Festival of Words Sheffield 8–29 October 2016 Welcome to Off the Shelf Festival of Words 2016 Contents About Off the Shelf 4 Some of our guests 6 How to book 8 Festival information 9 Festival map 10 Festival events 12–53 Exhibitions 56–57 Workshops 58 Events for children 59–61 Off the Shelf on the road 62–63 Festival Fringe 64–74
Book at sivtickets.com 3 About Since 1991, Off the Shelf Festival Off the of Words has hosted the likes of Shelf Doris Lessing, Chuck Palahniuk, Lionel Shriver and Hilary Mantel. It’s inspired audiences with ideas from Shami Chakrabarti, Owen Jones, Laura Bates and hundreds more. Over the years, it’s even asked some of its visitors – Benjamin Zephaniah, Carol Ann “It is great that the two Duffy, Jackie Kay and Jarvis universities are working collaboratively to support Cocker, among others – to leave and develop the festival, their mark on the city’s walls and whose offer for 2016 clearly shows it going from sculptures. strength to strength. Off the Shelf is a high point of the cultural calendar in the For 25 years, Off the Shelf has got city and beyond, and I am the city chatting about everything delighted that Sheffield Hallam’s engagement with from the timeless appeal of the it will be extended and gothic and pop music nostalgia to deepened.” Professor Chris Husbands everyday sexism and the politics Vice-Chancellor of hope. Each autumn it’s helped Sheffield Hallam University tens of thousands of readers fill their bookshelves with stories, recipes, memoirs, poetry and everything in between.
4 2016 is not only Off the Shelf’s 25th birthday. It’s also the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, 100 years since Roald Dahl’s birth and 200 years since Charlotte Brontë’s. And, in Sheffield, it’s the Year of Making. The festival celebrates these literary landmarks as well as the city’s proud history of making. It does so with the support of both “I am delighted that the university is continuing its universities, who’ve helped shape long-standing relationship the most diverse and exciting with Off the Shelf Festival. We are particularly pleased Off the Shelf programme yet. that this year’s festival is more international than ever – reflecting So this October, join one of the best of writing from the country’s biggest literary around the world and the diverse communities and festivals as it takes over nationalities found within everywhere from the Crucible our city and universities. Events such as these Theatre to your local library. celebrate a vibrant, Discover words written for culturally ambitious city, and offer rich children, and words written opportunities for all ages around the world. Find the and backgrounds to enjoy literary treasures in new unexpected in the Festival ways.” Fringe. Welcome writers, savour Professor Sir Keith Burnett Vice-Chancellor stories, debate, and lose yourself University of Sheffield in more than a few good books.
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Book at sivtickets.com 5 Some of our guests... Off the Shelf welcomes all kinds of fantastic writers to its 2016 festival. Here are some of the faces behind the words.
Ed Yong, p42
Francesca Martinez, p53
Tony Robinson, p49 Alan Johnson, p46
6 John Pilger, p45
Marina Lewycka, p34
Nick Hornby, p14
Joelle Taylor, p52 Patti Boulaye, p40
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Event timings Most of our events last about an hour, Year of Making unless stated otherwise. Disabled access All our main venues have disabled access. Poetry Festival Fringe venues (see pages 64–74) may not always have full disabled access – the events marked with a disabled symbol Shakespeare 400 celebration have full access. Please tell the box office when booking if a member of your party is a wheelchair user. Roald Dahl 100 Concessions Concessions apply to senior citizens, claimants, students and children aged 15 Music years and under. Accessibility Large print and CD copies of the Politics/journalism programme are available from the Central Library, community libraries or by calling 0114 273 4716. History Contact us Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Room 311, Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield, S1 2HH Science 0114 273 4400 / 0114 273 4716 [email protected] offtheshelf.org.uk Off the Shelf Festival of Words otsfestival
Curatorial board: Professor Vanessa Toulmin, Professor Chris Wigginton, Terri Gibson and Richard Eyre Festival programmers: Maria de Souza, Su Walker and Lesley Webster Brochure production: Kate Buckwell Design: Eleven Print: Evolution Cover image: © Kid Acne
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Book at sivtickets.com 11 Off the Shelf at Festival of the Mind Festival of the Mind sees University academics and professionals from Sheffield’s cultural, creative and digital industries working together to bring research to life in exciting, entertaining and innovative ways.
Thurs 15 Sept Tues 20 Sept Thurs 22 Sept Foraged in Sheffield The Empathy Problem Sheffield’s Brewing with Patrick Harding with Gavin Extence Heritage with John A look at the many types The award-winning author Dowd of food, from mushrooms reads from his latest novel An illustrated talk charting to wild plants, that can and talks about the ways in the dramatic history of be found and foraged in which Sheffield has shaped Sheffield’s brewing industry Sheffield. his writing over the last from 1750 onwards. eight years. Fri 16 Sept Fri 23 Sept Remembering Amy Wed 21 Sept The Heart of It with Johnson with Ann Out of the Ordinary Seni Seneviratne Beedham with Sally Goldsmith Seni Seneviratne is a An illustrated talk about Why are ordinary people Sheffield-based writer of pioneering aviator Amy never really ordinary? Sally English/Sri Lankan heritage, Johnson and her Sheffield performs and talks about who is widely published. links celebrating 75 years some of her songs, poems She will perform poems since her death. and scripts written based and songs from her latest on the real words of local collection. Mon 19 Sept people she meets. In association with Festival of Edward Carpenter with the Mind Suzanne Bingham A talk about the Victorian socialist pioneer and writer who inspired William Morris, Leo Tolstoy and Ghandi.
All events 12noon–1pm / Spiegeltent, Barker’s Pool, S1 2JA Admission free, no need to book 12 Fri 16 Sept, 6pm Wed 21 Sept, 8pm Wed 28 Sept, 7.30pm Between the They All Love Jack – Cured – Lol Tolhurst: Extremes – Nick Clegg Bruce Robinson The Inside Story of Sheffield MP Nick Clegg, There have been unending The Cure by One of Its now Lib Dem spokesman theories about the mystery Founding Members on the EU, gives a frank of Jack the Ripper. The Cured is a memoir by Lol account of his experiences award-winning film Tolhurst, drummer and of politics, power and director and screenwriter keyboardist with iconic defeat. For decades Britain Bruce Robinson (Withnail band The Cure. From has been divided between and I, The Rum Diary, The meeting Robert Smith at Left and Right but now, Killing Fields) exposes the the age of five, Lol traces with nationalism resurgent cover-up that enabled one The Cure’s story from and mainstream parties of history’s most notorious schoolboy years, success in turmoil, new divisions serial killers to remain at in the 1980s, to the present define the country. Part large. His book journeys day. The band’s journey to memoir, part roadmap, through the cesspools of worldwide acclaim is Clegg argues our future late-Victorian society – woven into a tale of great will rely more than ever on exploring highly placed highs and bitter lows, collaboration, compromise villains, hypocrites and friendship, pain, and cooperation. corruption. Followed by a forgiveness and, ultimately, In association with Festival of screening of Withnail and I redemption on a beach in Debate introduced by Bruce. Hawaii. In collaboration with Sheffield In association with Festival of In collaboration with Hallam University the Mind University of Sheffield Students’ Union
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 13 Mon 3 Oct, 6pm Mon 3 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 4 Oct, 7pm Nick Hornby Architecture and Memory and War Nick Hornby is the author Movement – Professor Caroline Brothers, editor of five bestselling novels, Peter Blundell Jones at the International New including High Fidelity The experience of York Times and author of and About a Boy and four movement – through War and Photography and works of acclaimed non- buildings, cities, landscapes Hinterland, discusses her fiction includingFever and in everyday life – is latest work, The Memory Pitch and 31 Songs. He how individuals relate to Stones, the chilling story also wrote the screenplay the built environment. of the Disappeared of for Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, But user experience Argentina in 1976 after Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, is often neglected in the military coup 40 years the Oscar-nominated An architectural study and ago. Ex-serviceman Harry Education and the BBC practice. In Architecture Parker also talks about his adaptation of Love, Nina. and Movement, Peter stunning debut – a story His latest novel Funny Girl Blundell Jones, Professor of patriotism, trauma, is an exuberant snapshot of Architecture at the stoicism and humanism. of 1960s London. A rare University of Sheffield, Anatomy of a Soldier is chance to hear one of tackles this complex destined to become a our most brilliant writers subject, exploring how classic novel about men discuss his work. architectural design can and war. be motivated by human In collaboration with Sheffield ______Theatres movement and experience Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + ______of buildings. Creative Lounge, Tickets: £10/£9 (concs) In collaboration with The Workstation (see map on page 10) Studio Theatre, Crucible University of Sheffield Public Theatre (see map on page 10) Engagement and Impact team Booking at Sheffield In association with Sensoria Theatres only Festival Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) ______No booking fee when paying Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + with cash Creative Lounge, The Workstation (see map on page 10)
14 Tues 4 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 4 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 5 Oct, 7.30pm The Pub: A Cultural Glam Rock and Its Darling Baby Mine – Institution – Pete Legacy – Simon John de St Jorre Brown Reynolds A heartbreaking memoir Covering 300 pubs blessed Acclaimed music writer tackling the mistreatment with quirks of local history, Simon Reynolds explores of women and stigma of offbeat publicans, legends this most decadent of mental health in the 1940s and yarns, Pete Brown – genres on both sides of the – told through one man’s veteran pub connoisseur Atlantic, charting the retro search for his mother. – champions UK pubs that future sounds, outrageous Separated from his mother ooze atmosphere, be it for styles and gender-fluid as a child, John dedicated food, people, architecture, sexual politics that came to years to tracking her down, location or décor. define the early 70s. A eventually discovering Featuring a good selection final chapter looks at the her institutionalised in of South Yorkshire watering impact of glam in hip-hop, an asylum where she had holes, join Pete for his pub Lady Gaga and the endured a lobotomy and talk and raise a glass to aftershocks of David Bowie’s electric shock therapy. a great British institution death. The event will be A moving story of a loved as you sample three beers followed by a screening of one lost in a system and (each sample is more than a glam rock film – see society’s attitudes to half a pint). Suitable for offtheshelf.org.uk for mental health. ages 18+. details. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema In collaboration with Sheffield In collaboration with University Hallam University of Sheffield Students’ Union ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + In association with Hop Hideout Creative Lounge, The Workstation (see map on page 10) ______Tickets (talk): £8/£6.50 + Tickets: £12/£10 (concs) + (concs) + Hallam Hall, Owen Building Tickets (film): £5 (see map on page 10) The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 15 ©Shaun Bloodworth Thurs 6 Oct, 7pm Fri 7 Oct, 7.30pm Sat 8, 15, 22 and 29 Oct, Kid Acne Let’s Party Like It’s 11am–3pm Kid Acne is an artist, 1991… Featuring Kate Sheffield VeRse illustrator and hip-hop Fox, Stan Skinny, Al An immersive one-to- musician, living and working McClimens and DJ one Virtual Reality (VR) in Sheffield. He spent his Nick Banks experience using the latest formative years painting Off the Shelf is 25 this year technology. Six Yorkshire graffiti, creating fanzines so it’s time to party like it’s poets including Helen Mort and making records on 1991! With well-known and Gevi Carver perform his own imprint. Now local poet Al McClimens – poems linked to locations his distinctive artwork he has dreams, be careful across the city. Be can be seen worldwide – where you put your feet; transported from a couple’s both inside and outside the marvellous Stan Skinny break-up on Division Street of galleries – and his with his hilarious 25x25 to a roundabout on Kelham signature style has =100 stories each written Island. Pieces last 3–15 adorned products for on a post-it note; and minutes and are watchable leading brands such headliner poet, performer from a VR headset as Prada. Enjoy an and comedian Kate Fox – installed in Theatre Deli. bold, brassy and very funny illustrated talk with an A collaboration between elder statesman of the UK – with her entertaining Word Life, Epiphany, Anne street art scene. Suitable poems about culture, class Doncaster and Off the Shelf for ages 16+. and escaping the myths of northernness. End the In collaboration with Sheffield night on your feet dancing Hallam University to top tunes from the last ______25 years with none other Tickets: Free than DJ Nick Banks from Theatre Delicatessen (see Pulp. Suitable for ages 18+. map on page 10) ______No need to book Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) + Queens Social Club, 4 Queens Road, S2 4DG
16 Sat 8 Oct, 2pm Sat 8 Oct, 5.30pm Sat 8 Oct, 7.30pm Sheffield Castle – Isadora Duncan’s Down Mexico Way Lloyd Powell Scarf and Other with Juan Pablo Local historian Lloyd Poems – Liz Cashdan Villalobos Powell gives one of his Liz Cashdan is a poet Take a trip into the weird popular, information- interested in memory, and wonderful world of packed talks on the history place and identity, often Mexican writer Juan Pablo of Sheffield Castle. This looking at historical Villalobos, who joins us to event reveals the castle’s subjects and giving a voice read brilliant (and possibly medieval period including to characters from the past outrageous, boozy, the de Furnivals – in that would not otherwise expletive-laden and 1270 Thomas de Furnival be heard. Her sequence of corpse-heavy) excerpts obtained a charter from poems, Sarah Simpson’s from his three highly King Henry III to build a Story, was performed at praised novels: Down the castle in Sheffield. The talk Off the Shelf in 2015. Her Rabbit Hole, Quesadillas also explores the Baron’s latest poem sequence and this year’s highly Wars, the destruction of takes the imagined voices awaited I’ll Sell You a Dog. the first Sheffield Castle, of well-known people’s Hosted by his publisher its reconstruction and the clothes including Amy Stefan Tobler from And transition to the Talbots. Johnson’s flying gear and Other Stories – a publishing Isadora Duncan’s scarf. house soon to be based in In association with the Open Sheffield. ______College of the Arts (OCA) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Showroom Cinema (see map Central United Reformed on page 10) Church (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + The Art House (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 17 Sat 8 Oct, 1.30–4.30pm It’s All a Fiction – Readers’ Afternoon An afternoon of reading heaven for fiction lovers with the chance to meet six super authors as well as other people who love books and reading as much as you do. Authors taking part are Linda Green with her psychological drama While My Eyes Were Closed, Eleanor Wasserberg with her chilly, compulsive debut Foxlowe, actress and Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis with her brilliantly dark debut set in 18th-century London The Butcher’s Hook, Cath Staincliffe, creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder with her compelling crime novel The Silence Between Breaths, Sheffield-based writer Conor O’Callaghan with his haunting, enigmatic debut Nothing On Earth set in provincial Ireland and award-winning author Jenn Ashworth with her eerie lyrical new book Fell. Plus free giveaways for everyone who attends! Thanks to Headline, Two Roads, Quercus, Little Brown, HarperCollins and Transworld for their kind support ______Tickets: £7.50/£6.50 (concs) + Town Hall (see map on page 10)
