Music Drama Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Open Days, Exhibitions & Fairs Open Campus 50 Years of October 2010 –– January 2011 19 October - 14 January

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Sheffield a r b i L k n r a e n B o n o r p e t S s e n a I Events. W Download a PDF of this booklet at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/opencampus.html For more information on events at the University of Sheffield see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson The Million CELEBRATING 50 YEARS established Modernism in Britain, OF WESTERN BANK LIBRARY Gollins Melvin Ward and Partners Book Library designed a library of pure cubic TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER – form, inspired by one of the 19 October 10 - FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 2011. pioneering masters of Modern 14 January 11 9.00am – 9.00pm Monday to Friday; architecture, Ludwig Mies van 10.00am to 6.00pm Saturdays & der Rohe. Join the University and Sundays. Exhibition closed from Library as they mark this special 5pm Friday 24 December - to occasion, by visiting the exhibition. 9.00am - Tuesday 4 January 2011 Take a journey through the historical development of the Western Bank Library, S10 2TN Western Bank site, see the architectural vision of Gollins The 1950s saw both an expansion Melvin Ward and discover the in student numbers and a changing face of the University’s growing collection of books at the Libraries in the 21st Century. University of . Stimulated Curated by Jacky Hodgson by this impetus, the University and Karen Middlemast, announced a national competition The Library. for a new master plan for the Special Advisor: Professor Peter Western Bank site, in which a Blundell Jones, The University of library was to hold pride of place. Sheffield School of Architecture. Architects Gollins Melvin Ward T: 0114 222 7258, and Partners presented the E: [email protected], winning competition entry. Typical www.shef.ac.uk/library/exhibition of a new wave of architects that

and pioneering in their relative fields across the following cultural CLIMAX: GAY ICONS SPECIAL practices: Music, Social Impact, Fashion and Trendsetters, (OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY) Gay Icons Literature and the Stage. FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER, 10.30pm An accompanying exhibition Project (or rather interactive experiment) Students’ Union 19 November - will put forward some of the more contemporary ideas behind gay 11 December LEONARD BERNSTEIN – iconography. We’ll discover who THE GREATEST MUSICAL inspires, motivates and captivates homosexual people living in PERSONALITY OF THE Sheffield, and which iconic 20TH CENTURY homosexual figures provide TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 6.45pm inspiration for heterosexual people too. To contribute visit Firth Hall, , S10 2TN www.gayiconsproject.co.uk 6.45pm: Pre-Concert Talk: and tell us who your gay icons are, For tickets and enquiries Bernstein and the Broadway why are they icons to you and what Musical (speaker to be confirmed); T: 0114 222 0499 you think makes a gay icon. The E: [email protected] exhibition takes place during the 7.30pm: Concert; 8.15pm: last week of events. Interval Talk: Bernstein and the Organised in conjunction Ballet (Sophie Redfearn, PhD with the Department of www.gayiconsproject.co.uk Student, University of Sheffield) Music Concert Series. The Gay Icons Project is a diverse SHEFFIELD’S JACKIE KAY and thought-provoking series of GAY ICONS EXHIBITION events that aims to explore the WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 6.30pm contrasting ideas behind gay SATURDAY 4 DECEMBER – iconography. The icons in the THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER Firth Hall, Firth Court, S10 2TN programme represent traditional Open daily 10.00am – 6.00pm attributes of a gay iconography; all Exhibition Space icons are homosexual themselves Open Campus

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN – LEIGH BOWERY THE SECRET LIFE GENIUS OF A GENERATION FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER, 6.30pm OF OSCAR WILDE THURSDAY 25 NOVEMBER, 6.30pm Firth Hall TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER, 6.00pm Firth Hall Firth Hall GAY ICONS THEME NIGHT QUENTIN CRISP FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER, 10.30pm FRIDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 6.30pm Dempsey’s Nightclub, Firth Hall Hereford Street, S1 4PR

SCREEN TESTS: ANDY WARHOL FILMS SUSAN SONTAG SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER, 2.00pm Oscar Wilde Firth Hall ANDRÉ GIDE WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER, 6.30pm Humanities Research Institute

