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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Professor Virginia Heath’s BAFTA-nominated film ‘From Scotland With Love’ screening with live performance by King Creosote

2020-03 HEATH Virginia - FSWL Still

Professor Virginia Heath’s BAFTA-nominated film, From Scotland With Love, is screening with live performance of the score by King Creosote at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on Saturday 07 March 2020, almost 5 years after it was performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2015. “Even without the use of a TV, mobile phone and the internet, I am […]

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The Immense Ventriloquism – Part.2 TC McCormack & guest artists exhibition in Berlin – 6 March to 5 April 2020

Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, TC McCormack, will be showcasing his new work at exhibition The Immense Ventriloquism – Part.2 this Friday in Berlin at nationalmuseum. His work will be presented alongside new and existing works by guest artists: Clara Bausch, Matthew Burbidge, Ingo Gerken, Marie von Heyl, Michael Schultze, Raaf van der Sman and Oliver […]

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Dementia friendly screenings with Q&As of From Scotland with Love at the Glasgow Film Festival

Composite image of From Scotland With Love, directed by Professor Virginia Heath

04 March 2020 Update: ScreenDaily recently featured an article (How the Glasgow Film Festival is making good on its rallying cry of “cinema for all”) about the screenings. Read the article here. Professor Virginia Heath‘s documentary film From Scotland With Love will feature in two unique screenings with Q&As at the Glasgow Film Festival as part of GFF Movie Memories: […]

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‘Three Chords and the Truth’ screens at the Manchester Film Festival

2020-03 HEATH ATKINSON Three Chords at Manchester Film Festival

Three Chords and the Truth has been selected for screening at the Manchester Film Festival alongside documentary shorts at the ODEON Great Northern on Thursday 12 March 2020. Three Chords and the Truth Manchester Film Festival, ODEON Manchester Great Northern Thursday 12 March 2020, 6PM See the full schedule of films here. The short film directed by Virginia Heath, Professor of Film, […]

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War Child Holland and Partners make MacArthur Foundation award shortlist for ‘Can’t Wait to Learn’

CWTL Banner with logos for &ranj, War Child, Sheffield Hallam University, Butterfly Works and Save the Children

High-scoring 100&Change applicants featured in Bold Solutions Network Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 19 2020 The MacArthur Foundation today revealed that War Child Holland and coalition partners – including Save the Children, Butterfly Works, &Ranj and Sheffield Hallam University – have been shortlisted for the final stage of the 100&Change competition. The coalition has been recognised for its Can’t Wait to Learn e-learning programme […]

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Life Cafés are on the market!

Life Cafe is launched

The Life Café kit is now available to purchase via Marie Curie! It’s amazing to think that we began our work with Marie Curie on the Design to Care Programme in just 2017 and we now have an evidence-based product on the market. This is particularly made possible by the wonderful and award winning Design Futures Packaging (http://www.designfuturesgroup.com/packaging-design) team, who […]

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Professors Virginia Heath and Paul Atkinson speak to Radio Sheffield about ‘Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution’ documentary

2019-12-16 HEATH ATKINSON - Cigar Box Blues BBC (1)

Professors Virginia Heath and Paul Atkinson have been speaking to Rony Robinson on Radio Sheffield (at 38:00) about their documentary focused on the men who make and play their own cigar box guitars. Find out more, and read interviews with both Virginia and Paul, here. Paul Atkinson is Professor of Design and Design History in the Art and Design Research Centre […]

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‘NO MATTER new matter #6’ – Featuring Sharon Kivland

No matter new matter #6 - featuring Sharon Kivland

NO MATTER new matter #6 Technically the end of our funded adventure (tho watch this space) (thanks Arts Council England, total babes) this is our sixth of six events with commissioned performances throughout 2019-20! We are super chuffed to have Sharon Kivland ~ who will be performing newly commissioned work for us, get ready ~ alongside performances from Aurelia Guo […]

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Diane Rodgers Researcher Blog: Adventures in Folklore with the BBC!

About the Author Diane A. Rodgers is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Arts and Communications at Sheffield Hallam University and a C3RI PhD candidate conducting doctoral research relating to folklore and folk horror in ‘wyrd’ 1970s British Film and Television. On either side of the festive period, I was lucky to have a number of direct collaborations with the BBC in relation to […]

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