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Nottingham Women's Centre Have Won an Award for Voluntary Service
Sun 12 Aug 2018Standing proudly at the end of Chaucer Street, Nottingham Women’s Centre enables women in our area to reach their full potential, providing the tools to achieve social, political and economic equality. Having just been presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, we thought it was high time we had a word with CEO, Helen Voce, who’s now a year into her post...
Architects of Air's 2018 Luminarium at Highfields Park in Photos
Wed 30 May 2018Ahhh, so pretteh. Our Dan got down to Nottingham Lakeside Arts to take a few snaps of the latest Luminarium from Architects of Air...
Kahn Talks Dubstep, Bristol, and Tricky Ahead of Nottingham's Irish Centre Gig
Fri 20 Apr 2018The legendary dubstep producer and DJ Kahn gives us a few insights ahead of his set at The Irish Centre...
Exhibition Review: Scaling the Sublime – Art at the Limits of Landscape at Djanogly Gallery
Thu 29 Mar 2018Romanticism, in literature, art, music and thought, changed the world. But as this new exhibition at Djanogly Gallery hopes to show, the tropes, moods and key landscape interests of the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century now influences a new generation of artists. The show-stopper here – and effective summary of the show – is Mariele Neudecker’s big installation After-Life which succeeds in referencing a broad range of Romantic artists and issues...
Festival of Science and Curiosity Review: Family Science Activities at Dales Centre Library
Fri 23 Feb 2018The Festival of Science and Curiosity saw the city taken over by clever clogs. Our Adrian got down to one of the family events down the libraries…
Short Story Competition: City Arts at 40
Thu 11 Jan 2018They celebrated their fortieth birthday in September, and have been ringing in the celebrations ever since. We were promised a year-long schedule of exciting opportunities and events, and they haven’t disappointed…
SanTale Clause - Tales from Nottingham Santas
Sun 24 Dec 2017Christmas is coming! But do we ever spare a thought for those on the Christmas frontline? Those boys in red, patrolling the social cubs and superstore grottos in an effort to bring Christmas antics for all? We asked a bunch of Nottingham Santas to tell us about the most memorable experiences of their careers. Unfortunately none of them were very memorable, so we made a load up instead...
Noshingham: Murat International Food Centre
Thu 14 Dec 2017We’ve seen bread served in flat caps and we’ve heard of bowls of American cereal sold for £5 on Brick Lane, but Murat dwarfs them all for hipster pomp: no menu, no waiters. Hell, there aren’t even any tables. But you can definitely get a good bit of scran for your buck.
Literature Review: Henry Normal's Love, Relationships and Other Realistic Expectations at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Wed 13 Dec 2017We got down to Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest from our Henners...
David Knight on the Archaeological History of Nottingham
Sat 25 Nov 2017On the eve of a new exhibitions about Vikings in Nottingham, the Lakeside Arts Centre at the University of Nottingham present David Knight talking about The History of Nottingham, including looking at the cities defences and caves.
Exhibition Review: Collected Words at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Wed 15 Nov 2017A celebration of Nottingham’s literary wares, past and present...
Live Music Review: Blast Off Festival Day Three at The Irish Centre
Sun 12 Nov 2017Day three of the Blast Off Festival unleashed the big guns - The Courettes, Hangee V, Muck & The Mires and The Pretty Things.
Live Music Review: Blast Off Festival Day Two at The Irish Centre
Sat 11 Nov 2017The second day of the Blast Off Festival saw it move across town to The Irish Centre. Gav followed them to check out Thee Eviltones, The Fuzillis and Kaleidoscope...
Happy 40th Birthday to City Arts Nottingham
Mon 06 Nov 2017City Arts is a community arts organisation based at the bottom of Hockley that’s done nowt but good for local people. The creative boggers turned forty in September, and are celebrating their anniversary with a year-long series of events for everyone to get stuck into. We delved into a bit of their history, had a chat with a few of the organisers, stuck our party hats on, and did a little dance...
Friday Food n Friends Begins at The Vine Community Centre in Hyson Green
Tue 31 Oct 2017Pamela Jones from Friday Food n Friends answers a few questions about the new community eating initiative running in Nottingham...
Man Alive! Readings from Man Booker Prize Shortlist at Lakeside Arts
Wed 11 Oct 2017This October, the best and brightest of the literary world will be celebrated in this year's Man Booker Prize 2017. We decided to head on down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre for a reading from some of this year's shortlisted authors.
David Hone Talks Feathered Dinosaurs at Lakeside Arts
Tue 03 Oct 2017As part of the Dinosaurs of China exhibition, David Hone joins us at Lakeside Arts to talk about whether T-Rex had feathers and to bust some myths started by Jurassic Park. Since our Gav is a mathematician, he put on his best Jeff Goldblum outfit to hear all about it
Art Review: Kaleidoscope at Nottingham Lakeside Arts' Djanogly Gallery
Fri 11 Aug 2017We got down to Highfields Park to check out all the colours going on behind the doors of Djanogly Art Gallery...
The Jungle Book is Coming to Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Tue 11 Jul 2017In a collaboration between Nottingham Lakeside Arts and New Street Theatre, The Jungle Book is coming to town. True to the Kipling score, and definitely not Disney, the production has an awesome new musical makeup. We speak to director of the show Martin Berry about what to expect from the bogger...
Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Wed 28 Jun 2017We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...
Golesedi at Lady Bay Arts Festival
Wed 28 Jun 2017Right then, we're right in the middle of festival season and our vlogger Golesedi and her mate Mark ditched the wellies, booze and music for tea, cakes and art at Lady Bay Arts Festival...
Art Review: Lido to Lakeside Transforms Djanogly Gallery into Twenties Swimming Pool
Mon 19 Jun 2017For those of you who don't know, the Djanogly Gallery was once Highfields Park Lido, which was basically a huge swimming pool in the twenties that Sir Jesse Boot kindly gave to Notts as a gift...
Isaac at Lakeside's Wheee! Festival
Fri 09 Jun 2017Our cutest LeftLion vlogger Isaac went to Wheee! festival at The Lakeside Arts. He saw, he ran, he played, he laughed. If you don't find it adorable you have a heart of stone. Yes, stone.
Advertising Sectioned: The Photo Centre on Pelham Street c.1958
Tue 06 Jun 2017Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...
From Vilnius to Viccy Centre: Celebrating Lithuanian Literature At The Easiest Launch
Tue 23 May 2017It's not often we get the chance to celebrate literature from further afield. Thankfully, Noir Press have brought the best and brightest of continent to us. We went to One BC for the launch of their latest Lithuanian dark romance The Easiest.