Join us today at 5pm in the Showroom Café, Sheffield for our #shAFF Talk - 'Exploring the Future Rights of Nature'
FREE to attend
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On 21 May we welcome Jessica den Outer to Sheffield.
In 'The Forest Fights Back', Jessica explores a groundbreaking global movement taking on the legal system to recognise the rights of rivers, forests, and mountains to exist 🏞️
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Festival of Debate returns for 2026! 🥳
We might not be running a full festival programme this year, but fear not! We're instead hosting a series of special events throughout 2026 inviting some of the most exciting and innovative thinkers of our time to Sheffield⤵️
#Sheffield #FofD #FestivalofDebate
We had an absolute ball running our Water Quality Live Lab at @riverdonproject.bsky.social Faethm exhibition with @weareopus.bsky.social @hiveit.co.uk @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social.
Shout out to @amycartergordon.bsky.social, that girl knows how to throw a party
How can we re-forge communities of place, passion &purpose?
The River Dôn Project in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river
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#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @jonnydouglas.bsky.social of @weareopus.bsky.social
“That is the river telling us that it's not having this constrained situation anymore, and it's going to try to create a more meandering course”
Connecting Limbs is an amibitious project to enhance 800m of the River Sheaf, using techniques that mimic those found in nature.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
"I think we have a responsibility to witness the losses that are happening in the more-than-human world"
@sammgreg.bsky.social spoke with @joannacdobson.bsky.social, a #Sheffield writer and researcher whose work focuses on the role the living world plays in narratives around trauma🌱
#RightToThrive
ICYMI: Amy Carter-Gordon spoke to Radio Sheffield about Fæthm, a new exhibition exploring the significance of the River Don 🌊
Amy was joined by Alban from @riverdonproject.bsky.social to talk about how can rethink our relationship with nature
Listen back from 2:13:00
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🌱 13 May - Exploring Frontiers: A Rights of Nature Just Transition
Join @riverdonproject.bsky.social to explore the entangled nature of change-making, as we try to navigate the complex relationships between humans & nature that we all live in every day. ⬇️
Last few tickets before we SELL OUT for Thursday
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We're proud to bring you a whole host of things happening over ShAFF weekend that aren't part of the film programme. Click 'Get Tickets'
Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...
As a new project gets underway to transform Sheffield’s most “unnatural” river, we hear how the Sheaf can go from just-about-surviving to thriving.
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As part of our Right to Thrive series on the future rights of nature, we speak to a Sheffield-based researcher who explores the relationship between trauma and the living world.
"The question is no longer whether Nature has rights, but when the rest of the world will follow by recognising Nature’s rights to exist, thrive and evolve"
Before joining us at @festofdebate.bsky.social next week, we've an exclusive extract from Jessica Den Outer's new book The Forest Fights Back⤵️
Our BMRC researchers run #LiveLab @KelhamIslandMuseums. Everyone was invited to participate in #environmentalresearchstudy +run water quality testing. Thrilled to see open practice going live and becoming a citizen scientist myself by using dipstick tests to measure nutrient levels in river water.
Ahead of her talk at Festival of Debate next week, we have an exclusive extract from Jessica den Outer's new book The Forest Fights Back: A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature.
