Sheffield transformed itself in to a winter wonderland with Reindeer, Snowmen and Santas taking over the City Centre before the big Christmas light switch on.
Sheffield transformed itself in to a winter wonderland with Reindeer, Snowmen and Santas taking over the City Centre before the big Christmas light switch on.
The Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival is taking ten of its films around to various locations in North Yorkshire and the North East of England.
Sheffield dance crew, Ink Dance, have produced a street dance video featuring iconic Sheffield landmarks in their bid to win the Dance Your City competition. They hope to perform in London with award winning hip hop dance company Boy Blue Entertainment. The competition winners are decided by a public online vote which closes at midnight on Saturday.
To see the video and other competition entries visit Dance Your City
Tony Minichiello, coach to Jessica Ennis-Hills, has expressed dismay with athletics provision at the Olympic Legacy Park after the closure of the Don Valley Stadium, in an interview for Talking Sheffield on Sheffield Live! TV. Minichiello said: “I don’t think the investment is going into the athletics side.”
Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome Yorkshire was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Hallam University. He also announced that from 2016 the Yorkshire Festival would become a bi-annual event.
The Sheffield Ahmadiyya Muslim Association has been selling poppies to collect money for the British Legion. Under the slogan Love for all, Hatred for none, AMA has collected £60,000 nationally for the poppy appeal.
A funday held at Weston Park looked at how literacy has changed and developed over the last 100 years. People who attended the event, got the chance to use a type writer and type their name by using the morse code.
Nick Clegg, MP for Hallam, launched Tech North in Sheffield this week. Over 200,000 people are working in the creative and technical industries in the North. The scheme aims to see this number doubled.
Thursday saw hundreds of people gathering in Sheffield to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Candles are lit and there is singing, dancing and fireworks to mark the occasion.
Chris Ramsey: Sunday 19th October – Sheffield City Hall
There is a very good chance that, in the last few years , Chris Ramsey will have popped up on your radar. After his starring role as Jack Pearson in BBC Two’s Hebburn, and his appearances on numerous TV shows such as Mock the Week and Celebrity Juice, this cheeky Northerner is nothing short of hilarious. However, he has primarily made waves within the stand-up circuit.
Born and raised in South Shields, he left his film degree at the University of Sunderland to pursue a career in stand-up. After being compere to an open-mic night in Newcastle, and being nominated for a Chortle award, he took his first solo show on the road four years ago, and has been successful ever since.
This performance at the City Hall was a testament to Ramsey’s success. It wasn’t the first time I had seen him live – that happened as part of his previous stand-up offering ‘Feeling Lucky’. But, after such a side-splittingly funny show last time, I knew that this offering – ‘The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning Television’ – would be no different.
He even had the same support act, in the shape of fellow comedian Carl Hutchinson. He was hysterical last time, and after hearing Chris introducing him, I knew the show would get off to a flying start. With highlights including McDonald’s clever marketing in Manchester, to forming his new group ‘The Chipped Tooth Brothers’ whilst swapping stories in the gym, his humour-driven take on the nuances of his life was a fantastic start to the show. This man is definitely one to watch.
After the interval, it was Chris’s turn. After a condiment-filled introduction (a story involving confusion with a Subway order), he launched into his material. The show was mainly about the incident which spawned the title, (without spoiling things too much, it involved an unfortunate faux pas on Soccer AM). However, Chris punctuates the story with side-splitting asides and tangents, such as his displeasure of people’s preferences when disposing of toilet roll, and his attempts to channel his inner James Bond whilst on holiday with a girl – and left the audience (including myself) in stitches.
In short, both comedians were energetic, quick-witted and genuinely nice guys (they both stayed at the end to sign merchandise and pose for photos) – and it was a pleasure seeing them the second time around.
Reviewed by Jenny Newton for Sheffield Live!