The Beekeepers, The Gamebirds and Dovercourt Quartet Friday June 1st, 7.30pm The Beekeepers play lovely arrangements of medieval/early and traditional (folk) tunes in harmony, producing a unique blend of music with a mellow feel that everyone can enjoy – ‘chamber music’ with a bit of a difference. The Gamebirds are a women’s quartet singing […]
Friday 18th May 2018 7-9.30pm Having filled Audacious Space last autumn, Adrena Adrena return for another unique A/V experience, this time in the surroundings of Sheffield’s 16th Century Bishops’ House. Adrena Adrena is a collaboration between visual artist Daisy Dickinson and drummer E-Da Kazuhisa, previously the drummer of the Japanese noise band Boredoms and currently […]
Monday 18th June 2018 – 7.30pm This presentation will use evidence from Bradbourne’s Anglo-Saxon stone cross and the church to chart the ‘progress’ of Reformation in this part of Derbyshire. The material evidence and the texts speak to us of iconoclasm, destruction, resistance and eventual Reformation. There will be some references to the situation in […]
Wednesday 4th July 2018 – 7.30pm Find out about Sheffield’s wartime anti-aircraft defences and the part they played in the defence of the city during two World Wars. This talk by archaeologist Chris Kolonko will investigate the development of anti-aircraft defences, looking at surviving examples in and around Sheffield and how these would have operated […]
Monday 14th May 2018 A utopian project with a cast of wonderful characters: John Ruskin at his paternalistic best, cycling Quaker Henry Swan, argumentative socialist Mrs Maloy, ex Chartist and Shelley enthusiast Joseph Sharp, brave gay sandal wearing Edward Carpenter. And a little film.
Saturday 19th May 2018 7.30pm Bob Hedger, from Paris, AKA Jah Buddha, makes electronic, ambient synth music. He also plays in UKKA, his collaboration with Shankara and the Glissando Guitar Orchestra, but tonight he’ll be performing his own synth soundworlds https://jahbuddha.bandcamp.com Modulator ESP is Jez Creek from Nottingham, he makes fantastic synthesiser music, using an […]
SOLD OUT 13th April 2018, 7.30pm Liverpool composer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Campbell has been described by Classical Guitar Magazine as ‘an outstanding guitarist whose originality of thought makes him far more than just another gifted purveyor of finger acrobatics’ and by Sean Bradbury, Getintothis, as ‘a man whose fingers have the ability to harness any […]
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