18 ©2016 by the Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust Sun 9 Oct, 1–5.30pm Sun 9 Oct, 2pm Sun 9 Oct, 6pm Robert Graves and the A Memoir of How Kes, East West Street: First World War My Kestrel, Changed On the Origins of Join us at Renishaw My Life – Richard Genocide and Crimes Hall, family home of the Hines Against Humanity – Sitwells, to celebrate Hailing from the South Philippe Sands Robert Graves, one of the Yorkshire village of Human rights lawyer Philippe great writers of the 20th Hoyland Common, Richard Sands discusses his book, century, 100 years after he Hines’ life was shaped a study of war crimes and fought in the Battle of the by his youthful passion their prosecution. Part Somme. The day includes for his hawk. He was the historical detective story, a literary tour of the house, inspiration for Billy Casper part family history, part legal access to the gardens and in the timeless novel, A thriller, he presents parallel the second annual Robert Kestrel for a Knave, written stories from Nazi-occupied Graves Society Lecture by by brother Barry Hines. Poland and the Nuremburg Fran Brearton, Professor of Now Richard tells his own trials. Sands frequently Modern Poetry at Queen’s story in memoir No Way appears before international University Belfast and But Gentlenesse – the real courts where he has been Director of the Seamus life tale of boy and kestrel involved in cases addressing Heaney Centre for Poetry. set against the backdrop Pinochet, Rwanda, Iraq and With the support of Sheffield of a crumbling mining Guantanamo. Followed Hallam University and the community. by a screening of Sands’ Robert Graves Society In collaboration with documentary My Nazi Legacy. With thanks to Renishaw Hall Museums Sheffield In collaboration with ______Showroom Cinema Tickets: £18/£16 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, Cadman Room, Millennium S21 3WB Gallery (see map on page 10) ______Tickets (talk): £8/£6.50 (concs) + Tickets (film): £8.50/£6.30 (concs) + Showroom Cinema (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 19 Sun 9 Oct, 7pm Mon 10 Oct, 9–10.30am Mon 10 Oct, 7.30pm Uprooted – Nina And Other Stories Jan-Philipp Sendker Lyon and Raymond – 5th Birthday and Andrew Michael Greenoaken Breakfast with the Hurley Who or what is the Publisher Berlin-based author Green Man, and why is Breakfast and book chat Jan-Phillip Sendker has this medieval image so with Stefan Tobler, founder travelled extensively in present in our precarious and publisher of And Other Burma and China and modern times? Nina Stories, the adventurous his affection for south- Lyon explores the Green young publishing house east Asia and sense of Man’s association with whose authors include place informs his writing. pantheistic beliefs of Celtic Deborah Levy, Yuri Herrera, Whispering Shadows was Christianity, contemporary Juan Pablo Villalobos and a World Book Night choice neo-paganism, shamanic Angela Readman and this year. His latest novel Anglo-Saxon traditions and which is about to move to is Dragon Games. Andrew his role as a figurehead Sheffield. You will get a Michael Hurley’s gothic for ecological movements. behind-the-scenes peek at masterpiece The Loney has Raymond Greenoaken will the first five years of been critically acclaimed summon up the Green Man publishing as well as and won prizes including in his myriad and various pre-publication copies of Costa Best Debut. Hear two guises with story and song. two books and other fine contemporary writers ______goodies, thanks to And discuss their work. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Other Stories. Breakfast ______Theatre Delicatessen (see can be bought at the event. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + map on page 10) ______Quaker Meeting House (see Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) + map on page 10) Tamper Sellers Wheel, 149 Arundel Street, S1 2NU
20 Mon 10 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 10 Oct, 7.45pm Tues 11 Oct, 6pm (demo) Gluten Attack – Midland Creative and 7pm (dinner) Professor David Projects Present: Gluten-Free Meal – Sanders Beyond the Water’s Howard Middleton Gluten is regularly Edge – Poetry from Amateur baker Howard lambasted in the press, Our World Middleton from Sheffield demonised by wellbeing Hear world voices distilled was a contestant on the experts and banned from into poetry in translation fourth series of The Great more diets every day. in a series of moving and British Bake Off and caught But where does the hype inspiring portraits drawn the public’s attention with end and science begin? his inventive gluten-free Cutting through the from every continent sensationalism, myths and presented through baking. He will demo a dish and confusion, Professor the words of some of from his book Delicious David Sanders explores the world’s best poets. Gluten-Free Baking and the latest evidence and Following acclaimed shows then you can enjoy a tasty groundbreaking research Being Human and The gluten-free three-course findings from his personal Hundred Years War, and meal based on Howard’s journey into all things featuring three actor- recipes. A must for anyone gluten. David is Professor musicians plus live music, who wants to make gluten of Gastroenterology at the here’s a poetic celebration free a part of their diet. world-renowned Royal of our lives in all their Tickets include food demo, Hallamshire Hospital and forms. University of Sheffield. three-course meal and In collaboration with Sheffield coffee (drinks not In collaboration with Theatres included). University of Sheffield Public Engagement and Impact team In collaboration with The and University of Sheffield Sheffield College Students’ Union ______Tickets: £12/£10 (concs) Studio Theatre, Crucible ______Theatre (see map on page 10) Tickets: £25 + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Booking at Sheffield Theatres only Silver Plate Restaurant, The Studio, University of Sheffield Sheffield College (see map on Students’ Union (see map on Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) page 10) page 10) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 21 Wed 12 Oct Wed 19 Oct Plato and Atlantis: Fact Breeding Birds of the Or Fiction? Sheffield Area Professor Angie Hobbs – Professor David Wood – Department of Philosophy Latin American Studies Ideas Is Plato’s legend of Atlantis A look at Sheffield’s birds a work of fiction or at least – their breeding habits, alive partly based on fact? What habitats and communities moral and political lessons – using fascinating at 5.45 can we learn from it and information from in-depth why does it exert such a studies. powerful hold on us? Mon 24 Oct Thurs 13 Oct Can the Welfare State Explosions: An Survive? Engineering Challenge Professor Andrew Gamble Dr Sam Rigby – – Department of Politics Department of Civil and and SPERI A series of talks by Structural Engineering Do we still want a welfare academics from How do we design buildings state? Do we still need one? the University of to survive explosions if we What must be done to give Sheffield. can’t even measure them? the welfare state a future? This talk explains how we’re beginning to unlock some of Tues 25 Oct Mon 10 Oct their secrets… Europe’s Phantom Afterlife and Hell in the Empires Bible: Reflections on a Mon 17 Oct Dr Dina Gusejnova – Burning Issue Old Adam: Getting Department of History Dr Mark Finney – Inside Stories and Can people who lose power Department of History Songs still have influence? A look How much is the description Dr Fay Hield – Department at the effects of imperial of a tortuous afterlife in the of Music decline on modern ideas of Bible the result of a vivid When we know they’re Europe. imagination? Come and find fantasy, how do we out. understand the truth in Sponsored by University of stories? Sheffield Public Engagement Tues 11 Oct and Impact team My Flesh Is Meat Tues 18 Oct In association with True North Indeed The Birth of Socialist Brew Co Dr Meredith Warren – Realism in the West Thanks to the Common Room School of English Dr Natalia Skradol – for supporting Ideas Alive at An exploration of the Russian and Slavonic 5.45 cannibalistic language in Studies The Common Room are the Gospel of John, in light Seventy years since the pleased to offer a special 20% of Greco-Roman literature, start of the Cold War, a discount on food and drink at religion and culture. talk about Soviet Cold the events War novels and readings from some particularly representative passages.
All starting at 5.45pm / Common Room, 127–129 Devonshire Street, S3 7SB All events are free and open to all, no need to book 22 Tues 11 Oct, 7pm Tues 11 Oct, 7.45pm Wed 12 Oct, 6.30pm Chris Cleave Adverse Camber Jane Rogers and Productions Present Chris Cleave talks about Steve Earnshaw his acclaimed latest Fire in the North Jane Rogers has written novel Everyone Brave Is Sky: Epic Tales from nine novels, short stories Forgiven. This stunning Finland and adapted work for and unconventional Be transported by the radio and TV, including wartime epic is a story of stories of Kalevala – her own award-winning passion, loss, prejudice Finland’s national epic and Mr Wroe’s Virgins. Having and incredible courage cultural treasure – equal to taught on its MA Writing, moving from Blitz-torn Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she is now Professor London to the Siege of or the old English Beowulf. Emeritus of Creative Malta. Chris Cleave is Experience creation myths Writing at Sheffield Hallam one of our most powerful and tales of Finland’s epic University. She will read and psychologically heroes, and journey to the from her ninth novel insightful writers. His dark river of the Conrad and Eleanor. Steve debut Incendiary won underworld. UK storyteller Earnshaw is Professor the Somerset Maugham Nick Hennessey and three of English Literature at Award, The Other Hand Finnish musicians will Sheffield Hallam University was Costa-shortlisted and make these 2000-year-old and will read from Memory a top 10 New York Times stories come alive. Clinic, his debut short story bestseller. collection. Tickets include In collaboration with In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres free refreshments. Showroom Cinema In association with Sheffield ______Hallam University MA Writing Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + ______Showroom Cinema (see map on page 10) Tickets: £12/£10 (concs) ______Studio Theatre, Crucible Tickets: Free Theatre (see map on page 10) Waterstones, 24-26 Orchard Booking at Sheffield Square, S1 2FB Theatres only No need to book Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 23 Wed 12 Oct, 7pm Wed 12 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 12 Oct, 7.30pm Hugh Fearnley- Redeemable – A Let’s Talk About Dying Whittingstall Memoir of Darkness Doctors are interested in Writer, broadcaster and and Hope – Erwin your thoughts about life campaigner Hugh James and death and how you Fearnley-Whittingstall will A troubled youth of neglect would wish to be cared be talking about his new and crime led Erwin James for when dying. Join this book The River Cottage A-Z to a life sentence at 27. discussion, led by retired – an authoritative and Struggling with his violent GP and Director of Public glorious collection of more past and a hopeless future, Health Hilary Page. Her than 350 ingredients and a prison psychologist book looks at ‘The Advance 350 recipes, set to become encouraged him to read Decision’ – a living will – an essential tome in the and self-educate and, over your voice if you have lost River Cottage library. Hugh the next 20 years, James mental capacity when will also talk about some of went on to receive a BA terminally ill, which has the issues raised in his in history and become legal standing. It is the timely and important BBC a columnist for The contribution you can series Hugh’s War On Guardian. This is a book make now, as a mentally Waste. that offers no excuses competent adult. In collaboration with Sheffield but argues that no matter ______Hallam University how far the fall – with the Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + In association with Festival of right help – redemption is Quaker Meeting House (see Debate always possible. map on page 10) ______In collaboration with Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + University of Sheffield Students’ Union Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
24 Thurs 13 Oct, 7pm Thurs 13 Oct, 7pm Thurs 13 Oct, 7.30pm Mathematical The Expedition – Cold Hands, Warm Adventures in the Jason Lewis Heart – A Talk About Beautiful Game – During his pioneering Anorexia David Sumpter 13-year journey around At 16, Grace from Sheffield Drawing on mathematical the planet, Jason Lewis became severely anorexic models used in biology, survived a crocodile – and she recovered. This physics and economics, attack, blood poisoning, unique memoir tells the Soccermatics brings malaria, altitude sickness, parallel stories of Grace football and maths two broken legs, and and her mother conveying together in a pitch-bending incarceration for their isolation, heartache, formation, as numbers suspected espionage. This terror and helplessness as tackle the workings of the illustrated talk chronicles well as finding moments beautiful game. Analysing the first human-powered of humour and incredible match statistics, the circumnavigation of the support. Nine years geometry of passing and earth, battling wind and on, Grace and Liz talk defence-splitting algebra, waves on a tiny boat and about their experiences David Sumpter – football finding the inspiration and challenge some fan, Sunday league for his new quest – to assumptions about eating manager and professor of explore self-reliance disorders. An insightful offbeat maths – kicks off an through ‘Micro Earths’ – look at the issue of young amazing insight into soccer sustainable living in small people’s mental health. communities. through mathematical In collaboration with modelling. Future England In collaboration with Sheffield University of Sheffield captains please pay Hallam University Students’ Union ______attention. Sponsored by Daybell & Choo Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + In collaboration with ______Museums Sheffield Studio, University of Sheffield Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Students’ Union (see map on ______Pennine Theatre, Owen page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Building (see map on page 10) Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 25 Fri 14 Oct, 6pm Fri 14 Oct, 7pm Fri 14 Oct, 7.30–10pm Eggs Or Anarchy – Melissa Benn Brontë Light Night William Sitwell After the shock of Brexit, Two original songs by Celebrated food writer the renewal of a Tory Sheffield songwriter Nat William Sitwell explores mandate and upheaval in Johnson have been turned a great untold story of the Labour Party, what into animated films that WWII – the heroic struggle hope can we salvage from will be projected onto to keep Britain fed. With events of the past year? the front of the Upper supply routes under attack Melissa Benn, novelist, Chapel, as part of a special and resources scarce, commentator and commission celebrating Lord Woolton, Minister campaigner, will discuss 200 years since the birth for Food, was pushed to the state we’re in. Are we of Charlotte Brontë. After incredible subterfuge and witnessing a rise in public the Sheffield premiere, the entrepreneurial ingenuity, interest in politics or mass film, which was created by fighting to keep food on disaffection? What do we Word Life, will be shown the shelves and outwitting expect from our political in Doncaster and at the an unscrupulous black leaders in an age of social Brontë Parsonage. market. A tribute to wartime media? And are women This project was funded by resolve and rule-bending, finally changing the face Arts Council England when all that kept anarchy of public life? at bay was egg powder. Part of Festival of Debate In collaboration with Museums Sheffield ______Tickets: Free ______Upper Chapel (see map on Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) + page 10) ______The Diamond, University of No need to book Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Cadman Room, Millennium Road, S3 7RD Gallery (see map on page 10)
