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June – September 2013 It’s Back! Ideas Bazaar Wednesday 18 September University Of Sheffield
Follow us on Twitter Events. @SheffUniWhatsOn Download this booklet at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/opencampus All the events we know about at the time of printing are listed in this booklet, but new events are added daily to the What’s On web pages at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson Ideas Bazaar. Wednesday 18 September, 11.00am – 4.00pm Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN
We are delighted to announce the What’s Next? 2nd Ideas Bazaar to take place at the University of Sheffield If you want to take part and meet your future partner, register via the webpage at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ideasbazaar UC Find Your Perfect Partner E: [email protected], T: 0114 222 5322
Ideas Bazaar is where academics and artists After the Ideas Bazaar has taken place we will meet and collaborate. The day is hosted by put further details of how to apply for funding international performer and star of BBC Radio on the website at the end of October, and 4, Christopher Green. Find your perfect partner applications for projects will be welcomed for projects that will be showcased at the 2nd from October-December 2013. Notification of Festival of the Mind in 2014. successful applications will be made by the end of February 2014. Last year academics from such diverse disciplines as Nanotechnology, English, We will continue to provide further information Architecture, Psychology and Biomedical about the Festival of the Mind 2014, including the Science teamed up with artists, poets, various themes we wish to support, again on the magicians and musicians from Sheffield to website, and also from the University’s Twitter create many unique projects. feeds - #ideasbazaar - so please be sure to follow
@sheffielduni or @sheffuniwhatson for updates. Kismet, Anthony Bennett, 2010
FESTIVAL OF THE MIND - THE MOBILE UNIVERSITY FRIDAY 27-SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER This year the Festival of the Mind team are taking the research, activities, exhibitions and demonstrations out to you! The Mobile University is a vintage bus full of academics and activities that will stop off at several locations in the city centre including Barkers Pool, providing free and exciting events for all. For further information contact the Public Engagement Team, E: [email protected] www.sheffield.ac.uk/publicengagement The Mobile University Music Music, Drama and Entertainment DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SPRING/SUMMER CONCERTS
Classical – World – Jazz • Lunchtime – Rush-Hour – Evening • Affordable –Eclectic – ENLIGHTENING The Concert Series at The University of Sheffield aspires to produce a varied programme of engaging and high quality musical events in an informal environment. Our concerts are aimed towards diverse audiences at a low cost. General Enquiries: T: 0114 222 0468 E: [email protected]
Find us on Facebook: For detailed programme information www.facebook.com/tuosconcerts and to request a brochure please visit: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts Follow us on Twitter: Booking: www.twitter.com/tuosconcerts Sheffield Arena Ticket Shop, T: 0114 256 5567 View videos on YouTube: Or online at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts www.youtube.com/tuosconcerts
A BOY WAS BORN Britten on Aldeburgh Beach A FESTIVAL OF MUSIC CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN Generously supported by The University of Sheffield Arts Enterprise and the Britten- Pears Foundation. More on Arts Enterprise on page 9.
