Filling up nicely for Hollie McNish at The Leadmill 🦞

Amazing opening set by Genevieve Carver - on worry dolls, menopausal whales & menstruating elephant shrews ✨

✔️Delivered. I loved working towards tonight’s Festival of Debate event in collaboration with Sheffield Museums and Terrence Higgins Trust. An exceptional panel of speakers with an enriching exhibition to accompany.

'I decided to go public about my HIV status because there were no stories about people like me: women. I have one of the most boring stories – I just had sex and I got it. Before I was diagnosed, I hadn't heard of HIV'

– Becky Pullin, HIV advocate and manager at BHA 💬

'When we talk about turning our anger into action, look at our book 'Our Stories Told By Us'. It was written to celebrate the African contribution to the HIV response in the UK.'

– Winnie Sseruma, author and HIV activist 💬

OurStoriesToldByUs

'To put it into context, if we manage to stop new infections of HIV by 2030, it will be the first time that an infection is stopped without a vaccine or cure'

– Richard Angell 🇺🇦, CEO of Terrence Higgins Trust at Sheffield Museums 💬

Before today's event, Richard Angell 🇺🇦 of Terrence Higgins Trust gave panellists a tour of the new quilt for Terry Higgins, the first publicly named person to die of an AIDS-related illness in the UK.

It's been on display at Sheffield Museums since October, and is now headed for Fitzrovia Chapel.

What a fantastic opportunity!

📢Applications invited

the Whitworth and Manchester Poetry Library are commissioning two poets from the North West/West Yorkshire region to produce new creative responses to John Lyons’ paintings and poetry📝

🔗Apply before 21 April ow.ly/6Nkp50RhVjZ

Thank you to Mr. George Mwanza, the Mayor of the city of Chipata for being a great host.

Tiyeni tisebenze baba🤝🏾

🎷 Dive into saxophone sounds with Adedoyin!

Join our Youth Academy on 18 April, 5 PM at The Creative Hub, Sheffield.

Unleash your musical spirit!

🎶 #UtopiaTheatre

Living in #Sheffield Women in Business Coffee Morning on 07/05. Tickets rb.gy/rbr5yv Jules Gray Beer Revere aka Jules Gray is our guest speaker. She owns Hop Hideout ®
moving this summer to Leah's Yard Jules has always championed diversity Central Sheffield Help Sheffield #Sheffieldissuper

Does #Sheffield have 147 neighbourhoods?
Well maybe - at least we think this (based on citizen data) is a good place to start for human scale and recognisable communities for citizen action. Data for Action Citizen Network Research Citizen Network Opus Independents Emma Latimer 💙

🙌🏾 I’ll be joining a brilliant panel of women at this year’s WOW Rotherham on 11th May. I’ve just had a look at the rest of the programme and impressed with what’s on offer! Looking forward to seeing many of you there heyzine.com/flip-book/6c75…

For my latest article in Now Then UK I write about mixed linguistic heritage, the culture violence embodied in colonial borders and the power of linguistic diversity in critiquing and adressing this violence.♥️

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/langu…

🔵For the upcoming Festival of Debate event on ending new cases of HIV by 2030, I spoke to author Winnie Sseruma who is living with HIV and Ashley Gallant, curator of the Ruskin Gallery.
Watch the repeat episode of African Voices Platform tonight on Sheffield Live! or here youtu.be/XJNpoHoxN8I?si…

Enjoying reading this Now Then Magazine story by Mwinji Siame.
Language as a site of resistance to physical and mental borders:
The guest writer examines her childhood filled with many languages and a plurality that resisted colonial imaginations and borders.
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/langu…

Excellent event from Festival of Debate this evening, discussing the University of Sheffield's funding of the arms trade. Quality research revealed the (staggering) scale of complicity. Good also to discuss different approaches to resistance including trade unionism and direct action

We've just wrapped up our FoD x Give Over event at the lovely Utopia Theatre - some passionate discussion on the University of Sheffield's multi-million pound links to the arms trade

🥳 Festival of Debate is back! Our 2024 programme runs from April 16 - 25 May, with 60+ online and in-person events focused on inspiring change in #Sheffield and beyond.

Register now to attend any of our events: loom.ly/IlK4lN4