17 October 2026 · 17:00
Poetry of Resistance and Transcendence – Carolyn Forché and Kwame Dawes
15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Off the Shelf Festival of Words poetry event with Carolyn Forché and Kwame Dawes. Tickets £14/£12.
Getting there and what to expect
Weather
- No forecast yet for this date (Weather data from MET Norway, CC BY 4.0)
- Sunset 18:05, dark from 18:41 (Sunset and dusk computed for the venue)
Getting there
- Stops: Suffolk Road/Turner Street (SS4) (64 m, 7 8 8A 10 50 50A); Paternoster Row (SS2) (82 m, 6 X7 10 X17 18 18A); Sheaf Street/Harmer Lane (SS3) (82 m, 10A 70 70A 73) (Stops: NaPTAN, Department for Transport (OGL v3); lines: bustimes.org / Bus Open Data (OGL v3))
- Sheffield Rail Station 220 m away, tram at Sheffield Station 300 m away (Stops: NaPTAN, Department for Transport (OGL v3); lines: bustimes.org / Bus Open Data (OGL v3))
- Parking: Sheffield Station 120 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
- Cycle parking 30 m, EV charger 180 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
- About 7 min walk from the city centre (540 m, straight-line estimate) (Straight-line estimate at 5 km/h; streets are longer)
- Open on the main map with this event pinned (Sheffield Events live map)
- Can I get there and back? Put your postcode into the tool below for the last bus and tram, the walk home, and the car parks. (Timetables: Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)
Around the venue
- Air quality within WHO guideline (PM2.5 2.5, PM10 5.2 µg/m³, sensor 1.7 km away) (Air quality: Sensor.Community (ODbL, indicative) and DEFRA UK-AIR (OGL v3))
- Defibrillator 40 m, toilets 210 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
- No storm overflow discharging within 1 km (Storm overflows: Yorkshire Water (CC BY 4.0))
What is on around it
- Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus: Come and Sing Brahms’ A German Requiem (10:00, 470 m away) (Sheffield Events listings)
Can I get there and back
The last bus and tram, the walk, what is recorded about step-free access and the car parks.
- Nearest defibrillator Defibrillator 40 m away · 24/7
- Nearest toilets Toilets 210 m away · wheelchair accessible · free
- Nearest cycle parking Cycle parking 30 m away · 4 spaces · Sheffield City Council
- Nearest EV charger EV charger 180 m away · Franklin Energy /Sheffield City Council
Read about this area on Wikipedia
- Yorkshire ArtSpace
- National Centre for Popular Music
The National Centre for Popular Music was a museum in Sheffield, England, for pop and rock music and contemporary culture generally, a £15 million project largely funded with contributions from the National Lottery, which opened on 1 March 1999, and closed in June 2000.
- Site Gallery
Site Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield, England.
- Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
- Dyson House
Dyson House was a building which was part of Sheffield Hallam University's city campus in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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- 905 to Gatwick Airport 1.2 km away
- 180 to Digbeth 7.1 km away
- 598 to Victoria 17.1 km away
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- Leonardo Hotel Sheffield 280 m away
- Novotel Sheffield Centre 284 m away
- Mercure Sheffield St Paul’s Hotel and Spa 376 m away
- Cutlers Hotel Sheffield 614 m away
- easyHotel Sheffield 667 m away
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