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Chris East: My Brain Is Soup, Your Hands Are the Spoons @ Wormhole Weekend @ Nottingham Comedy Festival

Botanical Ink-making In Sherwood Forest

Live Review: Stone Soup Academy Presents... Stand Up To Knife Crime at Metronome

Stand Up To Knife Crime has become an essential annual fixture in the Notts music calendar, hosted each year by the fantastic Stone Soup Academy. Delivering an impactful evening of music, film and spoken word designed to unite, raise awareness and change perceptions surrounding knife crime in our community, the LeftLion Music team went along to support this important event...

Simunigashi Workshop With Iggy Studios (creating Art With Floating Ink)

Blue Soup

This month's cover artist Dizzy Ink's Craig Proud tells us about his work and inspirations

This month’s cover art was designed by Nottingham zine and print maestro Craig Proud. We asked him a few questions about his inspirations and what he gets up to at Dizzy Ink Studio

Comic festivals, choirs, funky soul and jazz, and gigs: here's what's on in Notts 13 - 19 May

Sing, dance, create and learn in Notts this week, with a lovely hodgepodge of events across the city...

Blue Soup Club Night Preview

Blue Soup is a brand-new club night coming to The Carousel in Hockley. Ahead of the opening night, we caught up with organiser David Triggs as he was playing a special warm-up DJ set at our Sneinton Market neighbours, Running Circle Records.

Stone Soup Academy Presents... Stand Up To Knife Crime

Half Term Family Activities 2023: Stone Soup Stories

Half Term Family Activities 2023: Stone Soup Stories

Half Term Family Activities 2023: Stone Soup Stories

One Stop Shop for Artists and Zine Makers, Dizzy Ink Talk the Empowerent of Print

Creating high quality prints for creatives around the city, Dizzy Ink is the one-stop shop for zine makers and artists in Nottingham. But what is it about physical print that is so important? We catch up with Craig Proud from Dizzy to talk about the history of print and empowerment, Zine Fest and how activism is central to their business…

How Nottingham’s Stone Soup Academy Are Using Comedy to Crack Down on Knife Crime

Though it may have fallen out of popular conversation, knife crime is still a major issue in Nottingham, according to Oliver Sillito from the city’s Stone Soup Academy. That’s why the free school is throwing a creative showcase on Tuesday 19 July to open up conversation and challenge standing perceptions about young people and crime…

Stone Soup Academy is Standing Up to Knife Crime

Stone Soup Academy is a secondary school in the centre of Nottingham that works with troubled students, helping them do better both inside and outside of the facility. We spoke to Headteacher Kerrie Henton and Head of Engagement Oliver Sillito about its recent Stand Up to Knife Crime comedy event and how it engages its students...

Express Yourself in Notts: We Made a Zine with Hannah Whitlow and Dizzy Ink

We visited Nottingham Zine Library down at Nottingham Contemporary, to get inspired by the city in a zine workshop put together by Express Yourself...

In Focus: Sheep Soup

You might recognise this beauty of a theatre company from the comedy musical, Mrs Green. The musical tells the tale of former soul and Motown singer-turned-pillar of the Basford community, Mabel Green, who grows weed in her council flat to treat her arthritis.

This time round, Sheep Soup have a brand spankin’ musical, The Leftovers, set to storm stages nationwide this year. But to get there, they need your help. Having received Arts Council Funding, they’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help ‘em over the last hurdle, and they’re asking you lot to drop ‘em a few bob to get the show on the road. Before you do, check out their answers to our questions, all crafted with a camera…

Nyasha at Dizzy Ink Risograph Printing Workshop

Nottingham's risograph specialists, Dizzy Ink, spent the day in Primary Studios letting people unleash their creativity on their printing machines. Our vlogger Nyasha went along to have a go...

Dizzy Ink Brexit Artwork Exhibition: Three Months On

Nottingham's Risograph specialists are whacking on an exhibition in Derby QUAD and it's set to be a corker

Sheep Soup: The Invention of Acting Review

The latest offering from one of Nottingham's best loved theatre companies

Theatre Company Sheep Soup Have a New Sketch Show

"Musical theatre is traditionally quite tits and teeth, so everyone has that preconception. What's so exciting about what we're doing is that it proves musical theatre can be natural"

Risograph Geeks Dizzy Ink Say Print Ain't Dead

"I'm really interested in pushing print methods forward, doing things that have never been done before. Only a few studios in the UK offered [Risograph], and it seemed kind of elitist, which annoyed me because it's so incredible"

Dizzy Ink Kickstarter To Set-Up School Of Print

The design and print studio need your help setting up Nottingham's only open access screen print facility

Ink Soup

Ned Wilson of Ink Soup talks about their latest collaboration with musical duo, Congi