Off the Shelf Festival of Words Sheffield 12 October - 2 November 2013 Platinum Sponsor Introduction Welcome to Off the Shelf Festival of Words, now in its 22nd year and one of the highlights of the city’s events calendar. If you love words and are looking for a diverse and exciting programme of events, including some of the best known names in Gold Sponsor literature and media, look no further. We are delighted that we have our first female guest curator this year - writer Jackie Kay. Jackie’s poem, commissioned last year for the Kick it Out anti-racism campaign, can now be seen permanently at United’s ground. We are very grateful to Platinum Sponsor Civica and Arts Council and to all our supporters and sponsors for their fantastic support. We would also like to thank our Silver Sponsor audiences - over 25,000 people attended the festival last year and we hope to welcome even more of you this year. Enjoy…. Cllr Isobel Bowler Paul Billington Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure Director Culture and Environment

Off the Shelf is organised by Sheffield City Library Events: Events in Libraries have been Council’s Major Events Service. organised by Sheffield Libraries Archives and For further information about Off the Shelf Information - Alex Holyoake, Joanne Parkes, please contact: Dan Marshall, Wendy Hudson, Sandra Goacher Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield City Brochure Cover Image: © Matt Sewell Council, Room 311, Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Brochure Design: Sheffield City Council, Sheffield S1 2HH Communications Services Telephone: 0114 273 4716/273 4400 Festival Bookseller: Rhyme and Reason Support and resources for people who write e-mail: [email protected] Festival Website: Marketing Sheffield Website: www.offtheshelf.org.uk We would like to thank The Arena Ticket Shop Off the Shelf Festival of Words for providing a one stop box office outlet and for their generous support of the festival. otsfestival Thank you to our sponsors, partners, supporters, volunteers, publishers and others There will be live Twitter feeds from selected who have help in the planning and support of events. the festival. Large Print and CD copies of the Festival Every effort has been made to ensure that the brochure are available from the Central Library, programme details are correct. However, Community Libraries, and on request by Sheffield City Council cannot accept telephoning 0114 273 4400. responsibility for any inaccuracies, omissions and consequences arising there from. The Ulverscroft Foundation has generously supported the large print version of the brochure. Braille: Please contact the Festival office on Pg 4 Events 0114 273 4400 if a Braille copy of the Pg 37 Workshops brochure is required Pg 39 Events for Children and Young People Head of City Centre Management & Major Events Pg 42 Events for Schools Service: Richard Eyre Pg 44 Exhibitions Festival Managers: Maria de Souza, Su Walker, Pg 44 Competitions Lesley Webster Pg 46 Booking Information Service Support Officer: Michelle Taylor-Steer Pg 47 Diary of Events Festival Assistant: Erika Larsson-Fowler 02 03 How to Book Your Tickets Sat 21 Sept 2pm Fri 27 Sept 8pm Q Tickets for all events - including those at Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Sun 22 Sept 2pm The Words & Things Radio Show Student’s Union, unless otherwise stated, can be purchased through our one stop box James Morton – Brilliant Bread Jurys Inn, Eyre Street, S1 Admission free. Suitable for 16 years and over office at The Arena Ticket Shop as well as from Sheffield Theatres Box Office and City Food Festival Marquee, Fargate, S1 Hall Box Office. Tickets can be purchased on line, by telephone or in person. Admission free. No need to book Words & Things is a voluntary group with a passion for presenting creative media from the Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Students’ Union Box Office can only sell (places subject to availability) local community. Words from this event will be tickets for events taking place at their own venues. Tickets for events organised by podcast from 2 November. at James Morton’s Fairisle jumpers and eccentric community and partner organisations are available as specified with individual event www.wordsandthings.co.uk information in the brochure. showstoppers won viewers’ hearts in the 2012 A community event season of Great British Bake Off. But this creative Please see page 46 for full information on how to book tickets. Scottish medical student’s real passion is bread- Please telephone 0114 273 4400 with any queries. making. Rhyme and Reason He is fascinated by the science of it, the taste of it, the making of it. And in his book Brilliant Bread he communicates that passion to everyone. Come and watch him bake and share tips on how you can get the best from your baking. In collaboration with The Food Festival and Sheffield Hallam University

Fri 27 Sept 6.15pm Q Ziggyology with Simon Goddard Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, Bookseller to the Festival Sheaf Street, S1 Rhyme & Reason, Sheffield’s independent Tickets £6.50/£5 (cons) http://ziggyology.eventbrite.co.uk book shop at Hunter’s Bar, is again He remains the greatest invention in the history of providing book stalls at most Off the Shelf Festival events. Book stalls will normally pop music. Ziggy Stardust, the glam rock alien open half an hour before the start of messiah, transformed David Bowie into an Lynda La Plante events as well as afterwards. international superstar, one who would change the Authors will be available to sign copies of face of music forever. their books at the end of their events. A book Mon 9 Sept 7pm Q Ziggyology is the first book dedicated to Bowie’s signed by the author makes a special gift, so please take the opportunity to do some best-loved and most influential creation. Lynda La Plante Christmas shopping. Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 A work of supreme pop archaeology by music Special offers will be available on many Tickets £8.50/£7 (cons) journalist Simon Goddard and aligning with titles. Book stalls can accept payment in Bowie’s headline-making comeback of 2013 and a cash or by cheque. Books by festival authors Lynda La Plante has created some of the best major retrospective exhibition at the V&A. Part will also be on display at Rhyme & Reason known crime dramas on television, including evolutionary detective story, part glam rock gospel, from September. Widows, Trial and Retribution, Above Suspicion and Ziggyology - the book that fell to Earth - comes as Prime Suspect . She has won many awards for her the ultimate, star-spangled salute to his, and his Rhyme & Reason, 681 Ecclesall Road, work including the Dennis Potter Writers Award creator’s, enduring brilliance. Sheffield S11 8TG Tel 0114 266 1950 presented by BAFTA, was inducted into the Crime In collaboration with Sensoria email: [email protected] Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was awarded an honorary fellowship into the Forensic Science Society in 2013. Lynda has written numerous crime books, all international bestsellers, the latest of which is Wrongful Death . Join her as she discusses her incredible body of work. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Sponsored by The Star – Gold Sponsor

04 05 Off the Shelf Book of the Festival Q Sat 5 Oct 10am – 3pm Q Mon 7 Oct 8pm Q Fri 11 Oct 7.30pm Q The Universe vs Alex Woods by Off the Shelf on the Road at Rotherham Being Human River Cottage Fruit Every Day! With Gavin Extence Rotherham Library, Heritage and Arts Space at Crucible Studio Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall the Riverside, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 Tickets £10/£9 (cons) Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 The Universe vs Alex Woods is one of the most talked Admission free, booking advisable ring Embarking on its second national tour, Midland Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) about, best-selling debuts this year. 01709 823606 Creative Projects in association with the Belgrade Fruit is pretty much the perfect food: bountiful, Teenager Alex Woods knows his life is not Children under 11 years and under must be Theatre and Bloodaxe Books present the colourful and it helps to fight infection too. So conventional. He knows growing up with a accompanied by an adult. acclaimed poetry in performance production why are we a nation that thinks it’s a bit racy to clairvoyant single mother won’t endear him to the 10am – 3pm Book Swap – Bring a book, in good Being Human. Being Human is a dramatic slice a banana onto our cornflakes in the local bullies. condition to swap. performance of 35 extraordinary poems from morning? Hugh will discuss how fruit can be so He knows that improbable events can happen – he around the world,presented by three performers. much more exciting than this and why we don’t 10.30 – 11.30am Trunks Find out what’s in the box is the second person ever to be injured by a direct eat nearly enough of the stuff. He will share with storyteller Gary Bridgens and his family show Charting the drama of our lives, these are hit from a meteorite. What he doesn’t know yet is delicious recipes to make fruit tasty and fun. From on the Big Book Stage, Children’s Library. thoughtful and passionate poems that will touch that when he meets reclusive widower. Mr lamb and fig kebabs to gorgeous cakes and pies, Suitable for all ages. the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit; poems Peterson, he’ll make an unlikely friend. Someone you won’t look at fruit in the same way again. River 11.30am – 12.30pm Danuta Reah Meet the crime about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and who tells him you have to make the best possible Cottage Fruit Every Day! will be a Channel 4 series author as she discusses her work in this wonder. Poems about being human. Alongside live choices in life. So when Alex is stopped at Dover this October. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a reading group session. Adult library. performances, Being Human combines music, customs with an urn full of ashes on the passenger projections and striking imagery to create a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His TV series 12.45pm – 2.45pm Graham Cowley Enjoy a medley seat he’s fairly sure he’s done the right thing. charming and evocative production. have earned him a huge popular following, while of well-loved tunes in the Café@Riverside. You can meet Gavin Extence at readers’ group In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres his books have collected multiple awards including 2pm – 3pm Simon Heywood and Tim Ralphs style events on the dates below. Places for events the André Simon Food Book of the Year and the must be booked at the numbers below Favourite folk tales from the Big Book Stage, Weds 9 Oct 7pm Q Observer Food Monthly Best Children’s Library. Suitable for 8 years plus. Cookbook. Mon 7 Oct 6 – 7pm Sponsored by Sheffield Hallam If you are out and about in Rotherham town Whitakers Almanack Literature Quiz Hallam University - Gold Sponsor Highfield Library, London Road, S2 centre in the morning look out for storytellers Coffee Revolution, University of Sheffield Tel. 0114 203 7204 Tim and Simon who will be telling tales in the Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Mon 14 Oct 10 – 11am town. In the afternoon listen out for D J Foxtrot – Admission Free. To book Tel. 0114 273 4400 the original scratch mixer and finest exponent of Maximum of 6 people on each team or come on Greenhill Library, Hemper Lane, S8 Edwardian Thrash mixed on gramophone… your own and we’ll find you a team. Tel. 0114 203 7700 In collaboration with Rotherham Borough For more than 140 years, Whitaker’s Almanack has Council’s Cultural Services Department Mon 14 Oct 3 – 4pm been the definitive source of facts, trivia Interactive conversation with the author via andephemera. Qwidjit – Sat 5 Oct 7.30pm Q So who better than its compilers to test your www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/readingroom/chat The North with Paul Morley literary knowledge in a Literature Quiz? Winners receive the title of Festival Quiz Champions and Mon 14 Oct 6 – 7pm The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 fabulous book prizes supplied by Bloomsbury. Upperthorpe Library, 18 Upperthorpe, S6 Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Quizmaster is Barry Nicholls, writer, Tel. 0114 270 2048 The North actor, director and tutor of Abbeydale gets to the heart of what life is like Writers. Wed 30 Oct 7.30pm above the M25. Written in Paul Morley’s inimitable Sponsored by Coffee Revolution The Fusion, University of Sheffield Students’ style, it’s an extraordinary mixture of memoir and With the kind support of Bloomsbury Union, Western Bank, S10 history - funny, poetic and insightful - mapping the Tickets £6/£4 (cons)/£3 (University Students) entire history of Northern England through its people and the places they call home. From the Distant Lands: The Steel Trail This large scale meet the author event will give landscapes of the Ice Age to the construction of Working with five local poets, as part of the celebrations for the centenary of stainless steel, Off the you the chance to hear Gavin talk about the book Blackpool Tower, from Larkin’s reflections to The North Shelf has commissioned five new pieces of writing themed around a distant land renowned for its and ask him questions. Plus free wine and Formby’s guitar, shows that differences relationship with Sheffield steel and the city’s industrial heritage. refreshments including space themed nibbles! go deeper than just an accent.Paul Morley grew up These commissioned pieces have then been translated into the native language of the distant lands In collaboration with University of Sheffield and in Stockport and has worked as a music journalist, in question using researchers from The University of Sheffield. These pieces will then be filmed Sheffield Hallam University. pop svengali and broadcaster. His books include alongside a video montage of Sheffield and its history. These final pieces with their accompanying Joy Division: Piece by Piece. Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for supplying translations convey a sense of changing time and place, but also a shared history and commonality books for readers groups. “A personal odyssey going north by north west and a tour through the experience of living in cities with strong relationships to manufacturing and industry. de force” Simon Armitage. View the project from 12 October at http://opusindependents.com/wordlife/ In collaboration with University of Sheffield In partnership with Opus Independents Students’ Union 06 07 Professional service, a wide choice of fantastic frames including the latest designer ranges, and great value for money from the UK’s most trusted optician. specsavers.co.uk Specsavers 12-14 Middlewood Road, Hillsborough S6, Tel. 0114 283 4020 Specsavers 121-123 Pinstone Street S1, Tel. 0114 275 5121

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Sat 12 Oct 11am Q Sat 12 Oct 1.30pm Q Elizabeth’s Bedfellows with Pam Ayres – You Made Me Late Again! Anna Whitelock The Memorial Hall, , S1 Pam Ayres Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Tickets £9/£7 (cons) Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Pam Ayres makes a welcome return to Sheffield You Made Me Late Again! Fri 11 Oct 10.30am Sat 12 Oct 11am – 3pm Q Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558 and a with - the eagerly awaited queen regnant’s court was formed, at the heart of new collection from one of Britain’s favourite Meet the Author Michael Fowler Word Life Open Mic which lay Elizabeth’s bedchamber, guarded by the poets. Frecheville Library, Smalldale Road, S12 Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 favoured women who helped her dress, washed From wishing your husband was more dashing to Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7817 Admission free. No need to book her clothing and shared her bed. Witnesses to the becoming a gran for the first time, from exploding face and body beneath the make-up and to Ex-policeman Michael Fowler talks about his Expect a featured performer or two as well as the wardrobes to the dog being afraid of the toaster, flirtations and rumoured illicit dalliances, thrilling D.S. Hunter Kerr crime novels, detailing chance to share your words in this unique space. Pam’s poems are a beautifully crafted treat. Elizabeth’s bedfellows loyally guarded her honour. some of the true life events that inspired him. As well as brand new poems, the book also The Sheffield based literature project Word Life This riveting, revealing history of the politics of features favourites from Pam’s hugely popular, also invite you to take part in collectively written intimacy offers an extraordinary insight into the poignant and funny stage shows. A feel good Sat 12 Oct 10.30am Q stories and poems, which will then be read out by daily life of the Elizabethan court. Elizabeth’s afternoon guaranteed to make you smile! host Joe Kriss, with all work to be featured online Bedfellows has been optioned by BBC Drama for a Books I Treasure: 1935-65 by Off the Shelf at six-part primetime BBC 1 drama series. With the kind support of Sheffield City Hall Jackson Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 http://opusindependents.com/wordlife/ Anna Whitelock lectures in Early Modern History Sponsored by Specsavers Admission £2 on the door (interviewees free) To sign up for an open mic slot please e-mail at University of London. Her bestselling debut, Pinstone Street and Mary Tudor Books I Treasure was an exploration of treasured [email protected] , was published to critical acclaim. Hillsborough Branches – reading in Sheffield. See the film of the event, In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Silver Sponsor Organised by Word Life meet the contributors and share memories of these treasured books. Sat 12 Oct from 11.30am Sat 12 Oct 1.30pm Q A community event Sat 12 Oct 11am – 3pm Q The Ice Book Writing Groups Fair Book Swap Sat 12 Oct Q Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 Central United Reformed Church, Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 Performance every half hour from 11.30am 60 Norfolk Street, S1 The Rhyme of King Harold The return of our ever popular Book Swap. Drop Tickets £8/£6(cons)/£4 for 1 0–18 years Admission free. No need to book Winter Garden, Surrey Street & Tudor Square, S1 in with books you’d like to swap – they must be in Suitable for adults and children 10 years and over Suitable for adults and young people 13 years Admission free. Suitable for all ages good condition – and choose from the varied who must be accompanied by an adult selection on offer for adults and children, fiction and over Watch out for actors reading excerpts from and non-fiction. This miniature theatre show is a fantasy world Discover the range of writing groups in South Sheffield novelist Ian Macgill’s book describing made of paper and light. Performers and creators Yorkshire. Exchange ideas and listen to some the Norman Conquest 1066. Catch them at other Books are swapped one for one. Recycle and Davy and Kristin McGuire were winners of the replenish reading material! performances including poetry prize winners. appearances throughout the festival too. 2013 Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. A community event A community event With the kind support of Oxfam Organised by Bank Street Arts

