What’s On
Summer 2026

BSL Tour: Jason and the Adventure of 254

Saturday 15 August, 2pm – 3pm, Free

Olivier Jamin will be leading the tour in British Sign Language (BSL) capturing the curator’s insight into the exhibition. There will be a BSL interpreter who will provide voice-over translation from Olivier’s BSL into spoken English. This friendly tour is free and everyone is welcome.

Two women in a colourful gallery space touching a giant bowl of fruit.

Featured events

Every Saturday during exhibitions, 1pm - 3pm

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.

Monday 7 September - 26 October, 6pm - 8:30pm

Develop sculptural ideas and experiment with form through drawing and model making, before finalising and finishing a unique piece.

Saturday 16 September, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Festival favourite Lucy returns with a brand new show about the power of letting yourself go – in every sense. Whether that means embracing your wrinkles, or having a couple of babychams and dancing like nobody’s watching.

Recent news

3rd August 2026

Launching our largest programme yet, covering Autumn 2026 and Spring 2027, all our creative courses, events and more are live to explore. To begin your browsing, click here to visit...

28th July 2026

We’re looking forward to our 30 anniversary celebrations in 2027, and ahead of that, the major refurbishment works scheduled for the coming months. As you know, in March we were...

27th July 2026

Attenborough Arts Centre’s new season launch is their largest yet! The programme features a range of thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, and artist-led creative courses and workshops, together delivering on the organisation’s...

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.

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