Off The Shelf festival of Writing and Reading 2010

Welcome to Off the Shelf 2010

Sheffield's Annual Celebration of Writing and Reading

9 October - 30 October 2010

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Mon 04/10/2010
Have a Go at Haiku Competition
Work by Young Writers Exhibition 4-30 October
Exploring Slavery Exhibition 4 - 30 October
Wed 06/10/2010
The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition
Fri 08/10/2010
iceandfire Theatre Company present On a Clear Day You Can See Dover	7.45pm
Sat 09/10/2010
Home, Sweet Home	10.30am-12.30pm
Workshop for Creating Community History	12noon-3pm
Val McDermid	2pm
The Woman Who Saved the Children	3pm
The Word Tent	9.30am-5.30pm
‘Scars’ Exhibition 9 - 30 October	Mon-Fri 8.45am-5.30pm
Sun 10/10/2010
Picnic of Words: Mothers & Daughters	12noon-4pm
Into Africa with Tim Butcher	3pm
Stop, Listen and Leap with Nina Boyd, River Wolton and the Top Shelalas	7.30pm
Now Then and Word Life Presents: Off The Shelf Opening Party	7pm
Mon 11/10/2010
What’s Tha Up To? with Martyn Johnson	11am
Women’s Voices Book Launch	1pm
‘Scars’ - Exhibition Opening	5pm-7pm
Meet the Author Stephen Booth	6pm
Alex’s Adventure’s in Numberland with Alex Bellos	6pm
Young Mandela with David James Smith	7pm
The Mirror of Gesture: Sanskrit Reading and Indian Dance Workshop	7pm
Tue 12/10/2010
Secrets-On-The-Sea Exhibition 12 - 23 October
Qwidget - Want to get your fiction published?	3-5pm
The Poet Factor	7.30pm
Take Three Poets	7.30pm-9.30pm
David Peace	7pm
Wed 13/10/2010
Write Down Your Street (Initial Workshop)	1-3pm
The Sheffield Blitz with Suzanne Bingham	10.30am
Sources for Family History with Michael Spick	10am
Death, Diseases and Concepts of Hygiene in Victorian Sheffield with Suzanne Bingham	2pm
Jenny Eclair	7pm
Simon Armitage, Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom	7pm
Thu 14/10/2010
Write Down Your Street (Initial Workshop)	7-9pm
Why We Love Crime with James McCreet	7.30pm
An Evening with Tony Benn	7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
William Nicholson and Elizabeth Noble	7pm
Fri 15/10/2010
Some Sheffield Characters with Marion Haywood	10.30am
Village Teacher with Jack Sheffield	6pm
Donavan Christopher – Rappaman	7pm
Sat 16/10/2010
Qwidget - What’s right for Writers?	1-3pm
Readers Day	10am - 4pm (registration 9.30am)
Storying Live!	1pm-5pm
Gardening in Yorkshire with Joe Maiden	2pm
Open Your Eyes	2pm-4pm
Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV)	3pm
Jon McGregor	3pm
Sun 17/10/2010
A Personal Geography of Injustice with Daniel Dorling and Carl Lee	7pm
Mon 18/10/2010
The Sheffield Flood with Suzanne Bingham	2pm
Neil’s War with Neil Murphy	2pm
Feminism 40 Years On	7.15pm-9:15pm
Sheffield Literary Salon	7.30-11.45pm
Conor Cunningham	7.30pm
Fatima Bhutto - Songs of Blood and Sword	7.30pm (doors 7pm)
Reading Other People’s Mail - A Talk on Letter Writing by Frances Wilson	7pm
Tue 19/10/2010
Artrovert - An Exhibition of Artists’ Books
All about Qwidget	10am-12noon
Meet the Author Michele Lockwood-Edwards	6pm
Walter Tull, 1888 - 1918: Officer, Footballer with Phil Vasili	7.30pm
The Circus of Poets - Re-United!	7.30pm
When Black is Red - Jackie Kay and Seni Seneviratne	7pm
Abbeydale Writers Launch	8pm
Wed 20/10/2010
It was On The Front Page with Michael Spick	10.30am
Meet the Author Michele Lockwood-Edwards	2pm
Hidden Histories	7.30pm
Signposts and Word Life present; Verbalized - UK Tour of South African and British Poets	7pm
Audrey Niffenegger	7pm
Young Writers Open Mic, Competition Winners and Anthology Launch Night	7pm
Thu 21/10/2010
The Big Book Quiz	2pm
Sheffield Stories	7.30pm
Pascale Petit - Poems After Frida Kahlo	7pm
Eating for Britain - A Themed Dinner with Simon Majumdar	7pm (doors 6.30pm)