Black History Month – October 2013 100 Words for 100 Years A programme of activities to celebrate Black History Month will be organised by SADACCA and To celebrate 100 years of Stainless Steel, Galvanize and Off the Shelf ran a creative micro writing Black Palm. For full details please contact SADACCA on 0114 275 3479 or Clinton McKoy on competition using exactly 100 words and including the word ‘stainless’ or ‘steel’. The winning 0781 8066197. entry can be seen at www.offtheshelf.org.uk

08 09 Sat 12 Oct 2pm Sat 12 Oct 7pm Q Sun 13 Oct 2pm Q Ideas Alive at 5.45 Q All talks 5.4 5–6.45pm, Showroom Café, Creating a Picture Book with Fighting on the Home Front with Breakfast with Lucian: A Portrait of the Paternoster Row, S1 Admission free. Places Lynne Chapman Kate Adie Artist with Geordie Greig subject to availability. Highfield Library, London Road, S2 Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 These talks by academics from the University of Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7204 Arundel Gate, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Sheffield will introduce you to new ideas and Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Lynne Chapman describes how a picture book For ten years Geordie Greig was among a small cutting edge research. The First World War changed attitudes to women develops from characters and story ideas, through group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud Mon 14 Oct immeasurably. Women were found on the front – Performing Englishness writing, illustration, design and production. for breakfast. Over tea and the morning papers, Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps Department of Music. line of war, they performed surgery, policed, drove Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss trams and proved beyond doubt their bravery and Identity and politics in a contemporary folk Sat 12 Oct 2pm art. It was, in effect, Freud’s private salon. In this resurgence. fortitude. They showed that not only could they do kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud’s Tues 15 Oct Murder on the Manor the work, but they should be doing the work. stories of escaping from Nazi Germany; falling – From Human Rights to Sentient Rights Dr Alasdair Cochrane Department of St Aidan’s Church, 2 Manor Lane, S2 Kate Adie tells the story of the First World War out with his brother Clement, painting through the eyes of women and unearths in the Politics. Why sentience is the basis for moral value, Tickets £3.50, on the door David Hockney; escaping the Krays; and why telling, fascinating detail of just how hard was the Velázquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory political justice and basic rights. Suitable for 16 years and over up-hill struggle for admission into the world of about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies. Wed 16 Oct – Sectarianism and Football Rivalry in Crime writer Danuta Reah talks about her dark men. Kate Adie OBE became the BBC`s chief news Based on hours of conversations with the artist Scotland Professor John Flint Department of Town and scary Sheffield-based crime series and her correspondent in 1989 and has reported from war and his circle Breakfast with Lucian , is an intimate and Regional Planning. Exploring recent other captivating stories. zones around the world. She has won many awards A community event portrait of the artist - a fascinating account of one controversies about tackling religious bigotry in including three Royal Television Society awards of the greatest British painters of this century and Scottish football. and the Bafta Richard Dimbleby Award. She the last. Geordie Greig is a writer, journalist and Sat 12 Oct 4pm presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Thurs 17 Oct editor of The Mail on Sunday. His books include – Mind Hacks Radio 4 and is the author of four bestselling books. Dr Tom Stafford Department of Psychology. Writing Yorkshire Launch In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University The King Maker: The Man Who Saved George VI. Do it yourself experiments in cognitive neuroscience. 4p m– 6pm tea, tours, tasters/6pm–8pm In collaboration with Museums Sheffield refreshments, panel event, networking Sat 12 Oct 7.30pm Q Tues 22 Oct – Britain, France and the Gothic Bank Street Arts, 3 6– 40 Bank Street, S1 Sun 13 Oct 2.30pm Q Dr Angela Wright Department of English. Gothic Admission free YeahYeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop in the popular imagination of the late eighteenth Qaisra Shahraz Join writers and associates from Signposts Writing with Bob Stanley and early nineteenth century. The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Project as they re-launch as Writing Yorkshire. Find Wed 23 Oct Union, Western Bank, S10 – Helga’s Diary out about the Writers Resource, tour the new Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Professor Neil Bermel Department of Russian and Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Writer’s Studio and relax in the cafe with free tea A multi-layered story of love and loss and mixed Slavonic Studies. Holocaust journal of 11 year old Yeah Yeah Yeah Revolt and cake. tells the chronological story of the race marriage, Qaisra Shraz’s new novel, is Helga Weiss who was deported to Terezin in 1941. modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties Later enjoy a glass of something and an open set in England and the fictional village of Gulistan with the dawn of the charts, vinyl and the music Thurs 24 Oct – Freedom of Expression and the Media discussion with local writers on how to make a in Pakistan. Underpinning the action is the press, to pop’s digital switchover in the year 2000. Professor Jackie Harrison Centre for Freedom living as a writer. Steven May from Arts Council pervading need to resolve the conflict between It covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip of the Media, Department of Journalism Studies. England advises on how to write a successful Grant Pakistani Muslim values and those of the modern hop, indie, house and techno. It includes the rise for the Arts bid. To register interest in a free West. Balancing freedom and standards in news media. and fall of the home stereo and Top Of The Pops. coaching taster session or manuscript feedback Qaisra’s stunning debut novel, The Holy Woman , an Mon 28 Oct There have been many books on pop but none – The End of the 'War on Drugs’? e-mail [email protected] extraordinary story of family, politics and sacrifice Dr Matthew Bacon School of Law. A study of drug have attempted to bring the whole story to life, Organised by Writing Yorkshire Yeah Yeah Yeah in rural Pakistan, was an acclaimed best seller. law enforcement on the frontline. from Billy Fury to Donna Summer. Meet this popular author and hear her read from is essential reading for all music lovers. Bob Stanley Wed 30 Oct Loverley The Life and Times of “My Fair Sat 12 Oct 6pm Q and talk about her work. – is a writer, musician, DJ, and film producer. Since In collaboration with Longley College Lady” Dr Dominic McHugh Department of Music. Sheffield Canal Past and Present with founding influential pop group Saint Etienne, he A new look at the beloved Broadway musical. has enjoyed a parallel career as a music journalist, Thurs 31 Oct Mike Spick contributing to publications such as The Times, Mon 14 Oct 11am – Images of Aging Dr Lorna Warren Department of Sociological Central United Reformed Church, Smash Hits, NME and The Face. A former artist-in- From Back to Backs to Penthouses 60 Norfolk Street, S1. Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Studies How do older women negotiate and residence at the Southbank Centre, his films have Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Road, S36 been shown at the ICA and he has curated several challenge images of aging? From Halfpenny Bridge to the Canal Basin via Admission free. T’Ackydoc, Mike Spick gives an illustrated talk on seasons for the Barbican. To book Tel 0114 273 4205 Sponsored by University the history of the Sheffield Canal, once an artery Guests include Candida Doyle (Pulp) and of Sheffield Public Local historian Suzanne Bingham takes us of commerce for the city. Find out how many tons Dave Simpson, music reviewer (The Guardian) for Engagement with Research through the history of how we used to live. of cargo came via the canal and the connection an evening of nostalgia, trivia, clips and tunes. Team – Silver Sponsor between the canal and jelly babies! In collaboration with University of Sheffield Explore life in the humblest dwelling, the grandest Students’ Union house and everything in-between. 10 11 Mon 14 Oct 7.30pm Tues 15 Oct 6.30pm Tues 15 Oct 7pm Q Sheffield’s Got Fiction Talent An Evening with Dave Berry T S Eliot Prize Tour Bank Street Arts, 3 2–40 Bank Street, S1 Walkley Library, South Road, S6 Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Tickets £2 on the door info@[email protected] Admission free. To book Tel 0114 231 2947 Arundel Gate, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Meet some of Sheffield’s published and award Dave Berry is one of Sheffield’s musical icons. He As part of a national tour to celebrate the winning fiction writers. Read an extract from your will tell stories about his life from his childhood in twentieth anniversary of the T S Eliot Prize for own novel and compete to be Off the Shelf’s Sheffield to his chart success and fame. Poetry, three of the world-class poets unpublished novelist of the year. Sean O’Brien, Paul Farley and Esther Morgan who A community event Tues 15 Oct 7pm have been shortlisted in recent years will be reading their work, alongside acclaimed well- Walter Mosley Mon 14 Oct 8.30pm known local poet Helen Mort with her debut Q and film screening Devil in a Blue Dress collection Division Street . The T S Eliot Prize is one French Book Group Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 of the world’s top poetry awards and was set up by Café Rouge, Saint Paul’s Place, S1 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Film £7.90/£5.70 the Poetry Book Society in 1993 in memory of its Admission free (refreshments available to buy) (cons) Talk and Film £13/£9 (cons) founding poet. In association with the Poetry Book Society Suitable for French speakers [email protected]@shef.ac.uk We are delighted to welcome one of America’s best In collaboration with Museums Sheffield known crime authors to the festival. He will be Mon 14 Oct 6.30pm Q Chat about your favourite francophone work in Little Green French and meet the members of Sheffield’s first talking about his new book , Mosley’s finest work since Devil in a Blue Dress . A world-class Tues 15 Oct 7pm Meet the Author Jack Sheffield and only French book group. Q author reunited with his most beloved protagonist, Carpenter Room, Central Library, A community event Easy Rawlins, L.A.’s finest Private Investigator. Jung Chang Surrey Street, S1. Admission free Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Walter Mosley is the author of 37 critically To book Tel 0114 273 4727 Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 Tues 15 Oct 6.30pm Q acclaimed books including Devil in a Blue Dress , Jack Sheffield talks about his series of novels based 100 Years of Stainless Steel which was made into the 1995 film of the same Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) around his life as a village Head Teacher in North name, starring Denzel Washington and Don Empress Dowager Cixi is the most important Kelham Island Museum, Alma Street, S3 Yorkshire, including his latest book School’s Out . Cheadle. He is the winner of numerous awards, woman in Chinese history, ruling for 47 years and Admission free. No need to book Amusing and nostalgic, Jack takes you back to a including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN transforming it from a medieval state into a (subject to availability) different way of life. America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. modern society. A concubine, she produced an Join Star journalist Nancy Fielder and guests at a His books have been translated into 23 languages heir and made herself sole regent for her son.In Mon 14 Oct 7pm Q talk about the creation of the special centenary and have sold more than 3.5 million copies. After this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang shows book to mark 100 Years since the discovery of the talk why not enjoy the screening of film classic that under Cixi’s rule China acquired the Roddy Doyle stainless steel in Sheffield. The book covers the Devil in a Blue Dress? attributes of a modern state, developed foreign Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, journey from Harry Brearley’s childhood to his In collaboration with trade and diplomacy, revolutionised education and Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 breakthrough discovery and the huge impact it Showroom Cinema abolished foot-binding and gruesome medieval Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) still has today. Sponsored by Hospitality punishments. Jung Chang overturns the Organised by Marketing Sheffield Twenty five years after the publication of Sheffield - Silver Sponsor conventional view of Cixi as a conservative, cruel bestselling book, The Commitments , Jimmy Rabbitte despot. Based on research in newly opened returns in a wonderful new novel by Booker Prize Chinese and Western archives, this gripping winner Roddy Doyle. In The Guts, the man who biography will revolutionise historical thinking invented the Commitments back in the eighties is about a crucial period in China’s history. Wild Swans now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids... and Jung Chang is the author of , which has bowel cancer. This warm, funny novel is about been translated into 30 languages and sold 10 friendship and family, about facing death and million copies, and, with Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story. opting for life. In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin and is the author of nine acclaimed novels including the Barrytown Trilogy, Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents, and most recently, Two Pints , a collection of 100 Years of Stainless Steel Exhibitions dialogues. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Kelham Island Museum’s centenary Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. exhibition, Rustless: The Harry Brearley Story The Commitments opens as a West End show at the can be seen until 17 November. David Mellor: Palace Theatre on 8 October. Steel and Light is on show at Sheffield Hallam University’s Institute of Arts Gallery from 27 In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University September to 3 November 2013.

