OUGD505 - Studio Brief 01 - Potential Events for Poster

The City Beach - Millenium Square

Bringing the seaside to Leeds, Millennium Square has been transformed with sandcastles, deck chairs and ice creams for 4 years running, bringing together families and friends of all ages.

Outdoor Cinema Screening (Leeds Film Festival) - Millenium Square 


'Leeds International Film Festival have teamed up with Leeds City Council Events and Sneaky Experience to present a brand new and exciting outdoor cinema experience this summer, set in a specially created, fully seated auditorium in Millennium Square. The Film House on the Square will feature a varied programme of blockbuster films for all ages on the themes of musicals, heroes and sci-fi from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 July, including both matinee and evening performances'

Leeds Indie food festival - Belgrave, The Tetley, Trinity Kitchen

A city-wide festival of independent food and drink culture. The 2015 festival saw over 100 events taking place in more than 50 venues, with 100 businesses collaborating to entertain diners, drinkers, street food lovers and culture vultures. Festival-goers were treated to everything from tasting menus to dine-along film screenings, with edible art exhibitions, cookery workshops and craft beer tastings thrown in for good measure.

The Big Disco - Leeds

On July 1st 2016 Big Disco saw the world’s largest disco ball, two and a half times the size of a double decker bus, suspended over Leeds while more than 25,000 people danced to the same track, at the same time, at parties across Yorkshire. 

Yorkshire Festival commissioned Duke Studios to bring the disco to end all discos to the heart of the region. While thousands danced amid carnival performers, street food and big name acts in Leeds city centre, hundreds of Little Discos, put on using DIY disco kits created and distributed by Duke, took place across the region.

West Indian Carnival - Potternewton Park, Harehills, Roundhay Road, Barrack Road, Chapleton Road.

The sun shone on the biggest and best Leeds Carnival EVER in 2016 as over 160,000 people flocked to the city to take in the unrivaled atmosphere, great music, food, and sun bathed parade of floats and hundreds of stunning costumes from across the UK.

Leeds Pride - Millenium Square, The Headrow, Vicar Lane, Kirkgate, Wharf Street, The Calls, Call Lane. 

Yorkshire's Biggest celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* life. 

onRoundhay Festival - Roundhay Park

The first onRoundhay Festival in September 2016 was a huge success, with the likes of James, Primal Scream, Wolf Alice, Max Jury and The Haggis Horns attracting thousands of people – and they’re bringing it back for a second time. It was the first major music festival at Roundhay Park for over a decade but now it looks set to become a permanent fixture.