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The Crosspool community website run by Crosspool Forum
This year’s Stephen Hill Youth pantomime is Hansel and Gretel. It runs from Wednesday 15 February to Saturday 18 February. Tickets, at £4 or £3 for under-12s are available from Bob Hodges on 0114 230 3207.
If you happen to be in the Crosspool precinct over the next two or three weeks, have a look in the right-hand window of GT News.
You’ll find a display of pictures painted by year six children at Lydgate Infant School.
Although they are all commendable, your choice will be decisive in determining the winner of a competition to find the best. You can record your favourite with the GT News sales staff.
The child with the most votes by the 4 January 2012 will be presented with a £20 voucher.
This Christmas, St Columba’s church in Crosspool is celebrating its second Angel Festival, using large willow angel figures created for the church by local artist Lesley Warren.
The word angel means “messenger” and community groups have been invited to create an angel that expresses the message of their group this Christmas. The host of angels will be exhibited at St. Columba’s over the weekend before Christmas. The exhibition is open from 10am-2pm on Saturday 17 December, with hand bell ringers at 11am.
On Sunday 18 December, the exhibition is open 3-4 pm with an Angel Carol Service at 4pm. Refreshments will be served and donations received in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, who have been a huge support to a local family.
A pop-up gallery opened yesterday in the upstairs room at Artisan restaurant in Crosspool.
The temporary exhibition runs Wednesday 5-Saturday 8 October, although a limited selection of art work will remain on display for a couple for weeks.
Artisan plays host to latest pop-up gallery – Sheffield Telegrsaph
Calling all budding writers and especially those that came to the writing workshop during the Crosspool Festival.
Adrian Scott will be starting a new series of workshops in town at Montgomery Arts Centre on Surrey Street in town. He hopes to encourage and enrich writers to tap into their creative abilities and help them to explore different styles of writing.
The sessions are monthly on Monday nights starting on 26 September from 7pm-9pm. They are open to anyone, costing £7 per session or £20 for three.
Call Margaret or Dawn on 0114 272 0455 for further details or look on the website www.macsheffield.org.uk to get a booking form.
If you’re interested in photography then you’ll be interested to follow – and even contribute to – Crosspool Photographers blog.
It came about following the excellent photography events at Crosspool Festival this year, run by Holdfast Photography.
This video from the recent Crosspool Street Market shows some of the dancing performed on the day.
The first exhibition of artists living in or strongly connected to Crosspool took place as part of this year’s Crosspool Festival. It brought together professionals and amateurs at the week-long show at St Columba’s Church.
The lovely light venue was excellent and the generosity of those who attended raised more than £220 for the Soup Run*. Those who didn’t come missed a treat! Judith Hanson
*The Soup Run distributes food to the homeless in town and is orgainised by St Columba’s and Stephen Hill churches
Tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday morning) are your last chances to enjoy the free art exhibition in St Columba’s church on Manchester Road.
The show is open tonight until 7pm and has its final viewing slot 10am-1pm tomorrow. Works on display include those by local artists who live in the Crosspool area or are involved in the Crosspool community.
Entry is free and the organisers are collecting donations to the Soup Run. Many of the paintings are original works and are available to buy. 15% of sales is donated to the Soup Run.
You can also view entries to the Crosspool Festival programme competition. The prize winning cover designs are by Constanza Valdovinos, Lydgate Junior School (front) and Sahar-Lavendar Ali Ahmed, Lydgate Infant School (back).
Make sure you pop in before tomorrow lunchtime to see the full show!
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