Off the Sh el f

Festival of Words Sheffield

11 October - 1 November 2014

Platinum Sponsor Introduction

Welcome to the 23rd Off the Shelf Festival of Words, one of the most exciting book festivals in the UK attracting some of the best known names in literature and media. This is the word as live as it gets - no retakes, no second chances – it’s all of the moment. Savour the chance to meet the writers and thinkers who have created the books you love and immerse yourself Gold Sponsor in the flow of words and ideas. It’s our biggest ever festival, with more than 200 events including 40 with community groups from across the city. Plus some pre-festival tasters and some post-festival specials to enjoy. There is also a truly international strand with guests from Jamaica, Cuba, Sweden and the Czech Republic as well as a celebration of literature from a little closer to home with a ‘dawn to dusk’ Dylan Thomas day to mark the centenary of Wales’ greatest poet. We are grateful to all our sponsors especially Platinum Sponsor Civica and Arts Council England. We also want to thank our audiences for their fantastic support. Please join us again Silver Sponsor this year and be part of the inspirational and thought provoking adventure that is Off the Shelf. Cllr Isobel Bowler Paul Billington Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure Director Culture and Environment

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Civica Education partners with schools in Sheffield providing creative ICT solutions to support teachers in delivering transformational learning. Civica provides support services to schools in Sheffield and our team of E-Learning Consultants, all trained teachers, work with schools to integrate ICT into the curriculum to engage and excite students. Why Sponsor Sheffield’s Off the Shelf? Technology and literacy needn’t be mutually exclusive. Appropriate use of ICT can engage children whose attention is difficult to grab. Games can inspire new ideas for storytelling. Blogging can provide a new, engaging way to practice writing. Civica Education is proud to be Platinum Sponsor of Off the Shelf for the fourth year running in support of raising literacy levels.

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02 * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 03 Sat 27 Sept 10am – 3pm Q Tues 7 Oct 7pm Q How to Book Your Tickets Off the Shelf on the Road at Doncaster Arne Dahl Tickets for all events – including those at Showroom Cinema and University of Doncaster Library, Waterdale, DN1 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Sheffield Students’ Union, unless otherwise stated, can be purchased through our Admission free, no need to book Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) principal box office at SIV Tickets as well as from Sheffield Theatres Box Office and * Children under 11 years must be accompanied by City Hall Box Office. Tickets can be purchased on line, by telephone and in person. Arne Dahl is an award-winning Swedish crime an adult. novelist whose books have sold over 2.5 million Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Students’ Union Box Office can only sell A whole day of fun including a book swap, copies worldwide. The Swedish television tickets for events taking place at their own venues. Tickets for events organised by competition, quizzes and poetry to go with poets adaptations of the books aired last year on BBC community and partner organisations are available as specified with individual event Joe Kriss and Stan Skinny. Plus 10am – 12 noon Four. To the Top of the Mountain is the third book in information in the brochure make a mask or stick puppet from The Tiger Who his crime fiction series (the others are The Blinded Came to Tea Man Bad Blood Please see page 51 for full information on how to book tickets including with Fiona Mannion (for children and ), which revolves around a aged 5 – 7). And look out for Gary Bridgens with tight-knit team of elite specialists who investigate information on where booking charges apply and how you can purchase tickets his walkabout storytelling family show Trunks. the dark side of Swedish society. without incurring a booking charge. In collaboration with Doncaster Libraries Arne Dahl has won several awards, including the Please telephone 0114 273 4400 with any queries. German Crime Award and the Danish Crime Mon 6 Oct 7.30pm Q Writing Award – the only Scandinavian author to win both these prizes. Yotam Ottolenghi This year he has been shortlisted for the European The Octagon, University of Sheffield Students’ Crime Fiction Star Award alongside Ian Rankin Mon 1 Sept 7.30pm Q Off the Shelf at Festival of the Mind Union, Western Bank, S10 and Jussi Adler-Olson. Tickets £10/£8 (cons) A Taste of Sheffield Local History * In collaboration with Showroom Cinema David Mitchell One of the world’s most innovative, influential and All talks 12 noon – 1pm Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 creative chefs and food writers comes to Sheffield Tickets £10/£8 (cons) Speigel Tent, Barkers Pool, S1 * to serve up Plenty More – the hotly anticipated Tues 7 Oct 7.45pm Q Admission free. No need to book David Mitchell was described in the Independent follow-up to the bestselling and award-winning Allan Ahlberg – The Bucket as ‘one of the most brilliantly inventive writers in Thurs 18 Sept Plenty . Crucible Studio, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 this or any country’. Yotam Ottolenghi is a revered household name, Suzanne Bingham: Sheffielders on Holiday Tickets £10/£9 (cons) famous for his shops, restaurant, books, television * His multi award winning novels include Fri 19 Sept The Bucket Number9Dream , Black Swan Green and The Thousand programmes and Guardian column. In Plenty More is the enthralling childhood memoir of Ann Beedham: The Silversmith, The Autumns of Jacob de Zoet . His novel Cloud Atlas was vegetables have moved from the side dish to the one of the most successful and best-loved Suffragette and The Storyteller shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his main plate, grains re-dressed with colour and flair. children's authors in the world. Allan Ahlberg was stunning new novel is Bone Clocks . Mon 22 Sept It’s a revolution that is bold, vibrant and adopted as a baby, picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres Ray Battye: Place Names and Surnames ever-expanding. Let Yotam introduce you to kashk and dakos and Black Country. He spent an oddly enchanted Tues 23 Sept discuss his philosophy of food. This star chef childhood in an industrial town in the 1940s – a promises an evening that will inspire you in the time which lovers of Ahlberg's classic picture David Battye: Sheffield Dialect, Customs and The Baby's Catalogue Peepo! Folklore since WW2 kitchen for years to come. books and might feel they have glimpsed before. Weds 24 Sept In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union He held jobs as a gravedigger, postman and JP Bean: Charlie Peace teacher and collaborated with his wife Janet on a Thurs 25 Sept series of much-loved, now classic children's picture books including Cops and Robbers , Each Peach Pear Janet Ridler: Sheffield Cathedral Plum , Burglar Bill , Please Mrs Butler , and The Ha Fri 26 Sept Ha Bonk Book . Allan will talk about his life and his Lloyd Powell: Sheffield Castle incredible body of work. In association with Festival of the Mind In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres

Shedloads of Work: Write poetry or prose inspired by place to celebrate 100 Years of Dylan Thomas. Selected work will feature on new website www.shedloadofwork.co.uk. Deadline for submissions 10am Friday 12 September 2014. Tel 0114 273 4400 for details. In association with Eleven Design Please see page 50 for details Sponsored by Sheffield Hallam University

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 4 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 5 Mon 20 Oct A Study of Letters 1575-1611 Weds 8 Oct 6.30pm Q Thurs 9 Oct 2 – 4pm Q Doctor Graham Williams School of English. A study of familiar letters written by two Andy Kirkpatrick The Living Library aristocratic women in late Elizabethan and Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Carpenter Room, Central Lending Library, Surrey early Jacobean England. Admission free. Places must be booked. Street, S1 Admission free. Places must be booked. Tues 21 Oct Fly Photoreceptors Compute Tel 0114 273 4727 Tel. 0114 273 4727 Professor Daniel Coca Department of Britain’s first and only stand-up mountaineer! Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. Andy Kirkpatrick is an adventurer who has faced A chance to chat with ‘living books’ (people), A look at how cutting edge technology and and conquered some of the world’s hardest their stories and real life experiences of mental image processing may improve the design of climbs. His stories are inspirational and hilarious. health. Take part in discussions about issues often retinal implants. considered taboo and discover the people behind Weds 22 Oct Social Evolution Weds 8 Oct 7pm the labels. Free tea and cake served, open to all. Doctor James A R Marshall Department of Q An event for Sheffield Mental Health Week Computer Science. A look at how evolutionary Digby Jones thinking seeks to explain the adaption of Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Fri 10 Oct 7.30pm Q individuals and groups such as honey bees to Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 their environment. Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * Sheffield Dreams with John P Wilson Thurs 23 Oct Harnessing Chaos A towering figure in business and trade Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Professor James Crossley Biblical Studies. Digby Jones – previously UK Minister of State for Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * A look at what people think the bible ‘really Trade & Investment and Director General of the Wake up, pay attention! Ever been embarrassed means’ in English politics and culture since the about daydreaming? Well no longer. Research has 1960s CBI – is now a life peer and sits in the House of Lords as Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham. He is revealed that we spend almost half our waking day Ideas Alive at 5.45 Fri 24 Oct Forensics of Nuclear Fused Sand the host of the BBC series The New Troubleshooter lost in our thoughts and daydreaming is our All talks 5.45-6.45 Showroom Café/Showroom 5, Professor Neil Hyatt Department of Materials and author of Fixing Britain: the Business of natural default setting. Daydreams increase our Paternoster Row, S1.Admission free. No need Science. A talk on the forensic analysis of fused Reshaping Our Nation . An outstanding orator - hope, luck, creativity and future success. This talk to book (places subject to availability). These desert sand from the first nuclear explosion in witty, authoritative and bristling with anecdotes – will explore the science of dreaming and examine 1945 and applications for today. talks by academics from the University of and a passionate cheerleader for British Sheffield’s political, economic, sporting and Sheffield will introduce you to new ideas and Mon 27 Oct Embryo: Marvel and Puzzle manufacturing, experience Lord Digby’s unique educational dreams. John P Wilson is a lecturer in cutting edge research. Doctor Tanya Whitfield Bateson Centre and take on the importance of aspiration and socially Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Dream, Department of Biomedical Science. inclusive wealth creation. Your Life, Your Future is his first book. Mon 6 Oct Why Intoxication? This talk looks at some of the big questions in In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University Professor Phil Withington Department of developmental biology. History. Fri 10 & Sat 11 Oct 7.45pm Q A talk on how the production and Tues 28 Oct consumption of intoxicants has driven The Science of Silks Weds 8 Oct 7pm Q historical change over the last 400 years. Doctor Chris Holland Department of Forced Entertainment presents Materials, Science and Engineering. London Lives: 1690-1800 The Notebook Fri 10 Oct Monsoon Revolution: 1965-1976 A look at the history and definition of silk and Doctor Abdel Razzaq Takriti Arts and tomorrow’s high tech applications. With Professor Robert Shoemaker Crucible Studio, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Tickets £12.50/£10.50 (cons) Humanities. A fresh reading of the Arab Weds 29 Oct * Modernism and Cosmology Arundel Gate, S1 from Sheffield Theatres Box Office revolutionary tradition looking at the Dhufar Doctor Katherine Ebury School of English. revolution in Oman. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) A look at Yeats, Joyce and Beckett and how * Directed by Tim Etchells, The Notebook - Based on the book by Ágota Kristóf tells the story of twin Tues 14 Oct Democratizing Climate Governance literature might be influenced by science and London Lives is a fascinating new study exposing Doctor Hayley Stevenson Department of vice versa. the experiences of eighteenth century thieves, brothers evacuated to the Hungarian countryside during World War II. Kristof’s language provides Politics. A presentation on the question of Thurs 30 Oct Polymer Electronics paupers, rioters, prostitutes and highwaymen. whether climate change demands putting Professor Mark Geoghegan Department of It illuminates their lives revealing how they the basis for a compelling performance. Forced Entertainment’s work has been seen all over the democracy on hold for a while. Physics and Astronomy. A look at polymers and survived by playing the system to the best of their world. Weds 15 Oct Dialect in Film and Literature how they and other organic materials are being ability and how their acts of desperation had a Doctor Jane Hodson School of English. used in electronics. profound effect on that system shaping the And on Saturday 11 October 4 – 5pm, A look at Sheffield voices in film and the role Fri 31 Oct Social Realism in Film evolution of the modern state. Dr Frances Babbage from the University of dialect has played from Hard Steel (1942) to Doctor David Forrest Film Studies. Professor Robert Shoemaker is Professor of 18th Sheffield invites special guests, including Tim Four Lions (2010). A talk about Social Realism in cinema from Century History at the University of Sheffield and Etchells, to discuss the process of adaptation for Fri 17 Oct 1930s Night Mail to Shane Meadows. co-producer of the Old Bailey Proceedings: Online . the stage. Tickets for this are free, available from Propaganda and Counter-terrorism The London Mob: Violence and Doctor Emma Briant Department of His books include Sheffield Theatres Box Office. Journalism Studies. Sponsored by University Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England . Organised by Forced Entertainment An account of Anglo-American attempts to of Sheffield Public In collaboration with Museums Sheffield adapt propaganda strategies to a post-9/11 Engagement with Research In collaboration with the University of Sheffield global media environment. Public Engagement with Research Team

