Our Favourite Places
@faveplaces
A Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals. From @ElevenSheffield. Tweets by Claire & Kat.
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HIRING: Participation Producer 💫
Are you an experienced arts facilitator/collaborator passionate about nurturing talent?
We've secured funding from Esmée Fairbairn for a 4-year programme of work with care experienced young adults in #Sheffield . Apply > sitegallery.org/about/jobs-vol…
Final reminder that #Sheffield 's MEGA May Fayre is this Sunday 19 May 11am - 5pm at Weston Park.
Prepare to be dazzled by SHOW-STOPPING performance acts, thrill-seeker rides, and a vibrant explosion of arts and crafts!
A FREE festival thanks to The University of Sheffield & Sheffield City Council😍
On now at Sheffield Museums' Weston Park Museum: Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps. Celebrating people of African Caribbean heritage in the city, with stories of journeys, sport, carnival, anti-racism, culture and more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/sheff…
Supported by Sheffield Theatres, the brooding and visually arresting Storm-Cloud: Observations of the Sky comes to the Playhouse on Wed 19 June.
A contemporary staging of John Ruskin’s 1884 prophetic lecture is performed and directed by Dr Tom Payne
sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/storm-c…
🎳ICYMI, 25th May is #AfricaDay !
Our wonderful colleagues Utopia Theatre have a special celebration to mark it!
🪘It’s a drop-in all day affair that includes food, games, dance, poetry, music, drumming & joyful chats.
FREE 💯 utopiatheatre.co.uk/events/
🎩 @afriwoman will host
Coming soon to the Sheffield stage: a queer comedy open mic. Adrenaline-fuelled dance. A comic tale of a young man on his way to achieve “The Nigerian Dream.” Sheffield-made opera. A séance drama. A rock musical. All this and more in our theatre picks > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/thea…
🚀 Final lineup LIFT-OFF 🚀
Just when you thought we’d peaked, here’s our sensational second line-up for Sheffield this June with:
🚀 Reggae legends The Cimarons who kick the festival off at our opening party alongside Juanita Euka.
The band is also here for Sheffield DocFest
9 days of intimate & inviting classical music performances for all ages. Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival returns for its 40th edition this Friday. See the programme for magical musical adventures, atmospheric performances & lots more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/shef…
40 years of Threads! Screening and panel discussion Showroom Cinema on June 6th: showroomworkstation.org.uk/threadspanel
We're very excited to be welcoming Molly Aitken to Sheffield Libraries to discuss her novel Bright I Burn - based on the true story of the first woman in Ireland to have been condemned as a witch 🔥
📍 Central Library
📆 Weds 5 June
🕡 6.30pm
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/882669477167…
I've received press accreditation for Sheffield DocFest again (yay!), which means I'll be writing reviews and mini-blogs for Our Favourite Places. If you spot me there, feel free to say hi! 👋🏾
#SheffDocFest2024
One week to go before the cathedral hosts two incredible concerts:
Paradox Orchestra 50 years of Pink Floyd on 16 May.
.London Concertante The Four Seasons / The Lark Ascending on 18 May.
For tkts: sheffieldcathedral.org/whats-on
Archer Project Our Favourite Places @sheffieldis #Sheffield #sheffevents
🥁Drumroll please… we're super excited to reveal our fantastic public programme for #SheffDocFest2024 : Reflections on Realities, in #Sheffield 12-17 June💥🚀
Explore the programme and book tickets: sheffdocfest.com/festival/2024/…
As part of Festival of Debate on 24 May join us for a panel event, How Should the Culture Sector Respond to the Climate & Inequality Crisis? With creative climate leader, Dani Admiss, artist Maymana Arefin, Helen Brook of SAIL and artist Sean Roy Parker festivalofdebate.com/2024/how-shoul…
📣 MINI MIG MAT, CURATED BY OUR YOUTH THEATRE OF SANCTUARY!
📔 Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June
We are so excited that our Youth Theatre of Sanctuary group, alongside The Montgomery and Migration Matters Festival bring you #MiniMigMat ; a festival for young people by young people!