12 13 honoured Folk Musician of the Year at the Weds 16 Oct 7.30pm Q Folkelarm Awards in 2009 and tours 1913: The World Before the Great War internationally. Raymond Sereba is an actor and musician and was a principal dancer for the Ballet with Charles Emmerson National Cote d’Ivoire. The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Plus take part in a fun singing session on West Union, Western Bank, S10 African Song Traditions ahead of the performance Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) from 5.4 5– 6.30pm. Open to singers of all Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 ages/abilities (you don’t need to read music). Free reduce it to either frivolous features – last bright to anyone with a ticket for the show but places summers in aristocratic residences – or to its most must be booked – Tel 0114 273 4400. destructive - rumbling social unrest in Russia. The An Adverse Camber production in association with true nature of the times, optimistic, modern and Jan Blake’s Akua Storytelling Project internationalist, as much as pessimistic, archaic With the kind support of Sheffield Hallam and nationalist – is lost. 1913 proposes a more University Students’ Union. Kate Adie expansive portrait. Emmerson takes readers on a trip around the world – from London to Berlin, Weds 16 Oct 8pm Q Detroit to Bombay, Winnipeg to Durban– to reveal Tues 15 Oct 7pm Q Tues 15 Oct 7.30pm Q a seminal year in history. 1913 is a luminous, Sheffield Hallam University Creative Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites Human Writes majestic book, rich in detail and research. Writing Celebration with Ecclesall Library, Ecclesall Road South, S11 Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 Charles Emmerson read Modern History at Jane Rogers, Marina Lewycka, Susan Elliot Oxford University and then took up an Entente Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7222 Admission free, donations welcome Wright and James Wheatley Cordiale scholarship in Paris. The author of The Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Suitable for adults and children aged 12 Bestselling crime writing duo Mark Billingham Future History of the Arctic , he is a Senior Research Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 and Martyn Waites (who writes as Tania Carver) years and over Fellow at Chatham House. Admission free Book at talk about their work, including the latest Sheffield’s Amnesty International Group In collaboration with University of Sheffield http://www.shu.ac.uk/events/corporate- Tom Thorne thriller, The Dying Hours , and the celebrates its 50th birthday in 2013. Students’ Union events/forthcoming.html latest in Tania Carver’s Brennan & Esposito series, Staff and students from the MA in Creative The Doll’s House . Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Writing MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University contribute Weds 16 Oct 7.30pm Q course has an outstanding reputation in its field their talents in a commemoration of Sheffield’s The Old Woman, The Buffalo and the and has produced some of the most exciting Tues 15 Oct 7.30pm Q long involvement with the struggle for human contemporary writers. rights around the world. Lion of Manding What Should We Tell Our Daughters? This event will feature four of them, all graduates A community event The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ from the course. Jane Rogers is Professor of with Melissa Benn Union, Paternoster Row, S1 Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Tickets £8/£6 (cons) Singing workshop free for Tues 15 Oct 7.30pm Q University. She has published 8 novels including Union, Western Bank, S10 ticket holders Look Stranger! Utter:Jazz with special Mr Wroe’s Virgins and short stories the latest of Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Suitable for adults and young people 16 years and which is Hitting Trees with Sticks. Awards include We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern guest Roger Lloyd Pack over the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Marina women’s lives and our collective daughters are Firth Hall, , University of Sheffield, The Birth of Sundiata Keita, visionary leader of Lewycka’s first novel, A Short History of Tractors in bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Western Bank, S10 the great Malian Empire in West Africa, is one of Ukrainian, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Feminism has made great strides but key issues – Tickets £8.50, £6 (cons) available from the most exciting tales in the world. Featuring longlisted for the Man Booker, won the Bollinger equality of pay, casual sexism, representation at a www.aboywasborn.co.uk/Arena Ticket Shop hunters and kings, prophecy and insult this Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the senior level – remain to be tackled. This is a Tel 0114 256 5567 inspiring tale is the story of the origin of a nation. Waverton Good Read Award. Other novels include manifesto for modern womanhood and for every Various Pets Alive and Dead. The lyrical power of WH Auden’s words and the In an epic performance acclaimed storyteller Jan mother who has ever had to comfort a daughter beautiful melodies of Benjamin Britten provide Blake is accompanied by the virtuoso, award Susan Elliot Wright pursued her childhood dream who doesn’t feel ‘pretty’, for every young woman inspiration for vibrant re-workings of their 1930s winning Sereba brothers from Cote d’Ivoire - of writing and is an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield who wonders why she is not taken seriously in the songs by this innovative jazz quintet. whose music includes the extraordinary Dodo Hallam University. Her debut novel is The Things workplace and for anyone interested in the world mouth bow. Originally commissioned by Festival at We Never Said. we are making for the next generation. The event includes readings from Auden’s the Edge and since performed at The Barbican James Wheatley’s Magnificent Joe Melissa Benn is a writer, journalist and campaigner collection Look, Stranger by actor this dynamic and interactive piece of theatre, debut , is set in a and has worked at the National Council for Civil Roger Lloyd Pack. music and spoken word is storytelling of the former pit village in the North of England and has Organised by the Department of Music, University Of Mice and Men. Liberties. Her journalism has appeared in highest calibre. been described as a present day of Sheffield In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University publications including Cosmopolitan and New Jan Blake is a leading storyteller who specialises in Statesman and she has written five books. stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia. In collaboration with the University of Sheffield Kouame Sereba grew up in the Cote d’Ivoire, was Students’ Union 14 15 Thurs 17 Oct 1pm Q Thurs 17 Oct 7pm Q Thurs 17 Oct 7.30pm Q Thurs 17 Oct 8pm Q Story writing with the ‘Story Balloons’ Cities are Good for You with Leo Hollis Paul Murdin – Are We Being Watched? Abbeydale Writers’ Anthology Launch Norfolk Lodge, Park Grange Road, S2 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students with Jonathan Lee Admission free. No need to book. Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Union, Western Bank, S10 Harland Café, 72 John Street, S2 Listen to stories from the creative writing group Cities Are Good for You introduces dreamers, Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Tickets £3 on the door (Anthology Free) for people with learning disabilities and share your planners, revolutionaries, scientists, architects and Paul Murdin, a distinguished astronomer with an Abbeydale Writers launch their latest Anthology stories with us. slum dwellers. It is shaped by the idea that cities international reputation, gives a fascinating with guest author Jonathan Lee, who will read A community event are the greatest social experiment in human The Radio illustrated talk to explore the possibility of from his award nominated novel . history, built for people, by the people. Radical A community event extraterrestial life in the universe. Thurs 17 Oct 6.30pm Q and impassioned, this book is a rallying cry for 21st century living. He investigates how life might have developed on Fri 18 Oct 10.30am other planets, what forms it could take and how Meet the Author Kate Figes Blending anecdote, fact and first hand encounters we might communicate with aliens. He describes High Storrs School, High Storrs Road, S11 – from exploring the slums of Mumbai to visiting The Fulwood Cottage Homes with the habitats that exist on alien worlds and Tickets £4/£1(cons) from the school office roof top farms in Brooklyn - Leo Hollis reveals we examines the photographs that show conditions Marjorie Dunn Tel 0114 267 0000 or online from have misunderstood how cities work for too long. Woodhouse Library, Tannery Street, S13 on Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System. A http://www.wegottickets.com/highstorrspta He upends long held assumptions to give us the Admission free. To book Tel 0114 269 2607 must see event for anybody who has wondered if reasons why living in a city can make us fitter, Many parents find looking after teenagers difficult there’s anyone waiting for us to discover them. An illustrated history of the Fulwood Cottage to say the least. richer, smarter, greener, more creative and, Homes and the children from around Sheffield Paul Murdin discovered the first black hole in our perhaps, even happier. who lived there. In this event organised by High Storrs PTA, a Galaxy in 1971. He has been President of the Leo Hollis is the author of two books on the panel of teenage students, the audience and European Astronomical Society, Director of history of London including The Stones of London: Fri 18 Oct 7.15pm author Kate Figes discuss communication issues Science in the British National Space Centre and A History Through Twelve Buildings. He writes between teenagers and their parents and how we Treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society. Stilling the Restless Mind – the Path of can make family life happier. regularly for the New Statesman, the TLS and the He has published around 150 scientific papers, The Terrible Teens Daily Telegraph. Yoga. A talk by Firooza Ali Kate Figes is the author of and edited the specialist multi-volume Encyclopedia of What About Me: the Diaries In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Sheffield Yoga Centre, 270 Burgoyne Road, S6 two novels including Astronomy and Astrophysics , and is the author of and Emails of a Menopausal Mother and her Teenage Tickets £5/4 (cons) from website numerous books including Secrets of the Universe. Daughter Thurs 17 Oct 7.30pm Q In collaboration with University of Sheffield Yoga teacher, Firooza Ali, will explain, in her A community event accessible style, how yogic postures and breathing Students’ Union Poetry Business Prize Winners Reading directly improve our mental, physical and Thurs 17 Oct 6.30pm Q with guest Simon Armitage emotional state of health. This event celebrates The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Thurs 17 Oct 7.30pm Q the republishing of seminal book Light on Yoga. Blades, Fables & Folklore – A History of Union, Western Bank, S10 Conversation Pieces A community event Sheffield United with John Garrett Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Ensemble 360 and Marina Lewycka Fri 18 Oct 7.30pm Library, 1-3 Peaks Square, S20 The Poetry Business Competition is a major event Crucible Studio, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 Q Admission free. To book Tel 0114 293 0612 in the literary calendar and has launched the renaissance one presents careers of many of our best contemporary poets. Tickets £16.50/£11 (cons) To book Tel 0114 249 6000 In an event full of legends and anecdotes, football We Talk Of Pride and Prejudice Winners of the 2012 competition, David Attwooll www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk historian John Garrett talks about the history of The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ from Oxford, Emma Danes from Ely, David Grubb Ensemble 360 play a sequence of pieces that touch Union, Western Bank, S10. Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Sheffield United, from ‘Fatty’ Foulkes to Neil from Berkshire and Kim Lasky from Sussex, will be on the family background and musical Join us for a unique spoken word show in which a Warnock. reading from their winning poems alongside experiences of favourite novelist Marina Lewycka. A community event talented group of local writers aged 15 to 21 years competition judge Simon Armitage. These include pieces by Bach, Chopin and share a stage with leading poets Jean ‘Binta’ Prokofiev. Ensemble members will discuss with Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of Breeze MBE, Mark Gwynne Jones and Sureshot Thurs 17 Oct 7pm Q Kid Seeing Stars Marina her Ukrainian heritage and exchange poetry including and . He has and all offer their own personal take on the theme thoughts on the nature of performing and Hats off to the Matchwomen received numerous awards for his poetry including of Pride and Prejudice. This show offers playful, one of the first Forward Prizes and a CBE for listening to chamber music. Coffee Revolution, University of Sheffield witty, soulful and provocative responses to the services to poetry. He is Professor of Poetry at the Organised by Music in the Round Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Jane Austen novel and the book’s central themes University of Sheffield. Admission free, donations welcome in its bicentenary year. It is part of a new He will reading from his forthcoming collection intergenerational project for local elders groups Louise Raw reveals how the modern movement for Paper Aeroplane – New Selected Poems 1989 - 2014. and young writers to engage them in literature workers’ rights began with the Matchwomen in In association with The Poetry Business and sharing stories. It is developed by renaissance 1888 leading the way. In collaboration with University of Sheffield one in partnership with Writing Yorkshire, more A community event Students’ Union information www.renaissanceone.co.uk In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union 16 17 Sat 19 Oct 10.30am Sat 19 Oct Q A History of Manor Lodge with Jackie Kay ‘Outside’ - Grace Tebbutt We are delighted that Jackie Kay is our first woman Manor Library, Ridgeway Road, S12 guest curator and the theme she has chosen is Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7805 ‘outside’. Jackie’s guests explore this theme through writing, photography and film. All events Discover the fascinating history of Sheffield Manor (unless otherwise stated) take place at Showroom Lodge Through the ages. Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1. Learn about the people who lived there; from the most powerful in Tudor England to the 18th Special ticket price £5 which includes entry to all century potter. events listed below except Jackie’s reading at the A community event Crucible – see details below. Ingrid Pollard 2– 3pm Sat 19 Oct 11am Q Ingrid Pollard is an artist and photographer whose A History of Theatre in Sheffield series Pastoral Interlude, portraits of black people Sureshot Jackie Kay Lucy Worsley in the English countryside, was exhibited at the With Chris Reece and Roy Rodgers V&A. Ingrid will be showing some of her BFI’s Doc Next Lab. Matthew made Whitehall Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 astonishing portraits and talking about them with Cleaners , a film about the London living wage Sat 19 Oct 7.30pm Q Tickets £16.50/15.50 (cons) paid on day Jackie Kay. Ingrid Pollard is a member of campaign and the lives of the people who struggle A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley Places must be booked - e-mail Autograph, the Association of Black to achieve it. He will be showing his film Hair and The Octagon, University of Sheffield Students [email protected] or Tel 07931 225447 Photographers. Now which won second prize for the Guardian Union, Western Bank, S10 Bernardine Evaristo and Zaffar Kunial 3–4pm Young film maker's competition. An illustrated and entertaining foray into Tickets £10/£8 (cons) Sheffield’s theatrical heritage from Georgian times Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three novels to the modern day including a ‘theatre walk’ Lara, The Emperor’s Sat 19 Oct 8pm Q The dark story of our fascination with murder, to which fuse fiction with poetry - accompany a BBC series, with renowned historian exploring the sites of Sheffield’s theatres. Babe and Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots , her first A community event Jackie Kay Lucy Worsley. Murder is a very British obsession - a prose novel. Her new book Mr Loverman is a tragi- Crucible Studio Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 subject that we have maintained a long fascination comic tale of homosexual love, a ground-breaking Sat 19 Oct 12.30pm Q Tickets £9/£7 (cons) with – the more gruesome the details, the better. exploration of Britain’s older Caribbean In A Very British Murder , Lucy Worsley explores this Jackie Kay grew up in Glasgow. She has written all community, set in contemporary London with the phenomenon in forensic detail, examining not Picnic of Words her life. Several of her adult poetry collections unique exuberance of Evaristo’s voice. only the crimes themselves but also how murder Norfolk Heritage Park, Guildford Avenue, S2 Hill Speak have won or been shortlisted for awards across the Zaffar Kunial lives in Yorksire. His poem became a form of middle class entertainment Admission free. No need to book board. Her first novel Trumpet won the Author’s won third prize in the National Poetry through novels, plays, paintings, and the press. At Bengali Women’s Support Group invite you and Club First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Competition 2011 and he read as Jackie Kay’s a point during the birth of modern Britain, your picnic basket of songs to celebrate our Prize. ‘Poetry Double’ at the Bridlington Poetry Festival murder entered our national psyche and it’s been diverse cultural heritage and join a singing Red Dust Road earlier this year. won the Scottish Book of the Year a part of us ever since. This is a riveting workshop. Crossing Borders – 4.1 5– 5.45pm award and was picked as a World Book Night title. A community event investigation into the British soul by one of our Jackie will be reading from her new short story finest historians. Dr Lucy Worsley is a historian and Jackie Kay recently read poems to the Scottish Reality, Reality collection . The women in these Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, Sat 19 Oct 1.30pm Q Parliament about refugee women – an issue close to her heart. At this event refugee women, three stories are mesmerizing, whether in love or in looking after the Tower of London and Hampton from Scotland, three from Sheffield, will be solitude. Full of compassion, generosity, sorrow Court Palace among others. She has presented Headlong into Pennilessness with and joy, these unforgettable stories explore the Michael Glover speaking out. From Sheffield they are numerous television series, including If Walls Could Violet Dickenson, Christine Chirambo, Nacera power of the imagination to make things real, and Talk for BBC1 and has written many books Firth Park Library, 443 Firth Park Road, S5 Harkati reading from the book Different Cultures, celebrate those who dare to dream. This is a including Great Houses . Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7433 One World; Women’s Voices from collection from a storyteller in a class of her own. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Michael Glover grew up in Fir Vale and tells stories produced by the DEWA Project (Development and This event in collaboration with Sheffield Theatres Students’ Union from his childhood in the 1950s, from living in a Empowerment for Women’s Advancement). From house with no heating to being a teenager in the Scotland there will be three women supported by sixties and seeing The Beatles at Sheffield City Scottish Refugee Council and other organisations Here’s My Pitch Hall. working with refugee women across Glasgow. Matthew Kay 6p m– 6.30pm In 2012, Off the Shelf, working with Sheffield United Football Club, commissioned writer Jackie Kay to write a poem for the anti-racism Kick it Out campaign. The poem celebrating footballer Arthur Matthew Kay is a documentary filmmaker. His first Wharton, the first black professional football player, can now be seen at Sheffield United’s Bramall hour-length documentary is Over The Wall and he Lane stadium as a permanent art work. The work is part of the Text and the City public art project. was selected for ‘Doc Future’ with Sheffield Artwork by Richard Johnson: Kidology www.sufc.co.uk www.kickitout.org International Documentary Festival and is part of 18 19 references to theorems, conjectures and Sun 20 Oct 11am and 2pm Q equations. Bestselling author Simon Singh Mon 21 Oct 1pm Q Mon 21 Oct 7pm Q A Sting in the Tale with Dave Goulson investigates the maths that infiltrates The Simpsons and makes sense of the complex Sheffield Steel Memories with Ned Boulting - On the Road Bike , Western Bank, S10 mathematical jokes that litter the show. He meets Ray Hearne Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Tickets £6/£5 (cons) the writing team – comedy geniuses who also Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Respected conservationist and founder of the happen to hold an array of diplomas in super- Admission Free – no need to book Ned Boulting has noticed something. It’s to do Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Dave Goulson’s geeky subjects like biochemistry and throws light In the Steel City most folk have some relationship with bikes. They’re everywhere. And so are their book, A Sting in the Tale , combines a passion for on the history of maths and the problems that still with steel-making. What do you remember about riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting nature with a deep insight into the crucial haunt today’s generation of number theorists. steel communities? Have you got an object in your sideburns and a few of them are winning things. importance of the bumblebee. He details the D’oh! possession that tells a steel story? Or a memory Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth minutiae of their life, sharing fascinating research On the Road Bike Simon Singh has a PhD in particle physics from you’d be prepared to share? it came to this? In , he asks how into the effects intensive farming has had on our the University of Cambridge. A former BBC Britain became so obsessed with cycling. It’s a bee population and alerts us to the potential Have you written a poem or song? Fetch it along journey that takes him from the Velodrome at producer and BAFTA Award-winning documentary and tell us what steel has meant to you. In return dangers if we are to continue down this path. director, he is the author of the bestselling Herne Hill to the Tour of Britain at Stoke-on- Dave Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at Fermat’s Last Theorem, Big Bang The Code Book Ray Hearne will sing a few of his. And he will tell Trent via Bradley Wiggins, Ken Livingstone, both and you the story behind his wonderful new poem Sing the University of Sussex. He has published over which was the basis for the BBC series The Science Tommy Godwins and many more. 190 scientific articles on bees, butterflies and Song for Stainless Steel, the words of which have been of Secrecy. cut onto new benches along the Moor as part of Ned Boulting started his broadcasting career at Sky other insects. His ground breaking conservation In collaboration with University of Sheffield on the legendary show Soccer Saturday. In 2006 he work with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust won Off the Shelf’s Text and the City Public Art project. Students’ Union In collaboration with Museums Sheffield was given the Royal Television Society’s Sports the Heritage Lottery Award for best Reporter of the Year Award. He presents the Tour Environmental Project. He was made ‘Social Sun 20 Oct 2pm Q of Britain for ITV, as well as the inaugural Tour Innovator of the Year’ by the Biology and Mon 21 Oct 6pm Series, and contributes live reports to coverage of Biotechnology Research Council in 2010. Two Catalan Poets Remembering Sheffield’s Club Fiesta the Tour de France. His first book was the much- In collaboration with Museums Sheffield How I Won the Yellow Jumper Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Ecclesfield Library, High Street, S35 loved . Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Sun 20 Oct 1pm Admission free. To book Tel 0114 257 6663 After the talk why not drop into the Showroom Q Six Catalan Poets café to meet Sheffield photographer Andrew Arc Publications, , is the ninth Neil Anderson takes us on a trip to a time when Smith and view his incredible cycling images used An Inspector Calls volume in a series of bilingual anthologies the glitz of Las Vegas was a regular fixture in the in his book Velo . Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Alma Street, S3 bringing contemporary poetry from around middle of Sheffield thanks to Club Fiesta. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Tickets £8/£6 (including admission to Kelham Europe to English-language readers. This is a Island Museum) chance to hear two Catalans (one from Mallorca), who, although they were born at the tail-end of Mon 21 Oct 6.30pm Q Mon 21 Oct 7.30pm On Monday 13 March 1864, Robert Rawlinson Q the Franco dictatorship, grew up under a Where is Pemberley? Home Office Inspector checked into the Royal democratic regime. Their work is modern: politics The Ministry of Thin with Emma Woolf Carpenter Room, Central Library, Victoria Hotel and met Thomas Jessop, Mayor of and history cohabit with love and popular image, The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Surrey Street, S1 Sheffield. Over the next two hours they learnt of The readings in Catalan will be translated into Union, Western Bank, S10 the appalling nature of the damage caused by the English so you can enjoy the words in two Admission free. To book Tel 0114 273 4727 Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Great Inundation resulting from the collapse of languages. Christopher Sandrawich explores the continued the Dale Dyke Dam. Relive this dark period in We’re obsessed with weight… Too many of us are fascination with Mr Darcy’s home, Pemberley, and The Ministry of Sheffield’s history and hear tales of the bereaved Josep Lluís Aguilo is a curious mix of poet and locked in a war with our bodies. entrepreneur, a director of marketing and attempts to settle the question of just which Thin takes an unflinching look at how the modern whose world changed forever at this event near building Pemberley is based on. the site of the great Sheffield Flood, where visible advertising who published his first book of poems obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty and echoes can be seen to this day. A promenade back aged 19. He has won City of Alcover Poetry and perfection got out of control. Emma Woolf in time with local historian Ron Clayton. the National Critics Award for the best book of Mon 21 Oct 6.30pm explores how we might all be able to stop hating poems written in Catalan. and start liking our bodies again. And she asks: if Meet the Author Ben Aaronovitch losing weight is the answer, what is the question? Sun 20 Oct 1pm Q Manuel Forcano is a doctor in Semitic Philology Highfield Library, London Road, S2 and has worked as a lecturer in Hebrew and Emma Woolf is the great-niece of Virginia Woolf. Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7204 The Simpsons and their Mathematical Aramaic at the University of Barcelona. He has She is a columnist for The Times and also writes Secrets with Simon Singh published anthologies of his own poems and works Ben Aaronovitch talks about Broken Homes , the for The Independent and Psychologies amongst as a researcher and playwright at the Jordi Savall latest of his crossover crime/fantasy novels to others. She was a co-presenter on Channel 4’s The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Early Music International Centre Foundation. feature DC Peter Grant; upstanding officer of the Supersize vs Superskinny . Her first book, An Apple a Union, Western Bank, S10 In association with Arc Publications MET and apprentice Wizard. Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) was shortlisted for the Beat Award for Recovery The Simpsons is probably the most successful show Inspiration. She was also nominated for Mind’s in television history. It also contains enough Journalist of the Year. sophisticated mathematics to form a university In collaboration with University of Sheffield course. All twenty-five series are peppered with Students’ Union 20 21 Tues 22 Oct 7pm Q Tues 22 Oct 7.30pm MOD with Richard Weight Choro Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Bank Street Arts, 3 2–40 Bank Street, S1 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Film £7.90/£5.70 Admission Free. No need to book (cons)/£4.50 students Talk & Film £13/£9 (cons) Join classical guitarists Jonathon Priestley and Richard Weight tells the story of Britain’s biggest Derek Taylor and Sheffield’s The Word Train and most influential youth cult – Mod. He charts Poets to celebrate a collaboration inspired by the origins of Mod in the Soho jazz scene of the Brazilian ‘Choro’ street bands. 1950s and its heyday in Swinging London in the A community event mid-60s – to a new soundtrack courtesy of the Small Faces, the Who and the Kinks. He takes us Tues 22 Oct 7.30pm Q to the Mod–Rocker riots at Margate and Brighton, and the cult’s revival in the late 70s – played out Sheffield Stories against its own soundtrack of Quadrophenia and The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University the Jam. This is the story of Britain’s biggest, Students’ Union, Paternoster Row, S1 brassiest youth movement and its legacy. music, Admission free. No need to book film, fashion, art, architecture, design … cycling Tues 22 Oct 2pm Tues 22 Oct 7pm Do you love Sheffield and have a story to tell Richard Weight is the author of Patriots: National about you and the city? Join us for a night of story Identity in Britain 1940 – 2000 and co-authored Albert Hattersley with Michael Fowler Chile 40 Years On: A seminar with sharing. To book a reading slot contact John Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide. He Chapeltown Library, Nether Ley Avenue, S35 26 Carmen Rodríguez Turner at [email protected]. Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7000 is a Professor at the University of Boston and a A community event Portobello Centre, University of Sheffield, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and makes Safecracker Michael Fowler talks about his book , Pitt Street, S1 documentaries for radio and television on many the true story of one of Britain’s most notorious Admission free. To book e-mail aspects of British life. Following the talk there will Tues 22 Oct 2pm Q Petermen in the 1950s. A must for fans of true [email protected] be a screening of seminal Mod film Quadrophenia. Interfaith in Fiction – Further Dialogue crime. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Carmen Rodríguez is a Chilean novelist, acclaimed St. Andrews United Reformed Church Hall, poet and short story writer. She will talk about her Upper Hanover Street, S3 Tues 22 Oct 2pm Retribution novel and discuss her views on writing Tues 22 Oct 7.30pm Q Admission free. Donations Welcome and society. The Great Sheffield Flood A community event Defending Politics with To book Tel 0114 255 4962 or Stannington Library, Uppergate Road, S6 Professor Matthew Flinders email [email protected] Admission free. To book Tel 0114 293 0489 Tues 22 Oct Demo 6pm Dinner 7pm Q The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ A discussion of fiction reflecting diverse faiths and Malcolm Nunn guides you on an illustrated talk Union, Western Bank, S10 world views - Humanist, Pagan, Muslim and through the Great Sheffield Flood to mark the Vietnamese Themed Dinner and Food Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Christian. Discussion encouraged and 150th anniversary of this legendary event. Demo with Van Tran and Anh Vu refreshments served. A fresh, provocative and above all optimistic view A community event The Sheffield College, Castle Centre, of the achievements and future potential of Tues 22 Oct 7pm Q Granville Road, S2 democracy at a time when voter apathy has Weds 23 Oct 5pm Q A River in Time with Christine Gregory Tickets £25 includes food demo, three course reached a new high and global pessimism about meal and coffee (drinks not included) Defending Politics Woodseats Library, Chesterfield Road, S8 politics is increasing. is a The Art of Kunqu (Kun Opera) passionate defence of our politics and democracy Admission free. To book Tel 0114 293 0411 Street-food sensations Van Tran and Anh Vu began , University of Sheffield, their award-winning enterprise Banhmi11 in East and updates the arguments made by Hounsfield Road, S3 Acclaimed writer and wildlife photographer London’s Broadway Market with their first market Bernard Crick in his classic defence of politics Christine Gregory returns with her latest book, Admission free stall in 2009. Born in Vietnam they are immersed fifty years ago. exploring the natural history of Bradford Dale Suitable for adults and children aged 12 years in the country’s rich culinary traditions and have Matthew Flinders is Professor of Parliamentary near Youlgreave. A talk combining expert research and over appeared on Jamie Oliver’s Great Britain and Government & Governance at the University of and stunning photography. Have a go at learning basic vocal techniques and Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking . Sheffield. He is widely published, he co-edited The performing phrases from Chinese Opera with Oxford Handbook of British Politics and is the author Inspired by the bustling markets of Vietnam, they experienced practitioner Kathy Hal. of Delegated Governance and the British State which will show how to make a delicious Vietnamese dish A community event and there will then be a specially themed won the W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for the best Vietnamese meal created by Sheffield College political science book in 2009. students using Van and Anh’s delicious recipes. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union In association with the University of Sheffield Public Engagement with Research Team 22 23 Weds 23 Oct 6.30pm Weds 23 Oct 7.30pm Q Meet the Author Conn Iggulden Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 with Roy and Lesley Adkins Admission free. To book Tel 0114 273 4727 Central United Reformed Church, Conn Iggulden is the best selling author of the 60 Norfolk Street, S1 Emperor series, Conqueror series and The Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Dangerous Book for Boys. An exploration of how our ancestors lived two He talks about Stormbird , the first in an epic new centuries ago and a social history of late Georgian series set during the Wars of the Roses. and Regency England using unpublished letters and diaries. Weds 23 Oct 6.30pm This is a vivid portrait of the lives of the vast majority of people who did not live in grand Stargazing for Families houses, using stories from the actual men, women Totley Library, 205 Baslow Road, S17 and children who lived through that time. Van Tran and Anh Vu Admission free. To book Tel 0114 293 0406 The book sets the world of Jane Austen into the Suitable for all ages. Children must be context of the lives of ordinary people and Thurs 24 Oct 6.30pm Q Thurs 24 Oct 7pm Q accompanied by an adult everyday events - forced marriages and smock If you and your family have ever looked up at the weddings, the sale of wives, boys and girls toiling Molly Murphy: Sheffield Suffragette The BBC – Lessons from History night sky in awe and felt slightly lost, let the as chimney sweeps and down mines, the fear of and Socialist with Jean Seaton Sheffield Astronomical Society guide you with a ghosts and witches and attacks by highwaymen. Cafe Harland, 72 John Street, S2 Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street S1 taster session on stargazing. Roy and Lesley Adkins are historians and Tickets £3/£1 on the door Tickets £5 archaeologists. Their books include Jack Tar, Ralph Darlington talks about Sheffield radical The BBC celebrates 91 years of broadcasting this Trafalgar and The Keys of . Weds 23 Oct 7.30pm Q Molly Murphy and assesses her distinctive year - a period that has seen tremendous changes contribution to the feminist and socialist tradition in broadcasting itself and in public attitudes. Battle Castles – 500 Years of Knights Thurs 24 Oct 2pm Q and Siege Warfare with Dan Snow and its relevance today. Recent times have been especially challenging. Lend me your Ear A community event Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History, University The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ of Westminster and author of Breaking the Waves : Crystal Peaks Library, 1–3 Peaks Square, S20 Union, Western Bank, S10 Thurs 24 Oct 7pm Q Volume V1 of the Official History of the BBC 1974 Tickets £10/£8 (cons) Admission Free. No need to book – 87 asks the question ‘what lessons from history Dan Snow‘s new book Battle Castles – 500 Years of An afternoon of poetry, prose and song with a Everest -The First Ascent with does the new Director-General need to take Knights and Siege Warfare was a BBC TV series. In guest compere. Harriet Tuckey seriously? ’The event will be chaired by Ian Soutar A community event this fascinating illustrated talk he charts the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Arts Editor of the Sheffield Telegraph. history of castle warfare through the stories of six Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Jean Seaton has written many books about the great castles including Dover Castle and the media’s coverage of wars and about politics and This is the intriguing story of the scientific astonishing Crac des Chevaliers in the Holy Land. policy making. She is Director of the Orwell Prize. breakthroughs which made it humanly possible to In collaboration with Voice of the Listener & Each represents the best of its type and period and climb Everest and the forgotten member of the Viewer has been tested in battle. Dan investigates the team who made them. Griffith Pugh – Olympic building of these epic structures and the bloody skier, doctor and physiologist – revolutionised weapons used to defeat them and gets to the very British high-altitude mountaineering, Thurs 24 Oct 7.30pm Q heart of the bloodshed and battles of the greatest transforming attitudes to oxygen, clothes, The Saga Louts present fortresses of the Middle Ages. equipment, food and acclimatisation. Out of tune Dan will also share with you a little bit about what with the gentlemanly amateurism of the time; A Streetcar Named Retired he’s been up to in the last 12 months including Pugh was side-lined in the Everest story of 1953. The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Syria, the D-Day beaches and the Congo. Now his daughter Harriet Tuckey unveils an Students’Union, Pasternoster Row, S1 Dan Snow is a historian, author and television insightful biography showing Pugh to be a Tickets £3.50 from Sheffield Hallam University presenter. His TV series include the award winning troubled, abrasive, yet brilliant innovator who Helpdesk, Floor 11, Owen Building or on the door Battlefield Britain and 20th Century Battles. paved the way for exploration around the world. Laugh along with magnificent old codger duo, Sponsored by the University of Sheffield Students’ Eight years in the writing, closely researched, and John Turner and David Harmer - The Saga Louts - Everest - The First Union - Gold Sponsor told with unflinching honesty, as they poke fun at every aspect of contemporary Ascent is the compelling portrait of an unlikely life. Also featuring Ray Globe. hero. A community event In collaboration with Showroom Cinema

