We’ve had a productive and lovely away day planning this year’s festival! We’ve had so many diverse and important session applications, it’s going to be a good one!

Get yourselves down to the Endless Creative market today 10-4 to get a sneak of this year’s festival merch designed by the fantastic @lisaohaha www.lisaohaha.com

Apply for a stall at the Sheffield Transformed Festival 2025! Stalls available on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November. It’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of people as last year our festival was attended by over 400 people. Apply here: tinyurl.com/STstall

We're really excited for our next festival. The best way to support this is to buy a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sheff... Alternatively, if you'd like to make a one-off donation or set up a regular donation to us, you can do so here: www.sheffieldtransformed.org/donate

⏰Deadline for submissions tomorrow⏰ 💡Sessions could be: workshops, games, walks, talks, plenaries, exhibitions, and anything else we might not have thought of! Get your ideas in quick here:

Apply for a stall at the Sheffield Transformed Festival 2025! Stalls available on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November. It’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of people as last year our festival was attended by over 400 people. Apply here: tinyurl.com/STstall

🎉 Family Fun at Sheffield Transformed Festival🎉 We’ve been working to make ST fun, safe, and welcoming for families. This Year: - We’ve got a dedicated family programme with kid-friendly events. - We’ve got a play area with toys, games, soft mats, and crafts for you and your family to relax.

Posters are going up! 🎉 Tickets for the daytime festival are on a sliding scale of £0/£8/£15/£20 based on what you can afford. 🎟️ Saturday night party tickets range from £5/£8/£12 Book your ticket and find out more here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sheff...

Next Tuesday! Tickets are still available: www.junobooks.co.uk/bookgroups/p...

*Last chance to suggest session ideas for Sheffield Transformed Festival 2025* The deadline for submitting an proposal for a session at our next festival is approaching - you have until 15th September. You can submit a proposal here: forms.gle/XLPuRkMkoN2a...

Sheffield Transformed Festival 2025 - Tickets ON SALE NOW. We’re pleased to open our ticket sales for our next festival 28th-30th November 2025. www.tickettailor.com/events/sheff...

⚽🏆🚩 Steel City Comrades Fantasy Football is back! Another season of football is almost here! You can join our Premier League Fantasy Football league - the Steel City Comrades - at fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/qbgmf9 or by entering the code 'qbgmf9' on the website or in the app.

We're launching an open call for session proposals for our next festival which will take place in November! If you have thoughts on sessions you'd like to see or be involved in running, please fill out our session proposal form *by 15th September*. forms.gle/oZDzp4ChJMmV...

With the advent of powerful new synthetic opioids, health workers fear we could be about to see an explosion in the rate of drug deaths in #Sheffield. Could 'The Thistle', a pioneering project in Glasgow that allows drug users to inject on-site, be part of the solution? @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

ORGREAVE INQUIRY ANNOUNCED! The government have announced an inquiry will take place into Orgreave. Please see and share our press release. otjc.org.uk/orgreave-tru...

We can't believe it's been a whole year since Sheffield Transformed Festival! We're well underway with plans for our next festival which is 28th - 30th November 2025. 🤩 You can find out how to support and get involved here: www.sheffieldtransformed.org/events/sheff... 😁

⭐SYMAAG Annual General Meeting⭐ 🏢Central United Reformed Church S1 2JB 📅Tuesday 1st July 🕖7-8.30pm Guest Speakers: Maggy Moyo activist @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social & @right-to-remain.bsky.social and Dr Sahar Awadallah, Gazan refugee @pscupdates.bsky.social All who support our aims welcome

Join us for an engaging, educational and fun game about building community resilience in the face of escalating climate and ecological disasters.  Broomhall Centre, Saturday 28th June, 3.30pm - 5.30pm. Get your tickets at: buff.ly/ZrcwNEj

Always an Island of Solidarity never an Island of Strangers. Join us on Tuesday 10th June in Sheffield. Let's get organised to defend each other against state racism. #RefugeesWelcome

We are screening The Big Meeting - a film about the Durham Miners' Gala 📅Thursday 5th June 2025 from 7:15 at the Broomhall Centre Open to all! Please sign up here: forms.gle/iHeJCWRKfrE1... @sheffieldtransformed.org

Thanks to everyone who took part in our @festofdebate.bsky.social workshop on trade union organising yesterday! Thank you especially to our speakers — Lydia Hughes, Bob Jeffery and Fraser McGuire — for kickstarting the discussion.

Meet other trade unionists, learn how to organise a workplace, and discuss union strategy at our FREE @FestOfDebate workshop on 'Building Worker Power: Troubleshooting Union Organising'. 📅 Sat 10 May 🕖 3-5pm 📍 Soft Ground, S1 4PF Free tickets at: festivalofdebate.com/2025/buildin...

Thank you to everyone who supported last night's screening of Sorry to Bother You! The event was a fundraiser for workers at Veolia who have been on continuous strike for eight months. We were able to raise over £200 for the workers' strike fund!

