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50 Years of The Rolling Stones on screen – an illustrated talk
2012 marks the 50th Anniversary of the birth of The Rolling Stones, “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band on earth”. During their illustrious half century career The Stones have appeared countless times on film and TV, dabbled with feature films, … Continue reading
Tara Busch & Scanner
Tara Busch – I Speak Machine: Premiere Performance A sonic story of a Dark AI romance. Commissioned by Sensoria in association with PRSF Women Make Music, Tara Busch has built a synthesizer and created an innovative ‘sci fi symphony’ I Speak … Continue reading
Crazy Art Golf
CRAZY ART GOLF WILL REOPEN ON SATURDAY 5th AND SUNDAY 6th MAY, 12-5pm Don’t miss the world’s first Crazy Art Golf course, specially created by Alan Smyth – legendary music producer, musician, inventor and artist. Alan’s artwork aims to get … Continue reading
Sheffield Publicity Department presents: Sheffield Music City
Sheffield Music City is a beginner’s guide to the futuristic, beautiful and strange music that our city has produced. It isn’t a normal guide: it doesn’t list album sales, and there are no pictures of Phil Oakey’s haircut. Instead, the guide will … Continue reading
The Land Where The Blues Began: screening, talk and live music
Dirs. Alan Lomax, John Bishop, Worth Long / USA / 1979 / 59mins Alan Lomax was one of the world’s greatest, most influential musicologists. This rare screening of his recordings of Mississippi Delta blues singers, railroad crews, storytellers, church services and … Continue reading
Pete McKee presents: Musicartoons
Music and animation is a dream team – we all like cartoons and we all love music. So to combine the two makes for the perfect three minutes. Here we present a selection of Pete’s favourite animated music videos including Apparat, Erasure … Continue reading
Laurie Anderson Artist Talk
Sensoria is hosting a special pre-festival Artist Talk by Laurie Anderson, the evening before the festival opens with the UK premiere of her Another Day in America performance. Illusion, memory and the shifting states of American culture have been Anderson’s … Continue reading
Laurie Anderson’s Another Day in America UK Premiere
Sensoria is proud to be opening this year’s festival with the UK premiere of Laurie Anderson’s latest work, Another Day in America (aka DirtDay!). Laurie Anderson’s genre-crossing work encompasses performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography and sculpture. Continuing her groundbreaking … Continue reading
La Dolce Vita
Dir. Frederico Fellini / Italy / 1960 / 2hrs 56mins Journalist and man-about-town Marcello has set aside his literary ambitions to become a gossip columnist, who spends his days going to parties and sleeping with socialites in order to get … Continue reading
Nino Rota and Federico Fellini: Masters of Cinema
Tippett Quartet John Mills (violin) Jeremy Isaac (violin) Julia O’Riordan (viola) Bozidar Vukotic (cello) Like their namesake, the Tippett Quartet draw inspiration from the past and future alike. They are committed to combining mainstream repertoire with contemporary works, and have … Continue reading