What’s On
Autumn 2025
Holiday Closure Dates
Monday 22 December 2025 – Sunday 4 January 2026
Have a wonderful end of the year and we look forward to welcoming you back to the centre from Monday 5 January.
Featured events
Every Saturday during Exhibitions, 1pm - 3pm
Saturday Gallery Art Club is your opportunity to get creative, explore art hands-on, and take inspiration from our latest exhibitions to create your own work. Open to everyone, each session is supported by our friendly Learning Team as they hold the space for you to work independently or with your friends and family.
Monday 12 January - 16 March, 2pm - 4:30pm
Life drawing through a fashion illustration lens, combining unadulterated glamour with new approaches to drawing and painting from a live model. Explore how fabric drapes and envelops the body by observing a series of eccentric and elaborate looks and expressive poses for you to capture in your studies.
Thursdays & Sundays, January - April 2026
The club aims to increase opportunities for developing your performance skills, support nervous players to play in a friendly and relaxed setting, encourage alternative styles of performance and simply share and spread the love of piano playing to form a growing community in Leicester.
Recent news
17th December 2025
We have published a policy briefing paper with the University of Leicester’s Institute for Policy to highlight how education for SEND children and young people can be transformed through arts...
16th December 2025
In the new year we will be celebrating a decade of our gallery spaces, which is an incredible milestone for the centre and our communities. Although our original building launched...
8th December 2025
Join us to launch our upcoming exhibitions ‘A Decade of Exhibitions’ and ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’, Thursday 29 January 2026, 5pm – 8pm. In 2016, Attenborough Arts Centre...
Art for all
Based at the University of Leicester, Attenborough Arts Centre runs a range of arts and culture initiatives for our students and delivers the institution’s public programmes together with a range of partners, collectively engaging over 250,000 people annually.
Upcoming events
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