The composer Benjamin Britten worked prolifically in almost every genre. His mastery of the orchestra, his brilliant and versatile approach to musical drama, his ingenuity and sensitivity in the marriage The festival will promote city in this year long Sheffield of music and text in song, and better understanding of his life celebration of music, culture his commitment to making and work as a composer and and Benjamin Britten. musical innovator, in addition music accessible to all by For more information, booking to examining the broader composing for amateurs and and to request a festival context of arts and culture in children has ensured Britten’s brochure please visit: the 20th Century. music still continues to enthral www.aboywasborn.co.uk and capture the imagination of Encompassing talks, concerts, audiences around the world. films, and musical theatre A Boy Was Born aims to productions, internationally encourage performance of acclaimed visiting artists Britten’s music throughout perform alongside community www.sheffield.ac.uk/ the 2013 Centenary year. musical organisations in the artsenterprise
Music, Drama and EntertainmentSpecial Events –– 01 Jenny Agutter and Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra BRITTEN: YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA + MUSIC FROM FILM & TV INCLUDING DR WHO, JAMES BOND, WALLACE AND GROMIT AND AUSTIN POWERS SATURDAY 1 JUNE, 6.00pm Victoria Hall, Norfolk Street, S1 2JB Ten years after the premiere of Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’, Britten was asked to compose music for a short educational film introducing the instruments of the With Pears in Brooklyn orchestra. Britten was greatly with Peter Pears. An interest depiction of the Tudor court inspired by the music of Henry in arranging these songs would and the tension between affairs Purcell and used the hornpipe be lifelong, and Britten made of state and affairs of the from Purcell’s ‘Abdelazer’ (The six volumes of songs in total, heart. Focusing on Elizabeth’s Moor’s Revenge) as a theme including English, Scottish, Irish relationship with the young Earl for a set of variations. Britten and French folk songs. of Essex, Gloriana captures the demonstrates the capabilities dichotomy between the public of each family of instruments Albion’s unique approach image of the Virgin Queen and in the orchestra, starting with to performance celebrates her seething personal feelings. the woodwind section, moving Britten’s song repertoire from down to the brass and strings a refreshing angle. Alongside Tickets £12.50, £10.50 and then the percussion. Each brand-new arrangements (concessions/students) group is explored through a of folksongs popularised by set of variations, and the work Britten, the concert features concludes with a darting fugue, solo repertoire by Britten and FRIDAY 28 JUNE, 1.00pm climaxing with the original his contemporaries. Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, theme majestically played Tickets £10, £5 (students, S1 2JD on the brass. under 18s) Stewart Campbell (tenor) Tickets £10, £8 (unwaged), Jonathan Gooing (piano) £4 (students/children) Royal Opera House live Britten: cinema broadcast Canticle IV, Op86 ALBION - BRITTEN AND BRITTEN: GLORIANA Janácek: FOLKSONG MONDAY 24 JUNE, 7.15pm The Diary of one who Disappeared SATURDAY 15 JUNE, 7.30pm Odeon Cinema, Arundel Gate Tippett: The Heart’s Assurance Holy Trinity Church, Grove S1 1DL Tickets: Admission is free and Road, Millhouses, S7 2GY Gloriana was first performed tickets are not required It was while Britten was in as part of the 1953 Coronation Janácek composed this epic America that he first arranged Celebrations for Queen song cycle shortly after a series traditional folksongs, perhaps Elizabeth II. In a quintessentially of anonymous poems appeared as a method for the homesick English and period sound- in the local newspaper about composer to connect to his world Britten’s portrait of a young farm boy who fell in English roots but also provide the public and private faces love with a gypsy girl and left lighter repertoire for his recitals of Elizabeth I is a brilliant his family for them. The theme
