Now Then Magazine

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🎊 You’re invited to The Birthday Party! This Friday, Children’s Capital of Culture will take over Rotherham town centre, bringing the borough’s Capital of Culture year to a close with live music, creative workshops, street theatre & more. ✨ More info: loom.ly/j3jRfj0

"The lyrics throughout the EP draw on themes of introspection with feelings of self-reflection and longing, whilst the music itself feels expressive, complex and smooth" @LifeAquaticBand return, sans guitars, with a dance-oriented EP. ✍️ @daniel_atherton nowthenmagazine.com/record-reviews…

🦦Designing for more than humans. In @nowthenmag, @SamMGreg reports on architecture students at Sheffield Hallam University creating eco-niches to revive the 🌊River Sheaf — from “fish hotels” to otter pontoons supporting biodiversity. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/we-bu…

"Good quality housing shouldn’t be left to chance. A city-wide licensing scheme would provide every renter in this city with a guarantee that, no matter where they live, they can expect to find safety, dignity and warmth at home" ✍️ Cllr Minesh Parekh nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sheff…

“It turned out to be a hotel for fish – that's what people were calling it!” For @WildSheffield's #ConnectingLimbs project, architecture students at @SheffHallamUni were tasked with boosting biodiversity on the River Sheaf. ✍️ @SamMGreg nowthenmagazine.com/articles/we-bu…

If there’s one question we hear when we’re out and about more than any other, it’s this one: when will Now Then return to print, and what will it look like? We’ve got more details, plus a chance to fill in our reader survey if you’ve not already done so⬇️ nowthenmagazine.com/articles/you-a…

"This is Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses, except instead of the door to Wittenburg church it’s the wall of a micropub" Sean Morley on Luke Horton and the identity crisis facing northern cities. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/luke-…

🌿Can Sheffield's industrial heritage coexist with a renaturalised River Sheaf? ✍️ @SamMGreg reports for @nowthenmag on the Connecting Limbs project which aims to revive an 800-metre stretch using nature-based solutions after recent catastrophic collapses nowthenmagazine.com/articles/conne…

“We've had three collapses of the river wall there. The river is telling us that it's not having this constrained situation anymore” Connecting Limbs is a project to enhance 800 metres of the River Sheaf, using techniques that mimic nature. ✍️ @SamMGreg nowthenmagazine.com/articles/conne…

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-…

We'd highly recommend next week's #JazzAtTheLescar with Flo/Ra, a genre-blurring quintet led by saxophonist Flo Taylor. "Their music explores themes of neurodivergence, identity and grief through emotionally honest, and beautifully arranged compositions" jazzatthelescar.com

Recently, we were lucky enough to have journalism student @Rose_Mason joining us on the @NowThenMag team for two weeks. You can read some reflections from Rose about her time at Opus and at the magazine over on the Opus Blog ⬇️ weareopus.org/post/what-i-ve…

"Every small act and thought is defiance... even their existence itself is a quiet rebellion" @CherienDabis's new film 'All That's Left of You' is an epic historical drama spanning seven decades in the life of one Palestinian family. ✍️ @sahahahar nowthenmagazine.com/film-reviews/a…

"A lot of local women buy fabric, and then when they come in next time they're wearing an outfit they made out of the fabric!" Meet @_ScrapDragon_, the Sheffield organisation turning trash into treasure in Burngreave 👗 ✍️ @Rose_Mason nowthenmagazine.com/articles/meet-…

"Each song is imbued with a brooding, clenched intensity, and a propulsive rhythm as tense as a tripwire drives the music" @Taut_Angles at Mary Street Live, #Sheffield. ✍️ @MarkRezzano nowthenmagazine.com/live-reviews/2…

"Gonzalez and keys player Callum Duffy fly through a twelve-song set combining wonderfully subtle acoustic guitar with an incredible lyrical dexterity" Wesley Gonzalez (@wpgonzalez) at @sidneymatilda. ✍️ Steve Hunting nowthenmagazine.com/live-reviews/2…

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…

If you're quick, there's still a few tickets left for the last three performances tonight and tomorrow 🎟️👇 sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/crown-o…

"As a standalone piece of theatre the production was gripping and beautifully presented, and it was striking just how much the political themes resonated today" Our review for @Utopia_Theatre's #CrownOfBlood is in and our reviewer, Paul Szabo, loved it ⭐️ nowthenmagazine.com/live-reviews/2…

“Artists who have a learning disability or who are autistic belong in our most prominent cultural spaces” A new exhibition showcasing work from more than 70 artists with autism and learning disabilities has opened at @SheffMuseums. ✍️ @rose_mason nowthenmagazine.com/articles/we-al…