Flash! Ignite Your Imagination

Some people do great things, some people do funny things. Some people overcome great hardship or adversity. Some people do crazy things, some have great ideas and inspire others to do great things. We hope to give you a flash into great people's lives, why and how they do and have done the things they do. Flash events will entertain you, amaze and perhaps sometimes bring tears to your eyes. We hope you come to one or more and perhaps be encouraged to develop great ideas of your own and share incredible stories. These talks are put together in collaboration with a fantastic selection of partners and we are always on the look out for new connections... Follow us on twitter @flashsheffield

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Andy Kirkpatrick - Inappropriate Climbing THURSDAY 6TH MARCH 2014  - FOUNDRY "Never has trying not to die on a mountain seemed such a good laugh!" THE HIGHLAND NEWS Continuing our series of talks from mountaineers and adventurers, best selling author and mountaineer Andy Kirkpatrick will be speaking in the Students' Union Foundry on Thursday 6th March. This time around the maverick mountaineer will be talking about climbing El Capitan in Yosemite with his 13-year-old daughter (as featured in CBBC's My Life series), revisiting Norway's Troll Wall, his latest winter expedition to attempt the North Face of the Eiger, and his current trip to Antarctica to climb Ulvetanna.  Since his last speaking-tour Andy has been busy climbing all over the world and has a tonne of new stories to tell. As usual, it's likely to include some very fast talking, some possibly not very pc jokes and some pretty epic pictures. Hugely entertaining and the only 'stand-up comic / mountaineer' in the UK. Tickets: #8 concessions /  #13 http://sivtickets.com/event/andykirkpatrickinappropriateclimbing http://tickets.sheffieldstudentsunion.com/ents/event/6093/ Doors open: 18.45  Show starts: 19:30 http://www.shef.ac.uk/union/going-out/flash/?event=20345 http://www.andy-kirkpatrick.com/ http://vimeo.com/79094854

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Public Lecture and Cancer inspired Art Exhibition

"Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment" Professor Freddie Hamdy, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford Thursday 27th February 2014 17.15 Drinks Reception and Art Exhibition 18.15 Lecture 19:15 Close Firth Hall, Western Bank, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN The Phoenix Project: Surviving Cancer - Art Exhibition The Phoenix Project is a unique collaboration between cancer survivors, graphic artists and researchers attempting to capture the reality of living with cancer. The research was undertaken by Dr. Andy Chantry (Medicine), Dr. Matthew Cheeseman (English), Dr. Natalie Hammond (Sociology, University of Manchester) and Dr. Alex Peng (Information School). Ethical approval was granted (REC reference 13/YH/0023; IRAS project ID 121854) for researchers to interview cancer survivors and ask them about the impact of cancer on intimate areas of their life including their sex lives and relationships. Transcripts of these interviews were given to a group of artists recruited from the Graphic Medicine community and a series of powerful, provocative, heart wrenching, funny and moving images were created. With permission, these will be displayed to raise awareness, to salute and to celebrate the bravery, honesty and forbearance of those who go through the hardest of times with such incredible dignity and fortitude. Car Parking - Free in Durham Road Car Park, Arts Tower Car Park This event is free, but we do ask you to register your intention to attend using the link below (this is purely for catering purposes and in case of changes to the event). http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffield-cancer-research-centre/patient-public-information/public-lecture-hamdy Information related to this message is available at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffield-cancer-research-centre/patient-public-information/public-lectur.

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Katherine Kilalea (collection with Carcanet forthcoming) and Helen Mort (new collection short listed for most prestigious poetry prize in UK, The T.S. Eliot prize) will be reading alongside the stupendously talented Canadian poet, Karen Solie this Tuesday. See graphic for details.

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At the Weekend - Art, Poetry and the Making of the Book  Artists and poets have long collaborated on creating books that are art objects in their own right. These hybrid creations speak to the eye and ear and mind as graphic collaborations upon the page turning the book itself into a material object that sings and shines and has formally complex being. This two day symposium brings artists, poets and book makers together, using the astonishingly beautiful books created by Tetrad Press and Circle Press from the 1970s onwards, including among many others the collaboration between poet Roy Fisher and Tom Phillips for Tetrad and Ronald King and poet Jerome Rothenberg for Circle Press. Artist Sam Winston produces painstaking works of art out of words themselves, which have been supported and published by Ronald King at Circle Press. The guest speakers will be talking about the idea of the fusion of art and poetry and fine book making, as well as reflecting on the history of the two presses. Examples of the fine art books in the Private Presses Collection held at the University of Sheffield Library will be on show, and there will be an opportunity to enjoy other examples within the Special Collections reading room. The weekend showcases just some of the University of Sheffield's extraordinary holdings in its Private Presses Collection at Western Bank Library, including substantial collections from our speakers, and celebrates the university's collaboration with Bank Street Arts. 9 & 10 November 14.00 - 17.00 Venue: Exhibition Space, Jessop West, University of Sheffield (Leavygreave Road) Free Admission on the day - no advance booking needed

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Mark Grist headlines the upcoming cultural varsity between Sheffield Uni and Hallam. The two unis will go toe-to-toe in a poetry raucous poetry slam with judges chosen from unsuspecting audience members. Also part of the entertainment will be a comedy slam between the two university comedy troupes - Antics and The Shrimps. Don't let theside down and come show your support!  Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/159078824302751/ Thursday 24th Nov 2013 Doors open 7:30pm Fusion, Sheffield Students' Union Tickets £5 NUS/UCard £7 general

