Wadsley and Loxley Commons, off Rural Lane, Sheffield
Bring your picnic to the common and join in with the music, crafts, wildlife and history walks. A family-friendly day of fun and education. Wadsley and Loxley Commoners are hosting a photo competition along with this Fun Day, to celebrate 30 years of caring for the commons. As volunteers they litter pick and do conservation work to preserve biodiversity. Full…
This year’s International Day of Co-operatives is to focus on sustainable development. 2023 is the 101st celebration of an international day for co-ops, and the 29th time since it has been recognized by the United Nations. Co-operatives everywhere are working hard to build a better world, but they can’t do it alone. So they work together; co-operatives link up internationally…
Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, Surrey Street S1 2LG
A special event with author Kenneth Gibson talking about his biography of Arnold Freeman. One of our city’s most famous Socialists, Arnold Freeman was warden of the Sheffield Educational Settlement in Upperthorpe and played a significant part in the story of Sheffield. He organised a major survey (“The Equipment of the Workers”) to determine the level of literacy amongst the…
Makerspace at Portland Works, Randall Street, Sheffield S2 4SJ
A one-person show by Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi, exploring the personal journey of migration from Baghdad to Beirut to Berlin to Britain. There still lives the belief, a false one perhaps, that the UK, Europe and “The West” are the final bastions of human rights. But what if these illusory safe shores of democracy are in danger of disappearing. What if…
The stories of working class people of colour who lived and worked in South Yorkshire before 1945. Dig Where You Stand is an archival justice movement made up of artists, archivists, educators and local community members. This event will showcase their latest findings, including a multimedia soundscape created by Désirée Reynolds and Otis Mensah. It will also feature an informal…
