All Event Listings

So much happens in Sheffield every week! This is our comprehensive event listing page for every single event that gets submitted to our website, from small workshops and community events to international sporting fixtures and citywide festivals.

So if you're looking for something specific, please use the filter tags and date search below, to narrow the event listings for what you'd really like to see/find. Alternatively, visit our What's On page for seasonal highlights and roundups of the bigger events happening in Sheffield. 

All Events in Sheffield

Phlegm: Pandemic Diary

Work by one of Sheffield’s most popular artists, Phlegm is set be celebrated at this new exhibition, running at the Millennium Gallery, Saturday 13 January - Sunday 7 July. Pandemic Diaries showcases a spectacular series of over 60 drawings made throughout the 2020 lockdown.

13 Jan 2024 - 07 Jul 2024

Skylarking

A brand new exhibition and events programme by Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes.

22 Feb 2024 - 18 May 2024

Flora, Fauna & Feasting | Rockingham Pottery Exhibition

The latest exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse is not to be missed!

19 Mar 2024 - 23 Jun 2024

'Organic' by Kathryn Watson and 'In Praise of Shadows' by Fumi

New solo shows are coming to Cupola gallery: 'Organic' by Kathryn Watson and 'In Praise. of Shadows' by Fumi

03 May 2024 - 01 Jun 2024

Weston Park May Fayre 2024

Prepare to be amazed as Sheffield's Weston Park May Fayre returns for a day full of FREE family fun on Sunday 19 May, with fun fair, circus acts, comedy, live music, food stalls and more.

19 May 2024 11:00 - 17:00

False Note: Live Performance

Join artist Freya Dooley and musician Emma Daman Thomas at Site Galleryfor a new live performance expanding on the False Note exhibition score.

30 May 2024 19:00 - 20:00

Sheffield DocFest 2024

Following a successful 30th edition of the festival in 2023, Sheffield Docfest returns Wednesday 12 June - Monday 17 June 2024.

12 Jun 2024 - 17 Jun 2024

Art in the Gardens

Taking place Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September 2024 in Sheffield's stunning Botanical Gardens, Art in the Gardens is one of the largest outdoor art markets in the North of England, with artists, craft makers and visitors coming from across the UK.

07 Sep 2024 - 08 Sep 2024

Sensoria 2024

A celebration of a city and its music, film, art and electronica, Sensoria festival's 17th edition will once again bring live events and exhibitions to iconic venues across Sheffield, 3 - 6 October.

03 Oct 2024 - 06 Oct 2024

Portraiture and the Human Figure

The human figure has been a subject for artists since the earliest cave paintings. This new display, drawn from Sheffield’s collections, explores artists’ enduring fascination with depicting people.

16 Mar 2023 - 07 Dec 2024

PostNatures

PostNatures sees Lucas draw on the constructed composition of Turner’s painting to highlight how imaginary subjects can affect our individual or cultural perceptions of reality.

16 Mar 2023 - 07 Dec 2024

City of Rivers (Weston Park Museum)

Sheffield is a city born from its rivers, sculpting the landscape and powering the industries that made it prosper. This exhibition brings together stories, objects, artwork, film and photography to chronicle the city's relationship with its waterways.

24 Nov 2023 - 03 Nov 2024

The Ruskin Collection: Hand, Head and Heart

The Guild of St George’s Ruskin Collection celebrates the visionary ideas of the Victorian artist and writer, John Ruskin (1819-1900)

09 Dec 2023 - 01 Dec 2024

The Sykes Gallery Metalwork Collection

Sheffield Museums’ Metalwork Collection is one of the finest in the world. It contains the cutlery, flatware and tableware that have made Sheffield famous, as well as beautiful objects collected from every continent.

01 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024

LAND – Photographs by Matthew Conduit

Post-industrial landscapes have held a lifelong fascination for Sheffield-based artist Matthew Conduit. For more than three decades he has repeatedly returned to photograph the same sites, revisiting and reworking what he sees around him.

02 Jan 2024 - 15 Jun 2024

We are the Monument

Curated by artist Yuen Fong Ling, We are the Monument explores the ways in which the plinth can be seen as a social, political and cultural symbol and encourages us to consider the significance of those represented on, or in opposition to, the plinth.

27 Jan 2024 - 21 Dec 2024

It's All a Show: Fairground Showmen*, Identity and Mental Health

An exhibition exploring what it means to be a Showman in the twenty-first century and the relationship between identity and mental health in that community.

05 Feb 2024 - 16 Jun 2024

Donald Rodney, Britannia Hospital 2

Britannia Hospital 2 by Donald Rodney is one of a series he made using x-rays. For Rodney, x-rays were a way to look beneath the surface and examine the social and political ills in British society.

09 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2024

Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps

This new exhibition celebrates the many ways that people of African Caribbean heritage have contributed to Sheffield life.

10 May 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
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