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Articles by Sarah Cockburn

Sarah Cockburn

Just another southern immigrant to Sheffield, tempted to stay by the green hills, real ale and independent spirit. I'll be bringing you all the brightest, best and most intriguing of what the Steel City's cultural scene has to offer.

Whetting Sheffield’s Appetite
April 4, 2012 – 11:45 am | No Comment
Whetting Sheffield’s Appetite

Sarah Cockburn meets two enthusiastic foodies putting Sheffield scran on the map and on the web.

Wick Wonders
April 2, 2012 – 12:53 pm | No Comment
Wick Wonders

Foodie extraordinaire Clare Tollick goes to check out the new menu at The Wick at Both Ends.

Sheffield’s UNESCO Design Bid
March 23, 2012 – 12:37 pm | One Comment
Sheffield’s UNESCO Design Bid

Matthew Mella finds out about Sheffield’s international ambitions in the field of design.

Yorkshire Unplugged
March 22, 2012 – 11:10 am | No Comment
Yorkshire Unplugged

Yorkshire Unplugged: the audience decides who wears the crown in this live acoustic competition for local musician. Marishka Van Steenbergen brings us an exclusive interview with the winners of the first heat.

Democracy
March 20, 2012 – 1:00 pm | No Comment
Democracy

Cold war politics, espionage and flared suits in the third installment of Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn Season

Benefactors
March 14, 2012 – 2:24 pm | No Comment
Benefactors

The perils of renovating people and places are explored in the second offering in Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn season.

The Cucumber Lounge
March 13, 2012 – 3:48 pm | No Comment
The Cucumber Lounge

The Cucumber Lounge is here to clear those end of the weekend blues and keep you smiling till Monday tea-time.

Copenhagen
March 7, 2012 – 4:12 pm | No Comment
Copenhagen

Physics, ethics and war collide in this verbose three-hander which opens Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn Season

Starters Order
February 24, 2012 – 5:29 pm | One Comment
Starters Order

Dark passions abound at The Lantern Theatre’s first home-grown professional production Order

Keeping it in the Family
February 23, 2012 – 4:47 pm | No Comment
Keeping it in the Family

Museums Sheffield open an exhibition which brings together venerated historical works with big name contemporary pieces to try and puzzle out what that many-headed beast ‘the family’ might look like.

Culture Club
February 10, 2012 – 4:42 pm | No Comment
Culture Club

Matthew Mella checked in at Sheffield City Council’s latest Culture Club event showcasing what the city has to offer in terms of participation.

Let’s hear it for the boys!
February 1, 2012 – 5:47 pm | No Comment
Let’s hear it for the boys!

Sarah Cockburn enjoys some gender-bending jollity at the Lyceum with Propeller’s all-male production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It’s far from being a drag.

Sheffield Draws a Pint
January 24, 2012 – 3:18 pm | One Comment
Sheffield Draws a Pint

Shaking up what might have been an unremarkable Sheffield Friday night in mid-January, a new city-wide art event named Pub Scrawl turned control over to the city’s artists for a short but sweet creative bluster. Jane Faram tells us more…

SKINN rejuvenation
January 3, 2012 – 4:55 pm | No Comment
SKINN rejuvenation

SKINN- Shalesmoor, Kelham Island and Neepsend Network held their first ‘art crawl’ in October. The event featured two free days of art exhibitions, crafts stalls, fashion shows, improv theatre, pop-up bars and live music. Marishka Van Steenbergen investigates why this creative conglomerate are the ones to watch on the Sheffield cultural scene in 2012.

Company
December 8, 2011 – 5:17 pm | One Comment
Company

Sarah Cockburn enjoys some standout performances in a nevertheless flawed musical at the Crucible this Christmas.

21st Century Living
November 24, 2011 – 9:41 am | No Comment
21st Century Living

E. H. Cocker explores a defiantly beautiful ‘broken Britain’ in Si Barber’s exhibition at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield.

The Sound of Heavy Rain
November 23, 2011 – 10:36 pm | No Comment
The Sound of Heavy Rain

Sarah Cockburn enters the murky world of a down-at-heel private detective in the last instalment of Sheffield Theatres’ and Paines Ploughs’ Roundabout Season.

Open Studios Weekender
November 18, 2011 – 9:11 am | No Comment
Open Studios Weekender

Sarah Cockburn suggests you have a nosy round the studios of some of Sheffield’s most talents makers including a prize-winning silversmith….

The Crucible at 40
November 10, 2011 – 4:27 pm | No Comment
The Crucible at 40

Sarah Cockburn goes to a birthday party for Sheffield’s cultural colossus, the world famous Crucible Theatre

Fun and frolics with Fanfared
November 8, 2011 – 10:05 pm | One Comment
Fun and frolics with Fanfared

Sarah Cockburn goes in search of the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd with Fanfared at the Crucible.

Salivating Savoury Ices
November 8, 2011 – 9:03 pm | One Comment
Salivating Savoury Ices

Intrepid gourmande Clare Tollick takes a spoon to Yee Kwan’s new batch of savoury ices with some mouth watering results.

Lungs
October 31, 2011 – 5:51 pm | No Comment
Lungs

Sarah Cockburn visits the Crucible Studio for the second play in the Paines Plough Roundabout season.

What a Carry-On
October 20, 2011 – 9:22 am | No Comment
What a Carry-On

Sarah Cockburn visits the Lantern Theatre for some saucy seaside fun.

Will Self
October 20, 2011 – 9:14 am | No Comment
Will Self

Sarah Cockburn listens to hiker and wordsmith Will Self talk about Walking to Hollywood.

What a Difference a Day Makes
October 19, 2011 – 7:52 pm | No Comment
What a Difference a Day Makes

Rob Barker braves the wee small hours to find out about a marathon music project with a good cause.

One Day When We Where Young
October 11, 2011 – 5:56 pm | No Comment
One Day When We Where Young

Sarah Cockburn gets in a spin with the first of Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough’s Roundabout Season, One Day When We Were Young.