Led by Kaite Jasper (they/them), Queer Yoga North (@queeryoganorth)

Make 2024 a year of self-care by connecting to your queer self. Join us for a gentle journey through the seasonal queer yoga year, with both chair and mat-based options offered.

Tuesday 21 November 6pm – 8pm
The City Room, Leeds Playhouse
Capacity: 12

Led by Alex Billingham (she/they), Live Artist/Film Maker (@billingham_alex)

Learn to use the tools you already have to make work and connect with others through using a mix of Digital & Analogue techniques to make work in a supportive co-learning space. This interactive workshop that will guide you into exploring what the LGBTQIA+ experience and community mean to you

Friday 24 November 6pm – 8pm
The City Room, Leeds Playhouse
Capacity: 20

Led by Alex Briggs (he/they), Co-Artistic Director of (Not) Forever Yone and Genealogist (@alexbr_creative)

The LGBTQIA+ community has always been part of our collective history, but varying world views have meant that many of these stories have been lost to the pages of history. Join (Not) Forever Yone to explore the long history of the LGBTQIA+ community in the UK from ancient times to the modern day and creatively discover the hidden figures of the past.

Saturday 25 November, 10am – 2pm
The City Room, Leeds Playhouse
Capacity: 20

For Saturday Workshops, for those who wish to attend multiple sessions, some refreshments will be made available. Please let us know by emailing notforeveryonetheatre@gmail.com if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we will need to take into consideration.

Led by JJ Cruickshank (he/they), Co-Artistic Director of (Not) Forever Yone, writer of How to be a HOT MESS (@jj_cruickshank)

A library could not contain the universe of stories from the LGBTQIA+ community. From fictional fantasy adventurers to heartbreak, from mundanity to queer and trans joy. JJ Cruickshank (he/they) will be leading a workshop looking at transforming LGBTQIA+ experience into writing. Exploring how to mindfully navigate writing from experience, diversifying genre, history of LGBTQIA+ writing, and accessible creative exercises to blossom your imagination and writing, come along to open up the pages of LGBTQIA+ creativity from experience.

Saturday 25 November, 2pm – 4pm
The City Room, Leeds Playhouse
Capacity: 20

For Saturday Workshops, for those who wish to attend multiple sessions, some refreshments will be made available. Please let us know by emailing notforeveryonetheatre@gmail.com if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we will need to take into consideration.

Led by JJ Cruickshank (he/they) and Alex Briggs (he/they) Artistic Directors of (Not) Forever Yone (@notforeveryonetheatre)

Are you interested in exploring gender identity in a creative way? Whether you are an amateur or professional creative, (Not) Forever Yone is leading a creative gender identity workshop to explore your own experience of gender identity, how to navigate gender identity in your creative work, and expand our routes to creativity through exercises and play.

Saturday 25 November, 6pm – 8pm
The City Room, Leeds Playhouse
Capacity: 20

For Saturday Workshops, for those who wish to attend multiple sessions, some refreshments will be made available. Please let us know by emailing notforeveryonetheatre@gmail.com if you have any allergies or dietary requirements that we will need to take into consideration.