Fri 22/10/2010
The Making of Black Diamonds with Martyn Johnson	11am
Storytelling with Shonaleigh	2pm
Stories of the Rutland Arms	7.30pm-9.30pm
Thinking of You: Letters and Biography - A Talk by Hermione Lee	7pm
New Writing of Broomspring Writers Group	7pm-8.30pm
Linda Lee Welch with Animat and Neelam Madden present The Woods	8pm
Holm - The Word Train	8pm-10pm
Sat 23/10/2010
Jonathan Coe and Joe Moran	1pm
The Colour Papers	7.30pm
Seventies Night	8pm-1am
Sun 24/10/2010
The Word Birds - Poetry Showcase	2pm
Masterclass with John McAuliffe	3.45pm-6pm
Yvonne Green, John McAuliffe, Allison McVety	7.30pm
Peter Machan on Sheffield in Verse and Song	7pm-9pm
Mon 25/10/2010
Meet the Author Stephen Booth	10am
Greetings in Different Languages	2pm-5pm
Least but Not Least: The Index	6pm-7.30pm
Politics, Greed and Inequality - Why We Need a Fair Society - A talk with Will Hutton	7.30pm (doors 7pm)
An Evening with Owen Sheers	7.30pm-9.30pm
In the Footsteps of Miss Florence Nightingale with Hugh Small and Professor Bruce Collins	7pm
Caryl Phillips	7pm
Edwyn Collins and Grace Maxwell	8pm (doors 7.30pm)
Tue 26/10/2010
What’s Tha Up To? with Martyn Johnson	11am
Manga Drawing Workshop with Emma Vieceli	2.30pm
Victorian Living Conditions in Sheffield with Andy Messer	2pm
Meet the Author Sarah Freeman	2pm
Tuesday Evening with the Tuesday Poets	6.30pm-10.30pm
Inside the Industry with Emma Vieceli	6pm
Anthologies, anthologies	7.30pm-9.30pm
Fire Balloons: The Letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell - A Talk by Paul Muldoon	7pm
Wed 27/10/2010
The Football Reading Game with Tom Palmer	1.30pm
All about Qwidget	2-4pm
A Masala-Mix of Stories and Poems with Debjani Chatterjee	2pm
The Football Reading Game with Tom Palmer	4pm
Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment with John Butler	7.30pm
A Poetry Reading by Paul Muldoon	7pm
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination with Alexandra Harris	7pm
Thu 28/10/2010
Some Sheffield Characters with Marion Haywood	10.30am
Alastair Campbell	7.30pm (doors 7pm)
Matt Brooker	7pm
Malorie Blackman	7pm
Fri 29/10/2010
Lesley Glaister and Michelle Paver	7.30pm
Ann Atkinson, Paul Mills, Jane Routh	7.30pm
Sat 30/10/2010
Bookswap	11am-4pm
Cornucopia Live!	11am-4pm
Sun 31/10/2010
The Fugitives	7.30pm
Mon 01/11/2010
Written Large with Marina Lewycka	1.30pm
Tue 23/11/2010
The A-Z of Rony- 26 years of BBC broadcasting without a mistake!	7pm

Welcome to Off the Shelf - Sheffield's annual celebration of writing and reading. This year's Festival will once again offer an exciting programme of events including readings, workshops, walks, talks, exhibitions and competitions, poetry, a series of events for children and young people and more.

Programming is underway and already includes events with Adisa, Tony Benn, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Dunant, Peter Hook, Stuart Maconie, Michael Mansfield, Hilary Mantel, Jacob Polley, Arthur Smith.

Watch out for the full programme information which will be posted by 4 September. For regular updates or to give us ideas or feedback please join the e-list from the link below.

All tickets for events go on sale on 6th September.

Download a PDF version of the Off the Shelf 2010 programme here

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Off the Shelf is organised by the Culture Department of Sheffield City Council.

Rhyme and Reason - Specialists in children's books will provide bookstalls at all events during the Festival.

If you are unable to attend an event in person, Rhyme and Reason can organise for signed copies to be reserved. Please e-mail or tel. 0114 266 1950 for information.

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