26 Fri 14 Oct, 7.45pm and Sat Fri 14 Oct, 8pm Sat 15 Oct, 7pm 15 Oct, 2.15pm or 7.45pm New Reponses to the Celebrate the Spirit of Third Angel Present Brontës the Rainbow Heron 600 People To mark the start of the An evening of poetry, ‘We step out of our solar Brontë 200 celebrations, performance, music and system, into the universe, Off the Shelf, Ilkley and dance, exploring the short seeking only peace and Beverley literature festivals life of Dora Daniels, raising friendship…’ So says the have commissioned questions about mental message from the Voyager three writers to produce health and how we deal spacecraft. But is there new work inspired by the with it. Followed by a anyone out there? Alex famous literary siblings. discussion at the Doctor’s Kelly talked to Dr Simon The Guardian First Book Orders pub about some of Goodwin, astrophysicist at prizewinning poet Andrew the issues raised. Tickets Sheffield University, to find McMillan, former Monkey include free soft drink at out. The result is stand- Swallows the Universe the discussion. up meets astrophysics in singer/songwriter Nat In association with Sheffield a show exploring stories Johnson and acclaimed Mental Health Week about our place in the playwright Zodwa Nyoni cosmos and what it means Supported by the University perform their newly of Sheffield Department of to be human. commissioned work English Theatre Workshop Organised by Third Angel in followed by a discussion ______association with Off the Shelf about the Brontës as a Tickets: £5 + source of inspiration. Theatre Workshop, This project was funded by 4a Shearwood Road, S10 2TD Arts Council England ______Tickets: £10/£9 (concs) Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) + Studio Theatre, Crucible Upper Chapel (see map on Theatre (see map on page 10) page 10) Booking at Sheffield Theatres only Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 27 Sat 15 Oct 11am–2pm (various times) Join us for a day that takes Pop-up Shakespeare you into the world of our Students from Sheffield greatest playwright, Hallam perform extracts William Shakespeare, from some of the Bard’s exploring his life, his work, best-loved plays. Look out his times and his enduring for pop-up performances appeal. Featuring academic across the city centre – experts from Sheffield you could find yourself in Hallam University. Barker’s Pool with Henry V. For more information see offtheshelf.org.uk Thanks to Daniel Johnston, Senior Lecturer, Performance for Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University ______A special ticket deal is available from SIV Tickets for Tickets: Free, no need to book events on Sat 15 Oct. Buy Various city centre sites all five events marked with the symbol above for the reduced 11.15am–12noon price of £28.50/£25.50 (concs) + (excludes workshop). Imagination and Wonder in 10.15–11am Shakespeare’s Drama DCI Shakespeare – This talk examines how Shakespearean Shakespeare exploited his Allusion in Crime audience’s imagination Fiction and tested the limits of Why does crime fiction what was possible on so often allude to the Renaissance stage. Shakespeare? This talk Illustrated with images from looks at the work of classic contemporary maps and golden age crime writers trompe l’oeil art to explore such as Christie and wondrous moments from Sayers and more recent Henry V to The Winter’s Tale. names including Reginald Dr Colm MacCrossan is a Hill, Kate Atkinson and lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam Val McDermid. It also University looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series – Midsomer ______Murders, Inspector Morse Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) + and Lewis. Cadman Room, Millennium Lisa Hopkins is Professor of Gallery (see map on page 10) English at Sheffield Hallam University
______+ Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) Cadman Room, Millennium Shakespeare Shakespeare 400 Gallery (see map on page 10) 28 12noon–1pm 1.30–4pm 7pm To Eat Or Not to Eat? Forbidden Planet: Film Shakespeare Rattle There really is no question. with Introduction and Roll A Shakespeare-themed Screening of cult classic Marrying the Bard with lunch can be bought in Forbidden Planet introduced The Beatles, The Stones, the Sheffield Institute of by Martin Carter. A starship the Sex Pistols and more, Arts cafe in the beautifully crew investigates the here is Shakespeare as restored old post office. mysterious silence of you’ve never seen or heard While enjoying your lunch, planet Altair IV, only to find him before! Shakespeare’s our strolling players will two survivors and a deadly songs and verse are treat you to a pop-up secret. This sci-fi version hilariously updated by Head Shakespeare short drama of The Tempest is not of Classics Martin Dimery. taster. only an illustration of the Puck as an elvish Elvis ______adaptability of Shakespeare sets the scene for Dylan, Sheffield Institute of Arts, but a fine adventure to boot. Bowie and even George Fitzalan Square, S1 2AY Martin Carter is a film lecturer Formby. Appearances by Places subject to availability at Sheffield Hallam University Sir Laurence Olivier and Frankie Howerd head an 1.30–3.30pm ‘all-star’ cast. The Quill of It All: Screen Writing ______Workshop Tickets: £8.50/£6.30 (concs) + Showroom Cinema (see map ______Whether you want to write on page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + for stage, television or radio, Cadman Room, Millennium this workshop will help you Gallery (see map on page 10) to get your ideas down on 4.30pm Shakespeare and the Sponsored by Sheffield paper, hone your dialogue Hallam University and make your lines come Stuff of Life – Delia alive. Garratt and Tara In collaboration with ______Hamling Museums Sheffield Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Shakespeare lived in an Education Room, Millennium extraordinary period of Gallery (see map on page 10) change and discovery. This illustrated talk – with objects from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – explores the role of paintings, furniture, ceramics, textiles and more in the everyday lives of people in Shakespearean England and gives an insight into religious and social change, marriage, death and family life.
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 29 Sun 16 Oct, 11.30am Sun 16 Oct, 2pm Sun 16 Oct, 2–3.30pm Our Path to a Better Art Deco – Judith Medieval Sheffield – Future – Fiona Miller A History Walk with Reynolds With its streamlined Ron Clayton What makes life worth shapes and forward- Take a trip back in time living? Conservationist looking approach, the with Ron Clayton on this Dame Fiona Reynolds influential Art Deco style guided history talk and presents the case for still looks modern today. walk. Ron will tell you beauty as the inspiration for In this illustrated talk, about Sheffield as a change in the face of antiques expert Judith medieval market town modern materialism. Miller explores the key with its castle, churches, Discussing landscape, makers and pieces of lost houses, tunnels and nature, history, trees, the movement looking at tombs. No dogs except for farming and urbanisation, everything from furniture, guide dogs. Reynolds demonstrates glass and ceramics to how personal and national silver, prints and textiles. ideas about beauty have The co-founder of the evolved over time and warns international bestseller ______of the risks of abandoning Miller’s Antiques Price Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) + our concepts of the Guide and a regular Meet outside Sheffield beautiful – offering an antiques expert on TV, Cathedral, Church Street, alternative future should we Judith Miller shows what S1 1HA have the will to achieve it. to look for as a collector In collaboration with and invites you to enjoy Museums Sheffield the enduring appeal of Art Deco. In association with Friends of the Peak District In collaboration with Museums Sheffield
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30 Sun 16 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 17 Oct, 7pm Mon 17 Oct, 7.30pm The Place That Didn’t Marathon Man COMING OUT: A History Exist – Mark Watson – Rob Young of LGBT Identities – Mark Watson is the Taking up marathon Jeffrey Weeks acclaimed author of running for a 20p bet, From barbaric oppression several novels including runner Rob Young has in the 19th century to the Hotel Alpha, Eleven and achieved legendary status gay liberation movement graphic novel, Dan and by completing over 365 in the 1970s and beyond, Sam. His latest, The Place marathons in a year. COMING OUT maps the That Didn’t Exist, is a This inspirational book story of British LGBT darkly funny and gripping tells of Rob’s evolution identities and the ongoing thriller. Mark is a multi- into ‘Marathon Man’, struggle for equality. award-winning stand-up his motivation and Published to great acclaim comedian. He regularly determination, the records in 1977 as a pioneering appears on TV, has had his broken and gives essential study of gay and lesbian own cult Radio 4 series and tips on keeping going. lives, this classic title is was named the Edinburgh The book also details his reissued in an updated Fringe Festival’s highest abusive childhood; an edition. Research Professor achiever of the decade by experience Young believes Jeffrey Weeks OBE is an The Times. helps him resist physical equal rights campaigner In collaboration with pain and spurs him on to and commentator on LGBT University of Sheffield new challenges. issues. Students’ Union In collaboration with In association with Festival of ______Showroom Cinema Debate Tickets: £7.50/£6 (concs) + ______In collaboration with The Foundry, University of Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + University of Sheffield Students’ Union Sheffield Students’ Union (see Showroom Cinema (see map map on page 10) on page 10)
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 31 Mon 17 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 17 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 18 Oct, 6pm Valley Poets Poetry and Protest RUM: The Manual – An evening of contemporary – Dr Adam James Dave Broom poetry featuring poets Smith and Dr Hamish A comprehensive, published by independent Mathison entertaining guide to Yorkshire-based publisher Poetry, Conspiracy and classic, new generation Valley Press. They are: Jo Radicalism in Sheffield and premium rums Brandon reading from her collects poems of protest from all over the world first full-length collection printed in Sheffield’s and how best to enjoy The Learned Goose; radical press at the end them. Featuring over 100 Matthew Hedley Stoppard, of the 18th century. The different examples from whose debut collection book’s editors, Drs Hamish the sweet mellow Guyana was included in The Mathison and Adam Smith rums to the peppery Guardian readers’ books tell the remarkable story rums of Martinique, of the year and whose of these poems and the spirits expert Dave latest is Cinema Stories; two Sheffield citizens Broom provides detailed and James Nash with his who risked everything descriptions and tasting ambitious collection – to get them into print – notes for each brand. Some Things Matter: 63 Joseph Gales and James The event will include a Sonnets, which celebrates Montgomery. tasting of selected rums the poet’s 63rd year of demonstrating the spirit’s existence. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Public variety and complexity. In collaboration with Engagement and Impact team Suitable for ages 18+. Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield In collaboration with Sheffield Students’ Union Hallam University ______Tickets: £12/£10 (concs) + ______+ Level 12, Owen Building (see Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) ______map on page 10) Creative Lounge, The Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Workstation (see map on page Studio, University of Sheffield 10) Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
32 Tues 18 Oct, 7pm Tues 18 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 18 Oct, 7.45pm Cold Earth – Ann Polish in Translation – Don’t Need the Cleeves and Dr James Antonia Lloyd-Jones Sunshine and Other Grieve Antonia Lloyd-Jones Stories from Radio 4 – The creator of the Vera has translated works John Osborne and Shetland series of by several of Poland’s Join John Osborne for an detective fiction Ann leading contemporary evening of heartwarming Cleeves unveils her novelists and poets. She and funny stories. A latest book – Cold Earth has twice won the Found regular on Radio 4 where – featuring the much- in Translation award and he has performed six loved DI Jimmy Perez in is co-chair of the UK half-hour storytelling a murder mystery set in Translators Association. shows, this event includes the depths of a Shetland She will discuss her work stories The Kindness of winter. Ann will be joined in conversation with Dr Strangers and The New by forensic pathologist Joanna Kowalska and Blur Album as well as new Dr James Grieve offering will read short extracts material. John is a regular real-life examples of the from a range of Polish at festivals including science underpinning books available in English Glastonbury and Latitude modern crime fiction. Both translation including a and is the creator of sell- Vera and Shetland have novel by Jacek Dehnel and out Edinburgh show John been adapted for TV, with Siberian travel writing by Peel’s Shed and Sky 1’s a fourth series of Shetland Jacek Hugo-Bader. After Hours. due to air on the BBC early ______In collaboration with in 2017. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Sheffield Theatres Hosted by Ecclesall Crime Quaker Meeting House (see ______map on page 10) Readers Group Tickets: £10/£9 (concs) In collaboration with Studio Theatre, Crucible Showroom Cinema Theatre (see map on page 10) ______Booking at Sheffield Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Theatres only Showroom Cinema (see map Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) on page 10) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 33 Wed 19 Oct, 2pm Wed 19 Oct, 7pm Wed 19 Oct, 7.30pm Milly Johnson The Lubetkin Legacy – Helen Mort and Popular Barnsley author Marina Lewycka Katharine Towers Milly Johnson talks about From the bestselling Two first-class Sheffield her books including the Sheffield author ofA poets share their second latest – Barn of the Half Short History of Tractors collections. Helen’s Moon Hill. There will be a in Ukrainian comes a poems are about her reading followed by a darkly comic new work passions for running and chance for you to ask steeped in the foibles mountaineering. Distinctive questions about her work. and eccentricities of a and courageous, these This event is particularly constantly surprising are poems of passion and for people with a visual north London community precipices, of edges and impairment but all are – its people, problems, extremes by one of the welcome. institutions and unique finest young poets at work ______solutions. Rich in neatly today. Katharine’s poems Tickets: Free drawn characters, celebrate small wonders The Jackson Room, Central outlandish plot twists and – from a house drowning Library (see map on page 10) extraordinary situations, in roses to Nerval’s pet Booking: 0114 273 4400 Marina Lewycka is back lobster – and show Towers Booking required with a hilarious, farcical emerging as a major poetic and tender novel of modern talent. issues and manners. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Quaker Meeting House (see ______map on page 10) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Showroom Cinema (see map on page 10)
34 Wed 19 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 19 Oct, 8pm Thurs 20 Oct, 7pm The Making of an Kaalulu and the Queen The Making of the Immigration Judge – of Cows British Landscape – James Hanratty Kaalulu and the Queen Nicholas Crane A captivating memoir, of Cows is a long poem Nicholas Crane, co- written with compassion, sequence by prizewinning presenter of BBC series wit and authority poet and novelist Linda Lee Coast, describes the from the heart of the Welch with original music evolution of Britain’s immigration debate. by composer/producer landscape from the impact This is the fascinating Michael Harding. The duo of glaciation to the life story of one of the have performed at festivals influences of the Iron Age, UK’s most experienced around the UK. This Roman occupation, Black immigration judges, who sequence describes how Death, industrial revolution understands the realities two elderly sisters set out and climate change. This of the immigration crisis. on a road trip in search of 12,000-year story of the As the world struggles their mother’s smile. What British landscape with the movement of they find is more unsettling culminates in the 21st people fleeing tyranny and than either had imagined… century – one of the most war, Hanratty provides a extreme centuries of definitive account of the change since the Ice Age problems facing Europe – as Crane poses and how we might solve ______challenging questions them. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + about the future of Britain’s Greystones Pub, Greystones countryside and cities. In collaboration with Road, S11 7BS University of Sheffield In collaboration with Sheffield Students’ Union Hallam University
