An award-winning 1200-capacity, three-room venue in the heart of Sheffield city centre, Plug hosts a wide-ranging programme of live music and club nights – from up-and-coming acts like The Hunna and Spring King to established names such as The Bluetones and The Wildhearts.
Plug is also one of the host venues of Sheffield’s annual Tramlines festival.
Take a journey through 300 years of pub and brewing history in Leeds, with a heritage Pub and brewery tour.
From £35.00
Leeds is a city best explored on foot. With a local guide leading the way, this 90-minute walking tour offers an engaging introduction to a city.
From £12.00
Cameroon meets Manchester at Ngwafu’s plant-based supper club. Held in July at Bridge 5 Mill, with an all-vinyl soundtrack from Bitter Leaf Industries.
From £22
Northern Monk, one of Leeds’ best breweries, is kicking off the weekend with a brewery tour to kick start your Saturday afternoon.
From £20.00
British-French singer-songwriter Lauren Auder brings her second, post-industrial love album to YES Basement.
From £15.61
For the four artists in texture’s reopening show, redaction is not absence but method – a way of exploring what’s been officially ignored, coded or suppressed.
Free entry
Sarah-Louise Young celebrates Bob Ross through storytelling, songs, live painting and plenty of happy little accidents. Intrigued? We are.
From £15.50
Cloudwater is a jewel in Manchester’s local brewery crown. Join them for a brewery tour and tasting at the Unit 9 Taproom.
From £25.00
Established in 2002, Bloc Projects in Sheffield is an artist-led project space with an annual programme of exhibitions, events and educational activity.
Excellent coffee, including its own blend, and hearty, relaxed food make this one of Sheffield’s best casual eateries.
An award-winning Mexican cantina serving speedy and fiercely tasty food – a healthy fast food alternative for the people of Sheffield.
Sidney and Matilda, a former paper factory, is now one of Sheffields’s most exciting gig venues and art spaces.
Situated In a former cutlery factory in Sheffield, APG Works is a two room contemporary art exhibition space and screenprint studios.
Bloc Studios is an artist studios complex in Sheffield city centre.
Birdhouse Tea Bar & Kitchen is a family-run tea bar serving breakfast, brunch and wood-fired pizzas alongside an extensive drinks menu, which includes creative brews and tea cocktails.
A great pub situated in an early 20th century brick and bright yellow building on the corner of Furnival Street and Brown Street.
A post-industrial concept space for the showing and sharing of everything that’s good in creative endeavour.
Micro-Gallery with a mission to be a ‘high potency visual espresso’, promoting unique engagement with contemporary art and hosting regular events.
B&B is a gallery, screen-print studio and residency programme founded by curators and artists Bradbury & Blanchard in Sheffield.
Discover the summer's most rewarding theatre in libraries, pubs, Fringe venues and unexpected spaces across the North.
From post-industrial romance to experimental country, here's a hot new batch of weird gigs in small venues.
Five exhibitions worth your time this month - and between them, a lot of ground covered.
It's heatwave time, so set your small talk phasers to 'weather' and get out there and grab some cold drinks and delicious food.
There's no shortage of great films out at the moment, whether you're looking for the latest blockbuster, that hot arthouse flick fresh from Cannes or a cosy classic.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
