Tickets HERE

Join Jess for an all-levels yoga flow at Hyde Park Book Club.

Mats provided but feel free to bring your own

£5 / £4 students

All welcome including total beginners :)

Instagram @yog.raga

Instagram @yog.raga

Tickets HERE

The Roundhouse Poetry Slam is the UK’s leading spoken word competition and one of our most anticipated live events. Since first taking to the stage in 2006, it has helped launch the careers of countless poets and writers, bringing together some of the most exciting voices in spoken word.

More than a competition, the Slam is a celebration of the power of words and the artists who wield them. Join us for the Leeds heat and experience bold, original performances from emerging poets at the very start of their journeys.

After battling through seven national heats, the strongest voices will progress to the Final on Thu 9 April in Camden on Roundhouse’s main stage as part of the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival — where one will be crowned the Roundhouse Slam Champion.

Plus performances from heat judges Maria Ferguson, Bradley Taylor, plus a third very special guest host, TBA! The event will be hosted by Matt Abbott and is co-produced with LIVEwire Poetry.

FREE

Welcome to the Hyde Park Stitch Club!

Come join us at the Hyde Park Book Club for a fun and relaxing stitching session. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, everyone is welcome to come and work on their latest projects together. Share tips, tricks, and stories with fellow stitch enthusiasts in a cozy and creative atmosphere. Don't forget to bring your current project and get ready for an evening of stitching and chatting. We can't wait to see you there!

Just bring your current project and meet us there — no experience required!

This is a free, friendly space for creativity and community. 🙌
Hosted by: @knittedbykee & @laurablackwell

See you there! 💕✨

Tickets HERE

Sunday Yoga at Hyde Park Book Club

Monthly Sunday yoga, spend your afternoon on the mat with me & stick around for coffee & treats at Hyde Park Book Club. a stunning Sunday!

open level vinyasa yoga class, everyone welcome :) from complete beginners to experienced yogis.

mats can be provided, however feel free to bring your own.
Liv X

Instagram @liv__moves 

Tickets HERE

Law’s a Drag is a network of drag artists, working with academics to explore how drag artists experience law and injustice. With a range of drag queens, kings, nonbinary artists, and performers of all backgrounds, we showcase the talents of our members through the work we do. Featuring lip syncs, singing, dancing, comedy, and more besides in our cabarets, our goal is to celebrate and support local queer communities, to centre the lived experiences of drag performers – and to put on one hell of a show while we do so!

Check it out HERE

Sip and Social is an opportunity to join an afternoon of casual conversation and community, doing easy-going activities such as board games, creative writing and drawing.

We’ll be creating a space to take time out from your regular routine at different venues across the city, starting with Hyde Park Book Club.

If you’d like to come to a Sip and Social session, take a look at our Events page for upcoming dates. If you’d be interested in hosting a Sip and Social session at your venue, please contact our Wellbeing Practitioner, Eleanor Gillott.

Tickets HERE

Join us at Hyde Park Book Club for an intimate interview with Liz Flanagan, readings from her new novel, and a Q&A as we partner with The State of the Arts to celebrate writers shaping the northern literary scene.

Liz Flanagan is best known for her acclaimed books for children and young adults, and When We Were Divided marks an exciting new chapter in her writing career as she turns her attention to adult novels for the first time. A creative writing teacher, former book editor and former Centre Director for Arvon at Ted Hughes's Lumb Bank, Liz lives in Hebden Bridge and is deeply connected to the landscapes and communities of West Yorkshire.  

Set in Yorkshire, 1643 , against the backdrop of the English Civil War, When We Were Divided, follows the lives of three captivating characters.  Jane, a devoted mother, unravels when her last son goes to fight for the King. Her sister Isabel, trapped in an unhappy marriage, finds purpose supporting Parliament's cause. Kit, starving and alone, survives by taking his dead brother's identity, discovering danger, friendship and love within the King's army. As the conflict spreads across the land, these three lives as war fractures families, loyalties and identities with devastating and transformative consequences.

Tickets HERE

Pre-order your copy HERE

Join us at the launch of BIG LOVE on the 15th of February from 6pm for a PV,  artist’s talk with George Storm and the team, readings and live performances, followed by a Big Love Party with resident beauty DJ Subaru playing tunes in the Snug until 10pm.  

This event is free, all welcome, bring your love, reading glasses, or your dancing shoes! 