BENJAMIN BRITTEN Quentin Crisp AND PETER PEARS THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER, 6.45pm JOE ORTON Firth Hall SUNDAY 28 NOVEMBER, 6.30pm Firth Hall SHOWROOM CINEMA FILMS Andy Warhol FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER - WINNARETTA SINGER – SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER PETER TATCHELL THE PRINCESSE DE POLIGNAC Showroom Cinema, MONDAY 6 DECEMBER , 6.30pm TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER, 6.45pm Paternoster Row, S1 2BX Firth Hall T 0114 275 7727 Firth Hall Give Me Your Hand Friday 3 December, 6.00pm DAVID AND JONATHAN – THE And Then Came Lola BIBLE’S SAME SEX COUPLE? Sunday 5 December, 6.00pm WEDNESDAY 1 DECEMBER, 6.30pm Plan B Friday 10 December, 6.00pm Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, S3 Gay Sex in the 70’s Saturday 11 December, 6.00pm

ANNE LISTER – DECODING THE FIRST SHOWROOM CINEMA MODERN LESBIAN’S DIARIES END OF PROJECT PARTY THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER, 6.30pm SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER, 7.15PM Firth Hall Peter Tatchell Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 2BX

Open Days, Exhibitions & Fairs –– 01 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Music AUTUMN 2010 CONCERTS

Tickets available from: The University of Sheffield Cash Office , University House, Western Bank, (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm) Sheffield Student Union Box Office , T: 0114 222 8777 Online at : www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts On the door half an hour before the start of each concert (subject to availability) www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts T: 0114 222 0499, E: [email protected] www.facebook.com/tuosconcerts @tuosconcerts All details are accurate at the time of going to print, but are subject to change.

EVENING CONCERTS All in Firth Hall, Firth Court, S10 2TN, unless otherwise stated.

THE WEL L-TEMPERED magical fire of stately bass & THE LONE MASTER OF CLAVIER derbuka-driven Berber rhythms, THE WEST AFRICAN BIRAM and move effortlessly across a Mamane Barka biram TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER, 7.30pm glamorous mosaic of lush Arabic Oumarou Adamou percussion Peter Hill Piano oud & qanun power-chords and soaring taarab-style strings. TUESDAY 9 NOVEMBER, Highlights from what many 7.30pm consider to be some of the finest Tickets: £8, £5 keyboard music ever written. (concessions/staff), A night in the company of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier £2.50 (students/unwaged) Mamane Barka is a chance not takes the keyboard player on an just to experience a beautiful, Moroccan Melodies epic journey, with pairs of forgotten music but also to hear preludes and fugues in all the 24 the fascinating story of Mamane possible major and minor keys. Barka’s quest to rescue the biram, a sacred harp, from Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions and extinction. staff), £2.50 (students/unwaged) Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions/staff), MOROCCAN MELODIES £2.50 (students/unwaged) Hassan Errajji (oud) and band Mamane Barka TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER, 7.30pm

Hassan Erraji is a blind Moroccan Master Musician - a singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist , entertainer, arranger and composer with a highly respected international reputation. Expect to see a danceable contemporary global sound re-igniting the ancient &

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BERNSTEIN LEGACY a flourishing career in opera, FROM JONTY HARRISON Part of the Gay Icons concert and recital, his (Birmingham) Programme, see page 01 performances gaining particular notice throughout the world. MONDAY 6 DECEMBER, 4.10pm TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER, Tickets: £8, £5 Humanities Research from 6.45pm (concessions/staff), £2.50 Institute, Gell Street, S3 7QY 6.45pm: Pre-Concert Talk: (students/unwaged). Jonty Harrison continues Bernstein and the Broadway There is no admission to direct BEAST (Birmingham Musical (speaker to be confirmed); charge for the talk. ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, 7.30pm: Concert; 815pm: Interval the internationally renowned Talk: Bernstein and the Ballet loudspeaker performance (Sophie Redfearn, PhD Student, system). University of Sheffield) Admission free and Tickets: £8, £5 tickets are not required. (concessions/staff), £2.50 (students/unwaged). CONCERT There is no admission charge for the talks. THURSDAY 16 DECEMBER, 7.30pm Drama Studio

