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Artist and Curator Diana Ali on Her Role as Mentor on BBC's The Big Painting Challenge

This month sees The Big Painting Challenge back on our screens for a third series. We caught up with artist, curator and Nottingham resident Diana Ali to talk about her career and role as a mentor on the BBC One show…

Anton Lockwood on the Second Decade of Splendour

Splendour forges on into its second decade this year, with a mega quartet of headliners already confirmed, including Manic Street Preachers and All Saints. To mark the occasion we grabbed Anton Lockwood, one of the masterminds behind the annual Wollo Park party, for a chat. Here’s five things you need to know about Nottingham’s day-long answer to Glasto…

Film Preview: The Fight screening +Q&A with director Jessica Hynes

Jessica Hynes is heading to Broadway Cinema to take part in a live Q&A for her directorial debut film: The Fight

Area NG1: UFO Sightings in Nottingham

In the second half of the twentieth century, the people of the East Midlands found themselves anxiously watching the stars, anticipating a war between worlds. Literature Editor LP Mills takes a deep-dive in the strange and inexplicable culture of UFO hunters that sprung up in Nottingham following World War Two.

A Breakdown of Bras Not Bombs IWD Festival 2019

Here’s what to expect from the festival in Hockley that some leading local ladies launched this International Women’s Day.

Live Music Review: LANY at Rock City

Our Sam got down to Rock City for a night of serious dream pop from LANY. We hear there were even rose petals...

Soundstage Festival Returns to Nottingham This Month

The week long festival has plenty of activities for the whole family...

Holy Calzone Have Converted an Old Church Into An Italian Eatery

As well as an extensive menu, there's space for community activities too... 

Life's Rich Tapestry: The Creative Textile Project Encouraging Women to Use Their Voice

Life's Rich Tapestry is a collaboration between Offshoots East Midlands C.I.C and Ignite futures and funded by the Big Lottery, The Arts Council and Nottingham Women's Centre, with the aim of using the creative arts to empower women to use their voice...

9 Gigs to Go to in Nottingham This March

Wanna get your musical fix this month? We picked out ten gigs we reckon your lot should get down to...

Snap Notts: Hyson Green

All Spent For Lent: Why our Fashion Editor Is Giving Up Shopping

A Fashion Editor giving up shopping? Yer what?

LGBTQ+ Notts: Queer Noise Club and International Women's Day

Caroline Barry has been gallivanting around Nottingham for all the incredible gay and gay-adjacent events...

Don Letts at Metronome: “We need punk ethics now more than ever”

If you’ve never had the good fortune of spending an hour or two in the company of filmmaker, DJ and all-round legend Don Letts, listen up: it’s serious medicine. We caught him at Metronome this weekend for a screening of his latest film and a Q&A with Ali Emm…

Rebooting Your Wardrobe: Fashion Re:Boot Bring Their Sold Out Event to Nottingham

Clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery… Prosecco? Thursday 28 February saw the spectacular Fashion Reboot event come to Nottingham's Rough Trade. The concept? Pretty simple: shoppers can purchase from the wardrobes of bloggers, Instagrammers, journalists and all-round style superstars and bag their garms for bargain prices. Imagine eBay, but in real life….

Mnozil Brass Are Bringing Their Circus-Inspired Musical Show to Nottingham

“The world is a circus” reads the programme for the latest show – Cirque – from septet Mnozil Brass, who return to Nottingham for a show at the Royal Concert Hall this month. Merging comedy with virtuoso brass performances, they astound audiences the world over with the quality of their music, while simultaneously dissolving them into hilarity. A band that has to be experienced to be truly appreciated, they are funny, but the music, their talent and their sheer love of their craft is always front and centre. We caught up with the band’s sharply-dressed trumpet player (and sometime magician) Roman Rindberger who, when he’s not touring with Mnozil, is also a professor of music in his native Vienna...

A UFO Investigator in Notts

"I’m not a crackpot; I’ve been researching this for over thirty years and I’m 100 percent sure that we’ve been visited by aliens."

Overheard In Notts

Big Baby heard some right tripe this month... 

The Thompson Brothers on Albert Finney, Local Parks and The Oscars

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Ayup Duck: The Latest Nottingham News

Our feathered friend has gorra thing or two to say...

We Raised £165 for Sharewear Clothing Scheme at the LeftLion Clothes Swap

Us lot over at the 'Lion were inspired by all the sustainability talk included in our February issue, so we put our bonces together and came up with the LeftLion Clothes Swap, a way to trade your trash for treasure, rags to... well, different rags. In our bid to put a finger up to the fast fashion industry, we raised £165 for Sharewear Clothing Scheme, a local charity who provide clothing to those in desperate need. Here's a few snaps from the day... 

Pastor Derrick Osaze Mixes Preaching With Punching As A Professional Boxer

25-year-old Derrick Osaze made his first appearance in the professional world of boxing a year ago and has won all six of his fights since. But punching isn’t the only thing he fills his time with: he’s a minister and assistant youth pastor at his local church, and part of the board of trustees down at Hyson Green Youth Club...

Win Tickets for Sean Paul at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

Sean da bleddy Paul is coming to Nottingham, and we've got two tickets to give away...

Tom Quigley's Weekends and Everything In Between Exhibition is a Behind the Scenes Look at Nottingham's Skate Scene

As a member of Nottingham’s skateboard scene, photographer Tom Quigley has developed a reputation for brilliantly capturing candid moments of the subculture. An advocate of creating art that his audience wants to see, his work has been praised for its authentic portrayal of life as a skateboarder in the city, striking a balance between the everyday and the sublime. Following on from his 2014 and 2015 shows, his latest exhibition, Weekends And Everything In Between, is at Surface Gallery until Saturday 9 March…

LeftLion Magazine #111

Featuring Dr Julian Onions, UFO Sightings in Nottingham, Gentleman's Dub Club, Nottingham Astronomical Society, Mnozil Brass and loads more...