AND or Abandon Normal Devices is a nomadic, site-responsive digital arts festival with sound, simulation, and participatory events. In this, its 10th year, it comes to Barnsley. Radical international and UK artists use the theme of infrastructure, illuminating the connection between people and place. They examine the networks, historical extraction legacies, and social climates that underpin contemporary life in the…

An all-day event over the Pennines in Manchester. It celebrates The Lucas Plan which was a huge proposal by workers, activists, students and academics for socially useful production. Fifty years ago, faced with threats to their jobs, workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company launched their pioneering Alternative Workers Plan, a visionary, positive plan that challenged economic orthodoxy. They proposed…