This website uses cookies. Read more about our cookie/privacy policy.

Accept and Close

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

Annalisa Toccara

Our Favourite Places would be nothing without our contributors — a massive thanks to all of them!

Annalisa Toccara's profile coming soon...

Read more about Annalisa's organisation Our Mel in our Meet the Locals interview.

Latest contributions

Kedisha Coakley

Inspired by African and Caribbean cultures, artist Kedisha Coakley invites people on a mesmerising journey of childhood memories, cultural symbols and spiritual iconography.

The Jamaica Reader

Tue. 25 October 2022

Millennium Gallery

Professors of Caribbean history Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith share their engaging panoramic history of Jamaica from its indigenous origins to present day as told through journalism, history, lyrics and culture.

Home Is Not a Place – Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson

Sat. 15 October 2022

Millennium Gallery

T. S. Eliot Prize winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed Sheffield-born writer-photographer Johny Pitts explore the complexity, strength and resilience of Black Britain. Through photographs, poems and essays, they unearth the secrets of the coast.

This One Sky Day – Leone Ross in conversation with Désirée Reynolds

Sat. 30 October 2021

Millennium Gallery

Novelist and short story writer Leone Ross talks about her work, including her latest novel This One Sky Day – the tale of two lovers on the imaginary Caribbean archipelago of Popisho who must find their way back to each other over a single day.