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Leo Houlding, Jason Pickles and Sean 'Stanley' Leary go deep into the Amazon to attempt a first ascent on the magnificent Cerro Autana. Adventure film making goes to the Venezuelan jungle. Not long now till Leo graces Sheffield with tales of the Amazon: The Foundry, Sheffield Students' Union  Tickets £13 / £8 concs Doors 18:45, show starts 19:30 https://www.facebook.com/events/156983377813100/

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Leo Houlding casually hangs over a scary looking chasm with one hand. Join the face of modern British adventure on the 7th of November as he discusses his feats and those hair-raising moments of danger. The talk will also be illustrated with world-class photography and film-footage shot by the multi award winning film-maker Alastair Lee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ymgur99B4 Tickets and more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/156983377813100/

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Poets seek inspiration in graveyards

Mark Grist alongside two other poets recently embarked on a poetic graveyard tour. Visiting the burial places of T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, amongst others, the intrepid group sought to gain inspiration from their predecessors. Watch the BBC report on the tour below. Mark will be in Sheffield for the Uni vs. Hallam cultural varsity later this month. Lend your support to your university and get rewarded with top entertainment! http://www.shef.ac.uk/union/going-out/flash/?event=19807

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The Roman iPad? Tom Standage looks at the Roman wax tabloid which was used to note down reminders and small bits of information. Tom looks at the tablet as a pre-modern social media tool in his latest book 'Writing on the Wall'. In the toursupport the book, Tom traces the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today – they also link us to the past.  Friday 22nd November Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons)  More: https://www.facebook.com/events/352180221578606/?ref=5

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The JR James Archive, University of Sheffield

This website hosts the photos, maps, plans and images of the JR James archive, digitised in the summer of 2013 by Philip Brown and Joseph Carr - MPlan graduates of the Department of Town and...

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Today we are endlessly connected, constantly tweeting, texting, e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history information has been spread through social networks with far-reaching social and political effects. Tom Standage, digital editor at the Economist, takes a look at the history of social networking from Cicero and Luther, to Facebook and Twitter. Writing on the Wall traces the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today – they also link us to the past.  Friday 22nd November, 19:30 The Foundry Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons)

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Marvel at this video of Leo Houlding base jumping into 'Majalis al Jinn' - the cave of the genies - the second largest cavern in the world in Oman. "I just want to focus on this and get it done because, err, y'know, you might die!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoLUvva2DBM Join the face of modern British adventure on the 7th of November as he discusses his feats and those hair-raising moments of danger. The talk will also be illustrated with world-class photography and film-footage shot by the multi award winning film-maker Alastair Lee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ymgur99B4 Tickets and more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/156983377813100/

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Leo Houlding scales great heights in the Peak District. Join the face of modern British adventure on the 7th of November as he discusses his feats and those hair-raising moments of danger. The talk will also be illustrated with world-class photography and film-footage shot by the multi award winning film-maker Alastair Lee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ymgur99B4 Tickets and more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/156983377813100/

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The Ministry of Thin with Emma Woolf Monday 21st October, 19:30Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £8/£6.50 (cons) We’re obsessed with weight… Too many of us are locked in a war with our bodies. The Ministry of Thin takes an unflinching look at how the modern obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty and perfection got out of control. Emma Woolf explores how we might all be able to stop hating and start liking our bodies again. And she asks: if losing weight is the answer, what is the question? Emma Woolf is the great-niece of Virginia Woolf. She is a columnist for The Times and also writes for The Independent and Psychologies amongst others. She was a co-presenter on Channel 4’s Supersize vs Superskinny. Her first book, An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia was shortlisted for the Beat Award for Recovery Inspiration. She was also nominated for Mind’s Journalist of the Year. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union

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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets with Simon Singh

Sunday 20th October, 13:00

The Foundry, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) The Simpsons is probably the most successful show in television history. It also contains enough sophisticated mathematics to form a university course. All twenty-five series are peppered with references to theorems, conjectures and equations. Bestselling author Simon Singh investigates the maths that infiltrates The Simpsons and makes sense of the complex mathematical jokes that litter the show. He meets the writing team – comedy geniuses who also happen to hold an array of diplomas in supergeeky subjects like biochemistry and throws light on the history of maths and the problems that still haunt today’s generation of number theorists. D’oh! Simon Singh has a PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. A former BBC producer and BAFTA Award-winning documentary director, he is the author of the bestselling Fermat’s Last Theorem, Big Bang and The Code Book which was the basis for the BBC series The Science of Secrecy. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union

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A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsely Saturday 19th October, 7:30

The Octagon, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Western Bank, S10 Tickets £10/£8 (cons) The dark story of our fascination with murder, to accompany a BBC series, with renowned historian Lucy Worsley. Murder is a very British obsession – a subject that we have maintained a long fascination with – the more gruesome the details, the better. In A Very British Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, examining not only the crimes themselves but also how murder became a form of middle class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press. At a point during the birth of modern Britain, murder entered our national psyche and it’s been a part of us ever since. This is a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians. Dr Lucy Worsley is a historian and Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, looking after the Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace among others. She has presented numerous television series, including If Walls Could Talk for BBC1 and has written many books including Great Houses. In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union