Details of current Arts Enterprise projects are listed below.
Bank Street ArtsContact: Karen Harvey (History) Karen Harvey is Academic-in-Residence at Bank Street Arts, which is housed in buildings dating from the 1820s. Existing historical research into this building, and those nearby, will be disseminated via this project. Outputs include print leaflets, digital photographs, two short films, a webpage, an artist’s book, an exhibition and an artwork. External partners:
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Being Anglo-NordicContact: Andrew Linn (English) Building on the successful Ola Nordmann Goes West virtual platform, this project aims to encourage members of the Anglo-Nordic community in the North of England to tell their migration stories. The project will tie in with the bicentenary of Norwegian independence in 2014. External partners:
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Better Futures PlatformContact: Richard Steadman-Jones (English) This will add value to existing work at Site by enabling young people to engage with Platforms, the gallery's artists-in-residence scheme, and its Imagining Better Futures research project. Young people will work with artists and Richard Steadman-Jones to build their skills in research, critical debating, marketing and communication, and to commission new art work that responds to the places in which they live. External partners:
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Book Talk: Book of the Festival 2013Contact: Sara Whiteley (English) Project partners will work together to select Off the Shelf's Book of the Festival 2013. The novel’s author will be booked to appear at the festival in events for reading groups in the city, which will be open to all. Six reading groups from a range of locations in Sheffield will be asked to take part in a special strand of the project by reading the novel and allowing their discussions to be recorded. These recordings will provide research data for investigations into contemporary literary interpretation. External partners:
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Broadway to Hollywood FestivalContact: Dominic McHugh (Music) A film festival and related events exploring musical theatre and film. Film screenings will be combined with talks and Q&As from those who either study or have been involved in the film or musical, providing context for each screening. External partners:
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Faith and Fear in Philadelphia: An Experiment in History, Music and FilmContact: Andrew Heath (History) Building on an existing collaboration and looking at the representation of the past through various media, this project will facilitate the exploration of research into 19th century Philadelphia through song. Pete David will write an album based on Andrew Heath’s research, and the project will be documented and reflected upon via a film. External partners:
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Folk Song in EnglandContact: Fay Hield (Music) A public event linked to the wider Folk Song in England project, involving lectures and discussion from two experts on English folk song concerning its roots, development, and the essential part it plays in communities. TUOS Folk and the University’s CeilidhSoc will follow up the event with a masterclass run by Sam Sweeney to develop a public performance. External partners:
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Furnace Park Micro-habitatsContact: Amanda Crawley Jackson (Languages) From September 2013–June 2014, the Furnace Park team will work with Art in the Park to develop a series of one day spring and summer events for the local community. Participants will create their own micro-habitats – dens, tents, domes and huts – promoting play, exploration and the use of natural and found materials. External partners:
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Furnace Park Research GardenContact: Jane Hodson (English) A garden at Furnace Park showcasing three research projects:
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Hidden Perspectives World AIDS Day ConcertContact: Katie Edwards (Biblical Studies) A performance of Gareth Valentine’s Requiem by LGBT choirs from Leeds, Manchester and the Midlands on World AIDS Day (1 December) at St Mark’s Church, Broomhill. External partners:
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Knowing as HealingContacts: Brendan Stone and Vicky Grant (English) The aim of this project is to partner medical students and people living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), to record narratives of how it is to live with this often stigmatised and highly debilitating condition. The project will collect oral and written narratives and creative and visual representations of the IBS experience. External partners:
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Language for EnterpriseContact: Caroline Bland (Languages) Final-year students of German will have the opportunity to offer their skills in text production, translation and intercultural awareness to External partners:
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Matthew Barley CelloContact: Stewart Campbell (Music) Acclaimed cellist Matthew Barley will work with local youth orchestras, schools and University of Sheffield music students to perform Benjamin Britten’s music across a series of workshops. The results will be included on Matthew’s new album. External partners:
