Leicester Events Calendar

Looking for something to do in Leicester? Whether you're a local, new in town or just cruising through we've got loads of great tips and events to offer. Find out what’s on in Leicester with our regularly updated events calendar featuring the best upcoming events in Leicester and the area.

This guide lists events at a glance, showing what’s on each month. See the highlights of What’s On for Leicester, featuring the best of things to do in Leicester – Live Music and Gigs, Family Events, Art & Culture, Food & Drink and much more. Leicester fundraisers and charity events.


Important This Event Calendar is not maintained on a daily basis and some events may have changed dates or are no longer happening. Please double-check the event websites for the most up-to-date information.

Songs of the Bulbul

‘A tribute to my mother “Kay” … my smiling bulbul who left her cage.’- Aakash Odedra Bird song is ephemeral–like dance, it exists only in the moment—sung once, then lost to time. Nightingales, or “Bulbils”, hold a special place in Persian culture, with their song representing a spiritual seeker, yearning for union with the divine. […]

Free

Signatures and Black British Dance Platform

Two platforms in one evening of dance. SIGNATURES and BLACK BRITISH DANCE PLATFORM come together to showcase emerging and developing dancers and choreographers locally, nationally and internationally for a unique mixed bill performance. SIGNATURES TETHERED – Jameel Hendricks TETHERED is a new ballet centred around a particular sector of the human experience expressed through the music selection, and the virtuous […]

Free

Ballet Hispanico: Carmen.Maquila

Ballet Hispánico return to Curve for Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2025 with their electrifying reimagining of CARMEN, a contemporary take on Bizet’s beloved classic. The physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with nods to the Spanish paso doble, flamenco and movement of the Latin American Diaspora. The full-length work is choreographed by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, whose work, 18+1, […]

Free

The Midnight Bell

Curve Curve, 60 Rutland Street, Leicester, Leicester

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company return to Curve in 2025 with THE MIDNIGHT BELL. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia. Step inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely-hearts club gather to […]

£10

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