Climate research combines with arts – Dr Tom Payne exhibition at the Crucible

Dr Tom Payne, senior lecturer in performance studies, has launched a new programme of climate-focused research, performance and exhibition this month at the Crucible Theatre. Storm-Cloud will be a series of performances, creative works, and dialogue events combining climate research with art, inspired by John Ruskin. Tom was featured in BBC Online, the Yorkshire Post and BBC Radio Sheffield (listen back from […]

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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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Dr Tom Payne: Climate research combining with arts

Dr Tom Payne, senior lecturer in performance studies, has launched a new programme of climate-focused research, performance and exhibition this month at the Crucible Theatre. Storm-Cloud will be a series of performances, creative works, and dialogue events combining climate research with art, inspired by John Ruskin. Tom was featured in BBC Online, the Yorkshire Post and BBC Radio Sheffield (listen back from […]

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‘Comes the Flood’: New exhibition reflects on Sheffield’s floods

'Comes the Flood' exhibition, with Ark Sheffield at Millennium Gallery. Image credit - Becky Payne

Academics and students from Sheffield Hallam University have added to the new Ruskin Collection displays at the Millennium Gallery reflecting on the impacts of flooding in Sheffield. Find out more on the SHU News website here. Comes the Flood is a redisplay of the Ruskin Collection which reimagines objects from Sheffield’s major floods and artworks of Venice as fragments from cities destroyed […]

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