With arts and culture, markets, history, family time, and more Sheffield has plenty to keep you happy this week!
 Children playing at Sheffield by the Seaside
This family favourite is now in full swing, so grab your buckets and spades and come along and enjoy some summertime seaside action! Free activities, including a sandpit, rides, stalls and lots more.
10am - 6pm everyday, Peace Gardens
Manish Harijan presents an exhibition of new paintings exploring migration, memory, and mythology. Drawing on his experiences growing up in Nepal and moving to the UK, Manish’s work fuses Eastern and Western imagery in a cultural mixing pot that includes pop icons, mythological deities and personal artefacts.
Thursday - Sunday 12pm - 5pm, Persistence Works
 A Sheffield public art space
A celebration of art and creativity in the public realm. Grab a map and explore a series of newly commissioned murals, sited in popular locations.
See a selection of the region's most talented artists as they create artworks live alongside hip hop dance performances, street art tours and brand new art installations.
6-7 Aug - Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter
 Sheffield Bricktopolis
Incorporating a unique collection of brick models that provides an awe-inspiring spectacle for visitors.
Brickosaurs features 15 amazing dinosaur models hosted by local businesses as part of a fabulous visitor trail around the city centre.
6-21 Aug - Sheffield City Centre
Join us for a raw-some week at the Animal Farm! Admission to the farm is free and there are lots of free activities. See the life-size dinosaur footprints and take part in the T-Rex toss. Some activities you'll need to book for, and there's a small charge, but your child will get a prize. Book tickets to follow the 'Dino' trail and dig up dinosaur bones in our Jurassic style sand pits.
8 - 14 August, 10am - 3.30pm daily, Graves Animal Park
The Pantaloons invade the stage at Sheffield Botanical Gardens in this funny yet faithful adaptation of H G Wells sci-fi classic. Using musical instruments and puppetry they recreate deadly giant fighting-machines, squidgy tentacled Martians and interplanetary warfare on an epic scale.
11 Aug, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Head over to the Concord Sports Centre for a free family fun day with lots of activities for families including football, basketball, hockey, cricket, inflatables, and arts and crafts.
Friday 12 August, 1 - 4pm, Concorde Sports Centre
Check Sheffield Healthy Holidays for more activities over the summer holidays.
A brilliant event with free rides, including bungee jumping for the brave! Dog show, stalls, giant inflatable obstacle course and loads more.
 A climber scales the wall at Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger is Sheffield’s inner-city festival dedicated to celebrating the great outdoors, with a host of adventure activities spread across the city centre. The British Bouldering Championships will headline the weekend as the nation’s strongest climbers battle it out on a purpose-built bouldering wall on Devonshire Green.
27 - 28 Aug, Devonshire Green
A showcase of the fantastic creative talent that Sheffield has to offer put together by Sheffield Creative Guild! You'll find all sorts - from accessories and pottery, to embroidery, prints and audio electronics.
6 Aug, 10am - 4pm, Orchard Square
 Quayside Market
The monthly street food market set along the canal, live music and plenty to tempt your taste buds!
12noon - 9pm, 13 Aug, Sheffield Canal basin
 Pollen Market
Sheffield's inner-city flower market is back. Pollen brings a monthly celebration of all things botanical.
10am - 4pm, 21 Aug, Castlegate
Based in Kelham Island, Rex Market will bring fantastic stalls from local traders and small businesses, plus street food and drink for their Bank Holiday market.
10am - 4pm, 28 Aug, Kelham Island
 Enjoying looking at artwork at Art in the Gardens
One of the largest outdoor art markets in the North of England, Art in the Gardens welcomes artists, craft makers and visitors from across the UK.
Set in Sheffield's stunning Botanical Gardens, thousands of pieces of art and craft will be on sale from premier artists, sculptures and a host of professional artists and craft makers.
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