02 –– Music, Drama and Entertainment of relinquishing one’s life angels in their various forms. programme aimed at bringing Music, Drama and Entertainment and embarking on new paths The central aria A thousand, singing back into the heart of can also be seen in Britten’s thousand gleaming fires was every primary school child’s canticle IV. T S Eliot’s poem the first music that Britten life. describes the journey of the composed with Peter Pears’ www.sheffieldcathedral.org/ three kings to Bethlehem, but voice in mind following their music/sing-music-community- focuses on the day-to-day recent union in America. outreach-programme difficulties of the journey, Tickets £14, £11 (concessions), the cold, the lack of shelter £5 (students/under 16’s) and unfriendly town folk, ABBEYDALE SINGERS accompanied by Britten’s SATURDAY 13 JULY, 7.30pm brilliantly graphic piano SING! - EMIL AND THE St John’s Church, Ranmoor accompaniment where we DETECTIVES can hear every footstep of Park Road, S10 3GX the journey. FRIDAY 5 JULY, 5.30pm Britten: Firth Hall, Firth Court, Commissioned by Peter Pears, Hymn to St Cecilia, Op27 Western Bank, S10 2TN Michael Tippett’s The Heart’s Britten: assurance is an impassioned Britten was committed to Five Flower Songs, Op47 response by the composer composing music for amateur to the destruction of World musicians and children, music Britten: Old Joe has Gone War II. Tippett sets highly that would be accessible to Fishing (from Peter Grimes) evocative poetry by Alun Lewis the masses. Operatic works The Hymn to St Cecilia was and Sydney Keyes, two men for children include Let’s composed at a difficult time who themselves died tragically Make an Opera, Noye’s Fludde for Britten. When war broke young during the war. This and The Little Sweep have out in September 1939 Britten remarkable marriage of music had an inspirational effect on and Pears wanted to return to and text sees formidable piano generations of young people England, but were instructed writing accompany Tippett’s since. Emil and The Detectives that they’d be more valuable if unforgettable vocal lines. was a story Britten was fond they stayed in the States and of as a child and he had always increased sympathy for Britain intended to write a piece there. It wasn’t until 1942 that SHEFFIELD ORATORIO inspired by the work, although the pair finally returned home, CHORUS unfortunately, the dream was to register as conscientious SATURDAY 29 JUNE, 7.30pm never realized. objectors. Britten had intended to work on the Hymn on the Ecclesall Parish Church, This brand new work, based on boat journey however customs Ringinglow Road, S11 7PQ the German children’s story by Erich Kastler, tells the story of confiscated his manuscripts Britten: a young boy’s first visit to Berlin on the lookout for coded The Company of Heaven to see his Grandmother. During information. Not deterred, Andrew Carter: the course of the journey, Emil Britten incredibly rewrote Musick’s Jubilee is hypnotized and robbed of the work in its entirety from his money. With the help of a memory during the voyage!
The Company of Heaven group of local children in Berlin, The Hymn to St Cecilia is an was composed in 1937 Emil hatches a plan to claim imaginative, sparkling work and and commissioned by the back his stolen money. a fine example of Britten’s gift BBC as a radio feature to for moulding together words Admission is free and tickets mark Michaelmas Day. This and music. More of a cantata are not required extraordinarily moving and than the regular interpretation evocative cantata for chorus, Sing! runs in conjunction with of a hymn, Britten’s dazzling soloists, speakers and small Sheffield Music Service, the and celebrative work sets three orchestra features texts from University of Sheffield’s Music poems of WH Auden, invoking various authors including John Department and Sing Up, Cecilia the patron saint of music. Ruskin, Francis Thompson, the Government’s national Christina Rossetti, Blake singing program for primary Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £6 and Bunyan, and is based on school aged children. It’s a (students). Children under 16 free. Music, Drama and Entertainment –– 03 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM TUESDAY 6, WEDNESDAY 7, FRIDAY 9 AND SATURDAY 10 AUGUST, 7.00pm Drama Winter Gardens, Surrey Street, S1 2LH Britten’s setting of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written in 1959 for the opening of the refurbished Jubilee Hall in the 1960 Aldeburgh Festival. A last minute addition to the programme, there was no time to write a libretto and Britten and Pears adapted the Shakespeare play. Britten’s combining of Shakespeare’s text with spellbinding music depicts a chaotic evening of three intertwining stories, taking place in enchanted woodland on the outskirts of UNIVERSITY DRAMA STUDIO SUMMER 2013 Athens. Opening in the middle PROGRAMME of a bitter feud between the Shearwood Road (off Glossop Road) S10 2TD King and Queen of the Fairies, the opera immerses the For details of advance bookings see specific productions. audience in a world of magic Subject to availability, tickets for each production are on and mayhem. Whilst Oberon sale from the Drama Studio Box Office, from half an hour