At heart, Chirpy is a design shop, selling everything for all your creative needs, alongside a bunch of quirky gifts and accessories. But it also hosts regular workshops, teaching skills such as embroidery and candle-making.
Northern Monk, one of Leeds’ best breweries, is kicking off the weekend with a brewery tour to kick start your Saturday afternoon.
From £20.00
Sure to awaken childlike imagination in us all, experience the sweetest of treats this Christmas with Northern Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
From £23.00
Leeds is a city best explored on foot. With a local guide leading the way, this 90-minute walking tour offers an engaging introduction to a city.
From £12.00
‘Plant Dreaming’ gathers the work of seven contemporary artists and their thoughts on plant knowledge and ecopolitics, at Leeds Art Gallery.
Free entry
Set in Gaza, one-woman show A Grain of Sand insists on one simple principle: that children’s voices matter, and that listening to them is a political act.
From £17.00
Take a journey through 300 years of pub and brewing history in Leeds, with a heritage Pub and brewery tour.
From £35.00
YOU:MATTER is a spectacular audio-visual experience that explores our place in the universe and the invisible links between us and the cosmos
From £2.00
The guided tour offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brewhouse and state-of-the-art packaging plant, giving visitors a full sense of what “real Yorkshire beer” means today.
From £15.00
Kind of like your front room, but with better beers and no television, Further North was one of the first microbars to open in Leeds and remains a staple today.
Chapel Allerton library is a place where history meets a love of reading, where visitors can borrow books, eBooks, eAudio, and more.
A place to explore literature and illustration with the whole family., enjoy story times, book clubs and other special events.
Dapur Malaysia serves up home-cooked South East Asian cuisine taking influence from Chinese, Indian and Malay cultures.
Seven Arts is a versatile, independent arts space in Chapel Allerton which delivers film, theatre, dance, music, poetry and comedy events, together with a welcoming café bar.
Putting the ‘T’ in quality.
Beck and Call is a family friendly local pub with a vibrant culture of quizzes, workshops and excellent food, nestled in North Leeds.
Potternewton Park is a popular park in the heart of Chapeltown, just 2 miles north east of Leeds city centre.
The Reginald Centre Community Hub provides one stop centre services, job shop support and a library amongst other community activities.
Canned Heat is an independent bottle-shop & bar in the heart of Chapeltown, Leeds. Born out of a passion for Music, Art and Community.
The home of North, with a beautiful taproom over looking the brew house, on Buslingthorpe Lane. Every weekend we open the doors to our brewery and pour incredibly fresh beer next to the tanks where it was brewed!
This season, exhibitions across the North West feel attuned to the world beneath the world – the forces and stories shaping how we see, feel and imagine.
Manchester’s starting the new year with a run of gigs from some of the country’s best underground exports.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
Theatre across the North West splits between festive escape and sharp, urgent work exploring politics, power and resistance.
There's no shortage of great films out at the moment, whether you're looking for the latest blockbuster, that hot arthouse flick fresh from Cannes or a cosy classic.
Hear ye, hear ye. Take some eating-out tips from our wintertime guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