TONIGHT!

As part of @festofdebate.bsky.social, we're hosting a free workshop on 'Building Worker Power: Troubleshooting Union Organising' on Sat 10 May, 3-5pm. Whether you’re new to trade unionism or already an activist, you'll get useful advice on organising your workplace.

We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Meet other trade unionists, get advice on organising your workplace, and discuss union strategy at our @festofdebate.bsky.social workshop on 'Building Worker Power: Troubleshooting Union Organising'. 📅 Sat 10 May 🕖 3-5pm 📍 Soft Ground, S1 4PF Get yourself a free ticket at: buff.ly/qHOV1Bf

Did you know that most of the events at this year's Festival of Debate are absolutely free? 🤔 Here are a few highlights from the programme that you can enjoy without paying a penny 👇🧵 festivalofdebate.com #FofD #Sheffield #SouthYorkshire

Join us for a screening of Boots Riley's acclaimed film Sorry to Bother You on Thursday 24th April and help raise money for striking workers. 📅 Thu 24 April 🕖 7:30pm 📍 Broomhall Centre, S10 2FD Book your tickets at: buff.ly/kIaJrLM

✊Activism Across Borders🌍 Join us on May 6th @festofdebate.bsky.social for a panel discussion with 3 local activists from 3 continents to explore how activism in their home countries informs their fight against the hostile environment and injustice in the UK festivalofdebate.com/2025/activis...

Our new, improved website with added resources is here! www.symaag.org.uk

Unveiling of “Boy with Dove” by Anthony D Padgett at Weston Park, Sheffield. In recognition of Pablo Picasso attending the World Peace Congress, Sheffield, 1950.

TONIGHT! 7pm! If you still want to sign up, you can! formulaer.com/f/91499d86-9...

I made a livestream where my chat was invited to collectively play an incredibly simplified Dungeons & Dragons scenario but they can only make actions using formal democratic procedures. It went exactly as well/badly as you would imagine.

hullo. My latest post with GFSC. In which I detail the design nightmare of working on Dungeons & Democracy, a livestream (and maybe one day live show?) in which players use trade union decision making procedures to navigate a simple Dungeon.

Sheffield's own Abtisam Mohamed was detained and deported by Israeli officials along with @yuanfenyang.bsky.social after both spoke out about Israel's genocide in Palestine ⬇️

On Sat 10 May, 3-5pm, we're hosting a free workshop with @festofdebate.bsky.social on 'Building Worker Power: Troubleshooting Union Organising'. Whether you’re new to trade unionism or already an activist, you'll get useful advice on organising your workplace. festivalofdebate.com/2025/buildin...

STBY is a great film, one of the few I've seen to actually consider the labour movement in the US, both in itself and regarding how it intersects with structural racism. It's also seasoned with Afro-surrealism, which somehow makes the story *more* real rather than less. Thoroughly worth your time.

We’re excited to host the Sheffield Autism Festival with @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social from April 15 to 17. There will be a variety of events and activities. Find out more and book via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/o/sheffield-.... #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #WorldAutismAcceptanceMonth

✊ 6 May - Activism Across Borders Join @symaag.bsky.social for a panel discussion with three local activists, exploring how their activism in their home countries informs their fight against the ‘hostile environment’ in the UK. ⬇️

Workers at Veolia's bin depot in Sheffield have been on continuous strike for over 7 months! To raise money for the workers' strike fund, we're screening @bootsriley.bsky.social's Sorry to Bother You on Thursday 24th April. Back the workers and get your ticket at: t.co/OwoBE5NloB

Join us on Thu 24 April for a screening of @bootsriley.bsky.social's Sorry to Bother You. All profits will go to the strike fund of local bin workers. These @uniteneyh.bsky.social members have been on continuous strike over union recognition for 7 months! Get your tickets 👇 buff.ly/5cj6lyj

We are looking for more folks to join our volunteer pool and / or organising crew. Happy to chat to anyone who is interested, get in touch. ✌️

📢Would you like to help make our next festival happen? Sheffield Transformed are looking for volunteers and organisers to help with events including our next festival. ✊ Find out more ➡️ www.sheffieldtransformed.org/news/would-y...

Really pleased and excited to be part of this year's Festival of Debate!

April's session (online): Join us for the 2nd session of Common Genders! We will be reading and discussing chapters 3 and 4 from Daisy Payling's book, Socialist Republic. Please complete this sign-up sheet to attend: formulaer.com/f/91499d86-9...

Thank you to everyone who came to our sold out talk and screening of The Wind That Shakes The Barley on Thursday - we hope you enjoyed it. ✊ Special thanks to our excellent speaker Gerry Kelly for his insight on the struggle for Irish independence.

The fantastic @kenloach16films.bsky.social has kindly sent us some reflections on The Wind That Shakes the Barley that we'll be reading out at our screening of the film on Thursday. Book your place 👇

Looking forward to our event THIS WEEK! 🤩 Don't miss out on your tickets - book now and see you on Thursday.