Off the Shelf Brochure 2

Festival of Words Sheffield 6–27 October 2018

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Welcome to Off the Shelf 2018 27th edition Join us for some of the best known names in literature, media and the arts as we showcase a wide range of Contents fiction, politics, journalism, art, music, history, sport, science, poetry, theatre and more. With over 130 events Some of our guests 4 in venues around the city we can promise uplifting, funny, contemplative and entertaining experiences this Autumn. How to book 6 Enjoy events programmed around three themed strands: Festival information 7 Suffrage 100 curated by Dr. Julie Gottlieb, Frankenstein 200 Festival map 8 curated by Professor Chris Wigginton and Circus 250 curated by Professor Vanessa Toulmin. Look out for inspirational Festival events 10–55 panel debates, lively talks, visual art and a trip to the General Festival Fringe 56–57 Cemetery all designed to throw light on these fascinating and important landmark anniversaries. We celebrate Sheffield as an internationally diverse city with festival partner Roma Futures who have programmed a series of Romani Readings and film to help us discover Roma language, culture and community. Off the Shelf is thrilled to collaborate with artist, writer and performance maker Tim Etchells of Sheffield’s Forced Entertainment on three days of readings, performances, projections, installations and discussions. Tim has curated Strong Language to celebrate the work of Piece of Paper Press and uses it as an opportunity to highlight other radical writing and independent publishing in the UK. We look forward to you joining us at events over three weeks in October! Professor Vanessa Toulmin, University of Sheffield & Professor Chris Wigginton, Sheffield Hallam University

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3 Some of our guests... © Chris Floyd Off the Shelf welcomes all kinds of fantastic writers to its 2018 festival. Here are some of the faces behind the words. Evan Davis, p24

Kamal Ahmed, p44

Cathy Newman, p40

Romesh Ranganathan, p19 Gina Miller, p18

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Robert Peston, p46

Kate Humble, p37

Orla Kiely, p50

Susan Calman, p27 Val McDermid, p37

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You can also buy tickets from the Online: University of Sheffield Students’ offtheshelf.org.uk Union Box Office but ONLY for events taking place at Students’ Union venues. In person: Tickets available online at tickets.sheffieldstudentsunion.com or in SIV Tickets Box Office person Monday to Friday 11am–6pm. Sheffield City Hall Booking fees apply to all transactions, except when buying tickets in person Mon–Sat 9am–5.30pm at the University of Sheffield Students’ Union. The booking fee is 70p per ticket and £1 for all tickets £10 and over. By phone: After booking closes, any unsold tickets will be on sale at the venue from 30 minutes SIV Tickets before the event start time, subject to availability – visit offtheshelf.org.uk or call 0114 223 3777 0114 222 3895 to check late availability. Mon–Sat 9am–8pm Weekend tickets Tickets go off sale on Fridays at 4pm at SIV Tickets are our main box office. You SIV and will only be available to buy on the can buy tickets for all festival events at door subject to availability. SIV Tickets except for Fringe events (see If you purchase tickets from a box office booking details with each event), Desert but are unable to collect your ticket Island Reads - Jamie Campbell’ and Spirit before the event you will be admitted with of Africa which are only available at proof of purchase. Sheffield Theatres. Staff at events will also have information on tickets purchased in advance. Doors open 30 minutes before events start.

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Event timings Most of our events last just over one hour Circus 250 unless stated otherwise. Most events are followed by a book signing. Disabled access Frankenstein 200 All our main venues have disabled access. Festival Fringe venues (see pages 56–57) may not always have full disabled access – the events marked with a symbol have Suffrage 100 full access. Please tell the box office when booking if a member of your party is a wheelchair user. Concessions Concessions apply to senior citizens, claimants, students and children aged 16 years and under. Accessibility A CD version of the programme is available from the Central Library, community libraries or by calling 0114 222 3895. Contact us Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Partnerships & Regional Engagement University of Sheffield, Cathedral Court 46 Church Street, Sheffield, S1 2GN 0114 222 3895/0114 222 3896 Book sales [email protected] Bookstalls will be provided at Off the Shelf offtheshelf.org.uk events by main festival bookseller Blackwell’s: Off the Shelf Festival of Words Blackwell’s University Bookshop Jessop West otsfestival [email protected] offtheshelffestival Tel. 0114 278 7211

Festival team Rhyme & Reason will provide bookstalls at Directors: Professor Vanessa Toulmin, University of Sheffield & selected events: Professor Chris Wigginton, Sheffield Hallam University Festival Programmers: Maria de Souza, Lesley Webster [email protected] Penny Blackham, Terri Gibson, Hannah Lee, Camilla Prince, Tel. 0114 266 1950 Sara Unwin Thanks to Su Walker for her years with Off the Shelf Most authors will be available to sign Design: Eleven Design Cover image: © Tom J Newell copies of their books at the end of their event. Bookstalls accept payment in cash Events could be subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information. No tickets exchanged or refunded. or by card.

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Sun 7 Oct, 4.30pm Sun 14 Oct, 1pm Sun 21 Oct, 4.30pm Blade Runner: Die Suffragette (12A) Circus of Horrors (15) Final Cut (15) Introduced by Dr Adity Introduced by Martin Dismissed by critics when Singh Carter first released,Blade Die Suffragette was made Of all the 1960s British Runner is now regarded in Germany in 1913 and horror movies that used as one of the greatest directed by Urban Gad. a circus background, this science fiction films ever Asta Nielsen plays Nelly is by far the most louche made. The film, like Mary Panburne, a young woman and lurid. Anton Diffring Shelley’s Frankenstein, is who joins the suffragette plays a homicidal plastic a meditation on what it is cause under her mother’s surgeon masquerading as to be human and asks if an influence. Neither the owner of a travelling artificially created human imprisonment nor police circus who transforms can think, feel and love. In brutality are enough to facially disfigured women all of its released forms the sway her from the cause, into the stars of his show. film is a striking companion but patriarchy has other Billy Smart’s Circus provides piece to Mary Shelley’s novel ways of asserting itself. a suitably authentic circus and similarly provides few Will her fascination for the backdrop to the crazed easy answers. anti-suffrage politician murder spree that ensues. Lord Ascue spell disaster for her burgeoning political subjectivity? Silent film with soundtrack.

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14 Sun 7 Oct, 3pm Sun 7 Oct, 3pm Sun 7 Oct, 5pm The Common Freedom I’ll Go On – South Troupers – Keith of the People – Korean Translation Hutson and Female Professor Michael Event with Hwang Funambulists – Chloe Braddick Jungeun Balcomb Michael Braddick explores Off the Shelf is delighted to Keith Hutson has written the extraordinary life welcome Hwang Jungeun, for Coronation Street of John Lilburne, the one of South Korea’s and many well-known most prominent of the brightest young authors on comedians as well as Levellers - campaigners a rare visit to the UK. I’ll Go publishing acclaimed for government based On is a tender story about poetry. Keith will read on popular sovereignty family and the Winner of from current pamphlet, centuries before the advent the Daesan Literary Prize. Troupers, about variety of mass representative Hwang will be joined by her performers, which is a democracies in Europe. translator Emily Yae Won 2018 Laureate’s Choice. ‘Freeborn John’ fought and Deborah Smith from Poet Chloe Balcomb in the English Civil War, Tilted Axis who will chair celebrates the fascinating was accused of treason, the event. lives of 19th and 20th imprisoned and put on trial ‘An unforgettable, curious century female circus for his life under Charles beauty.’ — Han Kang, performers, from tightrope I and Oliver Cromwell. winner of the Man Booker walkers to tiger tamers, Through his story we International Prize with tales of daring, can explore the life of subversion and liberation. revolutionary England. In association with Tilted Axis ______Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______advance or £8/£7 (concs) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on the door + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in on the door + advance or £7/£6 (concs) Cadman Room, Millennium Studio, University of Sheffield on the door + Gallery (see map on page 8) Students’ Union (see map on page 8) Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

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offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 15 Mon 8 Oct Wed 17 Oct Shakespeare’s Poems What is a Green Space Professor Cathy Shrank – Really Worth? School of English Dr Julian Dobson – Ideas Exploring Shakespeare’s Department of Landscape poems, and why the We love our parks and green alive words you read aren’t spaces, but how can we give necessarily his. them the investment they need? at 5.45 Tues 9 Oct The Confident Choir Mon 22 Oct Dr Michael Bonshor – The Woolly Mammoth: Department of Music A Visual Icon for Evidence-based advice, De-Extinction Science tips and practical exercises Dr Sarah Bezan – for increasing confidence School of English through group singing Why has the woolly A series of talks by activities. mammoth become an icon for de-extinction science? academics from Thurs 11 Oct University of Sheffield The Rise of Digital Tues 23 Oct Politics What’s in Our Water? Dr Kate Dommett – Dr Isabel Douterelo Soler Department of Politics – Department of Civil & Digital tools are the new Structural Engineering normal, but is their impact Learn how engineers safely something we should fear? modify drinking water quality to control public Mon 15 Oct health risks. Mapping the Metropolis: The Wed 24 Oct Wonder of Tokyo’s Medication to Delay Yamanote Illness in Later Years Dr Mark Pendleton - School Professor Ilaria of East Asian Studies Bellantuono – Department A visual journey around the of Oncology & Metabolism cosmopolitan Yamanote, New research is uncovering Tokyo’s elevated railway line promising new drugs, encircling the city. allowing us to live healthier for longer. All talks start at Tues 16 Oct 5.45pm at Waterstones New Takes on Fallen Thurs 25 Oct Bookshop, Cafe W, Women in Global Online Health Forums Orchard Square, S1 2FB Cinema – A Place for Sharing All events are free and Dr Kate Taylor Jones – and Empathy open to all, no need to School of East Asian Professor Peter Bath and book Studies Dr Sarah Hargreaves – Explore global cinematic Information School representations of the The importance of shared image of the prostitute and stories for people living with debate the repressive and life-threatening or long-term empowering depictions. health conditions.

