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2017
12th January 2017
Sheffield LGBT+ History Month 2017 - Friends
of Edward Carpenter and Sheena Amos Youth Trust (SAYiT) are proud to
present a weekend of events to celebrate LGBT+ History Month on
Saturday 25th and
Sunday 26th February 2017. The events are held at the Millennium
Gallery from 12 noon on Saturday 25th January, and at the HUBS,
Sheffield Hallam University Students Union, from 2.30 pm on Sunday
26th February. To see more, click on the picture below to download a
programme of events. We really hope to see you there!
2016
24th February 2016
Rights of Passage at the Merlin Theatre, Sheffield
on Monday 30th May 2016 - Friends of Edward Carpenter are proud
to bring this original production from Clare Summerskill and Artemis
Theatre to Sheffield and to the newly renovated Merlin Theatre. An
inspirational new play about the struggles and triumphs of people
from LGBT communities who have fled to the UK from persecution. What
happens when they get to the country that they hope will offer
refuge? Who is welcome, who is deported, and who is locked up?
You leave your own country in fear of your life. You
come here to be free. But now you are friendless, penniless,
jobless, and scared to present yourself to the Home Office, in case
they don't believe you - in case they send you back.
Based on interviews with LGBT asylum seekers, Rights
of Passage shares the experiences of those who come to the UK from
anti-LGBT countries where their lives are under threat. Real-life
stories brought to the stage unveil the
issues of those who come to the UK and often live under the radar,
terrified of being forcefully returned to their country of origin.
Dramatically moving, Rights of Passage is written by
the brilliant Clare Summerskill (Once Upon a Lifetime and Gateway to
Heaven). More
information and ticket information is available here
www.cliffordevents.co.uk
2nd January 2016
International Women's Day Concerts
- FOEC are proud to present two concerts at The Greystones,
Sheffield on 3rd and 4th March in celebration of International Women's Day 2016. The
concerts, entitled Coven see a welcome return to Sheffield of
O'Hooley & Tidow who did such a great job last year with Out
Aloud. Joining them will be award-winning trio Lady Maisery
and friend and hero of FOEC, the sublimely talented Grace Petrie.
All proceeds from the concerts go to FOEC. More details and tickets
are available at
www.cliffordevents.co.uk Come and join us for a fantastic
evening of music!
2015
17 May 2015
Sheffield Out Aloud Choir and
Award Winning Folk Duo O'Hooley & Tidow Concert -
Out Aloud, Sheffield's
LGBT Choir created a sublime evening of music in
collaboration with award-winning folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi
Tidow as a fund-raiser for FOEC and celebration for IDAHOT
2015. Out Aloud
presented a themed evening of song, celebrating the lives of social
pioneers and Lesbian and Gay icons - including Edward Carpenter,
Alan Turing, Pussy Riot and John Cage, with moving introductions by
the choir's musical director and leader Val Regan. Their performance
of John Cage’s short 3 movement ‘4’33” was the first ever by a choir
in Sheffield and created a magical and reflective interlude to the
evening of breathtaking music. O'Hooley & Tidow
performed songs from their recent album ‘The
Hum’ - ‘surely one of the albums of the year’ (Robin Denslow, The
Guardian) - and collaborated on some of their songs with Out Aloud's
50 plus voices. The
impressive Firth Hall at the University of Sheffield was sold-out
and the proceeds from the concert were
donated to Friends of Edward Carpenter in an amazing show of
generosity and solidarity. Thank you Out Aloud,
Belinda and Heidi for a fantastic evening!
21st / 22nd February 2015
LGBT Voice and Influence - to
celebrate LGBT History Month FOEC
presented a programme of events at the Sheffield Millennium Gallery
on the weekend of 21st and 22nd February 2015. The programme was
entitled LGBT Voice and Influence and included insightful and
inspirational talks from Trans women Carole Robson and Nell
Stockton, a series of short coming out films made
by Eden Film Productions, music from Grace Petrie and Woodhouse
Prize brass band, an Edward Carpenter presentation from Rony
Robinson and Sally Goldsmith and
a free screening of the film Pride. A discussion took
place after the Pride film with Mike Jackson, co-founder of the
Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners group depicted in the film and
Barbara Jackson from the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign. It was a
wonderful weekend attended and supported by many people. The full
programme about the event is available online:
www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/LGBTVoiceandInfluence.pdf
9th
January 2015
LGBT Voice and Influence - FOEC is very proud
to present a fantastic programme of events to celebrate LGBT History
Month at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield on Saturday 21st and
Sunday 22nd February 2015. The programme is entitled LGBT Voice and
Influence and includes talks, films, music from Grace Petrie and a
brass band?! an Edward Carpenter presentation from Rony Robinson and
Sally Goldsmith... The event also includes a free screening
of Pride and a discussion afterwards with Mike Jackson, co-founder
of the Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners group depicted in the
film. The full programme is available online here:
www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/LGBTVoiceandInfluence.pdf
We look forward to seeing you there!
