Editing Kirkstall Abbey (section)

===Cultural events===

The ''Leeds Shakespeare Festival'', performed by the [[British Shakespeare Company]], took place annually in the cloisters from 1995 until 2009. The abbey grounds are a public park, and are used for occasional events such as the annual Kirkstall Festival and the Kirkstall Fantasia open-air concerts.

The Abbey was also used on 19 March 2011 for the live [[BBC Three]] event ''[[Frankenstein's Wedding|Frankenstein's Wedding... Live in Leeds]]''. A live music drama starring Andrew Gower and [[Lacey Turner]] as fiancees Victor Frankenstein and Elizabeth Lavenza.

On 10 and 11 September 2011 the [[Kaiser Chiefs]] played two concerts at Kirkstall Abbey to a maximum audience of 10,000 on each day.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/leeds_kaiser_chiefs_announce_second_date_after_sell_out_1_3468348 | newspaper=Yorkshire Evening Post | title=Kaiser Chiefs announce second date after sell out|access-date=10 June 2011 | archive-date=12 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612142427/http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/leeds_kaiser_chiefs_announce_second_date_after_sell_out_1_3468348 | url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Gunpowder (TV series)|Gunpowder]]'' (2017) used Kirkstall Abbey as a filming location.<ref name="hordley">{{cite web|last1=Hordley|first1=Chris|title=Where was BBC's Gunpowder Filmed?|url=http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/story/Where-BBC-Gunpowder-filmed|publisher=[[Creative England]]|access-date=29 November 2017|date=20 October 2017|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504014308/http://creativeengland.co.uk/story/Where-BBC-Gunpowder-filmed|url-status=dead}}</ref>