THE SALON OF THE University of Sheffield Sound PRINCESSE DE POLIGNAC Studios now boast an impressive Part of the Gay Icons SOUND pool of experimental artists and programmers and provide programme – see page 01 JUNCTION numerous exciting creative TUESDAY 30 NOVEMBER, and technical educational from 6.45pm AUTUMN 2010 opportunities in state-of-the-art A programme of events facilities. This concert will see 6.45pm: Pre-Concert Talk: Parisian exploring the latest and greatest work premiered by University Salon Culture (Caroline Potter – in computerised sound. This of Sheffield Sound Studios Reader of Music, University of autumn’s programme includes composers. Kingston), 7:30pm Concert new sonic art from composers Tickets: £5, £3 Tickets: £8, £5 working at The University of (concessions/staff), (concessions/staff), Sheffield Sound Studios and £2 (students/unwaged) £2.50 (students/unwaged). talks /concerts from international There is no admission guests, who are key players in WORKSHOP charge for the talk. the development of sonic arts. FRIDAY 17 DECEMBER, 11.00am Drama Studio MARK PADMORE: TALK AND SOUNDS FROM THE BRITTEN - JAMES DASHOW (Rome) A free open workshop for PEARS CONNECTION members of the public on Part of the Gay Icons MONDAY 15 NOVEMBER, 4.10pm sound diffusion using the Sound programme, see page 01 Humanities Research Institute, Studios equipment. If you wish Gell Street, S3 7QY to take part please do contact THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER, USSS for details, via the website: from 6.45pm James Dashow has been a www.sheffield.ac.uk/usss leading figure in the development Admission free and tickets are 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk - of computer music since the not required but contact USSS Benjamin Britten's Choice of 70s and was instrumental in the in advance if you wish to attend. Texts: Valentine Cunningham development of the MUSICx (Professor of English Language series of computer music and Literature – University of languages. Oxford); 7.30pm: Concert Admission free and One of Britain’s finest tenors, tickets are not required.

Music –– 03 DEPARTMENT OF RUSH-HOUR MUSIC ENSEMBLES CONCERTS All 7.30pm in Firth Hall, Firth Court, S10 2TN. Beat the traffic, avoid the public transport rush and unwind before going home after a hard day’s work. MONDAYS 5.30pm (doors open at 5.00pm) Firth Hall, Firth Court, S10 2TN 8 NOVEMBER, Sheffield University Jazz Orchestra 15 NOVEMBER, Athalia Ensemble 22 NOVEMBER, Jessop Sinfonia 29 NOVEMBER, Chinese Music Ensemble 6 DECEMBER, Sheffield University Big Band 13 DECEMBER, SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE French Choral Music for Christmas - Sheffield University TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER Vocal Consort An exploration of late 20th century and 21st century repertoire and Tickets £2.50, and only available premieres of new compositions by student composers. to purchase on the door, and not in advance from the box offices. Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions/staff), £2 (students/unwaged)

ELGAR STRING ORCHESTRA AND SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR FREE LUNCHTIME HAYDEN: THE NELSON MASS CONCERTS TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER An alternative, informal way Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, Mozart: Serenata Notturna, K. 239, to spend part of a lunch hour. Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass). THURSDAYS 1.10pm Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions/staff), £2.50 (students/unwaged) (doors open at 12.45pm) Drama Studio, Shearwood Road 14 OCTOBER, Gary O'Shea piano SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY WIND ORCHESTRA A MASQUE FOR TODAY 21 OCTOBER, James Atashroo trumpet SATURDAY 20 NOVEMBER 28 OCTOBER, Sam Jones clarinet Kenneth Hesketh: Masque, Nigel Hess: Catskills, Gareth Widdowson: 4 NOVEMBER, Gareth Lloyd tenor SL-9, Fergal Carroll: Winter Dances, Martin Ellerby: New World Gary O'Shea piano Dances, Wouter Lenaerts: Elegia Op11, Joseph Horovitz: Bacchus 11 NOVEMBER, Sheffield on Blue Ridge. University Chamber Choir Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions/staff), £2 (students/unwaged) 18 NOVEMBER, Indian Music Concert 25 NOVEMBER, Wind Octets SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2 DECEMBER, Lucy Revis cello SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 9 DECEMBER, Julian Payne Music to include... Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs Prize Recital Concert – Deborah Finch soprano Tickets: £8, £5 (concessions/staff), £2.50 (students/unwaged) Admission is free and tickets are not required.

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MUSIC IN THE WINTER GARDEN s i c

Providing magnificent music when viewing the garden, eating your lunch, or simply just passing by. WEDNESDAY 10, 17 & 24 NOVEMBER & WEDNESDAY 1 DECEMBER Admission is free and tickets are not required. All concerts start at 12.30pm and details of programmes and performers can be found on the website at the start of the season: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts

