Sunday 4 October 2015

Off the Shelf


Off the Shelf is Sheffield’s literary festival that takes place in October and has happened every year since 2001. The event is for both readers and writers alike, with lots of different events aimed at both markets. This year those events will include the SFSF Social 4 hosted by the Sheffield Fantasy and Science Fiction Social Club, with writer David Barnett and literary agent Amanda Rutter on Saturday 17th October. The event will include a reading by David Barnett and ask the agent questions with Amanda Rutter. Questions need to be submitted in advance. More details about this event can be found on their website: http://sfsfsocial.wordpress.com

But why limit yourself to just one event. The full list of Off the Shelf events are below (with more details on the Off the Shelf website: http://offtheshelf.org.uk/):


7th October - 6:00PM - Karen Joy Fowler - Octagon Centre - Free


10th October - 10:00AM - The Society of Authors - Showroom Cinema - £45.00 /£35.00 (Cons)


10th October - 11:00AM - Book Swap - Winter Gardens - Free

10th October - 11:00AM - Word Life Open Mic - Winter Gardens - Free

10th October - 12:00PM - Beginners Storytelling Workshop - The Riverside - £25.00 /£25.00 (Cons)

10th October - 2:00PM - A Slice Of Sheffield with Susan Elliot Wright - St Aidan's Church - £4.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

10th October - 2:00PM - Shami Chakrabarti - Human Rights and Liberty - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10th October - 3:30PM - Gary Younge - In Defence of Utopias - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10th October - 3:30PM - Reading Sheffield Website Launch - Quaker Meeting House - £2.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

10th October - 5:00PM - Paul Mason - The Economics of Hope - The Foundry - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

10th October - 6:00PM - Hidden History - Bank Street Arts - Free

10th October - 7:00PM - Owen Jones- The Politics of Hope - The Foundry - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

11th October - 3:00PM - Art, Art Therapy and the Body - Showroom Cinema - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

11th October - 6:00PM - How to Save our Town Centres with Julian Dobson - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

11th October - 7:30PM - Renaissance One presents Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni - The Studio - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)


12th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free


Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)


12th October - 7:30PM - Les Murray and Michael McCarthy - The Studio - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

12th October - 7:30PM - Naxos A-Z of Singers with David Patmore - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13th October - 2:00PM - At the Coalface - Central United Reformed Church - £6.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free


13th October - 6:00PM - Delicious Gluten - Free Baking with Howard Middleton - Owen Building - £7.00 /£5.00 (Cons)

13th October - 6:00PM - Honey & Co - Middle Eastern Themed Dinner - Sparks Restaurant - £25.00 /£0.00 (Cons)

13th October - 6:30PM - DIY Publishing - The Hide - Free


13th October - 7:30PM - First Anniversary of Writers in The Bath - The Bath Hotel - £4.00 /£0.00 (Cons)


14th October - 5:45PM - Ideas Alive - Showroom Café - Free






14th October - 7:00PM - Tracey Thorn - The Auditorium - £8.00 /£6.50 (Cons)

14th October - 7:00PM - Andrew Miller - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 /£6.00 (Cons)

15th October - 2:00PM - Playing with Words - Crystal Peaks Library  - Free



15th October - 7:00PM - Val McDermid - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)



15th October - 7:30PM - Sarah Simpson's Story - Upper Chapel - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

15th October - 8:00PM - What Are You Drinking? An Evening of Beer with Pete Brown - The Greystones - £15.00 / £14.00 (Cons)


£6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

16th October - 7:00PM - Meet the Author Simon Beckett  - Frecheville Library and Learning Centre - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

16th October - 7:00PM - Being Me - One Act Play - Victoria Hall - £2.50 / £0.00 (Cons)

16th October - 7:30PM - Poetry Light Night - Upper Chapel - Free


16th October - 7:30PM - Speed Dating - Graves Gallery - £18.00 / £0.00 (Cons)


£8.00 / £6.00 (Cons)

17th October - 10:30AM - James Nash - Poetry Workshop - Central Library - Free

17th October - 11:00AM - Cycle Write - Peace Gardens - £10.00 / £0.00 (Cons)


17th October - 1:00PM - Imagination Gaming - Coffee Revolution - Free

17th October - 1:15PM  - Tea with Pyjama Drama! - Children's Library - Free

17th October - 1:30PM - It's All A Fiction - Readers' Afternoon - Quaker Meeting House - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)


17th October - 4:00PM - SFSF Social #4 - Eten Cafe - Free


£5.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

18th October - 11:00AM - Cycle Write - Peace Gardens - £10.00 / £0.00 (Cons)


18th October - 1:30PM - Ruskin Poetry Workshop - Ruskin Museum - Free

18th October - 2:00PM - Sheffield Castle with Lloyd Powell - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

18th October - 6:30PM - Mona Eltahawy - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

18th October - 7:30PM - Stephen Kelman and Sunjeev Sahota - The Studio - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)


19th October - 2:00PM - Monkey Man & Other Sheffield Notables - Quaker Meeting House - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)


19th October - 5:45PM - Siblings, Stories and the Self - Showroom Café - Free


19th October - 7:30PM - Walking with Angels – A Talk with Melanie Gow - Creative Lounge - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)





20th October - 7:00PM - The Munich Art Hoard with Catherine Hickley - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

20th October - 7:00PM - John Godber, Helen Cross and Peter Sansom - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

20th October - 7:00PM - Working with Bereavement with Janet Wilson - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)



21st October - 1:00PM - Schools Matinee with Michael Rosen - The Crucible Theatre - £4.00 / £4.00 (Cons)

21st October - 2:00PM - Martyn Johnson - Carpenter Room - Free



21st October - 7:00PM - Extreme Adventures with Andy Torbet - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

21st October - 7:00PM - Michael Rosen - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

