Join us for our weekly session of workshops using Music, Movement and Drama.  The sessions will take place one a week for 2 hours with a short break for refreshments. We’ll be singing some old familiar songs as well as new ones. The gentle exercises will be creative, fun and enjoyable, and will finish with ... Read more

In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from strange and menacing spirits. But are these apparitions real, or the product of her troubled imagination? And what terrible evil occurred before her arrival?  Based on the ghost story by ... Read more

As usual we bring you the latest cutting-edge talks from Glastonbury Symposium, which covers Truth, Mysteries, and New Frontiers. The main aim of the Symposium is to bring in speakers from around the world and to give people information that isn’t so easy to get from else-where. They have conversations and presentations about the things ... Read more

Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins the Artful Dodger, Fagin and their mischievous gang of pick pockets. But the enjoyment is short lived as he falls under the influence of the vicious Bill Sykes. This bold, brutal and beautiful new version of Oliver ... Read more

Join us for the next Holbeck 'Cabaret' on Saturday 29th February at 7.30 pm.(Doors open 7.00 p.m.)  With live music, comedy, poetry, magic, hula hooping and delicious food, make sure you reserve your pay what you decide tickets early. Poetry & Comedy from Jackie Hagan, Live Music from Poison & Wine, Hula Hoopery from Trevor ... Read more

Join us at The Cardigan Arms for one of the festival highlights with a performance by Kevin P Gilday a critically acclaimed and award winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow. Kevin will be introduced by Mark Connors, organiser of several of the areas’ best poetry nights. Entrance: (pay what you feel). PWYF.

Meet Leeds Writer Fances Brody, her three historical novels are set in working-class Leeds in the early part of the last century. Frances started her writing life in radio and has written for theatre and television. She writes the popular Yorkshire based murder mystery series, featuring Kate Shackleton, war widow turned investigator. The Body on ... Read more

Join Richard Bojanowski for a 6 ish mile walk from Lawnswood Arms Pub, Otley Road, around Eccup Reservoir (clockwise). We will be passing St. John's 11th century Norman church at Adel, Then onwards with good vistas & views all round and opportunities to observe red kites. Back to Lawnswood Arms (or other cafe) for refreshments. ... Read more

Headingley LitFest welcomes two groups of local creative writers to a not-to-be missed performance of pieces of their work. Headingley Creative Writers and Osmondthorpe Hub writers will be reading and performing poems, prose, observation and fiction, personal anecdotes that range from the descriptive to the poignant, the profound and the amusing. Both groups have chosen ... Read more

Sakiko is nervous. She’s introducing her fiancé Dan to her parents for the first time at her family home in Kani, Japan. ​And, whilst brother Hiroki, the ‘perfect child’, got married close to home, Sakiko’s got to ​break the news that their wedding will be in London, where they’ve built their lives. But under the surface, something isn’t right. ... Read more

LCA Book Reading Group takes place on the first and third Monday's of the month (except Bank Holidays).  We are currently reading 'The Miner's Daughter' by Jennie Felton. When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she ... Read more

This evening we will be having an 'open mic' 'Poetry & Prose evening' on any theme All welcome to read throughout the evening.

Unfortunately this event has now been postponed until September.   We will give more information about this nearer the time. www.headingleymusicfestival.org.uk  

This month Emma, a Senior Ambassador from Tropic Skincare, will be doing a presentation on the importance of clean, green beauty. She will be discussing how what we put on our skin affects our overall health and wellbeing and how we should pay attention to the beauty industries environmental impact.  We will all get a ... Read more

This event has been postponed for the time being.  We will await further instructions from Leeds Grand Theatre for future dates which will be posted on this site. Direct from London and featuring many of the original West End cast, this ‘exhilarating extravaganza’ (WHATSONSTAGE) is the inspiring true love story of Emilio and Gloria and ... Read more

LCA Book Reading Group takes place on the first and third Monday’s of the month (except Bank Holidays).  We are currently reading ‘The Miner’s Daughter’ by Jennie Felton. When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now, she ... Read more

Maggie and Gordon first met in 1971 dancing to the sound of Rod Stewart. Now in their sixties, and still very much in love, they’ve been finishing each other’s songs all their marriage. But now Maggie is feeling foggy and some days the songs are all she can remember. Her son and new girlfriend are ... Read more

  Unfortunately RoCo has had to postpone this production for the time being.  RoCo is still determined to stage Fatal Encounter, and we will look to rearrange the performance dates to such a time that is safe to do so later in the year. As soon as the new dates can be confirmed, we will ... Read more