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| Otherness | |
Work by Louis James. Louis is in his second year of A-Levels at Kind Edward Vii sixth form, studying art and further maths. He grew up in Sheffield. Otherness. Sheffield, 2014 Here are some ink drawings … Continue reading |
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| If you do not see me smile | |
A poem by Krystal Wilkinson. If you do not see me smile Or it doesn’t reach my eyes It’s because I am exhausted Of pretence, and all the lies. I’m dreading to be asked “are you ok? … Continue reading |
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| Interview with Graham Downie | |
In 2014, students on the Storying Sheffield course worked with the National Fairground Archive to produce a series of narrative responses to the Archive. These were published in the book ‘No Fixed Abode’ produced by Eleven Design. … Continue reading |
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| Sound of Shutters: Castle Market | |
Many thanks to Cecelia Vincent for contributing this photo essay on Castle Market, Sheffield. Cecelia is a student at King Edward VII sixth form studying photography, history and politics. She grew up in the Burngreave area of Sheffield and has … Continue reading |
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| No Fixed Abode: ‘My Uncle’ | |
In 2014, students on the Storying Sheffield course worked with the National Fairground Archive to produce a series of narrative responses to the Archive. These were published in the book ‘No Fixed Abode’ produced by Eleven Design. … Continue reading |
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| Laurence Cox: ‘Going Out and Hating Myself’ | |
Laurence suffered a brain injury in a motorbike accident when he was in his early twenties. He is a member of the The Write Way, a creative writing group for the survivors of coma and brain injury. His first piece … Continue reading |
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| Rotherham and its ‘Imagined Communities’ | |
‘Listening Voices and Telling Stories': A project about Rotherham and its ‘Imagined Communities’ ‘Listening Voices and Telling Stories’ is a collaborative research project between academic staff from the University of Sheffield and a group of women … Continue reading |
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| Rachel’s story | |
Rachel produced a collage and installation articulating aspects of her identity through a creative focus on her home and its history. |
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Storying Sheffield
A city is comprised of complex fabrics woven from its physical spaces and the lives of the people who inhabit them. To understand a city, one needs to study both the stories of these lives, and the spaces in which they unfold.
Storying Sheffield is about narrative, community, arts/wellbeing, mental health & place. Read more here.
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A Dialogic Exploration of Gluten Ataxia: Lived Experience, the Medical Condition, its History This new and ongoing project led by Ruth Chalkley with assistance from Nina Schmidt is exploring ideas of patienthood, transition, and post-traumatic growth. … Continue reading
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This project is led by Charlotte Conway. Charlotte’s research interests are the uses of personal narratives and recovery stories within the Hearing Voices Movement. Charlotte is employed by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. She divides … Continue reading
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22nd October, The Showroom, Sheffield: Special film screenings for Black History Month. Click here for more information. We Are Here is a ‘widening participation’ project based in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. It aims … Continue reading
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Storying Sheffield is working closely with the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire, Sheffield City Council and a range of third sector organisations on an exciting new project in the Abbeydale and Sharrow areas of the city. Read more here. … Continue reading
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You zi is a digital storytelling project which works with Chinese students to share stories of life in Sheffield. The You zi project has involved Storying Sheffield’s David Forrest and photographer Gemma Thorpe working with Chinese students who have … Continue reading
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Sheffield Film Studies & Sheffield Studies Film: City, Image, Memory Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches to issues of space, landscape, and the city, Sheffield Film Studies and Sheffield Studies Film is a project which works … Continue reading
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An important part of the University of Sheffield’s mission and strategy is rooted in its founding principles, in which civic responsibility and engagement were and are a central component. The Storying Sheffield course and wider project is contributing to … Continue reading
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This section introduces the ways in which the techniques and ethos of storying has been used in mental health contexts. [under construction] See also: Working in secure psychiatric facilities. Links to follow Recovery Training materials … Continue reading
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Much of Storying Sheffield’s activities include partnership working with groups and institutions. These include local authorities, museums and galleries, NHS Trusts, social enterprises, community centres, local artists and businesses, and arts festivals. Some examples of our partnership work … Continue reading
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Storying Sheffield engages in various research projects closely allied to its activities and themes. The Storying Sheffield project itself emerged from a strong research base. Current research includes David Forrest’s work on film, and Brendan Stone’s research on … Continue reading
News and Events
January 25, 2015
The Hidden Perspectives Project has joined forces with the University of Sheffield Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans network (LGBT) to host an photo exhibition on Monday 23 to Friday 27 February to celebrate LGBT life in Sheffield. The … Continue reading
January 23, 2015
Sheffield Hearing Voices Network presents a two day Voice Dialogue Workshop. June 10th & 11th 2015, 9.30am-4pm Quaker Meeting House Sheffield, 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW Facilitators: Dr Dirk Corstens & Peter Bullimore. … Continue reading
October 24, 2014
The next meeting of the Sheffield Arts and Wellbeing Network will take place on Tuesday 11th November. All are welcome and it’s free to attend. Details below. Date: Tuesday 11th November Venue: The Old Junior School, South View … Continue reading
October 18, 2014
