Events Listings
Aug till Oct 2010
Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit like apples, pear and plums. Loads of fruit trees go unpicked either because people can't harvest them or don't notice them. Abundance volunteers redistribute city fruit for the community on a non-profit basis - to community cafes, nurseries, Surestarts and individuals. They have also juiced tonnes of fruit and made jams, chutneys and preserves.Why not get in touch:
- If you have a fruit tree and want help with harvesting. You will get the first share.
- If you are interested in becoming an urban harvester or want to help with picking, distribution or processing. Volunteers have the pleasure of eating fresh, ripe fruit from the tree, finding out more about urban food growing and working alongside enthusiastic people of all ages.
- If you would like to receive fresh fruit for your group or neighbourhood.
Grow Sheffield website
1-30 Sep 2010 The Old Market Building, Westgate, Rotherham Town Centre. S60 1AN
International Brigade Memorial Trust's new exhibition, Antifascistas is part of Rotherham Open Arts Festival, along with live music, theatre and dance performance, local artists' work, including Phlegm, Sheffield graffiti artist, Tony South, Mark Kemp and Zahir Rafiq, and free arts workshops for all ages.
Website
Performance Programme
Workshops Programme
Fri 3 Sep 2010, from 5pm outside Town Hall
Nick Clegg MP is due to speak inside from 6pm. This is a rally called by Sheffield Trades Council to remind Nick of all the pre-election promises he is breaking!
Sat 4 Sep 2010, 1-2.30pm at the War Memorial, Barker's Pool (in front of John Lewis), Sheffield S1
All women are welcome to join the vigil which is protesting about the treatment of lesbian and gay people who are claiming asylum on grounds of sexuality. Despite the fact that homosexuality is illegal in 80 countries and is punishable by death in 7, the UK does not guarantee protection to lesbians and gays facing persecution in their own countries.
There is a letter for people to send to Damian Green, Minister for Immigration, asking that asylum regulations are clarified to protect this group of vulnerable people.
There is also a letter to be sent to the President of South Africa calling for the crime of (so-called) 'corrective rape' of lesbians to be deemed a hate crime and for this crime to be treated seriously by both the police and judiciary.
Sheffield Women in Black website
Email: Email Sheffield Women In Black
Sat 4 Sep 2010, 9.30am-5pm Ecclesall Woods Sawmill, Sheffield
Green wood is fresh, unseasoned and recently cut, easier to split and work with hand tools. There are time-honoured methods of making furniture, hurdles and other wooden objects.
The course is run by Steve and Alistair of the Working Woodlands Trust, both with many years experience of working in the woods. Steve produces exquisite chairs, hand-made on his pole lathe, and Alistair is a full-time coppice worker and hurdle maker.
Price: £60 Course details at Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) website
Mon 6 September 2010, 6.30pm at the Fat Cat on Alma Street
Meeting to plan events for September, upstairs in the Fat Cat. Newcomers welcome! There is always a vegan dish on the menu.
Tue 7 Sep 2010, 7.30pm at the Old Queens Head Pub, next to Sheffield bus station
How the Thatcher Poll Tax was Defeated. Sharron Milsom will give a first hand account of how the poll-tax was defeated by mass action and lessons for today in fighting the cuts.
Newcomers (not just members) welcome to this weekly meeting. Regular educational talk and activities held almost every Tuesday. Contact email: alistairtice@yahoo.co.uk Website: www.socialistparty.org.uk
Tue 7 Sep 2010, 7pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St. S1 2EW (near Anglican cathedral)
CDAS fights for asylum seekers who live in Sheffield to be allowed to stay in the UK. These people have become our friends, and contribute to the cultural identity of the city, yet many live in fear of deportation, torture, physical abuse or even death.
Website: www.cdas-sheffield.org.uk
Tue 7 Sep 2010, Old Market Building, Westgate, Rotherham Town Centre. S60 1AN
Red Choir are singing to launch the Antifascistas Exhibition about the British and Irish volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War. A part of the Rotherham Open Arts Festival
Wed 8 Sep 2010, 7.15 for 7.30 pm at St Marys Church conference centre, Bramall Lane S2 4QZ
Sheffield Green Party meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Meetings are 7.15 for 7.30 pm, finishing with a drink in a nearby pub afterwards.
Full details of how to join, policies and activities on website www.sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk
Wed 8 Sep 2010, 7.30pm at Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St. S1 2EW (near Anglican cathedral)
The Sheffield branch of Amnesty International meets monthly on the 2nd Wed of every month (except August). Actions on human rights abuses, contacts, successes and updates from various campaigns. Newcomers welcome.
Sheffield Amnesty International website
Thu 9 Sep 2010 7pm upstairs Rutland Arms, 86 Brown St. S1 2BS
All welcome to join in the planning for a weekend free school (which will be from 8th to 10th October). The latest event run by Sheffield Social Centre group, this will be an autonomous space in Sheffield, providing a vision of what the future Social Centre could be like.
Sheffield Social Centre website
Thu 9 Sep 2010, 7-9pm, Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St. S1 2EW (near Anglican cathedral)
Next Sheffield Equality Group meeting, planning for the October public meeting, the petition to council, discussion with the national Equality Trust local network co-ordinator on how local groups can be supported, and biscuits!
Sheffield Equality Group website