16 Mon 8 Oct, 6pm Mon 8 Oct, 7pm Mon 8 Oct, 7pm How to Give Up Plastic Yorkshire: A Lyrical Philip Hensher and – Will McCallum History of England’s Gregory Norminton Plastics are a serious Greatest County – The Friendly Ones is the problem for the planet Richard Morris new novel from Philip – one rubbish truck of Yorkshire tells how Hensher, The Man Booker plastic enters the ocean England’s largest county shortlisted author of every minute. It’s easy took shape as a place and The Northern Clemency. to feel despondent but an identity. This lyrical Set in Sheffield and Will McCallum, Head of history explores the spanning decades, the Oceans at Greenpeace Vikings, Wars of the Roses, novel is about two families and spokesperson for their Civil War, the miners’ strike, and how people with anti-plastic campaign, will weaving stories of real different histories can talk you through practical people with travelogue, fit together.The Devil’s changes you can make ecology, geography, myth Highway from Sheffield to reduce plastics in your and legend. It examines author Gregory Norminton everyday life, make a Yorkshire’s distinctive is an epic tale of conflict difference and help change selfhood and how it and kinship. Spanning the world. inspired J.M.W. Turner, 3000 years, these stories ‘We have a responsibility, Thomas Girtin, Winifred are linked by a place and every one of us’ Holtby, the Brontës and shared human struggle. - David Attenborough Hockney. Richard Morris ______is Emeritus Professor Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Associate Partner: South advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Street Kitchen of Archaeology at the the door + University of Huddersfield. ______Studio, University of Sheffield Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Associate Partner: Hospitality Students’ Union (see map on advance or £8/£7 (concs) Sheffield page 8) on the door + ______Foundry, University of Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Sheffield Students’ Union advance or £8/£7 (concs) on (see map on page 8) the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 17 Mon 8 Oct, 7.30pm TuesDate, 9 time Oct, 6pm Tues 9 Oct, 7pm Mary Shelley: SuffrageBook name Afterlives: Rise – Gina Miller A Biography – WhatAuthor Happened name After Gina Miller successfully Miranda Seymour theLorem Vote ipsum Was dolor Won? – challenged the Mary Shelley’s life was as Panelsit amet, Discussion consectetur government’s right to dramatic as her fiction. Howadipiscing did women elit, ullamco use their implement Brexit without She wrote Frankenstein newlysed do acquired eiusmod citizenship tempor approval from parliament. aged 19, was the daughter rights?incididunt Who ut were labore the et One of the most significant of two of the great womendolore magna pioneers aliqua. in Ut political events in recent radical thinkers of the Parliamentenim ad minim politics? veniam, These history the court battle led day - William Godwin and andquis other nostrud questions exercitation will to her being named as the Mary Wollstonecraft - beullamco considered laboris by: nisi Rachel ut country’s most influential and was the second Mrs Reevesaliquip exMP, ea Professor commodo black person, yet she Percy Bysshe Shelley, her Kristaconsequat. Cowman Duis - aute University irure became the target of companion at Byron’s ofdolor Lincoln, in reprehenderit Tara Tobler, Andin extreme verbal abuse. Rise villa during the ‘haunted Othervoluptate Stories velit publishers esse cillum is Gina’s story of fighting summer’ that begat anddolore Professor eu fugiat Matthew nulla injustice in personal, Frankenstein. Drawing on Stibbepariatur. - SheffieldExcepteur sintHallam political and professional unexplored sources this University.occaecat cupidatat Chair: Dr Julienon arenas and how to speak rich biography penetrates Vproident, Gottlieb sunt - University in culpa of out for what you believe in. the myth to offer a Sheffieldqui officia anddeserunt Curator mollit of Associate Partner: revealing portrait of this Suffrageanim id est 100 laborum. strand. The Sheffield Institute for extraordinary woman. Policy Studies, Sheffield In collaboration with... Hallam University ______Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in ______Tickets: £5/£3 (concs) in ______advance or £9/£8 (concs) on Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in advance or £6/£4 (concs) on the door + advance or £9/£8 (concs) on theTickets door + + the door + Address Pennine Theatre, Owen Town Hall Reception Rooms, Building (see map on page 8) Auditorium, University of Town Hall (see map on page 8) Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

18 Tues 9 Oct, 7pm Date,Tues 9 time Oct, 7.30pm Tues 9 Oct, 7.30pm Steel City: An BookPoetry name with Finuala Straight Outta Industrial History – AuthorDowling name and Elizabeth Crawley – Romesh Ian D Rotherham LoremBarrett ipsum dolor Ranganathan Sheffield is the home of sitSouth amet, Africa consectetur meets Stand-up comedian major innovations in steel adipiscingSheffield… elit,Pretend ullamco You and actor Romesh with an enviable reputation sedDon’t do Know eiusmod Me brings tempor Ranganathan is a former for manufacturing quality. incididunttogether the ut bestlabore of et maths teacher who made Yet the story of Sheffield dolorepopular magna South aliqua. African Ut his comedy circuit debut in industry is more than enimpoet Finuala ad minim Dowling’s veniam, 2010, won best newcomer simply the rise of steel quisfunny, nostrud idiosyncratic exercitation poetry at the 2013 Edinburgh manufacturing. Wharncliffe ullamcofrom four laboris prize-winning nisi ut Comedy Awards, and Crags, north Sheffield was aliquipcollections ex ea with commodo new quickly established himself one of the Roman Empire’s consequat.work. Elizabeth Duis Barrett aute irure as one of UK comedy’s largest grindstone sites. doloris the inNew reprehenderit Writing North in brightest stars. Now, for In the wake of steel came voluptateaward winning velit esse author cillum of the first time, he tells the glass making, brewing, dolorefour collections eu fugiat ofnulla poetry, full story of how he got here power generation, joinery pariatur.most recently Excepteur A Dart sint of from the delights of Sri and more. Ian D Rotherham occaecatGreen and cupidatat Blue. Her non work Lankan hospitality to the offers a fascinating, isproident, widely published sunt in culpa in race riots of Crawley and illustrated overview of one journalsqui officia and deserunt anthologies. mollit the horrors of vegan cheese, of Britain’s great industrial Sheanim lives id est in laborum.Sheffield this is Ranganathan’s centres. and teaches at Sheffield hilarious autobiography. In collaboration with... In collaboration with Hallam University. Romesh is the star of Asian Blackwell’s Bookshop at ______Provocateur, Misadventures University of Sheffield Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______Of Romesh Ranganathan ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) onTickets the door + + and is a regular on A League Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Of Their Own. advance or £8/£7 (concs) on TheAddress Printhouse, North Church the door + Street (see map on page 8) ______Cadman Room, Millennium Tickets: £11/£10 (concs) in Gallery (see map on page 8) advance or £12/£11 (concs) on the door + Memorial Hall, Sheffield City Hall (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 19 Romani Readings: the Past, the Present and the Community ‘Poetry? What’s that?’ asks Papusza, the revered Roma poet. The relationship between being Roma and producing and presenting literature and literacy is at the heart of these events by Roma Futures.

Mon 8 Oct, 6.30pm Mon 15 Oct, 6.30pm Mon 22 Oct, 7pm The Roma Stopping, Moving Papusza Film Enlightenment and and Writing Screening (15) Romani Dreams Damian Le Bas reads from Subtitled Valdemar Kalinin is The Stopping Places 2 hours 11 minutes a celebrated Romani (a BBC R4 Book of the Bronisława Wajs (1908- language poet and author, Week). The account of 1987) is better known by born in Belarus and his journey to find of the her nickname Papusza resident in the UK for 25 wayside stopping places meaning Doll and is one years. He will take us on of his forebears will inform of the most famous of a personal, cultural and a panel discussion about Roma poets. This Romani poetic journey sharing literacy and narrative for and Polish language his collection of posters, Roma writers. Damian film provides a powerful books and ephemera from will be joined by Rosa context though which to 1930s Russia. Embodying Cisneros, a Spanish- consider Roma history, the promise of the ‘Roma American Gypsy dancer culture and the interface Enlightenment’ Kalinin and academic and David with the Gadjo (non- guides us with passionate Kandrac, a member of Roma) world. readings from his poems Sheffield’s Roma Slovak ______Romani Dreams. community. Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) + ______Abbeydale Picture House, Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) + 387 Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS Quaker Meeting House (see Quaker Meeting House map on page 8) (see map on page 8)

20 Tues 9 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 10 Oct, 6pm Wed 10 Oct, 7pm The Happy Brain – Henry VIII and the Men Frankenstein: The Dean Burnett who Made Him – Tracy First 200 Years – In The Happy Brain, Borman Christopher Frayling neuroscientist Dean Historian Tracy Borman A rich and engaging Burnett delves into the takes us behind the celebration of the 200th workings of our minds scenes of Henry VIII’s anniversary of Mary to explore fundamental court. Henry VIII is well Shelley’s Frankenstein, questions about happiness known for his tumultuous tracing its journey from - what does it mean to relationships with women limited edition literature be happy? Where does it and his many marriages. to the bloodstream of come from? He unravels But when we see Henry contemporary culture. our complex internal through the men in his It looks at the many lives to reveal the often life, a new perspective on adaptations - on screen surprising truth behind this famous king emerges. (120 films), stage, in these questions. Dean’s This fascinating and often novels, comics, and in first book,The Idiot Brain, surprising new biography advertisements. It explores was a bestseller and his reveals Henry’s personality interpretations of the novel Brain Flapping blog is the in all its multi-faceted, from female gothic to the most read on The Guardian contradictory glory and origin of science fiction science network. reveals the secret history and genetic engineering. ______behind the Tudor throne. Christopher Frayling also Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in ______reveals new research on advance or £9/£8 (concs) on + Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in the novel’s origins. the door advance or £9/£8 (concs) on Auditorium, University of the door + Sheffield Students’ Union Firth Hall, Firth Court ______(see map on page 8) (see map on page 8) Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the door + Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 21 © Picture Sheffield Wed 10 Oct, 7pm Wed 10 Oct, 7pm Wed 10 Oct, 7pm The Very Selected: A 19th Century History The Women’s Pit Camp Poetry with Mimi of Publishing in – Flis Callow and Khalvati, Michael Sheffield – Alistair Caroline Poland Laskey, Michael Hodge An illustrated talk about Schmidt The 19th century history the key role played by Enjoy quintessential poems of Sheffield has been women in the 1992-1993 from three renowned documented and described struggle to keep the pits poets, Mimi Khalvati, by many distinguished open after the Miners’ Michael Laskey and authors from Hunter and Strike. Caroline Poland and Michael Schmidt who read Leader to Walton and Hey. Flis Callow will be joined from their Very Selected In this illustrated talk, by others involved to talk pamphlets published by local history publisher about how they helped Smith/Doorstop. Mimi Alistair Hodge looks set up and sustained a Khalvati is ‘one of the most at how Sheffield’s very Women’s Pit Camp outside graceful poets writing in cultural identity came to Houghton Main Colliery England currently’, - George be defined in the pages near Barnsley in January Szirtes. Michael Laskey’s of books, journals and 1993. Miners’ wives, work has ‘originality of newspapers and how the women from surrounding thought and quality of city’s influential place in villages and Sheffield execution’, The Guardian. the county and the world women took part in the Michael Schmidt’s work is was proudly proclaimed campaign. ‘vibrant, radiant…steeped by means of authorship, ______in modernist tradition’, - printing and publishing. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) John Ashbery. An evening of on the door + sublime poetry to savour. Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in advance or £8/£7 (concs) Studio, University of Sheffield In association with the Poetry on the door + Students’ Union (see map on page 8) Business Cadman Room, Millennium ______Gallery (see map on page 8) Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in advance or £8/£7 (concs) on the door - includes one glass of wine/soft drink + The Printhouse, North Church Street (see map on page 8)

