Modelling the Future Rights of Nature in South Yorkshire – Festival of Debate 2023

Modelling the Future Rights of Nature in South Yorkshire – Festival of Debate 2023
Wednesday 26 April, 1800-1930
The Old Post Hall, Head Post Office, Sheffield Hallam University, Flat Street, Sheffield City Centre S1 2BA
Find out more on the Festival of Debate 2023 website and sign up on Eventbrite.

In partnership with Sheffield Hallam University & The River Dôn Project

Join us for a panel event and open space discussion exploring how our relationships with critical commons such as waterways, green spaces and trees need to change as we collectively respond to the challenges of climate breakdown and transition. This event will be led by provocations from thought leaders, community organisers and academics working in related fields and exploring questions of other than-human citizenship, and the role of arts and culture in shifting our relationship with the natural world.

The River Dôn Project, is currently hosting six workshops at the Festival of Debate. You can find out more about these workshops, including the Modelling the Future Rights of Nature in South Yorkshire event, in the image below. You can also access the entire Festival of Debate 2023 brochure here.

We are aiming to spark a public conversation around the rights of nature discourse. We will be creating a space to host emerging multidisciplinary conversations and learnings, with experiential sense-making and knowledge-making workshops to build pathways for rethinking and practising frameworks beyond property rights and the modelling of future rights of nature in South Yorkshire.

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Founded in 2015 by Opus Independents, the Festival of Debate creates opportunities to bring people together to share new ideas and lived experience that can help shape our understanding of the world.

The Festival collaborates with a huge range of partner organisations – some local, some international. They include grassroots campaign groups, voluntary and community groups, universities and think tanks.

The Festival of Debate programme is a reflection of these communities in South Yorkshire and broader movements for social change. The festival is strictly non-partisan – it’s an open platform that encourages active citizenship and democratic engagement that anyone can contribute to. Events are not just debates between people with opposing views; the programme includes discussions, Q&As, artistic responses, keynote speeches, performances and plays that explore politics, economics and society.