The University is proud to sponsor this year’s Off The Shelf festival of reading and writing in its 23rd year in the city.
As ever, the annual Sheffield festival is welcoming a host of well-known names in literature and the media between 11 October and 1 November at venues across the city.
Sheffield Hallam is a Gold sponsor and is hosting a number of events including Lord Digby Jones, Alan Johnson MP and leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, as well as a full day of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Dylan Thomas.
The festival has grown into one of the UK’s most popular and exciting events attracting big names and audiences of all ages taking part in a variety of author events, workshops, debate, exhibitions, talks and poetry.
This year’s festival includes events with Kirsty Wark, Allan Ahlberg, Arne Dahl, Yotam Ottolenghi, Paul Merton, Wendy Cope, John Lydon, Viv Albertine, Julian Cope, John Julius Norwich and many more.
For the full programme and to make bookings, visit http://www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/visit/off-the-shelf/programme
Staff and students with NUS cards can purchase tickets for the Lord Digby Jones and Henry Marsh events at the special discounted price of £5. When buying your ticket, just quote the SHU offer and produce your NUS card. You can get tickets in person at the City hall box office or by calling 0114 22 33 777. Tickets are also available of the door subject to availability.
Win tickets
To whet your appetite, eview has a pair of tickets to give away for Lord Digby Jones on 8 October in the Pennine Theatre, City Campus at 7pm and a pair to see Henry Marsh on Saturday 11 October in the Pennine at 7pm.
For the Digby Jones event, just answer the following question and submit it to eview with all your contact details by the deadline of this Friday 3 October at 5pm:
Q: In what year was Digby Jones knighted for his services to business?
Please mark your entry Digby Jones.
For the Henry Marsh event, submit your answer to the following question by the deadline of Monday 6 October at midday:
Q What is the title of Henry Marsh’s memoir published this year?
Please mark your entry Henry Marsh
Please send your answers to eview@shu.ac.uk or !eview (internal).
Winners will be picked at random from all the correct entries and notified as soon as possible after the draw.