24 25 Fri 25 Oct 7pm Sat 26 Oct 2pm Q Sun 27 Oct 12.30pm Q Sun 27 Oct 2pm and 4pm Bubbling Up with Broomsprin g Sheffield in Tudor and Stuart Times Spotting and Jotting Garden Birds Loose Theatre present Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 with David Templeman with Matt Sewell The Sheffield Ghost Walk Admission free. No need to book Central United Reformed Church, The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Cholera Monument, Norfolk Road, S2 Hear fresh new writing from the Broomspring 60 Norfolk Street, S1. Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7/£5 (cons) Writers Group including poetry, novel extracts and This illustrated talk looks at 16th and 17th century Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Suitable for adults and children aged 8 years and short stories set in lively international settings. Sheffield and three of the city’s most important Suitable for adults and children aged 8 years and over. Children must be accompanied by an adult. A community event historic sites: Sheffield Castle, which was once over. Children must be accompanied by an adult No dogs except for guide dogs. the fourth biggest castle in England, Sheffield Matt Sewell, author of the bestselling Our Garden In 1832, the Sheffield cholera epidemic claimed Park and Manor Lodge, the royal prison of Fri 25 Oct 1.30pm Q Birds has illustrated for The Guardian, Big Issue, 339 victims who are buried in a mass grave marked Mary, Queen of Scots. The talk looks at other and the V&A amongst others; painted and by the Cholera Monument. It was believed at the Yorkshire Writers 190 0-1950 surviving buildings from the time, explores the life exhibited in London, New York, Tokyo and Paris time that cholera was a disease of “the poor, the Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University, of ordinary people in the small market town of as well as being an avid ornithologist. He is also idle and the drunk”. Then the Master Cutler died Howard Street, S1 Sheffield and how the town developed its core the creator of the exquisite Off the Shelf brochure – his is the only marked grave. This performance Admission free. To book Tel 0114 225 4003 industry – cutlery. cover! His new book is Our Songbirds offering recreates some of the dramatic events of the An afternoon exploring Yorkshire writers enchanting watercolours and quirky descriptions summer of 1832 as cholera swept through Park published in the early 20th century. Speakers are: Sat 26 Oct 7pm of songbirds – one for every week of the year. At Hill – home to both rich and poor. Professor Marion Shaw, University of this session Matt will share his incredible The Clear Stream: 22 Pages Loughborough and author of Bank Street Arts, 32 –40 Bank Street, S1 knowledge of birds and demonstrate his Sun 27 Oct 4pm The Life of Winifred Holtby on Winifred Holtby; Tickets £7/5 from Bank Street Arts or outstanding artistic skills. He will draw and identify Professor Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam Poetry and Spiritual Life [email protected] birds before your very eyes and then you will have Sheffield Buddhist Centre, Howard Road, S6 University, on Phyllis Bentley; and David Copeland As Off The Shelf turns 22, The Bare Project the chance to draw your own garden bird. Paper Admission free. No need to book on Willie Riley. and pencils provided but please bring a clip board combines immersive performance, music and new Award winning poet, Maitreyabandhu, will discuss Plus a chance to visit Sheffield Hallam University’s writing to celebrate the birthdays of literary figures or book to lean on. In collaboration with University of Sheffield the role of Buddhism in his writing and read from special collection of popular fiction 190 0–1950. born in October. The Crumb Road Students’ Union his latest collection, . Organised by Sheffield Hallam University A community event A community event

