Sheffield
page last edited: 2024-10-30 (see changelog)
(mostly) everything I know or want to know about Sheffield. Information from but not exclusively 1 (my own Internet research) and 2 (gossip)
this page is created mostly for myself, but I hope you find it useful.
Table of Contents
- !!! the weather right now !!!
- !!! live events calendar !!!
- social eating and food provisioning
- where is/is there "this specific thing"
- pop up events that I always want to keep an eye on
- lists of places I consider interesting
- list of Instagram pages
- list of cool events
- list of events pages
- list of pages providing information
- list of Sheffield RSS feeds
the weather right now 🔗
(?)
generated every 15 minutes on my server with weather_landscapelive events calendar 🔗
for more context: https://server.alifeee.co.uk/sheffield/events/
social eating and food provisioning 🔗
Sheffood do great work to highlight the social eating and food provisioning venues around Sheffield. See a map here: https://sheffood.org.uk/food-ladders-food-provision/ or a nicely layed out table of where to eat per-day-of-the week here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAylBlxtAP5/ (hopefully still there).
where is/is there "this specific thing" 🔗
- makerspace -> Sheffield Hackspace (on sheffield coops, on alt-sheff), Access Space (as of 2024-10-12, currently closed)
- board game cafe -> The Treehouse
- community garden -> ???
- archive -> ???
- car boot sale -> ???
- plant shop -> various exist
pop up events that I always want to keep an eye on 🔗
- kilo sales
- dancing ?
lists of places I consider interesting 🔗
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cafés
- Lego Café (Builder's Brew)
- Figtree sandwich bar (I haven't been nor can I find out anything about it)
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museums
- Kelham Island Museum (massive steam engines etc)
- National Video Games Museum (haven't been because it costs money)
- National Emergency Services museum (haven't been)
- Graves Gallery (quite nice to hang around in)
- Turner Museum of Glass (basically just a university library)
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gardens
- winter gardens
- botanic(al?) gardens
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miscellaneous
- Sheffield hackspace
- central library
- la biblioteka (bookshop)
- ryan vintage
- the treehouse board game café
- red brick market (google it because I don't want to link to the Instagram profile, I like it though)
- film unit cinema
list of Instagram pages 🔗
these are mainly sporadic events, but also more generic "Sheffield" focused pages
- ourfaveplaces (collection)
- queercomedysheff (comedy)
- communitykino (inactive?)
- cutupcollective (collage)
- social.pickle (pickling)
- redbrickmarket_sheffield (shopping/etsy IRL)
list of cool events 🔗
- CutUpCollective (sporadic)
- LGBTQ+ book club (last Wed of month)
- Community Kino (sporadic)
- Hackspace open evenings (Mon, Thu, Sat)
- Rainbow Gamers @ Treehouse (last Sun of month)
- Social Gaming @ Treehouse (third Sun of month)
- Game Night in the Library (monthly ???)
- Socialist party meetings (weekly on Thursdays)
- Yorkshire OPEN (monthly on the first Thursday, in Leeds)
- Queer Comedy Sheff
- https://battlescar.co.uk/
- Queer coworking, Fridays 9:30-4pm https://linktr.ee/playdatesheffield
- Pattern club https://patternclub.org/sheffield/
list of events pages 🔗
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general
- All events in Sheffield (from VisitSheffield) - I want to make this into a machine readable feed, and also a feed much easier to read (with each event taking up less height/screen space)
- Open Tech Calendar (Sheffield)
- alt-sheff
specific
list of pages providing information 🔗
list of Sheffield RSS feeds 🔗
- alt-sheff events feed: https://www.alt-sheff.org/events/feed
- alt-sheff news feed: https://www.alt-sheff.org/news/feed
- Treehouse board game cafe events (a horror of my own concoction): https://server.alifeee.co.uk/static/treehouse.xml
- Treehouse board game cafe blog: https://www.treehousesheffield.com/blog/rss.xml
- Sheffield libraries: http://shefflibraries.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
- National Video Games Museum blog: https://thenvm.org/feed
- Sheffield Hackspace's blog: https://www.sheffieldhackspace.org.uk/feed.xml