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 35 Thurs 20 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 20 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 21 Oct, 6–7pm Citizen Clem: A Marcus Berkmann – Everything You Ever Biography of Attlee – Set Phasers to Stun Wanted to Know John Bew Forty-seven years after About Publishing… As Prime Minister, Clement NBC killed it off, Star Trek Bookworms often dream of Attlee oversaw the end of celebrates 50 fantastic being authors – but did you the Empire in India, the years. Writer, film and TV know there are other ways foundation of the NHS and critic Marcus Berkmann to work with books? That Britain’s first participation tells the story of the you don’t have to publish in NATO – developments science fiction series with a novel to be a writer? that still shape British wit and insight, creating Hosted by the Society of politics today. Historian a one-stop shop for all Young Publishers (now John Bew re-evaluates things Star Trek. Important open to all ages), this crash this patriotic socialist as questions are answered course will tell you all you one of the most important including: what’s the worst need to know about a figures in 20th-century insult in Klingon? And career in publishing: from British history – an what’s the biggest number job roles to genres and underappreciated and of times Uhura said ‘hailing handy hints on getting in. underestimated politician frequencies open, sir’ in a ______who profoundly influenced single episode? Tickets: Free both his party and his In collaboration with Raynor Lounge, University of country. University of Sheffield Sheffield Students’ Union (see Students’ Union map on page 10) In collaboration with University of Sheffield ______No need to book Students’ Union Tickets: £7.50/£6 (concs) + The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
36 Fri 21 Oct, 7.30–8.30pm Fri 21 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 21 Oct, 7.30pm Literary Bingo A Gremlin in the Works The Unsung with Eyes down…Friday night – Mark Hardisty Genevieve Carver is bingo night! Enjoy a fun Join author Mark Hardisty plus Support Ruby session of bingo, with a for a complete history Robinson literary theme, designed of Gremlin Graphics A funeral party for the especially for bookworms. showcasing their iconic forgotten heroes of musical Have a drink at the bar games (with a chance to history performed by if you wish and there are play some for yourself), spoken word star Gevi some super prizes to be interviews, unseen Carver and a live band. won too. There’s no Catch archive documents and Gevi’s words are interwoven (22)… photographs, and tons with live music to bring 11 Organised by Society of Young of game imagery. From tales from around the world Publishers Gremlin’s small beginnings exploring how music often in 1983, through to gaming Sponsored by University of shatters the lives of those Sheffield Students’ Union characters Monty Mole who love it most, from ______and Thing on a Spring in the Prokofiev’s wife to Tickets: Free 1980s or groundbreaking Radiohead’s drum games Lotus Esprit Raynor Lounge, University of technician. Plus support Sheffield Students’ Union (see Turbo Challenge, Zool from rising poet Ruby map on page 10) and Premier Manager in Robinson with her new No need to book the 1990s, this Sheffield collection Every Little company shaped an Sound. industry. In collaboration with Showroom Cinema ______Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) + ______Upper Chapel (see map on Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + page 10) Creative Lounge, The Workstation (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 37 Sat 22 Oct, 10.30am–4.30pm Sat 22 Oct, 11am Sat 22 Oct, 2pm Hive Young Writers’ The Idiot Brain: Mini Mushaira Day – Poetry, Page and A Neuroscientist Making bridges, making Stage with Clare Shaw Explains What Your friends – Mini Mushaira’s Hive launches their regional Head Is Really Up To – quiet revolution has won Young Writers’ Day with Dean Burnett them many admirers at poet and performer Clare The popular Guardian home and abroad. Poetry Shaw – described as ‘one ‘brain flapping’ science Society Director, Chris of Britain’s most dynamic blogger presents a funny, Meade praised their and powerful young poets’. mind-bending examination spirited collaboration as Hive Writers’ Days are a of how and why the brain ‘a little bridge of poems, a chance for young people to sabotages our behaviour. wondrous fusion of Indian, develop their writing with Dean Burnett has spent Pakistani and English professional support and nearly two decades culture’. Join writers, poets meet other young writers. studying the human and storytellers Debjani Open to young people of brain: the most complex, Chatterjee, Simon Fletcher all abilities and interests, mysterious object in and Basir Sultan Kazmi for the known universe. He aged 14–25 from across an afternoon of poetry, food explores the many ways and friendship. South Yorkshire. The day the brain does things includes refreshments inefficiently, illogically or ______but not lunch. Hive can just plain stupidly, and how Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) + support travel from outside these end up influencing St Mary’s Church and Sheffield. our everyday lives and the Conference Centre, Bramall Lane, S2 4QZ Supported by Off the Shelf and world around us. Sheffield Hallam University’s In collaboration with Faculty of Development University of Sheffield ______Students’ Union Tickets: £6/£3 (concs) + Sheffield Institute of Education, Charles Street, S1 2ND Booking and info: ______hivesouthyorkshire.com Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
38 Sat 22 Oct, 7.15pm Sun 23 Oct, 11.30am Sun 23 Oct, 2pm Edward the Conqueror Wildflower Walks in Ghislaine Kenyon – by Roald Dahl the Peak District Quentin Blake The incomparable Richard In the Peak District of Ghislaine Kenyon has Wilson narrates Roald Derbyshire, within easy known iconic illustrator Dahl’s meticulously reach of Sheffield, the Quentin Blake since crafted short story about a changing seasons are 1998. Her book Quentin mysterious long-haired cat marked by some of the Blake in the Theatre of with an extraordinary taste most stunning floral the Imagination looks for 19th-century Romantic spectacles to be witnessed at Blake’s legendary piano music. Featuring in this country. In this talk, collaboration with Roald pieces by Bach, Schumann, illustrated with many Dahl, his early work for Liszt and Chopin, played by beautiful photographs Punch and his illustrations rising star pianist Mishka from his new book, Peter for adult and children’s Rushdie Momen, a witty Machan identifies many books. It also provides and sometimes acerbic of the distinctive flowers, an intimate portrait of tale of the unexpected familiar and rare, that Quentin Blake the man. unfolds. Suitable for adults create such wonderful This insightful illustrated and children aged 12+. displays, and helps you to talk is a must for all fans of In association with Music in discover where and when the work of one of our most the Round to enjoy them. beloved illustrators. Sponsored by Hospitality In collaboration with Sheffield Museums Sheffield In collaboration with ______Museums Sheffield Tickets: £19/£13 or £5 (concs) ______+ Studio Theatre, Crucible Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Theatre (see map on page 10) Cadman Room, Millennium Cadman Room, Millennium Booking at Sheffield Gallery (see map on page 10) Gallery (see map on page 10) Theatres only Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 39 40 Music weekend map on page 10) Sheffield Students’ Union (see Raynor Lounge, University of Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) ______phone. or even a picture on your a ticket stub, a club flyer musical memory with you: your own story, bring a music. If you want to tell Sheffield women and their discussion about wonderful for an afternoon of founder Auriel Majumdar Gang and #sheffieldgirl the party for years. Join Girl of business and bringing making music, taking care Sheffield girls have been on Facebook in 2015 but #sheffieldgirl was born #sheffieldgirl Girl Gang Presents Sat 22 Oct, 2pm musical taste. something for every #sheffieldgirl – there’s about Bowie to Girl Gang Ewan McLennan, a talk Patti Boulaye to folk singer Soul to the Undertones, music. From Northern events themed around Join us for a weekend of musicals, won talent career with roles in many launching an international of the West End production was actually an audition for Madame Tussauds that she stood in a queue for nun. Whilst sightseeing to Britain to become a Biafran War and came Boulaye survived the Born in Nigeria, Patti Patti Boulaye Sat 22 Oct, 6pm Hair . She won a part, +
on charity work. Today much of her focus is released nine albums. show map on page 10) Sheffield Students’ Union (see Raynor Lounge, University of S10 2TN Sheffield, Western Bank, Firth Hall, University of Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) ______Tickets: £15/£11 (concs) ______Manifesto Events In collaboration with rousing songs and stories. interplay of poignant and the songs. Expect a unique the human stories behind with George’s depiction of Loneliness from album will perform the songs guitar and banjo, Ewan Singing isolation as a theme. take loneliness and social singer Ewan McLennan George Monbiot and folk Author and journalist Ewan McLennan George Monbiot and Sat 22 Oct, 8pm New Faces a cappella interspersed The Age of and has with +
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 41 Mon 24 Oct, 7pm Mon 24 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 25 Oct, 7.30pm Fugitive Colours – Liz I Contain Multitudes Feminism After Lochhead with Ed Yong Suffrage – Dr Julie A celebration of a new An exploration of the Gottlieb poetry collection from fascinating world of In 1918 women won the Liz Lochhead, one of the microbes, from healthcare franchise and the right UK’s best-loved writers, to the formation of coral to become MPs. The published to celebrate the reefs and their influence first general election end of her term as Makar on the weather. These in which they voted in (Scotland’s Poet Laureate). microscopic companions 1918 was momentous in Awarded the Queen’s Gold sculpt our organs, protect women’s history. But was Medal for Poetry in 2015, us from disease, shape this to be the beginning Lochhead is unrivalled our evolution and hold of a feminist revolution in her lyrical portrayal the key to understanding and the feminisation of of human relationships, all life on earth. Award- politics? Dr Julie Gottlieb, particularly as seen from winning science writer Ed reader in modern history a woman’s point of view, Yong invites us to marvel at the University of combining humour, joy and at ourselves and see our Sheffield, explores how poignancy in remembered world in a new light. the aftermath of suffrage moments, places and In collaboration with was a period of anti-climax people. University of Sheffield in the politicisation of In collaboration with Students’ Union women. Showroom Cinema In collaboration with University of Sheffield Public Engagement and Impact team ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see ______Showroom Cinema (see map Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + on page 10) map on page 10) Creative Lounge, The Workstation (see map on page 10)
42 Tues 25 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 25 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 26 Oct, 7pm Lady of Situations Raoul Martinez in Anthony Clavane ‘We have to live through Conversation with in conversation with metamorphosis to Francesca Martinez Ian McMillan understand who we really Raoul Martinez is a writer, Award-winning sports are.’ Philomela, half- artist and filmmaker. writer Anthony Clavane woman, half-bird, is exiled Watch his award-winning tells the story of the deep in the forest. Tiresias, documentary The Lottery 1980s through Yorkshire hears her call and comes of Birth followed by a sport, tracing the county’s to bear witness to her discussion of Raoul’s first decline in the realms of story, which echoes global book Creating Freedom, football, cricket and rugby issues of power, control, which dismantles myths league. Linking the fates containment, trauma, about free will, free of industrial and sporting language and silence. This markets, free media and prowess, A Yorkshire experimental collaboration free elections. This highly Tragedy is a lament for a combines theatre, poetry, original examination of our disappearing world but digital art and music in an world reveals we are far also a celebration of the immersive performance. less free than we like to spirit that remains at Funded by Arts Council think, but that freedom is the heart of the county’s England something we can create sporting identity. together. In collaboration with Sponsored by University of Showroom Cinema Sheffield Students’ Union ______Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) + ______Theatre Delicatessen (see + map on page 10) ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Showroom Cinema (see map on page 10) The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 43 Wed 26 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 26 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 27 Oct, 7pm Mansions of Misery: The Science of Game Michael McCarthy and The Marshalsea of Thrones – Helen Sally Goldsmith Debtors’ Prison – Jerry Keen Michael McCarthy grew White Award-winning comedian up on a farm in West Cork, A fascinating vision of and popular science writer now works as a priest in London life in the 18th and Helen Keen uncovers the Yorkshire and is one of the 19th centuries told through astounding science behind great storytellers in verse. stories from the notorious the world’s most popular His latest collection, The debtors’ prison Marshalsea television show, answering Healing Station, is tender – immortalised by Charles questions such as: do and funny and draws on Dickens as a byword for dragons actually exist? a recent residency with misery. Imprisoned here How does wildfire win wars? stroke victims in Dublin. as a child, Dickens was Helen sifts fact from fantasy Sally Goldsmith is a scarred by the experience and reveals a world more prize-winning songwriter, for life – observing wealthy fantastical than Daenerys broadcaster and poet. Are inmates maintaining Targaryen’s wildest dreams. We There Yet? is her first servants while the A myth-busting, fun-filled full-length collection. poorest faced starvation. expedition that is perfect In collaboration with Jerry White unearths for all GoT fans. It’s time to Museums Sheffield see the Seven Kingdoms as extraordinary tales from In association with The Poetry an array of colourful but you’ve never seen them Business unfortunate characters before. enduring a stay in In collaboration with Marshalsea’s cells. University of Sheffield Students’ Union ______In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + The Auditorium, University of Creative Lounge, The Sheffield Students’ Union (see Workstation (see map on map on page 10) page 10)
44 ©Percy Metcalfe Thurs 27 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 27 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 27 Oct, 7.30pm Blackpool Pleasure John Pilger Young Writers Open Beach – Professor John Pilger is one of the Mic with Guests Vanessa Toulmin world’s most renowned Calling young people from A beautifully illustrated investigative journalists across South Yorkshire! talk based on the book and documentary If you write poems, tell Blackpool Pleasure Beach filmmakers. He will stories, compose lyrics, More Than Just an talk about his updated spit bars, or have anything Amusement Park. Founded version of The New Rulers else to say out loud to in 1896, the Pleasure Beach of the World. From the a supportive audience, became world-famous propaganda of the ‘war this is an evening to in the 1920s, inspiring on terror’ to the collective celebrate your words, amusement park designers punishment called ideas and talents in a including Walt Disney. This ‘austerity’, he reveals warm atmosphere. Events talk features rare, original the secrets of modern are open to all, both archival drawings and imperialism. ‘He is a new and experienced. designs by leading British photographer using words Reserve a slot via info@ 20th-century designers instead of a camera.’ – hivesouthyorkshire.com, including Tom Purvis and Salman Rushdie. or put your name down on Percy Metcalfe. Vanessa In association with Festival of the night (slots limited). Toulmin is Director of City Debate Suitable for ages 14–25. and Cultural Engagement In collaboration with Sheffield A partnership between at the University of Theatres Hive South Yorkshire, Verse Sheffield. Matters and Off the Shelf In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union ______Tickets: £10/£9 (concs) Tickets: Free Crucible Theatre (see map on Theatre Delicatessen (see ______page 10) map on page 10) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Booking at Sheffield No need to book Theatres only The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) map on page 10) No booking fee when paying with cash
