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.

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

Cultural guide

Our Favourite Places provides a cultural guide to Sheffield.

Celebrating events and activities

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

Covid-19’s impact on arts, culture and heritage sector

Academics in English, Music and Urban Studies and Planning documented COVID-19's impact on the region's cultural and creative industries. Research on venues, audiences and freelancers, underpinned by analysis of the wider governance context, supported reopening and planned for recovery.

Covid recovery