Fri 25 Oct 8pm Q Sat 26 Oct 7pm Q Sun 27 Oct 2pm Q Sun 27 Oct 7.30pm Q Bag Lady by Marcia Layne Reading Rasa in Indian Philosophy with Dear Winifred: Christopher Wood- The Adventures of Andy Kershaw The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ Mr. Jay Lakhani and Letters to Winifred and Ben Nicholson The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Paternoster Row, S1 1926–1930 with Anne Goodchild Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Dr. Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy Hindu Samaj Sheffield and District, Arundel Room, Millennium Galleries, Tickets £10/£8 (cons) Meet Eve, in a huge overcoat, epitomising the 21 Buckenham Street, S4. Tickets £3 on the door Arundel Gate, S1 The full-throttle life story of maverick broadcaster, homeless ‘bag lady’. The items in the trolley are An exciting and stimulating evening when Vedic Tickets £6/£5 (cons) pioneering DJ and unstoppable foreign symbolical, representing her troubled life story - correspondent, Andy Kershaw. Over a 25 year Rasa texts will be translated into Bharathanatyam Friend of Diaghilev, Cocteau and Picasso, some inspiring wrath, some pain and some career, he has been Billy Bragg’s driver, presented (dance) demonstrations. Christopher Wood was a darling of the English instilling moments of pride. Whistle Test and Live Aid, worked for the A community event modernist movement. He was a friend of Ben Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen, shared an As she peels back the layers we realise that not Nicholson and with him ‘discovered’ the primitive office with John Peel and amassed a record only is it okay to be angry, but sometimes it is painter Alfred Wallis. His suicide at the age of 29 collection weighing over seven tons. He has visited essential for our survival. Marcia Layne’s brand robbed the art world of a rising star. Wood’s 97 countries and as a rock & roll war new monologue Bag Lady produced by Hidden extensive correspondence with Winifred correspondent reported from perilous places Gems Theatre Company both challenges and Nicholson forms one of the most important including North Korea and Haiti. He was one of celebrates the notion of the ‘strong black woman’ elements in an understanding of the man and his few journalists to be an eyewitness to the Rwanda Sheffield’s Marcia Layne is an award winning art and presents an extraordinary self portrait. genocide and has won more Sony Radio awards writer whose writing credits include Sister Esteem The scope, honesty and freshness of Wood’s than any other broadcaster. He went through a (Paines Plough), Lost and Found (Yorkshire writing clearly reflects the inestimable importance turbulent time in his personal life but, ever the Women’s Theatre) and The Yellow Doctress of both Winifred and Ben Nicholson to his life survivor, has come roaring back, written his (West Yorkshire Playhouse). She also wrote The and art in the late 1920s. Writer Anne Goodchild astonishing life story and returned to the airwaves. Barber and the Ark for BBC Radio 4. is an expert in collection and exhibition curating. This roller coaster illustrated show propels you She was curator of the Graves Art Gallery Sheffield through his life with a sense of aliveness, outrage, until 1997 and Senior Curator of Visual Art for wit and honesty. Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust. In collaboration with the University of Sheffield In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Students’ Union 26 27 Mon 28 Oct 7pm Q Tues 29 Oct 7pm Q Admen and Eve: The Bible in Fifty Years of Doctor Who with Contemporary Advertising with Daniel Blythe Dr Katie Edwards Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Suitable for adults and children aged 7 years and Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) over. Children under 11 years must be This remarkable book, the first of its kind, is an accompanied by an adult analysis of a phenomenon - the use of the Bible Daniel Blythe takes you on an illustrated voyage and the figure of Eve in advertising. Katie Edwards through Time and Space exploring the TV show, explores how the use of Eve by brands such as books, all 11 Doctors (and more?), Cyberman Christian Dior, DKNY, Ford Streetka and Agent upgrades, the Daleks, the mysterious Computo- Provocateur shows how she has become the Mice and much more. Find out how Doctor Who ultimate postfeminist icon of female sexual and coped with its limited budget in the 1960s, Bag Lady consumer power. Eve in advertising is a revealing accusations of horror in the 1970s, war with the example of how the Bible functions today. BBC in the 1980s, obscurity in the 1990s and the Sun 27 Oct 7.30pm Mon 28 Oct 7pm Q Dr Katie Edwards is a lecturer in the Bible and triumph of the 2000s. Whether you’re a fan of ‘Street Haunting’ - Narrative Poetry The Devonshires with Roy Hattersley Contemporary Culture and Society in the Matt Smith, Tom Baker or the legendary original, Department of Biblical Studies at the University of William Hartnell, you’ll find something to Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, with Matthew Clegg, Rob Hindle and Sheffield. She researches the impact and influence entertain and inform you as the 50th anniversary Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 Fay Musselwhite of the Bible on the modern world and in popular of Doctor Who is celebrated in 2013. We could tell Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) culture and her next book is The Messiah Wears you more, but - “spoilers!” The Fat Cat, 23 Alma Street, S3 Prada. The story of the Cavendish family and the first Sheffield novelist Daniel Blythe grew up being a Tickets £3 on the door In collaboration with Showroom Cinema eight “Dukes of Devonshire” is the story of Doctor Who fan in the 1980s, has had 15 books Listen to a selection of narrative poems, with the England. From 1381 when Sir John Cavendish, In association with the University of Sheffield published, including the Doctor Who novels The accent on voice and movement, accompanied by Lord Chief Justice of England, was killed during Public Engagement with Research Team Dimension Riders, Infinite Requiem and Autonomy short films by Brian Lewis. the Peasants’ Revolt to 1906 when the Duke of Shadow Runners. A community event and is the creator of Devonshire’s resignation brought down the Tory Mon 28 Oct 7pm Q Enter Civica’s Doctor Who writing competition to government, the family’s fortunes, misfortunes and win an iPad Mini. More details on page 45 Mon 28 Oct 2pm Q its huge personalities have mirrored the life of the No Fixed Abode A Journey Through In collaboration with nation. For this brilliantly researched history, Homelessness from Cornwall to London Showroom Cinema Poetry/Prose Slam Roy Hattersley was given unique access to the Sponsored by Civica – Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, S1 archives based at Chatsworth and the resulting With Charlie Carroll Platinum Sponsor Tickets £3 on the door (includes refreshments) book is delicious, popular history at its very best. Domino Hall, Sheffield Cathedral, A slam competition, where the audience chooses Roy Hattersley was born in Sheffield. In a long Campo Lane, S1 the winner. If you are interested in competing career as a Labour politician he served as Deputy Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Tues 29 Oct 7.30pm Q please contact Sheffield Writers Club by the 14 Leader of the Labour Party from 198 3–1992. He is Inspired by George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris River Wolton and Sally Goldsmith Sept either with SAE to Sheffield Writers’ Club, a journalist and author whose books include and London and finding himself jobless, with no Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, S1 The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George c/o 66b Norton Lees Lane, Sheffield S8 9BE or and best money but with all the time in the world, Tickets £5/£4 (cons) e-mail [email protected] seller The Edwardians Charlie Carroll takes on the daunting task of In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University The launch of River Wolton’s new collection A community event tramping from Cornwall to London, pushing his Indoor Skydiving , a book of that resounds with body and his resolve to the limit. Mon 28 Oct 6.30pm Q humour, vitality and fierce compassion. “She writes Sheffield Archives and Information On a journey that takes him from the picturesque about the big subjects - life, love, death - in a Meet the Author Stephen Booth Are you a member? Joining is free and you can Cornish coast to sleeping on the Strand in gloriously easy and accessible style” (Tribune). choose from thousands of books, DVDs and London, Charlie’s encounters are sometimes River Wolton has lived in Sheffield and the Hope Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 CDs. We offer free internet access, activities, enlightening, sometimes disturbing, but always Valley for twenty-five years and was Derbyshire Admission free. Places must be booked storytimes, author visits, sets of books for memorable. A striking mix of travel and current- Tel 0114 273 4727 reading groups. Enjoy our virtual library 24/7. No Fixed Abode Poet Laureate 2007-9. Award winning songwriter Search our stock, reserve or renew items, affairs writing, sheds light on a side and broadcaster Sally Goldsmith launched her first Stephen Booth, whose hugely popular crime download e-audiobooks, ask a librarian a of the UK few ever see from within. full poetry collection Are We There Yet? this year. novels featuring Cooper and Fry are set in the question, find out about clubs and groups, Charlie will talk about his book followed by a With jiving aunts, mardy stone masons, clacking browse images and search reference books. Peak District, talks about his latest novel in the discussion about some of the issues raised jackdaws, Sally’s poems are full of music, sensuality Already Dead series, . @shefflibraries - /shefflibraries including homelessness. Charlie Carroll is a writer, and playful language. “Here is the aching fragility http://www.shefflibraries.blogspot.co.uk/ musician, teacher and traveller and his first book, of things and words we still hold dear ….” http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries On the Edge , combined travel writing with the (Conor O’Callaghan). exploration of social issues. In collaboration with the Poetry Business In collaboration with the Big Issue in the North 28 29 Tues 29 Oct 7.30pm Q Weds 30 Oct 7pm Q city has been mapped over the centuries. From the sumptuously coloured county maps of the 18th Thurs 31 Oct 7pm Q The Chimp Paradox with Dr Steve Peters A History of Sheffield Cathedral with century to the Ordnance Survey maps showing the The Divorce of Henry VIII – The Untold The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Grace Tebbutt enormous changes that Sheffield underwent Union, Western Bank, S10 during the industrial revolution and the growth of Story with Dr Catherine Fletcher Greenhill Library, Hemper Lane, S8 Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) the city throughout the 19th century, to the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7700 Dr Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist working present day. Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) A history of Sheffield Cathedral from the 12th in elite and Olympic sport, business, education and In 1527, Henry VIII, desperate to marry Anne century to the present day. health. His specialist interest is in the working of Weds 30 Oct 7.30pm Q Boleyn and ensure the Tudor line, asks Pope the human mind and how it can reach optimum Discover how the Cathedral developed over time Clement VII to grant him a divorce. Enter performance applied to all walks of life. He is and its uses through the centuries. Project Sunshine: How Science Can Use Gregorio Casali, an Italian diplomat hired to consultant to the British Cycling Team, Liverpool the Sun to Fuel and Feed the World with represent Henry’s interests in the Vatican. Football club and UK athletics and has current and Weds 30 Oct 7pm Q Professor Tony Ryan and Steve McKevitt Through 6 years of persuasion, threats and bribery, past involvements in many other Olympic and non- The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Casali lives by his wits dealing with the Tudor break Olympic Sports, including UK Taekwondo, UK Tolerating Intolerance: A Discussion Union, Western Bank, S10 up. Set against the backdrop of war-torn Canoeing, Snooker and England Rugby. Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, S1 The Divorce of Henry VIII Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Renaissance Italy, Dr Steve Peters is author of the best-selling mind Tickets £5/£3 (cons) combines a gripping family saga with a highly It’s an astonishing fact that capturing all the management book The Chimp Paradox and Outwardly, we live in a society that appears more charged political battle between the Tudors and energy in just one hour’s worth of sunlight would creator of the Chimp Model, a psychological open-minded and tolerant than at any time in our the Vatican to reveal the extraordinary true story enable us to meet the planet’s food and energy technique that has helped all manner of history. But, how far does this tolerance really behind history’s most infamous divorce. needs for an entire year. sportsmen and women including Bradley Wiggins, extend? Do we now ‘tolerate’ everything but the Dr Catherine Fletcher has a PhD in History and Project Sunshine Victoria Pendleton and Ronnie O’Sullivan. For ‘intolerant’ beliefs of others? This panel and tells how scientists are working to has held research fellowships at the British School anyone guilty of sabotaging their own happiness, audience discussion explores interpretations of reconnect us to the ‘solar economy’, harnessing in Rome and the European Institute in Florence. Dr Peter’s wise words and insights are gold dust. tolerance in history in order to open up what the power of the sun and ending dependence on She is now a lecturer in Public History at the A rare chance to hear one of the most influential tolerance means today. ‘fossilised sunshine’ in the form of coal, oil and University of Sheffield. and respected psychologists around and discover gas. Speakers are: Frank Füredi, Professor of Sociology “An eye-opening book, an intricate and fascinating story” his life changing mind programme for yourself. at the , commentator and author Tony Ryan and Steve McKevitt take us through Hilary Mantel. ‘The mind programme that helped me win my Olympic of On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence. history to see how our world became the place it is In collaboration with Showroom Cinema today, before moving on to the cutting-edge Golds’ Sir Chris Hoy. Angie Hobbs, Professor for the Public In association with the University of Sheffield In collaboration with University of Sheffield science and technology that will enable us to live Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Public Engagement with Research Team happily in a sustainable future. Student’s Union Sheffield and contributor to BBC Radio 4s In our Time and the Today programme. Professor Tony Ryan OBE is the Pro-Vice Thurs 31 Oct 7.30pm Q Chancellor for Science at the University of Tues 29 Oct 7.30pm Q Anthony Milton, Professor of History at the Sheffield where he leads Project Sunshine. University of Sheffield, author of Protestant Thought Ghost Stories from Victorian Sheffield Trick or Treat – Halloween Poetry Slam Steve McKevitt is an expert in consumerism and The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ 160 0–1640 and founding editor of Politics, Culture with Dr David Clarke and Society in Early Modern Britain. communications, an author and government Union, Paternoster Row, S1 Upper Chapel, 45 Surrey Street, S1 In collaboration with Sheffield Salon adviser on business innovation. Tickets £2 Sheffield Hallam University Helpdesk, In collaboration with University of Sheffield Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Floor 11, Owen Building or on the door Student’s Union Spring-heeled Jack, the Gabriel Hounds and the Weds 30 Oct 7.15pm Q Read your original spoken word piece on the In association with the University of Sheffield ghostly white lady in Campo Lane which was subject of Halloween and maybe win the Slam Write Away! Public Engagement with Research Team blamed for a woman’s death from fright… Champion’s Trophy. Book a performance slot with Harland Café, 72 John Street, S2 These and other spectres that terrorised John Turner at [email protected]. Tickets £2 on the door Sheffielders during the reign of Queen Victoria A community event Weds 31 Oct 7pm Q will be discussed in this illustrated Hallowe’en WEA writers from Liz Cashdan’s three different presentation by Sheffield Hallam University Wed 30 Oct 6.30pm Q groups launch new anthologies. You might be In Their Own Write journalism lecturer and historian Dr David Clarke, inspired to join a WEA class and write yourself! Quaker Meeting House, St James Street S1 to launch Scared to Death , a new book on 19th A community event Critters Admission free. Donations welcome century ghost stories. With storyteller Simon The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University’s Students Heywood and book illustrator and author Ann Union, Pasternoster Row, S1 Share our conversations, readings, stories, poems, Weds 30 Oct 7.30pm Q anecdotes, recipes written especially for Off the Beedham. Tickets £3 on the door Snapshots in Time with Mike Spick Shelf by asylum seekers and refugees. Linda Lee Welch and The Only Michael perform A community event Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 Critters, a poem sequence exploring the physical and emotional landscape of Texas in words and Tickets £5/£4 (cons) music. This fascinating illustrated talk looks at some A community event wonderful maps of Sheffield and explores how the 30 31 Thurs 31 Oct 7.30pm Q Sat 2 Nov 11am Q Sat 2 Nov 2pm Q Sat 2 Nov 2pm Q Four Fields with Tim Dee The King’s Grave: The Search for The 10-Step Stress Solution with 10 Years with Off the Shelf The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Student’s Richard III with Philippa Langley and Neil Shah 5 Mappin Street, S1 Union, Western Bank, S10 Michael Jones The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, S1 Admission free Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) includes refreshment Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Mappin Writers celebrate their 10th anniversary The In his first book since the extraordinary Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Is your 24/7 life stressing you out? In this talk with an afternoon revisiting their writing past and Running Sky , acclaimed nature writer Tim Dee tells Neil Shah, author of the bestselling book 10- Step present. the story of four green fields spread around the On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Stress Solution , will give you some practical tools to A community event world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their Bosworth Field and his body hurriedly buried in learn to switch off your “always on” life and regain skies, and their natural and human histories. Four the church of the Greyfriars. a little piece of space and peace. Find out how to Sat 2 Nov 2pm Q real fields – walkable, mappable, mowable and Fifty years later the grave was lost and Richard’s manage your time at work and at home, regain knowable - but also secretive, mysterious, wild and reputation destroyed by Tudor propaganda. Now, your work-life balance, lift your mood, improve Sheffield Salesman to the World with changing. in an incredible find, Richard III’s remains have your concentration and motivation, get a good Mike Spick Dee’s four fields, which he has known for more been discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. night’s sleep and stop worrying. Neil Shah is a Weston Park Museum, Weston Park, S10 than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom Philippa Langley, whose years of research and world class expert in stress management and Tickets £6/£5 (cons) of his Cambridgeshire garden, a field in southern belief that she would find Richard in this exact director of the Stress Management Society. Shumac Skivers, Bushman’s Friends, Liquorice Zambia, a prairie field in Little Bighorn, Montana, spot inspired the project, reveals the inside story Allsorts and Champagne Nippers are just some of USA, and a grass meadow in the exclusion zone at of the search for the king’s grave and historian Sat 2 Nov 4pm Q the less obvious products that Sheffield has given Chernobyl, Ukraine. Michael Jones tells of Richard’s 15th century life NLP A Practical Guide with Neil Shah the world. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look and death. The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, S1 This illustrated presentation explores how anew at where we live, how we interact with nature The result is a compelling portrayal of one of our Tickets £8/£6 (cons) includes refreshment Sheffield sold both its products and itself around and what our priorities should be to preserve the greatest archaeological discoveries and a complete Have you ever done something so elegantly and the globe. Made in Sheffield implies a quality and precious but sometime unrecognised treasures on re-evaluation of our most controversial monarch. effectively that it took your breath away? attention to detail in manufacture and the talk our doorsteps. Philippa Langley inaugurated the quest for King Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) shows you shows how the city has built that reputation over Four Fields is a profound, lyrical book by one of Richard III’s lost grave and is secretary of the how to understand and model your own successes, the last 700 years. Britain’s very best nature writers. Scottish branch of the Richard III Society. so that you can have more of those breath-taking In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Tim Dee has worked as a BBC radio producer for Michael Jones was awarded a history PhD by moments. NLP has been described as a popular more than twenty years. His first book, The Bristol University, is a fellow of the Royal Historical psychological approach to enable people to have Running Sky : A Birdwatching Life received glowing Society, a member of the British Commission for fuller and richer lives. It’s a way of a way of reviews when it was published in 2009. Military History, a writer and presenter. bringing out the best in yourself and others. In collaboration with University of Sheffield In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Neil Shah - author of the bestselling book Students’ Union Introduction to NLP: A Practical Guide – will be sharing with you his 5 secrets to success and happiness gained through mastering the art and science of NLP, the same techniques he has used to climb Mount Everest and run the London Marathon 4 times. 32 33 Michelangelo Buonarroti and how he transformed Sat 2 Nov 2 – 4pm Q forever our notion of what an artist could be. Dyslexic and Loving Words – Short Film Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is Chief European Screening and Discussion art critic for Bloomberg. His publications include: Showroom 5, Showroom Cinema, The Yellow House: Van Gogh and Man with a Blue Paternoster Row, S1. Admission free Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud. No need to book (places subject to availability) In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Following the success of the Dyslexia Debate at last year’s festival, Off the Shelf has teamed up with Sun 3 Nov 8pm Sheffield artist and writer Vicky Morris to make a short film asking – “What if you’re dyslexic but you Lets Get Lyrical love to write or use words?” Through interviews Queens Social Club, 4 Queens Road, S2 with practicing writers, the film highlight how it’s Admission free, On the door possible to overcome dyslexic issues or work around (subject to availability) the challenges they present if you have a passion Off the Shelf has partnered with Sensoria on a for words. Following the screening, there will be a Songwriting Competition for Sheffield based break with time to ask questions, followed by a musicians and composers. The winner of the panel discussion led by local dyslexic storyteller, competition and the runner up will play live Wed 6 Nov 11am Q Thurs 14 Nov 9pm Q Shonaleigh Cumbers and including Mel Hunt, a tonight. Also performing is stand up poet, specialist teacher at Dyslexia Action Sheffield. comedian and secret lemonade drinker Stan Skinny Talking books with Gordon Griffin Doomed: Chuck Palahniuk Watch the film online from 3 November who has been described as “Sheffield’s tallest and Central Lending Library, Surrey Street S1 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 www.youtube.com/dyslexiaaction funniest poet”. His poems are about the things that Admission free. Places must be booked Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) Funded by Sheffield Town Trust concern us all - sleep addiction, the environment, Tel 0114 273 4727 Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead spots, chocolate revels and love. For anyone who loves listening to talking books, girl in the universe, continues the afterlife Sat 2 Nov 7pm – 1am In collaboration with Sensoria then the name Gordon Griffin will be a familiar adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller one, not only as a regular reader of talking books Damned . Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Off The Shelf Closing Party Doomed Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB Mon 4 - Sun 10 Nov 10am – 4pm Q but as a reader par excellence. Come and meet Hell that only Palahniuk could imagine, is Admission free. Donations welcome the man behind the voice. This event is a dark and twisted, funny, apocalyptic vision from Our Voice Installation - particularly for people with a visual impairment, this provocative storyteller. Local art, music and literature collective Opus The Youth Word Up but all are welcome. Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the Independents will once again be hosting the Off The Cube, Winter Gardens, Surrey Street, S1 the Shelf closing party. Expect cutting edge unspeakable landscape of the afterlife to confront Admission free featured poets, a poetry slam and live music to end Thurs 7 Nov 7.30pm Q the Devil himself. the festival on a high. Our featured poet for the The Youth Word Up is back! Created and launched The Youth Word Up But her story isn’t over yet. In a series of electronic evening will be Hollie McNish whose poem by performance poet and author Benjamin dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Student’s Mathematics recently passed the million and a half Zephaniah for Off the Shelf 2012, the project describes the ultimate showdown between Good Union, Paternoster Row, S1 views mark on YouTube. See you at Sheffield’s continues to give young people a chance to have and Evil. Once again, our unconventional but home of the bard – Shakespeares! their creative voices heard. Admission Free. Places must be booked plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her Hosted by Word Life and Opus Independents. In collaboration with Sheffield Community Youth Tel 0114 273 4400 wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, Teams and Sheffield Youth Justice Services, artist For adults and young people 13 years and over watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on Sun 3 Nov 2pm and writer Vicky Morris has worked with a group of A Spoken Word Performance by Young People you. local young people aged 13 to 19 years on voice, and Hollie McNish. American author Chuck Palahniuk’s twelve Michelangelo : His Epic Life poetry and creative writing. The resulting Our See page 41 for details. bestselling novels – Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, with Martin Gayford Voice installation showcases a selection of the work Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery, produced as an audio visual exhibition in the Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club – have sold more Arundel Gate, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Winter Gardens. than five million copies in the United States. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo’s life. At The young people will also perform their words live In collaboration with Showroom Cinema 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, on stage at The Hubs on Thursday 7 November at perhaps the world. Long before he died at almost 7.30 pm alongside performance poet Hollie 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest McNish – see page 41 sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his This project has been made possible with the enemies, an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). support of Arts Council England, Sheffield City Few of his works, including the huge frescoes of the Council: Children Young People and Families, Sistine Chapel Ceiling and the marble giant David, Sheffield Community Youth Teams, were small or easy to accomplish. In Michelangelo Sheffield Youth Justice Service, Writing Yorkshire Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be and Lovebytes. 34 35 Workshops

