Arts & Culture
These groups work to expand the reach of art, music, theatre and other culture within the community.
Wellbeing and social inclusion are a key part of this, as is the opportunity to share stories, experiences and ideas in accessible and engaging formats.
Many charitable arts and culture organisations make a big effort to involve communities who may otherwise miss out.
Leeds Queer Film Festival
DIY celebration of the best in new and alternative LGBTQ cinema from around the world.
Arts & Culture and LGBTQI+
The Human Aquarium
Started in 2018 to use art and performance to highlight environmental issues and animal welfare.
Animal Rights, Arts & Culture, Community, Ecological Justice and Health
Extinction Rebellion
A call to all Leeds residents & interest groups for peaceful protest against the causes of climate change.
Animal Rights, Arts & Culture, Community, Disability Rights, Ecological Justice, Economic Justice, Energy, Feminism, Health, Housing, Human Rights, International Solidarity, Land, Food & Agriculture, LGBTQI+, Migrant Rights, Peace & Disarmament, Workers Rights and Youth & Education
Darn It! Workshops
A wide variety of workshops at different venues aiming to provide easy to understand, relaxing and informative creative workshops for all abilities.
Arts & Culture and Community
Redemption Songs
Redemption Songs is a new Leeds based community music project. We bring music to prisons, hostels and also offer discounted music lessons to anyone leaving prison.
Arts & Culture and Community
ChinwagTV
Chinwag is an easy going chat about life and whatever else comes up. our guests are creative thinkers and doers who share life stories, experiences, ideas.
Arts & Culture
Open Source Arts
Whether you're an enthusiastic amateur, professional artist, performer, maker, or a community group or collective - Open Source Arts exists for you.
Arts & Culture and Community
Lolshevism
Lolshevism is a new socialist feminist comedy club in Leeds. Founded in 2016 by people who liked Jeremy Corbyn, bell hooks and terrible puns, we aim to provide a comedy club free from misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism and other things from the UKIP manifesto.
Arts & Culture and Feminism
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre - HEART - is the arts, enterprise and community centre in the middle of Headingley run by the community for the community. People are at our heart – as well as it is the way we operate in the building.
Arts & Culture and Community
We Shall Overcome
We Shall Overcome is a movement of musicians, artists, activists and community organisers who are angry about the human costs of austerity policies but who want to do something practical to help those affected. EVERYTHING donated goes straight to local organisations who help people hit hard by austerity.
Arts & Culture and Economic Justice
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival
We aim to shine a light on Palestine – its people, history, culture and society – through showing compelling and thought-provoking films that are not readily available to general audiences in and around Leeds.
Arts & Culture, International Solidarity and Peace & Disarmament
Leeds University Centre for African Studies
Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) is an interdisciplinary centre that brings together scholars with an active interest in Africa from across different schools and faculties at the University of Leeds in order to promote African Studies at the University and in the city of Leeds.
Arts & Culture and International Solidarity
Pyramid of Arts
We promote individual wellbeing and social inclusion through active engagement in the arts, by bringing together people with learning disabilities and associated physical and sensory impairments alongside others in the community who have, or wish to develop, an active involvement in the arts.
Arts & Culture, Community, Disability Rights and Health
Headingley Festival of Ideas
The Headingley Festival of Ideas is all about creative ideas which may or may not lead to something. The Festival is planned and organised by a group of local volunteers who are now starting to put together a programme for October 2015. We are interested in any local people and organisations that would like to take part by hosting, sponsoring and organising events.
Arts & Culture and Community
InnerSense Guru
Weekly yoga classes to empower disadvantaged vulnerable women who've been involved in the criminal justice system who access the TWP centre.
Arts & Culture and Health
Urban Sprawl CIC
Urban Sprawl are Yorkshire's Only Homeless Theatre Company.
Arts & Culture and Housing
You Forgot the Mince
"You Forgot the Mince" is a piece of new writing that is currently in a research and development phase. The long term aims for the play is that it will tour theatres and also be performed in HMP Leeds followed by eight weeks worth of drama based workshops with the prisoners.
Arts & Culture
Hannah Directory
Hannah Directory celebrates all the great stuff people are doing in places in England's north and asks how even more of it can happen.
Arts & Culture and Community
Journey to Justice
We are an alliance of artists, educators, students, youth groups, communities, human rights and faith organisations, filmmakers, musicians, historians, curators, trade unionists and politicians.
Arts & Culture