Sheffield Live! 93.2 fm presents Tarka Dawn, Double XL, Sour Cherry and Chloe Jade Simmons. They will be performing at West St Live on West Street, Sheffield. Doors open at 19:30 with the first band is due to start at 20:00 hrs. Four performers for only £3.00 on Wednesday 29 June. Come down and support the local live music scene here in Sheffield as well as your local community radio station, Sheffield Live! 93.2 fm. C u there.
By Amna Kaleem
In the last one week, Sheffield gritters have covered over 43,000 kilometres of highways, a distance equivalent to more than the circumference of the earth.
Sheffield Live! talks to Street Force director John Charlton about gritters, snow wardens and potholes.
You can contact Street Force at streetforce@sheffield.gov.uk and (0114) 273 4567.
The report was aired on Communities Live on December 10, 2010
By Amna Kaleem
Nick Clegg is received by Paul Scriven and angry protesters as he arrives at the Town Hall
Nick Clegg’s latest visit to Sheffield attracted the kind of attention politicians shy away from.
On September 3, trade unionists and campaigners gathered outside the Town Hall to protest public spending cuts and remind Clegg of the promises he had made before the general elections. The protest was organised to coincide with the launching ceremony of Opportunity Sheffield, where Nick Clegg was the guest speaker.
On his arrival at the Town Hall, Clegg was greeted with the chants of ‘Judas’, a reception quite different from the one he got at Barker’s Pool just a few months back.
Speaking to Sheffield Live! the Hallam MP answered questions about Forgemasters loan, his constituency home and the charge that he has betrayed Sheffield.
Andrew Moncreiff with Jo Strong, his cardiac rehab instructor
Andrew and Jo talk to Sheffield Live!
Andrew Moncrieff, 64, from Millhouses, is taking part in the Bupa Great Yorkshire Run on September 5, doing a 10k jog. This time last year, Andrew was recovering from a triple bypass. After taking part in Physical Activity Referral Scheme, run by Sheffield City Council, Andrew is able to take to the streets to raise money for the dedicated medical staff at Northern General Hospital and his trainers at Graves Leisure Centre.
Sheffield Live! spoke with Andrew and Jo Strong, his cardiac rehabilitation instructor, about the benefits of Physical Activity Referral Scheme.
If you are interested in Physical Activity Referral Scheme, you can contact the team on 0114 203 9528 or email PARS@sheffield.gov.uk.
The report was aired on Communities Live on September 3.
Sheffield Live! reporter Emma Wass interviews Natasha Marshall and Jacob Whitehead about this year’s Summer Arts College.
Natasha is a Restorative Justice Mentor for Sheffield YOS, the Youth Offending Service, and was one of the organisers of the three-week course. Jacob Whitehead, one of this year’s participants, talked to us about the workshops they attended, as well as what he had learnt and how he felt it would help him towards a future career in the music and arts industry.
As well as giving these young people something worthwhile to do over the summer, the project was also about giving them a focus and preparing them for a future career, encouraging them to rebuild their lives.
Workshops included drumming, street art, break dancing, music production, mixing and learning interview techniques at Sheffield Live! 93.2FM.
Project Coordinator Katie Ryan with three of the successful participants
All nine of the participants passed the course and were awarded with the Bronze Arts Award on Friday. At a celebration event at the Showroom Cinema on Friday, August 27, they were joined by friends and family to view a film of the highlights of the project created by Jacqui Bellamy.
Communities Live was invited to take a look at the exhibition of their work where Emma Wass spoke with Project Coordinator Katie Ryan.
EmmaWassSummerArtsCollege.mp3
The report was aired on Communities Live on August 25 and September 1.
EmmaWassinterviewsStacySampson.mp3
Sheffield Live! reporter Emma Wass interviews Stacey Sampson from Dead Earnest Theatre, an applied theatre company in Sheffield who create bespoke theatre and interactive workshops to address a range of social issues. Most recently they devised a performance for the Accommodation and Campus Services Department of the University of Sheffield around the issue of staff absence and returning to work interviews.
In this interview, Stacey talks about the Creative Sparks programme, an initiative for children funded by Sheffield City Council. Over the past two weeks they have been delivering free drama and art and craft workshops in Firth Park and the city centre.
For more information about the Creative Sparks workshops, email Stacey on stacey@deadearnest.co.uk.
The report was aired on Communities Live on August 27, 2010.
By Amna Kaleem
Flood victims in Sindh receive aid. Photo courtesy Faith Foundation, Karachi.
On July 29, flash floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains hit northwestern part of Pakistan. Within two days, nearly 980,000 people had been left homeless or displaced. Three weeks on, the flooding has spread to all the four provinces of Pakistan, about 1,500 people have lost their lives, 20 million have been displaced and 3.5million children stand the risk of contracting waterborne diseases. Cases of cholera have already been diagnosed in the flood-hit areas.
Among those affected are some 1.5 million Afghan refugees who have taken shelter in Pakistan over the past three decades and more than 700,000 people displaced by the War on Terror in the Swat Valley and other areas last year.