Sat 12 Oct 10am Fri 18 Oct 7.30pm Q Open Your Memory Box – Using Parzival and the Grail. An introduction Memories in your Writing Freeman College, 88 Arundel Street, S1 Bank Street Arts, 3 2– 40 Bank Street, S1 Tickets £5/3 (cons) To book Tel 07974 906 421 Admission £10 (includes lunch) Suitable for 16 years and over Tickets available from Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote Parzival in the [email protected] or 13th Century, a story still relevant to modern life. Tel 07815 966 784 Join a workshop to explore this saga which lies at Suitable for 16 years and over the heart of European myth. A community event Bring a small item which evokes strong memories and explore them in a variety of writing styles. A community event Sat 19 Oct 2 pm Q Fri 22 Nov 7.30pm Mon 25 Nov 7pm Colour Coded Writing Workshop with Q Q Sat 12 Oct 10am Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The A History of the Blackpool Illuminations Sue Shaw Walkley Remembered Poetry Workshop Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, S10 First 2,000 Years with Tom Standage with Professor Vanessa Toulmin Led by Fay Musselwhite: Walkley History Project Tickets £8/£6 (cons) The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 The Appleyard Room, Walkley Community Centre, How does colour influence our emotions, creativity Union, Western Park, S10 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) 7a Fir Street, Walkley, S6 and writing? Can a change of colour alter the Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Sparkling with over one million lights and six Admission free. Places must be booked at narrative thread of a short story or redirect a A look at the history of social networking from miles long, Blackpool Illuminations are world www.walkleyhistory.wordpress.com poem? Taking the Colour Coded exhibition at Cicero and Luther, to Facebook and Twitter. Today famous attracting over four million visitors each How to find poetry in the history that surrounds Weston Park exhibition as its starting point, this we are endlessly connected, constantly tweeting, year. In 2012 the Blackpool Illuminations – the us. Browse the findings and photographs from workshop will explore and interweave images, texting, e-mailing. greatest free show on earth – celebrated 100 years. Walkley History Project’s slum clearance research. words and objects in a variety of creative exercises. In collaboration with Museums Sheffield This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. To celebrate this milestone Professor Vanessa Bring your own local materials for a workshop of Throughout history information has been spread Toulmin spent five years tracing the history of the inventive exercises and first drafts and contribute through social networks with far-reaching social lights and unearthing hundreds of amazing your poetry to the project. Suitable for all levels of Sat 19 Oct Workshop 4.30pm and political effects. pictures and stories to create her book which is full writing experience. Film 8pm Writing on the Wall of colourful original artwork telling the story of traces the rise, fall and rebirth Bring paper, pens and lunch (café orders can be of social media over the past 2,000 years revealing Blackpool’s glittering seaside promenade. She will Adaptation share some of that history with you in this taken on the day). that social networks do not merely connect us A community event Screenwriting Workshop illustrated talk. today – they also link us to the past. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund Highfield Library, London Road, S2 Tom Standage is digital editor at the Economist Professor Vanessa Toulmin is Director of the Workshop £10 (includes refreshments) and editor-in-chief of its website, Economist.com. National Fairground Archive at the University of Sat 12 Oct 10.15am Q Film £5/4 (cons) To book visit He is the author of six history books, including the Sheffield, a leading authority on Victorian www.magiclanternfilclub.wordpress.com New York Times bestseller A History of the World in entertainment and Chair in Early Film and Poetry Business Writing Day Book for both sessions and enjoy a free buffet Popular Entertainment. Six Glasses. Premier Inn, Angel Street, S3 Suitable for 16 years and over In collaboration with University of Sheffield She is Head of Engagement and curator and Tickets £25/£20 (cons) To book Screenplay writer John Hunter will explain tricks Students’ Union producer of Festival of the Mind and the Ideas e-mail [email protected] of the screenwriting trade for aspiring writers. In association with MADE: The Entrepreneur Bazaar. Her books include ‘Electric Edwardians: The Exhilarating writing exercises in the morning Followed by screening of Adaptation by Spike Festival Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon and Pleasurelands. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema working from classic and contemporary poems. Jonzes - an epic, funny drama about screenwriting. A community event In association with University of Sheffield Public Please bring a poem and ten copies for the afternoon workshop. Engagement with Research Team ‘Ann and Peter Sansom are incomparably experienced and inspirational tutors with a brilliant repertoire of exercises’ - The Poetry Trust. Organised by The Poetry Business

