The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra
The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra takes place on Fri, 23 Oct 2026 at 19:30 (GMT+1) at Alder Bar in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Tickets are £5 + on Eventbrite.
About this event
This event screens a film exploring the upbringing of jazz icon Sun Ra as part of the Sensoria Music & Film Festival 2026. Visitors will watch this documentary screening within the festival program.
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A screening as part of Sensoria Music & Film Festival 2026. Explore the upbringing of Jazz icon Sun Ra. On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama, known as The Magic City, a segregated industrial town in the rural South. After leaving for Chicago at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific jazz musicians of this century, as well as the founder of a strange cosmic philosophy. A portrait of the artist as a young man as well as one of a city through time, The Magic City tells the story of Sun Ra’s relation to this city-universe that is at once political and magical, familiar and fantastic, disturbing and fascinating.
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Details
- When
- Fri, 23 Oct 2026 · 19:30 (GMT+1)
- Where
- Alder Bar
- Address
- JC Albyn Complex Percy Street, Sheffield, S3 8BT
- Price
- £5 +
- Genre
- 105/concert or performance
Questions
- When is The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra?
- Fri, 23 Oct 2026 at 19:30 GMT+1.
- How much are tickets for The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra?
- Tickets are £5 +.
- Where is The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra?
- Alder Bar, JC Albyn Complex Percy Street, Sheffield, S3 8BT, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- Where can I buy tickets for The Magic City - Birmingham according to Sun Ra?
- Tickets are sold on Eventbrite. This page links straight to that listing; no tickets are sold here.