What’s On
Summer 2026
Get creative from Autumn to Spring
Live now on our website and at our front of house.
Our new season launch is the largest yet! The programme features a range of thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, and artist-led creative courses and workshops, delivering on our mission of Art for All.
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.
Saturday 15 August, 2pm - 3pm
Olivier Jamin will be leading the tour in British Sign Language (BSL) capturing the curator’s insight into the exhibitions for the participants. There will be a BSL interpreter who will provide voice-over translation from Olivier’s BSL into spoken English.
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.
Upcoming events
Events
List of events in Photo View
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Soundbites Lunchtime Concert
July 28 @ 12:15 - October 27 @ 13:15 -
Introduction to Botanical Drawing & Painting at the Botanic Garden
August 3 @ 10:00 - August 4 @ 15:30£90 – £120 -
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