EVENTS IN THE THE BOOTLEGGERS CHRISTMAS With US COMMON ROOM Christmas Party Night eventswithUS SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER, T: 0114 222 8999, Level 5, University House, 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm) E: [email protected] Western bank, S10 2TN T: 0114 222 8968 or Celebrate with friends at your Function rooms available to hire E: [email protected] for Christmas Party. A night of for parties, private lunches and tickets. Tickets can also be stunning harmonies rivalled only get-togethers. Call the team for purchased from the online shop by The Beach Boys. Truly an further information and to www.onlineshop.shef.ac.uk all singing, all dancing, show- check availability. stopping musical sensation. Tickets £35 per person CHRISTMAS KING PLEASURE AND THE including pre-performance meal. CARVERY LUNCHES BISCUIT BOYS PLUS MC AND DJ CHRIS POWERS THURSDAY 16 AND FRIDAY 17 DECEMBER SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER, 8.00pm £12.50, T: 0114 222 8968, Rough, tough and always rocking, E: [email protected] the legendary King Pleasure and The Biscuit Boys' zany stage show is the most authentic Rhythm & Blues band ever to SHEFFIELD come from outside the USA. CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Standard Tickets £15 (show SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER, only) in advance (£17 on the 7.30pm door); Premier Tickets £30 HIGHWAY CHILD Celebrate with friends Firth Hall, Firth Court, (including pre-performance S10 2TN meal at 7.15pm) at your Christmas Party SATURDAY 18 DECEMBER, Tickets: £10, £8 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm) (concessions, people in receipt of State Benefits, Highway Child are a seven piece students), Blues and Soul review band. £5 - Friends of the Sheffield Their extensive song catalogue Chamber Orchestra includes hits by Stevie Wonder, (membership card required) Wilson Pickett, James Brown, and young people under 18 Otis Reading, The Blues Brothers The Bootleggers Available at the door or from and many more. any member of the Sheffield Tickets £35 per person including Chamber Orchestra, pre-performance meal. T: 0114 268 7024 Further details to be updated at: www.sheffield- chamber-orchestra.org.uk

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Steven Berkoff’s combination of physical a Drama POOL (NO WATER) by Mark theatre and dark comedy attempts to unravel the web of the Justice system Ravenhill and Frantic Assembly only to find that themore you struggle, (Sheffield University Theatre the more tangled you become. Company) Tickets: Wednesday £4, Thursday - Saturday £6, concessions £5, from WEDNESDAY 20 - SATURDAY 23 the Union Box Office, Students' Union, OCTOBER, 7.30pm Western Bank, S10 2TG, T: 0114 222 ELIXIR OF LOVE by Donizetti 8676, E: [email protected] A beautiful yet disturbing dissection of www.sutco.co.uk (Sheffield City Opera) the darkest corners of human nature. WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER - When a revered artist suffers a freak accident she is left at the mercy those THE WINTER'S TALE by SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER, 7.30pm closest to her; the integrity of love William Shakespeare (Sheffield Love Italian style – wine, women, song and friendship are put on trial in this University Drama Society) and aphrodisiacs! Set in the 1950s, innovative physical piece. WEDNESDAY 17 - SATURDAY Elixir of Love is a highly enjoyable Tickets: Wednesday £4, Thursday - 20 NOVEMBER, 7.30 pm comic opera. Saturday £6, concessions £5 from Tickets: £10, £8 & £5 (Wed/Thurs); the Union Box Office, Students' Union, Violent sexual jealousy has cost King £12 (Fri/Sat) from Laraine Turner, Western Bank, S10 2TG, T: 0114 222 Leontes his marriage, his children, his T: 0114 269 4958 8676, E: [email protected] best friend, the respect of his subjects E: [email protected] www.sutco.co.uk - everything he holds dear. But time www.sheffieldcityopera.co.uk has the power to turn sorrow to joy; THE HISTORY BOYS by to offer Leontes a last chance of happiness. Shakespeare's intense OUR HOUSE – THE MADNESS Alan Bennett (Sheffield MUSICAL (Splinters Theatre study of sin and redemption. University Theatre Company) Tickets: £9 concessions £7 from Group) WEDNESDAY 27 - SATURDAY Jill Wright, T: 0114 266 9406 www.suds.shef.ac.uk TUESDAY 5 - SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER, 30 OCTOBER, 7.30pm 7.15pm. SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER, 2.15pm Set in a 1980s Sheffield grammar THE TEMPEST by William school, The History Boys follows the On Joe Casey’s 16th birthday, he Shakespeare (Sheffield plight of eight teenage boys in pursuit commits a petty crime to impress his University Theatre Company) of sex, sport and a place at Oxbridge. girlfriend. The police arrive and he is Tickets: Wednesday £4, Thursday - WEDNESDAY 24 - SATURDAY faced with two choices, stay or run. Saturday £6, concessions £5 from 27 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM The songs include Baggy Trousers, Union Box Office, Students' Union, Wings of a Dove, Our House, It Must Be Western Bank, S10 2TN, T: 0114 222 A shipwreck. A savage. Mutiny. Murder Love and many more Madness classics. 8676, E: [email protected] plots. Through a tale of oppression, Tickets: £10, concessions £9 www.sutco.co.uk revenge, anger, betrayal and bitterness, (Tues & Sat Matinee) from comes a story of love, and the human Jill Beckett, T: 0114 276 3826 capacity to reconcile after great hardship. (evenings) or 07910 251584. IMPROBABLE FICTION by Alan Tickets: Wednesday £4, Thursday - E: [email protected] Ayckbourn (Midland Players) Saturday £6, concessions £5 from the Union Box Office, Students' Union, WEDNESDAY 3 - SATURDAY MACBETH by William Western Bank, S10 2TG, T: 0114 222 6 NOVEMBER, 7.30 pm 8676, E: [email protected] Shakespeare (The Company) www.sutco.co.uk Karen and Martha are headmistresses WEDNESDAY 13 - SATURDAY of a small boarding school for girls 16 OCTOBER, 7.30pm where an allegation about the nature of RENT by Jonathan Larson their relationship leaves more than their (Sheffield University SLEEP NO MORE…Three witches reputations hanging in the balance. Performing Arts Society) foretell that Macbeth will be King of Tickets: £7 (£2 from each ticket Scotland. Driven by ambition and SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 2.30pm, donated to Yorkshire Air Ambulance), encouraged by his ruthless wife, he kills SUNDAY 12 - TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER, 7.30pm from John Stone, T: 0114 236 1186, King Duncan to realise the prophecy. E: [email protected] Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize winning However, as Macbeth claims the throne, www.midlandplayers.co.uk rock opera. A stirring score captures the he is haunted by the demons of his past spirit of a generation of struggling artists, and his fate is set. THE TRIAL by Steven Berkoff addicts, and impoverished youngsters Tickets: £7, concessions £5 from The living in the shadow of AIDS. Company Box Office, T: 0114 201 0090 (Sheffield University Theatre Tickets: £8, concessions £6. From E: [email protected] company) the Union Box Office, Students' Union, www.thecompanysheffield.co.uk WEDNESDAY 10 - SATURDAY Western Bank, S10 2TG T: 0114 222 13 NOVEMBER, 7.30pm 8777, E: [email protected] www.shef.ac.uk/union

