Doors open at 5:30pm on Friday, 10am on Saturday and 10am on Sunday. If you plan to attend the first session of the day, please arrive promptly when doors open to give yourself enough time to collect your wristband and find your seat.

The daytime festival and party will have separate wristbands that you can collect from the entrance of SADACCA (48 Wicker, S3 8JB) at any point during the festival.

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Join us for a weekend festival of left-wing politics and culture! Check out the full festival programme here!

Sheffield Transformed is hosting our first ever weekend festival from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st July 2024 at SADACCA, 48 Wicker, S3 8JB.

The festival will give people the chance to hear new ideas, take part in discussion, receive training, enjoy art, and be creative. The programme covers local, national and international issues and provide a space for radical, collaborative and creative political education.

Tickets for the daytime festival are on a sliding scale of £0/£8/£15/£20, while tickets for the Saturday night party range from £5/£8/£12. Please scroll down for further information on the different prices.

Festival Programme

Our full festival programme is available here!

We'll kick things off with a launch event on Friday. Then, over the weekend, three or four sessions will run simultaneously, covering a broad range of topics. Sessions will represent the exciting political activism that takes place in South Yorkshire with formats that encourage participation.

The programme features:

• Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn from ACFM
• Craig Gent, North of England Editor at Novara Media
• A Commune in the North
• A radical history tour
• Anti Raids Sheffield
• Better Buses for South Yorkshire
• Brambles Housing Co-op
• Chile Solidarity Network Sheffield
• Community Land Trust
• Cooperation Town
• Cut Up Collective
• Cycle Sheffield
• Feminise Politics Now!
• Fireside Housing Co-op
• Green and Black Cross
• Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB)
• Labour for a Green New Deal
• Lefty speed dating
• Lift the Ban Coalition
• Medact Sheffield
• Merry Earth Collective
• Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign
• Poetry, drumming and song-writing workshops
• QTIBPOC Cinema Club
• Reclaim the Power
• Red Riding Magazine
• Safe Passage International
• Sheffield Action Group
• Sheffield Asian Youth Movement
• Sheffield Kurdish Solidarity Network
• Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
• Sheffield Radical Pride
• Sheffield Tenants' Union
• Sheffield Trades Union Council
• Sheffield Radical Mutual Aid
• Sheffield Stop Rosebank
• Sisters Uncut
• The Social Strike Game
• Solidarity Across Land Trades
• South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice
• Stirchley Cooperative Development
• Unite the Union
• Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire
• We Own It

and more!

Saturday Night Party Lineup

Get ready for the Sheffield Transformed Saturday Night Party! Party tickets are available on the link above - £5/8/12

Featuring live music from:

• Lou Gold (dreamy indie folk)
• Lucy & Hazel (queer radical folk)
• Cattle Grid (punky violin-rock)
• Malah Palinka (8 piece funk/jazz/soul/hip-hop)

and DJs:

• Poppy Turner (northern soul)
• KomKom (Barang/Rebel Soul) (soca/Afro-Latin house/techno)
• Malus (Mondo Radio/Club)

Please note: the party will take place upstairs at SADACCA in a large room accessed only by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately, this is due to issues outside of ours and SADACCA's control, as the lift at SADACCA has had a delay to repairs until after the weekend. If you have already booked a party ticket and can no longer attend, please accept our sincere apologies and we're happy to issue a refund.

Volunteering

We are looking for a group of volunteers to help us promote and run the festival - everything from tech support to stewards, wellbeing leads to social media support. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/cFzK2TaZuNLXyFF28

Ticket Pricing

We want as many as people as possible to attend the festival and don't want ticket prices to be a barrier. At the same time, we need to raise enough money to cover costs, such as hiring the venue. We've put together a sliding scale of ticket prices so that we can raise the money we need, without pricing anyone out.

When booking a place, we would ask that you select the ticket that you can afford:

• £15 Standard Festival Ticket: This is what our budget says we need to charge to cover the event.
• £20 Solidarity Festival Ticket: If you are comfortable and have a decent income, please consider paying a little more.
• £8 Low Income Festival Ticket: For people on lower incomes who cannot afford the full ticket price.
• £0 No Charge: For people who have no disposable income at all. Free tickets are also available to carers attending with a ticketholder, and children and young people.

Merchandise

We've teamed up with Black Lodge Press to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with iconic designs available as:

• A3 prints for £10
• T-shirts for £15
• Tote bags for £12.

Purchases can be made for a limited time on our online shop or in person at the festival. Proceeds from sales will help cover the cost of the Sheffield Transformed Festival and our future events.

Accessibility and Safer Spaces

• Safer spaces policy

• Accessibility document

• Policies on under-18s attending the festival

• Information on food options

Throughout the process of planning the festival, accessibility has been central to our decision making and, as many event planners will know, finding a large venue which is fully accessible in the city is incredibly difficult. Our chosen venue SADACCA offers many wonderful spaces in the heart of a fantastic community and we have a very exciting and varied programme which we have planned across the whole space. Some of this space is accessed via a lift which is currently broken but was due to be fixed before our festival.

We’re very sorry to say that, for reasons beyond our or the venue’s control, we have been informed that it is highly unlikely that the lift will be repaired in time for the festival. As a result of this, some of the sessions in the programme will not be accessible. Due to sound control reasons and amplified music needing to remain on the 1st floor, this includes the Saturday night party.

Our tiered ticketing system means that attendees can choose the price of their ticket. If you feel that the lack of accessibility in these sessions will compromise your ability to get the most out of our festival, we encourage you to choose our ‘Free’ ticket option. If you’ve already purchased a ticket and you wish to get a refund, please contact us via email at sheffieldtransformed@gmail.com.

You can learn more about these accessibility issues and our efforts to address them in our full statement.

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Thank you to the Lipman-Miliband Trust, Mount Pleasant Park FC, the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, Sheffield Trades Union Council, Sheffield UCU, South Yorkshire Unite Community, SYMAAG, and Unite the Union for generously supporting this event.

Sheffield Transformed is a group of socialists and trade unionists wanting to bring political education to Sheffield through discussion, debate, arts, and culture. The group is entirely volunteer-run and has already organised events on land justice, police brutality and the history of workers’ struggles.