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Civica are Platinum Sponsor of Off the Shelf supporting events for children, young people and families

Fri 18 Oct 4.30pm Fri 25 Oct 4.30pm The Quangle Wangle’s Hat and Other Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre present Tales by Edward Lear Peter and the Wolf The Montgomery, Surrey Street, S1 The Montgomery, Surrey Street, S1 Tickets £6 from www.TheMontgomery.org.uk Suitable for 4 years and over Tel 0114 272 0455 Children must be accompanied by an adult Altered Book Workshop Colour Coded Suitable for 6 years and over. Children must be Tickets £7 from www.TheMontgomery.org.uk accompanied by an adult Follow Peter’s adventures with Duck, Cat, Little Sat 26 Oct 10am Sun 27 Oct 10.30am Get whisked away into the whimsical, wacky world Bird and WOLF! in an exciting, large scale, of Edward Lear’s nonsense poetry and songs in puppet show with life-sized, animal puppets and Altered Book Workshop with Water, Water, Everywhere this performance and workshop adventure. actors. Katherine Johnson 4 Samson Street, S2 A community event A community event Admission free. To book Tel 0114 272 3906 Bank Street Arts, 3 6– 40 Bank Street, S1 Sat 19 Oct 11am Sat 26 Oct 10.30am All materials provided. Suitable for 16 years Debjani Chatterjee will lead a short poetry writing Q Q and over workshop and you are invited to bring a brief Co-write your PX story with Ania Bas Stories from Across the World Tickets: £25 from Bank Street Arts or poem or song in any language (with English The Learning Zone/Parson Cross Library, Carpenter Room, Central Library, e-mail [email protected] translation) on the National Poetry Day subject of 320 Wordsworth Avenue, Parson Cross, S5 Surrey Street, S1 water. Tickets £3 on the door Turn unread pages into sculpture by using a A community event Admission free. No need to book - just drop in scalpel to create an altered book that, until Suitable for 11 years and over Suitable for 7 years and over opened, looks like a normal, untouched book. You Weds 30 Oct 5.30pm Q Join artist and writer Ania Bas and share your Children must be accompanied by an adult will need to be confident with using a scalpel and experiences of living in Parsons Cross. Hear stories on a universal theme from across the you can take your work of art home with you. New Creative Writing in English with A community event world told in both their original languages and in Organised by Bank Street Arts Dr. Gang Sui English. Sat 19 Oct 2pm A community event Sat 26 Oct 2pm Q Hicks Building, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, S3 Yorkshire Young Writers present 27 Oct 11am – 4pm Writing Good Dialogue Admission free Q Creative Lounge, Workstation, Suitable for 16 years and over Tantalising Ta1sters! Bank Street Arts, 3 2– 40 Bank Street, S1 Every Picture Tells A Story - how to Paternoster Row, S1 A talk and workshop exploring how Chinese create a graphic novel Tickets £8/£6 (cons) Tickets £1 on the door. Suitable for 1 3– 25 years students develop their creative writing in English Kelham Island Museum, Alma Street, S3 All levels of experience welcome. and how you can create fresh, verbal poetic images Join a festival day by young writers for young writers featuring workshops, food, open mic and a Normal museum admission applies: Adults £5/£4 Belfast-based writer, producer and director Andrea for yourself. A community event headlining poet at 7pm. (cons)/Children Free Admission McCartney will help participants improve their A community event To book Tel 0114 272 2106 or dialogue-writing skills. She will show you what to e-mail [email protected] think about when starting to write, how to improve Weds 23 Oct 3.30pm Suitable for children aged 9 years and over dialogue you have already written and techniques Q Children must be accompanied by an adult for adapting your ideas for fiction, film, television Meet the Author Bali Rai A hands-on family workshop with graphic novelist and radio. Ecclesall Library, 120 Ecclesall Road South, S11 Andy Messer and illustrator Bob Moulder Andrea has written, produced and directed Admission free. To book Tel 0114 203 7222 documentaries and other factual programmes for Suitable for 1 2– 18 years Celebrating 100 years of stainless steel. With the BBCNI, Channel Four Learning and BBC2 as well help of Harry Brearley, the Sheffield lad who Acclaimed author Bali Rai talks about his books, as publishing books and articles. She is a creative discovered stainless steel, youngers will change writing techniques and everything in-between writing tutor for the Open College of the Arts words into pictures inspired by Kelham’s including multi-culturalism, politics and maybe a (OCA). exhibition Rustless: The Harry Brearley Story. In association with Open College of the Arts bit of football too! Organised by Kelham Island Museum 38 39 28 Oct – 1 Nov 10am – 4pm each day Tues 29 Oct 7pm Sheffield Children’s University Live! Fifty Years of Doctor Who with Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 Daniel Blythe Admission free. No need to book Suitable for adults and children aged 7 years and Suitable for children aged 5 years and over over See page 29 for details. Children under 11 years must be accompanied by an adult. For information: Weds 30 Oct 1.30 and 3pm Q www.sheffield.gov.uk/cu or Tel 0114 203 9134 My Granny is a Pirate! Join the team from the Children’s University Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 for family fun activities: Activities will earn Tickets £4 accompanying adults free children CU credits, awards and badges with a Suitable for 3–6 years. Children must be Passport to Learning! Don’t forget to bring accompanied by an adult yours! Passports are available priced £2 from all Sheffield libraries. “My granny was a pirate! She sailed the seven seas. Bali Rai My Granny is a Pirate She captured many pirate ships - but was always Mon 28 and Tues 29 Oct home for tea”. the Glastonbury festival, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Bar, Professor Fluffy – Science is Fun Join Granny and her dog Jolly Roger in this Sat 2 Nov 2pm London’s Southbank Centre and has had poems swashbuckling musical adventure with skeletons, Discover the exciting world of science and commissioned by Tate Modern and Channel 4. buried treasure and all sorts of pirate fun. Adapted Publish your own “Zine”Workshop experiments. from Val McDermid’s charming picture book and Bank Street Arts, 3 2– 40 Bank Street, S1 “I can’t take my ears off her” Benjamin Zephaniah Wed 30 Oct featuring well-loved performers from Sage Suitable for 1 5– 25 years This project has been made possible with the Admission free. To book e-mail support of Sheffield City Council: Children Young The Power of Play with Imagination Gaming Gateshead’s Early Years team, this rip roaring show recounts Granny’s secret life as a fierce pirate [email protected] People and Families, Sheffield Community Youth Enjoy exciting and unusual board games from Teams, Sheffield Youth Justice Service, Writing adventuring on the seven seas. Jolly fun! See your words in print when you write and all over the world. Yorkshire, Lovebytes and Arts Council England Produced by New Writing North for Durham publish your own mini-magazine. Bring your ideas Thurs 31 Oct Book Festival or just enthusiasm! In association with The Sage Gateshead A community event Spooky Halloween Crafts Sat 7 Dec 1.30pm & 3pm Family Concerts Mon 9 Dec 11am & 1pm School Concerts Learn about spook Halloween animals and Fri 1 Nov 10.30am Thurs 7 Nov 7.30pm Q make your own to take home. Q Hell and High Water – Record your Stan and Mabel Fri 1 Nov The Youth Word Up Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives A Spoken Word Performance by Young People Celebrations of the World – Arts and Crafts Memories of Gleadless Valley The Octagon, University of Sheffield Student’s Newfield Green Library, Gleadless Road, S2 and Hollie McNish Union, Western Bank, S10 Discover how people all over the world Admission Free Suitable for all ages The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Student’s Tickets: Family Concerts: £10 Adults/£6 (cons) celebrate and try your hand at a craft activity. Children must be accompanied by an adult Union, Paternoster Row, S1 School Concerts: £3 children/Teachers free Organised by Sheffield Children’s University Come and celebrate our wonderful community at Admission Free. Places must be booked To Book Tel 0114 249 6000 our horror themed party. Produce a collection of Tel 0114 273 4400 www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk local spooky stories and happenings in print. Suitable for adults and young people aged 13 Suitable for children aged 3 years and over A community event years and over. Parental guidance applies Children must be accompanied by an adult Tues 29 Oct 12pm As part of his guest curation for Off the Shelf in Paul Rissmann, Music in the Round’s award Sat 2 Nov 10am 2012, Benjamin Zephaniah created The Youth winning Children’s Composer in Residence, has No Sense Nonsense Workshop created yet another irresistible piece of music Adventures in China - Creating Your Word Up – a project designed to give young The Montgomery, Surrey Street, S1 people who have something to say their chance to based on the book written and illustrated by Admission free, donations welcome. Tickets from Own Stories speak out. Jason Chapman. www.TheMontgomery.org.uk Bartolome House, School of Law, University of The performers tonight are aged 1 3–19 years and Following the huge success of Sir Scallywag and Suitable for 13 years and over Sheffield, Winter Street, S3. Admission free they come from all over Sheffield. They will the Golden Underpants, this new piece will Suitable for 5 years and over. Children under 11 engage and inspire audiences. With companion Draw your own nonsense world and create poetry, perform pieces they have created themselves, pieces by Rossini and Mozart this hour long songs and stories inspired by Edward Lear. must be accompanied by an adult telling it how it is, sharing their experiences, their concert is a perfect introduction to classical music A community event Hear adventurous stories written by pupils of fears, their hopes, their vision, their words. and features lots of audience participation and Sheffield Star Mandarin School and have a go at Sharing the stage with them tonight is 2009 UK illustrated projections. creating your own story inspired by China. Slam Champion and rising poetry star Organised by Music in the Round in association A community event Hollie McNish. Hollie is a published poet and has released two poetry albums. She has appeared at with Off the Shelf 40 41 Events for Schools Fri 18 Oct 10.30am Q Weds 23 Oct 9.45am Getting Started in Screenwriting Bali Rai Off the Shelf is sponsored by Civica, Platinum Sponsor. Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Parson Cross Library, 320 Wordsworth Avenue, S5 Civica are pleased to support free events for schools. Admission free. Places must be booked – To book Tel 0114 203 9533 Tel 0114 273 4400 Suitable for 12–16 years These events are for school groups only. Admission Suitable for 1 4– 16 years Acclaimed author Bali Rai talks about his books, is free, but places must be booked. Please see his inspirations and his life as an author. What are the elements which make up a great individual events for details. script? What makes one film a blockbuster and Events in community libraries have been organised another sink without trace? Weds 23 Oct 11.30am by Libraries, Archives and Information Services. This session will provide an introduction to the Bali Rai wonderful world of screenwriting and offer advice Firth Park Library, 443 Firth Park Library, S5 Weds 16 Oct 1pm Q and guidance on how to turn your ideas into film To book Tel 0114 203 7433 Maggot Moon with Sally Gardner scripts. Suitable for 12–16 years Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Using lots of examples from recent films, As above Jon Bridle will explain how thinking visually is the Tickets £3 Accompanying Teachers free key to writing great screenplays! Suitable for children aged 13 years and over Weds 23 Oct 1.30pm Jon teaches at Sheffield Hallam University and is Maggot Moon is the winner of the prestigious an expert in screen writing for TV and film and Bali Rai Carnegie Medal 2013 and winner of the Costa writing comedy. Ecclesall Library, Ecclesall Road South, S11 Children’s Book Award 2012 “ Dazzling, chilling, Why not enter the Civica Screenwriting To book Tel 0114 203 7222 breathtaking . A perfect book” Meg Rosoff. Fri 18 Oct 11.30am Competition for the chance to win an iPad mini. Suitable for 12–16 years Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime See page 45 determined to beat its enemies in the race to the Caryl Hart In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University As above Newfield Green Library, Gleadless Road, S2 moon, Maggot Moon is the stunning new novel Department of Humanites. from award-winning author Sally Gardner. To book Tel 0114 239 7468 Weds 23 Oct 9.30am Suitable for 7– 10 years As above When his best friend Hector is suddenly taken Weds 23 Oct 9.30am Lynne Chapman away, Standish Treadwell realises that it is up to Park Library, Duke Street, S2 him, his grandfather and a small band of rebels to Fri 18 Oct 1.30pm Meet the Author Tom Palmer confront and defeat the ever-present oppressive Hillsborough Library, Middlewood Road, S6 To book Tel 0114 275 7497 Caryl Hart Suitable for 7–10 years forces of the Motherland. Sally has dedicated the Gleadless Library, White Lane, S12 To book Tel 0114 203 9529 book “For you the dreamers, overlooked at school, To book Tel. 0114 239 4630 Suitable for 7–11 years A workshop with acclaimed writer and illustrator never won prizes, you who will own tomorrow.” Lynne Chapman Suitable for 7– 10 years As above The author of Foul Play and Striking Out engages Sally Gardner was branded ‘unteachable’ and sent and enthrals with a lively mixture of questions, to various schools, before being eventually creativity and penalty shoot outs! Weds 23 Oct 11.30am diagnosed at the age of twelve as being severely dyslexic. Lynne Chapman Weds 23 Oct 11am Darnall Library, Britannia Road, S9 Sally is now an avid spokesperson for dyslexia - she sees it a gift, not a disability. Sally’s acclaimed Meet the Author Tom Palmer To book Tel 0114 203 7429 books include Smarties Prize winner The Countess’s Upperthorpe Library, Zest, 18 Upperthorpe, S6 Suitable for 7–10 years Calamity and I, Coriander which won the Nestle To book Tel 0114 270 2048 As above Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. Suitable for 7–11 years As above Weds 23 Oct 1.30pm Fri 18 Oct 9.30am Lynne Chapman Caryl Hart Weds 23 Oct 1pm Tinsley Library, Bawtry Road, S9 Jordanthorpe Library, 15 Jordanthorpe Centre, S8 Meet the Author Tom Palmer To book Tel 0114 203 7432 Tel 0114 203 7701 Broomhill Library, Taptonville Road, S10 Suitable for 7–10 years Suitable for 7–10 years To book Tel 0114 273 4276 As above A workshop with award winning writer and Suitable for 7–10 years illustrator Caryl Hart. As above