the king, plots to humiliate before each performance of the production. Tickets booked Titania, his lover, he spots in advance must be collected at least 15 minutes before the Hermia and Lysander who have start of the performance. fled Athens to elope. Helena, General Enquiries: who is passionately in love with Demetrius, follows him T: 0114 222 0208 (Box Office, performance times only) as he pursues Hermia whom E: [email protected] he intends to marry. Far from the chaos of the lovers, but www.sheffield.ac.uk/drama not free from the mischievous eye of Puck; a group of rude Sheffield University Drama Society mechanicals begin to rehearse CHARLEY’S AUNT by Brandon Thomas a play which they hope to perform for the Duke. To obey WEDNESDAY 5-SATURDAY 8 JUNE, 7.30pm his master Oberon, Puck uses A favourite farce of British theatre. 1892 Oxford. Unless his fairy magic to bewilder Charley’s millionaire aunt can act as chaperone, Jack and Bottom and to make a fool Charley’s chances of proposing to their sweethearts might of Titania. be lost forever. When his glamorous relative can’t come to Tickets £15, (£12 concessions) lunch, they seek someone to stand in for Charley’s Aunt ‘... from Brazil, where the nuts come from...’ Tickets £9, concessions £7, T: 0114 255 9949, www.suds.shef.ac.uk
04 –– Music, Drama and Entertainment Music, Drama and Entertainment
The Company THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare WEDNESDAY 12 - SATURDAY 15 JUNE, 7.30pm
Two sets of identical twins separated at birth. Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse arrive in Ephesus, the home of their twin siblings. Wild mishaps, beatings, seductions and arrests follow, with accusations of infidelity, thefts, madness and demonic possession adding to the mayhem. This is Shakespeare at his most slapstick! Tickets £8, concessions £5, University Arms beer garden T: 0114 201 0090 E: [email protected] MUSIC AT THE www.thecompanysheffield.co.uk UNIVERSITY ARMS University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, S10 7HG Wanlin Dance School BIRDS OF PARADISE by Wanlin Steele THE SHRIMPS SATURDAY 1 JUNE from 8.00pm SATURDAY 22 JUNE, 1.00pm Improvisational Comedy from the awarding Tickets £6 (under 5s free), winning Shrimps. T: 07758 738802, E: [email protected] Small entry charge www.wanlindanceschool.co.uk SAXBOB PRESENTS THE RIVER RATS Hallam ’89 Theatre Club SATURDAY 22 JUNE from 8.00pm OUR DAY OUT by Willy Russell Raw, earthy, foot tapping blues from this THURSDAY 26 & FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER, acoustic trio. 7.15pm Small entry charge SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, 6.15pm TIN BATH BAND A bunch of underprivileged school children are taken on an outing by their teachers and SUNDAY 23 JUNE from 2.00pm predictably cause havoc at every stop. Willy Russell’s poignant humour and exuberant Join us for an afternoon of folk music with a songs underline the joys and agonies of BBQ in the beer garden. growing up and being free from school and Free entry the harsh realities of life - if only for a day.
Tickets £8, concessions £7, LIVE MUSIC FROM DAVE FEARNLEY T: 0114 233 5333/0114 230 3718, E: [email protected] SATURDAY 6 JULY from 9.00pm Free entry
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Sheffield’s very own alternative Burns’ Night event. BBQ and Burns’ poetry. Small entry charge http://2013.tramlines.org.uk/ TRAMLINES AT THE UNIVERSITY ARMS SATURDAY 20 – SUNDAY 21 JULY FESTIVAL OF STREET ARTS + THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDENS Two days of music from DJs and bands with FRIDAY 19-SUNDAY 21 JULY a BBQ in the Beer Garden. Line up TBC. Free entry The University of Sheffield is proud to be (see more on Tramlines - opposite) associated with Tramlines this year through the sponsorship of the International Stage in the Peace Gardens and Festival of Street Arts at SAXBOB PRESENTS ZACC ROGERS Barkers Pool. SATURDAY 17 AUGUST from 8.00pm There will be demonstrations from our international clubs and societies and of course Live blues with a blend Soul, Jazz, Yee-Haa, a chance to hear the sounds of the best in live Rock & Roll, Gospel, Folk and Reggae. world music as you have come to expect from Small entry charge the Peace Gardens in previous years. Alongside this in Barkers Pool will be two days of Street Theatre programmed by Professor Vanessa SUMMER BREEZE Toulmin with the National Fairground Archive. FRIDAY 30 AUGUST – SUNDAY 1 The area is free for all to attend. SEPTEMBER For further information contact the Public Jazz, swing and blues with a BBQ in the Engagement Team, E: [email protected], beer garden. www.sheffield.ac.uk/publicengagement Free entry For more information on any of the above events visit www.facebook.com/universityarms T: 0114 222 8969