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 6 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 7 Sat 11 Oct 10.30am Sat 11 Oct 11am – 3pm Q Sat 11 Oct 1.30 – 4pm Q Sat 11 & Sun 12 Oct Albert Hattersley: Safecracker - with Book Swap Writing Groups Fair WROUGHT: A One-to-One Festival Michael Fowler and Giles Brearley Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 Central United Reformed Church, The Hide, Scotland Street, S3 Manor Library, Ridgeway Road, S12 Admission free. No need to book Norfolk Street ,S1 Tickets £10 for 3 one-to-one experiences Book at www.wrought.sheffield.com Admission free. Places must be booked Bring books in good condition you would like to Admission free Tel 0114 203 7805 swap and choose from the varied selection on No need to book An exciting opportunity to experience the intimate dynamic of one-to-one performance - one A talk by Michael Fowler and Giles Brearley on offer for adults and children, fiction and non- Writing groups from all over South Yorkshire With the kind support of Oxfam performer/one audience member. The first of its their book Safecracker - the true story of one of fiction. gather for a showcase and open mic. Drop in to kind in Sheffield, it brings together established Britain’s most notorious Petermen in the 1950s browse and listen. and emerging artists from all over the UK. One-to- whose exploits put him at the top of his chosen Sat 11 Oct 11am – 4pm A community event one is contemporary live art and each criminal profession. A must for fans of true crime. Independent Publishers Book Fair performance is individual and unique. Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Sat 11 Oct 2pm Organised by Wrought Festival. Supported by Sat 11 Oct 10.30am – 4pm Q Admission free. No need to book More Stuff and Nonsense Sheffield University and Sheffield Theatres Word Life Open Mic A chance to see and buy books not usually found with Matt Black Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 in your local bookshop. Sun 12 Oct 2pm Q St Aidan’s Church, 2 Manor Lane, S2 Admission free. No need to book The fair will include hand-made artists’ books, Tickets £4/£3 (cons) on the door Beyond the Book: Digital Fiction with niche publishers of poetry, fine art and An all day celebration of writing and reading. Let local poet Matt Black delight you with his Kate Pullinger We’ll kick off with local poetry film screenings photography along with a programme of talks, entertaining poems for all ages, before sharing Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 from 10.30am, followed by a young writers’ open workshops and readings. your favourite poem with him. Admission free. Book at Showroom Box Office mic from 11.30am – 1pm. From 1 – 4pm there’ll A community event A community event be an open mic for all writers of prose and poetry Over the past decade new hybrid forms of with some special guests. To book an open mic slot Word Life and Now Then Present... literature have begun to emerge as writers and email: [email protected] or for a Sat 11 Oct 7pm Q artists experiment with digital technologies. young writers slot email Tweet from the Street Kate Pullinger will discuss her award-winning [email protected] Whilst you’re in town Every Saturday from Do No Harm with Henry Marsh digital projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths as watch out for outdoor entertainer Gary Bridgens 11th October to 1st November Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, well as her WWI Centenary participatory project, with his roving walkabout show Trunks - family Howard Street, S1 Letter to an Unknown Soldier . friendly songs, tales, wordplay and slapstick. 11th October – Winter Garden, Surrey Street, Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * Part of the Reading Digital Fiction project at 10:30am – 4pm Henry Marsh is one of the country’s top Sheffield Hallam University and Bangor Sat 11 Oct 11am Q 18th October – Showroom Cinema, neurosurgeons and knows what it is really like to University. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Paternoster Row, 12 – 5pm be a brain surgeon, to drill down into the stuff Research Council (AHRC) that creates thought, feeling and reason. The Poisoner with Stephen Bates 25th October – Theatre Delicatessen Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 (Old Woolworths), 17 – 19 The Moor, He talks about the agonising human dilemmas Sun 12 Oct 7.30pm Q Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * 11am – 4pm behind each operation, the limitations of Telling Tales with Patience Agbabi In 1856 a baying crowd gathered to watch the medicine, the mysteries of the brain and the need 1st November – University of Sheffield The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ execution of a village doctor from Staffordshire. for hope in the face of life’s most difficult Students’ Union, Western Bank 11am – 4pm Union, Western Bank, S1 Described by Charles Dickens as “The greatest decisions. Tickets £6/£5 villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey” This year Word Life will be holding a series Do No Harm * is an astonishingly candid insight into Event guidance: 16 years to adult (adult content) Dr William Palmer was convicted of murdering his of public interventions to help promote Off the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon. Telling Tales best friend, but suspected of poisoning more than The Shelf Festival of Words to new In , Patience Agbabi retells Chaucer's In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University The Canterbury Tales a dozen others including his family. With original audiences. for the 21st century. From research including undiscovered letters and new Every Saturday throughout the Festival they The Miller's Tale to The Wife of Bath's, she evokes forensic evidence, Stephen Bates presents an will be bringing a pop-up stall to the above Sat 11 Oct 7pm the performance and wordplay elements of the astonishing look at Palmer’s life and crimes and locations. work. Agbabi is the author of three collections, The Poisoner: Broomspring Writers Group: Bloodshot Monochrome, Transformatrix and R.A.W. , explores the very psyche of a killer. Expect to find live Twitter feeds with writing The Life and Times of Victorian England’s Most and a former Poet Laureate of Canterbury. Her prompts, some one-off workshops and Clear Water writing Notorious Doctor poems have appeared on radio and TV around the is more than a true crime story performances and a few surprises along the Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 world. The event is part of the Telling Tales Tour and biography – it is a great Gothic Victorian way, including commissioned artists making Tickets £2 on the door and is in association with renaissance one. melodrama. work on the spot. Lively writing read by members of an established Stephen Bates is a journalist and author. His books You can see the Twitter feed at the events or and ambitious writers group. Poetry, short stories ‘The liveliest versions of Chaucer you're likely to read’ include God’s Own Country: Religion and Politics in tweet us at any time at @otsfestival and and novel extracts with an international flavour. Simon Armitage In collaboration with University of Sheffield the USA . @wordlifeuk A community event In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Students’ Union * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 8 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 9 Mon 13 Oct 7pm Q Mon 13 Oct 7.30pm Q A Runner’s Journey with Richard Askwith Lorna Goodison, Jim Caruth, Jenny King Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Tickets £7.50/£5.50 (cons) * Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * Richard Askwith is a runner who is tired of signing Poetic voices from Jamaica and Sheffield… up for marathons, buying expensive kit, and the Lorna Goodison was born and grew up in Jamaica. commercialisation of running. But he isn’t tired of A winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, her running for the sheer fun of it. Running Free is work is renowned for its fusion of Caribbean about getting back to the basics of why we love to history and personal experience, exploring run. Richard writes inspiringly about running Jamaican migrant experiences and dialects through the seasons and making the most of your through sensuous language. She will read from surroundings. He offers tips on how to start her work including new collection Oracabessa . running and reminds those who already do of how to run for the sheer joy of it. Richard Askwith is Jim Caruth lives in Sheffield, where he is a prime News Editor for the Independent . His cult book mover behind the Sheffield Poetry Festival. He has about fell-running, Feet in the Clouds , won Best published four collections, including the prize New Writer at the British Sports Book Awards, and winning The Death of Narrative . Sun 12 Oct 7.30pm Q Mon 13 Oct 6.30pm Q the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Jenny King is a Sheffield writer, well-known for the Is Childhood Being Exploited? A Debate Bad Times for the Good Book? In collaboration with Showroom Cinema popular Sticky Bun readings. Her poems have won with Oliver James, Jim Wild, Agnes Nairn Carpenter Room; Central Library, many prizes. Her new Smith/Doorstop pamphlet Surrey Street, S1 Mon 13 Oct 7.30pm is launched tonight. In association with The Poetry Business and Brendan Stone Admission free The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Fiction Slam Places must be booked Bank Street Arts, 32 - 40 Bank Street, S1 Union, Western Bank, S10. Tickets £5 Tues 14 Oct 7pm * Tel 0114 273 4727 Tickets £3 on the door * One of the most pertinent topics of modern times Got a novel to pitch? Join in Sheffield's annual Mimi Khalvati and Togara Muzanenhamo is the exploitation of our children and the demise The Bible is the world's bestselling book. While Fiction Slam for your chance to be crowned of childhood. This debate explores the key issues public figures lament decline in biblical Graves Art Gallery, Central Library, Fiction Slam champion 2014. For more details Surrey Street, S1 with some leading authorities in this field. knowledge, popular culture from fashion to hip contact [email protected] Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Oliver James is known for his frequent hop is saturated with biblical themes and imagery. * Graves Art Gallery’s exhibition this autumn is broadcasting appearances and numerous Is biblical literacy really in decline and if so, Mon 13 Oct 7.30pm Picture the Poet from the National Portrait Gallery bestselling books. He will explore issues of hyper- should we care? Authors Dr Katie Edwards and Q featuring 54 of the UK’s most acclaimed living consumerism and the psychological impact of Rev Dr Rob Marshall debate the issue. Cities That Shaped the Ancient World poets. constant targeting of children and young people. with John Julius Norwich To celebrate, Off the Shelf is delighted to host an Dr Agnes Nairn is Professor of Marketing at world- The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Student’s evening with one of the featured poets – Mimi leading EM-Lyon Business School in France. She Union, Western Bank, S10 Khalvati plus leading African poet Togara researches, writes and consults on areas related to Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) ethics, children and marketing. * Muzanenhamo. An illuminating tour of forty of the greatest cities Jim Wild is the editor of Exploiting Childhood and a Mimi Khalvati is a prominent figure on the that shaped the ancient world and civilizations and child protection specialist who lives in Sheffield. London poetry scene and co-founder of The which in turn have shaped our own. Including the Professor Brendan Stone from the University of Poetry School. Her poems experiment with formal earliest cities such as Ur and Babylon to Troy, Sheffield will chair the debate. techniques including the Ghazal, an ancient Thebes, Rome and Aksum, commercial centres in In collaboration with University of Sheffield Persian form. She will read from her work Asia and the Mesoamerican and Peruvian cultures Student’s Union including new collection The Weather Wheel , a in the Americas. This illustrated talk is an inspired moving elegy following the death of the poet’s look at the culture, history, archaeology and art of mother. Mon 13 Oct 2pm some of the most iconic ancient cities. Togara Muzanenhamo is a leading contemporary John Julius Norwich is the author of numerous Knickers: A Brief History African poet whose work is critically acclaimed. He books, including histories of Norman Sicily, Crystal Peaks Library, 1 – 3 Peak Square, S20 will be reading his poetry including some from Venice, Byzantium and the Mediterranean. He Admission free. Places must be booked new collection Gumiguru inspired by rural life in also edited The Great Cities in History . Tel 0114 293 0612 Zimbabwe. Janet Stain has been collecting vintage fashion for In collaboration with University In collaboration with Museums Sheffield over twenty years. In this informative and amusing of Sheffield Student’s Union talk she delves into the history of the humble Sponsored by Hospitality knicker. Sheffield – Silver Sponsor * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 10 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 11 Tues 14 Oct 7pm Q Weds 15 Oct 6pm Q Secrets of the National Archives Meet the Author Emma Jane Unsworth with Richard Taylor Carpenter Room, Central Lending Library, Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Surrey Street, S1. Admission free Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * Places must be booked. Tel 0114 273 4727 With unprecedented access to the National Emma Jane Unsworth’s highly acclaimed Animals Archives Richard Taylor reveals an extraordinary has been described as “Withnail with girls”. It is a collection of documents that helped shape the funny and honest portrayal of friendship and asks world we know today. what happens when society expects you to grow up Each document has a timeless quality, acting as a when that’s the last thing you want to do? true testament to a moment in history. From the Magna Carta to the actual telegram sent from the Weds 15 Oct 6.30pm sinking Titanic, this fascinating talk explores the Meet the Author – M.P. Wright stories behind the letters and documents of our Patience Agbabi past. Sheffield Archives will display some of the Biography Room; Central Lending Library, documentary treasures that they hold - the original Surrey Street, S1. Admission free charter for Sheffield to be a market town; letters Places must be booked. Tel 0114 273 4727 Weds 15 Oct 7.15pm Weds 15 Oct 7.30pm Q from Mary Queen of Scots and Charles I and Heartman by M.P. Wright is a crime debut set in Hear Their Footsteps John Lydon many more. This is a rare opportunity to explore the 1960s. The television rights have been bought King Edward VII School, Glossop Road, S10 The Octagon, University of Sheffield Students’ the secrets of our local as well as our national and this event introduces a new crime writing star. Admission free. No need to book Union, Western Bank, S10. Tickets £10/£8 (cons) * archives. Richard Taylor is the author of the Always outspoken, controversial and heartfelt, bestselling book How to Read A Church . An illustrated talk by John Cornwell, author of In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Weds 15 Oct 7pm Q Hear their Footsteps , about King Edward VII School John Lydon looks back on an extraordinary life in during the 1914 – 18 war, their 92 dead and the a memoir full of surprises, humour and emotion. Sponsored by Singing from the Floor – A History of former pupils who returned from the front. As Johnny Rotten he lead the Sex Pistols to DLA Piper British Folk Clubs A community event spearhead a generation of young people across the with J P Bean and John Tams world clamouring for change, later reinventing Weds 15 Oct 7.15pm himself to front PiL and explore a vast range of Tues 14 Oct 7.30pm Q Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Q musical styles through his solo career. His book, Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse Anger is an Energy tells of a life full of incident Ivan Cooper – An Accidental Pilgrimage Celebrated historian and writer JP Bean talks Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 from a sickly childhood in post-war London to his about his new book Singing from the Floor - the Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Tickets £7/£5 (cons) status as an alternative national hero and one of * entertaining story of the British Folk Revival. * the most recognizable icons in the annals of music Travel writer Ivan Cooper will read from his book Tel 0114 266 0434 or on the door The book charts the revival’s improvised history. Tibet: An Accidental Pilgrimage . Sponsored by University of Sheffield Students’ beginnings and its links to political activism, Author Carol Dyhouse looks at the history of Union Ivan's account of his journey through remote and through the heyday of the 60s and 70s to the young women from the flappers of the 1920s to barely-visited regions of Tibet offers an insight into current resurgence of interest in folk. Richard Courtney Love in the 1990s. She shows that girls Gold Sponsor a culture incredibly different from our own. Ivan Hawley brought the work to the attention of have been a staple of mass media hysteria and will also use travel literature to introduce some of Editor-at-Large at Faber & Faber - Jarvis Cocker - blame culture for more than a century. A Community event the earliest-recorded encounters between Tibet who made it his first acquisition. and the West. JP Bean is well known for his many books The Sheffield Gang Wars Weds 15 Oct 7.30pm Weds 15 Oct 6pm including . John Tams is an actor, songwriter, composer and musician. He has Where a creative writing MA can lead… Poetry Review Autumn Issue Launch played with many folk bands including Muckram Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Tamper, Sellers Wheel, 149 Arundel Street, S1 Wakes and Albion Band and is the musical Admission free. No need to book Admission free. No need to book director of Warhorse . In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Bestselling and prize winning graduates of Join Maurice Riordan, Editor of Poetry Review at Sheffield Hallam’s Creative Writing MA read their the launch of the brand-new autumn issue, with work and share their individual journey post MA. guest readers Jacob Polley, Danica Ognjenovic Additional community events are A community event and Katharine Towers. Jacob Polley’s The Havocs listed on the website was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Katharine Towers’s The Floating Man won the Seamus Heaney www.offtheshelf.org.uk Centre Prize for Poetry. Featuring academic experts from Sheffield Hallam University. In association with Sheffield Hallam University * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 12 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 13 Weds 15 Oct 7.30pm Q Thurs 16 Oct 6pm Q Iva Pekárková – Crossing Borders 101 Legendary Whiskies You’re Coffee Revolution, University of Sheffield Dying to Try But (Probably) Never Will Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £3 * with Ian Buxton Level 12, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam Iva Pekárková was born in Prague but in 1985 she University, Howard Street, S1 defected via Yugoslavia to Italy, Austria and Boston Tickets £9/£7 USA as a refugee. Her novels include Kulatý svt * (The World Is Round) . The latest book in leading whisky writer Ian Buxton’s ‘ 101 Whiskies …’series introduces some of Her novel Dej mi ty prachy (Gimme the Money) the rarest, finest whiskies on the planet. These describes her experiences as a cab driver and has drams are the Ferraris of whisky, beyond the reach been translated from Czech to German and of all but the most fortunate. English. Whether the world’s oldest or most expensive, Ian Iva will be in conversation with Ludek Knittl ^ Buxton unlocks these liquid treasures - what makes Ian Buxton discussing her life, writing and her experiences as them so special and so desirable and meets the a refugee and crossing borders. people who make, sell or preserve them. The Supported by University of Sheffield Arts Thurs 16 Oct 7pm Thurs 16 Oct 7.30pm event will include a tasting! Q Enterprise and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Ian Buxton is a former Marketing Director of Women Make Noise - A Discussion Faber New Poets Glenmorangie, a member of the tasting panel for Coffee Revolution, University of Sheffield The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Weds 15 Oct 7.30pm the World Whisky awards and a Liveryman of the Students' Union, Western Bank, S10 Union, Western Bank, S1 Worshipful Company of Distillers. Admission free. No need to book Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University The History of Bank Street LaDIYfest Sheffield hosts a panel discussion on This lively event showcases the talents of the best with Dr Karen Harvey and John Clark women’s experiences of music culture with Julia in the next generation of poets with readings from Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Thurs 16 Oct 7pm Q Downes, editor of Women Make Noise and other the recipients of the Faber New Poets 2013 – 14 Rachel Allen, Will Burns, Zaffar Kunial Admission free. No need to book The Valley with Richard Benson special guests. Followed by an evening of DJs and scheme; dancing at Harrison’s Bar. and Declan Ryan . For three years, Dr Karen Harvey from the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 A community event Faber New Poets supports emerging talents at an University of Sheffield has been Academic in Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * early stage in their careers offering guidance and Residence at Bank Street Arts. Best-selling author Richard Benson talks about his encouragement. Rachael Allen is the online and The Valley Thurs 16 Oct 7.30pm Q Starting with her own research into Georgian new book, , the story of four generations poetry editor for Granta, co-editor of poetry domestic life, she has looked into the history of of his mother’s family in a Dearne Valley mining What the **** is Normal?! anthology series Clinic and online journal Tender. the buildings on that street and collaborated with community. Set 30 years on from the Miners’ with Francesca Martinez Will Burns was a musician and is Poet-In- the artists and writers working there including Strike of 1984, this is an epic history of 92 years in The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Residence at Caught By The River and Festival Bank Street Arts founder John Clark. a South Yorkshire mining community, combining Union, Western Bank, S1 No.6. Zaffar Kunial has just become the 2014 The History portrayals of social injustice with a true life family Karen and John will discuss the book Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence. Declan Ryan of Bank Street – Past and Present with contributions saga. * co-edits the Days of Roses anthology series and is a Francesca Martinez was diagnosed with cerebal from artists. Richard Benson is the author of bestseller, poetry editor at Ambit . palsy when she was two but had little regard for it In association with the University of Sheffield The Farm , which was shortlisted for the Guardian Faber & Faber in association with Arts Council until she started high school and the attitude to First Book Award and was a Richard and Judy England her ‘disability’ completely knocked her book club choice. He is also a contributing editor In collaboration with University of Sheffield confidence. Salvation came from Grange Hill , a Thurs 16 Oct 2pm at Esquire magazine. Students’ Union The RSPB and Conservation in the In collaboration with Showroom Cinema stand-up comedy workshop and a love affair. Francesca realised she had the power to stop Thurs 16 Oct 8pm Dearne Valley judging herself by society’s unhealthy standards Thurs 16 Oct 7pm Q Chapeltown Library, Nether Ley Avenue, S35 and create her own and she has gone on to have a Too High, Too Far, Too Soon Admission free successful career as one of the UK’s most brilliant Opposing War: What the **** is Normal?! An evening with Simon Mason Places must be booked comedians. is a funny, Courage and Conscience The Green Room, 150 - 154 Devonshire Street, S3 Tel 0114 203 7000 moving celebration of learning to be happy with Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 who you are and a call-to-arms against the media Tickets £4 available from eventbrite A representative from the RSPB will be talking Admission free. No need to book bombardment of what is perceived as ‘normal’. Simon Mason graphically details his misadventures about habitat conservation, species success stories, during Britpop as personal chemist to the biggest the development of local nature reserves and Old Poems, songs and stories about local people who ‘Francesca doesn’t want to be ‘an inspiration, but she bands of the 90’s before he descended into a Moor which has developed as a family nature refused to fight in both World Wars performed by BLOODY WELL IS!...’ Jo Brand helpless period of heroin addiction. reserve. their descendants. In collaboration with University of Sheffield A community event Students’ Union A community event * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 14 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 15 Fri 17 Oct 8pm Q Sat 18 Oct 1pm Q Sabine Durrant, Fergus McNeill, Asian Festival Poems Kate Rhodes Norfolk Heritage Park, Guildford Avenue, S2 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Admission free. No need to book Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * Write and recite poems from South Asia’s diverse A breathtakingly-tense psychological thriller from culture and history. Please join us and bring your the author of highly praised Under Your Skin . poems. This event organised by Bengali Women’s Sabine Durrant’s portrayal of the mind of a Support Group. sociopath is disturbingly real in her gripping new A community event book Remember Me This Way . This murder story has a satisfyingly unexpected ending. Sat 18 Oct 2pm Q What if someone wished their life was more like Writing Motherhood yours? Exactly like yours. And what if they lived Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 upstairs? Fergus McNeill’s new unputdownable Tickets £5/£4 (cons) crime novel is Cut Out featuring Detective * Inspector Harland. Creepy and compelling this is "There is no more sombre enemy of good art,' said Fri 17 Oct 1pm Q Fri 17 Oct 7.30pm Q a darker shade of noir that should keep you awake Cyril Connolly, “than the pram in the hallway." This long after bedtime…Fergus McNeill is the author specially curated event, funded by Arts Council Bits and Pieces How to Read a Cathedral of Eye Contact and Knife Edge . As well as writing England and featuring three contemporary The Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind, with Richard Taylor crime novels, he has been creating computer writers, considers the truth of this statement. How 5 Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, S1 games since the early eighties, writing his first does motherhood affect a writer's work? Can Admission free. No need to book Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) interactive fiction titles while still at school. creativity survive an extended period of sleep * deprivation...? A reading of Bits and Pieces by The Mappin Writers. Please note the walk around the Cathedral will The Winter Foundlings is the third novel from Kate From prose and poetry to short stories, this is a involve steps Rhodes. The book is a new take on the genre and Writers Liz Fraser, Rowan Coleman and varied selection with something for everyone. The Cathedral is Sheffield’s oldest building, the follows a female criminal psychiatrist working in Carolyn Jess Cooke discuss how motherhood has A community event ancient heart of a great city, where God has been London. “A terrific new heroine on the block” Woman affected their writing, and perform newly worshipped for over 1,000 years. and Home. commissioned work. Fri 17 Oct 2 – 3.30pm Q Richard Taylor takes us on a walk around the Hosted by the Ecclesall Crime Readers Group Liz Fraser writes and broadcasts on all aspects of Tim Lynch – Finding Uncle Harold Cathedral and tells us how to read the building – family life and has a column in Essentials the significance of its layout, importance of details Sat 18 Oct 1pm Q magazine. Carolyn Jess-Cooke is an award-winning Ecclesall Library, Ecclesall Road south, S11 such as colours, the identity of people and scenes, writer whose novel The Boy Who Could See Demons Admission free. Places must be booked images and symbolism. This is a fascinating guide H is for Hawk with Helen Macdonald has recently been optioned by Hollywood. Tel 0114 203 7222 to the history, meanings and messages of this Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Rowan Coleman has written more than ten novels Harold Wiseman was just 18 years old when he was beautiful building and its treasures. Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons)/talk and film £14/£9.60 for women including Woman Walks into a Bar as an (cons) /film only £8/£5.80 (cons) killed in action in 1918. He lies in an unmarked Richard Taylor is an author, broadcaster and * ebook. grave in France, his military records lost to the lawyer. His book How to Read a Church has sold From the age of seven Helen Macdonald was Blitz of 1940. Tim Lynch is a military historian over 100,000 copies and been translated into five determined to become a falconer. When her Sat 18 Oct 2pm Q who set out to discover and tell the story of his languages He is the writer and presenter of the father died she became obsessed with the idea of great uncle's war. BBC series Churches: How to Read Them . training her own goshawk. Words & Wonders with Anne Beedham In collaboration with Sheffield Cathedral She bought Mabel, filled the freezer with hawk Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, S10 Fri 17 Oct 7.30pm Q food and unplugged the phone, ready to embark Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * on the business training this wildest of animals. An illustrated talk on how the 'Wonders of the The Voice of the Great War Poets H is for Off the Shelfie Destined to be a classic of nature writing, Peak' have attracted tourists for centuries inspiring Hawk Freeman College, 88 Arundel Street, S1 Celebrate this year’s festival with your own is a record of a spiritual journey - an account them to verse or literature. Some waxed lyrical Tickets £3 available from Off the Shelf ‘Selfie’. of a struggle with grief, a book about memory and about their experience, others were not too [email protected] or on the door Send us your imaginative and creative Off the nature. impressed! Gervase of Tilbury in the 13th century From early idealism through to disillusion to a Shelfie featuring you with a favourite book, it Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, was one of the first, sparking a legend about Peak deeper understanding of war. could be an all-time classic or whatever is historian and affiliate at the Department of Cavern. exciting you at the moment. The best images History and Philosophy of Science at the Poetry and prose presented by Richard Other esteemed literary visitors include Daniel will be shared via Twitter, Facebook and our University of Cambridge. Her books include Ramsbotham, actor, director and writer. Linked Defoe, Byron, Wordsworth and Conan Doyle. website and a winner and runner-up will receive Falcon and Shaler’s Fish . After the talk why not with talks Who started the Great War? and Ideas signed books from the 2014 festival line up. Their writings give us a glimpse of how the Peak watch Ken Loach’s classic film Kes . for a New Europe, on 18 and 19 Oct - see Off the Send your Off the Shelfie to District was for tourists in the past. sings Shelf website for more details. [email protected] ‘It just . I couldn’t stop reading.’ Mark Haddon. In collaboration with Museums Sheffield A community event In collaboration with Showroom Cinema * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 16 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 17 Sun 19 Oct 7.30pm Q Mon 20 Oct 7pm Q Viv Groskop - I Laughed, I Cried Bill Bevan – Walk into the Dark Ages How One Woman Took on Stand-Up and Woodseats Library, Chesterfield Road, S8 Admission free. Places must be booked (Almost) Ruined Her Life Tel 0114 293 0411 The Foundry, University of Sheffield Student’s Union, Western Bank, S10 Author, photographer and archaeologist Bill Bevan, travelled across Britain and Ireland to Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * produce his two latest beautifully illustrated books, Viv was fed up and pushing forty. She always the critically acclaimed Walk Into Prehistory and wanted to be a comedian. But surely that’s not latest Walk Into the Dark Ages . Both blend superb advisable if you have a mortgage, children and a photography, vivid writing and a passion for husband who’s not a fan of stand-up? With no walking to bring alive ancient monuments and time to waste, Viv attempts the mother of all landscapes. comedy marathons: 100 gigs in 100 nights. Sometimes the audience laughs. Often they don’t. Along the way she is heckled, flattered, hated, hit Mon 20 Oct 7.30pm Q Sat 18 Oct 2pm Sun 19 Oct 2pm Q on and told that she is “not as funny as Miranda.” Paul Merton in Conversation Described by Jo Brand as “brilliant”, this is is a Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 Cranks and Revolutions: the Sheffield Women at Work in laugh-out loud, inspirational memoir about having Tickets £11/£9 (cons) * Campaigning Pen of Paul Warrender World War One with Sylvia Dunkley the guts to find out what you were really meant to Known for his intelligent, often surreal humour, Walkley Community Centre, 7a Fir Street, S6 Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, S10 do with your life. Viv will be performing the stand Paul Merton’s weekly appearances on BBC1’s Have Admission free. No need to book Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * up show based on the book which played at the I Got News For You – as well as Radio 4’s Just A Thousands of women worked as nurses or in the Edinburgh Festival. Minute have seen him become an artfully The Book Launch of Cranks and Revolutions In collaboration with the University of Sheffield munitions industry, others worked as tram rebellious fixture in our lives for over 25 years. celebrating 40 years of Paul Warrender’s graphic Students’ Union art work for environmental and community groups conductors, in laboratories, and other jobs women He also has a real story to tell. In Only When I A community event had never done before. For some it was an escape Laugh in Sheffield. Sun 19 Oct 8pm , his beautifully-observed autobiography, from the low pay and isolation of domestic service Paul takes us on an evocative journey from his Sat 18 Oct 7.30pm Q and the confines of home life. Despite opposition, The Shattered Stars: working-class Fulham childhood to the present their willingness to learn skills and work long day. Ultimately uplifting, it is the story of a Michael Laskey and Matthew Sweeney hours was eventually acknowledged. This talk, Two Poems by Chris Jones fascinating life, brilliantly told. richly illustrated with archive images, looks at The Shakespeare, 146 – 148 Gibraltar Street, S3 Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Sheffield women at work during WWI. Tickets £3 on the door In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Sponsored by The Star A double bill of fine contemporary poetry. A performance of poetry sequences by Chris Death and the Gallant Michael Laskey is one of Britain's best-loved poets Jones. explores Pre- Gold Sponsor Jigs and Reels and Founder of the Aldeburgh Festival. Warm and Sun 19 Oct 2pm Q Reformation wall art while harnesses insightful, his books have won many prizes and his Private Island – The Privatisation the energy of folk tunes. new collection Weighing the Present is launched The spoken word will be accompanied by visuals tonight. Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal. of the Nation with James Meek by Paul Evans, soundscapes by Brian Lewis and Arundel Room, Millenium Gallery, His entertaining and sometimes disturbing books music by Emma Bolland. Arundel Gate, S1 have won numerous awards. He is launching a new A community event Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Poetry Business pamphlet Twenty One Men and also * reading from a classic back-catalogue. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews Mon 20 Oct 10.30am In collaboration with The Poetry Business of the British economy— rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing—have been sold to A-Z of Sheffield Sun 19 Oct 10am remote, unaccountable private owners. In a series of brilliant portraits James Meek shows how with Mike Spick Firth Park Library, 443 Firth Park Road, S5 Remember, Remember Britain’s common wealth became private, and the Park Community Centre, 4 Samson Street, S2 impact it has had on us all. Urgent, powerfully Admission free Admission free. No need to book written and deeply moving, Private Island is a Places must be booked Tel 0114 203 7433 Please bring a poem to read in any language on passionate anatomy of the state of the nation. the National Poetry Day topic ‘Remember’. Then James Meek is a Contributing Editor of the London An exploration of the history and geography of Debjani Chatterjee will lead a short poetry writing Review of Books and author of six novels including the city of Sheffield in 26 parts arranged in workshop. Organised by Sahitya Press and The People’s Act of Love , which won the Ondaatje alphabetical order. The places, buildings, events Scrawling Pacers to celebrate National Poetry Prize and Scottish Arts Council Award. and people from the past, that have shaped the Month. A community event In collaboration with Museums Sheffield city. * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 18 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 19 s s e n r Tues 21 Oct 7.30pm Weds 22 Oct 4pm u Q Q F - h c n i The Knowledge – How to Rebuild our Popular fiction in World War One W

