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Jobs, events and other creative opportunities from our trusted partners
October/November 2024
An empowering event that celebrates all who identify as women, through dance, yoga and philosophical exploration.
As the nights darken and the weather cools, explore eerie sea tales, enjoy creepy crafts, follow trick-or-treat trails, and learn about the Coastguard's origins with spooky stories of pirates and smugglers.
Across October Half-Term Grimm & Co have lots of different Creative Learning activities taking place at their Emporium of Stories!
Get Creative and Let Your Imagination Run Wild. Parent Carer Forum has teamed up with Ignite Imaginations to offer free art workshops for disabled children and their families. These sessions have kindly been funded by The Cutlers Trust.
In challenging financial times and a changing funding landscape, the arts sector is being called to reimagine its future. Finding New Paths is a forward-looking conference aimed at exploring and inspiring resilience, and encouraging entrepreneurial thinking within the creative community.
Join Utopia Theatre every Thursday to learn about and create exciting and contemporary African theatre in a fun, relaxed environment whilst building new skills.
Explore exciting African diaspora writers and literature in a supportive and welcoming space, whilst focusing on core skills such as reading and writing.
Open Mic Night is Utopia Theatre’s platform for celebrating talent and creativity in Sheffield!
Site Gallery are working in partnership with Sheffield City Council’s Voice and Influence Team, to form a group for young people with care experience.
Hype Dance Company offers a range of dance classes for children and young people of all abilities.
Join Yorkshire Artspace for their annual Open Studios weekend at Yorkshire Artspace, when over 100 artists and makers open their doors.
Amazelab have so many workshops coming up that you don’t want to miss this school holiday.
October 2024
If you are interested in working in a creative space, come along to our Sheffield Creative Industry Showcase to meet a real mix of creative professionals. Find out how they got to where they are now, what they might tell their younger selves, and what advice they can give you.
The creative industries in Sheffield are vibrant and full of opportunity, yet many young people don’t see themselves as part of this world. Teachers and career advisors in schools don’t always know the full range of roles that exist.
The creative industries in Sheffield are vibrant and full of opportunity, yet many young people don’t see themselves as part of this world. For Discover! Creative Careers Week 2024, we’re bringing together professionals from various creative sectors.
We warmly invite care-experienced individuals of all ages, as well as their carers and support workers, to contribute to our upcoming "Green Gardens" exhibition.
Folk Factory Voices is a new group dedicated to exploring folk songs from the UK and beyond in a fun and friendly way.
Half Term holiday morning of family creative fun. Focus on harvest vegetables including pumpkins of all shapes and sizes!
Maker{Futures}, University of Sheffield offer creative and playful learning activities for schools, early years settings, museums, libraries and community groups.
A new musical story concert for children will make its Sheffield premiere as part of an exciting collaboration in the city.
Writing Clubs are a chance for children and young people to play with writing outside of the constraints of the formal curriculum.
Following sold out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Granny Norbag Saves The Planet returns with a Christmas Twist. This 60 minute show features a strong environmental message, original songs and a sprinkling of Christmas festive fun. The show has a pop up set that can be built and taken down in 30 minutes - ideal for school halls!
Events include Young Adult authors on 18 October and 25 October, Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Performance, Young Writers' Open Mic and more.
A new programme for 10 care experienced young people aged 18-25 to gain hands-on experience in the creative industries. Starting October 2024.
Super fun days of aerial hoop, trapeze, silks and floor based circus skills activities (a mixture of dance, acrobalance and manipulation circus skills).
The National Videogame Museum has introduced a brand new workshop for the 2024/2025 academic year that explores the world of physics through videogames and CERN’s ATLAS Detector.
Open every day from the 26th October - 3rd November, The National Videogame Museum comes to life with Plug in and Play, an exciting new programme for October half term.
We are Amazelab putting a fun and creative take on all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) with the aim of providing engaging opportunities to people via workshops, video link, activity packs, follow along factsheets, and guidance open to all from educational settings to non -school groups and everyone in between.
September 2024
The BFI Film Academy is a free training scheme for young people aged 16-19 who are not currently enrolled in University. Over the ten-week programme, running on Saturdays from 6th November to 1st February, masterclasses in acting, directing, screenwriting, producing, camera, editing, sound and cinematography will take place. It is an ideal course for young people who have an interest in a career in acting, scriptwriting, or filmmaking, but don’t have the resources or contacts to make it a reality.
Join Concerteenies for amazing family-friendly live gigs at The Greystones Backroom. With songs, dancing, listening, as well as bubbles, percussion, props and informal introductions, these are fun and informal gigs for adults and their children aged 0-7 years.
Now is your chance to become a Tudor doctor for a day through a variety of activities. Have you got the skills it takes to help cure your patients and survive?
Grimm & Co are very excited to be collaborating with imitating the dog, a theatre company who are creating a trail of projection installations across Rotherham Town Centre for the Winter Festival in January 2025. They need your help to make it happen!
