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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.

Sheffield Black History Month: Reclaiming Narratives

Fri. 4 October 2024

Sheffield Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, S1 2LH

Intertwined amongst the greenery of the beautiful Winter Garden, and accompanied by African-Caribbean rhythms and vibes – the African Heritage Culture Forum will be showcasing the city’s diverse history and “reclaiming narratives”.

Only Clay 2024

Sat. 5 October 2024 — Sun. 6 October 2024

Kelham Island Museum

A ceramics fair featuring 50 potters in the heart of Sheffield's industrial heritage.

Lunchtime Talk: Seeing From All Sides – The Early Work of Tess Jaray

Tue. 8 October 2024

Millennium Gallery

In this illuminating lunchtime talk, curator and writer Natalie Rudd will trace Tess Jaray's emergence as an artist.

The Light Organ

Tue. 1 October 2024 — Sat. 12 October 2024

Cole Store (old John Lewis building), Barkers Pool, S1 1EP

Sing, talk and clap to create a multicoloured sound and light display in this interactive installation. Housed within the much-loved and much-missed historic former department store.

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.

Anomaly Life Drawing

Multiple dates

Nomad Maison, Unit 3, 18 Stanley Street, S3 8HJ

A place to relax, experiment with materials and practice drawing the wonderful human form.

The Real McCoy Exhibition: An Introduction to Black Inventors

Tue. 15 October 2024

Sheffield Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, S1 2LH

A free interactive showcase of inventions by Black inventors, highlighting their contributions to making life safer, happier, easier and more efficient. From the traffic light to the spark plug, it tells an overdue, fascinating story for all ages.

We are the Monument: Decolonising Public Spaces – Yuen Fong Ling and Jon Cannon

Wed. 16 October 2024

Sheffield Central Library

An invitation to assess the use of text and visual elements in monuments as practice for decolonising public spaces. This event will propose street name changes, alongside new public art, memorials and monuments honouring marginalised communities.

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.

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.

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.

Plug In and Play this October Half Term

Sat. 26 October 2024 — Sun. 3 November 2024

National Videogame Museum

Open every day of half term, the National Videogame Museum comes to life with new activities for all the family that combine fun, art and playful technology.

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.