Events

THE HEART IS A DRUM (18) – UK Premiere

Date

01/10/2019

Time

6:30 pm - 7:35 pm

Booking

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Venue

Drama Studio, The University of Sheffield. See venue details and map...

Details

Dir. Jacob Frössén Sweden 2019 1hr 2mins

Tickets: £7.50/£5.50 conc.s

Documentary that follows the poignant story behind the Motorik beat created by drummer Klaus Dinger. The film is inspired by a 1990s interview Dinger made with journalist Michael Dee in Pop magazine. After a botched relationship with a Swedish girl in 1971, the young musician from Dusseldorf resorts to his drums in the band NEU! His repetitive beat reflects an overwhelming refusal to give up.
But his beat also throbs with post-war geist, and as a symbol of the new Germany, it progresses towards something new (NEU!) and went on to influence later generations of artists from Iggy Pop to Joy Division to Primal Scream.

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/the-heart-is-a-drum-18-uk-premiere/

LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE (FANTASTIC PLANET) (18) *SOLD OUT*

Date

30/09/2019

Time

7:30 pm - 8:45 pm

Booking

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Venue

Picture House Social. See venue details and map...

Details

*SOLD OUT*

Dir. Rene Laloux 1974 Fr Czech 1hr 11mins

Tickets £5.50

Visually inventive science fiction animation set on a distant planet called Ygam. Enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. Alain Goraguer’s psychedelic jazz score provides a suitable soundtrack to this counter culture classic.

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/la-planete-sauvage-fantastic-planet-pg/

ERLAND COOPER + Modern Fairies *SOLD OUT*

Date

29/09/2019

Time

7:15 pm - 9:45 pm

Booking

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Venue

Drama Studio, The University of Sheffield. See venue details and map...

Details

 

We’re really excited to be welcoming Erland Cooper for his first performance in Sheffield.

Hailing from the archipelago of Orkney, composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper explores the natural world of landscape, memory, people and place. Cooper believes music often reflects the landscape a musician is surrounded with, be it rural, urban, real or imagined.

His second solo album, Sule Skerry, was released earlier this year as the second in a triptych shaped by Orkney’s air, sea and land, as it was celebrated by Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown. While his acclaimed first solo record Solan Goose (an Album of the Year at 6Music, The Quietus, musicOMH and more)  paid homage to Orkney’s birdlife, the multi-instrumentalist develops this further, turns his attention to the North Sea.

Local stories and mythology appear on the album, most perceptively in the form of the Selkie, a creature who assumes the form of a seal in the water and a woman on the land, beautifully brought to life by voices recorded on the island. Inspiration comes in part from the Norse seafarers who farmed both sea and land and made Orkney their base.

Sule Skerry features several collaborations: Benge on modular Moog, Kris Drever (BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of The Year), the acclaimed Scottish musician Kathryn Joseph contribute a spoken word narrative, using poetry written for the album by Will Burns (‘Flattie’), Hiroshi Ebina performs modular synth, tape loops and music box, Astra Forward lends vocals to ‘Sule Skerry’ and Leo Abrahams appears, performing ambient guitar.

 Originally part of acclaimed bands The Magnetic North and Erland & The Carnival, Cooper has a diverse musical history. Last year’s debut solo album Solan Goose was an Album of the Year at BBC Radio 6 Music, the Quietus, and more; and Sule Skerry has already been crowned a BBC Radio 6 Music Album of the Day.

Cooper recently scored NEST, a giant kinetic sound and light installation in collaboration with the groundbreaking Marshmallow Laser Feast to open London’s first Borough of Culture celebrations.

• Make sure to arrive early and hear a playback of Seachange (with accompanying visuals), an ambient companion album to Sule Skerry.

 

• Plus support from the MODERN FAIRIES project featuring Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse Brown, Lucy Farrell & Fay Hield.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=LQejep9NDeI

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/erland-cooper/

DREAMGIRLS (12)

Date

28/09/2019

Time

8:00 pm - 10:05 pm

Booking

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Venue

Abbeydale Picture House. See venue details and map...

Details

Dir. Bill Condon US 2007 2hrs 5mins

Tickets £8

Loosely based on the legendary Motown label, this film adaptation of the book and musical captures the rise of The Dreamettes from talent shows in early 1960s Detroit to stardom (as The Dreams) by the mid 1970s. However the journey sees its fair share of fall outs, manipulation and payola along the way. This award-winning production features epic on-screen performances from a multi talented, largely african american cast. Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce particularly shine in their depiction of a friendship that ultimately survived everything the music industry had to throw at them.

• This screening is part of BFI Musicals!  The Greatest Show on Screen – a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all the full season at bfimusicals.co.uk

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/dreamgirls-12/

SHINE A LIGHT – CHRIS SAUNDERS EXHIBITION

Date

28/09/2019 - 30/09/2019

Time

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Booking

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Venue

Trafalgar Warehouse 2. See venue details and map...

