City centre events 2025 📅
📖 Article last updated Wednesday 11 December 2024
Plenty of highlights to look forward to as we welcome another packed events programme to Sheffield city centre in 2025, everything from food and music festivals to special exhibitions, celebrations and live performances 👏
Click the link below to take you straight to the month you're most interested in, or simply scroll down to see the latest listings for the year ahead.
📅 January | February | March
📅 April | May | June
📅 July | August | September
📅 October | November | December
For further information on each event, click the 🖱️ icon.
💡 As new dates are confirmed, event details will be added to this page, so make sure you check back to this page through the coming weeks and months.
For information on live shows, theatrical performances, exhibitions and live sporting events in Sheffield city centre, please visit the following dedicated venue websites:
🖼️ The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Museums
🏆 Events | Ponds Forge (sheffieldcitytrust.org)
⛪ Sheffield Cathedral
🎙️ Sheffield City Hall
🎭 Sheffield Theatres
January's highlights include:
Postgraduate ceremonies 🎓
📅 Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025
📍 University of Sheffield
🖱️ Dates of graduation ceremonies | Graduation | The University of Sheffield
BBC Philharmonic 🎻
📅 Friday 24 January 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall
📝 A regular guest to the series, the BBC Philharmonic return to Sheffield for a concert of works by two composers, Beethoven and Shostakovich.
💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.
Sheffield Heritage Fair 2025 🗣️
📅 Saturday 25 to Sunday 26 January 2025
📍 Millennium Gallery
📝 Exhibition | A celebration of Sheffield’s rich history. Find out about the future of key historic sites and chat with more than 40 local groups who care for and promote Sheffield’s history and heritage.
🖱️ Sheffield Heritage Fair 2025 - Sheffield Museums Trust
Sheffield Powerlifting Championships 2025 🏋️
📅 Sunday 26 January 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall
📝 24 of the world’s strongest powerlifters battle it out for the title of 'champion of champions'.
💡 The 2,271 capacity Oval Hall at Sheffield City Hall is once again hosting the sell-out Sheffield Powerlifting Championships.
🖱️ Sheffield Powerlifting Championships 2025 | the Sheffield City Hall | Sunday 26th January 2025
February's highlights include:
Sheffield Lunar Chinese New Year Festival 2025 🐍
📅 Saturday 1 to Sunday 2 February 2025
📍 Various city centre locations, including the Peace Gardens, Pinstone Street and Surrey Street.
📝 Festival | Welcoming the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Snake, the Sheffield Lunar Chinese New Year Festival 2025 will feature a variety of events and performances, including the World Champion Foshan Lion Dance Troupe. This internationally acclaimed troupe will be performing for the first time in Sheffield 👏
💡 More on this year's Festival programme can be found here: HOME | Cultural Inclusive
🐍 Snake is the 6th animal in the 12-year cycle.
Death and the King's Horseman 🎭
A Sheffield Theatres and Utopia Theatre Production
📅 Monday 3 to Saturday 8 February 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre
📝 Set in Nigeria in the late 1940’s and based on a true story, Elesin, the king's horseman, is tasked with carrying out a sacred ritual upon the death of the king, however Elesin is overtaken by the allure of earthly desires.
🎧 Hear the audio flyer for this production here.
🖱️Death and the King's Horseman | Sheffield Theatres
Swimming Long Course Championships 2024-25 (BUCS Nationals) 🏊
📅 Friday 14 to Sunday 16 February 2025
📍 Ponds Forge
📝 The Long Course Championships, part of BUCS Nationals, sees athletes tackle the 50m Olympic sized pool, as Sheffield welcomes over 5,000 students to the city for the full sporting weekend.
💡 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the national governing body for higher education sport in the UK.
🖱️BUCS Swimming: Long Course Championships 2024-25 (Part of BUCS Nationals)
Undergraduate Open Day 🎓
📅 Saturday 15 February 2025
📍 Sheffield Hallam University
📝 Open days provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to tour the University's campuses, see accommodation and talk to academic staff. For some visitors, it will also be their first engagement with the city of Sheffield and the city centre.
