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Juxtavoices is a 45 piece choir which includes a number of respected leftfield artists, writers, composers and musicians in its ranks.  We would love to make a positive contribution to the bid in some way.

My idea is for the City to partner up with local musical groups (possibly from the S.U.B. website promoted on the City of Culture website this morning) and arrange a citywide treasure hunt with musicians performing at each location. Contained in the lyrics (or for the smarty pants in the music itself) is the clue to the next location. 

It may also be a good idea for locations to be near parks, pubs and other areas where treasure hunters who need to take a moment to figure out the clue (or may have simply given up) can relax and ponder the culture of the great steel city.

The entire treasure hunt can be captured on cheap flip cams distributed to registered competitors to generated cost effective and impactful video stories to be featured on the web.

The largest, oldest and most prestigious amateur theatre event in the district returns for yet another smash year, aiming to highlight and promote the amazing range of diversity, skill, talent and passion for theatre that can be found within the residents of the Steel City.

Each summer, every amateur theatre group in the area is invited to take part in friendly competition to highlight the very best talent they have to offer. Entries are marked by a professional adjudicator on their technical and theatrical skills, then on the final night awards and trophies are presented to the winners by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield

Performances will be at the Library Theatre in Tudor Square, from Thursday 24th June until Saturday 26th June. Doors open at 7pm, tickets available on the door or by ringing 0114 2368378

A Proms in the Park event spotlighting Sheffield’s glorious parkland as well as celebrating  its long and successful brass banding heritage. Stannington Brass Band would be proud to headline the concert as well as showcasing the best vocal talent Sheffield has to offer. Picnics, parasols  and audience participation would be essential ingredients.  Why not make it an annual event?

Did you know that within the area covered by the Sheffield post code there are around 30 well established brass bands many of whom have been in existence for over 100 years?

Long thought to be the domain of the male working class and having largely evolved out of the mining community, in the modern brass band you could easily find a company director playing alongside a plumber, or a nurse sitting next to a policeman.

Some of our home grown brass bands have nurtured players of international standing and many local bands themselves are of world renown. For the most part, although the brass players are amateurs and the bands non-profit making organisations; they could easily hold their own in any professional orchestra on any stage in Europe, but that’s not why they do it.

Brass band players love the music that they play, much of it is ‘traditional band music’ specifically written or arranged for the brass band format, but also there are a host of contemporary brass band composers who provide modern challenging pieces of music that is conspicuous by its absence in any other genre.

There is, however, a downside for all this home grown aptitude; during the last two decades there have been significant financial difficulties for many of the brass band sponsors and many of the businesses and corporations supporting our local talent have reduced or ceased their subsidies. The fact that there are still approximately 30 brass bands within the Sheffield area is a testament to their sheer determination. The recent TV series centred on Dinnington Colliery Band highlighted many of the issues affecting all our local brass bands and it took national television coverage and a very effectual Sue Perkins to drag them into the 21^st Century where they have now received just reward for their efforts.

But what of the lesser known local brass bands like Oughtibridge or Loxley Silver Band who, between them, have been in existence over 240 years? A look at either of their websites will show you what they are doing; they are providing a cultural service to the local Sheffield community and they, and others like them, deserve our support. Because, not only are they continuing to maintain and enhance a local tradition, they are nurturing and developing the lives of the younger members of our village-like community by providing the opportunity for them to learn to play a musical instrument, be part of a team environment, grow in confidence, increase their self-worth, have fun and enjoyment while creating outstanding music and ultimately put something back into our local community; how many other ‘hobbies’ can do all that?

Echoes of Blackburn Meadows (EBM) is a forthcoming sonic art-walk, which re-animates the landscapes of the former Blackburn Meadows Power Station from 1921 to the present day.

