Festival of the Mind 2024 - Arts and Humanities edition

Expect immersive exhibitions, films, live performances, talks and more as we bring our world-leading research to the public!

Festival of the Mind

Festival of the Mind is back!

19-29 September

Festival of the Mind sees the brightest minds from the University of Sheffield collaborate with the city’s cultural and creative industries, to help bring their research to life in exciting, entertaining and innovative ways, through a programme of free exhibitions, films, performances, workshops and talks. Open to everyone.

We've pulled together all the projects from our Arts and Humanities researchers for you!

The projects are split over 3 venues: Futurecade, Persistence Works and the Spiegeltent.


Futurecade

Millennium Gallery and Sheffield Winter Garden

Holy herbs and the psychoactive revolution

You be the Judge

Hot Jesus

Sculpting Sound: Working with sound and ceramics to unearth shared practice


Persistence works

Yorkshire Artspace

Sheffield Castle

Chocolate for strangers

Are You What You Eat?

Estate


Spiegeltent

Barkers Pool

Sonic Imprints: investigating Canada House through composition and performance

Chocolate for Strangers - talk

Sold my soul to the devil for this Pie(r)ce of paper - performance

Techno music programming masterclass with the black dog - music performance

Sheffield castle - talk

Craft beer - talk

You be the judge - talk

Holy herbs and the psychoactive revolution - talk

The Promise - performance


For more information, including opening times, visit the festival website.

Festival of the Mind 2024