Pick of the Week: 15 - 21 June

Craft Beer Week 
We know how much you lot like to have the odd tipple or four of a Friday night. But if you’re more alcopop than real ale, then perhaps it’s time for you to broaden your horizons, and what better way to do it that popping along to Craft Beer Week? They’ve got a ton of the coolest venues in town on board, including Nedd Ludd, Crafty Crow and Boiler Maker, and keg-loads of both local and American ales for you to sample by the third. Be daring and dive in at the deep end with some proper 9% bevs. Just how the beer Gods intended it. If you’re after a tad more information, then head to page X and have a gander at our interview with event co-founder, Nick Garlick.
Monday 15 -  Sunday 21 June, various times, prices and locations

Jumpy 
Mothers and daughters have the most complicated relationships in the world. Particularly when said daughter is at the height of her teenage hormonal state, and said mother is embarking on the menopause, teetering on the brink of divorcing her husband. Sound like a barrel of laughs? It is, believe us. The play, written by April d’Angelis, is coming to a theatre very near you this month, namely, the one in the Lace Market. It’s one of them stories with the kind of characters everyone knows in real life - stroppy, apathetic teenager, mid-life crisis parents, that one embarrassing friend who refuses to grow old with any kind of grace - so you’ll have plenty of fun after the show allocating characters to your nearest and dearest. There’s a couple of stonkers in the form of naughty words, so parents are advised to leave the kiddies at home - despite them already knowing and using every expletive in the book.
Monday 15 - Sunday 21 June, £7-£11, 7.30pm, Lace Market Theatre

Sustrans Bike Maintenance Sessions
You’re doing your bit for the environment, going green and taking it upon yourself to cycle to work everyday to conserve this lovely chunk of meteoric rock we call home. But disaster has struck - your tyre is flat, your brake cables are screwed and your handlebars veer left when you want to go right. You’ve got no idea what to do, and it seems you are all alone in a pit of cycle doom. But, fear not. Sustrans are running a couple of free courses for you conservationists to learn all there is to know about bike maintenance. There’s even a women-only event for those who find it easier to learn in a female environment. The courses are absolutely free but they are ticketed, so you best get online and book your places sharpish. You’ll be storming the Tour de France in no time.
Tuesday 16 - Wednesday 17 June, 6.30pm/8.30pm, free, St Christopher’s Church Hall

Enter Festival
We’re just one big creative family in Notts, and watching over us like an elder sibling who slips you a tenner at dinner is the Creative Quarter. Ready and able to offer a helping hand to young, up and coming artists, they’re now running a festival to celebrate the work of our city’s creatives. Not only that, but they’re trying to encourage more of us to get involved by hosting a variety of inspiring activities that’ll get the city making, doing and creating. A whole bunch of stuff has been included in the festival, such as a Fifth Wall Photography Festival and The Hive Summer School where young creative entrepreneurs can learn how to become a freelancer and start up their own business. There’s far too much going on for us to tell you about in here, so head over to the website and check out the event schedule.
Runs until Sunday 21 June, various times, free, Creative Quarter

PubhD #17: History, Psychology, Physics
Have you got a thirst for knowledge? Do you sit and ponder what it’s all about? You’re not alone, and thankfully some of those like-minded folk have gone and put themselves through a PhD to understand stuff better. They also want to get it off their chest and share it with you in an easily digestible way - as Einstein may or may not have said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” This month’s session includes a historian who’s researching examples of early modern Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire gentry women's ‘receipt books’; a psychologist discussing the ‘Game Transfer Phenomena’, which is how playing games consoles affect you in real life, sometimes to the point of seeing power bars above people they encounter; and a nanoscientist, and who doesn’t love nanoscience with all its tiny glories. Go forth and absorb information.
Wednesday 17 June, free, 7.30pm, Vat and Fiddle

SFiCE Social Eating Cafe
Some people are just bloody good eggs. And the chaps at SFiCE are exactly that. Not only do they pay for the education and board of children in Indian slums, they’re now offering cheap, healthy meals for those most affected by the latest austerity measures. In the New Basford Community Centre, families are invited to purchase a hot meal for as little as £2.50, and receive training in how to cook using less. They’re all about the community, and bringing people together to support one another through the difficult times ahead. We’re all for that too, so we’re chuffed to be able to big ‘em up. They’re even gonna be incorporating literacy and numeracy into the sessions once a month, to get kids in Nottingham racing to the top of the class. Big up.
Thursday 18 June, £1.50/£2.50 New Basford Community Centre

Bonobo
Mimm and Local Motive are treating you like the kings and queens you are this month. They’ve only gone and booked Bonobo, so you can shuffle away to your heart’s content of a Saturday eve. Using a bag of synthesizers and load of buttons, Bonobo, also known as DJ Simon Green, manages to create a blinkin’ avalanche of sounds set that’ll tickle yer tabs to the point of getting slightly hot under the collar. He’s played in over thirty different countries, so this proper musical big wig descending on Hood Town is bound to shake it to the core. Aren’t we lucky, eh? Tickets are expected to sell out rapidly, so get onto the website for your last chance to buy. If you need a little Bonobo to get you through the wait, check out the tracks on his Flashlight EP, available on his Spotify.
Saturday 20 June, 9pm, £16.50 - £22, The Irish Centre

For the motherload of everything else going on this week check out our comprehensive Nottingham events listings.

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