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u Norfolk Building, Room 210, Howard Street, a World from Scratch with Lewis Dartnell P © The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, S1 Union, Western Bank, S10 Admission free Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * To book Tel 0114 225 4003 What if the world as we know it has ended through Talks and discussion on popular fiction published an asteroid hit, a nuclear war or mass avian flu? during World War One including novels by How would we set about rebuilding our world Patrick MacGill, Elizabeth von Armin and from scratch? The Knowledge is a guidebook for Berta Ruck. survivors. We have become disconnected not only There will also be an opportunity to visit Sheffield from science and technology but even from the Hallam University's special collection of popular basic skills and knowledge on which our lives and fiction published 1900 - 1950. world depend. The Knowledge is a journey of Organised by Sheffield Hallam University Tim Anderson discovery, a blueprint for rebooting civilisation. It will transform your understanding of the world – Weds 22 Oct 5.30pm Q Tues 21 Oct 2.30pm Tues 21 Oct 7pm Q and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here. Lewis Dartnell is a UK Space Agency research Patrick McGuinness Interfaith in Fiction – Ongoing Dialogue John Lahr fellow at the University of Leicester, in the field of Stoddart Building, Sheffield Hallam University, Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane, S11 Tennessee Williams; A Biography astrobiology and the search for signs of life on Arundel Gate, S1. Admission free Mars. He has won several awards for his science Book at www.shu.ac.uk/events/ Admission free. To book e-mail Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 [email protected] Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons)/talk and film £14/£9.60 writing, and contributes to the Guardian, The corporate-events/forthcoming Donations welcome (cons)/film only £8/£5.80 (cons) Times and New Scientist. Patrick McGuinness talks about his new book * ‘Useful if civilization collapses, and entertaining if it Other People’s Countries Members of four faiths or world views present a Tennessee Williams was one of the most important a memoir and meditation work of fiction relevant to their belief. doesn't’ S. M. Stirling on memory, lyrical, rich in stories and characters, playwrights of the 20th century. His work In collaboration with University of Sheffield The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar a fresh look at how we grow up and make sense of Plus an opportunity for questions and discussion. including and Students’ Union Please bring the details of a book relevant to your named Desire ushered in 'a revolution’ in American the world. belief. Refreshments served. theatre. John Lahr’s insightful biography considers The book evolved out of stories Patrick told his A community event the man and his work including his breakdown in Tues 21 Oct 7.30pm Q children about the Belgian town of Bouillon 1935; his depression; his turbulent struggle with Sheffield’s Stories of War where his mother came from, a town of eccentrics, Tues 21 Oct Demo 6pm Dinner 7pm Q his sexuality; and the family tragedy of his sister The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ of charm, menace, wonder and humour. Rose, victim to one of the first lobotomies Union, 6 Paternoster Row, S1 Patrick McGuinness is the author of The Last Japanese Themed Dinner with performed in America. Admission free. No need to book Hundred Days which was longlisted for the 2011 Tim Anderson Theatre critic for The New Yorker for 20 years, To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First Man Booker Prize and two collections of poems. Organised by Sheffield Hallam University’s MA The Sheffield College, Castle Centre, John Lahr is the author of, among many plays and World War we invite submissions of stories looking Prick up your Ears Writing Granville Road, S2 biographies, , the biography of at the effect of war on Sheffield – the city and its Tickets £25 includes food demo, three course Joe Orton, which was made into a film. The estate people. Selected stories will be published in the meal and coffee (drinks not included) * of Tennessee Williams chose John Lahr to write Autumn anthology of Sheffield Stories. Please Weds 22 Oct 6pm Q the Wisconsin-born Tim Anderson was the winner of definitive biography of Tennessee Williams . submit your stories to [email protected] by 1 Oct MasterChef in 2011. Interested in Japanese cuisine After the talk,why not enjoy a screening of the or just come along on the night for an evening of Matthew Parker – Goldeneye Ecclesall Library, Ecclesall Road South, S11 from an early age, he is now the proprietor and Tennessee Williams film classic Cat On a Hot Tin powerful stories. executive chef of the pop-up restaurant Nanban. Roof? A community event Admission free. Places must be booked ‘Nanban’ is what the Japanese originally called In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Tel 0114 203 7222 Europeans, when they first arrived in the south of Weds 22 Oct 2pm Q Japan and the food here is still flavoured by its Meet the Author - Stephen May All of the James Bond novels were written at history of foreign influences. Tim’s book Nanban: Goldeneye; Ian Fleming’s Jamaican home. Crystal Peaks Library, 1 – 3 Peak Square, S20 Japanese Soul Food reveals a cuisine that is both Based on his acclaimed book Matthew Parker Admission free. Places must be booked accessible and delicious from dumplings and fiery delivers an illustrated talk on Fleming’s Jamaica, Tel 0114 293 0612 curries to rich-and-rustic ramen. exploring the spirit of the island, the jet set party Life! Death! Prizes! Join Tim as he demos one of the dishes from his Stephen May’s second novel was scene and its influence on fiction’s most famous shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. His new spy. exquisite book followed by a specially themed Wake Up Happy Every Day Japanese meal created by Sheffield College novel, , explores the students using Tim’s delicious recipes. consequences of your dreams actually coming true. In collaboration with The Sheffield College * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 20 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 21 Weds 22 Oct 6.30pm Weds 22 Oct 7pm Weds 22 Oct 7.30pm Q Thurs 23 Oct 2pm Q Meet the Author – Jonathan Lee M.I. High to Waterloo Road: Children’s Victor Rodríguez Nunez and Alan Yates Write On Hillsborough Library, Middlewood Road, S6 Scriptwriting with Keith Brumpton The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ The Art Space, Crystal Peaks Library, 1 – 3 Peak Admission free Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Union, Western Bank S10. Square, S20. Admission free No need to book Places must be booked Tel 0114 203 9529 Tickets £7/£5 (cons/members) Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Glass Mountain Writers at the Art Space present The Radio , Jonathan’s first novel, was runner up www.childrenswritersnorth.co.uk or Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, poet, journalist, critic, poetry, prose and song with special guest for The Novel Prize 2012 and his second, The Page [email protected] translator and academic, is one of Cuba’s most Sally Goldsmith. has just been published. Keith Brumpton is the creator of hit BBC show noteworthy contemporary writers. Author of A community event Come and hear him tell his story, talk about his M.I. High and writer of Waterloo Road and eighteen collections of poetry, many of which have work and offer advice on creative writing and 64 Zoo Lane , amongst others. He gives valuable appeared in translation, and recipient of many Thurs 23 Oct 7pm Q getting published. insights into writing scripts for children. literary awards and prizes, he is also an A community event accomplished translator. Explore Everything – Place-Hacking the Weds 22 Oct 7pm Q He will be reading from his work including the City with Bradley L Garrett Weds 22 Oct 7.30pm Q rich and sensuous collections Thaw and Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Howard Jacobson The Infinite’s Ash and the work will be translated so Arundel Gate, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Viv Albertine * Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 you can enjoy the words in two languages. What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Alan Yates is emeritus professor of Catalan at explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished * Union, Western Bank, S10 Celebrated writer and broadcaster Howard Sheffield University and the translator of Els sots skyscrapers high above the metropolis? _ Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) feréstecs/Dark Vales Jacobson discusses his new novel, J. Set in a future * (1901), a remarkable piece of Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a _ where the past is a dangerous country J is a After forming The Flowers of Romance with fiction published in fin-de siècle Catalonia. place for endless adventure. From London to Los strange, terrifying and tender love story, as original Sid Vicious in 1976, Viv Albertine joined The Slits Alan will talk about the translation process and Angeles Bradley L.Garrett has tested the and thought provoking as Nineteen Eighty Four or and made musical history as one of the first challenges of capturing the style and mood of the boundaries of urban security in order to Brave New World . Jacobson’s previous books generation of punk bands who changed music and novelist for a contemporary English reader. experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. Clothes, Clothes, include The Mighty Walzer , winner of the Bollinger the discourse around it, forever. In association with Arc Publications He calls it “place hacking”: the recoding of secret, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Kalooki Nights , tells In collaboration with University of Sheffield hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and The the story of what it was like to be a girl at the Students’ Union realms of opportunity. Finkler Question , winner of the Man Booker Prize. height of punk: the sex, the drugs, the guys, the The book is also a manifesto, combining tours. A regular Independent columnist Jacobson has also Weds 22 Oct 8pm Q philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights written and presented several television This highly acclaimed memoir is an unflinching to the city and how to understand the twenty-first- programmes including the critically-acclaimed account of a life lived on the frontiers of Abbeydale Writers’ Anthology Launch century metropolis. Channel 4 series, The Bible: A History and experience, by a true pioneer. with Stephen May Bradley L. Garrett is a writer, photographer, In collaboration with University of Sheffield Rebels of Oz for the BBC. Harland Cafe, John Street S2 anthropologist, archaeologist and urban explorer Students’ Union In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Tickets £3 including Anthology On the door photographing off-limits urban spaces in the UK, Europe and America. His exploits have been Abbeydale Writers launch their latest anthology featured in GQ Magazine , the Guardian , the Red with guest author Stephen May, who will read from Wake Up Happy Every Day Bulletin , and on TV and radio around the world. his novel . In collaboration with Museums Sheffield A community event * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 22 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 23 Fri 24 Oct 2pm Fri 24 Oct 6pm Old Handsworth with Sandra Gillott Book Launch with Craig Booker Darnall Library, Britannia Road, S9 Theatre Delicatessen (Old Woolworths) Admission free. 17 – 19 The Moor, S1 Places must be booked Tel 0114 203 7429 Admission free. No need to book Delivered by the Chair of the Handsworth Local author Craig Booker grew up in Ecclesfield Historical Society, this illustrated talk explores the and wrote his first novel when he was only 14. Handsworth of days gone by. Since then he’s tried his hand at horror and murder mysteries but his main literary obsession Fri 24 Oct 3pm Q has always been the fantasy genre. Now Knox Robinson have signed him up to publish a fantasy Martyn Johnson series, The Albion Chronicles . The first of these, What's Tha Up To This Time? Nick Hawthorne and the Banefires of Autumn , was published in 2014 with crossover worlds, magick, Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 flawed heroes, some of the nastier creatures from Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * folklore – and a fifteen year old protagonist totally What's Tha Up To This Thurs 23 Oct 7pm Q Thurs 23 Oct 7.30pm Q Martyn Johnson's book, out of his depth! Time? continues his wonderful stories about With the kind support of Theatre Delicatessen Rachel Joyce Where Do Camels Belong? policing during the 1960s and 1970s from What's Tha Up to? What's Tha Up to Nah? Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 With Doctor Ken Thompson and Written Fri 24 Oct 7pm Q Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) from the heart, the book has genuine feeling for * The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ the people, places and history of Sheffield. Writer and playwright Rachel Joyce is the author Union, Western Bank, S10 Book Buddies The Unlikely Pilgrimage of the worldwide bestseller Tickets £6/£5 (cons) From suspicious scrapyards and second-hand Coffee Revolution, University of Sheffield of Harold Fry . As the 2 million plus readers of the * shops, burglars and pickpockets, Martyn takes you Student’s Union, Western Bank, S10 book will know this funny and moving tale Introduced species generally get a bad press: they on a journey through an almost lost world of Admission free. No need to book featured one Queenie Hennessy – the dying friend run rampant through our ecosystems, costing crime and local characters. billions to control each year and are accused of Love books? Love talking about books? Here’s Harold makes his ‘pilgrimage’ for. Rachel’s new Martyn Johnson was born at Darfield, near your chance to enjoy tea (and cake if you will) and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy driving native species extinct. Alien species are novel is – Barnsley, the son of a coal miner. He joined the some stimulating conversation with other telling Queenie’s side of the story and sure to often cited as one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Sheffield City Police Force where he served as a enthusiastic readers. Bring your favourite tome delight Rachel’s many fans. Hear her talk about and your zest for literature and make some new Where Do Camels Belong? The Story and ‘beat bobby’ at Attercliffe as well as a two-year spell her work and ideas. However, in in CID. Martyn is passionate about local history. book buddies! In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Science of Invasive Species , plant biologist Ken Thompson argues that most alien species – Sponsored by Thurs 23 Oct 7.30pm Q even some topping the eco-horror lists – cause Fri 24 Oct 5pm Q Coffee Revolution little or no lasting damage and aren't worth the Ancient Philosophy in Today’s World Simon Armitage effort or money we devote to controlling them. The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Hicks Building, University of Sheffield Fri 24 Oct 7pm Q This fascinating illustrated talk takes a wry, Union, Western Bank, S10 Hounsfield Road, S3 Football Stories with Steven Kay Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * sideways look at British attitudes to alien species. Admission free. No need to book In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Award-winning poet, novelist and playwright Ancient Greece and early China, developing in and Matthew Bell Simon Armitage talks about the challenges of In collaboration with the University of Sheffield virtual isolation, can be seen as representing the U-Mix Centre, 17 Asline Road, S2 writing poetry for The Not Dead: Forgotten Heroes Public Engagement with Research Team origins of the ‘West’ and the ‘East’. Tickets £2 on the door/free if you are bring some writing to share television documentary, originally aired on Find out why cross-cultural comparisons of the Channel 4, and his new BBC commission of seven Fri 24 Oct 2pm ancient worlds matter in the modern world. Plus Share your stories of why football is important in poems for The Great War: An Elegy . Simon practice writing your favourite quotations from life: football memories, favourite matches, will be reading poems, showing film clips and will The History of the Afternoon Tea despairs, triumphs, real life stories, poems, a Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Road, S36 Aristotle and Xunzi in Chinese. be in conversation with Dr. Jo Gavins from A community event favourite piece of football writing... Local author Sheffield University in an event that is part of the Admission free Steven will talk about his novel The Evergreen in festival’s commemoration of the anniversary of Places must be booked Tel 0114 273 4205 Red and White about the first Romani professional World War 1 . Simon Armitage has published ten Afternoon tea is a quintessentially English idea but Rab Howell. Kid Seeing Stars volumes of poetry including and . where did it come from and how did it develop? Matthew will read from his work and talk about FA He has received numerous awards for his poetry Meryl White, author of Grandma Abson’s cup winner Jimmy Revill who died in action in including a CBE for Services to Poetry. He is Traditional Baking, explores these questions and WW1. Please e-mail story submissions to: Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. describes just what makes the perfect afternoon [email protected] or bring them along. In collaboration with University of Sheffield tea. A community event Students’ Union * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 24 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 25 Sat 25 Oct 10am -10pm Sat 25 Oct 2pm Sun 26 Oct 2pm Q Sun 26 Oct 7.30pm Q Together in Electric Dreams Reading Sheffield Celebratory Event A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives The Football Cronicas with Jethro Soutar Carpenter Room, Central Lending Library, with David Stuttard The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ - Sci Fi Day Surrey Street, S1. Admission free Union, Western Bank S10 Venues to be confirmed - Tel 0114 273 4400 Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Places must be booked. Tel 0114 273 4727 Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Tickets £15 advance, £20 door (workshop £5) Arundel Gate, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * * The Football Crónicas http://scifiday.eventbrite.co.uk * The Reading Sheffield Project has been exploring David Stuttard takes an original approach to showcases fifteen pieces of memories about reading, favourite books and short-form writing that take football as their A one-day mission of exploration, looking at Greek history by weaving the lives of the movers libraries. Join us as we celebrate Reading Sheffield. starting point (a prison team in Argentina, a the relationship between science fiction and shakers of the Greek world into a narrative, transvestite team in Colombia, a kidnapped team literature, film and music. The event is from the early tyrant rulers, through the stirrings in Bolivia...), on a journey to the heart of Latin packed with talks, screenings, music and Sat 25 Oct 7pm Q of democracy under Cleisthenes to the rise of American society. workshops culminating in a Blade Runner Macedon under Alexander the Great and the party. Alan Johnson – Please Mr Postman eventual decline of the empire. The book is not-for-profit (proceeds will be Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, donated to The Bottletop Foundation) and the Sessions include: From Scribe to Screen – Some names will be familiar – Socrates, Pericles Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 and Aristotle – and by focusing on the individual book’s publication was financed via crowdfunding. what are the most (and least?) successful Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) adaptations of science fiction literature to * lives of philosophers, rulers, scientists and artists, Join book editor, publisher and translator film? including discussing the work of Philip One of Britain’s best loved public figures delivers he brings them all vividly to life. Jethro Soutar, and translator Ruth Clarke - another fascinating chapter in his life story. In David Stuttard is a classicist and dramatist who has Sheffielders both - to discuss all things literary, K Dick, Ray Bradbury, Walter Tevis. Please Mr Postman - the sequel to Sunday Times written many books on ancient culture including Latin American and football, as well as the art of Soundtracking Sci-Fi – How great music has This Boy best seller – Alan Johnson continues his AD 410: the Year that Shook Rome and 31BC Antony, translation and how to set up a small publisher. enhanced the sci-fi experience on the big memoirs as an 18 year old husband, father and Cleopatra and the Fall of Eygpt In collaboration with University of Sheffield screen and how sci-fi literature and film has postman in 70s Slough. In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Students’ Union influenced musicians. With honesty, humour and genuine emotion Screenings of Sci Fi adaptations. Johnson evokes a very different Britain as he Sun 26 Oct 2.30 & 4.30pm Mon 27 Oct 2pm Q Dr Who writer Daniel Blythe leads a writing journeys into the union and the start of his workshop for young people aged 12 - 15. political career. Later to become a longstanding The Sheffield Poor - A Promenade Days of Sun and Rain www.sensoria.org.uk MP for Hull and three times secretary of state, Performance by Loose Theatre Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 Tickets £3 on the door In association with Sensoria Alan Johnson has recently won two literary awards General Cemetery, The Gatehouse, - the Orwell Prize and the Ondaatje prize. Cemetery Avenue, S11 An illustrated talk about the Sheffield Clarion In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University Tickets £7/£5 (cons) * Ramblers during the 1920s and 30s given by local Suitable for adults and children aged 8 years and published author Anne Beedham. Refreshments Sat 25 Oct 7.30pm Q over. Children must be accompanied by an adult. provided. A community event Dan Walker No dogs except for guide dogs Life for the Sheffield poor was hard, and harder The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Mon 27 Oct 7pm Q Union, Western Bank S10. still for children especially those orphaned or Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * abandoned in the workhouse. Centuries of Change Sat 25 Oct 2pm It was while commentating on a Goal of the Children could be bought for as little as £2 and set with Ian Mortimer Month competition that Dan Walker uttered the to work in the mines as a trapper or a grinder in The Funniest Philosopher in China the cutlery industry or a chimney sweep. Loose Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 immortal line: 'What a strike from Mike Sheron - what Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Bartolome House, School of Law, Winter Street, a thronker!' He'd coined the term to describe a Theatre present one of their popular ‘ghost walks’ * S3. Admission free. No need to book long-range shot that blasted into the net, bringing to life some of the true stories of Each of the last ten centuries has seen seismic changes that have altered human life forever. But Is philosophy hard to grasp? Not when we ‘meet’ threatening to annihilate any passing pigeon. Sheffield in the early 19th Century. which century saw the most change? Did railways Zhuangzi a Taoist philosopher who lived over Since then he has been trying to get the word affect us more than the discovery that the Earth 2,000 years ago in ancient China. accepted - if not by the OED then at least by Sun 26 Oct 3pm Countdown . Hence this book has become a rotates around the Sun? Has space travel changed Discover his fascinating stories that carry messages Broomhall Heritage Walk - our lives more than clocks or guns? Sweeping from on how to live and what choices to make and write Thronkersaurus, a book of hilarious stories of the great and not-so-great moments in footballing Walking in Our Writers’ Footsteps 1,000AD to the turn of the millennium, down some of his thoughts in Chinese. Centuries of Change is a brilliantly researched history. A wonderful collection of sporting trivia Meet at Broomhall Centre, Broomspring Lane, S10 A community event guidebook to help us understand the past. and curiosities, inspired by Dan Walker's own Admission free. Places must be booked experiences on Football Focus . Tel 07810 162146 Ian Mortimer is inspirational in his ability to immerse us in history’s daily reality. Dan Walker is the presenter of BBC1's Saturday Join our walk focusing on local writers, past and Time Traveller’s lunchtime show Football Focus and presents the present, discovered in our research. Refreshments His books include the best-selling Guides to Medieval Elizabethan England afternoon show on Radio 5 Live. He lives in provided after walk. and . Sheffield. A community event In collaboration with Showroom Cinema * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 26 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 27 Mon 27 Oct 7pm Q Mon 27 Oct 7.30pm Q Tues 28 Oct 7pm Q Tues 28 Oct 7.30pm Q Happy Birthday Dylan Thomas How to be Well Read How to Change Minds Berlie Doherty and Carys Bray A Dramatic Presentation by Colin Pinney with John Sutherland with Doctor Tom Stafford Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 and Poetry with John Lindley The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Followed by an Open Mic Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * Two novelists discuss their work which has Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Is it true that “you can’t tell anybody anything”? religious themes. Berlie Doherty is a novelist, poet, The Greystones Pub, Greystones Road, S11 * From pub arguments to ideology-driven party playwright and screenwriter. She is perhaps best Tickets £5 John Sutherland offers his personal guide to the * political disputes, Tom Stafford has investigated known for her work for children for which she has Under Milk Wood best 500 books ever written along with a Dylan Thomas, author of , was compelling defence of why they matter. As the tide the psychological science of persuasion by rational twice won the Carnegie Medal and has written one of Wales’ greatest writers . This presentation by over 30 books including Dear Nobody and Granny of published novels grows ever greater, it’s a hard argument. Tom tells you how to most effectively was a Buffer Girl Colin Pinney gives a picture of the author’s erratic job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the change someone's mind and why evolution might . She has also written novels for career and his final struggle to complete his chaff. have designed our thinking to work best in groups adults, plays for theatre and radio and television “eternally infernally unfinished play” . series. She will be talking about her recently Luckily, John Sutherland is on hand to do that for rather than on our own. Then prize winning poet John Lindley will read a re-published novel for adults, Requiem, set in the you. Selected novels include The Golden Ass , Tom Stafford is a lecturer in Psychology and selection of his poetry inspired by Dylan Thomas. strictly Catholic world of a convent school. Goldfinger , The Handmaid’s Tale , Hangover Square , Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield. John Lindley has read at the Ledbury Poetry A Song for Issy Bradley is the incredible debut novel Jane Eyre and Jaws . There are imposing Victorian He writes columns on the psychology of everyday Festival, the Buxton and Edinburgh Fringe by prize-winning writer Carys Bray telling the story novels, entertaining contemporary thrillers, spy life for the BBC and The Conversation. He is the Festivals and at The Dylan Thomas Birthplace of a family of Lancashire Mormons whose novels and romance. author of several books including the best-selling Festival of Words. His ninth and latest collection is Mind Hacks measured existence is shattered by the death of Dylan Thomas: Embers & Sparks John Sutherland is the author of Is Heathcliffe a . . In collaboration with Showroom Cinema their youngest daughter. Profoundly moving, Murderer? He is editor of the Oxford Companion courageous and beautifully written the book has The evening will finish with a Dylan Thomas In collaboration with the University of Sheffield to Popular Fiction and Professor of Modern had rave reviews and marks the appearance of a inspired Open Mic. This event takes place on the Public Engagement with Research Team actual birthday of Dylan Thomas - 100 years to the English Literature at University College London. strikingly original new voice in fiction. day. Please bring a poem to read inspired by the “Remarkably informative and quirky” Mark Lawson, 'I don’t remember the last time a book moved me to birthday boy. Front Row Tues 28 Oct 7.30pm Q tears… ’Jenni Murray In collaboration with University of Sheffield Julian Cope Students’ Union Mon 27 Oct 7pm The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Tues 28 Oct 7.30pm Q The Bare Project presents Union, Western Bank, S10 Mon 27 Oct 7.30pm Tickets £8/£6.50 Speakeasy Slam Who Killed Dylan Thomas? * The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ Visionary musician, antiquarian and musicologist Theatre Delicatessen, (Old Woolworths), The Angels of Mons and Other Legends Union, 6 Paternoster Row, S1 Julian Cope reads from his novel One Three One – 17 – 19 The Moor, S1 of the First World War Admission free. No need to book For tickets www.thebareproject.me a riotous plunge into a mind-expanding collision with Doctor David Clarke of time travel, who-dunnit and road movie The big Speakeasy event of the season. Step through the doors of an empty shop and into Contestants will have a 5 minute performance slot The Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 hurtling up and down Sardinia's only highway, the a magical, Thomas-inspired murder mystery. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) 131. and the winner (by audience vote) will receive A warren of abandoned rooms becomes the scene * their 2014 Speakeasy Slam Trophy. 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of WWI Cope’s work with The Teardrop Explodes and as a of a horrible crime left untold and undiscovered, A community event and the birth of the most enduring legend of that solo artist marks him has one of British music's until now. ‘ Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, conflict, The Angels of Mons. The ferocity of the great innovators and his writing is no less exciting rage against the dying of the light...’ Tues 28 Oct 8pm battle and fear of early defeat encouraged an and ground-breaking. The Bare Project is a Sheffield based theatre interest in the supernatural. “So many novelists try to get into rock stars' heads. You It’s Not You. I Just Need Space. company, focused on new writing, immersive An inspiring story emerged of warrior angels that won't know how badly they fail till you read this. (interplanetary letters of love and theatre and participatory arts. Reading Cope is like running with Shakespeare at a A community event appeared to save British troops from the German onslaught in Belgium. The legend became part of rave.” DBC Pierre rejection) the folk memory of the war and encouraged those In collaboration with University of Sheffield A Comedy Show by Chella Quint who believed the Allies had divine support on the Students’ Union The Leadmill, 6 Leadmill Road, S1 battlefield. Tickets £5/£4 (cons) from www.theleadmill.com This illustrated talk by Sheffield Hallam University Suitable for adults and 16 years and over journalism lecturer David Clarke launches his new An out of this world night of comedy, space news book Britain’s X-traordinary Files with contributions and all the flying saucers you can eat. This show by story-teller Simon Heywood. has been supported by a grant from the institute Part of a series of public lectures organised by of physics. Sheffield Hallam University Humanities Research A community event Centre to mark the centenary of WW1

