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Wednesday 11th January, 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting

Our monthly meeting to discuss and plan upcoming events and campaigns. We will devote most of the meeting to deciding what we do about our last EU-level chance to stop CETA

New members welcome.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)

Saturday 5th November, 11am – 4:30pm

We will be at the annual Peace & Craft Fair so do drop by our stall to find out more about our current campaigns.

At the fair: crafts – ethical gifts – design – charity & campaigns – cafe – singing – live music

Venue: Sheffield Town Hall

 

Saturday 26th November, 1pm-4pm

Global Justice Now (in association with Friends of the Earth) presents:

Dirt! The Movie

Join us for a showing of the film Dirt: the movie, followed by an introduction to discussion on People’s Tribunal against Monsanto that took place in October.

What is healthy soil? This film will open your eyes to soil as a living organism and how industrial farming impacts on this precious resource. Following the film we shall hear how people from around the world are challenging Monsanto to hold account for products which undermine the soil and the well-being of those who depend on it.

Refreshments provided. All welcome.

The film is free but donations for venue welcome.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)

Wednesday 7th December, 7-9pm

Note: from December, our monthly meetings are changing from 1st Thu to 1st Wed of each month.

This is our end of year social. Do join us at the Dog & Partridge pub for a drink and a chat about upcoming events and campaigns. New members very welcome.

Venue: Dog & Partridge, 56 Trippet Lane, Sheffield S1 4EL

 

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