22 Wed 10 Oct, 7pm Thurs 11 Oct, 6pm Thurs 11 Oct, 6pm Sight – Jessie The Fountain in the The Story of the Greengrass Forest – Tony White Suffrage Movement in Jessie Greengrass Shifting between Holborn Ireland – Louise Ryan will discuss her debut Police Station, rural Louise Ryan, Professor of novel, Sight, which 1980s France and the Sociology at the University was shortlisted for the Battle of the Beanfield of Sheffield, talks about Women’s Prize for Fiction at Stonehenge, The how The Irish Citizen 2018. In Sight, a woman Fountain in the Forest newspaper provides an recounts her progress is a crime narrative with important insight into the to motherhood while a difference. This is an campaigns and concerns remembering the death ambitious, iconoclastic of the Irish suffrage of her own mother and novel - an avant-garde movement. The paper was childhood summers linguistic experiment and self-consciously feminist, with her psychoanalyst meditation on liberty. Tony and covered major grandmother. Woven White is the author of five events of this tumultuous among these personal novels, including Foxy-T, period, (war, nationalism, recollections are former literary editor of 1916 Rising), as well as significant events in the Idler and has written addressing taboo subjects medical history. This is a for The Guardian and New like domestic violence. novel about how we see Statesman. Louise’s book brings others and how we might Part of Strong Language together extracts from the know ourselves. curated by Tim Etchells see paper with analysis and Sheffield Hallam University page 25 fascinating commentary. Creative Writing Showcase ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) ______on the door + advance or £7/£6 (concs) Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in on the door + Site Gallery, Brown Street advance or £8/£7 (concs) Quaker Meeting House (see (see map on page 8) on the door + map on page 8) Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 23 © Chris Floyd Thurs 11 Oct, 7pm Thurs 11 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 11 Oct, 7.30pm Why Marx Was Right – Bookworm: A Memoir Evan Davis – Terry Eagleton of Childhood Reading Post-Truth 2018 is the 200th – Lucy Mangan Never has there been anniversary of Marx’s birth. When writer and columnist more concern about But is Marxism dead and Lucy Mangan was little dishonesty in public life. done with? Terry Eagleton stories opened up new From President Trump takes ten common worlds - she was whisked to the Brexit debate, objections to the doctrine away to Narnia, Kirrin fake news and low level e.g. that it leads to political Island and Wonderland. dishonesty is rife. Drawing tyranny, and demonstrates In her beautifully written on behavioural science, these assumptions are memoir Bookworm Lucy economics, psychology a travesty of Marx’s own revisits her childhood and his knowledge of thought. In a world where reading with love and the media, Evan Davis capitalism has been gratitude. She relives our insightfully examines the shaken to its roots by best-loved books and world of deception and major crises, Why Marx looks at the thousand spin with his trademark Was Right is as urgent and subtle ways they shape intelligence and wry timely as it is brave and our personalities and lives. humour and charts a route candid. Bookworm is an enticing through the muddy waters In collaboration with window into Lucy’s witty of the post-truth age. Blackwell’s Bookshop at mind as well as nostalgia Associate Partner: University of Sheffield for childhood reading. Department of Politics, ______University of Sheffield Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in ______advance or £9/£8 (concs) on advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the door + + Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in the door advance or £11/£9 (concs) St George’s Church, Auditorium, University of on the door + St George’s Terrace, S1 4DP Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8) Octagon Centre, University of (see map on page 8) Sheffield (see map on page 8)

24 Fri 12 Oct–Sun 14 Oct Sheffield art student Tony White. Each Piece of Paper Press book is made from a Strong Language single A4 sheet, and titles are always given Three days of readings, performances, away free. projections, installations and Strong Language brings RACE CARDS by discussions. the celebrated artist and performance Curated by Tim Etchells maker Selina Thompson to the city. Enter With new work from M. John Harrison, a room containing 1000 questions about Selina Thompson, Joolz Denby, Courttia race. Answer one of them. Newland, Tony White and more. Strong Language also brings City Centre Attention artists, publishers, readers and Projections by Vlatka Horvat. writers, and anyone interested in small ______presses, zines, artists’ books, and other Tickets: Free kinds of radical print. Strong Language Please see ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/ is just for you. Be inspired at the newly strong-language for full details reopened Site Gallery and other locations With thanks to Site Gallery and Paul Morrison for readings, publications, installation, Studio/Attercliffe™ performance, and discussions involving publishers and writers in the North. There will also be an exhibition of artwork and ephemera from visionary micro-publishing project Piece of Paper Press. Take away your free copies of four new specially commissioned Piece of Paper Press titles – while stocks last. Strong Language is curated by the Part of the Cultural Destinations Programme artist, writer and performance maker Tim Etchells of Sheffield’s Forced Entertainment. Highlighting radical writing and independent publishing in the UK it centres on Piece of Paper Press, a low-tech sustainable publishing platform founded in 1994 by novelist and former

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 25 Fri 12 Oct, 7pm Fri 12 Oct, 7pm Fri 12 Oct, 7.30pm Man Booker Prize Death in Ten Minutes Being David Archer – 2018 Shortlisted Kitty Marion: Activist, Tim Bentinck Authors Evening Arsonist, Suffragette Tim Bentinck has played The Man Booker Prize – Dr Fern Riddell the part of David Archer in is celebrating its 50th Kitty Marion was sent by BBC Radio 4’s The Archers anniversary this year the Pankhurst family to since 1982. He takes us and continues to be the carry out a nationwide behind the scenes of this leading literary award campaign of bombings and British institution - longest in the English speaking arson attacks, as women running drama series in world, bringing recognition, fought for the vote using the world. Tim has been a reward and readership any means necessary. But successful actor, a voice to outstanding fiction. in the aftermath of World specialist, inventor, farm Hear some of this year’s War 1, the revolutionary worker and crossbencher shortlisted authors read actions of Kitty and other in the House of Lords. He from their novels and militant suffragettes is the Earl of Portland and discuss their work in the were disowned. Historian the voice of ‘Mind The Gap’ run-up to the 2018 winner Dr Fern Riddell reveals on the Piccadilly Line. being announced. Check hidden diaries and uses ______the Off the Shelf website Kitty’s own words to tell Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in for the line-up for the night. advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the untold story of her the door + sensational life. In association with The Firth Hall, Firth Court Octagon and Man Booker Prize (see map on page 8) ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in ______advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in on the door + advance or £8/£7 (concs) Octagon Centre, University of on the door + Sheffield (see map on page 8) Theatre Deli, 202 Eyre Street, Sheffield S1 4QZ (see map on page 8)

26 Fri 12 Oct, 8.30pm Sat 13 Oct, 11am Sat 13 Oct, 2pm Can We All Be Peace at Last – Sunny Side Up – Feminists? – Guy Cuthbertson Susan Calman Soofiya Andry and November 11, 2018 Susan Calman is known Selina Thompson marks the centenary and loved for her stand-up In Can We All Be of the Armistice which comedy and as a regular Feminists? 17 diverse ended World War I. This on TV and radio shows. writers wrestle with rich portrait by Guy She won yet more fans for aspects of the question Cuthbertson focuses on her enthusiasm on Strictly - Why is it difficult for the day itself, bringing Come Dancing. Now she so many women to fully together news reports, has a new aim, to persuade identify with the word literature, memoirs and people to be kinder, set out feminist? Visual artist and letters to show how the in her book Sunny Side Up. designer Soofiya Andry will people on the street, These are difficult times discuss their essay Deviant soldiers and famous but Susan is a one-woman Bodies about gender non- figures experienced an army of hope ready to lead conforming, bodies and extraordinary day of relief the nation. Join her for a feminism. Performance and optimism. Guy will also warm-hearted, funny and artist Selina Thompson’s look at how Sheffield and truly joyful event! work is playful and Yorkshire reacted to the ______participatory. Her essay news of peace. Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in advance or £11/£9 (concs) on Fat Demands explores the In collaboration with the door. Ticket and signed issue of fat and feminism. Blackwell’s Bookshop at book £21.50/£19.50 (concs) in ______University of Sheffield advance only + ______Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Octagon Centre, University of advance or £8/£7 (concs) on Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Sheffield (see map on page 8) the door + advance or £9/£8 (concs) on + Theatre Deli, 202 Eyre Street, the door Sheffield S1 4QZ Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 27 ______Sat 13 Oct, 1.30–4.30pm Tickets: £10/£8.50 (concs) in advance or It’s All a Fiction – £11/£9.50 (concs) on the door + Readers’ Afternoon Town Hall Reception An afternoon of reading heaven for fiction lovers in the Rooms, (see map on page 8) prestigious Town Hall Reception Rooms. A chance to meet six wonderful authors and people who love books as much as you do. Authors taking part are Imogen Hermes Gowar with her spellbinding debut of love and obsession The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock; Sarah Ward with her latest brilliantly plotted DC Childs crime mystery The Shrouded Path, set in the Derbyshire Peak District; Sharlene Teo with a remarkable debut of friendship and memory Ponti; Kim Sherwood with her moving debut Testament which uncovers a family’s past as Hungarian Jews; CWA Dagger- winning author Stephen Booth with the new Cooper & Fry thriller Fall Down Dead and Guardian journalist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett with her beautiful coming of age debut novel The Tyranny of Lost Things. Featured books available to buy on the day. Plus free giveaways for everyone who attends. Thanks to Faber & Faber, Harvill Secker, Picador, Riverrun, Sphere and Sandstone Press

28 ‘The centenary of women’s (partial) suffrage in Britain gives us all a chance to celebrate milestones in women’s emancipation, rescue from the forgotten pioneers in the struggles for the vote, and carve out a place for women at the heart of our civic culture. But anniversaries should not only be about nostalgia. As we reflect on the first 100 years of women’s citizenship, we can set an ambitious equality agenda for the next 100 years.’

