We are going to be closed all day on 4th Feb for a workshop.

Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest, this Blender workshop has been massively over-subscribed and we hope to run another in the near future.

For info on the 3D animation software and a free cross platform download go to www.blender.org

We are closed until 1.30pm for a staff planning meeting.

We'll be open the rest of the day as usual : )

Apologies for any inconvenience

Thanks!

The Access Space Team

Stretchyboy's Trash-tech interactive game will be at the Frost Fair in the Work Station, there will be a Winter Chess Fest at Access Space and we will be having an open day at the 20×20 Exhibition on the Moor. Why not join us at one or more of the spaces?

We've been installing the 20×20 Exhibition at the White Gallery on the Moor shopping precict in Sheffield today : )

http://tinyurl.com/6ddm8bw

Should be ready for Saturday (26th Nov). If you're in town come and have a look - it's next to Argos.

James Wallbank: 100 Days of Manifestation Chess Project.
4-5pm
Free and open to all.
Refreshments provided!

James Wallbank recently undertook an artists residency at “Bblackboxx” in Basel, Switzerland. Based in urban parkland, Bblackboxx works with a continually changing constituency of asylum seekers and refugees, temporarily housed in a reception centre nearby. Of diverse nationalities and demographics, these people have pressing needs and anxieties, and are subject to stress, insecurity, poverty, racism and disorientation.

James' contribution to '100 Days of Manifestation' involved participants in setting up a sustained, cascading system of beneficial activity: a production line for chess boards using only available resources, which enabled everyone to play. The images emerging from the project seek to change perceptions of asylum seekers, who are treated with huge suspicion. Photographed as chess players, they appear thoughtful, cultured and skilled - overturning popular notions of uselessness and opportunism.

This month Show & Tell explores the role of the artist in social engagement, and makes a comparison between the circumstances and characters of participants at Bblackboxx in Basel and participants at Access Space in Sheffield.

For more information email soap@access-space.org

Access Space is taking this year's fab 20×20 Exhibition to a shop front in the city centre from the 26th of Nov, and on Saturday 10th of December Access Space staff, volunteers and artists will be at the exhibition to talk about the project.

If you're a participating artist please join us that day : ) Email jake@access-space.org for info

http://www.artsheffield.org/1049

SHOW & TELL: Open Source Programming / Home Schooling data.

This Friday 28th 4-4.30p.

Fiona Nicholson will discuss her home schooling data map, which displays all the top tier local authorities in England and the number of home educated children recorded by each authority in an easily accessible form. See it at http://edyourself.org/articles/latotalnumber The map was created with a programme written by Fiona's son Theo, who has made the source code publicly available here http://edyourself.org/england_la_php.tar.gz

Free and no need to book, hot drinks and biscuits for all.