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Crossed Wires Festival

Fri. 4 July 2025 — Sun. 6 July 2025

Ticket prices vary

Sheffield's Crossed Wires Festival brings some of the UK's top names in podcasting from your headphones to the stage for one weekend.

Following its launch event in 2024, the festival returns in July 2025.

Expect another incredible lineup of podcasting talent across comedy, current affairs, culture and more. Plus food pop-ups, after parties and fringe events.

Come back soon for details of the Crossed Wires Festival 2025 programme.

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Indie Beer Feast

Fri. 7 March 2025 — Sat. 8 March 2025

Trafalgar Warehouse, 120 Trafalgar Street, S1 4JT

Get off to a head start on Sheffield Beer Week with this two-day showcase of craft breweries, fine cider, street food and natural wine.

Children's Media Conference

Tue. 8 July 2025 — Thu. 10 July 2025

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The UK’s premier event for everyone in kids TV, media and entertainment. With a free exhibition, Playground, bringing together interactive digital art and maker activities for children to play with.

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival

Fri. 21 March 2025 — Sun. 23 March 2025

Enjoy the great outdoors from the comfort of your seat. With some of the best new adventure films from around the world plus a spotlight on locally-made films. Part of the wider month-long Festival of the Outdoors.

Film Studies: Four Decades of Stanley Kubrick

Wed. 2 April 2025 — Wed. 21 May 2025

Showroom

Revered as a visionary artist by those who admire him, reviled as cold and inhumane by those who don’t, Kubrick and his films still provoke argument and debate quarter of a century after his death.