ON line and ON demand: the psychology of modern media from Facebook to the X-Factor. A lecture by Dr Aaron Balick Date/ Time: Thursday 27 November, 2014 7.30-9pm (Doors open at 7pm). Venue: Richard Roberts Auditorium The … Continue reading
September 30, 2014
Don’t miss the Rhythms of Identity exhibition staged by the Creative Arts Steering Team (CAST). It will run from the 9th October to the 12th. CAST have been in existence since 2009, and was formed to reflect the … Continue reading
September 19, 2014
We are looking for choirs, groups, and individuals who would like to take part in our performance this Sunday 21 September as part of a special performance for the Festival of the Mind. Everyone is welcome! No experience … Continue reading
September 17, 2014
Lee Child, the highly successful and popular British author, will be carrying out a Twitter Q&A on Thursday 2 October at 4pm on the University of Sheffield Alumni Twitter account – @SheffieldAlumni Lee Child (real name, Jim Grant) … Continue reading
August 29, 2014
This event is part of the Off The Shelf Festival of Words. Download the full festival programme, including booking information, here. Running from 11 October – 1 November and with some pre festival and post festival specials, … Continue reading
August 12, 2014
The next meeting of the Sheffield Arts and Wellbeing Network will take place at 6:30pm on Wednesday September 10th. The venue is the Cantor Building, Sheffield Hallam University, Arundel Street in central Sheffield. The room is Cantor-9006. Entry is … Continue reading
Blog
January 19, 2015
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. Albert Camus …it is this rupture that is invoked in every bold announcement of ‘once upon a time’. Harvie Ferguson Stories can interrupt. They denaturalize … Continue reading
November 29, 2014
Knowing as Healing. Self-management & information literacy for people living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) The Storying Sheffield Knowing as Healing Project is a participatory action research project working with people living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). … Continue reading
October 26, 2014
This post is by Shirin Teifouri. Image by Gemma Thorpe Stories of Change is a new collaborative project between Sheffield First Partnership’s Better Connected Programme, the University of Sheffield, local artists, and people of Sheffield; it is investigating … Continue reading
October 15, 2014
As part of John Lewis’s support for Barnardo’s, stores recently ran a storyboarding competition. Children aged 3 – 11 were invited to use their imagination and creativity to tell their own stories using words and drawings. Brendan Stone … Continue reading
September 2, 2014
This post is by Tony Prince, convenor of the Sheffield’s Shakespeare community reading group. A small group of students launched the Sheffield’s Shakespeare community reading group on Thursday 8th May this year, after distributing advertisements around the city … Continue reading
August 28, 2014
This guest post is by Paul Brook, and is cross-posted with permission from his blog Dippyman. Many thanks to Paul for allowing us to share it here. To read more about Paul, see below. I’ve learned … Continue reading
August 27, 2014
Yesterday I went to the funeral and thanksgiving service for Richard Hanson, at Christ Church, Pitsmoor. Richard died at the age of 46. He was a lovely man, who I had come to know in the last few years. … Continue reading
August 24, 2014
Many thanks to @drinksinthedark for allowing us to cross-post this piece from her blog PsychConfessions. @drinksinthedark is a psychologist with newly diagnosed bipolar. As those of you who follow me on Twitter are probably aware, I’ve recently experienced … Continue reading
July 24, 2014
This is the second post by Jessica Yates on The Sheffield Black Atlantic Project, which is exploring Sheffield’s connections with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. To read the first post, click here. Silhouette portrait of Hannah Kilham. (From the Memoir … Continue reading
July 1, 2014
This guest post is by Charlotte Conway. Charlotte’s research interests are the uses of personal narratives and recovery stories within the Hearing Voices Movement. To read more about Charlotte, click here. As he enters the ward, the man … Continue reading
| A story from Sheffield and back | |
My name is Abi, and like many enthusiastic young things at 18 I was more than ready to spread my wings and leave my home town of Sheffield. My core had always been tied to the arts, in … Continue reading |
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| The Putter | |
This film was made by Shaun Bloodworth for our ‘Steel Stories’ project. Ernest Wright & Sons of Sheffield is the last remaining hand manufacturer of scissors. The film documents ‘Putter’ Cliff Denton – literally a ‘putter-togetherer’ of scissors. … Continue reading |
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| The King of the Mojo Club | |
This film was made by Amy Wells for the This Is Our City event in May 2014. The King Mojo Club (often known just as the Mojo) was a nightclub in Pitsmoor, Sheffield which was open between 1964 … Continue reading |
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| Barry cant arf weld | |
This film was made by Shaun Bloodworth for our ‘Steel Stories’ project. It presents the large scale forging of special steels at Firth Rixson in Sheffield, and focuses on the skills of the men working at the River Don … Continue reading |
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| Object texts by Chrissy. | |
These texts are by Chrissy. See the bottom of the post for more information about her. Click the images to enlarge. Chrissy Bonham Chrissy is 30 years … Continue reading |
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| Narrative and Memory | |
Polly is a student currently taking the Storying Sheffield course. In this reflective and moving piece she remembers her father, Ivan, and discusses narrative and memory. These photos were taken mid 1970s on the bog in Co- … Continue reading |
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| Grass | |
Many thanks to Chrissy for sharing this story. At the bottom of the post is some information about Chrissy. Throughout the winter, the grass had been quietly remembering the summer. It still felt the area where a disposable … Continue reading |
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| And there’s a lonely church spire | |
Saffron Rain |
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| Jeremy: Perceptions | |
Natalie and Leyla worked with Jeremy to create a film about his life. |
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| More story fragments. | |
These are story fragments, focused on ‘trees’, from a recent Storying Sheffield workshop. The stories are written by 2nd year undergraduate students. |
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| Trees. A fragment. | |
This is a story fragment on the subject of ‘trees’ from a recent workshop at a mental health day centre in Sheffield. Many thanks to the author for allowing us to share it here. |
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