Professor Vanessa Toulmin, with street theatre act ‘The Grannies’ 06 –– Music, Drama and Entertainment Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Lectures, Seminars and Conferences
From a societal perspective, and/or musculoskeletal Trauma is the most costly structure(s), and present disease in the developed world a recent UK success story and is second only to HIV in from the Trauma Audit and terms of disability adjusted Research Network (www. years of life lost worldwide. tarn.ac.uk) to show how Fiona Lecky Fiona Lecky will highlight health services research has SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND the challenges inherent in successfully addressed some RELATED RESEARCH attempting to improve civilian of these issues for patient (SCHARR) INAUGURAL trauma care, including the benefit. “occult” nature of lethal injury LECTURE Places are free, but please after blunt trauma, both in HOW TO IMPROVE TRAUMA confirm your attendance for terms of the physiological CARE THROUGH RESEARCH the lecture and reception response to the major threats Professor Fiona Lecky, using the on-line registration of haemorrhage and brain Clinical Professor of form available at: injury and the clinical findings Emergency Medicine www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/ present on examination of the research/events/leckyform WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE, patient. She will describe the 5.15–6.00pm unparalleled heterogeneity Further details from (followed by a wine reception) inherent in a disease that Kirsty Woodhead, Mappin Hall, Mappin Street, can suddenly disrupt any T: 0114 222 5453 S1 3JD (combination of) organ(s) E: [email protected]
FREE HEALTHY • Identifies key changes Besides University of Sheffield SUSTAINABLE DIETS – required to make our diets academic staff, guest MOOC healthier and sustainable contributors who have expertise (MASSIVELY OPEN ONLNE in this area will be joining in, and • Considers some of the COURSE) it is anticipated that the course current dilemmas around will provide a lively forum for MONDAY 17 JUNE – eating a healthy and learning, engaging and debating FRIDAY 21 JULY, online 24/7 sustainable diet the complexities of sustainable This course introduces you to • Examines the role of current diets. sustainable diets as a concept sustainability labelling, and Further information and booking (what might a sustainable explores options for a multi at: diet look like, what does it not health and sustainability label www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/ look like?) and then takes you Discusses the possibilities of prospective_students/moocs/ through some of the challenges policy options to enable citizens dietsmooc involved in choosing food which to make the required shift from is both healthy and sustainable: unhealthy and unsustainable consumption patterns Lectures, Seminars & Conferences –– 07 4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEORISING NORMALCY THE ARTS ECONOMY: AND THE MUNDANE NEW DIRECTIONS IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY TUESDAY 3-WEDNESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER MONDAY 9 & TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SPERI (SHEFFIELD POLITICAL Sheffield Hallam University, UK ECONOMY RESEARCH Organised on behalf of the INSTITUTE) CONFERENCE Hosted by the Department Research Committee for the AUSTERITY VS GROWTH: of Education, Childhood Sociology of the Arts of the THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN and Inclusion + Disability International Sociological POLITICAL ECONOMY Research Forum, Sheffield Association (RC 37) MONDAY 1-WEDNESDAY Hallam University in This conference aims to 3 JULY association with the critically examine the social, University of Chester, Halifax Hall, Endcliffe economic, ideological, and Manchester Metropolitan political forces that have Village, Endcliffe Vale Road, University and The University Sheffield, S10 3ER shaped and transformed how of Sheffield. arts and cultural organisations The aim of the conference and activities have been This conference offers spaces is to provide a context in financed and resourced. which alternative strategies to discuss and explore the and models of growth for the precarious positions ‘normal’, Further information European economy can be and its operating system and booking at: proposed, debated, evaluated ‘normalcy’, create, present us www.shef.ac.uk/management/ and assessed by academics with and, more often than not, events/arts-economy-2013 and policy-makers alike. force us into. Furthermore, it seeks to ‘imagine otherwise’ International Confirmed plenary speakers Sociological by learning from and through Association include: Peter Katzenstein increasingly precarious (Cornell University), Vivien positions of marginality and Schmidt (Boston University), non-normativity. PHILOSOPHY AT THE Iain Begg (LSE), Stuart Holland SHOWROOM (Universidade de Coimbra and For further information and THE ILIAD: THE CULT OF former MP) and David Marsh booking please contact THE HERO CBE (Chair SCCO International E: [email protected] and co-Chairman, OMFIF). To book a place please visit: THURSDAY 27 JUNE, 7.00pm http://normalcy2013.eventbrite. 