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Good morning, Sheffield 👋 We've got lots going this week, hope you can join us at one of our special events this week, including some brilliant talks for Off the Shelf Festival Of Words 🎨☕🍂 🎨 Lunchtime Talk: Seeing From All Sides – The Early Work of Tess Jaray 📅 Tue 8 Oct, 1 - 1.45pm 📍 Millennium Gallery In this illuminating lunchtime talk, curator and writer Natalie Rudd will trace Tess Jaray's emergence as an artist. 🎟️ Free, donations welcome. Booking recommended 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lunchtime-talk-seeing-from-all-sides-the-early-work-of-tess-jaray/ 🎨Wednesday Art Club 📅 Every Wednesday until 16 Oct, 5-7pm 📍 Millennium Gallery Hang out, be inspired, make art at our weekly evening art club for young people aged 11-14 years. 🎟️ £9 per session, or £45 for term, booking essential 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/wednesday-art-club-sep-and-oct-2024/ 🏳‍🌈LGBTQ+ Over 50s Group 📅 Thu 10 Oct, 1-3pm 📍 Weston Park Museum The LGBT Over 50s Group is a welcoming group for our community held in a safe friendly environment where the agenda is set by the members. 🎟️ Free, just drop in. Donations welcome. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lgbtq-over-50s-group-oct/ 🧸Fridays Under 5s - Get Stuck In! (gallery play session) 📅 Every Friday during term time, 10am - 12.30pm 📍 Weston Park Museum 🎟️ Free, just drop in! Suggested donation £3 🔗https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/fridays-under-5s-get-stuck-in/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World - Jane Robinson 📅 Fri 11 Oct , 12.30-1.30pm 📍 Millennium Gallery You may not have heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, but look at the history of social change in Victorian Britain and you’ll find her. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-trailblazer-the-first-feminist-to-change-our-world-jane-robinson/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum - Daniel Tammet 📅 Fri 11 Oct , 12.30-1.30pm 📍 Millennium Gallery Nine Minds explores the lives of nine neurodivergent people. From a mathematician to a murder detective, a surgeon to a novelist, each is changing how the world sees those on the spectrum. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-nine-minds-inner-lives-on-the-spectrum-daniel-tammet/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat - Joe Shute 📅 Fri 12 Oct , 11am -12pm 📍 Millennium Gallery A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved world domination and inspired such love and loathing. This illustrated talk explores our complex relationship with the rat and the secrets of their extraordinary lives. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-stowaway-the-disreputable-exploits-of-the-rat-joe-shute/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Black Women Writers - Dorothy Koomson and Kit de Waal in conversation with Christina Fonthes 📅 Sat 12 Oct , 2-3pm 📍 Millennium Gallery Bestselling, award winning authors Dorothy Koomson and Kit de Waal discuss their paths to publication, what it’s like to be Black women writers, and offer advice for new writers. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-black-women-writers-dorothy-koomson-and-kit-de-waal-in-conversation-with-christina-fonthes/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Lord of the Flies Graphic Novel - Aimée de Jongh and Judy Golding 📅 Sun 13 Oct , 1-2pm 📍 Millennium Gallery Published in 1954, William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies has been at the heart of British literature ever since, one of the BBCs ‘100 Novels that Shaped Our World, with a profound influence on popular culture. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-lord-of-the-flies-graphic-novel-aimee-de-jongh-and-judy-golding/ 📚 Off the Shelf Festival: Backbone of the Nation - Robert Gildea and Panel 📅 Sun 13 Oct , 3-4pm 📍 Millennium Gallery In this powerful history of the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85, Robert Gildea interviewed miners and their families, including those in Yorkshire, uncovering stories of survival, solidarity and redemption and recording the triumphs, losses, and resilience of these mining communities. 🎟️ £9 / £7 Booking recommended. 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/off-the-shelf-festival-backbone-of-the-nation-robert-gildea-and-panel/