Transform Festival 2025

🌍 Transform Festival returns to Leeds from 21–25 October 2025, bringing together bold international performances, immersive installations, and socially charged art across the city.

As the UK’s leading festival for inclusive, cross-disciplinary performance, Transform blends cutting-edge creativity with urgent themes—from identity and belonging to futurism, justice, and the human body.

Experience theatre, dance, sound, and live art in venues ranging from city theatres to unexpected urban spaces.

✨ Highlights across the week include:

• Amrita Hepi & Mish Grigor – Rinse (Oct 21)
• Tiran Willemse – blackmilk (Oct 21)
• Basel Zaraa – Dear Laila (Oct 23–25)
• Dan Daw Creative Projects – EXXY (Oct 22–23)
• Katja Heitmann – PERPETUUM (Oct 22–23)
• Toussaint To Move – Free (Oct 23)
• Ahamefule J. Oluo – The Things Around Us (Oct 22) + Black Repetitions (Oct 24)
• Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera – Magic Maids (Oct 25) + Broomology 101 (Oct 23)
• Eve Stainton – The Joystick and The Reins (Oct 24)
• Ira Brand – RUNNER (Oct 25)
• MEXA – The Last Supper (Oct 25)
• Samir Kennedy & Sean Murray – IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!! (Oct 25)
• Transform x The Pleasuredome – Doomsday Disco (Oct 25)

🌀 Transform also supports the next generation of artists and curators through commissions, mentorships, and its Young Curators programme (ages 18–25).

🎟️ Events take place across Leeds—some are ticketed, others free. Join over 12,000 attendees in celebrating radical performance and global creativity rooted in the Leeds City Region.