🖱️ Undergraduate applicant open days | Sheffield Hallam University (shu.ac.uk)
March's highlights include:
Festival of the Outdoors 🌲
📅 Saturday 1 March to Monday 31 March 2025
📍 Various locations across Sheffield and the city centre.
📝 A month long celebration of 'The Outdoor City', featuring a wide range of events and activities.
💡 Full event programme will be announced in 2025.
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 📽️
📅 Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March 2025
📝 A celebration of the best new adventure, travel and extreme sports films from around the world.
🖱️ Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2025
A Streetcar named Desire 🎭
A Sheffield Theatres Production
📅 Saturday 1 to Saturday 29 March 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre
📝 In the sultry back streets of 1940s New Orleans, fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois seeks solace with her estranged sister Stella.
🖱️A Streetcar Named Desire | Sheffield Theatres
Indie Beer Feast 🍻
📅 Friday 7 and Saturday 8 March 2025
📍 Trafalgar Warehouse
📝 Festival | Sheffield’s craft beer festival returns to the Trafalgar Warehouse for 2025 with an emphasis on showcasing 'great quality, independent, craft beer from the UK and around the globe'.
🖱️ Indie Beer Feast, a two day independent craft beer festival in Sheffield city centre
Sheffield Beer Week 🍻
📅 Monday 10 to Sunday 16 March 2025
📍 Various locations across Sheffield.
📝 A city-wide 'beer celebration' with events spread across multiple venues throughout Sheffield.
💡 2025 will be the 11th edition of Sheffield Beer Week.
🖱️ Sheffield Beer Week – A city-wide beer celebration at the beginning of March
Pollen. Inner City Flower Market 🌻
📅 Sunday 16 March 2025
📍 Grey to Green, Castlegate
📝 A monthly celebration of all things botanical in the UK’s greenest city.
🖱️ Pollen. Inner-City Flower Market — Grey To Green, Sheffield
Sheffield Varsity 🤼
📅 From Wednesday 19 March 2025
📍 Various locations across Sheffield including Ponds Forge International Sports Centre.
📝 Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield go head-to-head in a celebration of student sport in the city of Sheffield.
💡 Sheffield Varsity began in 1997, when sporting teams from the city's two universities competed against each other in the first coordinated tournament of its kind. From there it snowballed, and Sheffield Varsity is one of the biggest Varsity competitions in the UK.
Classical Weekend 🎻
📅 Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March 2025
📍 Various locations across Sheffield city centre
📝 Festival | Celebrating Sheffield’s talented music makers in a range of performances across a packed weekend.
🖱️ Classical Weekend | Classical Sheffield | Live Music Events
Undergraduate Open Day 🎓
📅 Saturday 22 March 2025
📍 Sheffield Hallam University
📝 Open days provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to tour the University's campuses, see accommodation and talk to academic staff. For some visitors, it will also be their first engagement with the city of Sheffield and the city centre.
🖱️ Undergraduate applicant open days | Sheffield Hallam University (shu.ac.uk)
Sheffield Half Marathon 🎽
📅 Sunday 23 March 2025
📍 Starts and ends on Arundel Gate in Sheffield city centre.
📝 The Sheffield Mutual Sheffield Half Marathon is South Yorkshire’s biggest event of its kind. Thousands of runners, of all abilities, take part raising thousands of pounds for numerous good causes.
💡 For information on road closures please click here.
🖱️ Sheffield Half Marathon - 23rd March 2025 | Run For All | Run For All
April's highlights include:
Cazoo World Snooker Championship 2025 🏆
📅 Saturday 19 April to Monday 5 May 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre
📝 For 17 days, the very best players on the planet go through a test of endurance, skill and mental toughness with an ultimate goal: to lift snooker’s most famous and coveted trophy.
💡 The tournament has been staged at the Crucible Theatre since 1977. Kyren Wilson became the 23rd different winner of the World Snooker Championship at The Crucible when he won the tournament in 2024.
🖱️Cazoo World Championship - World Snooker Tour
Pollen. Inner City Flower Market 🌻
📅 Sunday 20 April 2025
📍 Grey to Green, Castlegate
📝 A monthly celebration of all things botanical in the UK’s greenest city.
