Sheffield Forum are thrilled to announce the very first Sheffield Forum: Live – bringing stories worth sharing to our Sheffield community and celebrate the talent in this city.
Each quarter we will bring together Sheffield’s most talented people, with four experts in their field giving a short talk which will be entertaining, insightful, and educational.
The topics themselves will vary in range, from science to business to art, any anything in between, but they will all be personal stories worth telling, be super interesting, and most importantly, showcase the great work that goes on in Sheffield.
Here are our confirmed speakers - look out for more to be announced very shortly!
Eliot Kennedy
Eliot is a Grammy and Ivor Novello award winning, Golden Globe nominated, music producer and songwriter from Sheffield!
He's had major success working with: Take That, Blue, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, S Club 7, Five, Billie Piper, Mary J. Blige and many others.
Eliot co-founded The True North Music Company, a production and publishing business with his friend Gary Barlow. They have enjoyed success with Delta Goodrem, Lara Fabian, Blue and Charlotte Church. Eliot also co-wrote the hit Broadway musical Finding Neverland with Gary Barlow.
In 2021 he released his first album "A Yacht Named Sue" to great success.
Tim Craggs:
Tim is a single-molecule biophysicist at Craggs Lab, lecturer in Biological Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, founder of Exciting Instruments, accomplished violinist.. phew! the list goes on!
He has a really interesting talk about the intersections of religion & science, that we can't wait to hear!
Katherine Payne:
Kat is the organiser of Goldsmiths North, an annual retail fair which brings together the best of designer jewellery and silversmithing from the UK and Europe to Sheffield.
The Archer Project:
We have poetry from Chris at The Archer Project, which are a Sheffield based charity which does great work helping homeless people into a settled life.
