Arts & Culture Festivals
Light Night, Leeds most illuminating event, returns for 2018 celebrating its 14th anniversary with two nights of spectacular light projections, exhibitions, installations, film, dance, music, theatre and street performances taking over Leeds City Centre. Bring your friends and family along to experience a fantastic festival atmosphere, navigate your way around over 50 different events across the city centre, and sample some delicious street food.
Thought Bubble is the UK’s largest annual event which celebrates sequential art in all its forms, including everything from superheroes to independent and small press comics. Each year the ComicCon hosts a programme of events and entertainment, designed to inspire and delight everyone from the industry expert or comic book fanatic to a complete newcomer to sequential art.

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Leeds International Film Festival (1-16 November 2018) is one of the largest film events in the UK, presenting an incredible selection of the best new and classic films from around the world. Each year, audiences are invited to step in from the cold autumn weather and enjoy the power of cinema at some of the city’s favourite venues, including Leeds Town Hall, The Hyde Park Picture House and Everyman Leeds.
2018 also brings the 19th Leeds Young Film Festival (28th March - 5th April), the UK’s largest family film event where the whole family can watch, learn and play
Leeds Digital Festival is the largest of its kind the North and celebrate all things wool at Armley Mill's Wool Festival.
Explore more arts and culture festivals...
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour – TBC 2019
Leeds Library Fest - TBC 2019
Headingley LitFest – TBC 2019
International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair - TBC 2019
Ilkley Film Festival – TBC 2019
Leeds Print Festival - TBC 2019
Leeds Young Film Festival – TBC 2019
Transform – Spring 2019
StrangeForms – TBC April 2019
Leeds Digital Festival – 16th - 27th April 2018
Words in the City - 10th - 13th May 2018
The Tetley Weekender - 19th - 20th May 2018
Leeds Flamenco Festival - 25th May 2018
Leeds Wool Festival – 2nd June 2018
Northern Short Story Festival - 2nd-3rd June 2018
Chapeltown Arts Festival – TBC 2018
Left Bank Opera Festival - 22nd & 26th August 2018
Chapel Allerton Arts Festival – 28th August - 3rd September 2018
Compass Festival - Autumn 2018
Morley Arts Festival – TBC October 2018
Thought Bubble – Leeds’ Comic Art Festival – 17th - 23rd September 2018
Ilkley Literature Festival – 28th September - 14th October 2018
Light Night – 4th & 5th October 2018
Goth City - 11th-21st October 2018
Wetherby Arts Festival – 12th - 14th October 2018
Love Arts Festival – TBC October 2018
Ocean Film Festival World Tour - 24th October 2018
Family Arts Festival - TBC October 2018
Leeds International Film Festival – 1st-16th November 2018
Maker's Festival - TBC December 2018
Yorkshire Festival - TBC 2018