Pakistan is an agricultural country, the flooding swept away 558,000 hectares of crop land. At least 10,000 cows have drowned. With the heavy loss of fields, the country will face an acute food shortage not only this year but also the next.
The economy which relies heavily on the export of agricultural goods will also be hit hard, at a time when the government needs all the revenue it can get to rehabilitate the millions displaced.
Pakistan is Asia’s third-largest wheat producer, according to an estimate by Pakistan’s National Farmers’ Association, up to 500,000 tonnes of wheat stocked by farmers has been washed away. The country is world’s fourth biggest cotton producer, the flooding has destroyed up to two million bales of cotton, around 300,000 tonnes of rice have also been lost.
The report features interviews with Salman Siddiqui, senior reporter at Express Tribune, Pakistan and Saad Khalique, vice-president of Faith Foundation, a Karachi-based charity helping flood victims in the Sindh province.
Sheffield City Council has set up donation points at the Town Hall and Howden House. You can also make a donation to DEC by calling 0370 60 60 900 or visiting the website.
If you would like to donate to Faith Foundation, you can get in touch with them on 00-92-21-99250265 and 00-92-300-8246829. You can find them on Facebook for more details of the work they have done so far.
The report was aired on Communities Live on August 13, 2010.
Adobe Photoshop is the industry’s leading digital image editing software. It is the perfect creative tool for designing and manipulating images for print layouts, web publishing, multimedia, video, photography and visually expressing your creative ideas. The ‘Showroom’ in partnership with Sheffield Live! is offering two weekend courses in May to improve your skills in this amazing software package. These sessions will take place in the new Sheffield Live! computer suite and participants will gain expert tuition in the core elements of Adobe Photoshop CS4
Weekend One: Level 1: Beginners
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th of May
10.00am – 5.00pm
The course will be filled with a number of hands-on tutorials which you’ll work through with help from your tutor. Some of the features you’ll learn are:
• Navigating your way through the Photoshop CS4 workspace.
• How to use ‘auto correction’ tools to fix common problems with tones, contrasts and colours.
• How to crop and resize images.
• How to use healing brushes to fix blemishes within a photograph
• Understand the basic use of layers.
• Adding text to photographs.
• How to easily apply filters to create stunning special effects.
• How to save and print your images.
Tutor: Peter Beeston
Price: £125 (£110 conc)
Weekend Two: Level 2: Intermediary
Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd of May
10.00am – 5.00pm
The course will be filled with a number of hands-on tutorials which you’ll work through with help from your tutor. Some of the features you’ll learn are:
• Navigating your way through the Photoshop workspace
• The benefits of working in a more ‘Non-Destructive’ style
• How using filter and pixel masks can give you more control over your work
• How adjustment layers can fix most common problems
• How to create smart objects
• How to ‘touch up’ photographs like the professionals
• Understanding how to paint in all various ‘colour modes’
• How to use a ‘vanishing point’ to edit in perspective
• How to use Photoshop as a 3D editing tool
Tutor: Peter Beeston
Price: £125 (£110 conc)
Places can be booked through the showroom box office on 0114 2757727
or online www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
……….where radio folk put on aprons and take to the stove
Harry’s prawn curry, Irini’s spinach pie and Dale’s burritos meet Simon’s lentil stew, Paul’s chili and Jill’s wakes cakes on a night set up to share our favourite dishes with you!
This menu is not complete, so do join us on the 4th of March to meet the faces behind the voices and find out what we have been cooking.
On the decks will be Graham Marshall (Spirit of the Wapentake), Chris Welch (Sounds Like this), Kevin Resley (Walk a mile in my shoes) and S. Lee Price (Vancouver Manouever).
Date: Thursday 4th of March at 19.00
Price: £10.
Do buy your ticket early because the food is delicious and the space limited! Tickets will be available at the venue from next week.
Venue: The Wick at Both Ends, 149-151 West Street, Sheffield, S1 4EW
All proceeds go to Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM.
Saturday 12 of December: two weeks before Christmas and the city centre is buzzing with activity, full of people out to buy presents for their loved ones. What’s the essence of Christmas? Even if nowadays it has 
become a little bit of everything, from taking a loan to getting drunk, even if you’re not a Christian yourself, you’ll probably agree that Christmas is also about caring for others as we care for ourselves (and you may go as far as admitting that it is actually in our own *interest* to care for others). That’s why we thought it totally ‘Christmassy’ to make a programme about things that matter to Sheffielders, both at home and away.
This programme will take you for a *political* stroll around the city centre. First we follow the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to the Moor: how do Sheffielders respond to the call for a boycott of Israeli goods? The discussion is there, sharp and live, ranging from a “yes I will” to “No, thank you, I’m shopping now” (why t
hank me?) and to outright cussing. At the Town Hall the Stop the War Coalition is gathering signatures for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. We ask them where we can find hope for the anti-war movement when the government ignored million-strong rallies; walking down Fargate and past the open-air market, we come upon the Body of Sound choir. They’re singing to raise funds for an asylum seekers support group.
Blah blah blah….Merry Christmas, have a listen, and tell us what you think!
A ‘Political’ Stroll Around the City Centre: PART 1
A ‘Political’ Stroll Around the City Centre: PART 2