Drama –– 07 Lectures, Seminars & An innovative art and community project based in the School of English at The University of Sheffield. It is a unique venture in British Conferences higher education. Undergraduate students and people from the city with no family background in higher education are working and studying together to produce, record, and collect stories, fragments of stories, and many other diverse representations of the lives of Sheffield people, and the ‘life’ of Sheffield. Read more at: www.storyingsheffield.com

WORLD MENTAL behind the University’s Storying HEALTH DAY – CREATIVE Sheffield project, and consider ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION whether artistic engagement presents challenges to some medical Organised by the Creative approaches to mental illness. Arts Steering Team (Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS All are welcome. Admission Free, but by ticket only from Trust with support from [email protected] Storying Sheffield www.pauldigby.me.uk SATURDAY 9 & www.storyingsheffield.com SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER Jessop West Exhibition Space A PERSONAL An exhibition of many different types GEOGRAPHY OF INJUSTICE of art, including painting and film, Daniel Dorling, Professor created by users of mental health Man by Paul Digby of Human Geography at the services in Sheffield. Admission free. University of Sheffield AN ARRANGEMENT OF SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER, STORYING LIVE! KNOWLEDGE: 7.00pm CONTEMPORARY SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER, ART PRACTICE AND The Showroom Cinema, 1.00-5.00pm MENTAL HEALTH Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre Jessop West Exhibition Space Paul Digby & Brendan Stone Daniel Dorling´s latest book `Injustice: In association with Off The Shelf TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER, Why Social Inequality Persists´ has Literature Festival and Storying 5.30-7.00pm ruffled more than a few feathers. It is Sheffield. In this event you will be Douglas Knoop Centre, an examination of the underlying helped to create a story of your life in beliefs that allow inequality to be an afternoon. You will be able to use Humanities Research Institute perpetuated. a variety of techniques and media of This event will explore the relevance your choice to tell a story from your and purpose of art in mental health In this public presentation, using film, life (or your life story). No technical services and provision. Leeds-based music, graphs, cartoons and maps, expertise is required to attend this artist Paul Digby will discuss his work the ideas within the book are event. The workshop will be led by in this field, including his projects at investigated. To do this Daniel Dorling members of the 'Storying Sheffield' Rampton Special Hospital and the has teamed up with Carl Lee who project. For more information, and former High Royds psychiatric is going to question him about his to see samples of work already hospital in Leeds. He will consider thinking and explore how this all produced see the influence on his work of the impacts upon the lives of people www.storyingsheffield.com artists Marcel Duchamp and Jean in Sheffield and beyond. Free, but booking essential via Dubuffet, and the psychiatrists R D Details and booking information can Brendan Stone T: 0114 222 8495, Laing and Eric Berne. Brendan Stone be found at www.offtheshelf.org.uk E: [email protected] from the School of English will Suitable for age group: 13yrs+ discuss the intellectual influences

