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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.

WPM 150: Let’s Celebrate! Weston Park Museum’s Birthday Party

Sat. 6 September 2025

Weston Park Museum

Wish Weston Park Museum many happy returns as it celebrates its 150th birthday! 

Lick of Paint

Sat. 6 September 2025 — Sun. 7 September 2025

A weekend-long mural and street art festival. Bringing together local and international talent to transform the city's walls, underpasses and empty corners with powerful, high-quality public art. With battles, workshops, DJ sets and more.

Art in the Gardens

Sat. 6 September 2025 — Sun. 7 September 2025

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

One of the largest outdoor art markets in the north, filling the beautiful Botanical Gardens with the work of artists and crafts makers from across the country.

Bomb It 1 & 2

Sun. 7 September 2025

Alder

As part of the inaugural Lick of Paint Festival, join Kelham Island Film Club for a free screening of landmark documentary Bomb It, back-to-back with its sequel. They explore global graffiti movements and the fight for control over public spaces.

Quayside Market

Sat. 13 September 2025 — Sun. 14 September 2025

Victoria Quays, S2 5SY

A monthly market by the water in the beautiful Victoria Quays. Bringing craft stalls, street food, craft beer and live music to the historic cobbles.

Colour

Thu. 19 June 2025 — Sun. 14 September 2025

Millennium Gallery

This new exhibition brings together over 150 objects spanning art, science, nature and cultural histories, alongside a range of interactive activities.

Fake Fans

Fri. 1 August 2025 — Sun. 14 September 2025

Site Gallery

An exploration of the world of bootleg and fan-made objects. With an animation film, unofficial games remixing familiar franchises, zines, fan art, reimagined figurines, and a series of trading cards created by Site Gallery's youth collectives.

Alpaca Festival

Fri. 12 September 2025 — Sat. 20 September 2025

A festival on algorithmic pattern-making in anything from heritage crafts to tech. With an algorave, a concert with pattern-based instrumental music, talks and workshops around patterns in juggling, textiles, music and more.

Common Threads Festival

Wed. 24 September 2025 — Sat. 27 September 2025

A celebration of weaving and textile practices from all over the world. With sewing and repair workshops, natural fabric dying, weaving, and a multilingual folklore performance.

Thursday’s Child – The Roots of Wonder by Jennie McCall

Sat. 30 August 2025 — Sat. 4 October 2025

Cupola Gallery

The new exhibition Thursday’s Child – The Roots of Wonder by Jennie McCall is coming this week. Hope you can join us at the exciting opening event on Friday 29th!

No Bounds

Fri. 10 October 2025 — Sun. 12 October 2025

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins – bringing together music, visual art and technology. Lineup for 2025 to be confirmed.

Liliane Tomasko: The Psyche of the Portrait

Sat. 24 May 2025 — Sun. 12 October 2025

Millennium Gallery

For this new exhibition, New York-based visual artist Liliane Tomasko uses portraiture as an acute lens to shed light on the ever-changing human psyche.

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.

Sheffield Print Fair

Sat. 8 November 2025

Millennium Gallery

Enjoy watching printmaking in action and pick up a print or two to take home from among the 43 stalls featuring the wares of artists and printmakers from Sheffield and beyond. Call for applications open till 1 September 2025.

Peter Blundell Jones: Architecture, Landscape and the City

Mon. 21 July 2025 — Sun. 14 December 2025

Western Bank Library

An exhibition celebrating the life, work and legacy of the late British architect, writer, and teacher Peter Blundell Jones who taught at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.

Penny McCarthy: How to Look Through Time

Sat. 12 July 2025 — Sat. 20 December 2025

Graves Gallery

Artist Penny McCarthy sets out to find new ways to consider time, loss and preservation.

Celebrating 150 Years of Weston Park Museum

Weston Park Museum

This summer, join one of our city’s best-loved museums as it kicks off celebrations for its 150th anniversary. Including chance to play retro games, build a giant 3D map of the city, create decorations for the museum's big birthday party, and more.

Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio

Tue. 11 November 2025 — Wed. 31 December 2025

Showroom

The most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance.

Slime Mother

Fri. 3 October 2025 — Sun. 1 February 2026

Site Gallery

An immersive, multi-sensory exhibition by artist and writer Abi Palmer. With film, text, sculpture and installation, inviting us to be more slug-like – to slow down, merge and connect – embracing the resilient strangeness of this complex gastropod.

Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable

Tue. 10 March 2026 — Tue. 31 March 2026

Showroom

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.

Sheffield Ceramics Festival

Sat. 18 April 2026 — Sun. 19 April 2026

Kelham Island Museum

Browse the wares of around 50 ceramic artists, potters and sculptors from South Yorkshire and beyond.

Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo

Tue. 19 May 2026 — Sun. 31 May 2026

Showroom

A journey through the life of a true icon. Discover her art, and uncover the story of her rebellious, passionate life. With new material from the curators of the groundbreaking Tate Modern exhibition Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon.

Migration Matters Festival

A celebration of culture, compassion, and the positive impact migration and refugees have in Sheffield. Held on and around Refugee Week each June – come back soon for details of Migration Matters 2026.

In Conversation: On the Border of my Peaceful Home

Tue. 24 June 2025 — Wed. 23 December 2026

Graves Gallery

An exhibition curated by artist Kedisha Coakley, bringing together artworks, objects and specimens from Sheffield’s collection to explore the relationship between empire and the trade in fruit and flowers.