Full festival programme released!
Sheffield Transformed is holding our first ever weekend festival from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st July 2024 at SADACCA, 48 Wicker, S3 8JB.
And we’re so excited to be able to share our full programme with you!
We’ll be hosting more than 30 sessions over three days on topics ranging from grassroots trade unionism, political songwriting and resisting immigration raids through to international solidarity, radical pride and climate justice.
It’s a weekend to meet people, join workshops and share in collective action, as we consider some of the biggest issues facing South Yorkshire, the UK and the world.
Tickets for the daytime festival are on a sliding scale of £0/£8/£15/£20, while tickets for the Saturday night party range from £5/£8/£12. Book now!
Please note: Our chosen venue SADACCA has upstairs rooms that are normally accessed via a lift that is currently broken but was due to be fixed before the festival. We’re very sorry to say that, for reasons beyond our or the venue’s control, we have been informed that it is highly unlikely that the lift will be repaired in time for the festival.
As a result of this, some of the sessions in the programme will not be accessible. You can learn more about these accessibility issues and our efforts to address them in our full statement.
Programme summary:
Friday 19th July
How Can We Build Community Resilience in Sheffield Through Food?
Bringing Back the Spirit of Stonewall with Sheffield Radical Pride
The 2021-2 Sheffield Couriers' Strike: Sheffield Leading the Way
Sheffield Outrages: Mass Community Campaigns in our City
Leftie Speed Dating
Social Strike Game
Film screening of Bring Down the Walls hosted by QTIBPOC Cinema Club
Saturday 20th July
Keir Milburn and Nadia Idle from the ACFM podcast in conversation with Novara Media’s North of England editor Craig Gent
Transport Justice in South Yorkshire: What Next?
Renter's Rights Workshop: Resisting Rent Increases and Eviction with Sheffield Tenants’ Union
Drop-In Collage with Cut Up Collective
Reclaim the Power: Why We Need to Shut Down Drax
Land and the Left: Why Our Movement Should Care About Relationships to Land
Poetry Workshop
Samba-Fusion Drumming Workshop
Come What May, We Are Here to Stay: Sheffield Asian Youth Movement
ACFM Consciousness Raising Session
Co-ops and Transformative Change
Political Songwriting
The Fight for a Workers’ Transition
Youth and Student Organising Past and Present
How to Organise a Non-Profit
Saturday Night Party
Lou Gold (dreamy indie folk)
Lucy & Hazel (queer radical folk)
Cattle Grid (punky violin-rock)
Malah Palinka (8 piece funk/jazz/soul/hip-hop)
Poppy Turner (Northern Soul)
KomKom (Barang/Rebel Soul) (soca/Afro-Latin house/techno)
Malus (Mondo Radio/Club)
Sunday 21st July
From Sheffield to Chile and Palestine: Lessons in International Solidarity
Communities Resist Raids and Deportation: How Migrants in the UK Are Targeted by the State, and How to Fight Back Together
Mutual Aid: Past, Present and Future
The Working Class Is Back: Reviewing the Strike Wave of 2022/23
The Politics of Policing and Suppression of Protest
Let's Talk About Mental Health: Anti-Capitalist Approaches from South Yorkshire and Beyond
Bread and Roses Too: The Possibilities That Space and Resources Provide for Radical Joy and a Thriving Movement, and How We Can Get Them!
Walking Tour: Sheffield's Radical History
Power and Care: Can Feminism Reimagine Organising?
How to Stop an Oilfield (from Sheffield!)
The Fight for Sheffugee Rights: Safe Passage, the Right to Work, and Access to Justice in Sheffield
Reconnecting with Ourselves, and Land and Waters Around Us
Rethinking Democracy: People’s Assemblies in Sheffield
The Kurdish Liberation Struggle