The walk will eventually comprise around fifteen solar-powered transmitters, which will broadcast sounds and spoken via an FM frequency. The transmitters will be hidden along the two-mile route of public footpaths that now surround the site of the former power statio

The EBM team has already launched one prototype transmitter thanks to a research and development grant from the Arts Council and is working alongside the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) to make the pathways cleaner, safer and more accessible for all visitors to the area.

To track down the prototype transmitter, or to contribute your memories of the coal-fired Blackburn Meadows power station, you will need to contact the team on info@sheffieldelectricity.com or telephone Project Co-Ordinator Jennifer Rich on 07841 869882.

For more information on the project, head to www.sheffieldelectricity.com.

Greentop Circus is a charity organization based in a church building converted into a circus centre. It is one of 4 circus schools in all of the UK and serves both professional artists and the communities throughout Sheffield. We offer workshops and classes for both adults and children, we provide a training space for members for only £1 an hour, put on fantastic cabarets the last Saturday of every month and provide work for professional artists all over England. We are located in Burngreave on Holywell rd. on the way to Meadowhall. We may be out of the way but it is worth it to come check out the centre and see what we are doing. This year is the 15th anniversary of Greentop, we are a big influence on the Sheffield culture and continue to strengthen the diversity of arts education in this emerging city.

Sheffield is an incredibly warm and characterful city. There are some great places to eat and drink and lots of interesting sights to see… you just need to know where to look…

You know underclassrising.net love Sheffield. We’d like more people to know how great it is too… This why we do what what we..

Eleven is a graphic design consultancy that creates intelligent and effective design solutions for print, web and brand identity.

Our Favorite Places is an independent guide to the best of Sheffield’s cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, parks and more. Designed by Eleven, a creative team living in the city, Our Favorite Places champions independence, focusing on unique places that can only be found in Sheffield.

Our Favorite Places is 40 pages of 50+ brilliant places – from tiny Victorian theaters to tucked away vintage shops, and from Chinese fondue to the best Italian delis. These are the kind of places that only locals know about.

So that is the blurb, do we need The Middle Class to tell us about this city of culture, In Sheffield, we create, make and take part in culture every day. Culture isn’t something that happens around us.

We make it happen. Together, the people of our city have the passion, skills, venues, programmers and expertise – and most importantly, the ideas and creativity and those people are The Working Class.

Here underclassrising.net have a problem with people like Eleven and the Sheffield City of Culture bid we support with the bid, it is through art and culture we have found a path, but look at  sheffield city of culture web pages the images the hype, from four pounds for a book of independent guide to the best of Sheffield’s cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, parks and more, some are free, others are simply out of the price range of The Working Class of this City and here we make it very clear

Culture with out The Working Class is no Culture..

Art/Culture in this city operates like a symbolic representation of reality.

The act of representing reality or mediating our relation with the world - through an object or product of symbolic art/culture - reinforces the process of reification. The projection of the interior mind onto upon the exterior world produces an expansion of colonising zeal. This zeal, in tun, projects the ego over the other: the external world (nature), and the creatures that inhabit it (human beings, animals, plants, and the soil). The expamsive project of the “I” over nature accelerates the process of reification.

All Art/Culture is id EGO.

If you see Picasso on the road - KILL HIM. When will The Middle Class learn that they speak to nobody but each other?  The City of Culture bid needs to involve The Working Class more and we ponder just what is the Our Favorite Places publication about other than just an overpriced gloss..

Based at the Showroom Cinema, one of Sheffield’s cultural landmarks, Celluloid Screams has ben scaring up a storm since 2008 with a series of screenings showcasing the best in classic and contemporary horror cinema. In 2009, the strand expanded into a full weekend festival, boasting UK Premieres, Special Guests and cutting edge horror movies, as well as classics from the archives.

The remit is simple: to exhibit the breadth and diversity of horror and fantastic cinema from across the world. With 2010’s event confirmed for 22nd-24th October, Sheffield should prepare for a weekend of the terrifying, the bizarre and the fantastic as Celluloid Screams continues to establish itself as one of the highlight’s of the city’s film festival calendar.