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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

What's On

Our Sheffield culture calendar. Filled with picks of the city’s arts, culture and heritage events, both in-person and virtual. Plus reviews and festival guides.

Nature and History at Sheffield General Cemetery

Sat. 7 September 2024 — Sun. 15 September 2024

Sheffield General Cemetery

Join the cemetery for an exhibition in its beautifully restored chapel. Plus trails to follow, a guided tour for children, a look at the site's habitats, and more.

Kelham Makes: Autumnal Wreaths

Thu. 19 September 2024

Kelham Island Museum

Kick-start your autumn and learn how to make a fresh door wreath using traditional craft techniques.

Kelham Island Walks

Multiple dates

Kelham Island, S3

Explore the past and present of characterful Kelham Island and Neepsend, with walks on three themes. Discover stories of industrial Sheffield, working class community, and inspiring art.

Plant Pot Pal Workshop – Tom J Newell

Sat. 21 September 2024

Anomaly Arts Collective, 54–56 Abbey Lane, S8 0BP

Work with Tom J Newell to decorate an everlasting wooden flower to plant into your plant pots, window boxes or gardens.

Wine Tasting at the Graves Gallery

Wed. 25 September 2024

Graves Gallery

Raise a glass and savour good wine and glorious art with an exclusive evening at the Graves Gallery. 

Woodland by Rachel McDonnell

Sat. 24 August 2024 — Sat. 28 September 2024

Cupola Gallery

Paintings looking at two cultures with very different attitudes to woodlands. From the Finnish reverence for the land and nature to our own, slightly more distant, connection with the world around us.

Festival of the Mind

Thu. 19 September 2024 — Sun. 29 September 2024

Feed your mind with a series of fascinating and inspiring talks, exhibitions and performances. Organised by folks from the University of Sheffield in collaboration with local artists and creatives.

Show Your Metal

Thu. 13 June 2024 — Sun. 29 September 2024

Millennium Gallery

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the Cutlers’ Company in Hallamshire, this major exhibition celebrates the marvel of the material in all its forms.

Changing Seasons: online exhibition

An online visual art exhibition by Sheffield and district ESEA (East South East Asian) artists. Curated by Panni Loh for ESEA Heritage Month, on the theme of the cyclical nature of life. Submit your artwork by 15th August.

Meet the Artist: Lubna Chowdhary in Conversation with Dr Emilia Terracciano

Wed. 2 October 2024

Graves Gallery

Hear artist Lubna Chowdhary discuss her work, inspiration and life as an artist, in conversation with Dr Emilia Terracciano.  

No Bounds

Fri. 11 October 2024 — Sun. 13 October 2024

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins. Returning in October to bring together music, visual art and technology.

Tess Jaray: Paintings and Drawings Across 60 Years

Sat. 20 July 2024 — Sun. 13 October 2024

Millennium Gallery

An exhibition by one of the most influential British painters of the last century. With abstract painting exploring form and space, led by her interest in architecture, pattern, repetition and colour.

Saturday Art Workshop: Printed Lampshades inspired by Lubna Chowdhary

Sat. 19 October 2024

Millennium Gallery

Create your own unique and original hand printed lampshade, using the current Lubna Chowdhary exhibition PLURIVERSE as inspiration.

City of Rivers

Fri. 24 November 2023 — Sun. 3 November 2024

Weston Park Museum

An exhibition of stories, objects, artwork, film and photography chronicling Sheffield's relationship with its waterways.

Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh – Poets & Lovers

Wed. 6 November 2024

Showroom

The National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever exhibition of work by Van Gogh – one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist.

Harcourt Road Exhibition

Sat. 28 September 2024 — Sat. 9 November 2024

Bloc Projects

A showcase of objects and stories about two Harcourt Roads: one in Hong Kong, the other in Sheffield. Collected by artist-organisers C & G Artpartment (Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng).

The Ruskin Collection: Hand, Head and Heart

Sat. 9 December 2023 — Sun. 1 December 2024

Millennium Gallery

A display about the positive power of making by hand. Including a new memorial quilt commemorating Terry Higgins, the first named person in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness, on public display for the first time.

PostNatures

Thu. 16 March 2023 — Sat. 7 December 2024

Graves Gallery

An exhibition curated by artist Victoria Lucas, centred around a painting of an imaginary landscape by JMW Turner. Exploring perceptions of reality and representations of the relationship between women and nature.

Portraiture and the Human Figure

Thu. 16 March 2023 — Sun. 8 December 2024

Graves Gallery

“A celebration of being, making and looking.” Read our writer Wemmy's review of this inspiring exhibition full of love letters to bodies.

Dead Cat Bounce

Thu. 17 October 2024 — Sat. 14 December 2024

Soft Ground

An experimental opera and exhibition imagining parallel realities of environmental and financial catastrophes across time and space.

Roy Fisher 1930–2017

Mon. 29 July 2024 — Fri. 20 December 2024

Western Bank Library

Open to the public now at Western Bank Library, this exhibition looks at the life and work of the poet and musician Roy Fisher through his notebooks and typescripts, his small press pamphlets, his private press extravaganzas and his music.

We are the Monument

Sat. 27 January 2024 — Sat. 21 December 2024

Graves Gallery

An exhibition curated by artist Yuen Fong Ling, encouraging us to consider the significance of those represented on, or in opposition to, the plinth.

Lubna Chowdhary: PLURIVERSE

Thu. 4 July 2024 — Sat. 21 December 2024

Graves Gallery

Bold, hybrid installations, drawings and sculptures exploring the interconnectivity of objects in the material world. Including new work the artist developed during residencies in India and Italy.

Industrial Echoes

Fri. 9 August 2024 — Wed. 1 January 2025

Kelham Island Museum

A celebration of creativity, inclusion and Sheffield’s industrial heritage. With artworks responding to the museum’s collection made by ArtWorks, a collective of artists who have learning disabilities, autistic artists or both.

Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps

Fri. 10 May 2024 — Sun. 2 May 2027

Weston Park Museum

An exhibition celebrating the many ways that people of African Caribbean heritage have contributed to Sheffield life. With stories of sport, carnival, fighting racism, and more.