PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
OPEN DAYS, EXHIBITIONS & FAMILY EVENTS
The University of Sheffield Library presents the exhibition
‘I Can Do That!’
The Peculiar Pursuits of a Showman Sculptor- Anthony Bennett
THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER - FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER
Western Bank Library Exhibition Gallery
Exhibits and ephemera from 30 years illustrate his adventures in popular cultural activities and artistic exploits. Bennett gives us a glimpse of his treasure trove of memorabilia which records his professional proficiency, his perseverance and his joy for participation in collaborative endeavours and initiatives. He proclaims his recent emergence as an artist of note and outspoken conviction in the City, and reveals his history, creating the sculptural work of artist Yinka Shonibare.
For opening times and further information go to:
OFF THE SHELF FESTIVAL OF WORDS
12 October-2 November
Various venues across the University and the City
One of the UK’s most popular and exciting events attracting some of the best known names in literature and the media. The festival offers a wide range of events for audiences of all ages including readings, workshops, storytelling, exhibitions, talks, walks, poetry, competitions and more.
The full programme of University of Sheffield Off the Shelf events will be available soon.
THE INSTITUTE OF LIFELONG LEARNING
ROAD SHOWS AND OPEN DAYS
If you want to discuss the courses we offer or if you need help with your application, come to one of our Road Shows or Open Day events.
9 Northumberland Road (Map)
Details of future roadshows will be advertised shortly.
OPEN DAYS
What happens at an Open Day?
Academic staff will be on hand to give advice and answer any questions you may have about the part-time courses we offer.
Who are Open Days for?
Our Open Days are for prospective part-time students who haven't yet applied, although anyone is welcome to attend.
Why not find out what qualifications TILL can offer you meet staff and students at the TILL Open Day?
You can also find out about:
- fees and loans
- our very generous fee waiver for eligible students
- the whole range of support services available to mature, part-time students
- what you can study at TILL
Come and chat with us over a coffee and check out the exciting opportunities TILL has to offer.
ALFRED DENNY MUSEUM
Secret Museum of Weird and Wonderful Natural History!
Open to the public on the first Saturday of every month until December 2013
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
Artefacts include the enormous skull of an extinct man size eagle, know as the 'Terror Bird', a half porpoise, fossilised tiny flying dinosaurs, and Sun Spiders with their ferocious, poisonous jaws.
To book your visit email: r.myers@sheffield.ac.uk
HERITAGE OPEN DAY
Western Bank Library and Information Commons
FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER, 10.00am-4.00pm
With optional specialised tours:
•The Information Commons
•Special Collections
•National Fairground archive
IDEAS BAZAAR
WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
We are delighted to announce the 2nd Ideas Bazaar to take place at the University of Sheffield.
Ideas Bazaar is where academics and artists meet and collaborate. The day is hosted by international performer and star of R4, Christopher Green. Find your perfect partner for projects that will be showcased at the 2nd Festival of the Mind in 2014.
FESTIVAL OF THE MIND 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 event for all.
For further information contact the Public Engagement team,
OPENING UP THE BOOK
The 4th Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize Exhibition
5 OCTOBER - 30 NOVEMBER
TUESDAYS-SATURDAYS, 10.00am-5.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
PREVIEW EVENING
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER from 5.00pm
All welcome. Free Admission
Further information on the Exhibition
The Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize has grown to be the largest Prize and Exhibition of Artist's Books anywhere in the world and this year's exhibition is the biggest yet. A unique show of over 450 original and fascinating artist-made books, displaying every facet of this unique medium, with entries from every continent. Visitors to the exhibition act as judges of the Main Prize, voting for their favourites from the spectacular array of works on show. If you have never seen artists’ books exhibited before then this is your chance to really see the richness and breadth of the medium: if you are familiar with artists’ books, you will never have seen a show quite like this before!
EVENTS DURING THE EXHIBITION
THE ICE BOOK
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Performance every half hour from 11.30am
Bank Street, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Tickets from Arena Box office. £4 - Age10-18 years, £6 - Concessions (students, BSA Members etc), £8 - Full Adult Ticket. Suitable for ages 10+
A miniature theatre show made of paper and light. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you right into the heart of a fantasy world.