Dr Julie V Gottlieb Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield. Suffrage 100 Suffrage

29 Suffrage Sunday Sun 14 Oct

Join us for a day of events celebrating 100 years of Women’s Suffrage

The Suffrage theme has been curated by Dr Julie V Gottlieb, Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield.

11am 1pm ______Christabel Pankhurst: Die Suffragette (12A) Look out for this symbol for Suffrage 100 themed events: A Biography – Film Introduced by Die Suffragette Film (page 14) Professor June Purvis Dr Adity Singh Suffrage Afterlives Panel Christabel Pankhurst, See information on page 14. Discussion (page 18) Emmeline’s daughter, Suffrage Movement in Ireland – co-led the Women’s Social Professor Louise Ryan (page 23) and Political Union and ______Death in Ten Minutes: was the driving force Tickets: Free Kitty Marrion – Dr Fern Riddell (page 26) behind the militant wing The Void, Floor 1, Owen of the women’s suffrage Building (see map on page 8) Christabel Pankhurst – Professor June Purvis (page 30) movement. A charismatic Hearts and Minds – Jane and powerful orator, Robinson (page 31) with her cry ‘Rise up Suffragettes on Film – Dr Adity women!’, she mobilised Singh (page 31) thousands of women to Deeds not Words – Helen become suffragettes and Pankhurst (page 31) demand their democratic Rethinking Right Wing Women citizenship rights. This – Dr Julie V Gottlieb & Clarisse major new biography Berthezène (page 34) reveals an unrivalled range Sheffield Suffrage Trail – see of previously unpublished offtheshelf.org.uk research.

______Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in advance or £8/£7 (concs) on the door + Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union The Suffrage 100 strand has (see map on page 8) been supported by a generous donation from the University of Sheffield’s Alumni Fund Departmental Grant

30 3pm 5pm 7pm Hearts and Minds – Suffragettes on Film – Deeds not Words – Jane Robinson Dr Adity Singh Helen Pankhurst The history of how An exploration of Helen Pankhurst, women won the vote representations of rebel great-granddaughter is dominated by the women in the cinema of the of suffragette leader suffragettes but there were time including Urban Gad’s Emmeline Pankhurst and also thousands of non- Die Suffragette. A mirror a leading women’s rights militant campaigners, the of its times, early cinema campaigner, charts how suffragists. In 1913 they reflects the myriad positions women’s lives have changed embarked on a six-week that existed in society on over the last century and protest march, the Great the controversial issue of offers a powerful and Pilgrimage, culminating female suffrage. Cinematic positive argument for the in a rally of 50,000 people depictions of women way forward. Combining in Hyde Park. Writer Jane worked as a powerful historical insight with Robinson, who specialises propaganda tool and ranged inspiring argument, Deeds in social history through from sensitive portrayals of not Words reveals how far women’s eyes, tells the women and their struggle to women have come since story of the courageous crude anti-feminist humour. the suffragettes, how far we women who marched to still have to go, and how we give us democracy. might get there. ______Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in ______advance or £8/£7 (concs) on ______the door + Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in advance or £8/£7 (concs) on Cadman Room, Millennium advance or £8/£7 (concs) on the door + Gallery (see map on page 8) the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 8) Gallery (see map on page 8)

Special Offer: Buy one ticket which includes all 4 events for £24/£20 (concs) in advance only

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32 Mon 15 Oct, 7pm Mon 15 Oct, 7pm Mon 15 Oct, 7pm Barry Hines and Kes – Desert Island Reads – Frankenstein’s Brain – David Forrest Jamie Campbell John Sutherland It’s 50 years since Barry Jamie Campbell is the On the 200th anniversary of Hines wrote A Kestrel subject of the BBC Three Mary Shelley’s perennially for a Knave, 2020 marks documentary, Jamie: Drag popular and influential the 50th anniversary of Queen at 16. He is the gothic tale, literary its film adaptation,Kes . inspiration behind the detective John Sutherland This illustrated talk traces award winning hit musical turns his expert eye Hines’ creative journey Everybody’s Talking About on Frankenstein and to the film, and beyond, Jamie which premiered takes a quirky journey the political nature of at the Crucible Theatre, through the lesser- his writing, his lyrical transferred to the West known byways of Mary examination of the North End and is about to be Shelley’s masterpiece. and legacy as a working- made into a feature film John will unearth a trove class writer. The talk by Sheffield’s Warp Films. of tantalising facts. Topics draws on research using In this collaborative event under the microscope the Hines Papers at the with Sheffield Doc/Fest he include: Is the monster a University of Sheffield talks about his favourite fan of Goethe? How does Library and the Ken Loach books, his incredible story the monster die? And, Archive at the BFI. and his future plans. most importantly, who Associate Partner: University In collaboration with Sheffield is the best on-screen of Sheffield Library Doc/Fest Frankenmonster? ______Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) advance or £9/£8 (concs) on including booking fee ______the door for talk only + Crucible Theatre (see map on Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Auditorium, University of page 8) advance or £8/£7 (concs) on + Sheffield Students’ Union Tickets from Sheffield the door (see map on page 8) Theatres box office only Drama Studio, Shearwood Road (see map on page 8)

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© Tom J Newell Mon 15 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 15 Oct, 8.30pm Tues 16 Oct, 6pm Tom J Newell Kes Film Screening Rethinking Right-Wing Artist Tom J Newell has (PG) Women – Dr Julie V exhibited internationally 1 hour 53 minutes Gottlieb and Clarisse and produced intricately Ken Loach’s iconic British Berthezène hand-drawn illustrations and Yorkshire film has An exploration of gender for a plethora of illustrious become a much-loved and the Conservative outlets. Whether designing landmark of European Party from the 1880s record covers or painting cinema. Using a local and to the present. With the large scale murals, Tom largely non-professional establishment of the works using traditional cast and working closely Primrose League, women methods of mark making, with author Barry Hines, were politicised before finding inspiration in Loach crafted a tough yet they had the vote. Women’s second hand book and tender vision of a boy’s suffrage in 1918 played record shops, libraries and unique friendship with a an instrumental role in museums. Tom will discuss kestrel, set against a brutal the Conservative Party’s his artwork for this year’s and uncaring industrial transformation from elite Off the Shelf festival and landscape devoid of to mass democratic party - reflect on how some of hope and opportunity. one highly successful with his favourite books have Five decades on the film women at party level and influenced his own artistic remains as impassioned within the electorate, and practice. and as moving as on its producing the UK’s only ______release. female Prime Ministers. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) With the kind support of on the door + Film Unit ______Sheffield Institute of Arts, Pond Street (see map on Tickets: £5/£3 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in page 8) advance or £6/£4 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) the door + on the door + Auditorium, University of The Printhouse, North Church Sheffield Students’ Union Street (see map on page 8) (see map on page 8)

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offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 35 Wed 17 Oct, 7pm Date,Wed 17 time Oct, 7pm Date,Wed 17 time Oct, 7.30pm Researching BookRoute name 57 – BookAudacious name Mr Astley Historical Novels – AuthorLoco-Motion name Author– Performed name by Chris Rebecca Mascull LoremRoute 57ipsum is the dolor University LoremBarltrop ipsum dolor Rebecca Mascull gives sitof Sheffield’s amet, consectetur creative sitCavalryman-turned- amet, consectetur expert guidance on how adipiscingwriting journal, elit, ullamco featuring adipiscingshowman Philip elit, ullamco Astley to write a historical novel sedwork do from eiusmod students, tempor staff sed(1742-1814) do eiusmod is considered tempor from the first idea, through incididuntand alumni. ut Issue labore 14 et is incididuntthe creator ut of labore the modern et a range of techniques, to doloreentitled magna Loco-Motion aliqua. ,Ut in dolorecircus, magnaadding aliqua.acrobats, Ut the final draft. Using her enimcollaboration ad minim with veniam, York’s enimrope-walkers ad minim and veniam, clowns latest novel The Wild Air as quisNational nostrud Railway exercitation Museum quisto the nostrud trick-riding exercitation displays an example, Rebecca will ullamcoas part of laboris the Railway nisi ut ullamcohe and his laboris wife gave nisi ut show a range of images aliquipCultures ex project. ea commodo This aliquipfrom 1768. ex ea Fresh commodo from to explore how varied consequat.beautiful hand-made Duis aute irurebook, consequat.the Edinburgh Duis Festival, aute irure sources can be used to dolordesigned in reprehenderit by artist Abi in dolorChris inBarltrop’s reprehenderit one-man in gain information and voluptateGoodman velitand printedesse cillum at voluptateplay, Audacious velit esse Mr Astley cillum, knowledge about different doloreLa Biblioteka, eu fugiat features nulla dolorecelebrates eu fugiat 250 years nulla of aspects of the subject pariatur.poetry, fiction Excepteur and sintnon- pariatur.circus. Astley Excepteur tells his sint own and how special visits and occaecatfiction. Hear cupidatat contributors non occaecatstory, giving cupidatat an impression non experiences can bring the proident,read from sunt Issue in 14 culpa at proident,of the man sunt as wellin culpa as story to life. quiSheffield officia Stationdeserunt Tap. mollit quisketching officia his deserunt career. Chrismollit Sheffield Hallam University Anthologyanim id est available laborum. on animBarltrop id est is a laborum. writer, actor, performer and ringmaster. Creative Writing Showcase In collaboration with...the night. In collaboration with... ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) advance or £7/£6 ( concs) ______on the door on the door + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in + + Quaker Meeting House SheffieldTickets Tap, Platform 1b, advanceTickets or £7/£6 (concs) on (see map on page 8) SheffieldAddress Station, Sheaf St, Addressthe door + S1 2BP Drama Studio, Shearwood Road (see map on page 8)

