Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
‘The river is always communicating’ Amy Carter Gordon in collaboration with Alban Krashi & Jonny Douglas: The River Dôn Project I live and work in close proximity to the River Sheaf, a tributary of the Dôn. Within this biotic community, I hear the 5am calls of a Tawny Owl and witness the underside of a heron’s wingspan as it […]
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“Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling” Dr Harriet Earle, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, has written a piece for The Conversation’s Reimagining Classics series. Harriet’s piece suggests reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling.
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fæthm: explorations in co-curation with the River Dôn Upper Gallery at Kelham Island Museum and The River Dôn Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th March 2025 Free entry Opening times Thurs: 10-4 Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-4 Sun: 11-4 Our entanglement with the more-than-human deepens as we iteratively explore co-curation with the River Dôn. In a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and […]
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Ana María Sánchez-Arce, reader in English, has been featured in a New York Times piece discussing the history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking.
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Dr Ruth Deller, reader in media and communications, was featured on BBC Radio Sheffield to discuss the biggest TV shows of 2024, including Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Listen back from 1:43:39.
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International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]
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Improvising Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-9th October as part of Flux experimental music festival, Arts in the Margins, Montreal. “In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom” “Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is […]
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In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey funded by UKRI Arts & […]
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Cradle of Fire logo – Image copyright Cradle of Fire Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby co-created, multi-media film Cradle of Fire will be launched at an exciting performance event at Kelham Island on Thursday November 7th 2024. The film re-imagines the story of Vulcan, the Roman god of fires, furnaces and volcanoes, who was adopted as an icon for […]
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No Bounds Festival 2024 has received a review in Clash magazine with comments from Amy Carter Gordon, curator, producer and public art specialist. Amy is a co-curator at No Bounds Festival and has twenty-five years of experience in curating exhibitions, installations, dialogues and collaborations for leading UK research-based festivals. Amy says: “There’s such a strong community within subcultures, I didn’t […]
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