ILLUMINATION - TEXT - TYPING - INSCRIPTION - HANDWRITING: TALKS ON TEXTS
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
6.00pm-8.30pm
Seminar Room B81, Richard Roberts Building, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, S3 7HF
A series of talks by of the School of English at the University of Sheffield and invited academics. Feel free to attend one or all. Free Admission on the day – no advance booking needed
VIRGINIA WOOLF – BEYOND PARADISE ROAD
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER
11.00am-12.30pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Free Admission. Places limited so book early. Tickets from Bank Street Arts or by e-mail info@bankstreetarts.com
NOTES, NOTATION AND MUSICAL PAPER: AN AFTERNOON WITH COMPOSER STEPHEN CHASE
SATURDAY 19 October
1.00pm-6.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Free Admission. Places limited so book early. Tickets from Bank Street Arts or by e-mail info@bankstreetarts.com
in spats. He co-edited a book of essays with Philip Thomas on the music of Christian Wolff.
For more see: http://stephenchase.wordpress.com/
ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP WITH KATHERINE JOHNSON
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER
10.00am-2.30pm (with break for lunch)
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
£15 (Full) £10 (Concessions, BSA Members). Places limited so book early. Tickets from Bank Street Arts or by e-mail info@bankstreetarts.com
Turn unread pages into sculpture. Learn how to sculpt with a scalpel; single pages and an entire book to create an altered book that until opened remains a normal, untouched book.
Over the workshop you will assemble your own ‘hollow’ book frame with its self contained sculpture from the book pages itself. You need to be confident with using a scalpel.
All materials provided. Suitable for 16+.
THE BARE PROJECT PRESENTS 22 PAGES
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER
7.00pm-11.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Tickets – in advance from Arena Box office. Early Bird deal: £4 (first 20 tickets sold), In Advance: £5 (concessions) £6 (standard). On the door: £7 (concessions) £8 (standard)
As Off-The-Shelf turns 22, The Bare Project combines immersive performance, new writing and live music to celebrate the 22nd birthdays of literary figures born in October... how they may have celebrated. Have a night of debauchery in rural Ireland with Oscar Wilde... Contemplate death and poetry with Sylvia in McLean Hospital, Massachusetts... Raise a bit of hell with serial romancer Ezra, while women, not words were top of the list...
PUBLISH YOUR OWN ZINE
SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER
2.00pm-8.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Free Admission
See your words in print when you write and publish your own mini-magazine. Your zine can include anything. Come to the session bringing possible content, ideas or just enthusiasm.
This event is running as part of Off The Shelf Festival.
ART, POETRY AND THE MAKING OF THE BOOK
SATURDAY 9 & SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER
2.00-5pm each day
Exhibition Space, Jessop West, University of Sheffield (Leavygreave Road)
Free Admission on the day – no advance booking needed
Symposium on University Library's fine art books collection.
Specific symposium focus: Tetrad and Circle Presses
Guest speakers: Tetrad Press founder, Ian Tyson, Circle Press founder Ron King, and artists Tom Phillips (A Humument, Dante’s Inferno) and Sam Winston (“Memory Palace”, V & A)
Artists and poets have long collaborated on creating books that are art objects in their own right. These hybrid creations speak to the eye and ear and mind as graphic collaborations upon the page turning the book itself into a material object that sings and shines and has formally complex being. This two day symposium brings artists, poets and book makers together, using the astonishingly beautiful books created by Tetrad Press and Circle Press from the 1970s onwards, including among many others the collaboration between poet Roy Fisher and Tom Phillips for Tetrad and Ronald King and poet Jerome Rothenberg for Circle Press. Artist Sam Winston produces painstaking works of art out of words themselves, which have been supported and published by Ronald King at Circle Press. The guest speakers will be talking about the idea of the fusion of art and poetry and fine book making, as well as reflecting on the history of the two presses. Examples of the fine art books in the Private Presses Collection held at the University of Sheffield Library will be on show, and there will be an opportunity to enjoy other examples within the Special Collections reading room. The weekend showcases just some of the University of Sheffield's extraordinary holdings in its Private Presses Collection at Western Bank Library, including substantial collections from our speakers, and celebrates the university's collaboration with Bank Street Arts.
http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ityson.htm
http://www.circlepress.com/
http://www.samwinston.com/
GUERRILLA WRITING WORKSHOP
SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER
11.00am-3.00pm (with break for Lunch)
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Free Admission (but places are limited, so booking advised – see website for details)
Sheffield's Guerrilla Writers will host a workshop exploring an extended idea of reading and writing – though text-generation might be a better description – by employing novel strategies in order to make works of art.
