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Theatre Interview: Witness for the Prosecution at the National Justice Museum
Wed 24 Jan 2024A 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...
Notts' Hidden Library Could Be Expanding
Tue 23 Jan 2024Bromley House library, a subscription library founded over two hundred years ago, has just secured £70,000 to explore expanding its premises...
An Outreach Worker in Notts
Sun 21 Jan 2024Formed in 2001, Framework is an organisation supporting vulnerable people, with housing support, job hunting, mental health, and recovery services for drugs and alcohol. Their primary focus, though, is to try and get people off the streets, and into more permanent accommodation. LeftLion caught up with one of their street outreach workers, who explains the ins and outs of their day to day…
From Art Exhibition Launches to Beat The Streets Festival: Here's What's on in Notts 22 - 28 January 2024
Sun 21 Jan 2024This week in Nottingham, enjoy live music in aid of a great cause at Beat The Streets, celebrate the opening of new exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, or join the National Holocaust Museum for Holocaust Memorial Day...
Comedy, Ceilidhs, DnB, and 90s Throwbacks: Here's What's on in Notts 15 - 21 January 2024
Sun 14 Jan 2024Comedy, dancing and music are the perfect blend for throwing off the January blues, and it's all happening this week in Nottingham...
Kicking Off the New Year in Notts - Theatre, Music and Meeting New People: Here’s What’s on in Notts 8 - 14 January
Sun 07 Jan 2024If it's your resolution to get out more in 2024, kick off your year with some theatre, cabaret and social events to meet new people in Notts this week...
Celebrate New Year's Eve 2023 in Notts with Cocktails, Classical, Soul, Drum & Bass, Indie and Family Friendly Events
Tue 26 Dec 2023Whatever your musical taste, if you want to hit the streets this New Year's Eve, there's an event for you in Nottingham...
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...
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…
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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…
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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…