2014
17th November 2014
LGBT History Month 2015 - we are currently
planning an LGBT event to mark and celebrate LGBT History month. The
even will be held on 21st and 22nd February 2015. This will be at a
Sheffield city centre venue and the programme will include talks,
films, live music and community events and stalls. Details will be
announced shortly. Watch this space!
25th March 2014
Sheffield Equal Marriage Fair, Saturday 29th March
2014 - we are delighted to have a stall at Sheffield City
Council's Equal Marriage Fair on Saturday 28th March. The event is
being held in the Town Hall Reception Rooms from 11am - 3pm. Please
stop by to say hello and help us mark and celebrate this equality
landmark - see further details
here.
2013
30th October 2013
Festive Brass 2, Sunday 8th December 2013 - we
are delighted to announce the return of Festive Brass on Sunday 8th
December 2013 at St Andrew's Community Hall in Nether Edge. Last
year's show was a sell-out and huge success all round. Rony
Robinson, Paulette Edwards and the Woodhouse Prize Band are back to
provide a great night of festive brass music. Tickets are £8 / £5
conc and
are available online here. Not to be
missed!
4th July 2013
Graves Gallery Edward Carpenter exhibition -
we are delighted to be involved with Museums Sheffield who are
holding a special Edward Carpenter exhibition from mid-July to
February 2014 at Graves Gallery in Sheffield City Centre. The
exhibition will include the rarely exhibited bronze bust of
Carpenter by Dorothea Clement and Thomas Binney Gibbs' 1921
portrait. For news of this exhibition, please see our Facebook page
and the Museums Sheffield, Graves Gallery website
here. FOEC postcards will be on sale during the exhibition. But
if you can't get to the exhibition or can't wait to get your hand on
some postcards...
Postcards - we
have produced some rather special Friends of Edward Carpenter
postcards and they are now on sale
here. Produced on
high-quality, sustainably-sourced card, designed and printed locally
in Sheffield, and featuring images from the outstanding Sheffield
Archive, these are a great product and we are very proud of them!
12th
April 2013
Grace Petrie Live! - our musician in
residence Grace Petrie is playing a headline concert at The
Greystones on Friday 31st May 2013. Tickets are just £7.00 and the
concert is in support of FOEC. Grace's last show at the venue sold
out, and following the buzz created from her recent appearance on
BBC Radio 4's The Now Show, we're sure this one will too. Get your
tickets now before they're gone! See:
www.cliffordevents.co.uk for details.
FOEC - IDAHO Event - on May 17th Friends of
Edward Carpenter are involved with an event being hosted by the
Millennium Gallery - which is probably the first of its kind - to
mark International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). From 6.00 - 9.00
p.m. the Millennium Gallery will be hosting
series of events commemorating Carpenter's life and works and
challenging homophobia and homophobic bullying. There will be a
presentation from Friends Of Edward Carpenter and a film. We welcome
everyone to come to the event following the IDAHO event in the City
Centre. See
here for more details.
29th
November 2012
Festive Brass - our Yuletide celebration in
support of Friends of Edward Carpenter is fast approaching and
tickets are now SOLD OUT!
Festive Brass is a traditional, community brass band
concert with the Woodhouse Prize Band and our special guest hosts,
BBC Radio Sheffield’s Rony Robinson and Paulette Edwards. This will
be a special evening to celebrate the festive season with family and
friends. The hall will be trimmed-up for the season and seasonal
drinks and food will be available.
15th
August 2012
Public Talk - we are delighted that Steve
Slack and Mark Scott, two of the co-founders of FOEC, are giving a public talk
on Edward Carpenter at Provincetown Public Library, Massachusetts
USA on Wednesday 29th August - the same day as Carpenter's birthday.
Provincetown is an amazing place and for many years has been a centre
for writers, artists and a haven for members of the worldwide LGBT
community. There are more details about our talk
here.
15th
August 2012
Young Folk - there is a report and pictures
from our SOLD OUT concert
here. The concert, held
in the celebrated Backroom venue of The Greystones, featured two
outstanding young artists Joe Banfi and Grace Petrie who
co-headlined the night. The concert was a HUGE success with many
people remarking just how much they enjoyed it and many asking the question:
"can we do something like it again please?" Watch this
space!
3rd August 2012
Postcards - our brilliant new FOEC postcards -
designed and printed here in Sheffield - are on sale
here.
4th April 2012
Planning - we have had further talks with
Sheffield Council about a site in the city centre and hope to have
some encouraging news very soon! Watch this space.
4th April 2012
Sheffield's Friday Night Ride have arranged an
amazing Carpenter ride in two parts for Bank Holiday Monday May 7th
to raise funds for FOEC.
Morning ride: Start Barkers Pool
10.a.m. Route in and around the city, with stops to talk about
Carpenter and his life and work. Visit where Carpenter lodged,
lectured and spoke in Sheffield. About 10 miles. Finish by 12.00
noon
Picnic lunch...
