There's more content than you would believe. Hopefully this will make finding it a bit easier...
Interview: Nathan Ellis
Thu 21 Dec 2023A huge opportunity for newly emerging playwrights kicks off in the New Year. Nathan Ellis, from the Playhouse's Amplify programme, talks us through it...
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We Chat to Talented TV Workshop Graduate Safia Oakley-Green About Her Upcoming Film 'Out of Darkness'
Tue 19 Dec 2023A British Independent Film Award winner. A Screen International Star of Tomorrow. But 22-year-old Safia Oakley-Green is only just getting started. We talk to the talented Television Workshopper about her upcoming film Out of Darkness and dive into the easy topic of what she wants to achieve in her career…
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Notts Shots: December 2023
Sun 17 Dec 2023Our photographers have been busy taking some autumnal snaps this month. Here's a selection of our favourites...
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Interview: Sinfonia Viva
Sat 09 Dec 2023With Sinfonia Viva's New Year's Eve performance at the Royal Concert Hall fast approaching, Ian C Douglas chats with Lucy Galliard, their Chief Executive, about all things orchestral...Â
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Beat the Streets Announces First Acts for 2024
Fri 08 Dec 2023Nottingham-based national music promoter, DHP Family, has announced the first wave of artists for charity fundraiser festival Beat The Streets...
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Overheard in Notts: November 2023
Thu 30 Nov 2023I just want a banging night out mate. Let's go Wetherspoons, it's always banging in there.
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Buy: Overheard In Notts: The Verruca Moment
Thu 23 Nov 2023Yes, we are back with our fifth annual collection of stupid things we heard people say in the streets of Nottingham. It’s a forty-page Mr-Men-size Secret-Santa-tastic book featuring hundreds of pieces of anti-wisdom, designed to make you and your loved ones chuckle over a turkey dinner...
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A Therapist in Notts on Navigating Seasonal Affective Disorder This Winter
Sun 19 Nov 2023Do you find yourself slipping when the days turn colder, shorter and inevitably darker? If you do, you’re not alone, NHSInform reports that around two million people in the UK are affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD). So what is it, can we help it and how? We caught up with Nottingham CBT therapist, Laila, to decipher what it all means and how we can start working towards promoting a positive mental wellbeing in our lives…
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Interview: The Walk Director Michael Jobling and Screenwriter Sophie Ellerby
Fri 10 Nov 2023Sofia Jones speaks to director Michael Jobling and screenwriter Sophie Ellerby about their new short film The Walk, which was produced by Notts' own Griffin Pictures and screened at the 67th BFI London Film Festival as part of the Right Here, Right Now programme...
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Interview: HandMade Theatre
Mon 30 Oct 2023HandMade Theatre use live performances and creative therapy to bring wonder and joy to communities around the East Midlands - and now their work with people who have dementia has won a Lottery grant. Suzy Gunn, CEO, shares the next steps on this incredible journey... Â
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Interview: Richard Herring
Fri 27 Oct 2023TV Comedian and celebrity interviewer, Richard Herring, brings his multi-award-winning show to Nottingham's Playhouse this November. In this exclusive preview, he talks of testicles, godlike powers and when podcasts go wrong...  Â
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Left Stag October: The Nottinghamshire Derby
Fri 20 Oct 2023What could possess someone to get up at 7.30am on a Saturday morning, head into town and drink Guinness out of a plastic cup surrounded by men with neck tattoos and Stone Island clobber? An away day, of course!Â
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Boatyard Builders: Bringing Notts’ Disused Boatyard Back to Its Roots of Adventure
Tue 17 Oct 2023With demand in Nottingham for a new climbing centre, Boatyard Boulders are bringing a disused boatyard back to its roots of adventure...
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We Spoke With Veronica Pickering, Nottinghamshire’s First Black Female High Sheriff
Fri 13 Oct 2023Everyone has heard of the High Sheriff of Nottingham, but what does the job entail in the modern age? We spoke with Veronica Pickering, Nottinghamshire’s first Black female High Sheriff, about her truly fascinating career journey, her international and local community work, the changing nature of the public sector, and what she likes to do in her free time…
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Celebrating Nottingham’s History of DIY Football Fanzines thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Fri 13 Oct 2023Two of Nottingham’s best loved football fanzines Brian and The Pie will be given a new lease of life thanks to a regeneration project by LeftLion, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund…
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Down to the Bare Bones: An interview with Mayhem Film Festival
Thu 12 Oct 2023October is in full swing, so that can only mean one thing for Nottingham’s film fanatics: Mayhem! Founded in 2005, Mayhem Film Festival commences on 12 October, and brings you four days of some of the best contemporary horror in the game. LeftLion HQ caught up with the organisers: Steven Shiel, Chris Cooke, and Film Programmer Melissa Gueneau ahead of the festival...
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Notts Wildlife Cameraman to Screen Film at Lakeside Arts
Wed 11 Oct 2023The documentary is narrated by none other than River Monsters' Jeremy Wade...
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Interview: The Royal Concert Hall Goes Psycho for Halloween
Wed 11 Oct 2023The Psycho soundtrack is coming to Nottingham. But this is more than your everyday kind of concert. Clelia McElroy from Monstrous Flesh, Emma Duncan from The Fortune & Glory Film Club and Paul Murphy from the Limelight Orchestra share their journey from horror movie to the podium...Â
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Catherine Ross: Voices from Nottingham's Windrush Generation
Mon 09 Oct 2023To celebrate Black History Month and the 75th anniversary of Windrush we have been working with the New Art Exchange and their NAE YOUnity Commission funded by Freelands Foundation. Our aim is to highlight the voices of Nottingham's Windrush generation and some of the challenges they faced...
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Jordan Gray: The Scene-Setter, The Story Teller, The Bird, Has Already Taken Off To Several Flights
Sat 07 Oct 2023Jordan Gray steps out of the spotlight to give a little backstory to her upcoming self-penned, touring production, Is It A Bird...
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Nigel Best: Voices from Nottingham's Windrush Generation
Fri 06 Oct 2023To celebrate Black History Month and the 75th anniversary of Windrush we have been working with the New Art Exchange and their NAE YOUnity Commission funded by Freelands Foundation. Our aim is to highlight the voices of Nottingham's Windrush generation and some of the challenges they faced...
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Notts Shots: October 2023
Mon 02 Oct 2023Since the late 1940s, the district of St Ann’s has been a richly diverse community and home to diaspora from all over the world, including many people of Afro-Caribbean descent. However, the landscape of the area changed immeasurably post-1960, when much of the nineteenth century terraced housing was demolished. While more structurally sound habitation was built, up to 30,000 residents were rehomed throughout the city, and the community that had developed in St Ann’s was never quite the same.
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