🖱️ Pollen. Inner City Flower Market
Festival of Debate 🗳️
📅 Tuesday 22 April to Saturday 30 May 2025
📝 The largest annual non-partisan politics festival in the UK.
🖱️ Festival of Debate 2024: Join the conversation
♻️ The Sheffield Sustainable Market
📅 Saturday 26 April 2025
📍 Victoria Hall, Norfolk Street
📝 The Sheffield Sustainable Market provides a place where you can purchase gifts that will help you to live a lower impact life – think zero-waste, plastic-free and sustainable - as well as supporting local makers and the local economy.
🖱️ The Sheffield Sustainable Markets – Sheffield Action on Plastic
Undergraduate Open Day 🎓
📅 Sunday 27 April 2025
📍 Sheffield Hallam University
📝 Open days provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to tour the University's campuses, see accommodation and talk to academic staff. For some visitors, it will also be their first engagement with the city of Sheffield and the city centre.
🖱️ Undergraduate applicant open days | Sheffield Hallam University (shu.ac.uk)
May's highlights include:
🎨 Open Up Sheffield
📅 Saturday 3 to Monday 5 May and Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 May 2025
📝 Open Up celebrates Sheffield’s cultural vibrancy, showcasing some of the city’s up and coming artists and makers.
🖱️ Open Up Sheffield – Sheffield & South Yorkshire Open Artists Studios
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2025 🎶
📅 Friday 16 to Saturday 24 May 2025
📍 Playhouse and Crucible Theatre
📝 Celebrating 20 years of music-making with resident musicians Ensemble 360. For their 20th anniversary Festival, they have guest curated an unmissable programme of 20 events, taking place over nine days.
🖱️ Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2025 In The Round
Sheffield Food Festival 🍽️
📅 Saturday 24 to Monday 26 May 2025
📍 Peace Gardens
📝 Experience Sheffield's finest food, drinks and music at this free festival in the heart of Sheffield city centre.
💡 One of the city centre's largest free to attend events, the festival provides a fantastic showcase of Sheffield’s thriving food and drink scene.
🖱️ Sheffield Food Festival 2025
Sheffield Cocktail Week🍹
📅 Friday 30 May to Sunday 8 June 2025
📝 Unlock offers on cocktails across a wide variety of city centre venues over this nine day festival.
Goldsmiths North 💍
📅 Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June 2025
📍 Cutlers' Hall
📝 An international shopping experience bringing the finest contemporary silverware and jewellery from the UK and Europe to the magnificent Cutlers’ Hall in the heart of Sheffield city centre.
🖱️ Contemporary Silverware & Jewellery Selling Fair-Goldsmiths North
June's highlights include:
Sheffield DocFest 🎞️
📅 Wednesday 18 to Monday 23 June 2025
📝 The UK’s leading documentary film festival.
🖱️ Sheffield DocFest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival (sheffdocfest.com)
Migration Matters Festival 2025 🎪
📅 Friday 20 to Saturday 28 June 2025
📝 A nine day celebration of sanctuary, cultural identity and migration in Sheffield.
🖱️ Migration Matters (migrationmattersfestival.co.uk)
Sheffield Armed Forces and Veterans Day 🎖️
📅 Saturday 21 June 2025
📝 Armed Forces and Veterans Day honours the outstanding contribution made by current members of the armed forces and by veterans of all ages. The day is an opportunity for us all to join together to pay tribute to our armed forces past, present and future.
💡 This year’s event marks the 80th anniversary since the end of World War II.
Undergraduate Open Day 🎓
📅 Saturday 21 June 2025
📍 University of Sheffield
📝 Open days provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to tour the University's campuses, see accommodation and talk to academic staff. For some visitors, it will also be their first engagement with the city of Sheffield and the city centre.