The BIG LOVE exhibition hosts 30 artists and the BIG LOVE BOOK expands the exhibition with a further 50 contributors into a veritable tome of art, prose and poetry in all imaginable forms - kept and treasured in this anthology as something possibly or impossibly sexy. 

Available for purchase at the launch - The BIG LOVE book is a beautiful forever publication, full of LOVE - yours for £25.

An enquiry of this kind only makes sense when it’s shared with others - so join us and our artists and writers to reflect on the theme and tickle a curious understanding of love and loving at this moment. 

Big love from George Storm and the HPAC team x o x

Tickets HERE

The night where LGBTQIA+ folks read their REAL teenage diaries. Expect angsty poetry, thirsty fanfic, old tumblr posts + a throwback playlist.

Queer Diary is an open-mic style night: new readers can sign up in advance to bring something from your coming-of-age era on stage (a diary, or something else!)

"A space to look back on our formative years with laughter and kindness… Often funny, sometimes moving and heart-warming, always entertaining" - Reviews Hub ★★★★★

Tickets HERE

Leeds Rag Fashion Show is the UK 2nd largest student-led fashion show and we are hosting a bingo social event involving structured games, audience participation, bar tab prizes and other goodies. All proceeds from our fundraising events for the annual show are donated to our chosen charities..

Reserve your table HERE

Private Records Presents…

Lineup

Wax Bar Residents

About

Leeds favourite dive Wax Bar bring their DJs to the bingo night and call the numbers.

Prizes include exclusive wax bar merch, records, tapes, cash, wax bar vouchers.

Tickets available to buy between rounds, so come down and enjoy yourselves at any time.

Bingo rounds:

Round 1

Tickets on sale 18:30

Bingo at 19:00

Round 2

Tickets on sale 19:30

Bingo at 20:00

Round 3

Tickets on sale 20:30

Bingo at 21:00

Round 4

Tickets on sale 21:30

Bingo at 22:00

Tickets HERE

A collaboration between a Writer's Society and musical group - the music following the natural rhythms of the poetry, spontaneously creating brand new works and experiences.

Sonnets, ballads, prose, short stories, and all sorts of poems - all told with the backing of experimental musicians and a classical pianist, improvising to the rhythm of a story.

Tickets HERE

Leeds Lit Fest returns in June with another packed programme of readings, discussions, poetry, performance and more. Sadly, we are once again struggling to secure funding, and are relying largely on donations and ticket sales.

So, we’ve decided to get an early start in 2026 with this special open mic event at the Hyde Park Book Club to celebrate our local (and perhaps not-so-local) writers and performers, and to help us raise a bit of money at the same time. Our host is Leeds poet and Chemistry compere Joe Williams.

To sign up for the open mic, just ask Joe for a slot when you arrive. We welcome everyone from first-timers to veteran performers, so if you want to give it a go, please do. You can do poetry or prose, as long as you can fit it in to the time limit of 4 minutes (which includes any introductions and other preamble).

Tickets cost £5 in advance (whether you’re performing or just watching) and all the money raised will go towards putting on the best festival we can. 

Doors at 6pm, and we’ll be collecting open mic names from about 6.15pm, ready for a prompt start at 7pm. See you there!

If you can’t come but want to support Leeds Lit Fest with a donation, please visit our GoFundMe page.

Tickets HERE

Sunday Yoga at Hyde Park Book Club

Monthly Sunday yoga, spend your afternoon on the mat with me & stick around for coffee & treats at Hyde Park Book Club. a stunning Sunday!

open level vinyasa yoga class, everyone welcome :) from complete beginners to experienced yogis.

mats can be provided, however feel free to bring your own.
Liv X

Instagram @liv__moves 

Tickets HERE

SEYMOUR is a Leeds art zine celebrating the best indie creatives. It's a project that aims to create a community of artists and connect people. We value soul over professionalism, collaboration over competition, and creativity just for the sake of it. The launch will be a place to hang out with some really cool people and connect as a community.

Tickets HERE

Set amid Paris of the 2000s, In My Skin details the commonplace life of Esther who, at a house party, unknowingly injures herself on discarded industrial equipment, leaving a viscous wound. Obsessed with the lack of pain she experiences and fascinated by the limits of her corporeality, she delves further and further into acts of exploratory self-mutilation.

In My Skin is a ferociously violent film, wholly unashamed of committing the grotesque to screen. Needless to say, de Van does not idolise self-harm, instead employing it as simulacrum. Pasted across the porous skin of film, the act grasps fundamentally at what it is to possess a body and, tacitly, where emancipation from such constraints lies - the open wound both revolting and beautiful.

