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Our January cover artist Paula Reid talks creative community and her love of Brutalism
Tue 21 Jan 2025This month’s cover artist Paula Reid tells us about her inspirations, projects and love of Brutalism…
Exhibition Launch – Motunrayo Akinola: Knees Kiss Ground & Bonington Vitrines #26: the Aimless Archive
Fri 17 Jan 2025Human rights barrister and author Christian Weaver talks about his second book, The Right To Protest
Wed 15 Jan 2025Rising Nottingham star Christian Weaver was named Legal Aid Newcomer of the Year in 2023 for his tenacious work addressing dangerous public housing. The Secret Barrister called his first book ‘exceptional‘ - we join him now as he releases his second, Your Right To Protest...
Switch Up founder Marcellus Baz talks about changing the lives of disadvantaged young people
Mon 13 Jan 2025The story of Dr Marcellus Baz BEM is stuff of Nottingham legend. From a kid weighed down by poverty to the leader of an internationally recognised social enterprise, he’s lifted countless people out of disadvantaged backgrounds while inspiring others along the way. Having started collaborating more often with businesses and charities across the city, he made time in his busy schedule to chat with us about the credo behind his long career.
Magic, caves, exhibitions and music: Here's what's on in Nottingham events 6 - 12 January 2025
Mon 06 Jan 2025It might be cold outside, but there's no need to be bored in January. This week in Notts there's magic, exhibitions, caves, live music and more....
Screen round up: best cinema experiences of 2024
Sun 29 Dec 2024To close out 2024, our cinephile screen team share some of the movies and experiences that have shaped their year, particularly spotlighting those independent efforts that found a home at Nottingham cultural hotspots, like Broadway Cinema. If you’re eager to experience new cinematic worlds, learn about people from different walks of life, or just remind yourself what an excellent offering we have in our local cinemas, read on…
Paddy Sneath of Working Man's Kitchen talks about opening a new pizzeria in Sneinton Market
Mon 16 Dec 2024Home of the viral Pizza Dog, Working Man’s Kitchen built a national reputation from a humble food truck. Now it’s starting a new chapter as an independent pizzeria with an important cause at its heart. Co-food editor Lucy Campion sits down with Paddy Sneath, the working man behind the kitchen, to find out more about his pizzeria and journey from pylon painter to pizza maker.
Our December cover artist Marcus Gilmore talks inspirations and staying creative
Thu 12 Dec 2024This month’s cover artist, Beeston-based Marcus Gilmore talks about his mythic and fantastical inspirations as an illustrator and printmaker, staying creative, and capturing the spirit of Christmas in this edition’s magical cover art...
Who do you think you are? We meet the experts tracing George the Gorilla at Wollaton Hall
Mon 09 Dec 2024Most long-term residents of Nottingham will at the very least be aware of George the Gorilla: a well-loved taxidermy exhibit residing in the natural history museum at the heart of Wollaton Park. But what kind of animal is he, really, and where does he come from? A newly-formed collective of scientists and heritage specialists at the Uni of Nottingham set out to answer these questions. In doing so, they hope that visitors to the museum will see the exhibit, and the site as a whole, in a whole new light...
Nadia on... disability
Tue 03 Dec 2024Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome writes about disability rights, recognition and representation.
Exhibition Review: Man Hours by Grayson Perry
Wed 27 Nov 2024Lakeside Arts presents Grayson Perry’s Man Hours: a satirical exploration of contemporary life featuring bold woodcut prints and a mixture of mediaeval and antique maps of imagined territories. Initially popularised by his decorative pottery and subsequent winning of the Turner Prize in 2003, this exhibition presents the diversification of Perry’s media with this tongue-in-cheek social commentary in print.
We meet urban and rural explorer Ant Daykin, or Trekking Exploration on YouTube
Thu 21 Nov 2024Bulwell’s Ant Daykin has accumulated nearly thirty thousand followers by posting category-evading content on his YouTube channel: Trekking Exploration. Having spent days exploring derelict, industrial sites in-and-around the Peak District and abandoned corners of towns between Derby and Notts, there are few people as familiar with East Midlands industrial history as he is. We met Ant to chat about hiking, history and his feelings about our innate ‘right to roam’ in the country and town.