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Mappin Street, S1 e A talk on letter writing by one well-respected biographers. s of the country’s most exciting Hermione Lee is the author of A talk on two of America’s new biographers. Frances several acclaimed biographies and greatest modern writers by Wilson is the prize-winning critical works, including award- one of the world’s best author of Literary Seductions, winning biographers of Willa contemporary poets. Paul The Courtesan’s Revenge, Cather, Edith Wharton and Virginia Muldoon who in 2007 was and The Ballad of Dorothy Woolf. Lee is also well-known for appointed Poetry Editor of Wordsworth. This year she is a her reviews, most recently in The The New Yorker. He has been judge for the Man Booker Prize. Guardian. Lee teaches at Oxford described by The Times “A writer's writer who will no University, where she is President Literary Supplement as doubt inspire her own cult of Wolfson College.She is currently "the most significant English- following” - Award-winning writing a biography of Penelope language poet born since biographer Amanda Foreman Fitzgerald. the second World War." Tickets: £5/£4 (concessions) Tickets: £5/£4 (cons) Tickets: £7/£5 (concessions) from: Arena Ticket Shop, from Arena Ticket Shop from Arena Ticket Shop T: 0114 256 5567 T: 0114 256 5567 Tel: 0114 256 5567

THE 8TH ROBERTS LECTURE A POETRY READING BY PAUL MULDOON ALIGNMENT, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT USING DLA PIPER AS A CASE STUDY WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER, 7.00pm MONDAY, 1 NOVEMBER, 6.00pm St George’s Church, Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank Mappin Street, S1 Sir Nigel Knowles, Joint CEO and Managing Partner of DLA Piper. Tickets: £7/£5 (concessions) Places can be booked online from Monday 11 October at: from Arena Ticket Shop www.shef.ac.uk/whatson/universitylectures/8throberts.html T: 0114 256 5567 For further information please contact Gail Street in the Events Team, E: [email protected], T: 0114 222 8893

THE FIRST SIR HANS KREBS LECTURE TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE: RHETORIC OR REALITY? Lord Krebs, Principal, Jesus College Oxford WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER, 6.00pm Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank Scientific experts and politicians agree that tackling climate change is a major and urgent challenge. The UK Climate Change Act 2008 set out how the country will respond to this challenge. Talking about it is one thing, doing it is another. Is there the political will and public support for making the radical changes that are needed? Read more and book a place at: www.shef.ac.uk/whatson/universitylectures/krebslecture2010.html

Lectures, Seminars & Conferences –– 09 SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND RELATED RESEARCH (SCHARR) INAUGURAL LECTURES All 5.15-6.00pm, followed by a wine reception. Pemberton Lecture Theatre, Second Floor, , S1 4DA Places are free, but please advise of attendance in advance. E: s.p.holmes:@sheffield.ac.uk, T: 0114 222 0741

Associate Professor Mike Kelly EVIDENCE-BASED 58th HATFIELD PUBLIC HEALTH IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD MEMORIAL Professor Liddy Goyder LECTURE WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER

There is a lot of uncertainty about STEEL – current threats to public health, such THE WINNING EDGE as climate change and new infectious Professor Peter Brown, or environmental hazards. Yet public Materials & Structures information and communication about public health risks tends to Capability Leader, MOD's emphasise “known facts” and often Defence Science and glosses over the uncertainties. How Technology Laboratory can lessons from previous public (DSTL) PUBLIC HEALTH, POLITICS, health challenges, and from other POLICY AND THE MEDIA disciplines, help us to face up to TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER, Associate Professor Mike Kelly, uncertainty and find positive ways to 6.45pm manage it better? Director, Centre for Public , Health Excellence, National Western Bank, Sheffield. Centre for Health and Clinical Professor Alicia O’Cathain Excellence (NICE) Steel, although it has given up some of its secrets, is in many WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER respects still an emerging technology as many more The lecture will consider the relationship between evidence and treasures remain to be policy and evidence and public discovered, a few of which, health practice. The implications for barring unforeseen public health practice and public circumstances, will be health research will be described. presented for the first time at this year’s Hatfield lecture. Professor Liddy Goyder Entrance is free but by ticket only register at:

