The Festival of the
Mind launches today with 11 days of creative events in Sheffield.
The
Spiegeltent has returned to Barker’s Pool and the festival will be hosting many
other events across the city including at Castle House (the Co-op), a grade II
listed building on Angel Street which is being opened to the public again to
host exhibitions slideshows and installations.
Sheffield
Archives and Local Studies Library have worked with festival organisers on a
number of events at Castle House including:
A Letter to Sheffield – a history of the
city in letters curated by Dr Jonathan Ellis from the University of
Sheffield. The exhibition will feature contemporary letters alongside historical letters from
Sheffield Archives including: letters written by Mary Queen of Scots during her
imprisonment in Sheffield in 1571 and illustrated 19th century letters
written by the Gatty family of Ecclesfield.
The Tactile Image - the UK’s first
photographic exhibition of 2D and 3D printed images based on the work of our
long-time collaborator, Clive Egginton.
The exhibition breaks new ground in representing the art of photography
by portraying images both in standard print form and in one or more
corresponding tactile facsimiles. The
photographs cover various aspects of Sheffield life.
The
full programme: http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/2014-programme/
Look
out for Festival of the Mind on BBC Look North tonight (18 Sep), BBC1
(Yorkshire), 6:30pm.