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 of Debate seeks to create a place where we are connected to each other, to our communities, to the institutions and new ideas that shape our lives and to conversations that start change.
The Festival of Debate takes place every spring in South Yorkshire, but we also run events and projects outside of the core festival. Our programme includes discussions, debates, Q&As, artistic responses, keynote speeches, performances and plays that explore politics, economics and society. The project is funded by a mixture of grants, sponsorship, donations and ticket income.
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