LOOKING for something to do in and around Sheffield today? Check out our 10 top things - plus other ideas for the next few days.
For more things to do this week, visit the Sheffield Telegraph's comprehensive listings guide online - CLICK HERE 1.Greentop Circus Centre, Ongoing circus classes: Trapeze E
vening Class, learn the art of static trapeze, for everyone including total beginners climbers and dancers, Mondays (beginners)/ Thursdays (intermediate) 7pm-9pm (£7/ £5);Circus Skills Sessions, learn and practise juggling, plate spinning stilt walking, tight wire, unicycle, poi staff and more. Excellent introduction/ taster session, Wednesdays, 7:30pm – 10pm (£4/ £2); Acrobalance Evening Class, learn partner balancing, human pyramids, basing flying and spotting, Tuesdays 8.30pm-10pm (£5/£3.50); Acrobatics and Tumbling evening class, learn tumbling, handstands, cartwheels and more, for everyone to beginners to experienced tumblers, Thursdays, 6pm- 7:30pm (£7/ £5), St Thomas Building, Holywell Road, near Meadowhall (2448828).
2.Art Tutorials in Painting and Drawing, for beginners and improvers with artist Joanne Jenkins, small groups with individual support to develop technique and style, Coterie Fine Art Studio, Packhorse Lane, High Green, Tuesdays, 10 am- 12 and also 2pm - 4pm if sufficient numbers, and Thursdays, 6.30pm - 8.30pm (email joanne@coteriegallery.co.uk or call 07746718658).
3.German Conversation, join friendly and social group to improve or top up your German, all abilities catered for, Norton College, Tuesdays, 7pm-8.30pm during term time (Alan Smith, 2257768).
4.Age Active, Beginners Craft Class, sociable group that meets to practise all sorts of craft activities, Scout Hall, Trippet Lane, Tuesdays, 11am-1pm; Art Group, informal art class that meets to practise painting and drawing, Scout Hall, Trippet Lane, Fridays, 1pm-3pm (2766747).
5.Craft Workshops, beginners and experience crafters are invited to join new weekly workshops, different topics each week (card, scrapbooking, cuttlebug, altered art), Quayside Crafts, (A & G Passenger Boats Ltd), Arch 16, Victoria Quays, Wharf Street, Mondays and Tuesdays, 10am to noon (2786314. www.sheffieldboats.co.uk).
6.Manor Lodge Past and Present, illustrated lecture by David Templeman at Sheffield Group of the Ramblers Association, Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, Tuesday, 7.30pm (£2).
7.Recent Research into the Caves of Yorkshire, described by Prof Andrew Chamberlain to Hunter Archaeological Society, Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University, Gell Street, Tuesday, 7.30pm.
8.Like a Fool, solo exhibition by Sheffield based painter John Brokenshire includes abstracts which often reference landscape and more figurative works which include whole or partial images of people, animals and birds, Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, opening evening Friday, 7.30pm and then Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-6.30pm, Sundays, 11am-4pm.until March 21.
9.Exploding Poetry, exhibition created from a year's residency at Bank Street by Noel Williams comprises visual and sound art installations, a poetry lounge and self-authoring digital poems, Bank Street Arts, Bank Street, private view, Monday, 6pm and 9pm, then Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-5pm until March 6.
10.Fakespeare, ridiculously bawdy romp in blank verse written and performed by stand-up Russell Kane with Sadie Hasler, Memorial Hall, Tuesday, 8pm (£12/ (£10).
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