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offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 37 Date,Thurs time 18 Oct, 7.30pm Date,Fri 19 time Oct, 1pm Date,Fri 19 timeOct, 6pm BookTo Throw name Away BookStan Tracey: name A Jazz BookMary Shelley:name AuthorUnopened name – AuthorLife – Clark name Tracey AuthorThe Gothic name Tradition LoremViv Albertine ipsum dolor LoremJazz drummer ipsum dolor and award Lorem– Professor ipsum dolor Angela sitViv amet,Albertine consectetur was the sitwinning amet, musician consectetur Clark sitWright amet, consectetur adipiscingguitarist in elit,cult ullamco post punk adipiscingTracey talks elit, about ullamco the adipiscingTwo hundred elit, years ullamco after sedband do The eiusmod Slits. Her tempor memoir, sedjazz dolife eiusmod of his father tempor the sedits publication, do eiusmod Mary tempor incididuntClothes, Clothes, ut labore Clothes, et incididuntinternationally-acclaimed ut labore et incididuntShelley’s Frankenstein ut labore et doloreMusic, magnaMusic, Music,aliqua. Ut dolorejazz pianist magna Stan aliqua. Tracey Ut doloreremains magna one of aliqua. the most Ut enimBoys, ad Boys, minim Boys veniam, was an enim[1926-2013]. ad minim Clark veniam, draws enimmasterful ad minim examples veniam, of acclaimedquis nostrud bestseller exercitation in quison personal nostrud recollections, exercitation quisGothic nostrud literature. exercitation Angela 2014.ullamco New laboris work, nisi To Throwut ullamcodiaries and laboris interviews, nisi ut to ullamcoWright reappraises laboris nisi ut Awayaliquip Unopened ex ea commodo, explores aliquipillustrate ex Stan’s ea commodo wit and aliquipthe significance ex ea commodo of herconsequat. working Duis class aute life inirure consequat.wisdom. Hear Duis what aute made irure consequat.Frankenstein Duis alongside aute irure mid-centurydolor in reprehenderit London and in dolorStan’s in music reprehenderit unique in in jazz, dolorShelley’s in reprehenderit other works. in isvoluptate a fearless velit dissection esse cillum voluptatethe trials and velit tribulations esse cillum voluptateStudying Shelley’s velit esse parental cillum ofdolore family, eu powerfugiat andnulla her doloreof dedication eu fugiat to art,nulla and doloreheritage, eu her fugiat infamous nulla identitypariatur. as Excepteur a rebel. With sint pariatur.something Excepteur of Stan’s sint pariatur.relationship Excepteur with Percy sint Viv’soccaecat inimitable cupidatat blend non of occaecatrelationship cupidatat with many non occaecatBysshe Shelley, cupidatat and non humour,proident, vulnerability, sunt in culpa proident,jazz giants sunt encountered in culpa proident,her experiences sunt in duringculpa andqui officia intelligence deserunt it’s a mollit quimusically officia in deserunt a seventy-year mollit qui1816, officia when deseruntshe wrote mollit testamentanim id est to laborum. how we can animcareer. id est laborum. animFrankenstein id est laborum., Angela rebuild ourselves. offers a thoroughly In collaboration with... In collaboration with...In association with Sheffield In collaboration with... ______Jazz contextualized appraisal Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in ______of the author, her works advance or £9/£8 (concs) on Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in and her importance to the the______door + ______advance or £6/£5 (concs) Gothic tradition. DramaTickets Studio, + Shearwood Ticketson the door + + Tickets + RoadAddress (see map on page 8) AddressTrippets Lounge Bar, Address 89 Trippet Lane, S1 4EL ______Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in advance or £8/£7 (concs) on the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 8)

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40 ‘Frankenstein 200 celebrates the bicentenary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s ground-breaking novel. We are delighted to be showcasing a wide range of events exploring the multitude of ways that Shelley’s classic has infused popular culture, and how her enduring myth continues to speak directly to contemporary anxieties around technology, science, gender and ‘the other ’.’

The Frankenstein theme has been curated by Professor Chris Wigginton, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University Frankenstein 200 Frankenstein

41 Frankenstein Weekend Sat 20 Oct–Sun 21 Oct

All events take place in the Sheffield General Cemetery or Samuel Worth Chapel in the Sheffield General Cemetery, Cemetery Avenue, S11 8NT

______Look out for this symbol for Frankenstein 200 themed events: Sat 20 Oct play called Mary Shelley and Monster Micro Fiction (page 11) her Frankenstein. Look out Blade Runner: Final Cut Film 11am–1pm for this pop-up performance (page 14) Making the Monster – in the atmospheric Mary Shelley: A Biography - Special Effects Make surroundings of the General Miranda Seymour (page 18) Up Demonstration Cemetery. Frankenstein: The First 200 Years - Christopher Frayling The UCEN Manchester See p51 for details of the (page 21) Year 2 FdA Special Effects full production. Frankenstein’s Brain – John Make-up Artistry students Sutherland (page 33) give a special effects 2pm to the Midnight Hour Mary Shelley: The Gothic demonstration inspired Tradition – Professor Angela A Monster Read – by Frankenstein. Their Frankenstein, or The Wright (page 38) work will encompass Making the Monster Make Up prosthetic techniques, Modern Prometheus by Demonstration (page 42) additional hair effects Mary Shelley Pop-Up Frankenstein (page 42) and advanced airbrush ‘I am by birth a Genevese…’ A Monster Read (page 42) make-up techniques. So begins Mary Shelley’s Sheffield General Cemetery Enjoy a demonstration and iconic, ground-breaking Guided Walks – Janet Ridler (page 43) audience Q&A. Drop in any gothic novel. Join us for a The Workshop of Filthy Creation time during the session. reading of the text from – Hattie Naylor (page 43) Suitable for ages 12+ beginning to end. Each Frankenstein Adaptations – chapter section will have a Professor Lisa Hopkins (page 43) different reader. Listeners Outdoor Screening – Bride of ______will be admitted as Frankenstein (page 43) Tickets: Free, no need to book readers change. Visit Outdoor Screening – Young (places subject to availability) offtheshelf.org.uk for more Frankenstein (page 43) Samuel Worth Chapel information. Franken-Futures – Dr Kaley Kramer (page 43) 1.15–1.45pm Mary Shelley and her ______Frankenstein – The Play Pop-Up Frankenstein Tickets: Free, admittance (page 51) Performance students from at suitable breaks – Sheffield Hallam University approximately every 30 minutes (subject to availability) perform excerpts from a new Samuel Worth Chapel

42 Sun 21 Oct Places limited, booking was nominated for two essential Oscars. Starring Gene 11am & 5pm Samuel Worth Chapel Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Sheffield General Marty Feldman. Cemetery Guided Walk 2pm–3pm – Janet Ridler Frankenstein ______A glimpse into Sheffield’s Adaptations: Jane Tickets: £5 on the door (subject past on a guided tour of Webb Loudon’s to availability) this Grade II* listed historic The Mummy! – Ticket price includes loan of cemetery. Discover the Professor Lisa Hopkins headphones + stories behind some of Sheffield General Cemetery the cemetery’s burials The Mummy! (1827) is one of and the gothic inspired the earliest, most interesting monuments, catacombs responses to Frankenstein. 4pm–5pm and structures. The walk It explores the idea of Franken-futures: lasts just over one hour. atheism in Mary Shelley’s The Unlikely novel, in which a man gives Suitable for ages 12+ Wanderings of a life to a new creature. Lisa Literary Creature – Hopkins discusses Loudon’s entertaining novel which Dr Kaley Kramer ______includes the reanimation When Mary Shelley bid her Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in ‘hideous progeny’ to ‘go advance, booking essential + of an Egyptian mummy and is a principled comment on forth’ she could not have Meet at The Gatehouse, Cemetery Avenue, S11 8NT Frankenstein. predicted the extent of her work’s influence 200 years Assistance dogs only after its appearance. The Please bring your own torch for ______the 5pm walk hapless scientist gives his Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in name to a bewildering array 11am–1pm advance or £6/£5 (concs) of objects and phenomena, on the door + from Franken-foods to The Workshop of Filthy Samuel Worth Chapel ‘frankensteining’. A look at Creation: Writing cultural interpretations of Workshop with Hattie Outdoor Film the text and where Shelley’s Naylor Screenings: creature might appear in Hattie Naylor is an Olivier our future. nominee and a national and 2pm (1 hour 15 minutes) international multi award Bride of Frankenstein winning writer. Her work (A) ______includes Ivan and The Dogs, Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in Made in 1935 and advance or £6/£5 (concs) on The Night Watch and The directed by James Whale, the door + Diaries of Samuel Pepys. She this is one of the most Samuel Worth Chapel is a Lecturer in Stage and iconic representations Screen at Sheffield Hallam of Frankenstein on film. © Kayel Kramer Caspar, David Friedrich. Univeristy. In this Creative Starring Boris Karloff and Writing Workshop, she will Elsa Lanchester. give you expert guidance to help you craft your 5pm (1 hour 46 minutes) characters and channel the gothic in your writing. Young Frankenstein (AA) Made in 1974 and directed ______by Mel Brooks, this comedy Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) + version of Frankenstein

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 43 Sun 21 Oct, 2pm Sun 21 Oct, 3pm Sun 21 Oct, 4pm The Untold Story of The Life and Times of Gothic Yorkshire – Churchill’s World War II a Very British Man – Fiona Mozley and Speeches – Professor Kamal Ahmed Michael Stewart Richard Toye In this honest, comic An afternoon of bleak and The full story of Winston coming-of-age story Kamal beautiful Gothic Yorkshire Churchill’s war time Ahmed, economics editor fiction with two stellar speeches told for the first of BBC News, explores writers. Fiona Mozley was time. This book, The Roar what it means to be shortlisted for the Man of the Lion, is a dramatic British. Half English, half Booker Prize 2017 for her new take on the politics Sudanese he was raised exquisite and impressive of the 1940s, that offers in 1970s London, at a debut novel Elmet which radical insights and looks time when being mixed- was critically acclaimed for at how the speeches were race meant being told its lyrical beauty and clever received at home and to go home, even when construction. Michael worldwide. Richard Toye you were born down the Stewart will discuss III uses survey evidence and road. Heartfelt, witty and Will which explores the the diaries of ordinary profound, this is a candid, untold story of Heathcliff people for the first valuable contribution to and authentically captures systematic, archive based the ongoing conversation the earthy tone of Emily examination of Churchill’s about race and identity in Bronte’s classic Wuthering WWII rhetoric as a whole. the UK. Heights. ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £9/£8 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £10/£9 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) the door + the door + on the door + Studio, University of Sheffield Firth Hall, Firth Court Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on (see map on page 8) Students’ Union (see map on page 8) page 8)