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 45 Fri 28 Oct, 6pm Fri 28 Oct, 7pm Fri 28 Oct, 7.30pm The Turner Museum of The Long and Winding Alone in the Jungle – Glass – Dr John Parker Road – Alan Johnson Antonia Bolingbroke- The history of one of The third volume of Alan Kent Sheffield’s hidden gems Johnson’s award-winning Antonia is a travel writer is revealed by Dr John memoirs enters the world who loves wandering alone Parker in this beautifully of Westminster and the in remote regions. Hear illustrated talk. The life of a hardworking MP. about her solo exploration Turner Museum of Glass After the initial culture of Indochina’s legendary Ho houses one of the UK’s shock, Alan took to the Chi Minh trail, the military most comprehensive corridors of power as to supply route built by North collections of 18th–20th the manner born, fuelled Vietnamese communists century glass. Founded by by passionately held during the Vietnam War. Professor W.E.S Turner at principles and loyalty Antonia spent two months the University of Sheffield to his constituents. The travelling through Vietnam, in 1943, the collection is latest book carries on the Laos and Cambodia on unrivalled in its display bestselling tradition of This an ancient, tiny pink of work from the 1920s Boy and Please, Mister motorcycle, in search of to the 1950s including Postman. See Westminster what remained of this vases, wine glasses, plates, as you’ve never seen it extraordinary trail – mud, paperweights. Tickets before. jungles, mountains, tribes, include a pre-talk tour of In collaboration with Sheffield bombs and more… the museum at 5pm. Hallam University In collaboration with Showroom Cinema ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + ______Creative Lounge, The Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Workstation (see map on page Turner Museum of Glass, Pennine Theatre, Owen 10) Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Building (see map on page 10) Mappin Street, S1 3JD
46 Fri 28 Oct, 7.30pm Sat 29 Oct, 11am–3pm Sat 29 Oct, 11am Off the Shelf Slam Climate Bike The Abridged Party! Help Icarus pedal through Shakespeare – Word Life and Now Then the weather glass of John Sutherland Magazine bring you our climate change into and John Crace annual party with the the world beyond! This The two Johnnies celebrate biggest poetry slam in interactive installation of Shakespeare with an South Yorkshire. Eight local Through the Weather Glass annotated collection of poets slug it out round by tells a fantastical account his greatest plays. John round in a competition of author Dr Lucy Burnett’s Sutherland is Emeritus judged by the audience 2500-mile solo cycle Professor of English at to be named Off the Shelf expedition to the Greek UCL; John Crace is the Slam Champion. Also island where Icarus fell. Digested Read satirist featuring a guest headline It invites you to imagine and parliamentary sketch performance poet – more climate change in positive writer for The Guardian. to be revealed. To take part and playful ways, by Full of clever, irreverent in the slam, email pedalling a bike-generator, and funny insights, The [email protected] watching an animated Abridged Shakespeare is film and writing poetry on a joy for those who know paper feathers for Icarus’ their Shakespeare, perfect willow wings. for the theatre-goer ______needing a quick recap and Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) on the Tickets: Free a massive relief for those door Winter Garden (see map on desperate to pass their Theatre Delicatessen (see page 10) map on page 10) English exam. No need to book No need to book In collaboration with Showroom Cinema
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 47 Sat 29 Oct It’s Raining Words Every time it rains, it rains… words! Or at least it will Peregrine will be in Sheffield to this autumn in Sheffield. Off the Shelf is delighted to be talk about this amazing project working with street artist Peregrine Church from America and his work as an artist on on a project called It’s Raining Words. Peregrine has Saturday 29 October at 6pm in created water-activated art in Seattle with poems that the Winter Garden (see map on are only visible when it rains. He uses superhydrophobic page 10). nanotechnology to create the work which has been a Thank you to all the writers, huge hit in his own city. musicians, agents and In what will be a UK premiere, you can get to experience publishers who have allowed us rain words here in Sheffield. Sites in the city and some to use the words. out of town will reveal Yorkshire sayings and Sheffield Check offtheshelf.org.uk for song lyrics, as if by magic, but only when it rains! And details of all locations. there will be one very special piece of text to look out for, which was written for the festival by playwright and writer In collaboration with Yellow Bus Events and Festival of the Mind Alan Bennett. Work will start appearing across the city from September, with all work revealed on 29 October. Supported by Sheffield BID and part of Sheffield’s Year of Making Funded by Arts Council England as part of Cultural Destinations Funded by the University of Sheffield
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48 Sat 29 Oct, 2pm Sat 29 Oct, 7.30pm Sun 30 Oct, 1pm and 3pm Pat Stewart – The Girl Tony Robinson Traditional Sheffield in the Spotty Dress Sir Tony Robinson is Tales – A Promenade When Pat Stewart posed a much-loved actor, Performance by Loose on the railings of Blackpool presenter and author. Theatre promenade in 1951, little His frank, funny memoir Loose Theatre presents did she know that the describes how he went tales of dark deeds, resulting photograph from child stardom in the grisly encounters, magic, would become an iconic first stage production of and foolish mortals who image. A Tiller Girl at 17, Oliver! to comedy icon don’t quite get what they Pat high-kicked her way Baldrick in Blackadder. might wish for. These for over half a century He reveals how he failed old traditional tales and performing with stars to impress Liza Minnelli, ballads include the Dragon including Morecambe was locked naked outside of Wharncliffe Edge, the and Wise. This nostalgia a theatre and watched Sheffield Bluebeard, the memoir evokes memories countless gardens dug up ghostly Gabriel Hounds of the 50s and 60s and in the name of archaeology and the three magic stories of the golden age as presenter of Time Team. wishes. An outdoor, of show business. Pat will Hear about his 50-year promenade performance. be joined by co-author stellar career packed with Suitable for adults and Veronica Clark. incident and humour. children aged 8+, children In collaboration with Sheffield must be accompanied by Theatres an adult. No dogs except ______for guide dogs. Tickets £12/£10 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + Crucible Theatre (see map on Central United Reformed page 10) Church (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) + Meet at Weston Park Bandstand (see map on page 10)
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 49 Sun 30 Oct, 6pm Tues 1 Nov, 7pm Tues 1 Nov, 7.30pm 7 Miles Out Up the Junction and Between Heaven and – Carol Morley Other Work – Tony the Clouds Acclaimed filmmaker Garnett Piano meets poetry in an Carol Morley (The Falling, Distinguished film exploration of faith and Dreams of a Life) draws on producer Tony Garnett love. A fascination with her own troubled youth in talks about his memoir the human soul unites 1970s Manchester to tell The Day the Music Died, acclaimed pianist Cordelia a raw, darkly funny story which looks at his life Williams and multi-award- of a life brought back from and the influences and winning poet Michael the brink. Traumatised ideas that have shaped Symmons Roberts. by her father’s suicide, his career in film and Together they observe 11-year-old Ann struggles television production. His and explore universal to escape the shadow of work, always radical and themes of love, colour, grief and guilt, a struggle confrontational, engaging passion, silence and faith that will lead to dark with controversial social through Olivier Messiaen’s years but also, through and political topics, Vingt regards sur l’enfant- determination and love, to includes Cathy Come Jésus. Messiaen’s music a new strength. Home, Kes and TV series is a modernist epic, full of In collaboration with This Life amongst many intense colour and drama, Showroom Cinema others. The talk will be composed in 1944 in ______followed by a screening of occupied Paris. Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) + Up the Junction. Part of University of Sheffield Concerts’ Sound Laboratory: Showroom Cinema (see map In collaboration with Contemporary Season on page 10) Showroom Cinema ______Tickets (talk): £8/£6.50 (concs) + ______Tickets (film): £8.50/£6.30 Tickets: £16/£6 (concs) + + (concs) Firth Hall, University of Showroom Cinema (see map Sheffield, Western Bank, on page 10) S10 2TN Book at sheffield.ac.uk/ concerts or 0333 666 3366
50 Tues 1 Nov, 7.30pm Wed 2 Nov, 7.30pm Wed 2 Nov, 7.30pm The Private Lives Pete McKee in Protest Inc – Dr of the Tudors – Tracy Conversation with Genevieve LeBaron Borman Professor Vanessa Mass protests have raged The Private Lives of the Toulmin since the global financial Tudors is the definitive Local legend Pete McKee crisis of 2008. Across the look at Tudor life, turning – artist, musician and world students, workers everything you think football fan – talks and environmentalists take you know about the about his work, from to the streets. Protest Inc world’s most famous collaborations with Paul tells a disturbingly different dynasty on its head. Smith, Arctic Monkeys story of global activism. Discover the secrets of and Noel Gallagher to his As millions of activists servants, attendants and latest exhibition 6 Weeks rally against capitalism, courtiers who surrounded to Eternity. Celebrating more and more activist the monarchy – the memories of childhood organisations collaborate eyewitnesses who knew summer holidays, the with business and advocate the truth behind the show attracted crowds of for corporate-friendly glamorous exteriors of 8,000 to its two-day run at ‘solutions’. This landmark Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Magna. Sheffield provides book sounds the alarm Mary I. Acclaimed historian a rich inspiration for about the dangers this Tracy Borman is also the McKee’s work – hear Pete trend presents for the author of the bestselling reminisce about the city future of transformative Thomas Cromwell. and discuss future plans. change in world politics. In collaboration with In association with Festival of In collaboration with Debate University of Sheffield University of Sheffield Students’ Union Students’ Union In collaboration with University of Sheffield Public Engagement and Impact team
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Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 51 Thurs 3 Nov, 7.30pm Fri 4 Nov, 7.30pm Sat 5 Nov, 2pm The Youth Word Up! Sheffield and Mary Queen of Scots: A Spoken Word Bapaume 1916 to The Captive Queen Performance by Young 2016 – Sylvia Dunkley in England – David People and Joelle Taylor On 1 July 1916, the first day Templeman Local young people aged of the Battle of the Somme, The launch of a new book 13–19 perform pieces 513 officers and men from exploring the English sharing their experiences, the Sheffield Pals Battalion captivity of Mary Queen dreams and hopes. were killed, wounded or of Scots from 1568–87. Sharing the stage is UK missing near the French The event features a poetry slam champion, town of Bapaume. After the fascinating illustrated talk Joelle Taylor – founder of war, Sheffield helped raise by Elizabethan historian SLAMbassadors UK, and funds and rebuild the town. and national speaker, author of Ska Tissue and This illustrated talk looks David Templeman. There The Woman Who Was Not at the close links between will also be short dramatic There. ‘Fearless. We need Sheffield and Bapaume pieces with Bess of poetry like this.’ – Benjamin that continue to this day. Hardwick, George Talbot Zephaniah. In collaboration with Earl of Shrewsbury and Suitable for adults and Showroom Cinema Mary Queen of Scots, with children aged 13 years+, Scottish music played by parental guidance applies. a piper. Event includes interval. In association with Sheffield ______Community Youth Teams, + Sponsored by The Star Sheffield Youth Justice, Vicky Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) Morris and Hive, and Arts Creative Lounge, The Council England Workstation (see map on page 10) ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) + ______Central United Reformed Church (see map on page 10) Tickets: Free The HUBS (see map on page 10) Booking: 0114 273 4400
52 Sun 6 Nov, 1.30–8pm Francesca Martinez – How to Create a Better World We are thrilled that comedian, writer and actress Francesca Martinez is our guest curator. Since starring in five series of BBC’sGrange Hill, Francesca has toured internationally with sell-out runs of her comedy shows and is known for her motivational talks and campaign work. Her book What The **** Is Normal?!, was a bestseller. Join Francesca and her guests as they explore her theme, ‘How to Create a Better World’ in a day of discussion and inspiration. In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres
How to Create a Better have covered everything whether forgiveness may World… through Art from music under have more currency than 1.30pm apartheid to the horrors of revenge in an age that chemical warfare. James seems locked into the cycle Screening of Ken Loach’s Meadway was former of conflict. award-winning feature Chief Economist at New filmI, Daniel Blake. ______Economics Foundation. Tickets £6/£5 (concs) Daniel Blake has worked He is a critic of austerity The Foundry, University of as a joiner most of his life economics and at the Sheffield Students’ Union (see in Newcastle. Now, for the forefront of efforts to map on page 10) first time ever, he needs promote an alternative. help from the state. He ______How to Create a Better crosses paths with single Tickets £6/£5 (concs) World… through mother Katie and they find The Foundry, University of Action themselves caught on the Sheffield Students’ Union (see 7–8pm barbed wire of welfare map on page 10) bureaucracy, as played John Rees in conversation with Francesca Martinez. out against the rhetoric How to Create a Better of ‘striver and skiver’ in World… through John Rees is a writer, modern day Britain. Compassion historian, broadcaster and ______campaigner, co-founder of 5–6pm Tickets £6/£5 (concs) the Stop the War Coalition Marina Cantacuzino The Auditorium, University of and a spokesperson for the Sheffield Students’ Union (see in conversation with People’s Assembly Against map on page 10) Francesca Martinez. Austerity. His new book is Marina is the founder of The Leveller Revolution. 3.15–4.15pm The Forgiveness Project, ______Panel discussion with Amir a secular organisation Tickets £6/£5 (concs) that shares real stories Amirani, James Meadway The Foundry, University of and Francesca Martinez. of forgiveness to enable Sheffield Students’ Union (see Amir recently completed people to reconcile with map on page 10) his first feature-length the pain and move forward cinema documentary, from the trauma in their We Are Many, to critical own lives. Marina and acclaim. Previous films Francesca will discuss
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 53 54 Hey You! has been written by award-winning Sheffield-born musician Richard Hawley. This text and the city artwork was commissioned by Off the Shelf as part of the Year of Making, in collaboration with Sheffield Museums Trust, University of Sheffield, Eleven Design and Paul Swales.