15 Paternoster Row, S1 2BX Further information co.uk and booking at: A talk on Homer’s Iliad and the www.sheffield.ac.uk/speri role of the hero in that work. The last in the series before the summer, resuming again in the autumn. The series involves talks on both films and books that have some philosophical interest. For further details see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ philosophy/events/ showroom2013
08 –– Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Open Days, Exhibitions and Fairs Open Days, Exhibitions and Fairs
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES EVENTS
IN THE CITY TALKS AND EVENTS ABOUT SHEFFIELD AND BEYOND More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in cities. In the City explores what it is to live in a city and the many things, good and bad, that cities offer their residents. Themes include musical and literary heritage, migration, the role of art in post-traumatic landscapes, estates and the regeneration of the post-industrial city. www.sheffield.ac.uk/artsenterprise/inthecity
THIS IS ARTS ENTERPRISE YORKSHIRE VOICES WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE, 6.00-8.30pm TUESDAY 4-MONDAY 17 JUNE Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover Street, S3 7RA Mon-Thurs, 9.00am-7.00pm Fri - 10.00am-7.00pm Various speakers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Sat – 12.00-6.00pm (excluding holidays) Come and see what the Faculty of Arts and Western Bank Exhibition Space Humanities means by Arts Enterprise and Yorkshire Voices explores what it means to public engagement: projects which combine write in a local dialect, and in particular what the academic expertise of University staff it means to write in an urban dialect. Drawing with external partners in the city and beyond. on archive material generously donated by There will be performances, talks and an authors and their families, the exhibition exhibition of the exciting things that our celebrates the work of four very different academics are involved in, working outside writers: pitman and poet Tom Hague, novelist the University to use research in meaningful and playwright Barry Hines, pitman turned ways. The Faculty throws open its doors and novelist Arthur Eaglestone, singer and poet invites all to partake in a fun, interactive and Cathy Lovett. Each writes about a different informative evening. time and a different part of Yorkshire, and Entry free, please register at each uses dialect for different purposes. www.artsenterprise.eventbrite.co.uk Entry free, no need to book.
Open Days, Exhibitions and Fairs –– 09 EXHIBITION; ANIMALS IN BOOK DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF BIBILICAL STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY ART All Day Festival Supported by Arts Enterprise HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES - BRINGING THURSDAY 25 JULY-FRIDAY 30 AUGUST, THE BIBLE OUT OF THE CLOSET 9.00am-6.00pm, excluding weekends and SATURDAY 1 JUNE, 11.00am-late bank holidays The Showroom Workstation, Jessop West Foyer, 1 Upper Hanover Street, Paternoster Row, S10 2BX Sheffield, S3 7RA A daylong festival during which cabaret acts, This exhibition reflects on animal appearances vocalists, poets, storytellers, artists and in contemporary book jacket design as a way academics will of thinking about the role of animals, and offer re-readings, human encounters with them, in contemporary interpretations and culture. The exhibition brings together iconic re-appropriations jacket designs, from George Orwell’s Animal of biblical stories or Farm to Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the books passages that have themselves, short written reflections on traditionally been them and specially commissioned artworks in read as ‘anti-gay’. response. It is a collaboration between Robert McKay, a Lecturer in English Literature at the Find out more at: University of Sheffield, and Chloe Brown, artist www.hiddenperspectivesfest.wordpress.com and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Twitter: @hperspectives Hallam University. For general enquiries contact: Bob McKay, E: [email protected]