44 Sun 21 Oct, 6pm Mon 22 Oct, 7pm Mon 22 Oct, 7pm A Life in Death – My Life with John The Life and Sue Black Steinbeck – Bruce Adventures of As Professor of Anatomy Lawson Harvey Teasdale and Forensic Anthropology, 2018 is the 50th An illustrated talk by Rosie Sue Black confronts death anniversary of John Whitcombe, Professor daily in her lab, at burial Steinbeck’s death. This Dawn Hadley and Dr Vicky sites, at murder scenes memoir delivers a unique, Crewe about the 1867 and when investigating controversial portrait memoir of Harvey Teasdale mass fatalities due to of the American literary and his fascinating war or natural disaster. giant. This is the story of theatrical life. Harvey Her expertise has been John Steinbeck’s forgotten Teasdale was a Sheffield crucial to high-profile second wife Gwyn, as told performer, famous for his cases including war crimes to journalist Douglas G clown and man-monkey investigations in Kosovo. Brown. Lost since 1972 and acts. He attempted to She reveals the many faces recently found in Wales, murder his wife and of death she has come to My Life with John served two years in know and what her work Steinbeck allows Gwyn Wakefield Prison where he in forensic science has Steinbeck to tell her story. converted to Methodism. taught her. Editor Bruce Lawson A historically informative ______discusses this significant and entertaining picture Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in literary discovery using of working-class Sheffield advance or £9/£8 (concs) on vintage images. and the city’s theatrical the door + ______underbelly. Firth Hall, Firth Court (see map on page 8) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on the door + ______Studio, University of Sheffield Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in Students’ Union (see map on advance or £8/£7 (concs) on page 8) the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 45 © Ringling Brothers Property used with the permission of Feld © Alan Davidson. Entertainment Inc. Mon 22 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 22 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 23 Oct, 7pm WTF – Robert Peston What Would Boudicca 250 Years of Circus Journalist, presenter, Do? – E Foley and Poster Art – Steven and founder of education B Coates B Richley charity Speakers for A witty, inspiring look In conversation with Schools, Robert Peston at some of history’s Professor Vanessa takes on all the biggest superwomen. Women like Toulmin issues of the day in his Rosa Parks, Cleopatra, passionate and witty Mary Wollstonecraft and Steven B Richley is WTF. From Brexit to social Mary Seacole will help you a collector of circus mobility, Grenfell, Trump conquer the modern world. posters who has written and austerity, Peston With advice from Frida extensively on the brings his own piercing Kahlo on fi nding your style, subject. In this beautifully analysis to bear, calling Rosalind Franklin on being illustrated event, he will for radical changes in diffi cult and Hedy Lamarr take you through 250 education, economic on being underestimated, years of circus posters policy and how workers are this book will get you fi red tracing the evolution empowered, all geared to up and ready for anything. of the designs and the rebuilding understanding, E Foley and B Coates are entertainment. From the tolerance and, ultimately, the authors of bestseller fi rst woodcut bills for optimism. Homework for Grown-Ups. Astley’s circus in the 1800s, ______to the exquisite lithographs Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in Associate Partner: University of the 1900s and the advance or £11/£9 (concs) on of Sheffi eld Students’ Union bright, dynamic post-war ______the door + designs for Bertram Mills, Octagon Centre, University of Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Billy Smart’s and more. Sheffi eld (see map on page 8) advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the door + Auditorium, University of Sheffi eld Students’ Union ______(see map on page 8) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 8)

46 MATTER 2018 NEW WRITING MATTER 2018

Mews Press £5 ISBN 978-1-84387-418-8 www.mattermagazine.co.uk

Tues 23 Oct, 7pm Tues 23 Oct, 7pm Tues 23 Oct, 7.30pm Writing Matters In My Life – Alan Thomas Cromwell: A relaxed literary evening Johnson A Life – Professor in the company of Sheffi eld Labour Party stalwart and Diarmaid MacCulloch Hallam University creative former Home Secretary Thomas Cromwell was a writers and others Alan Johnson delves fi xer for Cardinal Wolsey including prose and poetry lovingly into his life-long in the 1520s - by the readings from Matter devotion to music, adding end of the 1530s he was Magazine. Get a sneak to his biography through running the country for preview of The Anthill, the a soundtrack that swings Henry VIII. This major latest novel from Sunday from Bing Crosby to Bruce biography is a masterclass Times Young Writer of the Springsteen and always in historical detective work, Year shortlisted Julianne returning to his beloved overturning many received Pachico. We will also be Beatles. His nostalgia- interpretations about this announcing the winning fi lled memoirIn My Life elusive fi gure. MacCulloch entry from Sheffi eld transports us to a world of reveals Cromwell’s true Hallam University’s Dansettes and jukeboxes. place in the making of Monster Micro Fiction Relive the music and learn modern England and competition. Hosted by more about the man, as Ireland. Conor O’Callaghan. revealed by his musical ‘This is the biography we See page 11 for details of passions. have been awaiting for 400 ______the Monster Micro Fiction years’ - Hilary Mantel competition. Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in ______advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the door + Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £9/£8 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Pennine Theatre, Owen the door + Building (see map on page 8) the door + Auditorium, University of Includes a copy of Matter Sheffi eld Students’ Union Magazine (see map on page 8) The Printhouse, North Church Street (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 47 Wed 24 Oct, 6pm Wed 24 Oct, 7pm Wed 24 Oct, 7pm BFI NETWORK and The Fashion Municipal Dreams: Film Hub North Chronicles – The Rise and Fall of Scratch Night Amber Butchart Council Housing – BFI NETWORK and Film Hub The history of fashion is a John Boughton North present a showcase story of style, power, grace John Boughton gives a of rehearsed readings from and propaganda. From history of council housing short films and selected Eve and her fig leaf, via from Victorian slums to scenes from feature films Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, Lord Grenfell Tower. He offers by strong new writing voices Byron, Amelia Earhart, an architectural tour of from the North. Frida Kahlo, Malcolm X some of our remarkable There will be a post-show and Beyoncé, Butchart housing estates including discussion where you’ll examines the best-dressed Sheffield. He considers learn about the writers’ people the world has ever the ideologies for and development process seen. She explores their against state housing, the followed by an informal individual style, how they crisis wrought by Right to drinks reception. have influenced today’s Buy and the controversies fashion and used their around regeneration. He In partnership with BFI clothing to change the NETWORK and Film Hub North shows how the loss of the ______world. Amber Butchart is dream of good housing for Tickets: £3 a fashion historian and all is a danger for the whole broadcaster. of society. To book via Eventbrite, ______visit event page at ______offtheshelf.org.uk Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £9/£8 (concs) on DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge advance or £7/£6 (concs) the door + + Street, S1 4HP on the door Pennine Theatre, Owen Studio, University of Sheffield Building (see map on page 8) Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

48 Wed 24 Oct, 7pm Wed 24 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 24 Oct, 7.30pm Girl with a Dove – Iain Sinclair and Unexplained – Richard Dr Sally Bayley M. John Harrison Maclean Smith Author Sally Bayley Iain Sinclair is the Richard MacLean Smith discusses her literary award-winning writer is the researcher, writer memoir, Girl with Dove: of numerous acclaimed and producer of the A Life Built by Books books on London. The internationally successful - the story of a young Last London is the final podcast Unexplained girl escaping from an brilliant chapter in his life- with over 10 million all-female household by long odyssey through the listens to date. His book reading. In this interactive streets of the Big Smoke. Unexplained features all- session, Sally discusses M. John Harrison reads new material, uncovering the relationship between from his first collection ten of the most astonishing childhood reading and of short fiction for over unsolved mysteries from verbal memory and the 15 years You Should around the world, from associations of particular Come With Me Now. His demonic possession to words she encountered work crosses boundaries UFOs, that persistently in reading Jane Eyre, between horror, Sci Fi, defy explanation. Richard Miss Marple and David fantasy and travel writing ventures into the space Copperfield and draws you - weird stories for weird between the possible and into a world of imaginative times. seemingly impossible and etymology and word plots. In collaboration with explores our universal Sheffield Hallam University Blackwell’s Bookshop at fascination for mysteries Creative Writing Showcase University of Sheffield and the unknown. ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £9/£8 (concs) on on the door + the door + the door + Quaker Meeting House The Printhouse, North Church Firth Hall, Firth Court (see map on page 8) Street (see map on page 8) (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 49 Thurs 25 Oct, 6.30pm Thurs 25 Oct, 7pm Thurs 25 Oct, 7.30pm Science Squad – The Meaning of Home A Life in Pattern – Professor Robert – Victoria Hennison Orla Kiely Winston and Harriet Tarlo In Conversation with Join Professor Robert Original work from two Ana-Cecilia Guzman Winston as he explores Yorkshire based writers. Orla Kiely is an expert on how the world works in In The Island on the print and colour. From his new book Science Moor for Hometown her earliest, most iconic Squad. The Science Squad Tales Yorkshire, Victoria pattern, Stem, to the are made up of the five Hennison traces a evolution of her print STEAM subjects - Science, powerful journey from a design encompassing Technology, Engineering, carefree childhood to dark fashion, homewares and Art and Maths, Robert periods of depression in beyond, Orla shares the explains how they work a small Yorkshire village. patterns and designs that together, why they are so Harriet Tarlo is a poet she has produced since important and how they and Reader in Creative establishing her global relate to the world around Writing at Sheffield Hallam brand in 1995. A Life in us. From the solar system University. She will read Pattern is a celebration of to evolution, children will from her Lincolnshire and Orla’s work - of colour, print discover how machines Yorkshire found poems and how pattern can make work, where lightning created from interviews you happy without you comes from and more. with people about their even noticing. Suitable for ages 6-10 relationship to place. ______Children must be Tickets: £9/£8 (concs) in accompanied by an adult Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £10/£9 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) the door + ______on the door + Tickets: £3 for adults and Auditorium, University of The Printhouse, North Church children + Sheffield Students’ Union Street (see map on page 8) (see map on page 8) Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 8)

