An immersive showcase of experimental electronic sound. With special guest, Portuguese composer Mariana Vieira.

Step into a festive wonderland at New Era Square. With twinkling lights, the aroma of spiced treats, and the joyful sounds of carollers. Followed by a children's event with Santa, crafts and performances.

Food, music and art in a former warehouse, one weekend a month. Plus kids craft activities on the Saturday afternoons. With bonus Christmas crafts for their festive edition.

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.

Join Music in the Round for an afternoon with the great classical guitarist Craig Ogden.

Fronted by singer Heloïse Werner, this quartet presents a wildly imaginative programme of music – by the likes of Hannah Peel, Emily Hall, Meredith Monk and more.

See how ideas around identity have been explored by a range of notable artists. Many artists examine aspects of both personal and social identity in their work, exploring themes such as race, gender, politics, class, sexuality, heritage and the body.

Join Sheffield Chamber Orchestra for their Winter Gala Concert. Taking you on a festive, classical music tour to Spain, Italy, Hungary and Germany.

Renowned artist Paul Housley brings new paintings to Sheffield's very own art factory: Yorkshire Artspace.

Gather under the gaslamps and celebrate the start of the festive season as the much-loved Victorian Christmas Market returns to Kelham Island Museum.

Join RivelinCo in Hillsborough for their 2023 Festive Makers’ Market. Local artists, makers and creatives will share a wide range of products that are perfect for gifts.

Head to Orchard Square and browse the wares of local Sheffield artists – with everything from bespoke jewellery to photography prints, children's clothes to cheese, ceramics, and much more. And enjoy some live music in the square while you're there.

Watch the classics come to life in an afternoon tribute to the music of the movies.

An evening of classical and modern music, bringing together the best orchestral players from around the university.

The Mowbray will be a cosy, twinkling candlelit hive of all things beautiful and delicious – with presents, music, food and yuletide tipples.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor brings her online lockdown event from her kitchen to the stage, with a special Christmas Kitchen Disco tour.

A free, informal performances of early music and classical pieces that have been researched by students.

Delve into graphic novels further, or perhaps for the first time, at this relaxed social event.

A rush-hour concert from an ensemble who perform new compositions written in the Department of Music at Sheffield Uni and with collaborators.

Join Community Kino to learn about the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Do some collaging, pick up a zine, and stick around for a panel discussion after the film.

After realising he doesn't fit in with the other elves, Buddy sets out to find a place where he belongs – in search of his dad in New York City.

The true story of the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, one of the most gruesome events in American history. Legendary director Martin Scorsese presents an epic western crime saga, with unspeakable betrayal.

A jam night for women and marginalised genders to explore musical improvisation. Held every first Thursday of the month.

Trans-Atlantic melodies and bluesy-folk brilliance.

Jules's life and career as a drag queen is destroyed one night by a homophobic attack. Months later, Jules has a chance encounter with his attacker at a gay sauna, and crosses the line between seduction and power to exact revenge.

Join Sheffield's legendary indie-pop club night Offbeat for its 2023 Christmas Special. Expect classic, current and Christmassy left-field indie tunes, plus the top 10 songs of the year as voted for by Offbeat fans.

Ensemble 360's Rachel Roberts pairs two great works for viola: Vieuxtemps’s expressive sonata and Rebecca Clarke’s hauntingly beautiful meditation.

An exhibition showing one day in the life of a city from hundreds of perspectives. Featuring photos from every entrant in this year's Photomarathon Sheffield, including the prize-winning snaps.

The four artists known as the Scottish Colourists were one of the most talented, experimental and distinctive groups in 20th century British art. Discover their dazzling interiors, landscapes, portraits and still lifes.

Delicious Clam's alternative Christmas do. With infectiously catchy grunge-pop band Bean Weevil and their sweet harmonies, odd-ball storytelling and shambolic sing-alongs. Plus punk rockers Rivalry, powerpoppers Post Archives, and no-fi dudes Jeuce.

A 30-person supergroup of Sheffield’s finest musicians celebrate two iconic albums of the 1960s.

A night of queer joy and hilarious Sheffield-based comedians.

An evening of live glitch- and sample-based music and visuals pumped through stacks of cathode ray tube TVs.

Join local makers, bakers and growers for Firth Park's first Community Makers' Market this December. With mince pies, mulled wine, Santa and the Christmas lights switch-on.

Get cosy and pick up locally made presents at Hagglers Corner. As well as the stalls. there'll be food from Corner Jammers, mulled stuff, Baileys chai lattes, and live music.

Paintings inspired by research on travelling showmen and the traces they leave behind in the landscape. With documents from the National Fairground and Circus Archive.

Calling all indie-loving families with babies and toddlers: bop on down to the next Indie Kids disco. Playing indie and alternative music for little feet to shuffle to and parents to get nostalgic about. December's will be a Christmas special.

A festive film favourite. Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for the holidays in this action-packed adventure. Screening at The Leadmill and The Light for Christmas 2021.

47 years after he recorded his first album, Martin Simpson is one of the most well-regarded and decorated folk musicians around. Expect this special Christmas show to be spellbinding, fun, festive and full of special guests.

Since their emergence in the late 70s ska revival, Madness have become one of the most loved and most fun British bands of all time. They'll be playing songs from their new record and hits from their back catalogue.

Join DIY music venue Delicious Clam as they throw a Christmas party with Sammartino, Thee Mightees, R. Loomes, and Bebo. Plus karaoke and mulled drinks to carry you on til late. All money raised from ticket sales will be going towards Palestine.

