💡 A reminder: the Generative Journalism Alliance are hosting a three-session workshop starting on Thursday that will ground you in the basics of #GenerativeJournalism. Generative journalism is the act of publishing media that directly represents people’s experiences and intentions. Details ⤵️

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Next month, we're partnering with @sheffdocfest.bsky.social to bring renegade economist and inequality expert @garyseconomics.bsky.social to Sheffield. Gary got rich by reading the markets better than anyone. Now he's using that same sharp eye to take the whole system apart ⤵️ #Sheffield #DocFest

For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited. But a bold new movement is challenging this paradigm ✊ Still a few tickets left for Jessica den Outer in #Sheffield at Festival of Debate tomorrow night. ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/festi...

Last few tickets before we SELL OUT for Thursday 🎟️ festivalofdebate.com/2026/festiva...

A few photos from our event last week with @profkepickett.bsky.social and @simonduffy.bsky.social discussing 'The Good Society' – thankyou to everyone who came along for a fascinating evening. We've got two more events coming up next week – details below ⤵️ 📸: ADVA Photography

"The question is no longer whether Nature has rights, but when the rest of the world will follow by recognising Nature’s rights to exist, thrive and evolve" Before joining us at @festofdebate.bsky.social next week, we've an exclusive extract from Jessica Den Outer's new book The Forest Fights Back⤵️

TONIGHT! 📅 How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all? 🤔 @profkepickett.bsky.social comes to Sheffield to discuss The Good Society with @simonduffy.bsky.social 6:30pm at Foundry, Sheffield Students' Union. Still some tickets left ⤵️ www.tickettailor.com/events/festi...

Next event! 📅 On 21 May we welcome Jessica den Outer to Sheffield. In 'The Forest Fights Back', Jessica explores a groundbreaking global movement taking on the legal system to recognise the rights of rivers, forests, and mountains to exist 🏞️ Tickets ➡️ buytickets.at/festivalofdebate/2149276

TONIGHT! 📅 How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all? 🤔 @profkepickett.bsky.social comes to Sheffield to discuss The Good Society with @simonduffy.bsky.social 6:30pm at Foundry, Sheffield Students' Union. Still some tickets left ⤵️ www.tickettailor.com/events/festi...

If you’re near Sheffield come along to listen to Kate Pickett talk about her new book. It’s a clear and compelling read on the world we could so easily choose to have. I’ll be asking her to share examples of countries where social policy is so much better and what persuaded her to back #UBI.

A fairer, healthier, more sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The new book by @profkepickett.bsky.social, The Good Society, shows us the way Join us on Wednesday for a fascinating conversation between Kate and @simonduffy.bsky.social at Foundry, Sheffield SU. Tickets still available ⤵️

"The societies we dream of aren’t fantasies at all. They already exist, in whole or in part, scattered across the globe" Ahead of welcoming @profkepickett.bsky.social to @festofdebate.bsky.social in #Sheffield next week, we have an exclusive extract from her new book 'The Good Society' ⤵️

What does the River Don mean to you? Is it somewhere you care about, or something to avoid? 🌊 Julian Dobson and Ella Hubbard of @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social are working with The River Dôn Project to explore people’s relationships with the river. Sign up here ➡️ forms.office.com/e/3jS3hgAp3P

• How do we ensure everyone has good health? • How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? • How do we ensure justice and a sustainable environment for all? We'll explore these questions and more with @profkepickett.bsky.social and @simonduffy.bsky.social on 6 May. Tickets ⬇️

The Forest Fights Back | Jessica den Outer | Sheffield | May 21 | @festofdebate.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/festi...

The first-ever edition of Sheffield Indie Book Fest takes place this weekend, and the line-up's fantastic 📚 Highlights include @junodawson.bsky.social, @michelletea.bsky.social and others, curated by @junobooks.bsky.social, @labiblioteka.bsky.social and more. Tickets 👉 sheffieldindiebookfest.com

How do we ensure everyone has good health? How do we ensure justice and a sustainable environment for all? On 6 May, @profkepickett.bsky.social comes to #Sheffield to talk with with @simonduffy.bsky.social about building The Good Society 🏗️ More info and tickets ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/festi...

This event by @flightfreeuk.bsky.social in #Sheffield on Thursday evening looks great ⤵️ "Join our panel of local speakers as we explore why it's important to fly less AND how we can still travel without the high carbon footprint." Free tickets and more info ➡️ www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 🏠 On the Opus Blog, we've got a fascinating new think-piece by James Lock about why neighbourhood governance without economic agency is a performance we can't afford ⤵️

“We have fallen out of the habit of thinking that we can choose to do what it takes to create the best society possible" @profkepickett.bsky.social joins us at the Festival of Debate in #Sheffield on 6 May to discuss her new book, The Good Society 📚 Tickets ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/festi...