The typeface used in Hey You! was created by Sheffield type foundry Stephenson Blake, the last active type foundry in the UK.
You can see Hey You! at the Millennium Gallery now.
It was funded by Arts Council England.
Book at sivtickets.com 55 Admission to all exhibitions is free and normal venue opening times apply.
Sat 8 – Sat 29 Oct Stephanie d’Hubert – Memoir and Memory – What Remains Exhibition by Students A book of photographs and of the Open College of words in which the artist the Arts reflects on the life of Can writing unearth long- her mother. forgotten scenes from ______the past? What role do Display Case, First Floor, objects play in unlocking Central Library (see map on recollections of our page 10) personal history? How does memory shape how you John Umney – Look for see the world? Exhibitions Him of photographic work on The artist explores his the theme of memory by tormented relationship three Open College of the with his father. Arts students will be on ______display in the city centre Sheffield Cathedral, Church throughout the festival. Street, S1 1HA Sponsored by Open College of the Arts (OCA) Penny Watson – Eudosia
A series of 14 images about childhood, exploring the
relationship a child has with the landscape. ______Town Hall Foyer (see map on page 10)
Exhibitions
56 Helpless: Six screen video loop in standard definition (Peter Martin, 2016)
Fri 7 – Sat 22 Oct, Mon 17 – Sat 22 Oct, 12noon–5pm 10am–3pm Peter Martin Inspired by the Written Artist Peter Martin is Word – Exhibition by currently based in S1 Sheffield Printmakers Studios in Sheffield. Sheffield Printmakers Working with video, sound celebrate Off the Shelf and zines, Peter’s work through a display of fine often uses found content, art prints that have been such as archival television inspired by the written footage and fragments of word. journalistic writing and Organised by Sheffield removes them from their Printmakers original context to form new ______narratives. Peter presents The Art House (see map on a new video work at Biggins page 10) Brothers, an industrial No need to book building in Sheffield’s Sheffield Printmakers Cultural Industries Quarter. Supported by Arts Council England Organised by Bloc Projects ______Biggins Brothers, 154 Arundel Street, S1 4RE
Book at sivtickets.com 57 Sat 8 Oct, 10am–4pm Sat 22 Oct, 2–4pm Sat 29 Oct, 10.15am–4pm Liz Cashdan – Memory Digital Fiction Reading Poetry Business and Memoir Creative and Writing Workshop Writing Day Writing Workshop A masterclass on reading These Writing Days are Using objects from the and writing digital fiction open to all, with writing museum’s collection, led by digital media artists exercises in the morning participants will write and writers Andy Campbell and a critical workshop in stories or poems inspired and Judi Alston of One to the afternoon. Please bring by the objects they have One Development Trust and a poem (and ten copies) for chosen. They will be able Dr Isabelle van der Bom. The the afternoon workshop to select and talk about workshop will introduce you – or better still write one objects, draft, edit and to digital storytelling, its up to discuss from the rewrite a piece of work and differences from traditional morning session. read the final draft to other fiction, and digital writing Tickets available by cash or participants. Liz Cashdan software. Participants will cheque on the day. is a poet and tutors for the also have the opportunity to Open College of the Arts write digitally. No prior Organised by the Poetry Business and Workers’ Educational knowledge of digital fiction Association. required. In association with the Open Organised by Sheffield Hallam College of the Arts (OCA) University and One to One ______Tickets: £30/£25 (concs) In collaboration with Development Trust Museums Sheffield ______North Church House, 84 Queen Street, S1 2DW Tickets: Free Booking: Charles Street Building, [email protected] Sheffield Hallam University, ______Arundel Gate, S1 2ND + Sat 5 Nov, 1–4pm Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) Booking: 0114 225 3599 Education Room, Weston Park Grief Writing Museum (see map on page 10) Workshop with Beverley Ward and Ingrid Hanson This workshop, aimed at the bereaved and run by two writers recently bereaved themselves, will explore the many ways in which we can use writing to confront, remember and reimagine the death (and life) of someone we love, and explore our own feelings of grief and loss. It will include writing exercises in a confidential environment, with the option of reading work aloud or keeping it private. No previous writing experience required. ______Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) + The Art House (see map on Workshops page 10) 58 You don’t. The real one’s much more gory…’ Meet three of Roald Dahl’s dirtiest beasts before joining Cinderella at the ball. Manchester Camerata Ensemble and narrator Polly Ives present this concert version of Dahl’s hilarious poems with live contemporary classical music, narration and audience participation for all the family. Suitable for Sat 15 Oct, 1–4pm character for our parade ages 5+. Roald Dahl Celebration and you might win a prize. In association with Music in – The Moor And one lucky winner will the Round Calling Human Beans of pick the Golden Ticket! With all ages! Help us celebrate music, competitions and 100 years of Roald Dahl more, this will be a phizz whizzing afternoon! ______– the world’s number one Tickets: £8/£5 storyteller and author of Sponsored by Moor Sheffield Studio Theatre, Crucible Charlie and the Chocolate Theatre (see map on page 10) Factory, James and the Booking at Sheffield Giant Peach, The Twits… Theatres only ______This gloriumptious Booking fee: £1.50 (£1 online) afternoon has oodles of fun Tickets: Free No booking fee when paying arts and crafts activities. The Moor, S1 4PF with cash Make huge BFG ears, No need to book Sat 22 Oct, 12.30–3pm
Dirty Beast masks and Sat 22 Oct, 11am Dahl-inspired Craft Cinderella crowns, enjoy Workshops – Fiona creative play and drama. Roald Dahl’s Cinderella Mannion and Dirty Beasts Have your portrait drawn Why not create your own Dahl-style, meet Willy Celebrating 100 years of Cinderella crown or Dirty Wonka, Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl with Music in Beast mask in these fun and Otto. Come dressed the Round. ‘I guess you FREE craft activities? as your favourite Dahl think you know this story. The activities are led by professional artist Fiona Mannion. Workshops begin every half hour and last 30 minutes. Suitable for ages 5–9.
______Tickets: Free Carpenter Room, Central Library (see map on page 10) Booking: 0114 273 4400 Booking required
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 59 Sun 23 Oct, Tues 25 – Fri 28 Oct, Simon will take you on a 10.30am–6.30pm 10am–4.30pm journey through this much- Out of This World Sat 29 Oct, 1–4pm loved classic picture book Step into a parallel Dark Beauty – Digital and introduce you to his universe of sci-fi, mystery and Creative Writing latest book, REX. Suitable and magic at Out of This Workshop for ages 5–7. ______World. Look out for Magic Inspired by Shakespeare’s Carpet Theatre’s illusions Tickets: £3, accompanying beautiful Dark Lady series adults free + and magic shows, the of sonnets, workshop fun of the fair on Fargate, Creative Lounge, The artists will encourage Workstation (see map on page spooktacular fun on The participants to use creative 10) Moor for the little ones or writing, performance poetry sci-fi, gaming and comics and digital technologies in the Town Hall. Start Fri 28 Oct, 1.30–3pm to make and showcase Brave New Words planning your Out of This work that explores ideas World costumes now and of beauty and identity in Writing Workshop join in the fun. Suitable for the 21st century. Suitable Do you care about the all ages. for ages 11–15. For environment? Believe in the Organised by Sheffield City more information, visit power of words? Join writer Council Major Events Team makedigital.org or contact Dr Lucy Burnett on a playful [email protected]. improvised journey through the big issues including Tickets: Free A Destinations Arts and Various city centre venues Sheffield Hallam University climate change, using No need to book partnership writing games and chance Organised by Black History techniques to imagine more Mon 24 Oct, 1.30pm Month positive visions of the world Dear World Supported by Arts Council we live in than the usual Five-year-old Toby from England doom and gloom. Suitable Sheffield decided to write for ages 11+. to someone in every country ______to find out more about Tickets: £3 + our world and set about ______Activity Room, Millennium handwriting letters to Tickets: Free Gallery (see map on page 10) everyone from scientists Room 744, Owen Building in Antarctica to a famous (see map on page 10) South African president. Booking: bit.ly/bhmbeauty The replies he received are Booking required collected in his book Dear World. Meet Toby (now eight) Tues 25 Oct, 2pm as he talks to Sheffield Dear Greenpeace – writer Beverley Ward about his project and then write Simon James your own postcard with Celebrate 25 years of Dear a message to the world. Greenpeace with award- Suitable for ages 5–9. winning picture book creator Simon James (Baby Brains, Nurse Clementine). Little Emily has a whale ______living in her garden pond Tickets: £3, accompanying and decides to write to adults free + Greenpeace for tips on Carpenter Room, Central how to look after him. With Library (see map on page 10) storytime and live drawing, 60 Mon 24 – Thurs 27 Oct, 10am–4pm Hi Ho Silver Rhyming (and Prose) Sheffield Children’s University live! Competition! Described by the Sunday Times as ‘The We are 25 this year! Celebrate our University of Fun’, Children’s University quarter of a century of wonderful encourages 5–14 year olds to try new festivals by writing a microfiction, poem experiences, develop new interests and or text piece. The only rules are to use acquire new skills. Bring your Passport no more than 25 words (the title can be to Learning to earn Children’s University extra), and you must include the word credits. silver. Winter Garden (see map on page 10) Info: 0114 203 9134 or www.sheffield.gov.uk/cu Email entries to offtheshelf@sheffield. gov.uk or post to Off the Shelf, Town Enjoy the following events: Hall, Pinstone Street, S1 2HH. Mon 24 Oct Prize: £25 book token Museums Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University Closing date: 1 November 2016. Learn while you have fun with these varied hands-on activities from Weston Park staff and Sheffield Hallam students. Rhyme & Reason Rhyme & Reason, Sheffield’s independent bookshop at Hunter’s Bar, Tues 25 Oct is providing bookstalls at most Off the Sheffield Volunteering Activities Shelf events. Bookstalls will normally Join students from Sheffield University open half an hour before the events as Students’ Union Volunteering for lots of fun well as afterwards. learning activities. Authors will be available to sign copies of their books at the end of their Wed 26 Oct events. A book signed by the author Imagination Gaming and Sheffield makes a special gift, so please take Hallam University the opportunity to do some Christmas shopping. Modern board games, word and card games for all the family, plus learning Bookstalls can only accept payment in activities for children run by Sheffield cash or by cheque. Hallam’s Outreach team and students. Special offers will be available on many titles. Thurs 27 Oct Rhyme & Reason, Treasure Hunts and More 681 Ecclesall Road, S11 8TG Treasure hunts, competitions, arts and Tel: 0114 266 1950 crafts, experiments and subject-based games for children run by Sheffield Email: [email protected] Hallam’s Outreach team and students. Organised by Sheffield Children’s University
Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 61 Sat 15 Oct, 1pm or 3pm Sat 15 Oct, 1pm or 3pm Mon 24 Oct, 10.30am– Letters to the Future Letters to the Future 12noon – Creative Writing – Creative Writing Illustration Workshop Workshop Workshop with Lynne Chapman For ages 14–19 For ages 8–13 Meet illustrator Lynne What would you say to Yorkshire’s magical Grimm Chapman and learn how to your older self? What & Co opens its secret door create funny and expressive would you like to tell to 8–13 year olds from picture book characters. future generations? Join across the region. Write Lynne will demonstrate local young writers to a letter from yourself (or simple, step-by-step write letters from yourself anonymously) to a future techniques and share (or anonymously) to a somebody. Work from the hot tips for making your future somebody. Work project will be immortalised illustrations jump to life! from the project will be in Grimm’s Letters to the Suitable for ages 7–12. immortalised in Grimm’s Future book. Come and ______Letters to the Future book. write, find out more about Tickets: Free Refreshments provided. Grimm and see what’s Intake Community Library, Travel arrangements can be on the other side of our Montrose Avenue, Doncaster, supported for young people secret door! Refreshments DN2 6PL coming from outside of provided. Booking: 01302 367 225 Rotherham. In association with Grimm & Co Mon 24 Oct, 1.30–3pm In association with Grimm & Co and Hive South Yorkshire and Hive South Yorkshire ______Illustration Workshop ______Tickets: Free with Lynne Chapman Tickets: Free Grimm & Co, 2 Doncaster Gate, See information above. Grimm & Co, 2 Doncaster Gate, Rotherham, S65 1DJ Suitable for ages 7–12. Rotherham, S65 1DJ Booking and info: [email protected] Booking and info: Tickets: Free [email protected] Central Children’s Library, Doncaster Central Library, DN1 3JE Booking: 01302 734 322