Taking their cue from such writers as Georges Perec, Kenneth Goldsmith, Raymond Queneau, and Sharon Kivland they use absurd, arbitrary, and inappropriate ways of managing and making text from unlikely sources.
This workshop will reveal new ways of considering and conceiving the written and spoken word and will be suitable for writers and those interested in writing and reading. Be prepared to join in.
http://guerrillawriting.blogspot.co.uk/
SALT+SHAW - WORD, IMAGE, OBJECT
SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER
2.00pm-4.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
£5 (Full) £3 (Concessions, BSA Members). Places limited so book early. Tickets from Bank Street Arts or by e-mail info@bankstreetarts.com
Words and images, concertinas, cut-outs and complex bindings - artists' books explore every format. Text, poems and short stories are an integral part of books made by SALT + SHAW and can be found within both traditional and experimental structures. This workshop will not only provide an opportunity to handle some of their unique and limited edition books, but also to create your own writing from a variety of words, images and objects. Interested in writing? Love books? Then this is the workshop for you.
OPENING UP THE BOOK - CLOSING EVENT
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER
5.00-8.00pm
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, S1 2DS
Free Admission
On the final day of the Book Prize show we will be announcing all Prize Winners and visitors will have an opportunity to view both the Jury choices and the public vote winner.
ARTIST’S BOOK SHOWCASE
THROUGHOUT OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
Various Venues
Free Admission
Alongside this year’s 4th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, taking place at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield throughout October and November, we are showcasing artists’ books in a range of public spaces around the city.
There will be two installations in The Central Library throughout the month of October. Prize winning book artist, Katherine Johnson, from Leeds will create a site specific book and paper installation in the large display case between the Library and Graves Gallery whilst on the ground floor of the Library we will be displaying an exhibition of photographs of artists’ books from our unique collection.
Books from the Collection will also be on show in branch libraries around the city. Look out for these unique displays in Chapeltown, Ecclesfield and Walkley libraries, throughout October and November, where artists’ books will be displayed and can be handled, manipulated and read. There will also be a static display of more sculptural books in Window 7 on Cambridge Street as part of Sheffield Showcase from October 1st to November 10th.
Books will also be on display in selected Sheffeild hotel foyers throughout Octiober and November including: Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Hilton Sheffield, Kenwood Hall, DoubleTree by Hilton and Jurys Inn, Sheffield
TETRAD AND CIRCLE PRESS
MONDAY 11 – FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER
Exhibition Space, Jessop West, The University of Sheffield
Free Admission
Small scale exhibition of the output of both Tetrad and Circle Presses from the University’s Private Presses Collection at Western Bank Library including the work of Tom Phillips, Sam Winston and other notable collaborators.
ARTISTS BOOKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY’S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER
2.00-4.30pm
Special Collections, Western Bank Library, The University of Sheffield
Free Admission
Books from the University of Sheffield’s Private Presses Collection can be viewed at any time during Library opening hours by appointment.
As part of the Opening Up the Book programme, Librarian Amanda Bernstein will present a selection of books from the Collection in the Western Bank Library and will be available to talk about the books on show.
FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
2-9 NOVEMBER
Social Science in Sheffield is changing society
• ...it is helping to improve children's literacy and numeracy
• ...it is extending our understanding of human rights
• ....it is making the world a safer place for journalists
• ....it is reinventing politics
• ...it is helping older people to live more fulfilling lives
The ESRC, the University of Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam University are working together to co-ordinate the Festival of Social Science in Sheffield.
Festival of Social Science offers a fascinating insight into some of the country's leading social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.
Social science research makes a real difference. Discover how it shapes public policy and contributes to making the economy more competitive, as well as giving people a better understanding of 21st century society. From big ideas to the most detailed observations, social science affects us all everyday - at work, in school, when raising children, within our communities, and on a national level
This celebration of the social sciences includes public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and much more.
All events are free to attend, although some are aimed at specific audiences and some require registration.