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We Asked Nottingham's Toddlers For Their Thoughts on COVID-19...

If you think the last year has been confusing for us grown-ups, just imagine how baffling it must have been for the youngsters. One minute life is all Octonauts and adventure, the next you’re stuck indoors watching your parents try and figure out how to set up a printer. But don’t take our word for it, here’s what some of Nottingham’s littlest residents have to say on the pandemic...

The Chimera Plantarium Project Are Working with Primary School Kids to Create Art

Lenton locals may have spotted the remnants of The Chimera Plantarium Project on Church Drive. Two vividly coloured and curiously shaped murals command a presence that hints towards their leafy beginnings and leaves passers-by turning their heads. They are just some of the work delivered by artist Chiara Dellerba and the children from Years 5 and 6 at Edna G. Olds Academy, as part of Primary’s Making Place project. Working together, they explored and created artwork based on the idea of spontaneous plants – wild, urban flora. Spontaneous plants are resilient creatures and their perseverance to thrive almost anywhere, even in abandoned, overlooked, or routinely neglected areas, is something us humans could learn from. We spoke to Chiara, to find out more about the project…

25 Years Later: Kids

A hyper-realistic, fly-on-the-wall story, Kids is the product of 19-year-old writer Harmony Korine and photographer-cum-filmmaker Larry Clark. 25 years old this month, the film is set in the heart of New York, where Clark and Korine capture the disturbing hedonism and reckless nature of pubescent youth...

8 Ways to Keep Kids Entertained During Self-Isolation

Struggling to keep the little'uns entertained during lockdown? Don't worry, we've got you covered...

A Santa in Notts: "We’d been told that we shouldn't suggest the kids should sit on our knee"

'Tis the season to be jolly! Unless, of course, you're a Victoria Centre Santa Claus...

A 48 Hour Music Stream Is Raising Funds For A Kids Hospital Ward

...and it’s all DJs on deck. Ellie Aindow tells us more about Music Is The Answer, a community project that’s happening at FourFour DJ Academy. Dig deep music fans.

The Elephant Trees bring their Depressed Kids Disco Party to Notts

Manchester two-piece The Elephant Trees are bringing their self-described combination of gnarly rock and slick pop to Nottingham with the exotically titled Depressed Kids Disco Party later this year…

Marinakis Wants Kids to Dream Big

This month Nottingham Forest announced the launch of Dream Big, a campaign that aims to encourage Notts kids to achieve their full potential. Created by Owner Evangelos Marinakis, the initiative will reach out to 200 schools across Nottinghamshire, helping to address the region’s historically low literacy levels.

Emily Leary on Her Cookbook Get Your Kids to Eat Anything and Her Five-phase Programme

Local woman Emily Leary has written Get Your Kids to Eat Anything to help parents do exactly what it says on the tin with her five-phase programme...

Nottingham Music Hub Want All Local Kids to Make Music

Education for the Children Are Hosting a Twelve Hour Ping-Pong-A-Thon to Raise Funds for Kids in Guatemala

Education for the Children (EFTC) is an international NGO with a local base here in West Bridgford. The foundation run the School of Hope, a primary and secondary school in Guatemala which provides education for 462 impoverished children and supports another 215 young adults in further education.

On Thursday 7 March, EFTC is hosting a twelve-hour Ping-Pong-A-Thon at Das Kino to raise money for the School of Hope. We spoke with EFTC’s fundraising officer Billie Turner about the charity’s work…

Middle Kids at The Bodega in Photos

We got down to see Middle Kids at The Bodega, and took some snaps...

Fantastique! La Jolie Ronde Languages for Children Rake in Fifth Award at What's On 4 Kids 2018

Bingham's own La Jolie Ronde has successfully nailed their fifth consecutive year at the What’s On 4 Kids Awards 2018, nabbing themselves a tidy Best National Licensed Activity for 5-12 Year Olds! 

Notts Kids Band Johnny and the Raindrops Turn Ten

Johnny and the Raindrops have been on the Nottingham music scene for yonks. Ten years this September, to be precise. But rather than dropping drum 'n' bass to goggle-eyed twenty-somethings down Brickworks, or titillating silver tabs with jazz in dimly-lit bars, the band cater to the city's musical nippers. We sat down with founder, musical director and long-time little-fish-shape thrower Liam Maloy...

Them Pesky Kids Screening at Nottingham Contemporary

The Nottingham four-piece film collective invited us down to check out some of their latest projects, including the Premier of the highly anticipated Ariella…

Music Video: Megatrain - Angel (Cindy)

Tiger and Felix M-B have joined forces to create the musical duo: Megatrain. Here's their debut single, Angel (Cindy), and the video to go alongside it, produced by Nottingham's Them Pesky Kids. Enjoy, ya bogger...

Affordable Football For Kids in Nottingham

We think football should be for everyone, not just overpaid prima donnas. That’s why we were well excited to hear about The Renewal Trust’s new Footie Starz programme in St Ann’s...

The Best Mummy Snails Are Teaching Kids About Same Sex Parenting

With a growing number of young people identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer, it’s important to explain identity in an inclusive way. Troy Jenkinson, a headteacher at a Leicestershire primary school, has written a heartwarming and funny kids’ book – The Best Mummy Snails in the Whole Wide World – which aims to do just that. We asked him about the hows and whys of the publication, and here’s what he had to say…

Kids and Culture in Nottingham: An Experiment

“Kids change you, you know.” They all told me, and annoyingly, they were right. I see the world differently, I see people differently, and I see myself differently. And besides all that deep stuff, my life seems to have moved seamlessly from trips, gigs, and events to soft play areas, cold swimming pools, and church playgroups. It wasn’t deliberate, but the fact of the matter is it’s far easier to do stuff with kids that they like, because it statistically lowers the chances of them acting like d*cks. Although, inevitably, they still do, leading me to wonder if I should have another go at doing the things I actually want to.

So I’ve spent the last two weeks running an (admittedly small) social experiment. Is it possible to enjoy fun and culture in Nottingham with feral nippers in tow? Can it be done? Let’s find out:

LeftLion Film Podcast #2 - Them Pesky Kids

Episode #2 of the LeftLion Film Podcast hosted by Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto.  We were joined by Nottingham film collective Them Pesky Kids, who consist of Michael Jobling, Ryan Harvey, Jack Booth and Oliver Blair, to discuss their past and future projects, crowdfunding and the Nottingham film community in general.