42 43 Exhibitions Competitions

5 Oct – 30 Nov Mon 28 Oct – Sat 2 Nov Write a Doctor Who episode to win an only enter once and winners will be notified by The 4th Sheffield International Artists’ Mother Tongue Other Tongue e-mail. Book Prize Exhibition Normal Library Opening Hours iPad mini Terms and Conditions Bank Street Arts, 3 2– 40 Bank Street, S1 Highfield Library, London Road, S2 Lights, camera, action! Civica is inviting • The vote will be final and no Sheffield school students aged 7 –16 to enter a Tue s– Sat, 10a m– 5pm Admission Free. Suitable for all ages correspondence will be entered into. screen writing competition to win an iPad • Lost, delayed or illegible entries will not be Preview Evening - Sat 5 Oct from 5pm - all A display of some of the poems written by children mini! for the ‘Mother Tongue Other Tongue’ Laureate accepted. welcome Prizes will be awarded to two age categories: Education Project poetry competition celebrating • There is a prize of an iPad mini for the The Sheffield International Artists’ Book Prize has 7–12 and 1 3–16 years. To tie in with the 50th overall winner in each age category. grown to be the largest prize and exhibition of the many languages spoken and learned in our anniversary of Doctor Who, we want you to • Prizes are not transferable and no cash Artists’ Books in the world. This is a unique show region. imagine what exciting adventures the Doctor A community event alternative is available. of over 200 original artist made books with entries may get up to next and present your ideas as a • Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of from every continent. Visitors to the exhibition act script, a recorded performance or a comic notification. as judges of the Main Prize, voting for their 4 Oct – 14 Dec strip. • Children entering as individuals rather than favourites from the spectacular array of works on You have a 250 word limit or a time limit of through school must have parental how. Organised by Bank Street Arts Art Sheffield 2013 250 seconds, if you’re recording something. Multiple venues across Sheffield permission to take part in the competition. We have started it off for you, so visit • Participation in the competition signifies Art Sheffield is delighted to announce the fifth www.civica365edu.co.uk to read our starting October and November acceptance of these rules. edition of the Art Sheffield festival, which will paragraph, then use your own imagination to Artists’ Book Showcases return to the city this autumn. write the scene that follows. Turn to page 29 to read about the Fifty Years of Doctor Who with Daniel Blythe event and Various Locations Art Sheffield is a citywide contemporary art event You can write a script, record a podcast, film come along to a screen writing workshop, for Alongside this year’s 4th Sheffield International your scene acted out or write a comic script. showcasing artwork by locally, nationally and more details see page 43. Artist’s Book Prize at Bank Street Arts there will be internationally based artists. Whatever you choose to do, upload it to showcases of artists’ books in a range of public www.civica365edu.co.uk or e-mail it to The festival will take the form of a multi-venue [email protected] or spaces around the city. Sheffield Central Library exhibition and programme of events, screenings The deadline is will host 2 installations throughout October: prize [email protected]. and talks, spread across the city’s gallery spaces: noon on Friday 1 November 2013. You can winning book artist, Katherine Johnson, will create Bloc, the Graves Gallery, S1. Artspace, Site Gallery, a site specific book and paper installation in the Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield Institute of Arts and first floor display case and there will be an in the public realm. exhibition of photographs of artists’ books in the Poetry Business Writing Competition Songwriting Competition http://artsheffield.org/assets/ The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet oyer. Artists Books will also be on show at Sensoria is delighted to partner with Off the Shelf Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Walkley libraries Competition and announce a Songwriting Competition for throughout October and November. There will Mon 4 - Sun 10 Nov 3pm Deadline: last post on 29 November 2013, online Sheffield based musicians and composers. by midnight 2 December 2013 also be a display of sculptural books in Window 7, Our Voice Installation - The competition will culminate in a free gig at Entry fee: £25 Cambridge Street, S1 as part of Sheffield Showcase Queens Social Club on Sunday 3 November at from 1 Octobe r–10 November. Books will also be The Youth Word Up Judge: Carol Ann Duffy Winter Gardens – see page 34 for details 8pm. displayed in the following hotels across the city: Full details: We are asking local bands to submit newly written Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Hilton Sheffield, http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/competition tracks (one per artist) to our SoundCloud Kenwood Hall, DoubleTree by Hilton, Jurys Inn. The annual, international Book & Pamphlet Dropbox; Organised by Bank Street Arts Competition invites entrants to submit a collection http://soundcloud.com/sensoriapro/dropbox of 2 0–24 pages of poems for the chance to win a Deadline for submissions is 6 September 2013. cash prize and publication by Smith|Doorstop The winner will be decided by a panel including Competitions Books. Mick Somerset Ward, Nat Johnson and a member Four first stage winners are selected and given the of the Crookes and will be announced at Sensoria The North Writing Competition appearing at both festivals to talk about his book opportunity to submit a full-length manuscript to Pro Industry Day on Friday 27 September. The North. The winning entry will be published on the second round of the competition, in which We’ve teamed up with another great Yorkshire the Off the Shelf and Wakefield Lit Fest websites one of them can win book publication. The three There is a prize package worth over £500 that literature festival, Wakefield Lit Fest, and created a as well as netting the winner a cup inscribed first - stage winners receive pamphlet publication. includes 2 days in a professional recording studio competition which has the theme ‘The North’. Champion of The North, a book token, signed in addition to the showcase opportunity at Queens All four winners will receive an equal share of Please tell us what ‘The North’ means to you. books and other goodies. For details visit Social Club. £2,000 and publication in The North magazine, Your entry can be a micro fiction, poetry or prose www.offtheshelf.org.uk or www. Closing date for In collaboration with Sensoria but must be no longer than 125 words. Our judge Sheffield entries Monday 30 September 2013 at and have a launch reading hosted by the Poetry is writer and journalist Paul Morley who will be 12noon. Business. 44 45 Some key festival dates at a glance Booking Information

Tickets for all events - including those at To book events in libraries please see Tel Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield numbers with event details or Event Date Event Date Student’s Union, unless otherwise stated , can be e-mail [email protected] purchased through our one stop box office at Please look at individual websites or call each Lynda La Plante Mon 9 Sept Jackie Kay Sat 19 Oct The Arena Ticket Shop as well as from Sheffield individual venue to check opening times and Theatres Box Office and City Hall Box Office. actual booking fee charges. Simon Goddard Fri 27 Sept Simon Singh Sun 20 Oct Tickets can be purchased on line, by telephone or in person. Paul Morley Ned Boulting Arena Ticket Shop Sat 5 Oct Mon 21 Oct Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Students’ Union Box Office can only sell tickets , Broughton Lane, Being Human Poetry Show Mon 7 Oct Emma Woolf Mon 21 Oct for events taking place at their own venues. Sheffield, S9 2DF Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Richard Weight Tickets for events organised by community and Tel. 0114 256 5567 or Fri 11 Oct Tues 22 Oct partner organisations www.arenaticketshop.co.uk/offtheshelf are available as specified Pam Ayres Matthew Flinders with individual event information in the Sat 12 Oct Tues 22 Oct brochure. Sheffield City Hall Anna Whitelock Sat 12 Oct Dan Snow Weds 23 Oct A booking fee applies for transactions made on Barkers Pool, Sheffield, S1 2JA line, by telephone or by credit card. Tel. 0114 278 9789 or Kate Adie Sat 12 Oct Harriet Tuckey Thurs 24 Oct A booking fee also applies for tickets purchased www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk in person using cash at a box office other than Bob Stanley Sat 12 Oct Bag Lady Theatre Show Fri 25 Oct the City Hall Box Office unless the tickets are Sheffield Theatres for an event taking place in the same venue as Tudor Square, Sheffield S1 1DA Geordie Greig Sun 13 Oct Matt Sewell Sun 27 Oct the box office outlet. For instance, tickets Tel. 0114 249 6000 or Roddy Doyle Mon 14 Oct Anne Goodchild Sun 27 Oct purchased for an event, in person using cash, www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk happening at the at Sheffield TS Eliot Poetry Prize Tour Andy Kershaw Theatres box office will not incur a booking University of Sheffield Student’s Tues 15 Oct Sun 27 Oct charge but tickets purchased for an event in person using cash happening at the Octagon at Union Jung Chang Tues 15 Oct Roy Hattersley Mon 28 Oct Sheffield Theatres box office will. Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TG Walter Mosley Katie Edwards No booking fee will be charged for purchases www.sheffieldunion.com No telephone booking Tues 15 Oct Mon 28 Oct made in person using cash at the City Hall box Melissa Benn 50 Years of Doctor Who office whichever venue the event is taking The Showroom Cinema Tues 15 Oct Tues 29 Oct place at. Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX Sally Gardner Weds 16 Oct Steve Peters Tues 29 Oct Tickets can be bought from box office outlets Tel. 0114 275 7727 or up to 1pm on the day of each event. After this www.showroomworkstation.org.uk Adverse Camber Storytelling Weds 16 Oct Tony Ryan & Steve McKevitt Weds 30 Oct time they will be on sale on the door 30 minutes before the event start time subject to availability. Disabled Access Charles Emmerson Weds 16 Oct Catherine Fletcher Thurs 31 Oct For events on Saturdays and Sundays weekends We endeavour to use only venues with full Jane Rogers/Marina Lewycka Phillipa Langley tickets go off sale at 1pm on Friday. disabled access – these are indicated with a Weds 16 Oct Sat 2 Nov Arena website may state shows are sold out wheelchair symbol with event information in the Leo Hollis Thurs 17 Oct Martin Gayford Sun 3 Nov when they are taken off sale but tickets may still brochure. be available on the door at the event from 30 Wheelchair spaces must be reserved with the Paul Murdin Thurs 17 Oct The Youth Word Up Thurs 7 Nov minutes before the start of the event. Please box office at the time of booking. Community and Library events may not always check the Off the Shelf website or call 0114 273 Simon Armitage Thurs 17 Oct Chuck Palahniuk Thurs 14 Nov 4400 to check if an event has sold out and late have full disabled access. Please check with availability. Tickets on sale from the Showroom individual venues and organisations. We Talk of Pride & Prejudice Tom Standage Cinema or University of Sheffield Students’ Union Doors open 30 minutes before the start of the Fri 18 Oct Fri 22 Nov event. for events in their own venues remain on sale Lucy Worsley Sat 19 Oct Vanessa Toulmin Mon 25 Nov up to the start time of the event, subject to No tickets exchanged or refunded. availability. Tickets go on sale Saturday 31 August 2013.

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