Editing Leicester (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Curve Leicester full panorama.jpg|thumb|left|[[Curve (theatre)|Curve]] theatre]]
The city hosts annually a [[Leicester Caribbean Carnival|Caribbean Carnival and parade]] (the largest in the UK outside London), [[Diwali]] celebrations (the largest outside of India),<ref>{{cite web |title=Diwali Visit Leicester |work=Leicester city |date=8 June 2020 |url=https://www.visitleicester.info/whats-on/diwali-p704841 |access-date=8 June 2020 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923123156/https://www.visitleicester.info/whats-on/diwali-p704841 |url-status=live }}</ref> the largest comedy festival in the UK [[Leicester Comedy Festival]] and a [[Pride Parade]] ([[Leicester Pride]]). Belgrave Road, not far from the city centre, is colloquially known as "The Golden Mile" because of the number of Jewellers.

The Leicester International Short Film Festival is an annual event; it commenced in 1996 under the banner title of "Seconds Out". It has become one of the most important short film festivals in the UK and usually runs in early November, with venues including the [[Phoenix Square|Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Adele |last=Pascale |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2005/11/01/film_festival_feature.shtml |title=Leicester Short Film Festival: CAN 2005 |publisher=BBC Leicester |date=2 November 2005 |access-date=23 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022030028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2005/11/01/film_festival_feature.shtml |archive-date=22 October 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Barry Turner. The Screenwriter's Handbook 2010. Palgrave Macmillan. 2009. Page 218. (The Screenwriter's Handbook 2009, p 232).</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Robin |last=Turner |title=So Where's the Main Threat to the Welsh Bid to Be City of Culture? |work=Western Mail |date=7 March 2013 |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-321379618}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[File:Phoenix Square Leicester.jpg|thumb|upright=0.66|[[Phoenix Square]] cinema and media complex]]

Notable arts venues in the city include:
* [[Curve Theatre, Leicester|Curve]]: Purpose-designed performing arts centre, designed by [[Rafael Viñoly]], opened in Autumn 2008,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leicesterpac.co.uk/ |title=Curve website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714055304/https://www.leicesterpac.co.uk/ |archive-date=14 July 2006}}</ref>
* The [[De Montfort Hall]]
* The [[Leicester Haymarket Theatre|Haymarket Theatre]]
* The [[Little Theatre (Leicester)|Little Theatre]]
* The Y Theatre at the YMCA<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/spaces/the-y-theatre |title=THE y THEATRE - the y Leicester |access-date=29 December 2021 |archive-date=5 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205014237/https://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/spaces/the-y-theatre/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[Peepul Centre]], Designed by Andrzej Blonski Architects, the £15&nbsp;million building was opened in 2005 and houses an auditorium, restaurant, cyber café, gym and dance studio for the local people, as well as being used for conferences and events. The centre has even been host to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other senior Labour Party figures for hustings during the deputy leadership contest.
* Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, in Midland street opened in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visiting Phoenix |url=https://www.phoenix.org.uk/visiting-phoenix/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |website=phoenix.org.uk}}</ref>
*The [[Sue Townsend Theatre]] in Upper Brown Street– which opened in the former Phoenix Arts Centre.

===Museums===
<gallery>
File:Newarke Houses Museum Leicester.jpg|[[Newarke Houses Museum]] (Grade II*)
File:New Walk Museum Leicester 2.JPG|[[Leicester Museum & Art Gallery]]
File:Abbey Pumping station.JPG|[[Abbey Pumping Station]]
File:Jewry Wall and St Nicholas.jpg|[[Jewry Wall Museum]]
File:Belgrave Hall Museum - geograph.org.uk - 70266.jpg|[[Belgrave Hall]]
File:GasMuseumMay2010.JPG|[[Gas Museum (Leicester)]]
File:Leicester Guildhall.jpg|[[Leicester Guildhall|The Guildhall]]
File:Dynasty Death and Discovery, Richard III museum entrance.png|[[King Richard III Visitor Centre]]
</gallery>

===Music===
{{main|Music in Leicester}}

===In popular culture===
Leicester is the setting for the fictional diaries of [[Adrian Mole]], created by [[Sue Townsend]]. In the early books he lives in a suburb of Leicester and attends a local school where he first meets "the love of his life", Pandora Braithwaite.

After a period of years spent working in Oxford and London, Mole returns to Leicester and gets a job in a second-hand bookshop and a flat in an "upmarket" development on a swan-infested waterfront, which is a barely disguised representation of the area near to St. Nicholas Circle. Vastly in debt he is forced to move to the fictional village of Mangold Parva. The local (fictional) [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the town of Ashby de la Zouch is his old flame, Pandora Braithwaite.

Leicester is the setting for [[Rod Duncan]]'s novels, the ''Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire'' series and the Riot trilogy.

Leicester and the surrounding county are settings for several [[Graham Joyce]] novels, including ''Dark Sister'', ''The Limits of Enchantment'' and ''[[Some Kind of Fairy Tale]]''.

The Clarendon Park and New Walk areas of the city, along with an unnamed Charnwood village ("vaguely based upon Cossington", according to the author) are some of the settings of the 2014 novel ''The Knot of Isis'' by Chrid McGordon.

Leicester is the setting for the British children book series, ''[[The Sleepover Club]]'', by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read, Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien, Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter.

Notable feature films made in the city are ''[[The Girl with Brains in Her Feet]]'' (1997), ''[[Jadoo (2013 film)|Jadoo]]'' (2013) and ''[[Yamla Pagla Deewana 2]]'' (2013).