Arts and Culture
Issue 41 May 2004
Burngreave
Live?
New Deal are supporting
Burngreave’s own radio station by funding a one month trial
later this year. The project is still to be approved but it is
hoped this will lead to an FM station for Burngreave...
Internet
library
Library.burngreave.net
is a volunteer experiment in sharing information and building
community in the Burngreave Area...
Ka-Boom!
Burngreave artist Patrick
Amber, who regularly features in the Messenger, is exhibiting
his illustrations and murals at the Simunye Café, as part
of Open Up 2004...
Sewing
success
Rob Smith visits the Furnival
Café to see the work produced by local women on the successful
cross stitching and creative workshop, and to find out what the
group felt they’d achieved…
...Still...
The first community exhibition
at Burngreave Chapel opened on the Friday night of 2nd April,
with 200 visitors coming to see the work of 18 artists, with an
additional 500 visitors over the weekend...
 Musical
Fun For All – Firs Hill
Over 120 adults and 200
children turned out for Firs Hill Community Primary School’s
biggest event since its launch...
Photography
Day – St Catherine’s
Thirteen participants of
all ages spent a day learning how to use state of the art digital
cameras and software photo packages...
Issue 40 April 2004
Writing
For My People
Mohamed Bashe has produced
and financed the publishing of three books. The Somali Writing
Project Parts 1 and 2 are both summaries of Somali writing and
photography workshops. It’s an important task of Mohamed’s
to try and make his people realise that they too have the ability
to write as a form of expression...
Creative Funding
Funding is now available
from Creative Burngreave for more arts projects in Burngreave.
Check out some of the projects that were funded in the last round
on these pages...
Page
1
Details about Creative
Burngreave and their upcoming Year 2 funding...
Page
2
Profiles for some of the
projects funded by Creative Burngreave...
Page
3
Full list of sponsored
projects in 2003/2004...
Issue 39 March 2004
Events
Photography and Performing Arts, Family
Fun Days...
Issue 38 February 2004
New
Plan for New Deal: So where’s the money going?
As Year Three of New Deal comes to an
end, this is the first year they have achieved spending targets.
We bring you news of where the money went last year and what's
being planned for Year Four...
Subsidiary page:
Over-Arching
Soweto Kinch visits
Lyons Street centre
Jazz saxophone player Soweto Kinch gave
a breathtaking demonstration of his skills. His visit marked the
end of a training course for local artists interested in using
their talents to work in education and the community...
Close to
the Heart
Six Burngreave women artists will be
exhibiting their art work in the Manningham Gallery, Victoria,
Australia, this September...
Burngreave Children's
Festive Party success
All the noise of shouts and laughter
were a sign of a full turnout by up to three hundred young children
and families...
SureStart end of
year party...
Burngreave & Fir Vale Sure Start
had their "end of the year party" at the Verdon Street
Recreation centre on the 18th of December 2003...
A
magical event!
Holly Pool and Rinica Warner (yr 5,
Firs Hill School) report on their visit to see Aladdin at the
Lyceum...
Issue 37 December 2003
Positive reading
Interview with Madge Dale, Community
Librarian and Manager of Burngreave Library...
Urban gallery
With demolition well underway, Woodside’s
walls play host to an urban gallery of Britain’s top graffiti
talent...
The wilderness
that surrounds
Arriving from Iran over two years ago,
36-year old artist Valid Sabbaghian has been exhibiting his work
at SYAC called ‘In the wilderness that surrounds –
art as an asylum identity card of the spirit’ during November...
Festive
Fun!
BNDfC will be funding some festive fun
for all children attending primary schools in the Burngreave New
Deal for Communities area, with every child receiving a £10
book voucher and the chance to go with their school on a theatre
trip to see the magical pantomime Aladdin...
DJ workshops great
success
DJ Chillout, of the Chill-Foo-Front
organisation, has been providing DJ Workshops within Burngreave,
and have been very well received and attended...
Appeal for musical
instruments
Burngreave Problem Busters are appealing
to anyone with unwanted musical instruments in good working order
to donate them to the BPB...
