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Nottingham Central Library Tour

Hidden History Tour

Nottingham Poetry Festival: Luke Wrights Silver Jubilee

The Society of Authors Presents: Mark Eklid

Creative Writing with Forestry England

Gig Review: Teen Mortgage with Jools at The Bodega

Rent is due! Teen Mortgage are taking over The Bodega and the compensation? An all-round good time. Talia Robinson was there...

Gig review: Gen and The Degenerates at The Bodega

Anything but ‘anti-fun’, this post-punk propaganda brought us straight to
The Bodega to witness Gen and The Degenerates do their thing...

We speak to poet Luke Wright before his appearance at Nottingham Poetry Festival

You’re invited to Luke Wright’s Silver Jubilee! He’s throwing the ballad bunting up and stacking the plates full of poems for a visit to Nottingham Poetry Festival tomorrow, commencing his five date UK tour celebrating his 25 year long career.

We speak to Craig Chettle, CEO of Nottingham’s Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies which turns thirty this year

Nottingham’s Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies turns thirty this year. Over that time it has grown from a college course with ten students to an institution with 3000 students and 400 staff, currently spreading its wings into London. We put some questions to their CEO and founder Craig Chettle about his journey over the last three decades…

Comedy Review: Punt and Dennis at the Playhouse

Two of The Mary Whitehouse Experience reunite...

Music Of Charlie Parker - Featuring Alan Barnes

Meet the Activists

Paul Hart: Truncated

Effie Burns: Earthly Treasures

Bernard Butler

Hidden History Tour

Nottingham Central Library Tour

Ruby Tuesday's Music Night - 'Celebrate the Voice'

Ag Test Event

In photos: Gary Numan at Rock City

Comedy Review: Brian Butterfield's Call of Now

How lucky we were, at the Theatre Royal, to learn the secrets of success from one of Britain's captains of industry. A new talent is ascendant... 

Gig review: Pet Shop Boys at Motorpoint Arena

Longtime and new fans of the iconic English synth-pop duo were recently treated to a two-hour concert at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena. LeftLion's Rachel Imms immersed herself in the experience...

Locating Lawrence: June 1924

Will 12 bottles of smuggled whisky and five wild horses tame D.H. Lawrence’s rage? Probably not. Here's what D.H. Lawrence was up to in June 1924

We speak to Benjamin Wigley, director of Paa Joe & the Lion ahead of Nottingham Poetry Festival

Next year, Nottingham Poetry Festival will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. The longevity and success of the festival, which began as a project by Confetti and is now its own company, is an ode to Nottingham’s burgeoning poetry scene. This year, part of a jam-packed programme, is a screening of three films featuring poetry by the late, great, Benjamin Zephaniah. We spoke to the film's director and friend of Zephaniah, Benjamin Wigley, along with the festival’s creative director, Alma Solarte-Tobón.