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'Coming Home' Exhibition Weston Park Museum, Sheffield Saturday 2 July 2011 - Sunday 24 June 2012 This display in the Sheffield Life and Times gallery explores the important influence our home lives have on our mental health. Coming Home has been created by current and former Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust NHS service users working with Museums Sheffield and the University of Sheffield, and includes a powerful and moving film made by by staff and students from Storying Sheffield. The display also features a series of ‘bricks’ which have been created by participants to represent why their own home is important to them. More information Museums Sheffield blog Sheffield Health & Social Care news page 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Storying Sheffield has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Award for the Widening Participation Initiative of the Year. More details here. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Click here if you are interested in joining the Storying Sheffield course. |
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Storying Sheffield at Moncrieffe Day Services
8th September 2011, from 11.00am Films made by participants from Storying Sheffield will be presented at an open day event at Moncrieffe Day Services, Nether Edge. There will be lots of other activities going on too. All are welcome. Moncrieffe Day Services are run by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. Please talk to a member of staff if you would like to joing Storying Sheffield, or find out more. Or you can read more here. Moncrieffe Day Services 9 Moncrieffe Road Nether Edge Sheffield S7 1HQ More information here
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Storying Sheffield Exhibition & Showcase
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As part of the University of Sheffield's Dream Bigger Dreams activities in Rotherham over the summer half-term, Storying Sheffield will be running a Storying Rotherham event. You will be helped by Storying Sheffield staff and students to tell and create your own story.
You'll be able to use a variety of techniques including writing,
photography, film, objects, drawing and audio. And your story can be
added to this website for everyone to share. You can also learn more about the University and our courses. Feel free to bring along any items which will help you tell your story, but don't worry if you forget! Click here for more details
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March 2011: Simon Armitage leads a Storying Sheffield seminar | |
Storying Sheffield's David Forrest has written an article on 'Northernism' for the Cities edition of Article magazine | |
Site Gallery: Occursus Brendan Stone and David Forrest will be discussing the ideas behind Storying Sheffield at the Site Gallery on May 25th 2011. The event is free and open to all.  |
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Sensoria Music/ Film/ Digital Festival 2011 Storying Sheffield's 'Institute Dentamental' film is being shown at the Sensoria festival on Thursday May 4th at the Screen on the Square event. |
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No Limits Film Festival 2011 The 'Women of Steel' film is being shown at the No Limits student film festival on Saturday April 2nd. It will be shown as part of the Cinema in the Park event which takes place between 8 and 10pm in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. |
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International Women's Day 2011 The 'Women of Steel' film is being shown at Sheffield Town Hall for International Women's Day. (7th March 2011: 6-8pm) Some of the women of steel will also be present to speak about their lives. The event is jointly organised by Sheffield City Council and the University of Sheffield. Tickets can be booked by emailing governance&involvement@sheffield.gov.uk | |
University of Sheffield Court 2011 The Storying Sheffield project has been invited to exhibit at the annual meeting of The University of Sheffield Court in March 2011. The project will be displaying posters and showing a film and slideshow. Read about the Court here. Attendance is by invitation. |
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Women of Steel
'Women of Steel' is a project run by Sheffield City Council and the Off the Shelf festival of reading and writing which commemorates the efforts of Sheffield women in the steel industry during WWII. Find out more. In December 2010 students from Storying Sheffield met with some of the women of steel, and this event will present films and digital interpretations of that meeting and the women's lives. There will also be a chance to hear the women speaking about their experiences in person. Friday February 4th 2011 |
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SUN:RISE Service User Network Wednesday December 8th 2010 Christmas special! 2.30-3.30: Brendan Stone will speak about art and mental health, with reference to the Storying Sheffield project. Venue: Showroom 5 Meeting Room – at the Showroom Cinema (On Paternoster Row - close to the Bus and Train Stations) The Service User Network (SUN:RISE) is a sub group of the CMHT Forum which aims to improve the range of ways that Service Users can become informed and involved with the Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust.
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Sheffield Centre for Independent Living The Circle, Rockingham Lane, Sheffield October 27 2010 · 2.00pm Brendan Stone will speak about the arts, health, and social inclusion. | |
An Arrangement of Knowledge: Contemporary Art Practice and Mental Health Presenters: Paul Digby & Brendan Stone October 26 2010 · 5:30pm - 7:00pm This event will explore the relevance and purpose of art in mental health services and provision. Leeds-based artist Paul Digby will discuss his work in this field, including his projects at Rampton Special Hospital and the former High Royds psychiatric hospital in Leeds. He will consider the influence on his work of the artists Marcel Duchamp and Jean Dubuffet, and the psychiatrists R.D. Laing and Eric Berne. Brendan Stone from the School of English will discuss the intellectual influences behind the University’s Storying Sheffield project, and consider whether artistic engagement presents challenges to some medical approaches to mental illness. All are very welcome to attend - admission is free. See: www.pauldigby.me.uk Video and images from this event available here |
Man, Paul Digby, 2009 |
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Sunday 25th July 2010 During the Sheffield Tramlines festival The Abstract Film Orchestra performed a live soundtrack to Institute Dentamental, a film made for Storying Sheffield by Matt and Paul. The event was curated by I Monster in conjunction with Sensoria. See a film of the performance. |
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A practical guide to inclusive learning and teaching 28th June 2010, University of Sheffield This research seminar is sponsored by The Higher Education Academy and is part of Research Seminar Series 2010: Access and Success for All. Included in the presentations will be a talk by staff from Storying Sheffield. Free places are available: To book a place or for more information please email a.dawson@sheffield.ac.uk. |
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Storying Sheffield at Pitsmoor Day Services
24th June 2010, from 11.00am Films made by participants from Storying Sheffield will be presented at an open day event at S.P.A.C.E.S. North: Pitsmoor Day Services. There will be lots of other activities going on too, including music and art. All are welcome. S.P.A.C.E.S. Day Services are run by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. Please talk to a member of staff if you would like to join Storying Sheffield, or find out more. You can also read more here. Pitsmoor Day Services 259 Pitsmoor Road Pitsmoor Sheffield S3 9AQ More information here |
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