Issue 36 November 2003
Firshill School event
Over a hundred children and their parents,
carers and families joined in craft, sport and IT activities for
Family Learning Weekend at Firshill School...
Aye 'n' I Studio
Working since May and situated inside
SADACCA Community Centre, Paul Anwar, a well-established photographer,
opened his services to the community as Aye ’n’ I
Studio...
Eid Mubarak!
Gabby Spinks talks to Rashida Hassanali
and her children about what it is like at Eid in their house...
Children's activities
A call to all Children's Festive Party
Helpers and details of new After School activities at Verdon Street...
Creative Burngreave
launch
Held inside the newly-furbished Spectrum
Centre, Brunswick Road, Creative Burngreave launched an initiative
to develop arts and creativity...
The Message
Rob Smith tries to find what’s
been going on in Burngreave to mark Black History Month...
Launch
of Over-Arching Theme
In Burngreave, the community recognised
that there needed to be a theme supporting community strength
to help residents to get involved with the regeneration of the
area...
Community
Radio Back on the Agenda!
Burngreave Community Radio (BCR) is
working with Burngreave New Deal for Communities (BNDfC) to look
at setting up a new community radio station in Burngreave...
Issue 35 October 2003
A healthy success
Over 40 local people and representatives
of voluntary and statutory organisations attended the launch of
the Community, Health and Development Poetry Booklet this month...
Creative Burngreave
meets the Messenger
Rob Smith talks to Lungani Sibana.
Plus: Details of Creative Burngreave's activities with
a download for the arts funding application form...
'Click'
back to the past
Harry Ainscough took over
4,000 black and white photographs of Sheffield during the 60s
and 70s...
Half term
fun
Details of half term activities
for kids...
Issue 34 September 2003
Burngreave Goes To
Skegness
Melrose Road bore witness to the arrival
of five long white luxury coaches fully booked for a trip to Skegness...
One Love Festival
This was an event that drew a large
and enthusiastic enough crowd to again celebrate what has been
a wonderful year of vibrancy, togetherness and diversity in our
community... (includes photo gallery)
3Dom Festival on Devonshire
Green
Bouncy castles and Bronco Billy occupied
thousands of young children while skateboarding and break-dancing
displays, led to competitions that catered for the teenage element...
Osgathorpe Park Jam
This year’s Osgathorpe Jam has
grown in popularity, establishing itself firmly on Burngreave’s
summer calendar of events not to miss...
Summer School is a big
hit
Verdon Recreation Centre hosted part
of the Sheffield Multiple Heritage Service music and dance summer
school during August...
Summer
Fund
The successful trip to Skegness on 16th
August (see above) was just one of a number of initiatives supported
by BNDfC’s Summer Fund – a grant fund totalling £25,000
to support activities taking place in the NDC area during August
and September...
Issue 33 August 2003
 Abbeyfield
Park Multicultural Festival
Over 7,000 people turned out for what
was again another wonderful day of peace, harmony and musical splendour...
Includes 4 page photo gallery.
Firshill TARA Summer
Fair
A great day was had by all at the Firshill
TARA Summer Fair with stalls, food, prize giving and information...
Humanitarian Aid Day
Youth workers at Earl Marshal Youth
Centre, Shirley Cameron, Elaine Virgo and Nazreen Ali, organised
a fun day in June raising £308 for
Islamic Relief...
Many Rivers
Many rivers to cross – the voice
of Jimmy Cliff opened up this memorable festive occasion, celebrating
Refugee Week, at Fir Vale School...
St Catherine’s
Summer Fête
On a sunny Saturday in June, St Catherine’s
held their summer fête full of fun, games and activities...
ASTRA open Carwood Centre
Sounds of summer at
the Winter Gardens
Sheffield’s Winter Gardens were
filled with Indian Music as Ellesmere Post Master Kamalbir Singh
played violin and a Indian organ for over two hours...
Issue 32 June 2003
Refugee Week - A Celebration
Refugee Week, 16th–22nd June,
is a celebration of the cultural and economic heritage that refugees
bring to this country...
