Last year saw queues around the block as hundreds tried to cram into this cosy DIY venue. Friday’s lineup is put together by All Girls Arson Club and includes pop sensation Self Esteem. Saturday is headlined by Leeds post-punkers Cowtown.

A mesmerising adaptation of Yann Martel’s prize-winning novel. Read our review...

Bringing historical figures and events back to life in incredible ways.

An outdoor show by a Troupe of 15 talented young circus performers, sharing their hopes and feelings on climate action using trapeze, hoops and silks, and celebrating the potential of ordinary humans to be extraordinary.

Join Manor and Castle Development Trust for a workshop in how to take control of what you eat and use what is available around you – like recycling old shoes and growing your own food in them.

Join spoken word artist and theatre maker Edalia Day for a workshop using sci-fi, robots, aliens and space travel to explore neurodiversity, disability, gender, and the idea of being an outsider. See where your imagination takes you.

Join cycling Shakespeare company The HandleBards for the launch of their latest adventure, which aims to build a global forest connected by stories, culture and poetry. With poetry and theatrical performances and a tree planting workshop.

Help us to build the People’s Palace of Possibility in this participatory installation created by The Bare Project. Discover distant utopias, cast off your fears for the future, and begin to create a better one.

You're invited to imagine, and start making, a world which looks closer to paradise than apocalypse. The festival brings together theatre, installation, workshops, discussions and circus, to explore ideas of protest, performance and utopia-building.

Record label Dipped in Gold curate the Saturday lineup in Gatsby's upstairs room. Artists include avant-garde post punk troubadours Bilge Pump and Sunderland’s Roxy Girls with their awkward, angular and angry guitar music akin to Gang of Four.

Gilles Peterson has dedicated his life to cutting-edge music from across the globe. He headlines this event alongside some of the north’s finest DJ collectives: Banana Hill, Nice Like Rice and Apricot Ballroom. Read on for chance to win tickets.

With 30+ acts over 30+ hours, Hatch (formerly The Audacious Art Experiment) have put together an eclectic lineup of musicians, performers, AV and more – from techno, synth-pop, jazz and lo-fi indie to ambient, folk, and experimental sound collages.

From 2001 to 2016, Kabal was the most exciting, and most clandestine, party in town. Bask in its return this summer at a free all-dayer.

RESOLVE teams up with writer/editor/researcher George Kafka and urban designer Sheeba Shetty to lead a number of tours and workshops looking at how we traverse our city and what our access to different places and modes of transport tells us about it.

An alternative weekend of free yard parties in the city centre gallery and social space, with local artisans, artists, chefs, musicians and DJs.

A three-day summertime celebration of music.

Devonshire Green presents ‘made in Sheffield’ acts with international additions, including Latin-inspired Mango Rescue Team, homegrown rap talent in the form of Medley, and the One World Choir compromised of local asylum seekers and refugees.

One of Sheffield's longstanding community cinema events Sharrow Reels is sadly coming to an end, and their final screening is this Coen Brothers classic. Join them to say goodbye and show how much independent film events in Sheffield mean to us all.

Dub Shack and Yellow Arch present Dublines, a celebration of sound system culture this Tramlines weekend. Starting outside in the courtyard and taking you all the way through to 4am inside, with bass music, dub, reggae and roots.

Bal Fashion have recruited Chris Duckenfield, one of Sheffield’s favourite DJs and producers, for a huge party at their space on Exchange Street. He'll be DJing alongside PBR Streetgang and Thatmanmonkz, taking you through to 4am.

What better way to soothe a sore head on Sunday than relaxing with an evening of jazz, R&B and soul? Featuring bedroom soul crooner Jackie Moonbather, explosive jazz fusion trio Flok, and the smooth R&B/jazz-inspired sounds of Tonia Victoria.

The original 'queer party for everyone', the disco revival geniuses behind Horse Meat Disco are bringing a glittering set to the Peddler Warehouse on Tramlines Sunday. Read on for a chance to win a pair of tickets.

Covering the weekend, the Bungalows lineup features Galaxians – who channel the spirit of 80s NYC ‘freak disco’, neo-soul and jazz from the Tom Ravenscroft-championed Yazmin Lacey, local psych warriors Baba Naga, and grunge four-piece Babe Punch.

A special show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their second studio album Liquid Skin.

A series of talks, walks and performances in Kelham Island, looking at untold stories of the area's transformation, urban regeneration, and hipster enterprise.

A John Peel favourite. The original bass player and lead singer of 70s/80s Brighton-based punk band The Chefs, whose upbeat pop tunes about everyday subjects became a key influence on the C-86 and twee pop movements that would follow.

Disney villain. Octo-woman. Plus-size icon. But who is the woman behind the tentacles? This musical parody tells the untold story of Ursula the Sea Witch

Floral-themed pieces from 30 artists from the UK and Europe, plus chances to get hands-on in creative painting and perfume making workshops.

