Arts Diary: Will Marriott

This competition will start on Tuesday, June 1, to celebrate the beginning of Alice, a new play version of Alice in Wonderland set in the city. Shoppers and visitors to the city will have the fun mission of searching for the Mad Hatter's teapots, which will be hidden in various shop windows, city centre venues and attractions.

The Trail involves the hunt for six large green Teapots. Clues will be given to their whereabouts via the Sheffield Theatres website, Twitter and Facebook pages. The theatres will also be using Geocaching to help find the teapots. Geocaching is a hi-tech treasure hunting game played through devices equipped with Global Positing System (GPS), such as mobile phones.

Entrants need to find all the teapots and enter their details on an application form; from the Box Office, at each hidden teapot site or Sheffield Theatres' website. Forms must be returned to The Mad Hatter's Teapot Trail Box which is located at the Crucible Box Office by Monday, June 14.

Staff at O2 Academy Sheffield were drumming up support for their latest campaign yesterday. Throughout the month, O2 venues are competing with each other to win a free concert. 2manydjs will play a free gig at the O2 Academy venue that gets the most fans by Monday and as one of the most musically cultured cities in the world, naturally Sheffield would be the best place for it.

That said, O2 Academy Leeds disagrees with this – it has been doing exactly the same. We can't show any favouritism – but we do fully support both Yorkshire venues against the rest of the country.

To register your vote, go to the O2 Academy page on Facebook.

Frank Matthews, master carpenter at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, has won the Employee of the Year Award at the TMA (Theatrical Management Association) awards. Frank has been working for the theatre for 28 years and is responsible for all the set and furniture building at the SJT and on tour. So, we reckon Frank has earned this: why not sit yourself down, maybe on one of your own creations, and have a nice cup of celebratory tea?

Arts Diary's final thought: we warned you. A couple of weeks ago, we told you that tickets for The Proclaimers were on their way to being sold out for their appearance at Beverly Festival on June 20. Well, if you haven't got them now, it's too late. All gone !