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Short Stack May 2016

Curated by David Lilley, and held for the first time at Broadway Cinema, we were promised an 'evening of short films, music videos and other delights.'

Contemporary Dance Review: Coal at Nottingham Playhouse

"Every man fell to the floor, and when Margaret Thatcher finally left the stage, she kicked the one on her side away, leaving everyone behind in collapse"

Wildlife Photographer Jack Perks on Nottingham's Critters

"When I tell people I'm a wildlife photographer, the first thing they say is 'Have you been to Africa?' I have to tell them, 'No, I’ve just been up to Beeston'"

PubhD #27: Politics, Palaeontology and 'Pies vs Parson'

"There is nothing alive today that is like them, which makes looking at their biology very difficult"

Spoken Word Review: Austerity Cafe

"In Britain, we don't dig coal from mines any more. We used to build ships, but no longer on these shores. We can be proud of our bankers who generate millions, and we're still good at making guns!"

Nusic Podcast #129,Nusic

Get some new Notts music in your tabs and find out who's about to grace the Rock City main stage as a Future Sound of Nottingham finalist

Pick of the Week: 23 - 29 May

Hold onto your hats, boys and girls, you're in for a brilliantly bumpy ride

Five Must See Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2016

The multi-venue music-a-thon is just around the corner, and the army of up-and-coming bands and eager fans are ready to greet each other in over 30 venues across the city centre

Short Film Review: Shelter

A locally made eleven minute sci-fi drama set against the backdrop of eighties Britain

Music Video: Ski - Celebration

The second video from his War of Art EP, soon to be released

Film Review: NG83 When We Were B Boys

The documentary about the Notts breakdancing scene in the eighties has a Broadway screening this weekend

The Screen at Nottingham Contemporary

We spoke to film programmer Niki Harman about The Screen and its current mumblecore season

European Archery Championships Hosted in Nottingham This Month

"I leaned down to pick the scoreboard up and got the knock of an arrow stuck right next to my eye. It only just missed my eyeball"

Theatre Review: Breakin Convention

The festival that turns breaking and popping on its head and makes an event of an event like no other, smashed it on stage and off

Doug Fishbone on his Latest Exhibition, Leisure Land Golf

"It's golf, it's inherently fun. So even if we wanted to talk about some heavily political things, like we have, it always has a certain lightness of touch"

Nottingham's Young Creative Awards - The Results are In!

"The awards are all about inspiring, supporting and encouraging creativity in the young people of Nottingham. These awards are becoming one of the most exciting events in Nottingham's creative calendar"

Film Review: Green Room

Punks, Nazis, blood, and Patrick Stewart. It's a good'un.

Sunday Roast French Style

Nonsuch Theatre Open Clarendon Street Performance Space

"NEAT needs to get bigger and bolder - it now rests on the powers that be to oomph it up a bit"

Theatre Review: The Level of Being by Martin Arrowsmith

Far from am-dram, the Nottingham Actors' Studio open their new space with a bang

Filmmaker Interview: Jonathan Hawes

We had a chat with the Notts bred filmmaker and his recent short film On the Wagon

Gate to Southwell Festival

"One of the Midlands' baddest acoustic, dance and roots music festivals is right around the corner"

Gary Clarke's Coal - Miners' Strikes and Contemporary Dance

"When you're watching the dancers you know they're dancing, but actually what's being communicated is hard graft"

Nottingham Opinions on the EU Referendum

We got down to Old Market Square to ask the Nottingham populace what they think about all this EU referendum stuff