Leeds’ Transform Festival is an engine room of powerful, urgent and trailblazing performance, visual arts, dance, conversations and adventure.

Discover the work of pioneering filmmaker Menelik Shabazz through a programme of screenings, talks and workshops.

Join Leeds-based writer Ian Harker as he launches his pamphlet, Gain Access, co-winner of the 2025 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Kim Moore.

Happening as part of Transform 25, check out this one-to-one performance sharing the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance.

Part clubnight, part post-apocalypse, Doomsday Disco is set to infuse the dance floor with the nihilism of watching the world burn.

Spooky adventures await this October at Swithens Farm.

Delve further into Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi horror with this Philosophy & Film screening.

Whether you’re naturally green-fingered or just garden-curious, dive into the magic of gardening at Leeds Central Library’s new exhibition.

Briony Spandler presents a surprising set of ‘barcode works’ works that carry a significant ecological message.

Film and food at HEART, this time with a spooky twist.

Blurring the line between performance art and punk show, New York’s Les Savy Fav return to the Brudenell after coming back swinging last year.

A little kindness goes a long way in this playful retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.