50 Thurs 25 Oct, Fri 26 Oct & Thurs 25 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 26 Oct, 7pm Sat 27 Oct, 7.30pm The Youth Word Running for My Life Mary Shelley and Up! A Spoken Word – Rachel Cullen and her Frankenstein – Performance by Young Dare To Tri – Louise The Play People and Andy Minchin Mary Shelley and her Craven-Griffiths From teenage non-runner Frankenstein is a thrilling Local young people to London Marathon piece of immersive theatre perform pieces written finisher.Running For My featuring Performance during workshops with Life is Rachel Cullen’s students from Sheffield Hive, exploring their funny, heartfelt story Hallam University (SHU). experiences and hopes. of her journey through This new adaptation is Sharing the stage is poet mental illness and how written by Hattie Naylor Andy Craven-Griffiths. Andy she ‘built a better me (lecturer in Stage and has performed poetry at one step at a time’. BBC Screen at SHU) whose Glastonbury and on Radio 1. presenter Louise Minchin credits include Olivier went from Breakfast Time nominated Ivan and the Supported by Hive South Yorkshire, Sheffield City sofa to representing GB Dogs, recently released Council Children, Young at the World Triathlon as a film. Hattie weaves People & Families, Sheffield Championships. Dare to together Mary Shelley’s Community Youth Teams, Tri charts her amazing letters, what is known Sheffield Youth Justice and Arts Council England. journey. The authors met about her tragic life and through their mutual love the ground breaking novel Suitable for ages 13+ of sport, in particular, Frankenstein itself to Parental guidance applies running! ______create this unmissable ______Tickets: Free piece of theatre. Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in To book via Eventbrite, Suitable for ages 12+ advance or £8/£7 (cons) on visit event page at the door + Parental guidance applies offtheshelf.org.uk Hallam Hall, Owen Building Free anthology at the event (see map on page 8) The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam ______University Students’ Union Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + (see map on page 8) Performance Lab, Arundel Gate (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 51 Fri 26 Oct, 7pm Fri 26 Oct, 7.30pm Sat 27 Oct, 11am Dark Sacred Night – The Rise and Fall of Celebrating the Harry Michael Connelly the Dinosaurs – Potter Books A former police reporter Dr Steve Brusatte Are you a fantastically for the Los Angeles Times, A major re-evaluation of beastly fan of the Harry Michael Connelly is the #1 the creatures that ruled Potter books? Join internationally bestselling the earth for 150 million Fleurble Laffalot for a author of the Harry Bosch years by one of the world’s family friendly journey thriller series. His writing leading palaeontologists. through JK Rowling’s much has won awards all over Using fossil clues gathered loved books. Discover the world and Bosch is one with new technology, fun facts about the Harry of the most watched TV Brusatte traces these Potter books as well as series. Hear the master of magnificent creatures taking part in some of the crime thriller genre talk from their evolution in the the key elements of life about his craft and his new Triassic period, through at Hogwarts – the sorting book, Dark Sacred Night, the Jurassic to their final ceremony, Care of Magical which will thrill and delight catastrophic days in the Creatures, spells, potions fans old and new. Cretaceous. Discover what and much more. A fun ______it means to be a dinosaur and interactive event Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in hunter. This is the thrilling for anyone who has ever advance or £9/£8 (concs) on untold story of a lost world. wanted to explore the the door + ______magical world of Harry Pennine Theatre (see map on Potter books! page 8) Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in advance or £9/£8 (concs) on the door + Suitable for ages 8+ Children must be Firth Hall, Firth Court (see map on page 8) accompanied by an adult ______Tickets: £5/£3 (concs) in advance or £6/£4 (concs) on the door + Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 8)

52 Sat 27 Oct, 2pm Sat 27 Oct, 2pm Sat 27 Oct, 2pm Slow Travel Peak Yorkshire Folk Tales The Cigarette Card District – Helen Moat for Children – History of Popular Bradt’s Slow Travel Peak Carmel Page Fiction – Professor District brings a new Help to tell the tale of The Chris Hopkins perspective to this much- Hen-Pecked Husband, Cigarette cards in the loved area. Slow down and listen to the legend of period 1930 to 1950, were a let expert, award-winning Brigg the Dragon and hear popular source of guidance local author Helen Moat about local hero, Robin of to culture and fiction. This guide you to not just the Loxley. Carmel Page is a beautifully illustrated well-known places, but storyteller and artist who talk and accompanying away from the crowds has combined her skills to workshop explores the to uncover the hidden write and illustrate a book history and art of cigarette corners. Discover dales, of Yorkshire Folk Tales cards with introductions abandoned mills, historical for Children. Listen to to the once best-selling ruins, strange follies, her bring the stories alive authors featured on them. irresistible pubs and more. and then create your own There will be a hands-on An emphasis on car-free Yorkshire characters whilst opportunity to browse travel throws up a range of feasting on Dragon-Slaying original cigarette card sets options: walking, cycling, Parkin. of popular authors and boating, buses and trains. In association with Museums best-selling novels. ______Sheffield ______Tickets: £6.50/£5.50 (concs) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in in advance or £7.50/£6.50 Suitable for ages 7-9 advance or £7/£6 (concs) (concs) on the door + Children must be on the door + Central United Reformed accompanied by an adult Cantor Building, Sheffield Church (see map on page 8) ______Hallam University, Tickets: £3 for adults and 153 Arundel Street, S1 2NU children + Weston Park Museum (activity room 3), Western Bank, S10 2TP (see map on page 8)

offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 53 Sat 27 Oct Sat 27 Oct, 7pm Sat 27 Oct, 7.30pm Off the Shelf at Northern Book Prize Sheffield Hallam The Spirit of Africa Winner 2018 – University’s Class Festival Amy Arnold of 2018 – Anthology Looking Forward, Slip of a Fish by Amy Launch Looking Back: Arnold is the first A night of new writing Somali Poetry winner of the inaugural from Sheffield Hallam Northern Book Prize. It University’s graduating Off the Shelf is delighted is an intense but playful Class of 2018 English to collaborate with The and allusive novel for students as they launch Spirit of Africa Festival to fans of Ali Smith, Eimear their anthology showcasing bring this bi-lingual event McBride, Deborah Levy and their work. The evening celebrating a new anthology Gabriel Tallant. A single will be hosted by poet and of poems and essays by act unravels a mother- lecturer Nasser Hussain Somali writers and leading daughter relationship and will feature readings poets from the Horn of in this uncompromising from the anthology. Nasser Africa. The book features debut. Amy is published by Hussain’s first collection Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac Sheffield publishers And of poetry was boldface ‘Gaarriye’ and Jaamac Other Stories, whose party and his latest is SKY WRI Kediye Cilmi, as well as follows this event. TEI NGS - a book of poems contemporary writers in the written entirely from IATA Somali diaspora such as In association with And Other airport codes. Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf. Stories ______In association with Hive South In partnership with the Poetry Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in Yorkshire Translation Centre, Kayd advance or £6/£5 (concs) Somali Arts and Culture and on the door + Suitable for ages 15+ Redsea-Online to mark ten ______years of Somali Week Festival DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge Street, S1 4HP (see map on Tickets: £4/£3 (concs) in ______page 8) advance or £5/£4 (concs) Tickets: See full details of the on the door + Spirit of Africa Festival (26-27 The Printhouse, North Church Oct) at sheffieldtheatres.co.uk Street (see map on page 8) Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 1DA (see map on page 8)

54 Friends of Off the Shelf – support the festival Becoming a friend of Off the Shelf costs only £20 a year for paperback friends and £40 for hardback friends and offers a number of benefi ts, including priority booking. If you become a friend today, you’ll be eligible for Sat 27 Oct, 8.30pm Tues 30 Oct, 7pm all of these benefi ts in And Other Stories A Spark of Light – 2019, as well as Party & 2019 Northern Jodi Picoult supporting the festival programme. Book Prize Launch Jodi Picoult is the author For more information, see Toast another great Off of 24 internationally offtheshelf.org.uk/friends the Shelf at the And bestselling novels and or call 0114 222 3895. Other Stories celebration. one of the most popular One of the UK’s most women’s fi ction writers exciting literary presses, in the world. Join her in Sheffi eld’s And Other Sheffi eld on a rare visit to Stories, are throwing the the UK to talk about her party to celebrate this powerful and provocative year’s Northern Book Prize new novel set in a Women’s winner and to announce Reproductive Centre. details of their 2019 A Spark of Light is a Northern Book Prize. No beautifully crafted, thought readings, but the chance provoking book revealing to mingle with other fans the complexity of balancing of the written and spoken the right to life with the word and celebrate literary right to choose. life in Sheffi eld and ______beyond. Tickets: £18/£17 (concs) + Ticket price includes a signed In association with And Other copy of A Spark of Light Stories ______Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 8) Tickets: Free, no need to book Cash bar on the night DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge Street, S1 4HP

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57 Tues 6 Nov, 8pm Enable US Festival: two weeks I Used to Hear of the best new professional Footsteps – Jack Britton theatre and performance at Wed 7 Nov, 8pm the University Drama Studio A Machine They’re every Autumn and Spring. Secretly Building – Proto-Type

Thurs 8 Nov, 8pm Macbeth: Director’s Cut – Volcano Theatre Sun 4 Nov, 8pm The Haunted Moustache – Dr David Bramwell Fri 9 Nov 8pm A uniquely personal tale about a 100 year old moustache Dr Carnesky’s in a box, bequeathed by an eccentric aunt. After inheriting Incredible Bleeding this singular item, Dr David Bramwell (Dead Flows the Don) Woman – Carnesky embarked on a ten-year odyssey to discover its original Productions owner. A funny and moving journey exploring the occult, facial hair and the true meaning of magic. The Haunted Sat 10 Nov, 8pm Moustache was dramatised for Radio 3, winning a Sony Casting the Runes – Silver Award. Robert Lloyd Parry

