Truman Books is an independent bookshop and cafe in Farsley, West Leeds, offering a great selection of adult and children’s books, along with distinctive gifts and cards, and “irresistible” coffee and cake. There’s also an event calendar worth checking out for readings, books launches and literary festival events.
‘Loops’ is a new collaborative exhibition of textiles at Sunny Bank Mills, connecting artists from across the Netherlands and Yorkshire.
Free entry
The Mill Gallery presents the inaugural Summer Exhibition 2025 – a group display of painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and more.
Free entry
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
Still brilliant. Still weird. Still moving forward. Deerhoof return to Brudenell with their most abrasive album in years.
From £17.50
Once a post-rock collective, now something closer to a live techno machine, Leeds band vessels bring it home to the Brudenell.
From £17.00
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
Emerging from a four-year crucible of creative tension and personal reckoning, Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV return to Leeds.
From £22.50
Sunny Bank Mills Gallery is a light and airy art gallery inside a former cloth warehouse, in the heart of Farsley village.
A 500-capacity venue in Farsley, presenting the finest music, comedy and performance. Run by Trouble at Mill Events and Sunny Bank Mills, twinned with Farsley Constitutional.
A club for working persons, presenting the finest comedy, theatre, spoken-word, music, quizzes and craft ales.
A 19th century inn on the outskirts of Leeds, repurposed into a modern hotel with plenty of charm.
The Mill Gallery is an artist-run space in Leeds, supporting emerging artists to develop and showcase their work authentically.
Pudsey Market is a traditional style market in Pudsey, just outside the centre of Leeds.
Bradford’s Industrial Museum transports you back to the cities former incarnation, as a powerhouse of the north. See working machinery, the living spaces of mill owners and workers as well as contemporary responses to the archive.
Bab Tooma serves authentic Middle Eastern and Syrian food. The restaurant is a local favourite for kebabs and grilled meats.
Founded in 1152, Kirkstall Abbey on the bank of the River Aire is one of the most complete examples of a medieval Cistercian monastery in Britain.
If your children struggle to imagine life without tablets, iPhone games or a PlayStation, then a trip to Abbey House Museum should prove an eye-opening experience.
Interplay works across all definitions of exclusion to create a special theatre that places the audience at the centre of the experience.
Summer signals theatre festivals, world premieres and open-air spectacle - from MIF25 to comedy, outdoor circus and beyond, here’s what we’re looking forward to.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
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.
July's cinema highlights include spotlights on international cinema, a new cult classic, plus a visit from one of our favourite directors.
From environmental to experimental, our poetry and prose picks from around the North are focused on the unusual and the fun.
Captivating, urgent and intimate - we bring you our top exhibition picks, with even more art festivals, artist-led shows and new venues.
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.
This month's guide is truly eclectic - from free family festivals, to food events, circus school and more!