EVALUATING HEALTH www.hatfield-memorial- SERVICES, WARTS AND ALL lecture.group.shef.ac.uk Professor Alicia O’Cathain Further information and an abstract can also be found WEDNESDAY, 19 JANUARY 2011 here, or contact Dr Russell Professor O’Cathain will look back Goodall, Department of on her 25 years of experience in Materials Science and health services research, reflecting Engineering, on how research methods have [email protected] evolved as research questions have become more sophisticated.

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HILL AND URBAN UTOPIA s WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER, 1.00-2.00pm Sue Illman, Illman Young Landscape Design Venue: to be confirmed Find out how the ‘ugliest building in Europe’ could have once been the symbol of a brighter future. WEDNESDAY 15 DECEMBER And what does its fate tell us Speaker to be confirmed about the city of tomorrow? Entry Free – no need to book

WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY HOLY HELMET: THE Gerard Hawley CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH AND THE BENTY Gerard Hawley, Penny Anderson Associates, will present GRANGE HELMET the Mersey Life Project, which aims to aims to realise the ecological and socio-economic potential of the rivers of Charles West, Lecturer in Medieval the Mersey Basin through a phased programme of river History, University of Sheffield restoration projects. WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER, 1.00-2.00pm

WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY What does Sheffield’s greatest A FRAMEWORK FOR GEODESIGN Dark Age relic tell us about a AND SEVERAL WAYS OF DESIGNING pivotal event in world history, Carl Steinitz, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Europe’s conversion to Christianity, and its affect on our region. Entry Free – no need to book

THE FINAL LECTURE IN THE CAMBRIAN SOCIETY CENTENARY SERIES THE FUTURE OF THE , A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by David Blunkett MP WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER, 6.30pm Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN Entrance free of charge but by ticket only. There will be an optional drinks reception immediately after the lecture at a charge of £3 per head. Tickets for the reception will be issued separately. Further information and a booking form will be made available from Wednesday 6 October at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/universitylectures/cambriansociety.html

Lectures, Seminars & Conferences –– 11 Open Days, CAREERS FAIRS Jointly organised with Sheffield Hallam University and part Exhibitions of the Yorkshire Autumn Graduate Recruitment Season. & Fairs Free entry Students and graduates from all institutions are welcome.

CAREERS THAT MAKE A BUSINESS & FINANCE FAIR DIFFERENCE ONLINE FAIR TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER, SHEFFIELD MONDAY 18 OCTOBER - 10.30am-4.00pm FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2010 The Octagon Centre, UNIVERSITY Looking for a career where you Western Bank, S10 2TN can make a real difference to FINE ART people's lives? Then take a look at our online fair ENGINEERING, SOCIETY SCIENCE & IT FAIR Turner Glass Museum, Sir Robert Online 24 hours a day: Hadfield Building, S1 3JD www.sheffieldcareersfairs.ac.uk WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER, E. [email protected] 10.30am - 4.00pm The Octagon Centre, Western PRINTS AND ETCHINGS BY Bank, S10 2TN SHEFFIELD PRINTMAKER PETER YORK

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER - TRADITIONAL HERITAGE MUSEUM 29 OCTOBER SATURDAYS 30 OCTOBER, 27 NOVEMBER 27 & 29 JANUARY, 10.30am – 4.30pm EXHIBITION OF WORK BY MEMBERS OF THE FINE Christmas Fair, 20 NOVEMBER, 10.00am - 4.00pm ART SOCIETY 605 Ecclesall Road, S11 8PR 23 NOVEMBER - 10 DECEMBER The Traditional Heritage Museum houses a fascinating and unique collection of material primarily from the period 1850-1950. For members of the general public, both adults and children, the Museum offers a kaleidoscope of varied objects and exhibits – something to interest everyone. No need to pre-book.

