News
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...
3rd December 2025
Last week our Learning Team were at the International HandsOn! Making a Difference Conference hosted by Eureka to present, deliver and share our multi-award winning SENsory Atelier programme – and...
10th November 2025
Celebrate culture and creativity with Attenborough Arts Centre this spring by experiencing our latest range of exhibitions and performances and get creative with artist-led courses, workshops, and a range of...
5th November 2025
On Saturday 1 November nearly 800 visitors came to our centre to take part and get some goodies from our Craft & Art Fair. A highlight in our programme, the...
4th November 2025
Today we announce our exhibition programme for the next 12 months, presenting a diverse range of the best in contemporary art. The season will include new national and local partnerships...
31st October 2025
Ready for another February full of comedy? We definitely are! Leicester Comedy Festival is Europe’s biggest and longest-running comedy festival and will be hosting over 700 shows across Leicester. We...
23rd October 2025
Today we announce a new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies to join the worldwide Bloomberg Connects programme. Bloomberg Connects is a free digital guide to hundreds of cultural organisations around the...
20th October 2025
We recently held our first Art Gallery Tour of the exhibition ‘We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid’. It was an opportunity to gain alternative insight and personal perspectives on the...
16th October 2025
As one of the UK’s leading centres for art and culture it is our mission to make art accessible to all, and that includes for you! Join us each weekend...
15th October 2025
This season we are excited to welcome lots of new faces to our Craft & Art Fair. With artists and crafters from across the county sharing their work ranging from...
13th October 2025
Nestled within our centre, the Attenborough Café has entered an exciting new chapter. With a new management team at the helm, the café is set to deliver a deliciously elevated...
3rd October 2025
We want to make our building better and more welcoming for everyone. Lots of people visit us every year, and parts of our building are getting old and worn out....
1st October 2025
Join us for Black History Month this October, as the UK joins together to celebrate the culture and history of Black communities. As part of the University of Leicester, the...
9th September 2025
Join us for the return of Attenborough Late, a fun-packed after-hours art experience the takes over our whole building. Explore the galleries, get creative in hands-on sessions, experience live performances...
3rd September 2025
Earlier this year Marianne Scahill-Pape, Learning and Outreach Manager, and Hannah Pillai, Programme Coordinator, were commissioned by Youth Music to consult with IYAP families through creative gallery sessions. Their contribution...
4th August 2025
Attenborough Arts Centre’s new autumn season features a range of thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, and artist-led creative courses and workshops, together delivering on the organisation’s mission of ‘Art For All’. In...
24th July 2025
An elephant that glows in the dark has been spotted on the University of Leicester campus, with four little elephants at Attenborough Arts Centre. The creature forms part of the...
21st July 2025
On the evening of Thursday 17 July, ‘We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid’ launched in Gallery 1 at Attenborough Arts Centre, drawing in over 150 visitors to explore the works...
8th July 2025
On the evening of Wednesday 2 July, artists, teachers and Attenborough Arts Centre staff came together to celebrate and re-launch our SENsory Atelier, an arts-based learning programme that delivers partnership...
1st July 2025
Our SENsory Atelier programme was recently highlighted in an Arts Council England blogpost as part of ‘Learning Disability Week’. The programme brings artists into SEND classrooms to ensure learning the...
9th June 2025
The University of Leicester is delighted to unveil its 2025 Summer events programme, delivered with Attenborough Arts Centre, in partnership with Oadby & Wigston Borough Council. Designed to bring people together...