Redmill Music will provide your primary school with PPA Cover, workshops, after school and curriculum consultancy.
Summer Holiday 2024
Sheffield Theatres are looking for a Creative Engagement Manager
Sheffield Museums summer holiday activities for families
The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre are proud to present this year's Monty on the Move programme of Summer shows.
Accessible Circus - for young wheelchair users and for young people with hearing / visual impairments and their carers.
Join us for a tailored summer session of circus skills like scarf juggling, plate spinning, diablo, bucket stilts, flower sticks, beam, silk cocoons for young people using wheel chairs / mobility devices and their carers.
Site Gallery's Cyber Cafe exhibition takes inspiration from the first internet cafes that acted as a site for optimism and excitement at the early potential of the internet.
Learn how to make your own music through live coding on Strudel with artist Lucy Cheesman.
Learn how to live code and make your own visual performance on Hydra as part of Site Gallery's Cyber Cafe exhibition.
Learn how to use the Gameboy Camera, take your own images and make your own prints as part of Site Gallery's Cyber Cafe exhibition.
This summer get hands-on with our collection, create your own toy, and become a child (all ages welcome!)
Concerteenies: Loops is an exciting series celebrating how technology (including looping, famously used by Ed Sheeran) can influence music-making.
Join us as we celebrate the successes of our year 13 leavers, as they perform solo and small group works!
July 2024
Expect performances from groups of all shapes and sizes as we join together to celebrate the work of Sheffield Music Acadmey students!
Join Sheffield Music Academy in celebrating 200 years of Beethoven’s most iconic work - his Ninth Symphony - with Sheffield Music Academy’s Chamber Orchestra and Senior Choir.
June 2024
Booking is now open for Concerteenies' ever-popular Musical Stories project in the Autumn and Spring terms 2024-25 across South Yorkshire.
Join for an evening of craft at Kelham Island, in collaboration with the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST). From hands-on activities and demonstrations to mini workshops and talks, learn about the amazing careers in crafts!
Working directly with young people or via CPD for staff, In Between the Trees offers one hour workshops to multi-day /termly packages to maximise the inclusion of nature into learning experiences.
Experience life on the home front in World War II. Learn about the plans for invading Britain and how children played their part in the war effort.
Step into Sheffield’s Tudor history in our newly interpreted Turret House. Discover the story of Mary, Queen of Scots’ and Tudor life with one of our hands Sheffield Manor Lodge’s school workshops!
Crafts, activities and fun this summer at Sheffield Manor Lodge with a different theme each week.
Secure your place by 1st July 2024This is an opportunity to bring youth organisations and community youth groups together from across Sheffield. During the event there will be networking opportunities, including a ‘marketplace’ for organisations to promote their work.
Bring your family to this session, learn to make pom-poms and mandalas from recycled materials. Listen to Carmel Page telling the story of how Mexican fathers protect their babies by weaving an eye to watch over them. Be enchanted by other tales about respecting the planet.
Come and join Grimm & co to make a group magazine, filled with exciting stories and imagination. Write. Draw. Craft. Or do a combination of everything. It’ll be the next best seller!
Whether you are totally new to maker education or are looking for the next step, the Maker{School} programme offers a range of training opportunities, from online twilight sessions and workshops to whole school INSET days.
Celebrate the end of the school year with a fun-filled trip to The National Videogame Museum!
Book your school for Tair Rafiq’s new show 'The Haunting of Lenny Maggot', touring to schools in Rotherham and Sheffield for summer term 2025.
Amazelab are putting a fun and creative take on all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) with the aim of providing engaging opportunities to people via workshops, video link, activity packs, follow-along factsheets, and guidance open to all from educational settings to non -school groups and everyone in between.
Join Sheffield Antiracist Education (SHARE) at Weston Park Museum on Sat 6th July 10:00-14:00 for a thought-provoking event on Overcoming imperial amnesia: the case for decolonising our schools and museums.
May Half Term 2024
It’s National Children’s Gardening Week! Come along to Sheffield Manor Lodge this May half-term and have some fun with our gardening-themed crafts and activities!
The Lost Lands was a 4-week project, involving a group of young people who are members of the LAC (Looked After Children) Council.
This May half term at the National Videogame Museum, discover what makes an award winning game, celebrate recent award-winners and see an actual BAFTA Award trophy on display.
Emergence, the touring postgraduate dance company of Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford presents three adrenaline-fuelled dance works for this year’s programme performed by a new company of extraordinary dancers. This event is taking place in the Drama Studio on the University of Sheffield campus. Please book through the following link.
A Mind Apart’s Creative Career Preparation Program is gearing up, and they think it's a fantastic fit for someone with a creative spark considering a career in the creative industry, from actors, to artists, to photographers, to social media stars, to teachers, to film makers, game designers, dancers, singers and much more.