THE INSTITUTE OF LIFELONG LEARNING TILL OPEN DAY ROAD SHOWS AND THURSDAY 18 JULY, OPEN DAYS 2.00-7.00pm If you want to discuss the courses on offer or Our Open Days are for prospective part-time if you need help with your application, come to students who haven’t yet applied, although one of the Road Shows or Open Day events. anyone is welcome to attend. Academic staff will be on hand to give advice and answer any 9 Northumberland Road, questions you may have about the part-time S10 2TT courses we offer. Road Shows You can also find out about: WEDNESDAY 22 MAY, from 10.00am in the • fees and loans entrance hall of the Central Library, Sheffield • our very generous fee waiver for eligible THURSDAY 23 MAY, from 10.00am onwards - students at the Winter Gardens, Sheffield • the whole range of support services available WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE, to mature, part-time students from 10.00am onwards - • what you can study at TILL at Meadowhall Come and chat with us over a coffee and check What happens at out the exciting opportunities TILL a Roadshow? has to offer. The TILL events team will be on hand to give There is no need to book advice and answer questions you may have for either the Road Shows or the Open Days, just about the part-time courses we offer. come along. If you have a specific enquiry Tel: 0114 222 7000. Find out more at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/till
10 –– Open Days, Exhibitions and Fairs The DISCOVER Programme is a free What can you expect? 7 week course designed to inspire • to discover your community you to progress with your learning. • to meet new people Are you interested in studying towards • to explore your local environment a degree? • to take part in trips to museums and Would you like to visit local museums galleries and galleries? • build your confidence Would you like to build your confidence and learn new skills? • improve your conversational English Then the DISCOVER course could • find out about local adult education courses be for you! • friendly and informal learning activities The 2-hour sessions are usually held in To find out more, or to enrol, please the morning, once a week, in a variety contact Louise Ritchie on 0114 222 8121 of locations around the city. or email [email protected]
The Institute For Lifelong Learning.
The Discover Programme is funded and supported by the Community Learning Innovation Fund UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL AND PLANT SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATE OPEN DAY ALFRED DENNY MUSEUM SATURDAY 15 SECRET MUSEUM OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL NATURAL HISTORY! JUNE, TUESDAY 9 & WEDNESDAY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY 10 JULY, MONTH UNTIL DECEMBER 2013 (guided tours at 10.00am, SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER, 11.00am and 12.00) 10.00am-4.00pm Artefacts include the enormous skull of an extinct man size Octagon Centre, S10 2TQ eagle, known as the ‘Terror Bird’, a half porpoise, fossilised tiny flying dinosaurs, To book a place visit the and Sun Spiders with their ferocious, website www.sheffield.ac.uk/ poisonous jaws. undergraduate/opendays Further information and booking at www.sheffield.ac.uk/alfred-denny- DREAM BIGGER DREAMS Alfred Denny Museum museum MINI EVENT SUNDAY 25-MONDAY 26 AUGUST SUMMER GRADUATE SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF Sheffield Fair, RECRUITMENT ONLINE FAIR ARCHITECTURE SUMMER Norfolk Heritage Park MONDAY 10-FRIDAY 21 JUNE EXHIBITION When we’re children, we are Online all day FRIDAY 14 JUNE-MONDAY 15 JULY, 9.00am-5.00pm fearless. Anything is possible Packed with graduate schemes. and nothing is too big or too Whether you’re looking for a OPENING FRIDAY 14 JUNE, difficult. At the University of major graduate recruiter or a 5.30pm Sheffield we like to take that local niche graduate employer Floor 16, Arts Tower, approach too and see the world then the SGORF brings them all Western Bank, S10 2TN through the eyes of a child. We together. Register for the fair want everyone to Dream Bigger between 10-21 June and you Our annual exhibition of Dreams so that together we can can access full employer list, student work from the School make the world better. With a browse their vacancies online, of Architecture. The exhibition host of exciting performances find out more about companies features a large range of and interactive activities for you or even ask them a question. drawings, models and videos by and your family you can try out students across the different something new - it could even Follow all the action on years of the BA, MArch and be the start of your big dream. Twitter via #SGROF, with job Masters courses alerts, new employers and For further details discussions and if all this isn’t A fully illustrated catalogue contact Amy Jones, enough, there is handy advice will be available at the External Relations Manager, available for any student/ opening event. E: [email protected], graduate looking for vacancies Entry Free. T: 0114 222 0565 during the summer. www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture www.sheffield.ac.uk/dream Register here from 10 June: www.sheffieldcareersfairs. ac.uk
