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  • April 2026

  • Fri 17
    A woman is a gingham dress drawing on the wall.
    April 17 @ 10:00 - 16:00

    Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy

    Studio 3 Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    A one-day workshop to teach total beginners how to write beautifully! Tutor Rosie will teach you how to write in the modern calligraphy type and harness your own style, using loads of different mediums and surfaces. This course will help give you the confidence to use your new calligraphy skills for a wide range of […]

    £41 – £55
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    Fri 17
    A red headed person in a blue boiler suit and yellow heels, laying in a open-top car in a mechanics station.
    April 17 @ 19:00 - 20:00

    Fixing by Wild Open Hearts

    Main Hall Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    When Matt was little, their dad bought a classic car. A 1952 Sunbeam Talbot Mark II. Dad had ideas that he and Matt would do it up, repair, rebuild together. They never did, and the car festered in a garage. I mean, Dad had just been through a divorce. Now in their 30’s, Matt would […]

    £5 – £20
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  • May 2026

  • Sat 9
    A group of people in a crowded room looking at a table filled with ceramics.
    May 9

    Craft & Art Fair

    Attenborough Arts Centre University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester

    Our popular Craft & Art Fair returns to showcase the work of some of the best local and regional craft makers and artists. Meet, browse and buy from over 50 selected exhibitors at each fair, showcasing some of the best jewellery, glass, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, painting, wood, stationery, homewares, accessories, artisan foods and more from […]

    Free – £3
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    Sat 16
    A women in a silver oufit and yellow neck roof, flying through the air with a kick in a dark room on yellow aerial ropes.
    May 16 @ 11:00 - 12:00 View all in this series

    Rebel Sparks: Take Flight

    Main Hall Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Take Flight is a stunning aerial theatre show for 0-2 year olds and their grown ups. The story follows a musical mother bird as their baby hatches, grows and explores, navigating the challenges of hunger, sleep and play. Culminating in a beautiful aerial moment, the mother bird supports her baby to leave the nest & […]

    £5 – £20
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  • June 2026

  • Fri 5
    Three people, two standing and one in a wheelchair, looking at a giant pair of cartoonish, colourful legs with braces and colourful shoes. Behind them is a yellow wall with giant drawings of stylised people.
    June 5 - August 30

    Jason and the Adventure of 254

    Gallery 1 Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    This exhibition is in partnership with Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection and Attenborough Arts Centre are pleased to present 'Jason and the Adventure of 254', a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. Showcasing his largest and most personal commission to date, this free exhibition is a joyful and subversive exploration of the body, drawing on the […]

    Free
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  • September 2026

  • Sat 26
    A white women with brown hair jumping up happily in a striped top, while miniature versions of herself float around her pulling poses.
    September 26 @ 19:30 - 21:30

    Lucy Porter – Let Yourself Go!

    Main Hall Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    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 and love handles whilst living in a slanket, or having a couple of babychams and dancing like nobody’s watching (and if you’re a middle aged woman, they’re probably not). […]

    £23
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  • October 2026

  • Fri 9
    A painted print of blue, orange and red fauna.
    October 9 - December 13

    Jemisha Maadhavji

    Gallery 2 Attenborough Arts Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to present a new major solo exhibition by acclaimed portrait artist Jemisha Maadhavji. The exhibition will celebrate Jemisha’s vision of luxury, defined by her as a ‘flawless connection with nature’, in which highly detailed portraiture meets ornamentation. Jemisha will present a show of oil paintings as a form of installation, spanning recent […]

    Free
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