Sun 25 Nov, 8pm Richard Carpenter is Close to You – Matthew Floyd Jones

Tues 27 Nov, 8pm Intronauts – Green Ginger

Wed 28 Nov, 8pm Powerful Women Are About – Lucy Hopkins

Thurs 29 Nov, 8pm Long Shot – PanGottic

Sat 1 Dec, 8pm Painters of Light and Shadow – The WEA

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Our Suffrage 100 strand has been supported by a Our Tradition of Giving generous donation from the University of Sheffield’s Philanthropic gifts, such Alumni Fund Departmental Grant. This has helped us as these from our Alumni, to curate a programme that marks 100 years since the are vital to the University: Representation of the People Act and bring internationally they laid its foundations renowned speakers to Sheffield. over a century ago. In The funding has supported workshops and writing 1905, the civic vision of opportunities for young women and community groups in the University’s founding the city and developed three weeks of events, discussions fathers was underpinned and workshops. by public subscriptions – penny donations from local We are delighted to launch our Sheffield Suffrage Trail citizens – that resulted in that celebrates the radical women of the city who produced the establishment of the the first UK manifesto for the Sheffield Women’s Political University in 1905. Association urging the women of England to claim their political rights. For more information visit sheffield.ac.uk/alumni This is a self-led trail taking in some key places in the city centre where the campaign resonated. It can be downloaded from the website: offtheshelf.org.uk

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offtheshelf.org.uk + Booking fee: 70p per ticket; £1 per ticket £10+ 63 offtheshelf.org.uk Off the Shelf Festival of Words otsfestival offtheshelffestival #OTSfest Key: Special Events Cinema Sundays Festival Calendar Ideas Alive At 5.45 Romani Readings

Sat 6 Oct Wed 17 Oct Monster Micro Fiction Competition 11 5.45pm What is a Green Space Really Worth? 16 11am–3pm Off the Shelf On The Moor 11 6pm Welcome to Sheffield – David Price 35 11am–4pm Hive Young Writers’ Day – Narrative Poetry 11 7pm Researching Historical Novels – 36 for Performance Rebecca Mascull 3pm Aerialist – Rebecca Truman in conversation 12 7pm Route 57 – Loco-Motion 36 with Professor Vanessa Toulmin 7.30pm Audacious Mr Astley – Performed by 36 4pm My Letter to the World – 12 Chris Barltrop Emily Dickinson Documentary 7.30pm Thinking on My Feet – Kate Humble 37 6pm A History of Circus in Sheffield – 12 Professor Vanessa Toulmin Thurs 18 Oct 7pm The Vampire: A New History – Nick Groom 13 7pm Val McDermid in Conversation with 37 Dr Katharine Cox Sun 7 Oct 7.30pm Hinterland – Chris Mullin 37 10.30am Meet Lauren Child 13 7.30pm To Throw Away Unopened – Viv Albertine 38 12noon–4pm Circus Sunday 13 4.30pm Blade Runner: Final Cut (15) 14 Fri 19 Oct 3pm The Common Freedom of the People – 15 1pm Stan Tracey: A Jazz Life – Clark Tracey 38 Professor Michael Braddick 6pm Mary Shelley: The Gothic Tradition – 38 3pm I’ll Go On – South Korean Translation Event 15 Professor Angela Wright with Hwang Jungeun 7pm Eat Up! – Ruby Tandoh 39 5pm Troupers – Keith Hutson and Female 15 7.30pm My Tutu Went AWOL – Iestyn Edwards 39 Funambulists – Chloe Balcomb Sat 20 Oct Mon 8 Oct 2pm The Great Sheffield Deer Park – 39 5.45pm Shakespeare’s Poems 16 David Templeman 6pm How to Give Up Plastic – Will McCallum 17 2pm Bloody Brilliant Women – Cathy Newman 40 6.30pm The Roma Enlightenment and Romani Dreams 20 6pm Corbyn: The Resurrection – Steve Bell 40 7pm Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England’s 17 7.30pm The Circus: A Visual History – Pascal Jacob 40 Greatest County – Richard Morris Sat 20 Oct– Frankenstein Weekend 42 7pm Philip Hensher and Gregory Norminton 17 Sun 21 Oct 7.30pm Mary Shelley: A Biography – Miranda Seymour 18 Sun 21 Oct Tues 9 Oct 2pm The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II 44 5.45pm The Confident Choir 16 Speeches – Professor Richard Toye 6pm Suffrage Afterlives: What Happened After 18 3pm The Life and Times of a Very British Man – 44 the Vote Was Won? – Panel Discussion Kamal Ahmed 7pm Rise – Gina Miller 18 4pm Gothic Yorkshire – Fiona Mozley and 44 Michael Stewart 7pm Steel City: An Industrial History – 19 Ian D Rotherham 4.30pm Circus of Horrors (15) Introduced by Martin Carter 14 7.30pm Poetry with Finuala Dowling and 19 6pm A Life in Death – Sue Black 45 Elizabeth Barrett 7.30pm Straight Outta Crawley – Romesh Ranganathan 19 Mon 22 Oct 5.45pm The Woolly Mammoth: A Visual Icon for 16 7.30pm The Happy Brain – Dean Burnett 21 De-Extinction Science Wed 10 Oct 7pm My Life with John Steinbeck – Bruce Lawson 45 6pm Henry VIII and the Men who Made Him – 21 7pm The Life and Adventures of Harvey Teasdale 45 Tracy Borman 7pm Papusza Film Screening (15) Subtitled 20 7pm Frankenstein: The First 200 Years – 21 7.30pm WTF – Robert Peston 46 Christopher Frayling 7.30pm What Would Boudicca Do? – E Foley and B Coates 46 7pm The Very Selected: Poetry with Mimi Khalvati, 22 Michael Laskey, Michael Schmidt Tues 23 Oct 7pm A 19th Century History of Publishing in 22 5.45pm What’s in Our Water? 16 Sheffield – Alistair Hodge 7pm 250 Years of Circus Poster Art – Steven B Richley 46 7pm The Women’s Pit Camp – Flis Callow and 22 in conversation with Professor Vanessa Toulmin Caroline Poland 7pm Writing Matters 47 7pm Sight – Jessie Greengrass 23 7pm In My Life – Alan Johnson 47 Thurs 11 Oct 7.30pm Thomas Cromwell: A Life – Professor 47 5.45pm The Rise of Digital Politics 16 Diarmaid MacCulloch 6pm The Fountain in the Forest – Tony White 23 Wed 24 Oct 6pm The Story of the Suffrage Movement in Ireland – 23 5.45pm Medication to Delay Illness in Later Years 16 Louise Ryan 6pm BFI NETWORK and Film Hub North Scratch Night 48 7pm Why Marx Was Right – Terry Eagleton 24 7pm The Fashion Chronicles – Amber Butchart 48 7.30pm Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading – 24 Lucy Mangan 7pm Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of 48 Council Housing – John Boughton 7.30pm Evan Davis – Post-Truth 24 7pm Girl with a Dove – Dr Sally Bayley 49 Fri 12 Oct 7.30pm Iain Sinclair and M. John Harrison 49 Fri 12 Oct– 7.30pm Unexplained – Richard Maclean Smith 49 Sun 14 Oct Strong Language 25 7pm Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted 26 Thurs 25 Oct Authors Evening 5.45pm Online Health Forums – A Place for 16 7pm Death in Ten Minutes Kitty Marion: Activist, 26 Sharing and Empathy Arsonist, Suffragette – Dr Fern Riddell 6.30pm Science Squad – Professor Robert Winston 50 7.30pm Being David Archer – Tim Bentinck 26 7pm The Meaning of Home – Victoria Hennison 50 8.30pm Can We All Be Feminists? – Soofiya Andry 27 and Harriet Tarlo and Selina Thompson 7.30pm A Life in Pattern – Orla Kiely in Conversation 50 with Ana-Cecilia Guzman Sat 13 Oct 7.30pm The Youth Word Up! A Spoken Word Performance 51 11am Peace at Last – Guy Cuthbertson 27 by Young People and Andy Craven-Griffiths 2pm Sunny Side Up – Susan Calman 27 7.30pm Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein – The Play 51 1.30–4.30pm It’s All a Fiction – Readers’ Afternoon 28 2pm Somebody I Used to know – Wendy Mitchell 32 Fri 26 Oct 7pm Running for My Life – Rachel Cullen and 51 Sun 14 Oct Dare To Tri – Louise Minchin Events Suffrage Sunday 7pm Dark Sacred Night – Michael Connelly 52 throughout the day 30 7.30pm Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein – The Play 51 1pm Die Suffragette (12A) Introduced by 14 7.30pm The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs – 52 Dr Adity Singh Dr Steve Brusatte 3pm The Dragon: Fear and Power – Martin Arnold 32 Sat 27 Oct 7.30pm Dummy – The Comedy and Chaos of Real-Life 32 11am Celebrating the Harry Potter Books 52 Parenting – Matt Coyne 2pm Slow Travel Peak District – Helen Moat 53 Mon 15 Oct 2pm Yorkshire Folk Tales for Children – Carmel Page 53 5.45pm Mapping the Metropolis: The Wonder of 16 2pm The Cigarette Card History of Popular Fiction – 53 Tokyo’s Yamanote Professor Chris Hopkins 6.30pm Stopping, Moving and Writing 20 Off the Shelf at The Spirit of Africa Festival – 54 7pm Barry Hines and Kes – David Forrest 33 Looking Forward, Looking Back: Somali Poetry 7pm Desert Island Reads – Jamie Campbell 33 7pm Northern Book Prize Winner 2018 – Amy Arnold 54 7pm Frankenstein’s Brain – John Sutherland 33 7.30pm Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein – The Play 51 7.30pm Tom J Newell 34 7.30pm Sheffield Hallam University’s Class of 2018 – 54 Anthology Launch 8.30pm Kes Film Screening (PG) 34 8.30pm And Other Stories Party & 2019 Northern 55 Book Prize Launch Tues 16 Oct 5.45pm New Takes on Fallen Women in Global Cinema 16 Tues 30 Oct 6pm Rethinking Right-Wing Women – Dr Julie V 34 7pm A Spark of Light – Jodi Picoult 55 Gottlieb and Clarisse Berthezène 7pm How to Be an Urban Birder – David Lindo 35 7.30pm Spun Into Gold: The Secret Life of a Female 35 Magician – Romany Romany