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New Connections: Research and Practice in the Arts and Humanities and Medicine and HealthContact: Phil Withington (History) This project will build collaborations between the University of Sheffield's Centre for Medical Humanities (MHS) and the Sheffield Arts and Wellbeing Network (SAWN). The central concerns and interests of MHS (research) and SAWN (practice) complement each other, and the networking event and subsequent action-based workshops will be a catalyst for cooperation, and the preparation of joint funding applications. External partners:
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Opening up the BookContact: Adam Piette (English) A project designed to raise awareness of the large artist’s book collection held by the University of Sheffield. It combines a workshop and lecture series with a research based project to develop taxonomies and language to describe the collection, a feasibility study of the establishment of a book centre in Sheffield and the development of an MA module combining arts administration with art-text research. External partners:
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Photography/Authenticity ExhibitionContact: Oliver Johnson (Languages) An exploration of the potential for large scale photographic artworks to be displayed at various locations around Sheffield. If successful, this will lead to a larger project to exhibit photography around the city. External partners:
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Picture this: Photographing ResearchContact: David Forrest (English) PhD students will work with photographer Andy Brown to explore the role of photography in communicating research. The resulting photographs will be curated into an exhibition, with accompanying text written by the students. External partners:
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Project AlexContact: Catherine Fletcher (History) Based on Catherine Fletcher’s current work on Alessandro de' Medici, the first black head of state in modern Western history, this project will work with Notre Dame School to pilot workshops using Alessandro’s story to discuss issues such as mixed race families, arranged marriages, friendship, gender and sexuality. External partners:
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Sacred SpacesContacts: Brendan Stone and David Forrest (English) The project aims to promote dialogue, creative exchange and understanding between local people. Art in The Park will work with students and academics from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to facilitate a series of open workshops within faith buildings utilising methods of engagement and expression drawn from the arts and literature – sharing skills and knowledge, as well as creating opportunity for discussion around why the space is sacred and what it holds for individuals. The whole community is encouraged to attend and get involved get involved in the workshops, and find out about the spaces and the faiths that use them. External partners:
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Sheffield 1914: Lives and HeadlinesContact: Amber Regis (English) Sheffield 1914: Lives and Headlines is a centenary project commemorating the outbreak of World War I from a local perspective, making use of newspaper archives to document the impact of both national and international politics on Sheffield lives, communities and industries. It will include short monthly postings on the Sheffield Star website, which aims to invite contributions from members of the public, and a Sheffield 1914 Twitter account. External partners:
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Steel City Lives: Untold Stories from the Seven HillsContact: Dawn Hadley (Archaeology) The Department of Archaeology and Point Blank Theatre have been developing collaborative methods to disseminate the Sheffield region’s 19th century working class histories. This project aims to explore the ways in which this can be extended to develop performances and publications that can offer work experience and enterprise opportunities for the Faculty’s students in research, professional production and performance. External partners:
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Steel StoriesContact: Brendan Stone and Jack Windle (English) Steel Stories will produce a series of photographs and narratives of the diverse range of people that have worked in the steel industry. Using a variety of techniques, including stills photography, video, audio slideshows, podcasts, soundtracks, and textual narratives, and a set of research methodologies drawn from the arts and humanities, the project will produce a compelling set of resources and stories which will be showcased at several high-profile and inclusive public events, both inside and outside the University of Sheffield, and on a dedicated website. External partners:
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Stories of Activism in SheffieldContacts: Gary Rivett and Adrian Bingham (History) Stories of Activism aims to bring to life Sheffield's vibrant history of activism via a series of city walks. These walks will be based on oral histories collected by activists themselves, and part of the project will be to provide the training required for them to work on this. External partners:
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Walkley WitnessContact: Charles West (History) The Walkley Witness programme will complement and extend an existing project on the history of Walkley by involving second-year history students in investigating and documenting the history of Walkley in the World War II and during the 1980s. External partners:
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