Details

FREE

Fri 28 – Mon 30 September FREE

Trafalgar Warehouse, 120 Trafalgar Street S1 4JT

• Saturday 28 Sept 11am – 4pm
• Sunday 29 Sept 11:30am – 4pm
• Monday 30th Sept 11am – 2pm

A special selection of the work of Sheffield-based photographer Chris Saunders.

An intuitive understanding and use of light have been instrumental in Saunders’ iconic portraits – ranging from drag artists to legendary filmmakers such as David Lynch.

 

•  Get 20% discounted car parking at Sensoria 2019

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/shine-a-light-chris-saunders-exhibition/

BREAKING REVERIE by HEATHER LANDER

Date

28/09/2019 - 30/09/2019

Time

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Booking

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Venue

15 Barker’s Pool. See venue details and map...

Details

FREE

An immersive sonic light sculpture with music by Michael Begg.

Venue: 15 Barker’s Pool, Sheffield S1 2HB

Fri 27 – Mon 30 September FREE

• Saturday 28 Sept 11am – 4pm

 

• Sunday 29 Sept 11:30am – 4pm

 

• Monday 30th Sept 11am – 2pm

Through illusion, reflection, projection mapping and ink drawing, Heather Lander’s moving light sculpture, Breaking Reverie draws you into an eternal daybreak on a distant horizon at the edge between darkness and dawn.

Award winning composer, Michael Begg, provides a textured sonic backdrop for this immersive sonic light sculpture.
“One of our most significant contemporary experimental composers. A true visionary, Begg has quietly developed his own unique and affecting compositional style and sound.” The Active Listener

A Cryptic Commission.

•  Get 20% discounted car parking at Sensoria 2019

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/breaking-reverie-by-heather-lander/

CREATIVE MORNINGS *SOLD OUT*

Date

27/09/2019

Time

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Booking

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Venue

Kollider Space, Castle House. See venue details and map...

Details

FREE – booking required.

‘CreativeMornings™ is a monthly breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Believers in the power of these morning get-togethers, CreativeMornings™ are here to celebrate and share creative thinking and to bring what started in NYC 10 years ago to fresh creative thinkers of the city of Sheffield. CreativeMornings™ provides a platform for creators, enterprisers and doers to share their stories. Audience members can hear first-hand how ideas are turning into realities – building an encouragement network of positive actions and change… and all by 10:00 am.’

The speaker this time is Sensoria Director Jo Wingate and the theme is MUSE. So grab a coffee and be inspired.

• Check the website for details.

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/creative-mornings/

THE SHOCK OF THE FUTURE (15)

Date

13/09/2019

Time

6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Booking

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Venue

Showroom Cinema. See venue details and map...

Details

Dir. Marc Collin / 2019 / France / 1hr 24mins

Paris, 1978. Ana (Alma Jodorowsky) is frustrated by writing jingles for commercials. She wants to write her own songs, but everything she writes sounds stale and old. All this changes when a friend brings her a new electronic gadget – one of the first beatboxes to be imported into France.

Directed by French electronica pioneer Marc Collin of the band Nouvelle Vague, the film is a love letter to the unacknowledged women pioneers of the French electronic music movement. Featuring an incredible soundtrack, including music by The Human League, Suicide, Devo and Throbbing Gristle, Shock of the Future is a feel-good tribute to a movement that had a major influence on contemporary pop music.

• “A sensitive and sweet film, which reminds us that electro is not just for guys, far from it.” Nova Magazine, France

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/the-shock-of-the-future-15/

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (U) – outdoor screenings

Date

31/08/2019

Time

2:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Booking

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Venue

Stoneface Creative. See venue details and map...

Details

Come along to this unique screening of the 1938 Hollywood Technicolor swashbuckler in Loxley valley woodland.

Still widely considered the definitive Robin Hood film, this epic stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains. The classic also boasts an acclaimed score that set the tone for adventure films through to this day. 

Two screenings

MATINEE 2:00pm – BOOK TICKETS

EVENING 5:30pm – BOOK TICKETS

The film is a U certificate but all young people under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 

The site is accessible for wheelchair users but we are happy to offer extra assistance – this may be required on a pathway down to the site. If you are a wheelchair user or carer do please get in touch on info@sensoria.org.uk

If you have any other access needs do please get in touch on the email above and we will do our best to accommodate you.

There will be a small bar on site and food from Sunshine Pizza.

• Presented in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Legend.

• This event is supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, BFI Film Audience Network through Film Hub North.

• The event may be photographed or filmed.

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-u-outdoor-screenings/

SYNTHFEST AFTER PARTY

Date

06/10/2018 - 07/10/2018

Time

10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Booking

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Venue

Bungalows & Bears. See venue details and map...

Details

FREE

 

The SynthFest party continues into the late hours at Bungalows with DJ sets including the legendary Ralph Razor plus interstellar noises from the wax addicted mythical beasts, Sasquatch, also known for his Stepping Out and Rhythm Junction parties.

Link to this event's page: https://www.sensoria.org.uk/events/synthfest-after-party/