Sheffield Transformed Festival

Join us for our second weekend festival of left-wing politics and culture!

Check out the full festival programme!

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.

Saturday night party tickets are sold separately and range from £5/£8/£12. Please scroll down for further information on the different prices.

Festival Programme

Our full festival programme has been released!

On the Friday, there will be evening sessions starting from 7pm. Over the weekend, three or four sessions will run simultaneously throughout the day, covering a broad range of topics. Sessions will represent the exciting political activism that takes place in South Yorkshire with formats that encourage participation.

Confirmed sessions feature:

• Taj Ali
  
• Dr Delroy Hall
• Keir Milburn
• Barnaby Raine
• Maria Vasquez-Aguilar (Chile Solidarity Network)
• Alborada Films
• Arts and crafts
• Big Power for Little London
• Child-friendly sessions
• Cooperation Sheffield
• Disabled People Against Cuts
• Flourish Economics
• Gut Level Folk Session
• Lefty speed dating
• Maan Somali Mental Health Sheffield
• Merry Earth Collective
• New Economics Foundation
• North East, Yorkshire & Humber Trades Union Congress
• Pat Finucane Centre
• Radical history walk
• Poetry workshop
• Pub quiz
• Shared Assets
• Sheffield Apartheid Free Zone
• Sheffield Tenants Union
• Sheffield Trades Council
• Social Pickle
• South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice
• Stand & Be Counted Theatre
• Stop Arming Israel
• The Worker-Climate Project
• The Working Class Movement Library
• Troublemakers at Work
• Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire
• Zine making

Saturday Night Party

Get ready for the Sheffield Transformed Saturday Night Party!

Including live music from:

• Kiziah & The Kings
• Lucy & Hazel

And DJ sets by:

• Joi L.F (Apricot Ballroom)
• Kyla C
• Lonán

The party is ticketed separately from the main daytime festival. Tickets prices are on a pay-what-you-can scale of £5/8/12.

Please note: The party will take place in Raccoon Studios.

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 under-18s and carers attending with a ticketholder.
• Party tickets: Our Saturday night party requires a separate ticket to the festival. Also available at a sliding scale.

Accessibility and Safer Spaces

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 venues SADACCA, Raccoon Studios and Sheffield Flourish offer 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. We are using extra venues this year so we have more accessible rooms.

Sheffield Transformed Festival is a Covid-safer and inclusive event. Please read our Accessibility Document before attending.

Our Accessibility Document can be found here. 

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.

Venues

The festival will take place at:

SADACCA, 48 Wicker, Sheffield S3 8JB

Sheffield Flourish, 4 Windrush Way, Sheffield S3 8JU

Raccoon Studios, 4 Exchange Street, S1 2AX (at the Junction with Haymarket)

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Thank you to Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust 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.