Events
Slip & Score Double Bill: Phrases | Shhh
Slip & Score evenings are where you get to experience double the artistry, double the excitement and double your delight.
kiss&cry
A performance installation with different areas to explore, loosely based on the area where skaters wait with their coaches to receive their scores.
CLAYground Spring 2024
A chance to simply see and seriously play… CLAYground is a test event of experimental performance.
APOCRYPHA OF THE LATER SAINTS
A homoerotic ritual performance interrogating bodily autonomy and gender affirmation under ruthless persecution.
CAMP Anti-Christmas Special
CAMP Wrestling is back on 15th December for our anti-Christmas Special!
All That Lives Launch
Join Grief Series, CLAY (UK) and Zion Studio (Mexico) in Launching 'All That Lives' plz RSVP by the 25th October at 11:50pm
CLAYground Autumn 23
A chance to simply see and seriously play… CLAYground is a test event of experimental performance.
Proud to be CAMP: Leeds Alternative Pride
Are you proud to be CAMP?! After the sell out debut show we're coming back for another for Leeds Alternative Pride
CHASM: Open Studios APRIL
This is an invitation to slither into the rupture to close the gap between us and share a Future.
CLAYground Presents Luke Beech
Luke Beech uses CLAYground to reclaim the Snooker table for Queer and Mad identifying communities.
Development workshop: Freelance contracting and being contracted
This workshop will give tips and pointers about how to understand and use instagram in a sustainable way as an independent artist.
Development workshop: Instagram as an independent artist
This workshop will give tips and pointers about how to understand and use instagram in a sustainable way as an independent artist.
CLAYground: An & Moa present WITH ECHOES
WITH ECHOES FILLING UP THE ORBIT, BUT DAMAGED is an on-going performance-based multidisciplinary research exploring the conflicts in our notions of togetherness.
CLAYground: Aura presents 7 ≈ 8
Immerse on a voyage to the artist's body, the self, the other, the environment, the space-time, the whole, and the infinity, by exploring the seven almost eight auric layers.
BODIES
Created by Ray Young, BODIES is a sound and performance installation that will take place in swimming pools across the UK, inviting audiences into the pool for an active, sensory experience of water, discovery & rest. Commissioned by Unlimited, this immersive water, light and soundscape environment investigates the embodied experiences of our relationships with water.
CLAYground: SWEXTSHOPS presents D·E·FÆ·REG·ID
The Færie Queene of the Secret Commonwealth pays an Official™ visit to Leeds to engage/gather data of its inhabitants to strengthen interdimensional relationships.
CLAYground: Alex Billingham - Milk & Honey
It’s time to drink up all your milk dear. Let Live artist Alex Billingham drench you in trans crip desire.
The Lovely Boys
The Lovely Boys are ready to show-off their debut show and delighted to be bringing their hour of daft fringe comedy to CLAY
CLAYground: Claye Bowler - 'Secured'
Addressing the erasure of queer and trans narratives and objects in museum collections and archives, this work recitifies; exploring accessioning, packing and body as archive.
NHSmackdown WIP
A new piece of theatre by Lawless (Leeds Queer Wrestling, Rich Tea Drag), drawing on personal experience as an NHS worker who, also, happens to be a wrestler and performance artist.
CLAYground: 'The Board Game'
CLAYground is a monthly chance to simply see and seriously play, this month, with Daniel Oliver.
HOLE AGAIN
An audacious night of performance, party and nostalgia for the turn of the Millennium
Howl Yuan: Impossible Homecoming
An invitation to go on an imagined journey with Howl, back to Taiwan to visit his home, which no longer exists.
CLAYground: Tom Cassani
CLAYground is a monthly chance to simply see and seriously play, this month, with Tom Cassani
Sh!t Theatre: Work in Progress
A work-in-progress for a brand new future-cult musical that is not called ‘Don’t Look Over Here, Andrew Lloyd Webber’ but for legal reasons is currently called ‘Don’t Look Over Here, Andrew Lloyd Webber’.
Sh!t Theatre: Sing-a-long-a-Muppet Christmas Carol
You’ve spent the last year applauding the NHS. Now it’s Michael Caine’s turn…!
Mafwa Theatre Associate Artists present 'Flock: Short Stories from Women on the Move'
Flock is a collection of digital pieces created by six migrant artists based in Leeds.
Event FAQs
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Unless otherwise stated all for all events at CLAY the doors open at 7:30pm and the event stars at 8pm.
Please arrive in good time so that we can check your booking and you can get settled in!
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The runtime of all events at CLAY are an estimation.
We can't give an exact runtime for the majority if our events as often they are experimental in nature.
Work in our Programme can be anywhere from 40 - 90mins unless stated otherwise.
Additionally performances are relaxed, meaning you can leave the performance space at anytime if needed.
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Events at CLAY are wheelchair accessible. We have done what we can to make the space accessible by including a wheelchair friendly portaloo on the floor of the event space. We also have 2 gender-neutral toilets that are down a flight of stairs that is 12 steps. Unfortunately, there is no lift in our building. The rest of the building is on one floor. Unless stated this is a relaxed performance. If you need any more information please check our venue info page here.
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Unless stated otherwise all events take place at CLAY 1-2 Regent Street, Leeds, LS2 7QA