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Leeds Arts Centre opens new season with cardboard-built monster spectacle

Leeds Arts Centre opens its 2026/27 season with She Kills Monsters, running 14 to 17 October, featuring ten hand-built cardboard monsters created by the company's "Monster Squad" over just three days.

September 17, 2026Leeds

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Final days to bid on Watchers of York sculptures before auction closes

Bidding for ten hand-painted Watchers of York sculptures closes on Thursday 10 September, with proceeds supporting the York Creates Fund and conservation work at York Minster, including its Rose Window.

September 8, 2026York

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Michelle Scally Clarke’s Division premieres in Leeds for city’s 400th anniversary

Spoken word artist Michelle Scally Clarke premieres Division, a new performance exploring 400 years of Leeds through community voices, at The Warehouse in Holbeck on 18 and 19 September, with pay-what-you-decide tickets.

September 7, 2026Leeds

‘Where Magic Grows’, a new exhibition at the Thackray Museum of Medicine.

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Leeds Arts graduates curate new plant folklore exhibition at Thackray Museum

Three recent Leeds Arts University graduates helped curate 'Where Magic Grows', a new interactive exhibition on plant folklore and healing at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, running until January 2027.

September 3, 2026Leeds

Northern Ballet presents Three Short Ballets

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Northern Ballet brings Three Short Ballets, including a world premiere, to Leeds

Northern Ballet's Three Short Ballets comes to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre from 18 to 26 September, featuring a world premiere from Tiler Peck, the company's first staging of Five Tangos, and the return of Fools, plus a dedicated Under 30s Night.

August 29, 2026Leeds

Meaning in the Void Poster Collage by Spike Marshall

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Leeds Arts Centre takes theatre into a planetarium dome with Meaning in the Void

Leeds Arts Centre has partnered with Planetarium Go UK to stage Meaning in the Void, six new pieces of theatre performed under a projected night sky in Millennium Square this September.

August 29, 2026Leeds

Protesters against the construction of the Newbury bypass occupy trees to prevent their destruction, Berkshire, 1996 © Andrew Testa

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Steve McQueen exhibition on a century of British protest opens at Leeds Art Gallery this November

A major new exhibition exploring a century of British protest through photography, conceived by the artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, opens at Leeds Art Gallery in November after acclaimed runs in Margate and Edinburgh.

August 20, 2026Leeds

Still Lives, Living Stories: The Heart of Bradford

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Bradford photography project invites residents to share the stories behind treasured objects

Photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn is launching Still Lives, Living Stories: The Heart of Bradford, a new project pairing portraits and recorded memories with everyday objects that matter to local people, inspired by the historic Belle Vue Studio archive.

August 19, 2026Bradford

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Last chance to see the Watchers of York before the trail ends this month

York's Watchers of York sculpture trail comes to a close on 31 August, with a final chance to see all 12 guardians reunited at York Minster in September before they move to their permanent homes.

August 15, 2026York

Simeon Barclay has been nominated for his performance The Ruin.

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Turner Prize heads to Middlesbrough, with Yorkshire’s Simeon Barclay in the running

Mima will host the Turner Prize exhibition from 26 September 2026, bringing the award to historic North Yorkshire for the first time — with Huddersfield-born Simeon Barclay the only artist on this year's shortlist with direct Yorkshire roots, and a Yorkshire Sculpture Park director on the judging panel.

August 15, 2026Huddersfield, Middlesbrough