A Mind Apart have BRAND NEW performing arts workshops happening for young people ages 12- 17 this half term. It's on the 29th of May and they'll be a morning and afternoon sessions. You can either book on for the full day or just the morning or afternoon workshops.
April/May 2024
Join us to find out how you can get involved in inspiring the next generation of leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs and change the life chances of young people, in under resourced areas, in Sheffield.
Join Maker{Futures} to explore how traditional tales and home languages are woven into our identities.
Create Sheffield has been awarded funding from the Sheffield Virtual School to create a new guide to arts, cultural and creative family activities happening across Sheffield. We know from research that children, young people and their families don’t always know what is on offer in the city and we want to change that.
Amazelab are putting a fun and creative take on all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) with the aim of providing engaging opportunities to people via workshops, video link, activity packs, follow-along factsheets, and guidance open to all from educational settings to non -school groups and everyone in between.
These easy-going sessions are a great opportunity to try out different art mediums, develop your artistic practice and discover highlights from the city's art collection in a relaxed setting each week.
Springtank Studios are reaching out to young local musicians in Sheffield to understand their practice, creative processes, and what kind of opportunities and support they would appreciate from a community-based music studio.
The Montogomery love hosting schools at the theatre and would like to offer schools the chance to come to the theatre for £800* per day.
Whether you are totally new to maker education or looking for the next step, the Maker{School} programme offers a range of pupil activities and staff training opportunities -from online twilight sessions to whole school INSET days.
Brightbox have funding to host 3 workshops for your pupils and their parents to learn DIY and improve their maths skills.
Sheffield Museums are developing an exciting new suite of object handling boxes for schools.
Music in the Round is launching a new project especially for Key Stage 2 students, combining a fun and educational concert at the Crucible Theatre with a programme of weekly sessions for teachers to learn a host of new approaches to music-making in the classroom.
The Festival of Creativity showcases the work of Sheffield Hallam University’s graduating students, including artists, designers, filmmakers, animators, writers, architects and performers. We ask emerging creatives to show us the future through exhibitions, events, performances and screenings.
Have you ever wondered...
Would I like a robot servant? Can humans control nature? Is it ever right to give up on something? If you could swap brains with anyone, who would it be and why?
If so, why not join Philosophy for Children (P4C) After-School Club for 10 – 13 year-olds?
Registered Charity Sheffield Futures produce a 50-page A5 independent Options guide each year for all Sheffield schools.
Music in the Round invites Sheffield schools to take part in a brilliant music project, culminating in a live concert at the Crucible Theatre this October.
Celebrate the end of the school year with a fun-filled educational visit to The National Videogame Museum.
Are you a parent or carer who wants to improve your skills to support your child at school?
March/April 2024
Join artist Foka Wolf for a poster making workshop exploring activism through subversive graphic design.
Shovel Dance Collective are a group of nine musicians brought together by a communal passion for the folk music of the British Isles, Ireland and beyond.
New and exciting scratch night with 12 pieces of new writing responding to themes within Sheffield Theatres Bank Cohort supported play Virtuous by Eleanor May Blackburn.
Join the secret organisation that protects Spring from Yuki-onna, a terrible wintery spirit. Learn the ancient ways of the Ninja guardians - master the EGGstraordinarily difficult task of Kung Fu, whittle a most EGGcellent Ninja Staff, take part in the mud EGG splatting challenge and much more EGGcitement!
Are you a child looking to entertain your adult during the Easter school holidays? Why not take them to the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield for a fun-filled family day?
Join The National Videogame Museum to explore experimental videogames in our Lab this Easter.
The session is for engaging young minds with the wonders of nature through play and bushcraft. With activities such as firelighting, creating with natural dyes, whittling wood and other nature-based activities. Plus a warm drink and campfire snack.
Visit the National Videogame Museum this Easter to explore experimental videogames in their Lab.
Back by popular demand, this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a FREE, city-wide P4C club for 10 - 13 year olds.
As part of the Sheffield Sessions Festival there's a youth folk music session at the Perch, from 12-2:45, run by Soundpost but open to any young musicians! Free to attend, just turn up :)
Book a place on Amazelab’s spectacular STEAM workshops this Easter and gain Children’s University credits!
Miniver Academy is an after-school drama club based in Dronfield just outside Sheffield who run a variety of sessions including Drama Classes, Show Classes, Mini Miniver Drama Classes and Musical Theatre Workshops.
Calling all community groups and schools! Brightbox have funding to host 3 workshops at to engage your pupils/attendees and their parents in learning DIY and improving their maths skills.
A full day of aerial and floor based circus skills. You'll have the chance to try aerial hoop, silks and trapeze as well as dance, acrobalance and manipulation circus skills including juggling and diablo.
February/March 2024
New Culture Strategy for Sheffield - get involved!
An invitation to a series of conversations and workshops to develop Sheffield’s Cultural Strategy