In February 2026 we’re turning our gallery into a space for Performing Arts with work from dancers, live artists, and more on weekday afternoons. Plus there’ll be PAYF Comedy Thursday to Saturday evenings as part of Leicester Comedy Festival and a chance for all ages to try their hand at our family day on Saturday 14th.
Here’s what’s on
Weds Feb 4th, 2pm. Beyond A Joke: Live Comedy AGM Your opportunity to meet others working in live comedy and learn more about the work of the Live Comedy Association and other organisations supporting the sector. https://events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/beyond-a-joke-live-comedy-agm/
Thursday 5th – Friday 20th Pay As You Feel Comedy from Jokes on Us in our 2 venues Lightbox and the Courtyard Room
Mon Feb 9th: Performances on the hour from 12:30 – 3.30. The Wandering Deer by Vic. The Wandering Deer ‘ is a sensorial performance installation with themes of identity, belonging, mortality and elements of auto-biography. Through this performance installation, Vic wishes to encourage everyone present to ask themselves a few questions, and embrace the vulnerable aspects of life. Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wandering-deer-tickets-1981956049898
Weds 11th, 1.30pm. Nemesis: A Reckoning. This intermedial performance (made up of both film and live performance) reconfigures the figure of Nemesis; the goddess of retribution, as a feminist figure waiting in her self-created purgatory to punish her deserving male victims in a post #metoo context. Exuding a glamour that is both unsettling and destructive, she sharpens her red painted talons and remembers all of their wrong doings..
Fri 13th, 12- 1.30pm. JAM: JourneyArtMovement. Open floor space for dancers, musicians and artists to collaborate and share/develop their practice in a relaxed no pressure environment. FREE
Fri 13th, 2.30pm. Clouds: Flow. Flow is an interplay between Sound and Movement. Musician Kulvir Bhambra will be joined by Choreographer and Dance Artist Keira Sanderson to present a new Collaborative piece exploring the idea: what does a Cloud look, sound and feel like? 20-30 min performance, followed by Q&A. FREE. Register for both at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jam-clouds-flow-tickets-1982200389725
Sat 14th, 12-4pm Showtime! family day. Join our monthly family day and explore poetry, dance and comedy + PAYF family friendly comedy and bring your own jokes for the Kids Open Mic! Part of @cqearlies. Creative activities in venues across Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. Free – let us know you’re coming via https://linktr.ee/culturalquarterearlies FREE
Mon 16th, 10am. Dance & Discover. Join Nupur Arts on the Monday of February half term for a fun Bollywood dance workshop (no experience required!) and mindful object handling. Come along, dance and discover new things about South Asian culture! Suitable for all the family.
Tues 17th, 5pm- 6.30pm. Museum of Tears. Inspired by the complexity of representations of crying women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, the artist-researcher’s Multidisciplinary installation orchestrates multiple images of women weeping, including the artist’s own tear-filled body. Exploring the way in which these women’s tears signify anger, strategic communication, self-discovery, resistance and even joy, the installation invites the audience to connect with these weeping bodies as a site of reflection and agency. Through visceral and intimate immersion in these tears, the installation challenges perceptions of Iranian women as victims, and forges an alternative counterpublic space for dissent, resistance, and marginalised voices. Followed by post performance discussion.
Weds 18th & Thurs 19th, from 10am ‘Scores and Traces’ brings together the work of four UK dance artists Amy Voris (in collaboration with lighting designer Cath Cullinane), Dominique Rivoal, Caroline Salem and Marguerite Galizia, in a two day event of score-based presentations, Workshops, performances and conversations. Book your slot https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scores-traces-tickets-1980635605413
Fri 20th, 2pm. IMPRINT#LOVE is a creative writing workshop and a participatory dance project, where the audience/participants are invited to engage with a creative writing task. That is to complete a Love Manual consisting of 9 ‘Love Axioms’ inspired by 9 micro-performances that unravel in front of them by a group of movers. After all 9 performances are completed a space where participants can share some of their writings and engage in discussions is facilitated. At the end of every IMPRINT#LOVE event and upon the participants/writers’ agreement the writings are collected and compiled in a collective love manual that is then shared back to them. All participants’ writings & the collective love manuals composed are archived with the intention to be turned into a book. Book your space at www.ticketsource.co.uk/imprint-love
Throughout on screen: The Cold Room is an immersive dance work for one dancer and one monumental American flag—a duet in which the flag is not a prop, but a partner, opponent, and force. Set in an emotionally refrigerated environment, the dancer wrestles with, hides beneath, wraps themselves in, drags, and is overtaken by the flag, exposing the physical weight of national identity. The work examines consent, control, protection, and collapse, asking what it means to move in constant relationship to power, myth, and belonging. Neither abstract nor illustrative, the piece renders patriotism as an embodied struggle—at once intimate, violent, tender, and
unresolved—inviting audiences to witness the beauty, burden, grief, and transformation of carrying a country inside the body. Created by Poppy Louise Miller in collaboration with Ian Hassett
Elsewhere Whilst in Leicester check out ‘Residue, what remains‘ at Leicester Gallery. An exhibition curated by a dancer and lots of performances over the coming months
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