It’s my turn now
On Friday 2nd May the Connexions and
Black CARD Youth Conference – “It’s my turn
now” took place at SADACCA...
Blue Remembered Hills
Folk taking a stroll in Abbeyfield Park
during the second week of May may have witnessed adults running
around in shorts and generally behaving like a bunch of seven-year
olds – their excuse was that they were performing Blue Remembered
Hills by Dennis Potter...
Open Up Burngreave
This year Burngreave became part of
the city-wide Open Up Sheffield, an annual event where artists
invite the public into their studios...
Close Encounters
@ The Showroom
Burngreave-based DJs 66digriz and The
Only Michael are planning to put on an out of this world musical
performance at Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema on Friday June
13th...
Creative Burngreave
The Creative Burngreave Project will
provide artists and potential artists with training and development
to work on community Arts projects. These projects will build
on the creative ideas of Burngreave people...
Portrait Final Four
Local man Michael Gaskell has reached
the final four of the National Portrait Competition...
Issue
31 May 2003
Abbeyfield
Festival postponed
Green City Action (GCA) have decided
to postpone this year's multicultural festival because of delays
in funding from New Deal...
Hog
in the limelight
Hardly the Hog is the hero of a comic
drawn by Burngreave graphic artist Alex Coward. Six issues of
this resourceful animal’s exciting adventures have so far
been published, and Alex is now working on a graphic novel...
The
Musical Works…
…are looking for people who would
like to work in musical education. They are especially keen to
find people who can teach steel pans, samba, bhangra dancing,
DJ-ing & MC-ing and hip hop/rap, although they would like
to hear from anyone who would like to be involved...
Multiple
Heritage Celebration
Over a hundred children and parents
turned up at Verdon Recreation Centre for a celebration of the
work of black and mixed race children with the Sheffield Multiple
Heritage Service...
Advert: Circus
in Performance Course
Advert :
The Burngreave Green Environment Programme:
Abbeyfield
Stables Project
Drop in Art activities & demonstrations.
Free Outdoor Theatre. Promenade Productions of Blue Remembered
Hills.
Issue
30 April 2003
More
information
All
Saints welcomes top US rap star
New York rap and hiphop legend Jeru
the Damaja visited All Saints Community Centre recently to lend
support to a unique creative industries training initiative helping
young local people further their careers...
Catch
the Drift 2003
Do you love music and want
to learn more? Do you have an interest in street art?
APOLLO
Talent Quest
Are you young and talented?
Do you have a song to sing? Would you like to perform on stage,
backed by a live band?
Positive
Negative Film Festival
On Saturday 22nd and Sunday
23rd of March, Don Valley stadium saw the Positive Negative film
festival draw a select audience of local black community representatives,
and a preview of the film Colour Blind...
Along
this ancient path
“It’s radically
different from anything that might be thought of as church”.
Rev Martyn Snow of Christchurch, is explaining ‘Labyrinth’
– the medieval practice being recreated in his church this
Easter...
Advert: Sheffield Multiple Heritage
Service Celebration
Event!
Advert: Community
Theatre Production and Workshops
The Burngreave Green Environment
Programme
Issue
29 March 2003
Celebrate
our Roots
Sheffield Multiple Heritage Service
supports mixed-race children and their families and is working
to secure New Deal money to work in Burngreave schools...
International
Women's Day celebrations
To mark International Women's Day, all
women are invited to come and celebrate with us!
The
NonStop Foundation
Professional training and guidance for
young people from all backgrounds seeking a career within the
creative sector. Graphic and web design courses, music technologies,
photography.
Advert: Green Top Community Circus: Youth
Circus Workshop
Every Tuesday until 15th April
Advert: Sheffield
Women's Forum
Women Making a Difference
Issue 28 February 2003
Radio
Ramadan success
Fast FM, 106.6 FM, hit the airwaves
between 6th November and 7th December 2002 with a record number
of listeners, the most successful broadcast ever and better programming
and organisation...
