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Charity Poetry event gives local poets the chance to perform live

by Oliver Haley | Apr 27, 2023 | Charity, Culture, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture, Watch

Whilst fans around Sheffield were celebrating promotion, just next door was a very different kind of event with a very different tone. Although a lot of us may have not thought about poetry since finishing Secondary School, it is still just as important as ever and...

‘Black Sheep’ comes to Sheffield

by Javier Tucker | Mar 31, 2023 | Culture, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

The genre-defying play ‘Black Sheep’, is a boundary-breaking story of a black queer woman finding love whilst the world works against her. Writer, poet and musician Livia Kojo Alour, who frequently performed on stages around the world as a sword swallower shares her...

Enchanting cherry blossoms in Sheffield give hopes of spring

by admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Culture, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Pink blossom trees are flourishing in Sheffield, just two weeks after chilling temperature and heavy snow. But the Springtime sight won’t be around for long. Visitors at Crookes Valley Park were seen taking pictures of the blooming trees in awe while a cyclist...

Behind the chaotic production of ‘Music for the Arts Tower’

by Jesselyn Whiteside | Mar 24, 2023 | Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Friday evening in Sheffield’s Arts Tower was a unique spectacle to behold. As part of Classical Weekend, Platform 4, a composer collective based in the Steel City, put on a performance piece in collaboration with sound artist Lorenzo Prati.  The event was...

Reverend and the Makers ask fans to ‘write letters to their 21 year old self’

by Ewan Jardine | Mar 24, 2023 | Culture, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

Sheffield legends ‘Reverend and the Makers’ asked fans and industry friends to write letters to their twenty one year-old selves in anticipation of their latest single release.  Thursday night’s collaboration coincided with the launch of the band’s...

Local theatre retells The Odyssey as a story of hope in inhumane warehouses

by Jesselyn Whiteside | Mar 24, 2023 | Culture, Top Story 4 - Home Page Picture

The adventures of Odysseus have been workshopped with Doncaster community performers as part a multi-location production of The Odyssey, which opens this month. The project is an epic retelling of the ancient Greek poem from the National Theatre as part of their...
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