Showroom Summer Season

Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor

Showroom Summer Season at Showroom Workstation, City Centre 1 July — 12 August 2020 Entrance is free — Visit now

Sheffield’s Showroom presents a Showroom Summer Season, a series of free weekly film talks from esteemed academics from both Sheffield Hallam and University of Sheffield. The events allow for a bit of virtual globe-hopping, with talks scheduled to discuss cinema from around the world — starting in Spain on Wed 1 July with Ana María Sanchez-Arce’s intriguing-sounding discussion of photographs in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, and concluding locally on Wed 12 August as Sheldon Hall talks ‘Going to the Gaumont Cinema, Sheffield 1948 – 58’.

In between, we like the sound of Jennifer Coates’ ‘Working From Home, 1960s Style: Gender Roles and the Japanese Studio System’ on 29 July, and Kate-Taylor Jones’ presentation on ‘Gender, Sex and Class in Modern Korean Cinema’ (8 July). Meanwhile, Julia Dobson looks at Portrait of A Lady on Fire director Celine Sciamma’s Girlhood (15 July), and on 22 July, Sarah Alwin and Tim Moffatt take things back to the forties with a look at a William Wyler’s classic with ‘Getting Away With Murder: South East Asian Noir in The Letter’.

Showroom Summer Season at Showroom Workstation, City Centre 1 July — 12 August 2020 Entrance is free Visit now

Where to go near Showroom Summer Season

Site Gallery, Sheffield
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Site Gallery Sheffield

Specialising in moving image, new media and performance, and offering a busy events programme, a visit to Site in Sheffield is not to be missed.

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The Leadmill

Situated in a former flour mill to the south east of the city centre, The Leadmill is Sheffield’s longest running music venue.

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A great pub situated in an early 20th century brick and bright yellow building on the corner of Furnival Street and Brown Street.

The Sheffield Tap
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Oisoi

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Birdhouse Tea Bar & Kitchen is a family-run tea bar serving breakfast, brunch and wood-fired pizzas alongside an extensive drinks menu, which includes creative brews and tea cocktails.

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