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 28 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 29 Weds 29 Oct 6.30pm Weds 29 Oct 7pm Q Book Quiz Plumdog with Emma Chichester Clark Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, S1 £5 per team of five. Places must be booked Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Tel 0114 273 4727 Since 2012, author and illustrator Emma Can you emerge victorious in our battle of the Chichester Clark has been delighting thousands of book lovers? Test your passion and knowledge followers with her blog Plumdog, which records against other reading groups, workplaces and the day to day life of Plum, her dog, in Plum’s own bibliophiles. Drinks and snacks are provided and words and Emma’s charming illustrations. prizes can be won. Now Plum’s best pages have been published in book form. Join Emma as she talks about her work Weds 29 Oct 7pm Q as an illustrator and her dog’s diary that will bring cries of delighted recognition from anyone who Farmageddon – the True Cost of Cheap has ever owned a dog and, dare one say it, charm Meat with Philip Lymbery the pants off even those who strongly prefer cats. Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Emma Chichester Clark is one of Britain’s best Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * loved children’s authors and illustrators. She is the Weds 29 Oct 7.30pm Q Weds 29 Oct 7.30pm Q Blue Kangaroo Farmageddon is an eye opening examination of the author of the immensely popular The Possibilities Are Endless (Certificate TBC) Alex Through the Looking Glass series and many other books, and has illustrated quiet revolution of mega-farming that is The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ books by Roald Dahl, Kevin Crossley-Holland, with Alex Bellos threatening our countryside, farms and food. Union, Western Bank, S10 Peter Dickinson and Michael Morpurgo. The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Acclaimed campaigner Philip Lymbery and the Tickets £7/£5 (cons) Sunday Times ’ Political Editor Isabel Oakenshott In collaboration with Museums Sheffield * Union, Western Bank S10 travelled the Globe on an investigative journey The celebrated musician and lyricist Edwyn Collins Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) * behind the closed doors of a runaway industry Weds 29 Oct 7.30pm Q could only say two phrases after experiencing a Alex Bellos is the Guardian’s maths-blogger and from the UK to China, USA to Mexico. Supported stroke, one of which was ‘the Possibilities are Endless’ . the bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures in by shocking statistics, Farmageddon reveals the Next Generation Poets This incredible documentary film starring and Numberland , which was shortlisted for the BBC human cost of mega-farming and is both a wake- The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ with an original score by Collins, places us inside Samuel Johnson Prize. His marvellous new book up call to change our current food production Union, Western Bank, S10 Edwyn’s mind. We embark on a remarkable about modern mathematics will take you (yes, and eating practices and an attempt to find a way Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * journey from the brink of death back to language, even those who are maths phobic) on a journey of music, life and love. More than a story of to a better farming future. The Poetry Book Society presents two poets from mathematical discovery that will have you hooked determination against all odds, it is a life-affirming Next Generation Poets 2014, a major promotion on numbers. Alex shows how numbers have Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading tale of rediscovery. international farm animal welfare organization, of the 20 most exciting new poets who have changed the world and that maths can be human, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent published their first collection in the last decade. The music journalist Simon Goddard, who quirky and fun. He will also reveal the world’s commentator on the effects of industrial farming. The poets will be reading with a young newcomer. directed and designed the promo video for Edwyn favourite number! New Generation Poets established a movement in Collins' single If You Could Love Me in 1995 will ‘This eye-opening book, urging a massive rethink of how ‘The thinking person’s mathematician…This is no 1994 and in 2004 helped bring to prominence the introduce the film and also talk about his recent we raise livestock and how we feed the world, deserves Simply Thrilled - The Preposterous Story of ordinary maths book’ The Times. next group of rising poets. Find out in September book In collaboration with University of Sheffield global recognition’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Postcard Records . In collaboration with Showroom Cinema who the poets will be who will take the limelight in Students’ Union the next ten years. More information from In association with Sensoria Sat 1 Nov & Sun 2 Nov www.nextgenerationpoets.com In collaboration with University of Sheffield Thurs 30 Oct 12 noon – 2pm Q In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union Out of this World Students’ Union Business Bites – Self-publishing Across the City Centre Workstation, Paternoster Row, S1 Admission free. Suitable for all ages Weds 29 Oct 7.30pm Q Admission free. Booking Children must be accompanied by an adult Writing for Everyone [email protected] This spectacular weekend will celebrate all Tel 0114 279 6511 things out of the ordinary. From Sci-Fi, comic Harland Café, John Street, S2 Tickets £2.50 on the door Millicent and Alice Murdoch began their self- book and fantasy to aliens, Halloween and publishing journey last year, releasing their debut horror, from magic and illusion to heroes and WEA writers from Liz Cashdan’s three different children’s picture book, The Snowflake Twins . They villains – the weekend is jam packed with groups launch new anthologies. You might be are now working on developing this into a series, events, activities and the chance to dress up as inspired to join a WEA class and write yourself! with a further two books scheduled for release in your favourite character. A community event October 2014. Find out about their experience of For more details visit www.sheffield.gov.uk/out self-publishing. of this world Organised by Showroom Cinema * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 30 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 31 Thurs 30 Oct 7pm Q Thurs 30 Oct 7.30pm Q Sheffield Conversation Club presents Alan Jay Learner: A Lyricist’s Letters the DEWA Project with Doctor Dominic McHugh Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, S1 Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 Admission free. Suggested donation of £5 Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Poets from DEWA (Development and A documentary biography of the lyricist of some of Empowerment for Women’s Advancement) which the most popular musicals of all time including grew from the Women’s Voices Project, will read My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Paint Your Wagon . Lerner from their fund of poetry and the publication also wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for Different Cultures One World Women’s Voices from An American In Paris and collaborated with many South Yorkshire. DEWA will be supported by of the greatest composers of the 20th century such readings and conversation from members of as Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sheffield Conversation Club. Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Weill. The book A community event brings together correspondence with all these Julian Cope major figures as well as many other well -known Thurs 30 Oct 7.30pm personalities including Julie Andrews, Katharine Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Fri 31 Oct 2pm Q Sat 1 Nov 2pm Q Helen Mort meets The Writing Squad Richard Burton. Desiree Reynolds A Fine Brother: The Life of Theatre Delicatessen, (Woolworths Building), Dr Dominic McHugh is a lecturer in the 15 – 19 The Moor, S1 Department of Music University of Sheffield. He is Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Captain Flora Sandes with Louise Miller Tickets £5/£4 (cons) Admission free. No need to book the author of Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair * Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, S10 Helen Mort is an award winning Sheffield poet. Lady Sheffield-based writer, Desiree Reynolds talks Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Division Street Seduce * Her collection was shortlisted for In collaboration with the University of Sheffield about , her ambitious debut novel set in the The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the T.S Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize. The Public Engagement with Research Team Caribbean, full of twists and surprises and a host the First World War, Englishwoman Flora Sandes youngest ever Poet in Residence at the of unforgettable characters. became a heroine and a media sensation when she Wordsworth Trust, she has been appointed the Told in a compelling literary patois which is poetic fought for the Serbian Army and pursued a new Derbyshire Poet Laureate. and slyly funny Seduce has powerful things to say distinguished career in its ranks. The Writing Squad is the north’s development about religion, race, class and the struggle This account charts her incredible story: her programme for emerging young writers, nurturing Dyslexic and Loving Words – between men and women. tomboyish childhood in Victorian England, her talent through workshops, mentoring and creative Watch and Tweet Desiree Reynolds started her writing career in mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and her projects. London as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica For Off the Shelf 2013 we worked with writer military enrolment, celebrity lecture tours, Gleaner and the Village Voice. She has since A trio of dynamic writers from the Writing Squad – Vicky Morris to make and premiere the marriage to a fellow officer, her survival in a written film scripts, poetry and short stories. A James Giddings, Andy Owen Cook and documentary – Dyslexic and Loving Words. Gestapo prison during the Second World War and teacher, broadcaster and DJ, Desiree is working on Sarah Fletcher share their work. Plus Open Mic Through interviews with successful wordsmiths, final years in Suffolk. a collection of short stories. with your chance to perform. the film highlights how it’s possible to overcome An inspiration to women the world over, Flora With the kind support of Theatre Delicatatessen In collaboration with Showroom Cinema dyslexic challenges if you have a passion for Sandes is restored to her rightful place in history words. by this biography, compiled with the help of her Thurs 30 Oct 7.30pm Q You can now watch the film on Dyslexia Action’s Sat 1 Nov 11am Q family and using previously unpublished private Lost Sheffield – An Illustrated Talk by YouTube channel at www.tinyurl.com/growords. James Montgomery – papers and photographs. During the festival we’d love to know your In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Peter Machin thoughts (via the Twitter hashtag #GroWords) A Man for All People Central United Reformed Church, on anything explored in the film or about your Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, S1 Sat 1 Nov 4pm 60 Norfolk Street, S1. Tickets £6/£5 (cons) Admission free. No need to book * own experiences with words. Spiritual Inspiration in Writing Step back in time with a visual 'walk' through the “Fascinating and moving.” Sir Ken Robinson, Discover Victorian poet, hymn-writer and radical Hindu Samaj Cultural Centre, centre of the city from a unique collection of late Author & Educationalist James Montgomery’s legacy to Sheffield through Victorian lantern slides. an afternoon of music, drama, talks and poetry. 21 Buckenham Street, Burngreave, S4 A community event Admission free. No need to book This is Sheffield as your great grandparents would have known it. Peter Machin is a local historian Award-winning Hindu writer Debjani Chatterjee and the author of Lost Sheffield. will discuss spiritual inspiration in her writing and read from a few of her collections of stories and poems. A community event