A book club for writers, with editor Hannah Boursnell.

Singer-songwriter John Reilly and musical director Lewis Nitikman host their annual Christmas concert. With guests John Parr (of St Elmo’s Fire fame), Stannington Brass Band, Janine Dyer with Sheffield Community Choir, tenor Gareth Lloyd, and more.

A Christmas concert from the uni's dynamic choir, led by new student musical director Joseph Banerjee. Performing Mendelssohn’s 6 Motets (Op 79), Gabriel’s Message by Jim Clements, and Puer Nobis by Richard Rodney Bennett.

Join Open Up for a Winter Exhibition featuring work from the artists who took part their open studios event this year.

A warm Walkley welcome and festive cheer, with over 30 local makers and creators – plus posh hot chocolates, live music, kids Christmas crafts, and a Search for Santa trail.

Join in the joy as Oughtibridge Brass Band perform carols in boozers around Kelham Island and Sheffield city centre. Stopping at The Millowners Arms, Riverside Kelham, Kelham Island Tavern, Shakespeare’s, Two & Six Micropub, and The Dorothy Pax.

Have yourself an eco friendly Christmas and stock up on pre-loved gifts at the Meersbrook and Heeley Christmas Yard Sale.

An afternoon filled with fun and laughter with the Funky Beavers.

A solstice special of experimental, "pattern-based" performance. Featuring Leafcutter John, Tante Verte (Robyn Haddon, DS and Eye Measure), Peter K Rollings and his Experimental Sonic Machines, and Epiploke.

Three homeless people – a former bicycle racer, a trans woman who used to work as a drag queen, and a runaway young girl – live together in Tokyo. On Christmas Eve, they find a baby in a rubbish dump and care for her as they track down her family.

A dream-like winter fantasia, with music capturing the magic and wonder of the turn of the year.

Young, pregnant and single mother Gia battles addiction and the oppressive foster-care system to regain custody of her children. Caught in a system that expects black single mothers to fail, Earth Mama is the story of her fight to reclaim her family.

A new crisis emerges in Japan after World War II in the form of a giant monster, baptised in the atomic bomb. Set in the period of the original film, it returns the king of monsters to its roots as a metaphor for Japan's postwar anxiety and grief.

Join Sheffield Cathedral for a Christmas concert with the world’s most famous colliery band.

Described by Jazz Journal magazine as the "piano man's piano man," Dale Storr is one of the UK's leading exponents of New Orleans-style piano. Join him for his Christmas show at the Greystones.

An intimate hometown Christmas show from Sheffield band While She Sleeps.

Join Seven by 7 as they celebrate 22 years of "open decks" fun and frolics with their festive bash at the Dorothy Pax.

Released in 1946, this black and white iconic film is the heartwarming treat you need on a chilly December night.

Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol can sometimes be a bit of a grizzly tale (especially when the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come appears on the scene), but the Muppets brighten the Christmas tale right up.

It's that time of year again... where friends, families and strangers on the internet argue over whether Die Hard is a Christmas film. Seeing John McClane take on Hans Gruber at this time of year is almost as much of a tradition as Christmas itself.

A brilliantly imaginative, dark fantasy stop-motion animated musical. Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town and attempts to bring Christmas under his control. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

A showcase of gifts that are truly special, created by talented makers from across Sheffield, Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

Sing and dance along with Sandy, Danny and the gang at this fun screening, with drag host.

A magical family-friendly singalong to the classic fairytale film.

Orchestras, choirs, soloists, conductors, composers – and everything in between – are hosting festive concerts across the city this December. Including concerts for little ones with Concerteenies.

A story of magic, music and mayhem, for ages 3+. Our hero crash-lands in a crumbling town where only the long-forgotten fables, a cantankerous caretaker and a glitching robot remain. Can they save the day, and the town called Christmas?

A free augmented reality art trail on the city's rooftops.

Join Manor Operatic Society for a magical adventure through Sherwood Forest as they bring their annual festive panto to the City Hall.

A folk tradition, filling pubs with the sound of locally written songs that have passed down the generations. Gather in the pubs to join in the sings this November and December.

A hand-drawn fantasy based on director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood and his career at Studio Ghibli. In World War II, young Mahito flees Tokyo for the countryside and enters a fantastic realm through a tower with mysterious history tied to his family.

Share the joy and beauty of creativity at Cupola's Christmas exhibition. A joyous celebration of the human spirit of generosity, with work by over 60 artists.

2023's fun-filled Lyceum pantomime. A fairy-tale extravaganza starring Duncan James from Blue, CBeebies' Jennie Dale, and legendary Dame Damian Williams.

This year's Crucible Christmas musical is a feel-good family favourite, featuring the songs Blue Skies, Sisters, and White Christmas.

An exhibition exploring how John Ruskin, William Morris and the students and masters of the Bauhaus shaped our understanding of art and design. They were united by a common belief – that design and making can improve everyday life.

A tribute night full of 90s indie nostalgia.

“A place to confront fears of failure gently.” Read our review of Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom's installation. Centred on learning to play the drums, sharing wisdom and embracing the unknown.

The Vaccines are back with their sixth album, packed with euphoric hooks and melodies, plus deep emotion.

A tribute to one of the most iconic groups in music history.

Sheffield's huge annual artists' open studios event. The open call for artists for 2024 is open 1 October–31 January.

Music, community arts and positive vibes in the spring sunshine. Come back soon for the date and details of the next Peace in the Park in 2024.

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins. Bringing together music, visual art, and technology. No Bounds 2023 has been postponed – the festival will return in October 2024. Details TBC.

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

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