive

Archive serving up speciality coffee and bespoke events to the people of Kirkstall, including craft fairs, vintage pop ups and exhibitions.

Interplay works across all definitions of exclusion to create a special theatre that places the audience at the centre of the experience.
Leeds
Theatre
Interplay Theatre

Interplay works across all definitions of exclusion to create a special theatre that places the audience at the centre of the experience.

Left Bank Leeds
Leeds
Event venue
Left Bank Leeds

Left Bank Leeds is an arts and events venue based in the breathtaking former St Margaret of Antioch Church on Cardigan Road, a popular spot to congregate for gigs, festivals, workshops.

See all places

What's on: Exhibitions

In a large industrial space filled with dobby looms hangs a blood red textile piece infront of a sheer white backdrop.
Until
ExhibitionsLeeds
Loops at Sunny Bank Mills

‘Loops’ is a new collaborative exhibition of textiles at Sunny Bank Mills, connecting artists from across the Netherlands and Yorkshire.

Free entry

Culture Guides

Helena Hauff
Music in the North

Shape-shifting bands, scorched-earth techno, and off-grid festivals. Our latest music picks catch the live scene at its most urgent, inventive and alive.

Cloudwater Production One
Tours and Activities in the North

Go forth with wild abandon to dance the pavements, dabble with the paint and down the pints in this month's tours and activities guide.

Exhibitions in the North

Captivating, urgent and intimate - we bring you our top exhibition picks, with even more art festivals, artist-led shows and new venues.

Theatre in Manchester and the North
Theatre in the North

Experimental performance, thought-provoking new writing and our picks of Manchester International Festival - here’s what’s taking centre stage this summer.

Classical Music in the North

Read our latest highlights from the live classical music offer in Manchester and the North, taking in a number of the region's most cherished orchestral forces and venues.

A young boy with a white sash around his left arm cries.
Cinema in the North

Outdoor cinema announcements, a major retrospective at HOME, and the best of indie cinema.

See all guides