No Bounds Festival: 10-12 October 2025

Sheffield Hallam partners with Treatment Studio for this year’s No Bounds Festival. No Bounds festival returns to venues across Sheffield and Rotherham from the 10-12 October 2025, featuring new installations from artist-researchers at Sheffield Hallam University and Treatment Studio, London.   This programme of commissions is entitled switch room.  switch room explores dimensional timelines spanning locality and communities, environmental activism, topographical […]

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Rose Butler to present at the Sustainable Photography Conference: 3- 4 July 2025

Rose Butler be presenting a paper and exhibiting film work made in collaboration with Rob Gawthrop at the Sustainable Photography? conference 3rd and 4th July at Falmouth University: https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/events/sustainable-photography-conference This new work was commissioned for the group exhibition faethm, Kelham Island Museum (2025) curated by Amy Carter Gordon as part of the River Don Project in partnership with SHU.   The film works were made […]

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Clash Magazine Live Report: No Bounds Festival 2024

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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No Bounds Festival 2024 – “Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium”, a Blog by Amy Carter Gordon

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Curator and Innovation Manager, Amy Carter Gordon, Culture and Creativity Research Institute, shares the value of collaborating with No Bounds independent festival in Sheffield in order to engage audiences in practice-based cultural research and innovation in non-traditional venues across the city from neighbourhood social enterprises to an artist studio basement. Entanglement, commons and cultural mycelium For my curated strand of […]

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Writing the Water – Eco-poetry workshops cruising the Sheffield waterways as part of Being Human festival – 18 November 2023

Writing the Water image - barge on canal, courtesy of Amy Carter Gordon

Update: Professor Harriet Tarlo featured on BBC Radio Sheffield’s Creative Lives to talk about eco-poetry and Hallam’s upcoming Being Human Festival event, Writing the Water. Listen back from 2:14:28. Join us on 18 November 2023 for an eco-poetry workshop exploring the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal – Writing the Water. Sheffield Hallam University, in collaboration with the River Don Project and […]

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No Bounds Festival – Hallam’s collaboration set to spark conversation

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An exciting, barrier-breaking cultural festival is coming to Sheffield this October – and we’re thrilled to announce that staff and academics from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute have been involved in key exhibitions. What to expect from the festival? If you come to the festival, you’ll have an opportunity to see the city from new and different perspectives and a rare […]

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