21st October - 7:30PM - Mary Portas - Shop Girl - Crucible Studio - £11.00 / £9.00 (Cons)


22nd October - 7:00PM - Polly Toynbee and David Walker – Taxing Times - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

22nd October - 7:00PM - Blackpool Tower - a talk with Professor Vanessa Toulmin - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)

22nd October - 7:30PM - Speed Dating - Graves Gallery - £18.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23rd October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23rd October - 4:00PM - Looking After Your Family Papers - Sheffield Archives - £5.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

23rd October - 6:00PM - Worktown with David Hall - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)


23rd October - 7:00PM - The Space Between - Bank Street Arts - Free

23rd October - 7:30PM - The Purging of Spence Broughton - Walkley Community Centre - £4.00 / £0.00 (Cons)




24th October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24th October - 10:00AM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £2.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

24th October - 10:15AM - Poetry Business Writing Day - North Church House - £30.00 / £25.00 (Cons)





24th October - 2:00PM - 101 Gins to Try Before You Die with Ian Buxton - Hallam Hall - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)


24th October - 2:00PM - Into Print - Greenhill Library - Free

24th October - 3:00PM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £3.00 / £0.00 (Cons)



24th October - 7:00PM - Be a Writer, See a Writer, Hear a Writer - Walkley Carnegie Library - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

24th October - 8:00PM - The Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot - Freeman College - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

25th October - 9:00AM - Classical Sheffield Festival of Music - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

25th October - 10:00AM - Light on Poetry - Park Community Centre - Free

25th October - 11:00AM - Out of this World - Winter Gardens - Free

25th October - 11:30AM - Doctor Who's Top Ten Myths and Mysteries - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

25th October - 12:00PM - Sheffield Castle – A Guided Walk and Talk with Lloyd Powell - Lady's Bridge - £8.00 / £6.00 (Cons)

25th October - 2:00PM - A Million Years In A Day: with Greg Jenner - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)



26th October - 1:30PM - The Man on the Moon - The Cadman Room - £3.00 / £3.00 (Cons)



26th October - 7:00PM - Kate Morton - Creative Lounge - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

26th October - 7:30PM - Sheffield A-Z with Mike Spick - Wadsley Church Hall - £0.00 / £0.00 (Cons)

27th October - 9:30AM - Muppet Treasure Trove - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)


27th October - 10:30AM - First World War and War Horse - Kelham Island Museum - £1.00 / £1.00 (Cons)


27th October - 11:00AM - Comics Workshop - Carpenter Room - Free

27th October - 12:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)



£1.00 / £1.00 (Cons)

27th October - 2:00PM - Vegetable Super Heroes Workshop - Moor Market - Free


27th October - 5:45PM - Are We Nearly There Yet? - Showroom Café - Free

27th October - 6:00PM - You Didn't See Alice by Colin Pinney - Arundel Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)


27th October - 7:00PM - Swallow This with Joanna Blythman - Showroom Cinema - £7.50 / £6.00 (Cons)


27th October - 7:30PM - Novel Slam 2015 - Bank Street Arts - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

27th October - 7:30PM - Speak Easy Off The Shelf Slam - Eten Cafe - Free


28th October - 10:00AM - Exploring 1001 Nights - Upperthorpe Library - Free


28th October - 11:00AM - Spooky Songs - Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - £2.00 / £2.00 (Cons)


28th October - 7:00PM - Born Survivors with Wendy Holden and Eva Clarke - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)


28th October - 7:30PM - The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age - Quaker Meeting House - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

29th October - 9:30AM - Muppet Treasure Trove - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

29th October - 12:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)



29th October - 7:00PM - Will Hutton - How Good We Can Be - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

29th October - 7:30PM - Boots, Fresh Air and Ginger Beer by Sally Goldsmith - Totley Library - £5.00 / £3.00 (Cons)

29th October - 7:30PM - The Road to Publication - The Red DeerFree

29th October - 7:30PM - Shirley Williams - The Life of Vera Brittain - The Crucible Theatre - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)



30th October - 12:00PM - Conservation of Paper Manuscripts - Sheffield Archives - £5.00 / £5.00 (Cons)



30th October - 7:00PM - Pieces of Me - Showroom CinemaFree

30th October - 8:00PM - Kathryn Williams - Sheffield Cathedral - £12.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31st October - 10:00AM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31st October - 10:15AM - At the Heart of Darkness: Gothic Symposium - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

31st October - 1:30PM - Muppet Treasure Trove! - The Montgomery Studio - £10.00 / £10.00 (Cons)

31st October - 1:30PM - Under the Skin: Film with Introduction by Michel Faber - Showroom Cinema - £8.10 / £5.90 (Cons)


31st October - 7:00PM - Charlotte Bronte: A Life - Claire Harman - Pennine Theatre - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

1st November - 2:00PM - The Story of Egypt with Joann Fletcher - The Cadman Room - £6.00 / £5.00 (Cons)



4th November - 7:30PM - H is for Hawk with Helen Macdonald - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

5th November - 7:30PM - Simon Armitage - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

6th November - 7:30PM - The Hairy Bikers - Blood, Sweat and Tyres - Octagon Centre - £10.00 / £8.00 (Cons)


8th November - 2:00PM - Pit Tales- A Promenade Performance by Loose Theatre - Barnsley Town Hall - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

8th November - 4:00PM - Pit Tales- A Promenade Performance by Loose Theatre - Barnsley Town Hall - £7.00 / £5.00 (Cons)

11th November - 6:00PM - Journalism in Danger - Crucible StudioFree

17th November - 7:30PM - Mission: How the Best in Business Break Through - The Auditorium - £8.00 / £6.50 (Cons)

2nd December - 7:30PM - The Youth Word Up! - The Hubs - Free

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