Sacre Coeur Gargoyle by Peter York EXECUTIVE MBA OPEN EVENING THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER, 6.30 - 8.00pm ICOSS, 219 Portobello An opportunity to hear about the content of the programme and to talk to some of our current and former students and staff. We also have information about scholarships and funding available. There is no fee and you can book online at www.emba.group.shef.ac.uk/contact/open-evenings T: 0114 222 2181 E: [email protected] Gordale Scar by Peter York

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STUDENTS’ UNION CINEMA 2, 9, 16, 23 OCTOBER; SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER u 6, 13, 20, 27 NOVEMBER 7.30pm s Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & 4, 11 DECEMBER Cubanas, Trippet lane and Sunday, 7.30 pm 2.00-3.30pm University of Sheffield Cordao de Ouro Sheffield have Students’ Union teamed up with Cubanas for Auditorium/Cinema Capoeira is a dance martial art one special night to celebrate that originates in Brazil. It fuses all things Brazilian and raise Showing this term, some acrobatics, dance movements money for charity...JOGA amazing blockbuster films and martial arts techniques. BRASIL!! Expect a large serving including: Iron Man 2, Eclipse, Music, community and fun is a of Samba rhythms, swift Inception, Four Lions, Kick Ass, big part of capoeira. Cordao de footwork and energia, energia Salt, A-Team, Green Zone and Ouro is an internationally energia!! Live percussion, Toy Story 3, as well as some recognised capoeira group and Capoeira performance from great international movies like is also the group of the Cordao de Ouro Sheffield, White Ribbon, Vincere, [Rec 2], Sheffield University Capoeira Live samba from Sheffield Girl who played with Fire, society. If you are feeling fit, or University Samba Bateria, Dogtooth, and not to mention even if you just want to come DJ Melstar all the old classics such as and watch then come and join Bring your friends, bring your Terminator, Schindler's List, the first class of the year at energy and see you there!! Alien, Die Hard, Big Lebowski Goodwin Sports Centre. It is and Hitchcock's Psycho... £3 entry Student, £5 Non- open to students from both student. All proceeds will go to something to satisfy every universities, members of the film lover! disadvantaged street children public and even kids. Complete in Brazil. Tickets all £2.20 beginners are always welcome, CRECHE TIO JOAO, Rocinha University of Sheffield come and join the fun! Favela, Rio de Janeiro, Students’ Union Box Office Pay on arrival. £4 Students www.iloverocinha.org.br T: 0114 222 8777 and children, £5 members of the public (children must be accompanied by an adult). GOLF TOURNAMENT IN AID For further information OF SHEFFIELD KIDNEY contact Chris Boyer, RESEARCH FOUNDATION [email protected] SUNDAY 10 & E: [email protected], MONDAY 11 OCTOBER T: 07843 444 248 De Vere at Oulton Hall (5 Star Hotel), Leeds Package includes 2 rounds of golf, overnight accommodation, breakfast, goody bag and golf top. Fantastic prizes and competitions for teams and individuals!! £129 per person (two people sharing). For more information and to book please contact Gerry New, T: 0114 271 5541, E: [email protected]

Miscellaneous –– 13 Procedure for booking University Facilities

Open to all gives details of Drama Studio Sports facilities events organised by The Contact: Theatre Manager, Contact: USport, University of Sheffield that are Shearwood Road, Goodwin Sports Centre, open to members of the public. tel: 0114 222 0200 tel: 0114 222 6999 Details of how to obtain tickets, together with a contact name and number, are given when Conference Office Library necessary. Every effort has been made For fully inclusive events Those people wishing to to ensure the accuracy of the packages and guidance consult materials from the information given in this leaflet, throughout the booking Library’s collections should but the University can accept no process. Please contact telephone 0114 222 7204. responsibility for any errors or the Conference Office, omissions. tel: 0114 222 8822 email: [email protected] The text of this leaflet can be supplied in larger print formats if needed. Please contact University meetings rooms Jeanette Peat, tel: 0114 222 1030, Contact: Corporate Services, email: [email protected] tel: 0114 222 9060 Support the arts through the Alumni Foundation The Alumni Foundation channels donations from alumni and friends of the University to the most deserving recipients across campus. It makes a large number of small grants to a range of projects that add life to the University, and encourages student involvement in areas such as drama, music, sport, art and culture. The Alumni Foundation can only distribute as much money as it receives in donations. It is completely reliant upon the generosity of donors. We are very grateful for their support. To support the work of the Alumni Foundation, please make a donation to the Alumni Fund. You can find out more by visiting www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni or contact Ruth Stanley on 0114 222 1075, email © Cartographic Services, University of Sheffield [email protected] © Crown Copyright reserved ED100018617 Copyright © 2010 The University of Sheffield TUOS110