Off the Shelf events are Off the Shelf taking place in venues across South Yorkshire this autumn. on the road We are spreading the word, spreading the joy. If you like these festival taster events please come and join us in Sheffield for more events. All these events are part of a Regional Reach project funded by Arts Council England. 62 Tues 25 Oct, 10am–12noon Wed 26 Oct, 1.30–3pm Sat 29 Oct, 7–10pm Drawing and Painting So You Want to Be an Brontë Light Night with Lynne Chapman Illustrator? With Lynne An animated film will be Meet illustrator and urban Chapman projected onto the outside sketcher Lynne Chapman Lynne Chapman, award- of the Cast building as part and look inside her winning illustrator of a special commission sketchbooks. Lynne will and Urban Sketchers celebrating 200 years demonstrate fun techniques Correspondent, will talk you since the birth of Charlotte for you to try, and will share through a wide variety of her Brontë. The film has been hot tips for adding in-situ sketch work, from created by Word Life and dynamism, colour and drawings of dinner on the features two original songs interest to your drawings. stove to travel sketchbooks by Sheffield songwriter Nat Suitable for ages 8–12. from around the world. Her Johnson. ______inspirational illustrated And why not see popular Tickets: Free talk is full of tips about performance poet, Riverside Library, Riverside how to use different media, comedian and musician House, Main Street, interesting ways of using John Hegley at Cast at 8pm? Rotherham, S60 1AE the page, how to choose Booking: 01709 823 606 your subject, as well as hints to make drawing in Tues 25 Oct, 1.30–3.30pm public easier. Guaranteed ______Illustration Workshop to get your pencil fingers Tickets (for projection): Free with Lynne Chapman twitching! For adults and Tickets (John Hegley): young people aged 14+. £14.50/£12.50 (concs) See earlier listing on page ______Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster, 62. Suitable for ages 8–12. DN1 3BU Tickets: Free ______Booking (for John Hegley event) Hoyland Library, The Hoyland and info: castindoncaster.com Tickets: Free Centre, High Croft, S74 9AF Riverside Library, Riverside Booking: 01226 355 832 House, Main Street, Rotherham, S60 1AE Booking: 01709 823 606
Wed 26 Oct, 10–11.30am Illustration Workshop with Lynne Chapman See earlier listing on page 62. Suitable for ages 8–12. ______Tickets: Free Hoyland Library, The Hoyland Centre, High Croft, S74 9AF Booking: 01226 355 832
Lynne Chapman
63 Date, time Wed 5 Oct, 6.30pm Thurs 6 Oct, 2pm FestivalFringe event Fringe Sane – Emma Young A Life in Death – event Is it possible to tone your Richard Venables LoremFringe ipsum dolor mind like you can tone Former South Yorkshire We’resit amet, delighted consectetur to work your body? Emma Young Police Detective Inspector withadipiscing the community elit, ullamco believes so and in this Richard Venables was groups,sed do eiusmod individuals tempor and talk she shares tips to an expert in Disaster librariesincididunt that ut labore create et a help you shape your mind Victim Identification and a vibrantdolore magna and diverse aliqua. mix Ut and improve your mental member of the UK Police’s ofenim events ad minim for our veniam, Festival strength. Major Disaster Advisory Fringe.quis nostrud exercitation ______Team. Richard’s fascinating ullamco laboris nisi ut Tickets: Free autobiography details his Ticketsaliquip ex are ea not commodo available Carpenter Room, Central career. fromconsequat. SIV for fringe Library (see map on page 10) ______In collaboration with...events – please check Tel: 0114 273 4712 Tickets: Free each______listing for booking centrallending.library@ Stocksbridge Library, £15.00information. /£11.00 Children(Cons) + sheffield.gov.uk Manchester Road, S36 1DH Firthmust Hall, be accompanied University of by Tel: 0114 273 4205 Sheffield,an adult. Western Bank, stocksbridge.library@ S10 2TN sheffield.gov.uk Booking informationBooking essential for Booking informationlibrary events.
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64 Mon 10 Oct, 8pm Tues 11 Oct, 2pm Tues 11 Oct, 7.30pm Destination Publication I May Be Gone For Writers in The Bath 2nd Six local authors read their Some Time – Peter Hill Birthday fiction and discuss ways In 2014 Peter Hill Prize-winning poet Rose to get your work out there, attempted a 5000 mile Flint reads her work including the ultimate walk around the coast of uniquely attuned to the destination – publication. Britain. I May Be Gone For healing processes of the Suitable for ages 16+. Some Time is his journal of natural world. Supported Organised by Hallam Writers the 42-week trek, written by Cora Greenhill and other with enthusiasm and local poets. ______humour. Tickets: Free Organised by Writers in ______The Bath The Red Deer, 18 Pitt Street, S1 4DD Tickets: Free ______Tel: 07952 626779 Crystal Peaks Library, 1–3 Tickets: £4 Peak Square, Waterthorpe, The Bath Hotel, S20 7PH 66 Victoria Street, S3 7QL Tel: 0114 293 0612 Tel: 01433 630 759 crystalpeaks.library@ sheffield.gov.uk
Wed 12 Oct, 6.30pm Thurs 13 Oct, 10.30am Thurs 13 Oct, 10.30am Like a Tramp, Like Coronation Street – Dark Tales from the a Pilgrim – Harry Behind the Scenes Steel City Bucknall Join Ruth Owen for a sneak Hear 11 short stories, In 2012, Harry Bucknall set peek behind the scenes specially written for out on the Via Francigena, of Britain’s favourite soap. Off the Shelf and set in an ancient pilgrim path Working out of Manchester atmospheric locations in from Canterbury to Rome, Media City, Ruth reviews the city centre, during a dating back nearly 2000 the Monday double gentle stroll from Paradise years. A wonderful mix of episodes and interviews Square to the railway journal and history. cast members. station. Suitable for ages ______16+. Tickets: Free Tickets: Free Organised by Sheffield Carpenter Room, Central Hillsborough Library, University of the 3rd Age Steel Library (see map on page 10) Middlewood Road, S6 4HD City Wanderers Tel: 0114 273 4712 Tel: 0114 203 9529 ______centrallending.library@ hillsborough.library@ Tickets: Free sheffield.gov.uk sheffield.gov.uk Meet at Paradise Square, S1 2DE Tel: 0114 236 8749 Booking: [email protected]
65 Thurs 13 Oct, 12.30pm Thurs 13 Oct, 2pm Thurs 13 Oct, 6.30pm Sacred Mountain Arnold Loosemore: Gregory Norminton and Stories Heroism Clouded in the Short Story Hindu cultural storytelling Sadness Sheffield native Gregory and a poetry recital by Dr Graham White tells the Norminton and guests members of Aastha story of Arnold Loosemore, discuss the short story Sheffield. a young man from Sheffield form and Gregory’s debut Organised by Aastha Sheffield who fought in the First short story collection The Over-50s Group World War and was Ghost Who Bled. ______awarded the Victoria Cross Tickets available from Tickets: Free for bravery. Waterstones bookshop or 21 Buckenham Street, S4 7JQ ______online. Tickets: Free Tel: 0114 230 3096 Organised by Comma Press Ecclesall Library, 120 Ecclesall Road South, S11 9PL ______Tel: 0114 203 7222 Tickets: £2 ecclesall.library@sheffield. Waterstones, 24-26 Orchard gov.uk Square, S1 2FB commapress.co.uk/events
Thurs 13 Oct, 7pm Fri 14 Oct, 10.30am Fri 14 Oct, 7pm Another Generation The Hope Valley Line – Broomspring Writers – The History of King Sheffield to Edale Autumn Collection Edward VII School in In this illustrated talk, The Broomspring Writers WWII Stephen Gay takes the Group read a selection This companion to 2014’s traveller on a 20-mile of poetry and prose with Hear Their Footsteps journey from Sheffield international settings. traces the effects of to Edale along the Organised by Broomspring WWII on the serving Old magnificent Hope Valley. Writers Group Edwardians and King Sit back and enjoy the ride. ______Edward VII School. ______Tickets: Free Organised by King Edward VII Tickets: Free Bank Street Arts, School Carpenter Room, Central 32–40 Bank Street, S1 2DS ______Library (see map on page 10) Tel: 07981 348152 Tickets: Free Tel: 0114 273 4712 King Edward VII School, centrallending.library@ Glossop Road, S10 2PW sheffield.gov.uk Tel: 0114 266 2518
66 Sat 15 Oct, Sat 15 Oct, 1.30pm Sat 15 Oct, 2pm 10.30am–1.30pm Chris Tutton – Poetry Voyage Into Britain with Sheffield in the Making and Art Workshop Mike Spick This inspiring cycling Can a poem be written Join Mike for an insight journey explores our about an image or a piece into the hidden world of city of steel and studios, of art? Join leading poet our canals, touching on cutlery and the Crucible, Chris Tutton to explore the their history, geography independents and links between poetry and and architecture. An innovation. Create your art. introduction to the 2500 own Made in Sheffield ______miles of canals and journal. Suitable for ages Tickets: Free navigable rivers that criss- 16+. Carpenter Room, Central cross the country. Organised by Liking Cycling Library (see map on page 10) ______Tel: 0114 273 4712 Tickets: Free Tickets: £10 centrallending.library@ Manor Library, Ridgeway sheffield.gov.uk Road, S12 2SS Meet at the Winter Garden (Peace Gardens entrance) Tel: 0114 203 7805 (see map on page 10) [email protected]. Tel: 0114 255 0945 uk [email protected]
Sat 15 Oct, 2pm Sat 15 Oct, 2pm Sat 15 Oct, 5.30pm Darke Investigations Contraflow Red Flags and Religion with Michael Wood Journey through the Radical politics and Sheffield crime writer Rivelin Valley with poet religion intermixed during Michael Wood talks about Fay Musselwhite and the WWI peace movement. his novels featuring DCI photographer Karl Hurst, Red Flag Over Bermondsey, Matilda Darke. Includes tracing the river’s industrial presented by Journeymen readings and Q&A. legacy and unique ecology Theatre, tells the inspiring A community event organised through poetry. A two-mile story of Quakers Ada and by Sheffield Manor Parish walk moderately paced Alfred Salter. ______over varied terrain. Suitable Organised by Sheffield Tickets: £4 for ages 15+. Quakers St Aidan’s Church, 2 Manor Organised by Longbarrow ______Lane, S2 1UF Press Tickets: Free, donations Tel: 0114 278 0707 ______welcome Tickets: Free Quaker Meeting House (see Rivelin Park Cafe, Rivelin Park map on page 10) Road, S6 5GE Tel: 0114 266 7953 Tel: 07583 354376 [email protected]
67 Sat 15 Oct, 8pm Sun 16 Oct, 10.30am Sun 16 Oct, 1pm Adventures in Messages in Verse Clued Up Menstruating: Period Bring a poem in any An introduction to solving Comedy language on the National cryptic crosswords, Fresh from the Edinburgh Poetry Day topic suitable for anyone who Fringe and as heard on ‘messages’. There will be doesn’t have a clue where Radio 4, Chella Quint a short poetry workshop to start. performs taboo-breaking afterwards. A community event organised comedy activism based Organised by Sahitya Press by Clued Up on her popular fanzine, and Scrawling Pacers ______followed by a post-show ______Tickets: £1.50 talk. BSL interpreted. Tickets: Free Norfolk Heritage Park, A community event organised 4 Samson Street, S2 5QT Guildford Avenue, S2 2PL by #periodpositive Tel: 0114 272 3906 Tel: 07938 232610 ______Tickets: £6/£4 (concs) Theatre Delicatessen (see map on page 10) Booking: chellaquint.com
Mon 17 Oct, 2pm Mon 17 Oct, 7pm Mon 17 Oct, 7.30pm Meet the Author: I Want to Tell You…a Street Detective with Michael Fowler Short Story Mike Spick Former detective turned Hear some of the entries to This local history talk author Michael Fowler the short story competition explores Sheffield’s historic returns to Sheffield before we reveal the winner centre – buildings old, new Libraries to talk about his live… Entries by 30 Sept. and no longer with us. DC Hunter Kerr series. Tickets on the door. Organised by Wadsley and Hear about Michael’s Organised by Sheffield Loxley Commoners writing journey and his Authors ______career as inspiration for his ______Tickets: £2.50 writing. Tickets: £2 Wadsley Church Hall, ______Mugen Tea House, Scotland Worrall Road, S6 4BB Tickets: Free Street, S3 7AA Tel: 0114 234 8425 Stocksbridge Library, Tel: 07799 250186 Manchester Road, S36 1DH Info: sheffieldauthors.co.uk Tel: 0114 273 4205 stocksbridge.library@ sheffield.gov.uk
