LIFE @ LEVEN
Life happens at LEVEN when we play host to some of the Northwest's most creative talent. Leven frequently offers up its spaces to local makers, creators and thinkers with ideas to share. Check back here or sign up to our newsletter for upcoming events.
Here's a selection of goings on, both past and present.
Welcome summer with us as the evenings get lighter and the flowers start to bloom - bring some colour back into your life!
Our paint parties are instructor-led in an atmospheric and fun environment. We believe that painting is a therapeutic practice, and love to bring painting to your doorstep. Don't worry - we've got you covered with a pre-drawn canvas, brushes, paint, palettes and aprons!
Join us at Leven for the ultimate Taylor Swift celebration where you can paint the icon and dance to her tunes. You know, You Belong With Me.
Our paint parties are instructor-led in an atmospheric and fun environment. We believe that painting is a therapeutic practice, and love to bring painting to your doorstep. Don't worry - we've got you covered with a pre-drawn canvas, brushes, paint, palettes and aprons!
Join the folks at FLOCKHERE for a day of co-working + connection. FLOCKHERE is the first and only app connecting women who work from home to places to work from and people to work with. Basically, it's a bit of a cross-between booking.com and Tinder for co-workers 🙂.
The mission is to banish the isolation and loneliness many of us feel when working from home. Online has been great, but real-life connection is where it's at, and at FLOCKHERE they are all about helping you build your local network as well as benefiting from the wider community of founders and home workers across the UK.
This sesh is free to attend and spaces are filled on a first come first served basis
The Manchester Run Club is *running for everyone*, a community of likeminded people who want to enjoy social running, regardless of whether you are brand new to running or getting ready to train for a race. Kicking off outside of LEVEN, get some kilometers under your belt and then join the MRC crew for smoothies and a natter afterwards at LEVEN. Let's pound those pavements!
The Kiss, a classic painting for the perfect Valentines 2024. Celerbate valentines, galentines, palentines, and self-love with us this year.
This paint party provides a relaxed environment where you can eat, drink and chat while letting your inner artist unfurl. You will learn to paint alongside a professional/amateur artist and finish with an artwork you will love.
No experience is necessary; you just need to be up for trying something new! We'll hook you up with everything you need from a pre-drawn canvas to gold leaf paper. See you there!
Who doesn't love a Starry Night? Set about painting a world renowned classic with our lead artist coupled with a signature Starry Night Cocktail or Mocktail - what's not to love?
Paint Away Events is a unique, social and fun painting party. All our paint parties are instructor-led in an atmospheric and fun environment. Painting is a therapeutic practice and we are pleased to bring a spot of chill to your doorstep.
No experience is needed; our host will provide small and easy steps to create your very own masterpiece and you’ll leave with a signature painting to hang in your home. And we'll hook you up with all the kit you need.
At this pooch paint party you can eat, drink and chat whilst letting your inner artist unfurl. You will learn to paint alongside a professional artist and finish with a piece of artwork you will love. No experience is necessary ( phew!).
To help things get off to a chipper start, before the vent an experience artist will custom sketch your pup (based on the photo that you provide after purchasing your ticket) onto your canvas to ensure that all the tricky proportions come out just right. From there, you'll use this canvas and with professional guidance bring your portrait to life with character and color using acrylic paint.
Tickets to this all inclusive experience include a pre-sketched custom portrae of your pet, a printed picture for reference, all your paints, tools, aprons, supplies, a guided artist, and a puppocino for your pup.
Feel free to bring a dog bed to make your dog feel comfortable for the duration of the workshop. We'll make your pup feel even more at home with water bowls and doggy treats.
Bring on the festive feels with our Christmas edition candle making and cocktail master class. Candles and Cocktails? It's almost more Christmas than Mariah Carey.
Our class will deepen your mindfulness and create a meaningful self-care experience. Refreshments on arrival and bar options available to purchase during the session as you master your new skills and soak up the scent of your candle creation. During this chilled-out and friendly craft class, your friendly teachers will guide you as you learn the art of candle and cocktail making.
Your teacher Alexandra will take you through the process before letting you put your skills to the test as you create your own festive 300ml scented soy coconut wax candle and tealight candles to make a filled bauble. After this, Jasmine, LEVEN's head mixologist, will host a cocktail masterclass to get you even more in the mood.
Complete beginner? Don't worry, your teachers will be there to help and support you throughout!
The goodies:
300ml festive soy coconut candle
- Christmas tree bauble filled with 6 tealight candles
- Drink the cocktail you mixed!
- Hot drink or mulled wine with a festive treat on arrival
- A giveaway quiz
- Goodie bag to take home with you including your candles. Yeah!
No fads. No treadmills. Just results from the comfort of your LEVEN room.
Led by a team of elite ROAR instructors including triple Olympian PT to the stars, Sarah Lindsay, options including high-intensity and beginner weights classes, full-body metabolic blaster sessions and equipment-free body resistance training.
Oh, and if you hit up the front desk, we’ll even deliver a mat and Jordan weights bundle to your door.
LEVEN guests can enjoy 30 days FREE and unlimited access to ROAR Classes On Demand fitness platform featuring 385+ workouts.
A lockdown retrospective by Pase, an illustrator/sculpture and installation artist. Encompassing hurdles within addiction, sexuality, religious identity, and most importantly, mental health. Delves into a journey back to relative sanity and the dark holes fallen in to on the way.
Kimbo’s Vice is an undressed, visual playdate. Loud, rude and completely unnecessary.
The show comprises multi-disciplinary outcomes based on artist work and experiences. Influences include pop art, 2D animation and drawing in a classical sense. The show incorporates new approaches to capturing the beautiful relationship between the artist and the sitter, and Manchester’s vibrant gay scene, while looking for ways to highlight uniqueness and individuality of those willing to participate.
This exhibition has three strands: visual art, photography and critique. The curator has worked with Refugee charities and their clients over several months. Individual clients who were interested were asked to provide starting points for the artists exhibited. Keen to put the client’s direction first, these prompts are all different, and remain untampered by a curator’s influence. What remains is art made through the marriage of experience and vision.
Rodrigo explores the idea of destruction as an intrinsic aspect to the generation of his drawings and creations in general.
A solo exhibition of paintings that explore space, scale and a generation's shared experiences, inviting us to reconnect with ourselves and each other.
Showing a series of large format paintings from a very concentrated period of practice, colourful, liberal, fluent and the notion of this ever moving aim as a painter to ‘paint how you want to’.
To support the completed paintings the artist will be performing a live 4 x 5 m canvas, open to the public so one can observe, feel and grasp the sensation of painting as they
experience an in studio atmosphere. ‘Eventually’ encompasses the distance between the aim and the reality.
“Is there any point in a description when the title says all it needs to”.
An exploration of subject, dimensionality and colour.
Binary is an exploration into light and sound manipulated in its most basic form 0 and 1
Join us for this quest for futurities and its relics in time.