Create an Interactive Christmas Carol:
A Workshop with the National Videogame Museum
Saturday 12th December
11am
FREE
 This weekend, we want your help to rewrite Scrooge’s Christmas adventures and learn how to create an interactive story in Twine? Alongside our friends at the National Videogame Museum we’ll be running a free online workshop on the 12th December to show you how to get involved!
Based on the story of ‘A Christmas Carol’ participants will choose either the ‘ghost of past, present or future’ to rewrite and submit to the NVM. These submissions will then be put together in a playable story, so you can spot your own submission and read stories submitted by others. This game will be able to play online and will also be showcased in Sheffield Library in a playable arcade cabinet next year!
Will the Ghost of Christmas Past take Scrooge to visit the dinosaurs… Or maybe the Ghost of Christmas Future will be opening presents on a spaceship? Where will you take Scrooge this Christmas?
All you will need to get involved is access to a computer, laptop or tablet and internet access. To create our story we will be using a programme called Twine, a free to use programme that can be used to create interactive stories. You can use Twine online or download it for offline use too.
Christmas Writings
A Writing Workshop with Nik Perring
Monday 21st December
6pm
FREE
 Join our Writer in Residence for a festive bit of word fun. We’ll be re-writing Christmas songs and carols, and using them as a way of starting something brand new!
‘tis the season of goodwill and good writing – everyone’s welcome, even if you’ve never done it before.
Suitable for teens and adults.
Sheffield’s Christmas Past
 Picture Sheffield is our online database of over 100,000 images of Sheffield from the 16th century through to the 21st. Hundreds of new images are added every month. Key themes include football, Sheffield blitz and the Sheffield Flood of 1864.
Check out the Popular Themes section for a taste of Sheffield’s Christmas over the years. The postcard above shows Forge Dam over 100 years ago.
Our Latest Podcast: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
 Okay, so not quite on the Christmas theme, but a possible Christmas gift idea…
Our guests in this episode are wife and husband team, Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett. Their new book, Gender Swapped Fairy Tales imagines a world where the princesses wear shining armour and race to rescue their sleeping prince, and where kings sit by windows sewing and longing for a child.
In this book, traditional stories take on a whole new dimension thanks to the unusual partnership of a computer algorithm and some very beautiful illustration.
Available on Apple, Spotify, and lots more podcast platforms.
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