Join us for a cozy and joyful Queer Winter Market in support of local Leeds LGBTQ+ youth!

This community-led market is raising funds for The Hangout, a vital youth club creating safe, affirming spaces for young people.

Come browse a curated selection of clothes, trinkets, handmade goods, and more 

Saturday 24th January 11am till 2:00pm 

Tickets HERE

Celebrate the new book about Leeds by the People's History Team

Join us to celebrate the publication of the first volume of the People's History of Leeds. The project team has gathered stories from a variety of people across the city and we can't wait to how you our work. Featuring stories about: Reclaim the Night; Leeds Kirkgate Market; African and Carribean Nurses; Leeds United Football Club; Roller Skating in Leeds; The Birth of Goth Music.

Highlights:

• Live Stories from our team and some of the interviewees

• Film

• Free light refreshments

• A free book!

• A chance to tell your story

The event is in the Hyde Park Book Club, which is a creative cafe and arts venue in Hyde Park. We are in the "snug" which is to the left of the main entrance.

People's History of Leeds is a Leeds Older People's Forum Project and funded by Heritage Lottery.

For more information: https://www.peopleshistoryofleeds.com

Check it out HERE

Sip and Social is an opportunity to join an afternoon of casual conversation and community, doing easy-going activities such as board games, creative writing and drawing.

We’ll be creating a space to take time out from your regular routine at different venues across the city, starting with Hyde Park Book Club.

If you’d like to come to a Sip and Social session, take a look at our Events page for upcoming dates. If you’d be interested in hosting a Sip and Social session at your venue, please contact our Wellbeing Practitioner, Eleanor Gillott.

Tickets HERE

A cabaret-style fundraiser in support of Leeds Drag Society’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, featuring drag performances, live singing and more.

Reserve your table HERE

Private Records Presents…

The Vanilla Sisters

About

The Vanilla Sisters are the unhinged demonic duo of Freyja Blevins and Jude McCann. Expent raunchy rhymes and antics.

Prizes include merch, records, tapes, cash, bar tabs.

Tickets available to buy between rounds, so come down and enjoy yourselves at any time.

Bingo rounds:

Round 1

Tickets on sale 18:30

Bingo at 19:00

Round 2

Tickets on sale 19:30

Bingo at 20:00

Round 3

Tickets on sale 20:30

Bingo at 21:00

Round 4

Tickets on sale 21:30

Bingo at 22:00

NHPNA (North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association) brings you… Headingley Hill Winter Lantern Festival. As the January nights draw in, bring some light and warmth to our community with two FREE special events:

Make Your Own Lantern - Saturday 17th January 1- 5 pm. Join us at St Augustine’s Wrangthorn Church (Hyde Park Corner) for a relaxed afternoon of lantern making. We’ll provide all the materials you’ll need, along with light refreshments and good company. Perfect for creating something beautiful whilst catching up with neighbours over a cuppa. Places are limited, so try to arrive early to make sure you can take part.

Community Lantern Walk - Sunday 25th January 4:30-7 pm Meet us in Dagmar Wood for a warming cup of Chai or Hot Chocolate before we set off on our magical lantern walk. We’ll wind our way through the local ginnels, creating a river of light through our neighbourhood. The walk will finish at Hyde Park Book Club, where we can continue the evening together.

Don’t worry if you haven’t made a lantern - everyone’s welcome to join the walk and enjoy the spectacle! It’s all about coming together as a community, having a laugh, and brightening up these winter evenings.

Supported by our 3 local Councillors and HPBC.

Tickets HERE

Doors: 6.30pm Show Starts: 7pm

Book Poetry Writing Workshop for discount code

From Manosphere believer to ending up on Andrew Tates twitter Sam Browne's new show is a little bit of sad, a little bit of funny and a whole lot of poetry.

Sam Browne is a spoken word poet from Southend, Essex, who originally set out to be a stand-up comedian until he realised all his jokes rhymed and none of them were particularly funny. So he pivoted to poetry, and things started to click. Since then, Sam has developed an online following of over 100,000 followers on instagram and tens of millions of views. He has won awards for his activism work, numerous poetry slams and was more recently featured in the BBC documentary Eastenders investigates the Manosphere. He writes about masculinity, VAWG, and, less importantly, all his big feelings. He is known for his chaotic and humorous stage presence as well as his hard-hitting poetry. Some reviews of his work include “Try harder” — Andrew Tate, and “Yeah, but is it real poetry?” — Sam’s mother.