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 32 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 33 Sat 1 Nov Q Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith offering DnA are an acclaimed mother-and-daughter duo Sat 1 Nov 7pm Yorkshire takes on Dylan in song, poetry, script from Swansea, Wales who enjoy international To Begin, at the Beginning… and story. Lunch must be booked by Sat 25 Oct reputations for their harp and fiddle music, both Off the Shelf Party A Dylan Thomas Day – from Dawn to – call 0114 273 4716. Cost £7 food only - no traditional and new. They were nominated for Queens Social Club, 4 Queens Road, S2 Tickets £5 on the door Dusk (and the following morning) . drinks included. Welsh album of the year in 2014. * Tickets see individual events Special Deal (SD) 1.30 – 4pm Off the Shelf Party 8pm to late featuring Welsh Please join us at the Off the Shelf closing party of four events marked SP £20/£18 (cons) performance poet Rhian Edwards – see opposite. featuring South Yorkshire’s biggest poetry slam - * Under Milk Wood: The Film and the next morning... a live poetry competition judged by randomly Join us in a day long centenary celebration of Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 selected members of the audience. the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Tickets £8/£5.80 (cons) SD Sun 2 Nov 11am – 12 noon * Also featuring acclaimed poet Hollie McNish It includes a writing workshop, film, discussion, “Conceive these images in air...” A rare chance to see Under Milk Wood, the 1972 whose poems Mathematics and Embarrassed stand at Welsh music and of course poetry. You can buy British film on the big screen. The film directed Dylan Thomas and the Visual Arts - over 3 million views online. Live music comes for one session or a package. We hope To Begin by Andrew Sinclair, based on the 1954 radio play with David Alston courtesy of Sheffield’s loudest and dirtiest blues at the Beginning …will give an insight into the by Thomas, stars legendary cinema icons Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 outfit, Mudcats Blues Trio. Plus Welsh poet genius of this inspiring poet’s life and work. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) Rhian Edwards. Rhian’s first collection Clueless Shedloads of Work * Dawn – O’Toole followed by Q&A with Andrew Sinclair. Off the Shelf’s daylong (and more) celebration Dogs won Wales Book of the Year 2013. She is also Dylan’s work was imbued with a strong sense of 4.30 – 6pm of Dylan Thomas ends with a talk by David the current winner of the John Tripp Award for place. Our digital writing project goes live at Alston, Arts Director of the Arts Council of Wales, Spoken Poetry. dawn. We asked writers to show the places that Understanding Dylan Thomas: A Symposium on exploring visual imagery connected to the poet’s Hosted by Word Life and Opus Independents inspire them. See where they write and enjoy the work of Dylan Thomas imagination. It looks at images that stimulated their work at with Chris Wigginton, John Goodby and www.shedloadsofwork.com Thomas from Surrealism to Old Masters and the Sun 2 Nov 2pm Q Charles Mundye Hubs, Sheffield Hallam pages ripped from Picture Post he had pinned to University Students’ Union, Paternoster Row, S1 10am – 12 noon the walls of his writing shed. Plus a showing of a The Ark Before Noah Tickets £5/£4 (cons) SD To Begin at the Beginning: a Creative Writing * war-time short, scripted by Dylan Thomas and with Irving Finkel A symposium focussing on the breadth of filmed in Sheffield. Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Workshop with John Milne Thomas’s work – from poetry, films, short stories Jackson Room, 1st Floor, Central Lending After the talk why not enjoy a Welsh brunch in Arundel Gate, S1 and drama – through the analysis, discussion and Library, Surrey Street, S1 Tickets £5/£4 (cons) the Showroom, to end at the ending... Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * examination of specific examples from the range * Sponsored by Sheffield You will develop the beginnings (and possibly of Thomas’s writing. Led by Chris Wigginton, British Museum expert Irving Finkel reveals how endings) of a short story or a script - forms Deputy Dean and Professor at Sheffield Hallam Hallam University decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of frequently used by Dylan Thomas. Please bring a University. Chris has written a study on Dylan Gold Sponsor clay enabled a radical new interpretation of the small object or souvenir which is significant to Thomas and modernism and shares a platform story of Noah’s Ark. you and evokes a particular sense of place or with Sheffield Hallam University lecturer Charles A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel’s your local culture. Mundye and John Goodby, whose definitive enthralling real life detective story began when a John Milne has written over a hundred hours of edition of Dylan Thomas’s poetry was recently member of the public brought a Babylonian clay television and a dozen novels. He is a Principal published. tablet into the British Museum. The tablet proved Lecturer in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam to be of extraordinary importance. University. 6.30 – 7.45pm Gillian Clarke and DnA Not only does it date from 1850BC, it is a copy of 11am – 12 noon the Babylonian Story of the Flood and includes Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 instructions for building a large boat to survive a John Goodby Poetry Reading and discussion Tickets £7/£5 (cons) SD Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Students’ * flood. This discovery challenges our view of Union, Paternoster Row, S1 Savour the sublime words and music of Wales ancient history in a new and exciting way. with the National Poet of Wales and two Tickets £5/£4 (cons) * SD Dr Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of the Ancient outstanding Welsh musicians. John Goodby, a world authority on the writing of Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures Gillian Clarke is one of the central figures in Dylan Thomas, will be reading selectively from Department: Middle East at the British Museum. contemporary poetry, the third to take up the his The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: A New In collaboration with Museums Sheffield post of National Poet of Wales. Her own poems Centenary Edition , providing insights into the have achieved widespread critical and popular process of collecting and editing Thomas’s work, acclaim and the Welsh landscape is a shaping and expanding on the meanings of the poems. force in her work. Gillian’s reading will feature 12.15 – 1.15pm her own work as well as the première of a newly Lunch at the Tap commissioned piece for Off the Sh elf F estival Sheffield Tap, Platform 1, Railway Station, S1 capturing the spirit of Dylan Thomas and Wales for Sheffield. Ploughmans with Welsh cheese plus live entertainment with Sheffield writers * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 34 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 35 Sun 2 Nov 7.30pm Q Tues 4 Nov 7.30pm Q Fri 7 Nov 7pm Q Sun 9 Nov 2pm Q An evening of Sex and Love… No Fixed Abode – Celebrating 20 Years Sir Patrick Duffy Bricks and Mortals with Tom Wilkinson with Tracy Bloom and Stan Skinny of the National Fairground Archive Town Hall Reception Rooms, Town Hall, Pinstone Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, S1 The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ with Professor Vanessa Toulmin Street, S1. Admission free. No need to book Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * We are born, work, love and die in architecture. Union, Western Bank, S10 The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Sir Patrick Duffy was a Sheffield MP for over 20 We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Union, Western Bank, S10 years as well as Navy Minister and Chair of the Tracy Bloom’s heart-warming debut novel No-One Tickets £8/£6.50 North Atlantic Council. His autobiography and destroy it. Through ten great buildings, from * Growing up Irish in Britain and British in Ireland Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday has been an internet was the Tower of Babel in present-day Iraq to Detroit’s Director and founder Professor Vanessa Toulmin launched at the Ambassadors Residence in Dublin. Highland Park Car Factory Tom Wilkinson reveals sensation - an Amazon Kindle chart number one tells the history of the National Fairground bestseller that sold over 220,000 e-books in just 6 Sir Patrick had wartime experience in Northern the intimate relationship between society and Archive in a talk illustrated by beautiful images. architecture. months. Tracy will talk about her publishing The NFA is a unique collection of material Ireland as a defence minister and was President of I Will Marry These aspects of buildings – economic, erotic, success and work including new novel covering the culture and history of travelling fairs, the Nato Assembly working with leading players George Clooney (By Christmas) political and psychological – are crucial if we are . circus and entertainment from the 1800s to the from the White House to the Kremlin, chairing to understand architecture properly. And because Stand up poet Stan Skinny performs his comedy present day. From its beginnings in a basement in the historic gathering at Westminster of the NATO architecture moulds us just as much as we mould poetry show (for the faint hearted) Tell Me the Lies Sheffield University, the archive now has an and Warsaw Pact countries, now regarded as the it, understanding it helps us to understand our About Love exploring trying to find love in all the exhibition space, a reading room, dedicated staff end of the Cold War. lives and our world. wrong places like salad factories, finding it and and a rich collection of books, films, playbills, His time as MP for Attercliffe in Sheffield also saw then dissecting it with half a rusty scissors? The journals, posters and more. the collapse of steel and a changing political Tom Wilkinson teaches architectural history at University College London and is History Editor at show contains songs, fake noses, Morrissey, acne Professor Vanessa Toulmin is the author of 14 complexion in the city. Sir Patrick will be talking the Architectural Review. He has lived in Shanghai and a Bruce Forsyth moustache montage. books for the NFA including Pleasurelands: All the about his fascinating life dominated by In collaboration with University of Sheffield and Berlin. Fun of the Fair, Decade of Delights and Electric institutional, military and political strife. Students’ Union Edwardians. In the presence of the Lord Mayor and In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Lady Mayoress of Sheffield In collaboration with University of Sheffield Mon 3 Nov 7pm Q Students’ Union Weds 12 Nov 7.30pm Q Sat 8 Nov 2pm Q Diane Setterfield and Lauren Owen In collaboration with the University of Sheffield Kirsty Wark in Conversation Public Engagement with Research Team Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Sheffield Castle, Sheffield Park The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) * and Manor Lodge with David Templeman Union, Western Bank, S10 Thurs 6 Nov 8pm Q Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Diane Setterfield is the author of the international Central United Reformed Church, * bestseller The Thirteenth Tale which was made into Happiness, Happiness 60 Norfolk Street, S1 Kirsty Wark discusses her first novel, The Legacy of an acclaimed film by the BBC starring Olivia Tickets £6/£5 (cons) * Elizabeth Pringle . This acclaimed debut is an with Stephen May and Book Quiz enchanting story of love and belonging over 100 Coleman and Vanessa Redgrave in 2013. Her new An illustrated exploration of Sheffield’s Medieval Bellman & Black The Fusion, University of Sheffield Students’ years on the Scottish island of Arran – a place with novel is another page-turner – a and Tudor history looking at three of the city’s deftly written, mysterious and captivating ghost Union, Western Bank, S10 which Kirsty’s family have strong connections. Admission free. To book Tel 0114 273 4400 most important sites and featuring new images story that is a masterpiece of storytelling. and information. Well known as a broadcaster and journalist on Maximum of 6 people on each team or come on Newsnight and The Review Show Kirsty will talk ‘If you want an original take on the gothic novel, pick Sheffield Castle was the fourth largest medieval your own and we’ll find you a team. about her career and her move into fiction up a copy of Bellman and Black....’ Big Issue castle in England. Sheffield Park was probably the A double dose of happiness with author Stephen writing. The Quick is a major new debut adventure from largest deer park in England and Manor Lodge May and our annual book quiz. Stephen May is one of the most gifted of a new generation of was a royal prison of Mary, Queen of Scots. “Completely enchanting. The story of two women’s the author of three novels: Tag, Life! Death! Prizes! , British writers Lauren Owen. Lauren has created intertwined lives draws you in and holds you spellbound shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and Discover the Civil War period in Sheffield which an utterly beguiling fantastical world – emotionally to the end” Penny Vincenzi the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’ and his brought the Castle to ruin, the layout in modern involving and suspenseful – that will dazzle you as In collaboration with University of Sheffield latest Wake Up Happy Every Day . Armed with a mapping of the Deer Park and superb new images the secrets of The Quick reveal themselves… Students’ Union trunk of exhibits from his own Museum of Perfect of Manor Lodge through the centuries. Lauren grew up in the grounds of a boarding Contentment Stephen will share recipes for David Templeman brings these historical sites, and Fri 14 Nov 7.30pm school in Yorkshire. She is completing a PhD on happiness in a funny and personal exploration of others, back to their rightful place in a great Gothic writing and fan culture, and is the why it is hard to be both happy and human. Sheffield story. The Youth Word Up recipient of the UEA creative-writing programme's Followed by a book quiz on the theme of A Spoken Word Performance by Young People prestigious Curtis Brown Prize. happiness. Winners receive the title of Off the and Hollie McNish ‘A sly and glittering addition to the literature of the Shelf Festival Quiz Champions and some fabulous See page 46 for details. macabre…As soon as you have breathed with relief, book prizes. Quizmaster is Barry Nicholls, writer, much worse horrors begin’ Hilary Mantel actor, director and tutor of Abbeydale Writers. 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Nick Batley – Feminism and men © Nick Batley is a sex and relationships educator and a volunteer for several sexual health charities. He was shortlisted for the Young Person of the Year at the 2014 UK Sexual Health Awards. He is also a film and media student at Birkbeck, University of London and has a strong interest in the depictions of gender and sexuality in popular culture. Nick will be talking about the role men can play in the modern feminist movement. Laura Bates Wendy Cope Kirsty Wark 5pm – 6pm Sat 22 Nov Q Nimco Ali – The fight to stop FGM Tues 18 Nov 7.30pm Q Mon 24 Nov 7pm Q Laura Bates – Celebrating Modern Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) describes Life, Love and the Archers Magnificent Blackpool Winter Gardens Feminism any deliberate, non-medical removal or cutting with Wendy Cope with Professor Vanessa Toulmin of female genitalia and is recognized The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ internationally as a violation of the human Union, Western Bank, S10 Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) rights of girls and women. * Tickets £6/£5 (cons) for all three talks/£7/£5 Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) Recently FGM has become the subject of a * This beautifully illustrated talk explores the history (cons) for Laura Bates talk/£12/£9 (cons) for With her sharp eye for human foibles and of Blackpool’s Winter Gardens from their opening day ticket for all four talks global media campaign due to the successful * campaigns started by young women on-line but unfailing sense of humour, Wendy Cope is one of in 1878 to the present day. They are world famous Following her sell-out festival special there is much still to be done. the nation’s best loved poets. Now she has released and their scale and architectural richness provide appearance in May we are delighted that a prose collection – a book for anyone who’s ever a vibrant entertainment experience. Over the Nimko Ali from the group Daughters of Eve journalist Laura Bates is our guest curator this fallen in love, tried to give up smoking or years holiday makers enjoyed concert parties, talks about this important subject. year with her theme ‘celebrating modern consoled themselves that they’ll never be quite as ballroom dancing and international stars of radio, feminism’. old as Mick Jagger. Meet an Enid Blyton obsessed stage and screen including Bob Dylan, Judy 7.30pm Laura’s guests explore some of the key issues schoolgirl, the cynical romantic, a savagely funny Garland, Peter Kay and Frank Sinatra. and we hope you will join them and the Laura Bates – Everyday Sexism television critic. Reflecting on everything from Professor Vanessa Toulmin is Director of the daring to write poetry to weddings, in this discussion. Everyday Sexism is the project that has inspired National Fairground Archive at the University of collection Cope shows she is the master of the one Sheffield. She was Director of the Showzam a worldwide movement, a manifesto for change liner as well as the couplet. 2pm – 3pm and a ground breaking anecdotal examination Festival in Blackpool for five years and specialist of sexism in modern day society. Wendy Cope’s best-selling poetry collections advisor on Heritage. She is the author of four Lucy-Anne Holmes – No More Page 3 include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Family books on Blackpool covering the Tower, Pleasure In 2012 after being sexually harassed on public Values. Lucy-Anne Holmes is the founder of the No Beach, Illuminations and Winter Gardens. This transport, journalist Laura Bates started a The More Page 3 campaign which she started in “Nobody can match Wendy Cope when it comes to talk is based on the new revised edition of project called Everyday Sexism to collect stories Most Magnificent Palace of Amusement In The World. 2012. The campaign now has over 170,000 for a piece she was writing on the issue. writing about men and love” Daily Mail signatures on an online petition and public In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Sponsored by Specsavers support from a host of organisations and Astounded by the response she received she Pinstone Street and In collaboration with the University of Sheffield charities including Mumsnet, UK Girlguiding realised that the situation was far worse than Hillsborough Branches Public Engagement with Research Team and Rape Crisis. she'd thought. Silver Sponsor She talks about the depiction of women in the It was clear that sexism had been normalised. media, building a campaign from the ground Bates decided it was time for change. up, how the campaign has grown and changed, Laura talks about her project and book - the dealing with backlash and why she’ll be first to give a collective online voice to the Professional service, a wide choice of fantastic frames including the latest continuing her work protest against sexism - and will inspire you designer ranges, and great value for money from the UK’s most trusted optician. with her intelligence, lucidity and passion for specsavers.co.uk the subject. Specsavers 12-14 Middlewood Road, Hillsborough S6, Tel. 0114 283 4020 In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union Specsavers 121-123 Pinstone Street S1, Tel. 0114 275 5121

