Cultural Vibrancy

Working with partners, we're developing and showcasing Sheffield as a lively place where people want to live, study, work and invest. Ambitious plans, made together.

We’re working with creative and cultural partners to co-create projects and activities which add to the region's vibrancy, from festivals and exhibitions to green space and regeneration initiatives. This work is delivered by the City, Culture & Public Engagement team.

Our activity

Off the Shelf

One of the UK's biggest literary festival brought to you by the University of Sheffield.

Festival of words

Festival of the Mind

A unique collaboration between academic colleagues and experts from Sheffield’s cultural and creative industries.

Showcasing our research

Together in the Square performer — Together in the Square, part of the Summer in the Outdoor City programme of events

Celebrating Sheffield

Sheffield's cultural vibrancy and creative capabilities are showcased in a series of reports commissioned by the University.

Showcasing our city

Transforming the high street

The University supported a successful bid by Sheffield City Council for the Future High Streets Fund, which will rejuvenate and reinvent Fargate and High Street as social hubs in the city.

Future High Street Fund

Canada House — Photo credit to Will Roberts of Vox Video and Photography

Harmony Works

A new home for music education in Sheffield is the vision for the Harmony Works project, supported by Sheffield City Council as part of the Government's Levelling Up fund project to transform the Castlegate area, and by the University of Sheffield, as part of its Made Together programme.

Harmony Works

Public Engagement

Delivering a year-round programme of events, exhibitions and activities, in the city and online, to engage the public with our world-class research.

Our public engagement activity

Weston Park May Fayre

Every year, in partnership with Sheffield City Council, the University of Sheffield proudly presents the May Fayre, a free, family-friendly event held at Weston Park

A partnership rooted in history