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Notts Libraries Partner With the British Library for Fantasy Season

Working in tandem with the British Library and their current exhibition, ‘Fantasy: Realms of Imagination’, Inspire are bringing a whole programme of fanciful and folkloric entertainment to our city...

We Learn More About Nottingham Hackspace - The Place to Go if You Want to Make Weird and Wonderful Things

Tucked away behind Sneinton Market in a Victorian factory building, Nottingham Hackspace is a place for makers, inventors, tinkerers, crafters, board game enthusiasts, robot designers and, well, anyone who fancies trying their hand at making weird and wonderful things. Set over two floors, the building is home to all manner of machinery and supplies that anyone can access for a monthly membership fee. We went along to speak to members Aaron, Steve and Douglas to chat about the organisation’s history and how people can get involved…

Left Brian: January 2024

As grateful as I am for the chance to write about Forest in LeftLion each month, we seem to be in a period of the club’s history where even a daily column would struggle to cover all the various triumphs, tragedies, scandals and melodramas. So how to do this past month justice and resist the siren call of the bullet point list? Strap in, here goes...

Ballet Review: Sleeping Beauty at Royal Concert Hall

A traditional Fairy Tale ballet to dispel those January blues...

Festival Review: Backyard at The Bodega

Forming one of the best line-ups seen this year, seven bands took to the stage to bless the Nottingham music scene, while raising money for a great cause…

Gig Review: Fabio & Grooverider at Rock City

It sounds a little bit crazy: combining drum and bass with a live orchestra; putting that show on in rock venues around the country; inviting multiple MCs and DJs to an already crowded stage… but perhaps the best ideas are...

Ossian Huskinson & Matthew Fletcher

Toussaint Louverture: the Story Of the Only Successful Slave Revolt In History, an Illustrated Talk

Saad Qureshi: In Conversation

Nt Live: Dear England

The Holdovers - Silver Screen

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

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Artist Harry Mayston on Having His Work Exhibited at Surface Gallery

After graduating with a degree in fine art from Loughborough University, artist Harry Mayston went on to have his work exhibited in Surface Gallery’s recent exhibition Vessel after he, by chance, was asked to give the team behind the gallery a tour of the Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts degree show. Following the exhibition, he tells us more about the nature of his piece Blue Things, which was made up of 76 cyanotype prints, and the plans he has for the future of his art practice…

Theatre Review: And Then There Were None at Theatre Royal

A new theatre adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie whodunnit. The original novel is the world's best-selling mystery and with over 100 million copies sold, one of the best-selling books of all time...

Theatre Interview: Witness for the Prosecution at the National Justice Museum

A courtroom drama performed in a real courtroom. Another great idea from local theatre company Your Chance Productions. Darren Paul Taylor and Connor Thomas, two of the show's stars, take LeftLion behind the curtain...

Holocaust Memorial Weekend 2024 at The National Holocaust Museum

This coming weekend, 27 and 28 January, The National Holocaust Museum opens its doors for what will doubtless be a powerful commemoration...

Motion for the Ocean: Nottingham City Council Votes to Back Campain Protecting Waterways

Nottingham City Council backs ambitious Motion for the Ocean to protect and improve local rivers and our ocean...

Brush Painting Workshop

Gallery 47 + Katie Keddie

Ncf Comedy Presents: Canalhouse Comedy Night

Open Mic Sponsored by Jack Daniels

Saint Agnes

Bryan Corbett Presents ‘ Instrumental Groove Unit’ [jazz/groove]