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Sat 11 Oct 10am – 12pm Thurs 16 Oct 2pm – 4pm Q Sat 18 Oct 2pm – 3.30pm James Nash Chinese Calligraphy Writing Workshop Chris Tutton Highfield Library, London Road, S2 Poetry Performance Workshop Poetry and Writing Workshop Admission free Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Places must be booked Tel 0114 203 7204 Admission free. Places must be booked Admission free. Places must be booked Tel 0114 273 4727 Run by the Sheffield Confucius Institute, this fun Tel 0114 273 4727 workshop starts you on a journey of Chinese Poets and other artists often feel called to respond Chris Tutton is a performance poet and an Calligraphy writing. to war and loss. In this workshop with poet experienced and popular workshop leader. James Nash there will be a chance to write about Writing poetry itself is a particular talent but how human responses to conflict, looking at work by Fri 17 Oct 9.45am – 1pm do you go about performing it in front of an contemporary poets. An interactive session Speed Mentoring audience? Let Chris teach you his most useful suitable for beginners to more experienced hints and tips. Thurs 27 Nov 7.45pm Q Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 writers. The Hundred Years’ War Admission free Wed 22 Oct 6pm Places must be booked Tel 0114 273 4727 Crucible Studio Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 Sat 11 Oct 2pm – 4pm Q Out and About in Sheffield Tickets £10/£9 (cons) * Think it, write it and get it published! Experts Following on from their highly acclaimed show Short Story Masterclass from the world of writing and publishing will be LGBT Poetry Workshop ‘Being Human’ , Midlands Creative Projects in with Barbara Henderson gathered together, ready and willing to impart Carpenter Room; Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 their wisdom to you through short sessions. Tickets £3. Places must be booked association with Bloodaxe Books and the Belgrade Creative Lounge, Workstation, Paternoster Row, S1 Tel 0114 273 4727 Theatre, Coventry present their latest production Tickets £8/£6 (cons) * The Hundred Years’ War. Three performers, live Some writing experience required Sat 18 Oct 10am – 5pm Explore and share your experiences of LGBT life music and striking imagery are combined to create in Sheffield during this friendly workshop with a Part workshop, part manuscript feedback, this a heart-wrenching drama whose every word is Artist Book Making Workshop professional writer. Drinks and snacks provided. charged with poetry. Presenting forty master class with novelist and award-winning short Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street S1 story writer Barbara Henderson begins with the extraordinary war poems written between 1914 Tickets £45/£35 cons available from Thurs 23 & Thurs 30 Oct 11am – 2pm and 2013, this brand new production fuses poetry basics of short story writing followed by exercises [email protected] or and theatre to create a distinctive and deeply that will prompt a new piece of writing. Tel 0114 346 3034 Let’s Get Writing: 1 to 1 Advice Sessions Participants will edit a piece of writing they have moving portrayal of life under fire. A full day workshop giving participants the The Writing Yorkshire Studio, Bank Street Arts, brought with them and receive individual In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres opportunity to make an artist’s book in a style of 32 - 40 Bank Street, S1. Admission free feedback on writing sent in advance. Participants their own choosing covering styles from Altered Places must be booked e-mail should submit a draft of 2,000 to 2,500 words to Books to DIY Book Binding. Led by award winning [email protected] Tel 0114 383 0456 [email protected] by Sat 27 book maker Kathryn Johnson. September. A community event These are friendly advice sessions for new writers In association with Open College of the Arts or people who would like to get started. You can get information on all aspects of creative writing – Sat 18 Oct 10.15am – 12.45pm Tues 14 Oct 2.30pm – 4pm Q groups, courses, events, publications and more. Organised by Writing Yorkshire Introduction to Digital Fiction Workshop Masterclass with Matthew Sweeney The Poetry Business, Bank Street Arts, Local Studies Library, Sheffield Central Library, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Sat 25 Oct 10.15am – 4pm Q Surrey Street, S1. Admission free. No need to book £25/£20 (cons) * Refreshments free on the day Poetry Business Writing Day If you have little or no experience of digital fiction Award winning poet Matthew Sweeney has held a Premier Inn, Angel Street, S3 and would like to learn more, then come to this number of high profile writing residencies. He is introductory workshop with Dr. Jen Smith. The Tickets £25/£20 (cons) * To book e-mail an experienced writing tutor and will bring insight [email protected] workshop will look at digital fiction stories and and a close-eye for detail to bear on your work. To Exhilarating writing exercises in the morning dicuss what makes them different from traditional apply please send up to three poems (one may be working from classic and contemporary poems. printed books. discussed on the day). Send by e-mail to Organised by Bank Street Arts Please bring a poem and ten copies for the [email protected] with Masterclass as afternoon workshop. subject. Or send by post to The Poetry Business by Organised by The Poetry Business 4 October. Include contact details and we will be in touch with the successful poets by 11 October. Organised by The Poetry Business

