Future Now is a festival of creativity, showcasing the work of emerging creatives through exhibitions, events, performances and screenings.
Coming to Sheffield in April, May and June 2023, the festival is led by graduating, final-year students from Sheffield Hallam Uni, including artists, designers, filmmakers, animators, writers, architects and performers. It focuses on work that shows us the future – including creative proposals to real problems, glimpses of alternative realities, and stories documenting the world as the students find it and how they’d like it to be.
Future Now's series of exhibitions and showcasing take place at public venues including: Sheffield Hallam Uni's Performance Lab, Kommune, Trafalgar Warehouse, Millennium Gallery, as well as online.
The programme:
Performing Arts: Change Makers
17 April–5 May, Performance Lab
Change Makers is a three-week series of original performances. Tickets are free but book in advance. Featuring a one-woman show telling stories of a family’s journey from Zimbabwe to England. A psychological thriller set in a 1980s fallout shelter. Site-specific performances on the Sheffield Connect circular bus route. Dark conspiracy theory drag. One footballer's experience of autism. A conversation with performer and academic Funmi Adewole Elliott, to launch the Overspill series of talks. And more.
Fashion Management and Communication
18–30 May, Yorkshire Artspace
Illustration and Graphic Design
22–29 May, Trafalgar Warehouse
Fine Art
22 May–3 June, Millennium Gallery
Jewellery, Materials and Design
1–7 June, Yorkshire Artspace
Product Design + Interior Design and Architecture
1–5 June, Trafalgar Warehouse
Photography
9–11 June, Kommune
Architecture and Architectural Technology
9–23 June, Hertha Ayrton STEM Centre atrium
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