Leisure and culture

• Lots on at Leicester’s Newarke Houses Museum this May

  13 May 2022

  3 minute read

  THERE’S a busy programme of talks, events and exhibitions at Leicester’s Newarke Houses Museum this month.

• Celebration of 70 years of dance to mark Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

  12 May 2022

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER’S Jubilee Square will be the setting for a spectacular celebration of dancing across seven decades as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Leicestershire.

• New permanent gallery tells stories of city’s people

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A FASCINATING new permanent gallery opens at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday (14 May) that will inspire conversations about the city today.

• Leicester Museum celebrates all things 80s with new exhibition

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  SHELLSUITS, boomboxes and Peanut Treets are some of the items that will be fondly remembered in a new exhibition at Leicester Museum from Saturday (14 May).

• Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay to visit Leicester as full England route revealed

  11 May 2022

  5 minute read

  THE BIRMINGHAM 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Leicester during its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed.

• Street name celebrates Foxes’ Wembley success 52 years on

  10 May 2022

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  A COUNCIL employee’s idea to name a new Leicester street ‘Wembley Road’ as a good luck omen ahead of the 1969 FA Cup Final finally paid off – more than 50 years later.

• Call for artists to submit designs for public art commemorating city’s Ugandan Asians

  4 May 2022

  3 minute read

  ARTISTS from across the region are being invited to put forward designs and ideas for a new public artwork commemorating the 50th anniversary of the arrival of thousands of Ugandan Asians in Leicester.

• Meet Leicester’s dinosaurs!

  28 April 2022

  2 minute read

  A NEW augmented reality experience at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery will give people the chance to see themselves alongside a plant-eating dinosaur that lived more than 168 million years ago.

• Events will celebrate Sikh festival of Vaisakhi

  27 April 2022

  2 minute read

  CELEBRATIONS of a major religious festival are taking place in Leicester this weekend.

• New acts and co-hosts announced for Leicester’s Concert for Ukraine

  21 April 2022

  1 minute read

  LEICESTER’S forthcoming Concert for Ukraine will be hosted by Amy Payne, regional news presenter and reporter for BBC East Midlands Today, and Rajiv Popat, reporter and presenter for ITV News Central.

• Nine new Tiny Forests in Leicester will help celebrate the Commonwealth Games

  20 April 2022

  4 minute read

  HUNDREDS of local schoolchildren have helped to plant thousands of trees and create Tiny Forests at nine Leicester schools to celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

• Festival of family fun returns to mark St George’s Day

  14 April 2022

  2 minute read

  ENGLAND’S patron saint will be celebrated in Leicester as the city’s annual St George’s Festival returns to Orton Square on Saturday 23rd April.