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 40 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 41 Sat 25 Oct 10.30am Sat 25 Oct 1pm – 4pm Events for Children and Young People Ditch your Inner Critic Bootcamp with the Writing Squad and Kickstart your Creativity Graves Activity Room, Graves Art Gallery, Civica are Platinum Sponsor of Off the Shelf supporting events for children, young people and families Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 Surrey Street, S1 Tickets £5 available from eventbrite Tickets £4 * http://bit.ly/1oMbWPb Suitable 16 – 21 years Ever feel like you’re standing in the way of your Applicants will need to submit a piece of work Children under 11 years must be accompanied by an adult at all events and workshops. own writing career? Join leading life coach before the day for assessment. Learn simple Andy Leigh in a workshop on how to conquer techniques to make your prose cleaner, leaner and your inner critic and experience first-hand the more effective. Techniques that once learnt, then Sat 11 Oct 11.30am – 1pm Q Sat 18 Oct 11am benefit of coaching for your writing in our 1 to 1 applied in redrafting and self-editing, will serve Young People’s Open Mic Rivelin Story Walk sessions. you for life in whatever genre you write. Get a A community event mixture of group exercise and individual toning Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 Rivelin Valley Café, Rivelin Valley Road, S6 the Writing Squad way. Admission free No need to book Tickets £3/£2 (children) In collaboration with Museums Sheffield 14 to 25 with words to share? Then bring them To book Tel 07815 966784 along to the Winter Gardens from 11.30am to Suitable for 6 – 12 years Rhyme and Reason Sat 25 Oct 2pm – 6pm 1pm when we’ll be encouraging younger writers to Explore the magical Rivelin Valley and follow a Making the Sheffield Zine take the mic in a supportive atmosphere. trail of fairy-hideouts, goblin thrones, troll bridges Poetry, prose, anything goes! We’ll also be and fast-flowing water and write amazing stories Theatre Delicatessen, (Old Woolworths), announcing the winners of Writing Yorkshire’s about your adventures! Please dress suitably for 17 – 19 The Moor, S1 recent PhotoFictions competition. outdoors and bring notebooks to write your story Admission free. Registration essential at in the café afterwards. [email protected] Just turn up to read or e- mail A community event [email protected] if you want to book a Write, illustrate and print a collaborative story definite slot. This event is part of Off the Shelf's about life in Sheffield. Create your own text or official opening. Sat 25 Oct 11am artwork and publish these works in an anthology. A community event A Caterpillar Singing Loudly Fri 17 Oct 11am – 12 noon Q Sharrow Performing Arts Space, Sun 26 Oct 10am – 4pm Bookstart Library Rhyme Challenge Mount Pleasant Road, S7 Tickets £2 to book Tel 07816 540 261 Central Children’s and Young People’s Library, Myth and Symbol or e-mail: [email protected] Surrey Street, S1 Suitable for 4 – 11 years Bookseller to the Festival Poetry Writing Workshop Admission free. No need to book Sheffield Buddhist Centre, Howard Road, S6 Suitable for under 5 years A Caterpillar Singing Loudly is a yoga book for Rhyme & Reason, Sheffield’s independent Admission free No need to book kids aged 4 to 11 years of age. Come and discover Join the fun and help us launch the Bookstart book shop at Hunter’s Bar, is again Using the rich history of Buddhism the workshop creative story telling through yoga play. providing book stalls at most Off the Shelf Library Rhyme Challenge. A community event will explore the effect that myth and symbol can Festival events. Book stalls will normally have upon our subconscious through poetry open half an hour before the start of Sat 18 Oct 10am Q Sat 25 Oct 2pm – 4pm Q events as well as afterwards. writing. The event will also include meditation for Authors will be available to sign copies of which full instruction will be given. Please bring a Yes We Can! Activity Book Launch Flying off the Page: their books at the end of their events. A book packed lunch, tea and coffee will be provided. Sheffield Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 signed by the author makes a special gift, so A community event Admission free A Celebration of Children's Reading please take the opportunity to do some Book at www.westskills.org.uk Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Christmas shopping. Mon 27 Oct 6.30pm – 8.30pm Tickets £3/Children & Reading Sheffield Q The launch of a brilliant free new colouring and Special offers will be available on many members free from [email protected] To the Woman I Once Was activity book for children aged 5 – 7 from WEST Tel 0114 263 0691 titles. Book stalls can accept payment in (Women in Engineering, Science and cash or by cheque. Books by festival authors Highfield Library, London Road, S2 Suitable for all ages. Refreshments provided Tickets £3 Places must be booked Technology). will also be on display at Rhyme & Reason A community event Poet and singer Ray Hearne and artist from September. Tel. 0114 203 7204 Jean Compton have been working with Sheffield If you could write a letter to your younger self, children to celebrate their favourite reading what would you say? Join other women and share Rhyme & Reason, 681 Ecclesall Road, moments. Join them in their song and enjoy their your insight and experience at this writing aerial sculptures and Story-Telling Cloak. Poet Sheffield S11 8TG Tel 0114 266 1950 workshop with a professional writer. Drinks and Eleanor Brown will also be talking about her joy in email: [email protected] snacks provided. reading and writing. A community event

