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
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era – Alwyn Turner
In this illustrated talk, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change with the rise of women’s suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. This event is part of the Off the Shelf Festival of Words.
On Writing and Perspective – Sarah Marsh and Viktoria Lloyd Barlow In conversation with Rachel Genn
Authors Sarah Marsh and Viktoria Lloyd Barlow talk about being deaf and neurodivergent writers respectively, their approach to bringing their own life experiences into their work, why it’s important to them and their advice to future writers.
The Last King of Scotland (Ugandan Independence Celebration)
Showing as part of Black History Month 2024 - Intergenerational Fusion: Empowering Black Minds.
The Yorkshire Chocolate Festival
Live music, workshops and more than 60 stalls featuring all things chocolate will once again make the event a chocolate lover’s paradise, bringing together some of the county’s best bakers, crafters, chocolatiers and makers!
Weathering – Ruth Allen
An evocative exploration of the lessons the earth can teach us about grounding, resilience and recovery, from a geologist turned pioneering psychotherapist. Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet.
Women in Victorian Society - Anne Louise Booth
A compelling and illuminating portrait of the life of women in Victorian society. Women in 19th century Britain may appear governed by a patriarchal model that reserved power and privilege for men, but they challenged not only the ideas of ‘separate spheres of society’, but the influence of Queen Victoria herself.
Writing Memoir Workshop With Miranda Doyle
You know you have a great life story, but how to tell it? Unlike writers of fiction starting with a blank canvas, for those writing life art may feel more like sculpture. This workshop will explore how to carve form and story from a chaotic, unwieldy lived life.
A Bookshop of One’s Own – Jane Cholmeley
Silver Moon was a bookshop with the mission to promote the work of female writers and create a much-needed safe space for any woman. Founded in 1980s London against a backdrop of homophobia and misogyny, it was a testament to the power of community, growing into Europe’s biggest women’s bookshop.
I’m Not Your Mother – Helen Rice and Uncommon Labels – Fiona Hutchings
Step or ‘blended’ families are the fastest-growing family type in the UK, with an estimated one in three families now fitting this description. Yet throughout history and across cultures, from fairy tales to Fleabag, the stepmother is rarely portrayed positively.
Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners
Over the last 8 years, Hive Young Writers Network has nurtured many fine emerging South Yorkshire poets including an incredible 8 winners of the International New Poets Prize for writers aged 17 to 24.