An afternoon of talks and performances about mental health and masculinity, with Olympic gold medal winning boxer Luke Campbell, comedian Russell Kane, adventurer Megan Hine and Sheffield poet laureate Otis Mensah.

A small piece of Scandinavia has come to Sheffield.

An exhibition and research project looking at aura and authenticity in a post-digital world.

Texan psych-rockers. Their latest album is full of hard hitting riffs and psychedelic breakdowns that take you from A to B in the blink of an eye, as if someone has cut and spliced together every classic rock album since the 1960s.

A one-off woodworking workshop for teens (ages 12-16).

Food, music, art. In a former warehouse. At night.

The naughtiest puppets around are heading to town for a hilarious musical with a warm (and fuzzy) heart.

A selection of work by artists from across the UK who are currently benefitting from being part of the Bloc Projects Members Scheme.

Back by popular demand, this workshop will introduce you to the basic functions of a drill. You'll learn to make a pilot hole and how to choose the right screw for the job, and you'll take home a handcrafted ottoman with hidden storage.

A one-off woodworking workshop for young makers (ages 7-11).

London-based social enterprise Public Practice will host a public discussion around local governance and how our participation can make positive change. The event will also showcase some of their innovative public-sector work and research.

Join S1 Artspace for a night that questions our everyday performances in the city. How do these performances contribute to the look and feel of cities and how do they make us look and feel?

A workshop for ages 12 to 15, building a musical instrument that you control with the movement of your hand.

A workshop listening to and revealing the myriad ways that Sheffield has been experienced and thought about throughout history and into the present day.

How have themes such as gender, race, mental health and ableism shaped familiar stories of Sheffield? Gather together to hear the conversations recorded with EYESORE through their work with RESOLVE in Sheffield.

Bringing together various aspects of RESOLVE’s two-month gallery residency at S1 Artspace, the closing party will showcase some of the stories, projects and relationships RESOLVE have found and made during their time in Sheffield.

A group show bringing together a mix of artists, works and mediums.

This summer, interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE will transform S1 Artspace into a "living archive" – with a series of events that explore how we feel about our shared built environment.

Lucy merges the traditional crafts of embroidery and printmaking with vibrant contemporary design, fresh colour palettes and lush botanical imagery. She's exhibiting work and running a pair of workshops in DINA Diner this summer.

Highlights of work by the first five artists on the Freelands Artists Programme, an initiative supporting emerging artists in Sheffield City Region.

A solo show by Peter Blake, AKA the Godfather of British Pop Art.

A family-friendly programme of playable exhibits and workshops dedicated to the humble button.

An exhibition of artworks, books and artefacts exploring John Ruskin's thinking on art and natural history, 200 years on from his birth.

Ten days to explore heritage treasures across the city. Go, go, go!

A theatrical adaptation of Matt Haig's frank and funny bestseller, celebrating what it means to be alive.

An enchanting winter wonderland with Northern Ballet’s beautiful re-imagining of Cinderella.

Queen and Ben Elton's mega hit comes to the Sheffield stage.

Sensoria host the premiere live performance by a group made up of John Grant and the dark analogue electro of Wrangler (Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter, Benge).

A group show bringing together a variety of works in different mediums.

A group show, bringing to Cupola a mix of works on the theme of Not Safe For Work.

Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes to the Sheffield stage, with the story of a lawyer who becomes convinced that his family are cursed.

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins. Bringing together music, visual art, poetry, and workshops.

A big day of creative activities and an evening of projections, celebrating John Ruskin and Renaissance painter Jacopo Tintoretto – happening simultaneously in Sheffield’s Castlegate and Venice.

The first stage adaptation of the novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie, The Last King of Scotland is an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity set in Uganda.

The true love story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, told in musical form.

Join the tea party and meet the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts.

Miss Genevive Pilley began working at the Ruskin Museum aged just 20, becoming Museum curator in 1931. Helen Parker provides an account of this exceptional woman who devoted so much of her life to the Museum.

An exhibition of the work of Richard Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of Pop Art.

A new dark comedy about human connection, space exploration and Jaffa Cakes.

Marking Emily Brontë’s 200th birthday, The Unthanks turn a selection of her poems into song.

A hilarious whodunnit packed full of catchy songs, unforgettable characters and plot twists galore.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magical family musical comes to Sheffield, retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colours.

A solo exhibition of both real and imagined landscapes by a local painter.

A solo exhibition of paintings.

A weekend of nosying around some of the most fascinating artists' studios in town.

A moving exploration of the lives of four generations of women in one family, shifting back and forth in time through the huge social changes of the past century.

The hit West End musical brings the story of the record label's founder and legendary artists to the Sheffield stage.

Panto time!

Roll the dice and fall in love under the bright lights of New York city.

A spell-binding and uplifting story of hopes and dreams centred on two lost souls: a Dublin street busker and a Czech musician.

The master of mind control and psychological illusion returns to the stage with a brand new live show.