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8–14 June 2026
Issue 17 · Published 8 June 2026
DocFest takes over the city, Pintstock launches a brand-new beer-and-bands festival, and the Pride of Yorkshire lion trail roars to life.
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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The UK's leading documentary festival returns for its 33rd edition with 102 premieres across 80 features and 24 shorts from 64 countries, plus headline talks with Guest of Honour Maxine Peake, Miriam Margolyes and Chris Packham.
Official event details for Sheffield DocFest 2026 →A brand-new one-day festival from Pints of Sheffield's Joe Rugg, Corporation and Trafalgar Warehouse, pairing top-tier craft beer with emerging indie talent across two adjoining venues - a proper Sheffield day out.
Official event details for Pintstock →Sheffield's Tudor Players stage Bea Roberts' joyful, mostly-true comedy about a ramshackle 1991 voyage from Whitby Harbour to the Arctic, crewed by pensioners and a Yorkshire vicar. A warm-hearted night of British eccentricity at the Library Theatre.
Official event details for The Whitby Rebels – Tudor Players →The cobbled canal basin fills with award-winning street food traders, independent makers, craft beer and live music for the June edition of Sheffield's prettiest market. Bring an appetite and stay for cocktails at True Loves.
Official event details for Quayside Market →A new free public art trail launches on Monday - 150 large lion and lioness sculptures plus 150 smaller cubs sited across Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster, raising £2.8m for Sheffield Children's Hospital's Emergency Department. The trail runs through to 8 September.
Official event details for Pride of Yorkshire Sculpture Trail Launch →Orbital's Paul Hartnoll fuses techno-disco with cult British folk-horror sounds and folk music, accompanied by Pecsaetan Morris dancers, for one of DocFest's strangest and most singular late nights at The Steamworks.
Official event details for Weird Walk Presents: DJ Paul Hartnoll's Folk Horror Techno Disco Roadshow →A 60-minute string-quartet tribute concert performing Ed Sheeran and Coldplay hits by candlelight inside Sheffield Cathedral. An atmospheric, family-friendly evening (8+) in one of the city's most beautiful spaces.
Official event details for Candlelight: Ed Sheeran meets Coldplay →Chatsworth - Pemberley in Joe Wright's 2005 Pride and Prejudice and a house Austen is believed to have visited in 1811 - marks the connection with a weekend of costumes, music, dancing and Regency-inspired afternoon teas in the Old Duke's Glasshouse.
Official event details for Celebrating Jane Austen: Regency Festival at Chatsworth →The famously unfiltered Miriam Margolyes joins director Simon Draper at the Lyceum to discuss her career, her documentary work and a life of opinions. Expect anecdotes and unscripted candour in equal measure.
Official event details for No Filter: In Conversation with Miriam Margolyes →Comedian Rufus Rice brings his observational stand-up to The Leadmill's new home at Steamworks for a midweek laugh in the heart of Kelham Island.
Official event details for Rufus Rice at Steamworks →Plan beyond this week with our evergreen local guides.
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