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Issue 24 · Published 3 August 2026
Gladiators rolls camera at the Arena, 2,500 transplant athletes take over the city, and Peddler turns Neepsend into a five-stage festival.
Below you’ll find our hand-picked events, gigs, culture, food and things to do across Sheffield, with the useful details up front.
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Four days, 24 sports and around 60 teams of transplant recipients descend on Olympic Legacy Park and venues across the city. Free to watch, and the Donor Run sets off from Barkers Pool in the heart of town.
Official event details for Westfield Health British Transplant Games 2026 →Bradley and Barney Walsh, the Eliminator and 13,000 seats of noise, filmed live at Utilita Arena. Audience tickets are free by ballot with Wednesday and Friday dates still show availability.
Official event details for Gladiators – Series 4 live TV recording →An award-winning documentary following three teenagers who walk 110 miles to Greenham Common, forty years after the original peace camp, meeting the women who lived there. The screening is followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with director Barbara Santi. Part of a UK tour that began with a sold-out premiere.
Official event details for Gentle, Angry Women – screening and recorded Q&A →The American guitarist and songwriter plays Sheffield's smallest serious room, a DIY space with a capacity of around 80. Gunn's playing sits somewhere between folk fingerpicking and long-form rock, and it rewards being close to the amp. Support to be announced.
Official event details for Steve Gunn →A new piece co-created and performed by Sheffield Theatres Youth Theatre, following a school trip to the seaside that goes about as well as you would expect. Donkey rides, amusements and seagulls the size of dogs all feature. At £3 it is the cheapest theatre ticket in the city this week.
Official event details for The Trip →Showroom's new festival of interactive creativity for families closes out its twelve-day run this week. The programme mixes family films, big-screen gaming, VR and coding workshops and the live comedy gameshow WiFi Wars, with a free drop-in Playroom running throughout. Children's film tickets start at £5.25, with retrospectives at £4.50 and a number of free events.
Official event details for PLAY Festival – final week →A daytime ska and reggae party at Foundry, running from mid-afternoon rather than late into the night. Expect two-tone, rocksteady and party classics for a crowd that wants to be home at a reasonable hour. One of the bigger day-party bookings in the city this weekend.
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Official event details for Ska Day Party: Sheffield →A daytime bhangra event revisiting the 1980s daytimer scene, when British South Asian clubbers organised afternoon parties that ran outside family curfews. The soundtrack pulls from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, with dhol alongside the decks. It lands during South Asian Heritage Month.
Official event details for Daytimers →Billed as a first-of-its-kind full-day festival for drag monsters and alternative drag, built out of Sheffield's long-running Cryptid Queers night. The day moves from workshops and a queer alt market into multiple floorshows, the Crowned Cryptid competition, live music and DJs through to close. Strictly 18+.
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Official event details for Cryptid Queers Fest '26 →Zest marks Jamaican Independence Day on the precinct outside the centre, with reggae and lovers rock from Eneta and Chazzlyn, MCs and a set from Desert Eagle Sound. Caribbean food is served on site. Free and open to all ages.
Official event details for Jamaican Independence Celebration 2026 →A long-running community festival on the southern edge of the city, with live reggae, a farmers' and craft market, classic cars, birds of prey and a fairground. Free extras include a climbing wall, drumming workshops and inflatables, and there is a beach with deckchairs. Parking is £2.
Official event details for Bowshaw Festival →Plan beyond this week with our evergreen local guides.
The Sunday newsletter
Delivered on Sunday, before the guide appears online on Monday—plus event discounts and subscriber giveaways.