👀 We're busy installing our latest exhibition - Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps - ready to be unveiled this Friday at Weston Park Museum!

🔗 Find out more here: sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/sheff…

@visitsheffield #whatsonsheff Sheffield City Centre

Join our experts at the Sheffield Tap 13 - 15 May to unravel the many mysteries of the human body.

From personalised medicines to sending our grandparents into space, expect scintillating science with a side order of laughter 💊🚀

Book now: pintofscience.co.uk/events/sheffie……

#Pint24

On a beautiful weekend, when the hawthorn blossom is at its peak, here's Stanley Spencer's 'The May Tree', painted in 1932. Doesn't this just encapsulate Spring?

Her name was Yoda,
A showgirl she was.

#StarWarsDay

A sound unlike any other…
That’s what to expect from a night of global music with our second headliner, @sirens_of_lesbos
This Swiss collective spans all borders, genres & eras to create unique audio.
Be part of this musical exploration in #Sheffield , via the link in bio.

Poetry Press! Can you help us spread the word about Newcastle Poetry Festival next week, including the International Poetry Symposium featuring 20 world class poets at Northern Stage 9th-10th May > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

The TLS Graeme Richardson Tristram Fane Saunders Jeremy Noel-Tod

'There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.'

Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith, novelist and playwright best known for writing #ICapturetheCastle was born on this day in 1896.

📢Workshop line-up announced for our next museum Late - To the Letter - on Thu 16 May, 7-10pm at Kelham Island Museum 🎉

Celebrating all things print, typography and letterforms alongside a pay bar 🥂

Book your ticket and find out more here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-to-the-…

We are so very sad and sorry to hear the news of Paul Auster’s death.

Paul was a towering figure on the Faber list and among the truly great innovators of the literature of the past half century. We are a company of Paul Auster fans and many of us will be thinking today of our…

Damn right it is the Stella winner!
Also currently shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award & the 2024 James Tait Black Prize.
ALSO under consideration for the Booker Prize this year. Crossing a lot of fingers still, but for now: raising a glass to Praiseworthy!

Some very exciting new themed workshops now open for booking!
Including:
Parties with Laurie Bolger 🥳
Legends with 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 🐉
Short stories with #ChristopherWakling 📚
Mindfulness with River Wolton 💭

See them all here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

POEM

there are dogs
in polling stations,
or sitting outside,

waiting
for their democratic right
to exercise

#dogsatpollingstations

#wellbeingwednesday is here and we’re sharing a podcast which discusses how the concept of ‘wellbeing’ interacts with how care in older age is understood and experienced. 35 minutes of your time you’ll be glad you spent listening to this 👇
player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/right-b…

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Eliot Hodgkin, 'May', from 'The Months', 1951. The first broad bean, strawberry and cherry, as well as flowers I always associate with May - apple blossom, hawthorn and lily-of-the-valley.

This talk at Sheffield Museums sounds fascinating!

We also hold Edward Carpenter's archive at Sheffield City Archives - so if the talk sparks your interest and you want to find out more about him, do get in touch!

sheffield.gov.uk/libraries-arch…

Open to Y10/Y12 students interested in creative writing from Wickersley Partnership Trust schools: Clifton School Thrybergh Academy Wickersley School Rawmarsh School | Join a fab creative writing project if you attend a Wickersley Partnership Trust school >> hivesouthyorkshire.com/writing

It’s nearly time! This is going to be fantastic 🤩

It is with immense sadness that Pan Macmillan announces the death of C.J. Sansom at the age of 71. buff.ly/4devMmF

Sheffield's May Fayre is BACK & BIGGER!

Free fun for ALL at Weston Park on Sun 19 May: circus acts, live music, rides, food stalls & crafts! ‍‍‍

The University of Sheffield supports Sheffield City Council to deliver this family festival, so join us for a fun-tastic day!

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