Sign up and info HERE

Welcome to Hyde Park Chess Club...

Private Regcords and Hyde Park Book Club bring you a charity chess tournament on 13th June. Play for the prize, play for glory, and raise money for a good cause.

13th January. Hyde Park Book Club. 17:00 start. 32 round knockout tournament.

£10 entry, charity donation, collected on the day.

£100 grand prize for winner.

To raise more money for charity, and for some fun games for spectators, we're also running sweepstakes, where you can pay to pick a player out of a hat random, and if the player wins the tournament, you win a prize!

Use the link below to submit your name, and whether you're representing a Leeds band / project.

We also need some extra chess sets, so please, if you have a spare chess set, please bring it down (no novelty sets).C

Tickets HERE

Join Sam for a poetry workshop before his Leeds show. He will go through his writing process, give performance tips and answer any poetry based questions. There will of course be some time for everyone to write together and share a couple lines if you so wish.

If you want to broaden your writing horizons or simply start putting pen to paper then come along.

Tickets come with a 5 pound discount code for the evening performance.

Tickets HERE

Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a massive boom in participation and attention, becoming a mass activity in ways that were previously unimaginable.

In 'Dirtbag dreams', Carl Morris offers the first complete account of mountain, ultra and trail running. Revealing the sport's eccentric Victorian origins, he traces its development through 200 years of history, travelling from the Sierra Nevada and the Lake District to the streets of London and New York.

Packed with gripping races and colourful characters, Dirtbag dreams is the essential companion for anyone who wants to understand this unique endurance sport.

Carl Morris has spent much of his life climbing and moving through the mountains. Over the last decade he has become a committed fell and ultra runner, with a particular interest in 100-mile and multiday mountain racing. He is a sociologist, historian and social psychologist at the University of Lancashire.

Tickets HERE

Welcome 2026 yoga with Liv.

Starting 2026 on the mat. Spend your afternoon on the mat with Liv & stick around for coffee & treats at Hyde Park Book Club. a stunning way to start the year

Open level vinyasa yoga class, everyone welcome :) from complete beginners to experienced yogis.

mats can be provided, however feel free to bring your own.
Liv X

Instagram @liv__moves 

FREE ENTRY

Description: VAGUE MAG - Issue 48 Launch

Vague Mag host the launch of their 48th Issue and celebrate 8 years of existence! They’re in great company and celebrate this festive night with the lovely folk from Welcome Skate Store, The National Skateboard Co. and Threadcount. If that wasn’t enough they will premiere 3 new videos too. 

Video Premieres:

 - ‘DAYRATE’ by Jude Harrison

- ‘Cherub’ by The National Skateboard Co.

• ‘Flavour Town’ by Threadcount

All kicking off on 20th December 8pm - late.

Tickets HERE

Join us for a magical evening of live poetry and spoken word as we celebrate Isabella Dorta’s 24th birthday in style. Get ready for heartfelt poems, big feelings, and all the raw emotion you didn’t know you needed.

Every ticket includes a FREE meet & greet with Isabella — come say hi, snap a pic, and share the love.

Party hats are provided (and yes, they’re absolutely mandatory).

Doors open at 6:30 PM, show starts at 7:00PM — don’t be late!

Want your books signed? Feel free to bring your own copies, or grab one (or all!) of Isabella’s five bestselling poetry books at the event:

• deluded

• how sunflowers bloom under moonlight

• how to be heartbroken

• how to be mentally well

• the letters i will never send

Both card and cash will be accepted at the merch table.

All ages welcome! (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.)

£3 Tickets OTD Only

WASH DOWN THE YEAR WITH TINNES FEST ON FRIDAY THE 19TH OF DECEMBER🌊

THIRST NOT for marion's tear, those films that flashed and drained down the plughole. All those films have been lost in time, like tears in the blah blah.

Festival de Tinnes will return for a final time in 2025 with a refreshing showcase of vital for life short films. Drink afresh from a new source of inspiration:

🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️🤽‍♀️🤽‍♀️🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️ WATER🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️🤽‍♀️🤽‍♀️🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️

Water is the most useless thing. Any experience you have with water should be metaphorically bottled and shared with us via the medium of duration-half-empty video.

Screening doors open at 7:30, with films starting at 8. Tickets £3 and will be available on the door.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 23:59 ON 18/12/25. Submit to tinnesfilmfestival@gmail.com.