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.Sheffield Flower Festival Week, displays in the Tudor Tur
ret House with live Tudor music, Flower Trails through the historic site and a chance to meet Tudor costumed characters and talk to an archaeologist about the digs in progress, well dressings on the ancient well, floral displays amongst the romantic ruins, plant fair, children's activities, professional demonstrations of Tudor flower arrangements and the return of the bunnies to their warren home in the ancient deer park, cafe and refreshments, Manor Lodge, Manor Lane, to Friday, 10am-4pm (£3, £1.50 children, 2672828).
2.Inside TRAK, innovative new exhibition by students at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with new-media artist Dora Militaru to show how the brain works by allowing visitors to interact with a robotic eye, named TRAK, accompanied by a series of events including talks and workshops on the neuroscience and artistic concepts behind the project, Access Space, Sydney Street, Mondays-Fridays, 11am to 7pm until July 30.
3.Millthorpe Well Dressing, celebrating the 90th birthday of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire with a design around Chatsworth House and tourism in the Peak District, blessing by the Rev William Eardley, Friday, 7.30pm followed by a barbecue at the Royal Oak (proceeds to Derbyshire Air Ambulance Service
4.Footloose, performed by Easy Street Theatre Company, Montgomery Theatre, Surrey Street, Thursday, July 15 and Friday, 7.30pm , Saturday, 2.30pm, Saturday, 7.30pm (£9/£8, 07787 189718).
5.London Road, Fusion Youth Theatre present an original production by Heidi Riley, Gabrielle Miles and Charlotte Stokes combining Sheffield pop anthems with the story of six estranged childhood friends who reunite as adults to discover the homes of their youth are under threat and vow to protect their community, University Drama Studio, Thursday, July 22, and Friday, 7.30pm £8-£12, 2500600, email sheffield@fusionyouththeatre.com, www.fusionyouththeatre.com).
6.Dressmaking and Creative Development, includes soft furnishings, textile art, machine embroidery, pattern cutting, The Dressmakers Workshop, Wortley Road, High Green, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am-12; Mondays and Fridays, 7pm-9pm new term starting (Sheila, 2846868).
7.Oxfam Bookfest, coinciding with the Hay Festival an event to raise awareness of the shop and promote the need for volunteer helpers and people to donate their unwanted books, CDs and LPs, continuing with display of Martin Bedford's posters until Saturday for one week, Dave Berry and Mike Firth, signing All There is to Know, Friday, noon to 2pm; JP Bean, talk by the author of The Sheffield Chronicles, Quaker Meeting House, St James Sreet, Monday, 6.30pm (£4); John Firminger, signing Violet May and Not Like A Proper Job plus short acoustic set by Chris Firminger, Wednesday, noon to 2pm, Neil Anderson, book launch and talk on his new book the Dirty Stop Outs Guide to the 1970s, Thursday, July 15, noon to 2pm, at Oxfam, West Street. unless otherwise stated.
8.That Face, Frances Barber as the alcoholic manic depressive mother in Polly Stenham's savage portrait of a family in crisis, directed by Richard Wilson, Crucible Studio, Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7.45pm (£12), Fridays and Saturdays, 7.45pm (£15), matinees, Saturday and Wednesday, 2pm (£10) until July 24.
9.Alice, Lewis Carroll's classic tale translated to contemporary Sheffield by Laura Wade with Larkrise's Ruby Bentall in the title role, Crucible Theatre, Tudor Square, Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7.30pm (£17), Fridays and Saturdays, 7.30pm (£19), matinees, Saturday and Wednesday, 2.30pm (£12) until July 24.
10.Laughter in the Rain, new show based on the rise, fall and rise again of pop music's ultimate survivor Neil Sedaka, Lyceum Theatre, to Saturday, 7.45pm, matinees Thursday, 2pm and Saturday, 3pm (£22-£31).
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