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National Folklore Survey (#NFS) – Dr David Clarke on the exciting new project that provide insights into beliefs, customs and traditions in contemporary England

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 Far from being outdated and trivial folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’.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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No Bounds Festival 11 – 13 October 2024: Programme

Sheffield Hallam partners with No Bounds to showcase world-leading research in culture and creativity. No Bounds festival returns to venues across Sheffield from the 11-13 October 2024, featuring new installations from artist-researchers at Sheffield Hallam University. This series of commissions is entitled Entanglement, Commons and Cultural Mycelium, curated and produced by Amy Carter Gordon, Innovation Manager. Associate producer: Lauren McConnell, […]

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Cradle of Fire: Website launch for exciting collaborative project on Vulcan and Steelmaking

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Journalism lecturer and poet Carolyn Waudby is part of a collaborative team that has launched a website documenting their research project Cradle of Fire https://cradleoffire.com The venture is a multimedia exploration of the story of Vulcan, which has received a Lottery- funded Arts Council grant. Carolyn is writing a sequence of poems using the mythology of the Roman god of […]

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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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SHU Researchers involved in recent mass UFO sighting at Todmorden, Yorks

On Saturday 11th May 2024 SHU researchers Dr David Clarke (CMS) and Andrew Robinson (A&D) hosted an event at the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden to a sold-out audience of over 50 people where they introduced who their research into visual representations and public perceptions of UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). The research, titled ‘In The […]

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Tales from the rails – exhibition at Sheffield Railway Station from the 28th May

Paul Whitfield (Creative Writing PhD student) has recently been working on a creative project  (Tales from the Rails) with students from Newfield School. The results have inspired artistic responses from Artworks and an exhibition is about to take place at Sheffield Railway Station from the 28th May, running through June and July. Tales from the Rails celebrates stories from early rail history in […]

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