Festival of Debate 2025

💥BIG NEWS💥 Here's your full lineup for Festival of Debate 2025! 🎉 Join us in Sheffield for the UK's biggest politics festival, with more than 50 events exploring responses to some of the most urgent issues of our time Discover the programme ➡️ festivalofdebate.com #FofD

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 👇 nowthenmagazine.com/articles/tell-…

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_, Jack Becher and @indy_johar of @DarkMatter_Labs ⬇️ weareopus.org/post/what-we-v…

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 ⬇️ weareopus.org/blog/categorie…

'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 ⬇️ nowthenmagazine.com/articles/peopl…

Research shows 9 in 10 people 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, @SYClimateNews are hosting a free event on how we can mobilise this climate majority 🌎 Details ➡️ southyorkshireclimatealliance.org.uk/event/lets-mob…

📢 Abolitionist collective @CradleCommunity are hosting an event in #Sheffield on 31 January, in collaboration with local poet @SarahLasoye. Expect an afternoon of creativity, exploring how we can become active bystanders in our communities. Tickets ➡️ loom.ly/wTBRwG8

"When we look at complex problems, they often fall outside any one remit – but if we're to overcome them, that needs to change" On our blog, Opus co-founder James Lock shares his thoughts on how we can begin to tackle the most urgent problems we face ⬇️ weareopus.org/post/where-the…

"The illegal incursion into Venezuela is the 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 ⬇️ weareopus.org/post/reflectio…

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, @GraceBlakeley, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and more. weareopus.org/post/what-we-v…

The @phf_uk'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. phf.org.uk/funding/ideas-…

We're super excited to see the new play from our friends at @Utopia_Theatre in February 🤩 Set in nineteenth century Yorubaland, #CrownOfBlood is a Yoruba retelling of Macbeth, filled with heritage, spirituality and movement. More info and tickets ➡️ sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/crown-o…

We've just invested £250 in @MusicVenueTrust's initiative to secure 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 👇 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venu…

"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 @ShefTransformed, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month ✍️ @SamMGreg nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sheff…

This is our first Sandbox event, a new series from the team behind Festival of Debate in which you can get hands-on with some of the most exciting ideas of our time, exploring how they could work in practice right here in Sheffield 🚀 Find out more ➡️ tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…

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 ⬇ tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…

🚨 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 that will welcome some of the most interesting and radical thinkers to Sheffield @nowthenmag have more ⬇️ nowthenmagazine.com/articles/festi…

🌱BOOK EVENT🌱 Join @OpusIndependent for a conversation about Radical Abundance with @KeirMilburn and Debs Grayson 🗓️Thurs, Oct 2 ⏰7 pm 📍@theworkstation 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 @KeirMilburn. 🕖 7pm 📌 @theworkstation tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…

Here's an exclusive extract in @nowthenmag from @KeirMilburn, @KaiHeron & @alterurbanist'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 @OpusIndependent for a conversation about Radical Abundance with @KeirMilburn and Debs Grayson 🗓️Thurs, Oct 2 ⏰7 pm 📍@theworkstation tickettailor.com/events/wordlif…