Afternoon Ride: Start Peace
Gardens 1.00 p.m. Cycle out to Millthorpe to pass by places
where Carpenter lived and worked on the outskirts of Sheffield
and visit Carpenter’s house at Millthorpe. About 20 miles.
Finish approximately 5pm
There is a
pdf with
details here, including a sponsorship form - you can see the
maps of the rides
here - and you can see
more details on the
sfnr website.
3rd
April 2012
Events - we have a number of events in the
pipeline and are firming up some final details. One event that
is finalised is the Young Folk concert at The Greystones on
Saturday July 7th 2012. an outstanding evening of acoustic
music includes Grace Petrie (FOEC musician in residence) and Joe
Banfi who will be accompanied by a cellist and bass. This will
be a great night and tickets are only £6.50. Live music as
good as this for the price of a couple of pints.... There are
details here:
www.cliffordevents.co.uk/youngfolk.htm We also have a
vintage fair in the pipeline, we will be at Sheffield Pride, a
Christmas concert... plus a few other surprises!
2nd April 2012
Social networking links - there have been less
updates on the website as we sorted out our
Facebook and
Twitter links which are now live. You can see some of the
additional things we have been up to over the winter months on these
pages. There are links to these on each of the website pages.
We will use the Facebook feed above as the main source of news about
FOEC activities, so please spread the word through your own social
networks.
2011
26th
November 2011
There is a report and
photographs from the official launch of Friends of Edward Carpenter
held at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre on Tuesday October 18th 2011
here!
25th
November 2011
FOEC
and the official launch included in a feature by the Yorkshire Post.
There is a great
article online here:
Heart and sole of Gay Godfather.
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16th
September 2011
The
official launch of Friends of Edward Carpenter will be held at
Sheffield's Crucible Theatre on Tuesday October 18th 2011. Our
patron, Baroness Gould will be hosting the event. There will be a
number of speakers, music from Grace Petrie and an exhibition of
work from Paul Dearden. In addition, Sheffield Archives will be in
attendance with a number of original pieces from the Edward
Carpenter archive.
We will
bring you a report and some photographs from the event later in the
year..
16th
September 2011
We are
pleased to announce that for the duration of the Friends of Edward
Carpenter community project:
13th
September 2011
Rony and Sally
have confirmed their Edward Carpenter event as part of Sheffield's
Off the Shelf festival.
Edward Carpenter Out Loud
Wed 12 October 2011 @ 7.30pm - Central United Reform Church
Edward Carpenter lives!
About to get his own memorial, the Victorian gay, socialist,
vegetarian, sandal-wearing writer, speaks out in his own city.
Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith lift him from the page - hear
poems written after sleeping with Walt Whitman, accounts of the
simple life, ideas about sex, stories of friendships with Sheffield
workers, his song England Arise (all join in now) once as popular as
The Red Flag. Chipping in - Whitman and his body electric, Thoreau
being ascetic in his hut and Lady Chatterley up to no good in
Nottinghamshire. E M Forster’s Maurice might get a word in.
Details
can be found
here.
18th
June 2011
Whilst
still in the planning stages, watch this space for details of our
official launch event and, around the same time, Rony and Sally are
planning an event for Sheffield's Off the Shelf festival
looking at Carpenter's writing, his influences and his influence on
other writers.
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10th
June 2011
FridayNightRide www.sfnr.org.uk
- on June 17th, a group of Sheffield cycling enthusiasts are using
the longest Friday of the year to ride from Sheffield to
Millthorpe, former home of Edward Carpenter.
"The theme of this ride is
Free Love and Socialism, - a ride to see the Millthorpe house where
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - a nationally and internationally
renowned radical, socialist activist, writer and thinker, advocate
of free love, early gay activist and 'bohemian', - and sandalmaker -
lived from the 1880s to the 1920s."
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8th
June 2011
Word is
already getting around! The Star, Sheffield's local daily, ran a
piece in the The Diary on Friends of Edward Carpenter.
As Rony says in the article, it is early days, but it is nice to be
receiving some public acknowledgement already. You can see the
piece online
here.
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1st
June 2011
We are
delighted to announce Baroness Gould of Potternewton as the
Patron of the Friends of Edward Carpenter. You can read her
biography on the Friends page here.
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20th
April 2011
We have received the first four
donations to the Friends of Edward Carpenter fund. We are on our way!
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2nd April 2011
Fantastic news! The Friends of Edward
Carpenter group and project are formed. We have already had meetings
with Sheffield City Council representatives, opened a bank account,
drafted our charter (to be published here soon), and established the
committee. The committee has three members - Kate Flannery, Mark Scott
and Steve Slack. We are also delighted to be supported in our efforts
by associate committee members, Sally Goldsmith and Rony Robinson. You
can see more details about the committee members in the Friends page
here.
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