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.
Leeds live literature regular Chemistry offers an exciting mix of open mic acts and invited poets – this month the headliners are Helen Ivory and Luke Samuel Yates.
Free entry
Get literarily lit with Gary Wigglesworth and the Leeds Literary Festival 2025 quiz at Hyde Park bookclub.
From £7.50
Sarah Roberts: SICK explores environments of care in her signature style of brightly coloured installations, spread across two galleries.
Free entry
Thackray Museum of Medicine’s new exhibition explores the medical uses and symbolic meanings of blood in science, culture and wider society.
From £8.95
Leeds International African Arts Festival partners with Hyde Park Picture House this summer, with a pair of films scheduled as part of the cinema’s ongoing Cinema Africa! strand.
Free entry
Slow Knife perform a brand new live score for Dario Argento’s iconic giallo as part of Leeds Jazz Festival.
From £11.50
Join Natalie McKiddie for a Out Loud, a relaxed and informative poetry workshop focused on queer narratives and writing.
From £5.00
Leeds International Concert Season is on a mission to push boundaries, expand horizons, and ask the question: ‘What haven’t we heard?’ as it presents its city-spanning Sound Out Leeds series.
From £10.00
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.
The Beck and Call is a friendly local pub with a vibrant culture of quizzes, workshops and excellent food, nestled in the heart of 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.
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!
Historic real ale pub situated in the heart of the Woodhouse residential area, just over a mile north of Leeds City Centre.
The Riley Theatre at the Northern School for Contemporary Dance is Yorkshire’s largest dedicated dance house, hosting a year-round programme of dance and theatre events and performances.
Gigs are coming in hot this spring – from long-awaited returns to one-off happenings you’ll blink and miss (unless you’re paying attention).
Eclectic as ever. You'll find inventive reworkings, world-class contemporary dance and Greater Manchester's inaugural Improv Festival in our guide.
With these lighter, brighter days and warmer temperatures, it's really starting to feel like summer here in the North West!
Books, beer and burlesque. Dive into a glorious tangle of joyful happenings.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
Willow weaving, textile collages, digital arts and ecology - all this and more in our exhibition top picks this month
We've got laughs and we've got leftfield on the live literature radar this month. Something for everyone, from poets playing with form to short story writers looking long.
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.