68 Mon 17 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 17 Oct, 8.30pm Tues 18 Oct, 7pm Comic Women Writers Boule de Suif – French The Hammer Blow Rediscover Barbara Book Group – How 10 Women Pym (Excellent Women) How does Guy de Disarmed a Warplane and other 20th-century Maupassant bring the Andrea Needham reads comic women writers in a Franco-Prussian War to from her book about talk with Dr Erica Brown life for readers? And how the Seeds of Hope from Sheffield Hallam does 19th-century French Ploughshares Action University. society compare to life in 1996 and discusses A community event organised today? the relevance of non- by Forgotten Fiction Organised by French Book violent actions of civil ______Group disobedience today. Tickets: £7 ______A community event organised Fusion Cafe, Arundel Street, Tickets: Free by Sheffield Creative Action for Peace S1 2NS Showroom Cafe, Showroom Booking: 0114 252 5985 Cinema (see map on page 10) ______Tel: 07796 057046 Tel: 07941 027197 Tickets: Free, donations welcomed Quaker Meeting House (see map on page 10) Tel: 0114 255 2251
Tues 18 Oct, 8pm Wed 19 Oct, 6.30pm Wed 19 Oct, 7.30pm The Bed of Arrows White Ink Stains – Millstone Grit Tim Ralphs presents Poetry Reading by Students, alumni and staff The Bed of Arrows, an Eleanor Brown from Sheffield Hallam original adaptation of Award-winning Bloodaxe University read from some of the myths from author Eleanor Brown and launch their poetry the great Indian Epic, The reads her new poems. anthology Millstone Grit. Mahabharata, exploring These are inspired by local This event is part of gender identity, duty, love readers’ memories of what Catalyst: festival of and revenge. Tickets on the they read in the 1930s and creativity, see shu.ac.uk/ door. Suitable for ages 18+. 40s. catalyst Organised by The Story Forge Organised by Reading A related exhibition, Poetry ______Sheffield Into Art, will also take place Tickets: £5 Supported by Humanities at Bank Street Arts from Research Centre, Sheffield 12–22 Oct. The Fat Cat, 23 Alma Street, Hallam University S3 8SA ______Organised by Millstone Grit Tel: 07719 092513 Tickets: Free ______Carpenter Room, Central Tickets: Free Library (see map on page 10) Sheffield Institute of Arts, Tel: 0114 263 0691 Fitzalan Square, S1 2AY Booking: [email protected] No need to book
69 Thurs 20 Oct, 11am Thurs 20 Oct, 2pm Thurs 20 Oct, 4.30pm Kathryn Littlewood – Water Voles: Britain’s Reading and Author – Cultivating Fastest Disappearing Discussion with Mad Cow Mammal and Their Desiree Reynolds Meet the author, Kathryn Fortunes in Derbyshire Writer Desiree Reynolds Littlewood. Cultivating The water vole is Britain’s reads from her debut novel Mad Cow is a tale of our fastest declining mammal. Seduce, a dark, witty and time. A true story about Christine Gregory’s passionate novel set on a madness, desperation, illustrated talk explores mythical Caribbean Island. recovery and call centres; what water voles are, Followed by a discussion both a hilarious and how they live and their on writing and identity. heartbreaking read. prospects for the future. Suitable for ages 16+. ______Organised by Burngreave Tickets: Free Tickets: Free Library Highfield Library and Ecclesall Library, 120 ______Children’s Centre, London Ecclesall Road South, S11 9PL Tickets: Free, donations Road, S2 4NF Tel: 0114 203 7222 welcomed Tel: 0114 203 7204 ecclesall.library@sheffield. Burngreave Library, Sorby highfield.library@sheffield. gov.uk House, Spital Hill, S4 7LG gov.uk Booking and info: 0114 203 9002
Thurs 20 Oct, 6pm Thurs 20 Oct, 6.30pm Fri 21 Oct, 2pm Shakespeare and Tang Sophie Hannah – Charlotte Brontë: A in Dialogue Hercule Poirot – Closed Life in Letters – Juliet Take a look at the worlds Casket Barker of Tang Xianzu and International bestselling To celebrate the 200th Shakespeare, the two crime author Sophie anniversary of the birth greatest playwrights in the Hannah talks about her of Charlotte Brontë, Juliet East and West, and join the career as a writer and how Barker explains how and discussion. she has recently started to why Charlotte and her follow in the footsteps of sisters came to write some Organised by the University Agatha Christie as a writer of Sheffield’s Confucius of the most enduringly Institute of new Hercule Poirot popular novels in the ______novels. English language. Tickets: Free ______Hicks Building, University of Tickets: Free Tickets: Free Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Carpenter Room, Central Carpenter Room, Central S3 7RH Library (see map on page 10) Library (see map on page 10) Tel: 0114 222 8447 Tel: 0114 273 4712 Tel: 0114 273 4712 centrallending.library@ centrallending.library@ sheffield.gov.uk sheffield.gov.uk
70 Fri 21 Oct, 6pm Fri 21 Oct, 7pm Sat 22 Oct, 10am Writing in Crisis Poems of All Shapes Write a Book in a Day An evening of poetry, and Sizes with Matt These talks and workshops memoir extracts and Black by authors and editors fiction readings from Popular poet Matt Black will teach you how to write writers that have performs poems long, short stories. The finished experienced, or are short and in-between in work will be published in currently experiencing, an evening designed to an anthology. homelessness. Suitable for prove that poetry is not A community event organised ages 16+. always serious. Bring your by Sheffield Science Fiction Organised by Crisis – the own poem for the open mic and Fantasy Writers Group national homeless charity session. ______A community event organised Tickets: £5 Tickets: Free by Friends of Greenhill Library Victoria Hall Methodist ______Church, Norfolk Street, Bank Street Arts, S1 2JB 32–40 Bank Street, S1 2DS Tickets: Free Tel: 07825 046215 Tel: 07766 325141 Greenhill Library, Hemper Lane, S8 7FE kathryn.wild.writer@gmail. com Tel: 0114 237 7657
Sat 22 Oct, 10.30am Sat 22 Oct, 1pm Sat 22 Oct, 1.30pm To Play Or Not to Play? From Creative Writer to Bigger and Better Find out about Chinese Independent Author Mappin Writers and playwright Tang Xianzu Independent authors special guests EL Lindley and Shakespeare and see including Nick Holland, and John Stocks will a fusion play of Romeo author of In Search of share memories, inspiring and Juliet and The Peony Anne Brontë, share their imagination with the power Pavilion. Suitable for ages publishing experiences of words. 7-11 – children must be and discuss their work. Organised by Mappin Writers accompanied by an adult. A community event organised ______A community event organised by Friends of Ecclesfield Tickets: Free by Sheffield Star Mandarin Library School Sheffield Royal Society for the ______Blind, 5 Mappin Street, S1 4DT ______Tickets: Free, donations Tel: 0114 272 2757 Tickets: Free welcomed Hicks Building, University of Ecclesfield Library, High Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Street, S35 9UA S3 7RH Tel: 0114 246 3615 Info: 0114 222 8447 No need to book
71 Sun 23 Oct, 1pm Tues 25 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 25 Oct, 7.30pm Park Centre Word SpeakEasy Poetry Slam Novel Slam 2016 Picnic 2016 In this annual SpeakEasy Pitch your novel in front Bring anecdotes, jokes, Poetry Slam an audience of a panel of published poems, songs and stories vote will determine who writers. Novel Slam will in your picnic hamper to claims the 2016 trophy. give your writing the share at this annual word Suitable for ages 18+. exposure it deserves, with picnic. To book a 5-minute exciting prizes designed Organised by Bengali performance slot, email to fast-track your writing Women’s Support Group [email protected] career. Tickets on the door ______A community event organised or book in advance. Tickets: Free by SpeakEasy Organised by Sheffield 4 Samson Street, S2 5QT ______Novelists Tel: 0114 327 4908 Tickets: Free ______The Lescar, 303 Sharrow Vale Tickets: Free Road, S11 8ZF Adelphi Room, Crucible Tel: 0114 266 6818 Theatre (see map on page 10) Tel: 07815 966784 Info: sheffieldnovelists. wordpress.com
Wed 26 Oct, 1pm Wed 26 Oct, 6.30pm Wed 26 Oct, 7.30pm Swashboggling Black Sheep: The The Write Way Gobblefunk – Music Hidden Benefits of Three Workers Educational Workshop for Families Being Bad Association (WEA) writers’ Gloriumptious music Dr Richard Stephens groups, tutored by Liz workshop with musician casts a slant on a range Cashdan, launch their Amanda Johnson, using of human experiences anthologies for adults words from Roald Dahl’s to show that what we and children. own descriptive language, generally perceive as bad Organised by WEA Writers ‘Gobblefunk’. Use the can, in fact, be good! ______musical instruments ______Tickets: £2.50 provided to sing songs Tickets: Free The Art House (see map on about your favourite Roald Carpenter Room, Central page 10) Dahl characters. Suitable Library (see map on page 10) Tel: 0114 236 8361 for all ages. Tel: 0114 273 4712 [email protected] ______centrallending.library@ Tickets: Free sheffield.gov.uk Darnall Library, Britannia Road, S9 5JG Tel: 0114 203 7429 darnall.library@sheffield. gov.uk
72 Thurs 27 Oct, 2pm Thurs 27 Oct, 2pm Thurs 27 Oct, 7pm Crystal Word Therapy The Story of the Snake Making Conversation Experience the healing Road Storytelling from around power of words and Join local author and the world, with Sheffield celebrate 15 years of expert Howard Smith for Conversation Club for creativity with special a fascinating illustrated asylum seekers and guest Sally Goldsmith. talk about the history of refugees. Suitable for ages Organised by Glass Mountain the Snake Road, one of 18+. Writers England’s highest, and A community event organised ______the Sheffield to Glossop by Sheffield Conversation Tickets: Free Turnpike Trail. Club Artspace, Crystal Peaks ______Library, S20 7PH Tickets: Free Tickets: £5 suggested Tel: 0114 247 1611 Hillsborough Library, donation Middlewood Road, S6 4HD Quaker Meeting House (see Tel: 0114 203 9529 map on page 10) hillsborough.library@ Tel: 07807 584657 sheffield.gov.uk
Thurs 27 Oct, 7pm Fri 28 Oct, 10.30am Fri 28 Oct, 11am–2pm LaDIY presents CN Meet Author and David Walliams Lester’s Trans Like Me Illustrator Harriet Readathon LaDIY welcomes trans Muncaster Hear David Walliams’ author and activist CN Harriet Muncaster is a brilliant stories read non- Lester to discuss their children’s book illustrator stop. Plus Gangsta Granny book, Trans Like Me. and author. She writes and Mr Stink art and craft A community event organised about Isadora Moon, who activities, including puppet by LaDIYfest Sheffield is half-vampire, half- making. Suitable for 5–16 ______fairy and totally unique! year olds and their families. Tickets: Free Suitable for ages 4–8. A community event organised Coffee Revolution, University ______by Zest of Sheffield Students’ Union Tickets: £15 /£11 (concs) ______(see map on page 10) Highfield Library and Tickets: Free Tel: 07731 468533 Children’s Centre, London Upperthorpe Library, Zest, Road, S2 4NF 18 Upperthorpe, S6 3NA Tel: 0114 203 7204 Tel: 0114 270 2041 highfield.library@sheffield. gov.uk
73 Fri 28 Oct, 1pm Date,Fri 28 timeOct, 2.30pm Fri 28 Oct, 7pm Meet Author and FringeMeet Author event Fringeand An Evening with Illustrator Harriet eventIllustrator Harriet Stephen Booth Muncaster LoremMuncaster ipsum dolor sit Award-winning crime See earlier listing on page Seeamet, earlier concsectetur listing on page author talks about his work 73. 73.adipiscing elit, ullamco including his latest book ______sed do eiusmod tempor The Murder Road. Tickets: Free Tickets:incididunt Free ut labore et Organised by Frecheville Parson Cross Library, Firthdolore Park magna Library, aliqua. Ut Library and Learning Centre The Learning Zone, 320 443enim Firth ad minimPark Road, veniam, S5 6QQ ______Wordsworth Avenue, S5 8NL Tel:quis 0114 nostrud 203 7433 exercitation Tickets: £3 Tel: 0114 203 9533 [email protected] laboris nisi ut Booking at Frecheville Library, parsoncross.library@ aliquipgov.uk ex ea commodo Smalldale Road, S12 4YD sheffield.gov.uk concsequat. Tel: 0114 203 7817 In collaboration with... ______£15.00 /£11.00 (Concs) + Firth Hall, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Booking information Booking information
Fri 28 Oct, 7.30pm Sat 29 Oct, 12noon Competition! Sat 29 Oct, 10am–5pm When Football Came Dante Comes to Home: England, the Nothing Compares… Sheffield English and Euro 96 to Prince Jeremy Naydler gives After another Purple prose, purple an illuminating account underwhelming footballing prose… the Paisley Park of The Divine Comedy summer revisit an icon may be gone forever illustrated with paintings altogether better one. but let’s keep his memory and dramatic readings. Michael Gibbons brings alive through words. We Suitable for ages 14+. Euro 96, and the state of are looking for written or digital responses to the Organised by Sheffield the country during that Steiner Group time, to vivid life. artist known as Prince. ______The winner gets a fabulous Prince goody bag Tickets: Free Tickets: Free and the winning entry will Freeman College, Carpenter Room, Central 88 Arundel Street, S1 2NG Library (see map on page 10) be featured on our website. Tel: 07974 906421 Tel: 0114 273 4712 Booking: centrallending.library@ Full competition details at robertchamberlain43@ sheffield.gov.uk offtheshelf.org.uk outlook.com Judged by poet and Prince fan Kayo Chingonyi. Closing date: 1 November 2016.
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