Pitsmoor
is my home
‘Pitsmoor is my home’ graffiti
was the opening shot on the video made by young people from Ellesmere
and Carwood last summer...
Issue
29 December 2002
All Burngreave’s
Night
On 31st October, Burngreave
residents turned out in droves to see two contrasting productions
at St Catherine’s Hall on Burngreave Road to help raise
funds for The Friends of Burngreave Chapel and Cemetery...
Lord Mayor
launches young people's mural
The Lord Mayor of Sheffield,
Cllr Marjorie Barker, has officially launched a mural, which has
been designed and created by young people.
Advent Message
Towering above the conflicts
of our age is the message of hope that ‘Advent’ brings.
At the time of his first arrival on earth an angelic chorus heralded
the birth of Jesus...
Diwali comes
to Burngreave
At the Hindu temple in
Burngreave over 80 people attended an event to celebrate Diwali.
Children and young people dressed in brightly coloured traditional
suits and saris strutted their stuff to a mix of traditional and
Bollywood style songs...
Winter
Solstice
Once more the Wheel of
the Year has turned and Christmas is upon us but how do those
who don’t want to celebrate a Christian festival go about
enjoying the holiday...?
Guru Nanek
Dev
In November, the local
Sikh community celebrated the birthdate of Guru Nanak, the founder
of the Sikh religion and the first of the Sikh Gurus...
Issue 26
November 2002
The Month of Ramadhan
The month of Ramadhan is
significant for Muslims because it was during Ramadhan when the
Quran was revealed. It is also when Muslims look for the new moon
to begin fasting. Fasting (siyam in Arabic) means to abstain from
something, during this times Muslims refrain from eating and drinking
between dawn and dusk...
Issue 25
October 2002
Her Presence
in Colours
Burngreave was privileged
recently to host the 'Her Presence in Colours' exhibition at the
Clock Tower gallery in the Northern General. The exhibition featured
contributions from women artists all over the world, including
a number from Burngreave...
Issue 24
August 2002
Another Wonderful Day!
The sun shone on this years Abbeyfield
Multicultural Festival...
A Time
To Reflect
On 14th and 15th of August
the nations of India and Pakistan will mark their 55th year of
independence. The past twelve months have seen the two countries
close to war a number of times...
International
Women's art comes to Burngreave
Art from women all over
the world will be exhibited from the 23rd August to October 4th,
Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, at the Clock Tower Gallery at Northern
General Hospital...
 July
2002
The
Abbeyfield Festival is nearly upon us and you can get
your dancing shoes on at the ski slope or SADACCA for the
Jam
Down Fiesta 2002, celebrating 40 years of Jamaican independence,
while The
Tower tells of prisoners walking to Wakefield in the 1800's.
May
2002
The Burngreave Ashram
are having an Open Day and the St Patricks day celebrations
include a Welcome
to the Irish Centre, while over 80 people celebrated the life
of Pakistan's poet-philosopher on Iqbal
Day
April
2002
The Listen
to Us Robot Design party was a huge success and Swamp
Circus are looking for young street performers for a carnival.
Green City Action are making plans for
this
years festival, you can find out more, book or look back at
reports from previous years.
March
2002
Plans for this years Abbeyfield
Multicultural Festival, including booking forms and reports
from previous years
‘International
Women’s Art Towards a Sustainable Environment’ Green
City Action are privileged to be hosting the fourth wonderful
international exhibition and conference of ‘Her Presence in Colours’
in our area in August this year
February
2002
As local
community radios report a huge success Forum
House, a new space for arts from diverse cultures has been
opened.
December
2001
Students from Firth Park College prepare
for the Little
Shop of Horrors
November
2001
Windscreen
2001, a report from the wind-powered cinema. Earl
Marshall Day of Sports.
A report about a
prize winning local artist.
News of an Arts and Spirituality week from the friends of Burngreave
Cemetry, the Jewel
in our Crown.
October
2001
Celebrate The Great
British Apple
Read a report on Burngreave
Sports Week
"The
Windscreen" 2001 is feelgood, fabulous and fun, 2 hours of
great entertainment for people of all ages!
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