🖱️ Open days | Undergraduate study | The University of Sheffield
July's highlights include:
Undergraduate Open Days 🎓
📅 Saturday 5 July 2024
📍 University of Sheffield 📍 Sheffield Hallam University
📝 Open days provide an opportunity for prospective applicants to tour the University's campuses, see accommodation and talk to academic staff. For some visitors, it will also be their first engagement with the city of Sheffield and the city centre.
🖱️ Open days | Undergraduate study | The University of Sheffield
🖱️ Undergraduate open days | Sheffield Hallam University (shu.ac.uk)
Children's Media Conference 📸
📅 Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 July 2025
📝 The UK’s premier children and youth content conference.
🖱️ CMC 2025 | The Children's Media Conference (CMC)
Sheffield Pinknic 🧡
📝 A yearly event held at the Peace Gardens delivered by the committee of LGBTQ+ Sheffield.
📅 Saturday 12 July 2025
📍 Peace Gardens
🖱️ Facebook
Undergraduate ceremonies 🎓
📅 Monday 21 to Friday 25 July 2025
📍 University of Sheffield
🖱️ Dates of graduation ceremonies | Graduation | The University of Sheffield
The Fringe at Tramlines 🎸
📅 Friday 25 to Saturday 27 July 2025
📍 Sheffield city centre
📝 Taking place across outdoor spaces, pubs, bars and music venues in Sheffield city centre and beyond, The Fringe is a true highlight in the city centre's vibrant events calendar. Supported by Sheffield BID.
August's highlights to follow shortly
September's highlights include:
Sheffield Walking Festival 🥾
📅 Friday 12 to Sunday 21 September 2025
📝 This year the festival will once again run alongside Heritage Open Days. Led by knowledgeable and experienced walk leaders, all the walks are free to attend, but you must be registered.
🖱️ Visit Sheffield Walking Festival (welcometosheffield.co.uk) for further details as they are released.
Sheffield Heritage Open Days ⚔️
📅 Friday 12 to Sunday 21 September 2025
📝 Heritage Open Days is England's largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,000 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE. Sheffield Civic Trust is proud to be the local co-ordinator of this important annual event.
🖱️ Homepage | Heritage Open Days
Float Along 2025 🌊
📅 Saturday 27 September 2025
💡 Float Along Festival makes a return to Sheffield in 2025 for a fourth year.
🖱️ Float Along
Sheffield Mutual Sheffield 10k 🎽
📅 Sunday 28 September 2025
📝 Starting and ending on Arundel Gate, the Sheffield 10k draws in thousands of runners, their friends and families to Sheffield city centre each year.
💡 For information on road closures please click here.
🖱️ Sheffield 10K - 28th Sept 2025 | Run For All | Run For All
October's highlights include:
Sensoria 🎞️
📅 Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 October 2025
📝 Sheffield's festival of film and music.
🖱️ Home - Sensoria
Off the Shelf 📖
📅 Dates TBC
📝 The Off the Shelf Festival of Words pulls together a vibrant and diverse programme playing host to around 80 live and online events across the city. Delivered by the University of Sheffield, it is also supported by Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Hallam University.
Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival 🎬
📅 Dates TBC
📝 Three days of the 'best in classic and contemporary horror cinema', held at the Showroom Cinema on Paternoster Row.
💡 See this year's Festival trailer on the Celluloid Screams Facebook page.
Out of this World 🚀
📅 Sunday 26 October 2025
📝 Celebrating its twelfth year, the free event that celebrates 'all things otherworldly', returns to the city centre in October 2025.
November's highlights include:
Undergraduate ceremonies 🎓
📅 Monday 10 to Friday 21 November 2025
📍 Sheffield Hallam University
🖱️ Graduation | Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Christmas Market ✨
📅 Thursday 13 November to Wednesday 24 December 2025
📝 The festive season in Sheffield city centre just wouldn't be the same without the Sheffield Christmas Market.
December's highlights include:
Aladdin 🎭
A Sheffield Theatres Production
📅 Friday 5 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026
📝 Panto legend Damian Williams will return for his 18th year in a show written by Paul Hendy and produced by Evolution Productions, the same team behind Sheffield Theatres' recent panto hits Beauty and the Beast and Snow White.
🖱️Aladdin | Sheffield Theatres
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