Looking forward to this

Late last year here at Opus, we came to the conclusion that we need to open up an intentional space for co-learning around AI technologies and what they mean for a systems change organisation like us. Some ideas (and an invitation) ⬇️

We're not running a full festival programme this year, but there are a few things we couldn't pass up the opportunity to platform... Come and join us #Sheffield

The Festival of Debate isn’t running a full program this year, but a few events will be held through the year. The first is on 6th May ⤵️

Festival of Debate returns for 2026! 🥳 We might not be running a full festival programme this year, but fear not! We're instead hosting a series of special events throughout 2026 inviting some of the most exciting and innovative thinkers of our time to Sheffield⤵️ #Sheffield #FofD #FestivalofDebate

Got a good idea about #Sheffield and fancy writing for Now Then? ✍️ We've recently updated our 'Write for Us' page to set out more clearly the kinds of pieces we're looking to publish. Give it a read, and get in touch with your ideas ⬇️

As we recently revealed in our newsletter, we’re cooking up exciting plans to return Now Then to paper and ink later this year 📰 We want to know what you, our readers and contributors, want from a print edition of the mag. Find out how you can tell us online or in person 👇 #Sheffield #NowThen

On the Opus Blog, we share a monthly round-up of articles, podcasts, books and more that our team have been learning from and found inspiring to our work 📚 Here's February's, featuring @amahra.bsky.social, Jack Becher and @indyjohar.bsky.social of @darkmatterlabs.org ⬇️ #SystemsChange

The series continues over on the Opus Blog, where you can read six more reflections from #ThePeoplesNewsroom team about how storytelling can help us transition to new economies on a liveable planet. Read 'Lessons for a Story Commons' now ⬇️ www.weareopus.org/blog/categor...

'Lessons for a Story Commons' is a new series from the team at #ThePeoplesNewsroom. For the past two years, they've been exploring how changing the way we tell stories can be key to changing the future itself 🔮 The introductory piece is in @nowthenmag.bsky.social ⬇️

Research shows that 9 in 10 people globally want more action from their governments on climate, and 7 in 10 are prepared to put their own money in to help. On 14 Feb, South Yorkshire Climate Alliance are hosting a free event in #Sheffield on how we can mobilise this climate majority 🌎 Details ⬇️

📢 Abolitionist collective Cradle Community are hosting an event in #Sheffield on 31 January, in collaboration with local poet Sarah Lasoye. Expect an afternoon of creativity, learning and experimentation, exploring how we can become active bystanders in our communities. Tickets ⬇️

"When we look at complex problems, they often fall outside any one remit – but if we're to overcome them, that needs to change" Over on our blog, Opus co-founder James Lock shares his thoughts on how we can begin to tackle the most urgent problems we collectively face ⬇️ #SystemsChange

"The United States’ illegal incursion into Venezuela is the latest and most full-throated assertion of a return to colonial logics, as the old liberal-democratic order continues its precipitous collapse" Read reflections from the Opus team on the criminal invasion of #Venezuela ⬇️

On the Opus Blog, we've started sharing a monthly round-up of articles, podcasts, books and more that our team have been learning from each month 📚 Here's the first edition – featuring @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @graceblakeley.substack.com, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and more. #SystemsChange

🚨🚨🚨 The Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Ideas and Pioneers Fund has reopened. The fund offers grants of up to £20,000 to individuals and organisations who want to explore a bold and brave idea for social change that is still forming/emerging ⏰ Hurry: applications close 2 December

We're super excited to see the new play from our friends at Utopia Theatre, working with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social, in February 🤩 Set in nineteenth century Yorubaland, #CrownOfBlood is a Yoruba retelling of Macbeth, filled with heritage, spirituality and movement. More info and tickets ⬇️

We've just invested £250 in @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social's brilliant initiative to help secure the future of some of the UK's best grassroots music venues, including #Sheffield's beloved Gut Level. They're still £150k short of their target with 12 hours to go – consider investing if you can 👇

"This is your chance to recognise the deep challenges we face in #Sheffield and beyond, and be part of responding to them together" We've got the full low-down on this year's @sheffieldtransformed.org, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month. ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

Next Thursday, we're inviting the team behind Regen Melbourne – a community of more than 200 organisations committed to creating a thriving city living within our planetary boundaries – to Sheffield 🌏 Find out more at the link below, or grab a ticket ⬇ www.tickettailor.com/events/wordl...

🚨 We've decided to take a year out from our full Festival of Debate programme in 2026 But don’t worry – we’ll still be hosting six headline events throughout the year that will welcome some of the most interesting and radical systems change thinkers to #Sheffield @nowthenmag.bsky.social have more⬇️

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/wordlife/1838497

Here's an exclusive extract in @nowthenmag.bsky.social from Keir Milburn, @kaiheron.bsky.social & @bertrussell.bsky.social's new book 'Radical Abundance' Keir is coming to #Sheffield next Thursday to explore how we can “create a world of true abundance” 📚 Tickets 👉 buytickets.at/wordlife/183...

Next Thursday, Keir will be joining us 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 Sheffield. @plutopress.bsky.social Tickets ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/wordlife/1838497

"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, @kaiheron.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social's new book 'Radical Abundance' 🌱

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/wordlife/1838497

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/wordlife/1838497

At Opus, we’re in the process of moving our company savings to a more ethical platform with better interest rates. @sammgreg.bsky.social spoke to colleague Bashkim Muca about the thinking behind the switch, and what learning we hope to offer to other organisations devoted to systems change ⬇️

"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 @otsfestival.bsky.social, led by Lemn Sissay, @lucyworsley.bsky.social and @kenanmalik.bsky.social, plus loads more 📚 @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️