What's on near St John’s Centre, Leeds
Cinema on the Square returns this summer for four days of open-air film screenings, transforming Millennium Square into a giant outdoor cinema with concert-quality sound.
From £3.00
Calling people of Leeds and beyond! The city’s favourite African and Caribbean Food Fest is back, and this year it’s turning up the heat with Harmony of Colours, a celebration…
Free entry
A moving new play about love, memory and football fandom, Through It All Together explores dementia, devotion and the power of holding on when life starts to slip away.
From £15.00
Sarah Roberts: SICK explores environments of care in her signature style of brightly coloured installations, spread across two galleries.
Free entry
Take a journey through 300 years of pub and brewing history in Leeds, with a heritage Pub and brewery tour.
From £35.00
Leeds live literature regular Chemistry offers an exciting mix of open mic acts and invited poets – this month the headliners include Rosie Garland.
Free entry
Emerging from a four-year crucible of creative tension and personal reckoning, Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV return to Leeds.
From £22.50Where to go near St John’s Centre, Leeds
Jumbo Records is Leeds’ number one independent record store, with these large premises occasionally featuring in-store events with a bountiful record collection and coffee.
An independent bookshop specialising in literature across the LGBTIQA+ spectrum.
ibis Leeds City Centre Arena is a hotel that’s Yorkshire through and through. Brewed with the very best of Leeds and Yorkshire, this hotel’s bustling and modern like the city.
This music hall and canteen recently opened in the former site of Leeds Children’s Palace – a three-storey recreation hall and nursery school.
Vue Leeds The Light is a massive 14 screen multiplex located in the city centre.
The Howard Assembly Room is a performance and rehearsal space at Leeds Grand Theatre
The Leeds Grand Theatre brings everything from opera and ballet by resident companies to spectacular West End musicals and drama.
The city centre Leeds Art Gallery is blessed with a fine historic collection and a changing series of contemporary exhibitions.
The Wax Bar and JukeJoint is a trendy, funky new bar with an old school theme running right through the middle from the Americana jukebox, to the vinyl records and player, old-style radio, 1980s ghetto blasters acting, quite effectively, as bar shelves and the lampshades on the walls that have been made out of classic cassette tapes.
Established in 1865, City Varieties Music Hall is Leeds’ hidden gem, and holds a record as the nation’s longest-running music hall.
The White Swan is a charming side-street pub next to the world famous City Varieties Theatre. It serves simple hearty food and a range of continental and American beers.
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