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DJ Paulette: Welcome to the Club
 One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry. In conversation with Désirée Reynolds, she offers a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful, though often invisible, women.
Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, Monday 30 October, 6pm-8pm. Free
 Join author Mark Hardisty for a complete history of Gremlin Graphics and the profound impact this iconic software house has had on both the gaming industry and the city of Sheffield.
From Gremlin’s small beginnings in 1984, through to Monty Mole in the 1980s and Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge in the 1990s, find out how this Sheffield company shaped an industry.
With a special guest appearance from designer and programmer Richard Stevenson. There will also be an opportunity to play some of the games produced by Gremlin and other local companies.
Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, Wednesday 23 October, 6.30pm. Free
Poetry book launch: Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges
 Writing in northern time through lockdowns and into the meta-crises since, Stephen Sawyer asks urgent questions about what it is that makes us human in the face of so many threats to life and what sustains it. Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges is a forest of stories and voices, a portrait of the uprooted, unheard, locked in and locked out of place and time.
Join us for a celebratory afternoon of readings, Q&A, and refreshments.
Sheffield Central Library, Saturday 26 October, 1.30pm-3pm. Free
 James Ellson was a police officer for 15 years, finishing as a Detective Inspector at Moss Side in Manchester. When he left the police he started writing, and his debut novel The Trail was published in 2020, followed by Cold Dawn and Cold Summer.
He will offer insights into his twin careers of detective and crime writer, and why and how it took ten years to publish his debut novel.
Crystal Peaks Library, Saturday 26 October, 2pm. Free
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