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 42 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 43 Tues 28, Thurs 30 Oct & Weds 29 Oct 11am Q Sat 1 Nov 10am Cinderella – Family Concert The Jungle Book Jamboree Ensemble 360 & narrator Polly Ives The Montgomery Studio, Surrey Street, S1 City Hall Ballroom, Barkers Pool, S1 Tickets – Workshops £2/Film Screening £3.50/ Suitable for children aged 5 years and over All 3 events £5.50 Tickets £6/£3 (cons) * Book at www.TheMontgomery.org.uk Tel 0114 278 9789 The Montgomery and Handmade Cinema invite www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk you to create a handmade jungle in fun, “I guess you think you know this story. You don’t. The interactive family workshops, transforming the way real one’s much more gory…” film is experienced. Then come as your favourite animal for a special screening of Disney’s The Ensemble 360, Rory Boyle and Polly Ives bring Jungle Book. Roald Dahl’s brilliantly funny version of Cinderella A community event to life, through music for wind quintet, piano, percussion and audience participation. Sat 1 Nov 2pm – 4pm Q This one-hour concert, with words by Roald Dahl Sat 25 Oct 2pm Q also includes music by Mozart and is an ideal 27 – 30 Oct 10am – 4pm each day Poetry Portraits – A Writing Workshop opportunity to hear top-quality live music up close. How to be a Gorilla with Dr Michael Leach Sheffield Children’s University Live! with Chris Jones A perfect half-term treat! The Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Graves Activity Room, Graves Art Gallery, Organised by Music in the Round in association Union, S10 Winter Garden, Surrey Street, S1 Central Lending Library, Surrey Street, S1 with Off the Shelf Tickets £5 (cons) Admission free. No need to book Tickets £4 Suitable for 14 – 17 years * Suitable for 5 years and over * Suitable for 7 years and over How can we write a face? How do you capture the Weds 29 Oct 3pm Q For information www.sheffield.gov.uk/cu or Michael Leach is an author of wildlife books. He essence of a friend's personality using just words? Meet the Author and Illustrator has written 25 to date including The Great Apes Tel 0114 203 9134 Chris Jones will lead a poetry workshop drawing based on his own first-hand observations of Bring your Passport to Learning to earn CU on the artwork in the exhibition Picture the Poet to Emma Chichester Clark wildlife. He studies subjects in their natural habitat credits! create self-portraits, snapshots of family members Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, S1 and this has taken him to some of the world’s most or perhaps something more fabulous and strange. Tickets £4 accompanying adults free * remote places such as the Amazon, Antarctic and Mon 27 Oct In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Suitable for 3 – 7 years and their families Greenland. Recording Britain Meet renowned illustrator, Emma Chichester Using his experience living with mountain gorillas Tues 28 Oct 1.30pm & 3.30pm Q Clark, creator of Blue Kangaroo, as she shows her of Rwanda, Michael’s illustrated and interactive with Weston Park Museum exquisite new picture book Bears don’t Read! Fun activities exploring interesting facts The Worst Princess workshop will teach you “how to walk, think and George isn't happy doing the usual bear things about Britain. Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, S1 speak like a gorilla” - one of the most iconic like chatting and fishing. animals on the planet. Tues 28 Oct Tickets £4 accompanying adults free Suitable for 3 – 7 years and their families Children More than anything he wants to learn to read! Learn how to chest-beat, knuckle-walk and Professor Fluffy – Science is Fun please bring a cushion to sit on But, he soon discovers that it's not easy to be a communicate with your family via belches! bear at school, until a little girl called Clementine Hands on science and craft activities run by In a lonely tower, Princess Sue waits to be rescued In collaboration with University of Sheffield helps him learn the alphabet and changes his life University of Sheffield students. by her prince. When he finally does arrive, he's Students’ Union forever. A feel good story of determination and not quite what she had in mind. The feisty Weds 29 Oct friendship, sure to encourage a lifelong love of princess defies expectations in this funny twist on books. The Power of Play a traditional fairytale. With an equally disgruntled with Imagination Gaming dragon by her side, Princess Sue’s quest for fun Emma Chichester Clark is a much loved illustrator. and freedom is a raucous, wild adventure. She won the Mother Goose Award in 1988 and Enjoy unusual board games from all over I Love You, Blue Kangaroo the world. The Worst Princess is Carina Rodney’s adaptation of was short listed for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. Emma is also Thurs 30 Oct the acclaimed children’s book by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie. It follows the success of last year’s the creator of this year’s Off the Shelf brochure show My Granny is a Pirate from the same team, cover. Halloween Activities In collaboration with Museums Sheffield with Weston Park Museum this production features puppetry, live music, and plenty of scope for children to sing along. Learn about spooky animals and make your Commissioned by New Writing North in own to take home. association with Sage Gateshead Organised by Sheffield Children’s University Dr Michael Leach Supported by Arts Council England In collaboration with Museums Sheffield

* 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 44 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 45 Thurs 30 Oct 2pm Q Fri 14 Nov 7.30pm Q Events for Schools Meet the Author Melvin Burgess The Youth Word Up Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 A Spoken Word Performance Off the Shelf is sponsored by Civica, Platinum Sponsor. All tickets £5 * Civica are pleased to support free events for schools. Suitable for 14 years and over by Young People and Hollie McNish (Parental guidance applies) The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Student’s Union, Paternoster Row, S1 Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best Admission Free. Places must be booked – writers in contemporary children’s literature. He Tel 0114 273 4400 These events are for school groups only. Admission is free, but places must be booked. has written many books including his controversial Suitable for adults and young people aged 13 Please see individual events for booking details. bestseller about heroin, Junk , which won the years and over Events in Libraries have been organised by Libraries, Archives and Information Services. Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Parental guidance applies. Carnegie Medal. As part of his guest curation for Off the Shelf in His gripping new young adult thriller is The Hit 2012, Benjamin Zephaniah created The Youth which features a mind-blowing central idea: a Tues 14 Oct 11am Word Up – a project designed to give young craze for a euthanasia drug that gives you the best people who have something to say the chance to week of your life – before killing you … It’s the Susanna Meese Children’s Storytelling be heard alongside an established poet. ultimate high. At the ultimate price … Firth Park Library, 443 Firth Park Road, S5 The performers tonight are aged 13 – 19 years Tel 0114 203 7433 Set in a super-austere near future, The Hit from all over Sheffield. They will perform pieces [email protected] dramatises current teen dilemmas: money, social they have written themselves, telling it how it is, networking, family, friendship, drugs and fame. Embark on an adventure with storyteller, Susanna sharing their experiences, their hopes, their This is Melvin Burgess at his thought provoking Meese. Enter the labyrinth and help Theseus in words. best with a controversial, yet positive message his quest, but be warned, you are not alone! about drug-taking. They have worked with Vicky Morris from Writing In collaboration with Showroom Cinema Yorkshire. This year’s Youth Word Up project Tues 14 Oct 1.30pm includes a publication featuring a selection of Fri 31 Oct 2pm Q work from young people which will be available at Susanna Meese Children’s Storytelling the performance. Parson Cross Library, 320 Wordsworth Avenue, S5 Meet the Author Michelle Magorian Sharing the stage with the young people tonight is Tel 0114 203 9533 Arundel Room, Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, S1 2009 UK Slam Champion and poetry star [email protected] Tickets £5 * Hollie McNish. See information above Suitable for 10 years and over Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Hollie has appeared at the Glastonbury festival Master storyteller Michelle Magorian is the best- and London’s Southbank Centre, has had poems Tues 21 Oct 9.30am Information selling author of Goodnight Mister Tom and Back commissioned by WOW festival, Tate Modern, Are you a member? Joining is free and you Home (to be re-released as Puffin Modern Classics) Kate Pankhurst – Author and Illustrator Channel 4, the World Cup. can choose from thousands of books, DVDs as well as Just Henry, A Spoonful of Jam , and A Manor Library, Ridgeway Road, S12 and CDs. We offer free Internet access, a This project has been made possible with the Cuckoo in the Nest. Her writing has been described Tel 0114 203 7805 range reference materials, and sets of books support of Sheffield City Council Children Young as ‘masterly’ (Philip Pullman), ‘exhilarating’ Mariella may be aged nine and a bit, but that isn't for reading groups and ESOL classes. People and Families, Sheffield Community Youth (Sunday Times) and ‘gratifyingly emotional’ going to stop her opening her own detective Teams, Sheffield Youth Justice Service, Writing Visit our website and search the catalogue, (Independent). agency. A creative workshop inspired by the Yorkshire and Arts Council England renew and reserve items and ask a librarian a Awards include the Guardian Children’s Fiction Mariella Mystery series. question. Discover our virtual reference Award and the Costa Prize. Join her as she talks library and download free e-audiobooks. about her incredible body of work and new book Tues 21 Oct 11am Regular activities include parent and baby Impossible! times, book groups, local history talks and A compelling story of London’s theatre world at Kate Pankhurst – Author and Illustrator author visits. the start of the 60s as 12-year old Josie tries to find Darnall Library, Britannia Road, S9 www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries success as an actress and ends up kidnapped in a Tel 0114 203 7429 www.shefflibraries.blogspot.co.uk case of mistaken identity. See information above Flickr - @shefflibraries Michelle is an actress as well as an author and Facebook - @shefflibraries trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Tues 21 Oct 1.30pm Drama. In collaboration with Museums Sheffield Kate Pankhurst – Author and Illustrator Tinsley Library, Tinsley Shopping Centre, S9 Sponsored by Civica Tel 0114 203 7432 Platinum Sponsor See information above * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 46 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 47 Competitions Exhibitions s d n l k a l e o l i o e F

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To celebrate the centenary of World War One Meet our World War One heroes at and honour the people who lived through the www.civicadigibase.co.uk/ots and see a couple war, Civica are inviting Sheffield’s students to of examples of diary entries or letters to get take part in a writing competition to win a some ideas of your own. Kindle Fire. You have 250 words (or 250 seconds if There are three age categories: recording) and you can use three different • Infants 4 – 7 year olds mediums – the written word, podcast or video. • Juniors 8 – 11 year olds Then upload your entry to the microsite to Benjamin Zephanaih Simon Armitage Swimming in the Derwent • Secondary 12 – 16 year olds become a published writer, radio presenter or Admission to all exhibitions is free. Normal venue opening hours unless otherwise stated. We have created a microsite all about World director! War 1 where you can meet some people who Make sure you submit your enter before noon 3 Sept – 29 Nov 21 – 26 Oct Q lived through the war. We want you to put on 21st November 2014 to be in for a chance of yourself into their shoes, pretend you are them winning a Kindle Fire. Picture the Poet Off The Press back in 1914 - 18 and write a diary entry, a letter Graves Art Gallery, Central Library, Exhibition and Print Festival home to a loved one, a newspaper article about For more details about the competition please Surrey Street, S1 visit www.civicadigibase.co.uk/ots The Workstation, Paternoster Row, S1 your character or a story about your character. Benjamin Zephaniah, Simon Armitage and Carol Sheffield Printmakers celebrate the centenary of Ann Duffy are just a few of the poets included in Dylan Thomas’s birth with a week-long print this new touring exhibition from the National exhibition Off The Press. The work displayed will Portrait Gallery. The exhibition brings together Retail Tales Poetry Business Writing Competition be ‘inspired by the written word’ and over forty images of some of the most important poets of our Off the Shelf is delighted to have organised a printmakers will be taking part in this major The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet times, from the 1950s to the present day, by well- writing competition in collaboration with exhibition of Fine Art Printmaking. Competition known and respected photographers living today, Meadowhall Centre Deadline is last post on 28 November 2014, providing an insight into the people who have The week-long print festival will culminate with a online by midnight 1 December 2014 crafted images for our imaginations out of words. two day Print Fair on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 All you have to do is indulge in some re-tale Entry fee £25 Judge: Billy Collins October with a wealth of work for sale. Fair therapy, combine your love of words and shopping Full details: opening times are 10am – 5pm and admission is and write a micro fiction of no more than 100 http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/competition 13 – 30 Oct Q £1.00/50p (child). There will be evening events all words on any subject or theme but which must week including print demonstrations, folk music include the word ‘meadow’ or ‘hall’ or ‘mall’ or The annual, international Book & Pamphlet In Praise of Air Town Hall Foyer, Pinstone Street, S1 and film screenings. ‘shop’. Competition invites entrants to submit a collection Organised by Sheffield Printmakers of 20 – 24 pages of poems for the chance to win a The winning entry will receive a £50 Meadowhall In May 2014, the University of Sheffield unveiled cash prize and publication by Smith|Doorstop gift card and two runners up will each receive £20 the world’s first catalytic poem In Praise of Air Books. 22 Oct – 14 Nov gift cards kindly donated by Meadowhall. Winning written by Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage, entries will be featured on the Off the Shelf Four first stage winners are selected and given the the result of a collaboration with Pro-Vice The Future of Reading? website after the festival. opportunity to submit a full-length manuscript to Chancellor for Science, Professor Tony Ryan. An Exhibition of Digital Literature Closing date 1 November the second round of the competition, in which The giant 20 metre high banner on which the Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, S1 one of them can win book publication. poem is printed has been manufactured using Entries limited to one per person. Please send This exhibition tracks the historical development The three first-stage winners receive pamphlet revolutionary nano-technology and is coated with entries to [email protected] or mail to of digital literature including Interactive Fictions publication. All four winners will receive an equal a photocatalyst which eats pollution, enabling the the postal address on page 50 of the brochure. (IFs), electronic text adventure games, hypertext, share of £2,000 and publication in The North poem to clean the air around it. Please include your contact details with your entry. flash fictions, kinetic poetry, and literary Supported by Meadowhall Centre magazine, and have a launch reading hosted by For Off the Shelf a smaller version of the poem videogames. The works shown in this exhibition the Poetry Business. will be displayed in Sheffield Town Hall, removing the pollution from a bus or about 20 cars every are not e-books. Rather than existing as a digital day it is in place. Drop into the Town Hall Foyer version of a print text, digital literature is “born on 13 October at 12noon – 1pm to hear digital”. Is this the future of reading? Why not join Professor Tony Ryan explain the process and Dr Alice Bell on the 25 October at 12 noon as she ambition behind the project. gives a guided tour of the exhibition? Organised by University of Sheffield Organised by Bank Street Arts * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 48 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 49 Off the Shelf is organised by Sheffield City Festival Managers: Maria de Souza, Su Walker, Booking Information Council’s Major Events Service. Lesley Webster Service Support: For further information please contact: Michelle Taylor-Steer & Tickets for all events - including those at Jackie Breedon SIV Tickets Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Room 311, Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Tel. 0114 22 33 777 or www.sivtickets.com Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 2HH Festival Assistant: Emma Basta Student’s Union, unless otherwise stated , can be Library Events: purchased through our principal box office SIV Telephone: 0114 273 4400/273 4716 Events in Libraries have been Tickets as well as from Sheffield Theatres Box Sheffield City Hall e-mail: [email protected] organised by Sheffield Libraries Archives and Office and City Hall Box Office. Tickets can be Barkers Pool, Sheffield, S1 2JA. Website: www.offtheshelf.org.uk Information - Alex Holyoake, Joanne Parkes, purchased on line, by telephone or in person. 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