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 help narrow the event listings results 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. 

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Collection Display: Portraits and the Human Figure

Drawn from Sheffield’s collections, this recently refreshed display explores artists’ enduring fascination with depicting people.

25 Mar 2025 - 25 Apr 2026

Collection Display: Colour, Form & Line

Discover how artists have experimented with colour and form, with displays including work by Joseph Cutts, Naum Gabo, Tess Jaray and Bridget Riley.

11 Apr 2025 - 30 Apr 2026

Collection Display: Place and Identity

See how ideas around place and identity have been explored by artists including Fay Godwin, David Hockney, Mandy Payne, Frank Auerbach, Eric Ravilious and and Kateřina Šedá.

09 May 2025 - 30 Apr 2026

In Conversation: On the Border of my Peaceful Home

This new exhibition, curated by artist Kedisha Coakley, brings together artworks, objects and specimens from Sheffield’s collection to explore the relationship between Empire and the trade in fruit and flowers.

24 Jun 2025 - 23 Dec 2026

Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum

This new exhibition, curated by Heavy Water Collective, examines the curious, beautiful, macabre and magical connections people have made to the land through over 400 objects from Sheffield’s eclectic museum collections.

28 Nov 2025 - 01 Nov 2026

The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud – The Look of the Sky

In 1884, John Ruskin delivered one of the first lectures to discuss climate change and make a link to industrial pollution. Storm-Cloud brings together work from the Guild of St George’s Ruskin Collection curated by young people, video work by Jake Goodall and research by the University of Sheffield to explore the legacy of Ruskin’s groundbreaking observations. 

20 Dec 2025 - 29 Nov 2026

Hawley Tool Collection

This world-renowned tool collection has been amassed since the mid-1950s by former tool retailer and champion of Sheffield’s industrial heritage, Ken Hawley. It consists of over 100,000 objects, all relating to Sheffield’s tool, cutlery manufacturing and silversmithing industry.

01 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026

Joe Scarborough, Sheffield Through the Ages

Sheffield artist, Joe Scarborough’s ambitious city panorama chronicles some of the city’s most famous landmarks throughout the decades.

01 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026

ArtWorks Together International 2026

ArtWorks Together is an international festival based in Sheffield offering adult artists who have a learning disability, are autistic, or both, the opportunity to showcase their talents. The festival exhibition features shortlisted works by 70 artists from 21 countries.

24 Jan 2026 - 31 May 2026

Reframing Wentworth Woodhouse's Untold Stories Exhibition | Jennifer Vanderpool

Untold Stories, examines the social construction of place, exploring the influences of history, labour, race, gender, and class on the lives of manual, industrial, and labouring communities.

27 Jan 2026 - 28 Jun 2026
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