Each November, over a hundred creative residents at Yorkshire Artspace's two buildings open their doors to the public for one weekend. Make some plans to get nosy at Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios this month > www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/yor...

Coming up in our Tom's music picks this month: master of the West African kora, Suntou Susso. The expansive sound of English Teacher. Acoustic improv in an album launch from Sheffield’s own Emergence Collective. And lots more > www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/mu...

Sheffield Folk Guides for the next 2 weeks- Sheffield local carols start this week! Come and sing these brilliant local carols in a pub. The first session will be this Thursday at The Greyhound, Ecclesfield. see www.localcarols.org.uk @helpsheffield.co.uk

A weekend of left-wing politics & culture, @sheffieldtransformed.org returns later this month. With zine making, a radical history walk, pub quiz, a folk session at Gut Level, plus conversations on LGBTQ+ activism, racial justice, international solidarity & more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/she...

2025 marks 10 years of Reel Steel. To celebrate our 10th Anniversary, we have a special Limited Edition '10 years' t-shirt designed by illustrator Rosie Wilson: reelsteelcinema.com/merchandise featuring characters from films we've screened in 35mm, available to order until December 1st...

📣Announcing... A Children's Manifesto Kids of all ages can attend to help Sheffield Transformed to write a manifesto about what change they want to make and what world they want to live in. 🎟️ Buy tickets and find out more: buff.ly/g9shP7n

"Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility" This is such a wonderful piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. And as a true northerner, I absolutely LOVE #London and pretty much all #cities (although special mention to #Sheffield & #Liverpool ofcourse!)

Oh I HAVE enjoyed reading this! #PaulMcCartney #LindaMcCartney #Beatles #Wings #Scotland www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Delighted to see how the #BowerSpring #Cementation #Furnace has been exposed and preserved #Industrial #Steel #Heritage #Archaeology #Sheffield @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #KelhamIsland #Museum

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social 🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield 👨‍🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869) 📸Sheffield Museums

Well @petemckee.bsky.social - today I took yet another person to fall in love with your WONDERFUL exhibition @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #WestonPark Here we are near the end and still crowded!This loving homage to your family & #Sheffield deserves to stay forever! Like Liverpool kept the Iron Men!

This is such a wonderful idea and no better champion than @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social #children #Booker prize. #reading #books www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

What a joy tonight it was @otsfestival.bsky.social #Sheffield for the #poetry celebration of 40 years of #TheNorth from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social. Wonderful poetry, poets and readings and I have my beautiful book from @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social to indulge in.

Another lovely #CountryDiary from @jensoilandpen.bsky.social @drjhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/country-diary-mountain-plants-take-root-in-a-derelict-chapel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is the best new musical ever!! Don’t miss this one - premiering in #Sheffield this week @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social

Well last night at the #Crucible #Theatre turned out to be a brand new #Sheffield showpiece of a #musical! Absolutely stunning acting, choreography, script writing, songs, staging! A total joy #GwendasGarage @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social it’s @swkplay.bsky.social #London next - do not miss this!

There's a small number of tickets avaiable for this Sunday's tour of the city centre's street art: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/street-art... #SheffEvents #Sheffield #StreetArt

Stories of community solidarity, stars, activism and empowerment. There’s still lots to come in our @otsfestival.bsky.social highlights > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Lots of technical things covered today; tremolando, pizzicato, quadruple stops, harmonics... Sounding great! Next workshop Sunday 9th November www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com/first-positi... #adultbeginnerstrings @classicalsheffield.bsky.social

Sheffield looking exceptionally lovely today. I was speaking at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. Incredibly well organised and well attended. I can heartily recommend this Octoberfest to writers and readers alike.

#Sheffield looking very swish around @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social and @sitegallery.bsky.social this weekend in the sun. @visitsheffield.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social

Loved #SwitchRoom #installations at #NoBounds #Sheffield #Festival today at both great venues - especially great to be inside #CastleHouse basement again #art @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social @nowthenmag.bsky.social

A celebration of books, words and ideas, @otsfestival.bsky.social is back this week, 10 October–10 November. Our writer Rae has put together their top 10 picks for the festival – on star spotting, solidarity, 80s Sheffield pop music, disability activism and more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...

Explore Africa’s long and complex history of slavery with @martinplaut.bsky.social. In this powerful talk, the former BBC World Service Africa Editor examines the lasting impact of enslavement across the continent. Book here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/unbro... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Ooo this will be a treat - my first @otsfestival.bsky.social event of 2025 and an old favourite #AHardDaysNight #Beatles on the big screen this afternoon - dare I admit i saw it on first release in Liverpool as a teenager! #film #literary #festival #Sheffield offtheshelf.org.uk/events/a-har...

Only just read this amazing book by @kitdewaal.com but savoured every page and didn’t want it to end. Now I want to devour all her writings #books #KitDeWaal #writers

#BrianPatten www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Oh really try not to miss #Consumed on now at the #Crucible #Theatre #Sheffield @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social. Absolutely loved it. Energised, sharply darkly funny, relevant and totally brilliant www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/consu...

We're delighted to be entering a new relationship with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social as an Associate Company, alongside @rootsmbili, @sbc_theatre and @_thebareproject.

Always been treasured - my #postcard from “Brian P” #BrianPatten #poet #NationalPoetryDay #poetry

It can only be dear wonderful #BrianPatten today for #NationalPoetryDay, so I offer you “A blade of grass”. #poetry childrens.poetryarchive.org/poem/a-blade...

Time to play this again #BrianPatten #VanishingTrick #LP #1976 #poetry

My favourite too

Genuinely gutted to read that Brian Patten has died at 79. I adored his work, and his reading at Aldeburgh is still the best reading I've seen. He emailed me shortly afterwards, to wish me luck with my writing. Here's a favourite Patten poem, from Armada, without question his best collection.

Goodbye to him. From ‘Inessential Things’: “Cats remember what is essential of days. Letting all other memories go as of no worth they sleep sounder than we, whose hearts break remembering so many inessential things.”

Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on. RIP Brian. x

Oh this is sad. #BrianPatten was my most favourite #poet all my life #poetry #MerseyPoets #Liverpool @otsfestival.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Lovely sunny walk in #Greno #Woods today - fairytale #fungi on display #Grenoside #Sheffield #theoutdoorcity @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social @visitsheffield.bsky.social

Absolutely loved the @sheffielduni.bsky.social #Architecture #exhibtion on at the moment in #WesternBank #Library about the work of #PeterBlundellJones and #Scharoun. Well worth visiting

Thoroughly lovely day yesterday at #RHSBridgewater #Autumn #gardens #Salford

Two workshops for adult string players in October: Intro to Viola: Taster session (for curious violinists, any ability), and Intro to String Quartets: Workshop 2 (develop coordination skills and experience playing one-per-part, Grade 1-5). Interested? www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com/first-positi...

Great piece on #YnysMôn by @calmandfearless.bsky.social #seals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Many years since I’ve got to the #Serpentine #Pavillion in #HydePark but loved this year’s by #MarinaTabassum #ACapsuleInTime #Architecture #Art

Don’t miss the free art exhibitions on show across the city! There are must-see works at the Weston Park Museum, Millennium Gallery, and Graves Gallery featuring artists from Sheffield and beyond. Find out more, including the closing dates: www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/visit/what-s...

And a glorious journey home through #Winnarts #Pass in the evening sun. #PeakDistrict #Castleton

What a lovely day at #RHSBridgewater today - sunshine, showers and flowers #gardens #landscape #Salford