Festival of Debate 2025
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Festival of Debate returns from 22 April – 30 May 2025.
The largest grassroots politics festival in the UK. An @OpusIndependent project.
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Join us at Showroom Cinema tonight for a free screening of a powerful documentary exploring how Sheffield’s social enterprises are leading systemic change in response to the social, economic, and environmental challenges of our time. Free tickets ⬇️ festivalofdebate.com/2025/social-en…
Yesterday at Soft Ground, we heard from Sheffield Community Land Trust about their plan to take our city back into common ownership, providing affordable housing and cultural spaces right in the city centre 🏘️ Community Land Trust Network
✨ Our 2025 programme is now over - thank you all so much for coming along and taking part for another year. It's such a source of hope to see people coming together to explore some of the most important issues we face. See you next year! Photos by Laure Divisia 📸
🚨 "What's being promised to us as a shiny new world of tomorrow is actually just recycling old forms of misogyny, and baking them into the building blocks of our future society." Laura Bates speaks on AI and misogyny at Festival of Debate 2025. EverydaySexism
🌱 "There's a quiet nagging, an imperceptible whisper just out of earshot, calling us to witness our collective grief." It was an honour to have environmental justice researcher & educator Joycelyn Longdon at the festival this year, to discuss her book Natural Connection.
📢 "Westminster didn't fix anything for us. We demanded the right to do more for ourselves." Andy Burnham speaks on the power of devolution and the future of the North of England at Festival of Debate 2025, with Steve Rotheram.
"This year’s programme is a true reflection of our city – diverse, vibrant and welcoming to all" We're super excited about the lineup for this year's Off the Shelf Festival of Words, led by lemn sissay OBE FRSL, Lucy Worsley and Kenan Malik, plus loads more 📚 Sam Gregory | bsky.app/profile/sammgreg.bsky ✍️ nowthenmagazine.com/articles/off-t…
At Opus, we’re in the process of moving our savings to a more ethical platform with better interest rates. Sam Gregory | bsky.app/profile/sammgreg.bsky spoke to colleague Bash Muca about the thinking behind the switch, and what learning we can offer to other systems change organisations ⬇️ weareopus.org/post/where-sho…
Join us in Sheffield on 2 October for an exciting in conversation between Keir Milburn and Debs Grayson about Keir’s new book 'Radical Abundance', co-written with Kai Heron and Bertie Russell. 📅 2 October 📌 Workstation 💷 £5 (£10 solidarity) Tickets 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…
The 'in conversation' will be followed by small discussion groups hosted by Now Then Magazine, where you’ll get the chance to explore how we can “create a world of true abundance” right here in Sheffield.
Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Join us in Sheffield on 2 October to hear Keir Milburn in conversation about the alternative: Radical Abundance ✨ Tickets 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…
"Under capitalism, for the sake of generating a bullshit abundance of privatised wealth for the few, our collective freedom and capacity to flourish is constrained" Here's an exclusive extract from Keir Milburn, Kai Heron and Bertie Russell's new book 🌱 nowthenmagazine.com/articles/we-li…
Next Thursday, Keir Milburn will be joining us in Sheffield to discuss 'Radical Abundance' with Debs Grayson In a discussion session hosted by Now Then, we'll explore how we can “create a world of true abundance” right here in South Yorkshire Pluto Press tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…
🌱BOOK EVENT🌱 Join Opus Independents for a conversation about Radical Abundance with Keir Milburn and Debs Grayson 🗓️Thurs, Oct 2 ⏰7 pm 📍The Workstation tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…
Here's an exclusive extract in Now Then Magazine from Keir Milburn, Kai Heron & Bertie Russell's new book 'Radical Abundance' Keir is coming to Sheffield next Thurs to explore how we can “create a world of true abundance” 🌱 Tickets 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wordlif… nowthenmagazine.com/articles/we-li…
🌱BOOK EVENT🌱 Join Opus Independents for a conversation about Radical Abundance with Keir Milburn and Debs Grayson 🗓️Thurs, Oct 2 ⏰7 pm 📍The Workstation tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…
We live in a world where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we do – but it doesn't have to be this way 🌱 This Thursday, join us for an exciting conversation about Radical Abundance with Keir Milburn. 🕖 7pm 📌 The Workstation tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…