We have now said our goodbyes to the Tinsley Cooling Towers.

As you may have seen, this summer the time finally arrived when the cooling towers were brought down from the Tinsley skyline for good. In the early hours of Sunday 24th August, for better or for worse, the towers were demolished.

In order to commemorate the towers and their place in the lives of Tinsley residents, we commissioned digital artist, Ali White, to capture the feelings amongst people in Tinsley. Ali conceived and designed a set of ‘Postcards from Tinsley' as part of Creative Places. The postcards are intended to represent the Tinsley Cooling Towers as viewed and experienced from within the community of Tinsley.

If you would like to view the postcards visit our website or, alternatively, we still have a limited number of postcards to give away. If you would like a postcard simply email Dean and put in your request.

Throughout the spring and summer, Creative Places has been picking up speed with each of the three commissions, designed to kick start creative activity in the three Housing Market Renewal areas, all being completed with excellent results.

In addition to Ali White's work with the community at Tinsley, producing a series of postcards exploring what the cooling towers mean to residents, Dead Earnest Theatre discovered what place means to people in North Sheffield through the production of an innovative radio play, The View, aired on Rony Robinson's BBC Radio Sheffield show.

Listen to The View

In South Sheffield, Photographer Richard Hanson worked with young people, capturing the pride in local people, documenting their lives through images and text and displaying them on the S2Legends website and display boards which will tour venues in the local area.

Click here to view the S2Legends website.

dean@eventus.org.uk

Eventus kicked off a fun summer period with a creative event for teachers. On the 4th July, Eventus organised and hosted a celebration event for the Shine Festival, entitled Put Out All Flags, as part of Creative Partnerships Bolsover, Ashfield and Mansfield (CP BAM).

The event, held in the beautiful setting of Creswell Crags, was a celebration of the Associate Schools Programme for CP BAM in which Eventus provided training and support for 20 Schools over an 18 month period in how to develop creative ideas, manage a creative project and how to recruit and select artists.

It was a sunny afternoon of imagination and sharing for teachers involved in the Associate Schools Programme; teachers newly embarked on the Enquiry Schools Programme and creative practitioners employed on the Associate Schools Programme. It was also a chance to celebrate the success of four Associate Schools who, with the training and support from Eventus, gained Change School status which means they will receive funding for three years and the services of a creative agent.

There was also a series of games to capture and share ideas that most stimulated and excited pupils and teachers on the Creative Partnerships Programme. Held in an arty gazebo and delivered on hay bales, the event was a source of fun and creativity fuelled by afternoon tea and cakes!

clare@eventus.org.uk

Acting as lead partner, Eventus is heading the Sheffield-based cultural consortium delivering a summer-long and city-wide programme of great events as part of Sheffield City Council's Kids Can Do initiative.

The programme of activities is all about out of hours activity for children and young people across the city and includes circus skills; drama; visual arts; music; film; dance; puppetry; voice; mask; and sculptural art. Taking place at venues across Sheffield including Heeley; Upperthorpe; Netherthorpe; Hillsborough; Manor and Castle; Burngreave; Foxhill; Firth Park; Tinsley; Totley and the city centre, the programme is extremely popular and there is a great demand for places with sessions booking up fast.

For more information about our partners and their programme of events, click on the links below.

The consortium is;

Eventus (Lead Partner)
Action Space Mobile
Art in the Park
Dead Earnest Theatre
Harmony Training
Point Blank Theatre Company
Swamp Circus

cath@eventus.org.uk

Eventus is currently working in partnership with both the University of Sheffield and Lancaster University developing three separate funding bids concerning arts and older people.

Two of the funding bids have been submitted to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for review whilst one has successfully passed through the first round of evaluation by joint funders Children in Need and the Department of Health.

All these bids are part of a wider programme of work Eventus are developing around arts in health and the ageing population, building upon work carried out by Eventus for Sheffield First's Strategy For an Ageing Population.

For more information about Eventus' work and aims in these areas please email Clare.