Arts Tower Dream Bigger Dreams 12 –– Open Days, Exhibitions and Fairs HERITAGE OPEN DAY FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER Western Bank Library, Special Collections & the Information Commons Visitors to the Open Day will have an opportunity to tour the buildings and see the excellent facilities at first hand. Members of staff will be on hand to answer questions. Entry is free, but please visit the website for further information and tour bookings. Booking will open on 1 July 2013: www.shef.ac.uk/whatson/heritageopenday Heritage Open Days celebrates England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission. More on other Heritage Open Day events can be found at: www.heritageopendays.org.uk
THE 5TH DEMENTIA CREATIVE Miscellaneous ARTS EXHIBITION 2013 THE SHEFFIELD PHILOSOPHY ESSAY PRIZE THEME: FRENDSHIP High School Essay Competition Sponsored SATURDAY 22 – FRIDAY 28 JUNE, by the Philosophy Department 9.00am-4.00pm Deadline for submission SUNDAY 30 JUNE Activities for children and young An annual competition for Years 10, 11 and 12. The aims of this people (5-15 years) newly established prize are twofold: firstly, to encourage ambitious 22 and 23 JUNE, 11.00am-2.00pm and talented secondary school students considering applying to Jessop West Exhibition Space, university to study philosophy; and secondly, to recognize the Jessop West, 34 Gell Street, achievements both of high-calibre students and of those who teach S3 7QY them. The competition is run by the Department of Philosophy at The theme of this year’s exhibition the University of Sheffield. This year the competition is limited to is “Friendship” and contributions students in the Yorkshire area. are cordially invited from people Further details at: www.phil.dept.shef.ac.uk/essay with dementia, their family members and dementia care practitioners. PASSAGES THEATRE GROUP FOR OLDER PERFORMERS Open to all types of contributions Studio 1, Drama Studio, Shearwood Road, S10 2TD – paintings, collage, photographs, University of Sheffield PhD student Bridie Moore runs a theatre poetry, stories, memories, audio group for older performers to explore the representations and tapes, video clips and other art experiences of older people. The group is made up of people over forms. the age of 50 and is a central part of Bridie’s research project Submissions should be taken to looking into ‘performances of age and ageing’. This theatre group the Exhibition Space on FRIDAY offers older people an opportunity to explore ways in which they 21 JUNE. All submissions must be are, and would like to be, represented. collected by the contributor after Bridie has over 30 years’ experience as a theatre director and the exhibition. drama facilitator in mainstream and community theatre and as a teacher in further and community education. Passages Open to the public. Theatre Group will develop performances to be staged at points No booking required. over the next two years. It is Bridie’s aim to secure funding for the Find out more at group to continue beyond her research project. www.syorksdementiaexhibition There is no cost to take part in the group. 2013.blogspot.co.uk For more information contact Bridie Moore, T: 0114 222 2060, E: [email protected], T: 07811 812982 E: [email protected] www.facebook.com/passagestheatregroup Miscellaneous –– 13 TUOS281 The Universityof Sheffield Copyright ©2013 information T:01142228782, the widerpublic.Formore its studentmembersand to sellUniversityevents The UnionBoxOfficeisable Students’ UnionBoxOffice: www.sport-sheffield.com E: [email protected], T: 01142226999, Goodwin SportsCentre, Sport Sheffield, Sports facilities: T: 01142229060 Room andParkingServices, University meetingsrooms: E: [email protected] process, T:01142228822, throughout thebooking packages andguidance For fully-inclusiveevents conferencewithUS. www.sheffield.ac.uk/drama T: 01142220200 Studio, ShearwoodRoad, Theatre Manager,Drama Drama Studio: FACILITIES UNIVERSITY FOR BOOKING CONTACT DETAILS www.sheffield.ac.uk/library E: [email protected], T: 01142227200, Library: E: [email protected]
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