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Saturday 5th November, 10am – 5pm

Venue: Sheffield Institute of Arts, The Old Post Office Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, S1 2JH
£6/£3 (free for SHU students), Booking: https://www.artpossibilityaction.eventbrite.com
Part of the 2016 Festival of Debate http://www.festivalofdebate.com

Art Possibility Action is a one-day workshop bringing together artists, activists, campaigners, community organisers, students and academics to look at how art can help bring other worlds into being. It is aimed at those who want to change the world with their art, and those who want to find out how art can help them change the world. It features four speakers: the artist Nina Edge, a key figure in the campaign to save the Welsh Streets in Liverpool from demolition; Mel Evans, writer of Artwash and member of Liberate Tate; Kerry Morrison, environmental artist and founding director of Pendle-based arts organisation In-Situ; and James Marriott, founder of art/activism/research organisation Platform.  The event will be facilitated by Rhiannon Westphal from training collective Seeds for Change and is being designed to maximise participation.

Participants will be able to learn how Nina Edge used art strategies and tools to help prevent the demolition of hundreds of homes in the Welsh Streets in Liverpool; how Platform highlighted the use of arts and culture to provide social capital for oil companies; how Liberate Tate shifted public opinion against BP’s sponsorship of the Tate; and how In-Situ breathed life into a derelict mill in Pendle.

Art Possibility Action aims to bring people together and help them find kindred spirits and potential collaborators; to suggest creative tools for community organisers and campaigners; to look at the differences between making political art and making art politically, and between being an art activist and an activist artist; to look at what artists and art strategies can offer to campaigns; to find out how we can work together to create beautiful inspiring visions of the future; to think about art in the service of life.

Art Possibility Action is part of Second Degree Potentias, which included the exhibition Start Where You Are at Bloc Projects in early September. The project is supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts.

More info: https://seconddegreepotentias.wordpress.com/art-possibility-action/

Facebook event: Art Possibility Action

Part of the 2016 Festival of Debate http://www.festivalofdebate.com/

Project website: https://seconddegreepotentias.wordpress.com/

For more information, please contact Jane Lawson at jane@janelawson.co.uk, 07969 174 557.

Saturday 22nd October, 1pm to 5 pm

Drax power station burns more wood than any other power station in the world, and more coal than any in the UK, causing climate change, forest destruction and human rights abuses.

Bring your banners, costumes, placards and voices – and make it clear that Drax’s greenwashing of biomass has to stop.

If you can’t make it to the demo, you can still take part. Take a photograph of yourself with an #AxeDrax banner or placard and upload it to our Facebook event page, or tweet it with #AxeDrax , @Draxnews, @beisgovuk.

The event will be near the South Gate to the power station. See also transport details (including details of buses from Selby) and with a form for requesting and offering lift shares .

For more information about Drax, see the detailed #AxeDrax campaign page

CANCELLED due to a bereavement. Lobby will be rearranged  Saturday 22nd October

The next six months will be a critical time for campaigning against CETA- the trade deal between the EU and Canada which has been described as TTIP by the backdoor. Yorkshire and Humber Network Against TTIP/ CETA has organised a lobby of Richard Corbett MEP on this trade deal.

The room booked from 10:30am in case people would like to meet before the 11am start with Richard. For further info, email kirkleesccc@hotmail.co.uk.

Venue: Pullman Room in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Lower Briggate, Leed LS1 4AE (very close to Leeds Railway Station

Organised by: Yorkshire and Humber Network Against TTIP/ CETA

Tuesday 18th October, 6:30pm-9:00pm

A speaker from Biofuelwatch and Coal Action Network will talk about the Axe Drax campaign, the climate impacts of Britain’s largest power station, and the day of action planned for Saturday 22 October.

Venue: Methodist Church, Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2JB

Organised by: Sheffield Climate Alliance/Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change

Saturday 5th November, 2pm-5pm

The Yorkshire and Humber Network Against TTIP and CETA will be meeting at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. The focus will be on the trade deal with Canada, CETA.

Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse café area, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP

Enquiries to: kirkleesccc@hotmail.co.uk

Derby – Saturday 19th November, (time tbc, c. 11am-2:30pm)

Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice now, will be speaking about trade justice campaigning beyond TTIP and Brexit. This talk will be a chance to reorient ourselves after the referendum vote, and find out about the next challenges and directions for us, particularly TISA.

Organise by Global Justice Derby.

Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall, Darley Lane, Derby DE1 3AX