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Notts DJs Invited to Join ‘Set For Love’ Fundraiser This Weekend
Sat 20 Jun 2020Carl Cox, Eats Everything and Nightmares on Wax are headlining the second charity DJ stream from LNADJ, and they’re looking for local DJs to join them.
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2020: Wellbeing and Creativity in Quarantine
Fri 22 May 2020This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May 2020), and for most of us, it looks a lot different from the years previous. It will be a challenging time for all of us - both those who have suffered from bad mental health previously and those who have not. Maybe we'll be more aware of it than we were last year, as the world around us feels ten times more vulnerable. But as we navigate these new and quite frankly damn right weird times, more and more of us are awakening our inner artist to help keep our insanity at bay.
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5 Notts Things You Can Do From Home This Week
Mon 30 Mar 2020We normally bring you our pick of events that you can pop along to in Nottingham - however, for obvious reasons we can’t do that. Instead, we’ve rounded up some cracking stuff you can do from the comfort of your home…
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Confetti Industry Week 2020: Stephen Graham, Jeanie Finlay and Julian Foddy
Mon 09 Mar 2020Confetti's Industry Week is now in its 14th year, giving students the chance to hear from experts in film and television. We checked out the highlights...
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5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week
Mon 09 Mar 2020Because life is all about that five 'til nine...
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Acoustickle Kicks Off Spring Season With Haiki Loki This Week
Tue 03 Mar 2020Oldschool talent returns home, joined by some of Notts’ most exciting new artists at Peggy’s Skylight on Wednesday 4 March...
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Bad Squiddo Games Are Addressing the Gender Imbalance in the Gaming Industry with Realistic Female Miniatures
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Thought wargaming was just for boys? Think again, as Nottingham’s Annie Norman is addressing the gender balance in tabletop gaming, selling the largest array of realistic female miniatures in the world with Bad Squiddo Games...
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The Nottingham Anime and Manga Society Meet Every Week for Special Screenings, Events and More
Mon 03 Feb 2020Nottingham’s anime and manga society, aka NAMSOC, invited LeftLion to come to one of their weekly meetups to talk all things community, anime, and identity...
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The Snowman Animator Hilary Audus on Bringing Her Industry Knowledge to the Next Animorsels Meet-Up
Mon 02 Dec 2019This month, Nottingham will play host to a real christmas legend. Hilary Audus, the creative force behind The Snowman, The Snowman and The Snowdog and The Bear, will be speaking at the next Animorsels – a bi-monthly meet-up for local animators and creators at Antenna. We caught up with her to get her thoughts on animation, directing and her artistic process…
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Confetti Has Been Inspiring Our Young Ones for 25 Years Now
Thu 21 Nov 2019All the cool kids go to Confetti. Everyone knows that. These days, though, it’s so much more than a college; Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies is just one arm of the monolith of organisations that make up Confetti Media Group. There’s learning-space design company Constellations, Spool Films, Antenna Media Centre, Denizen Recordings, Notts TV, and most recently the hottest venue in town, Metronome. This year, CMG is shining silver after turning 25 years old, so here we take a look at just some of the bricks that’ve built up the kingdom over the years...
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Oxjam Beeston Returns This Weekend
Wed 16 Oct 2019The annual festival returns to the streets on Saturday, and there's a special guest performing...
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Gandeys Circus is Bringing Their Greatest Show Tour to Woodthorpe Park This Week
Tue 17 Sept 2019The UK’s largest circus, Gandeys, will be lighting up Woodthorpe Grange Park with a string of performances in the coming days...
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Nottingham Refugee Week: RefuTalent Review
Tue 02 Jul 2019Refugee Forum’s contribution to this year’s Refugee Week events, was RefuTalent – a talent show by refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters. An ensemble of eight performances, including mine, was the evening’s entertainment.
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5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week
Sun 30 Jun 2019Chicago, comedy, coffee and chickens... Check out five of the best things to do in Notts this week.
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Music, Memories and Mendhi at Nottingham Refugee Week's RefuTalent 2019
Thu 27 Jun 2019“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” This was said by the Dalai Lama and quoted by Swan, a monologue artist at RefuTalent.
Refugee Forum’s contribution to this year’s Refugee Week events was RefuTalent – a talent show by refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters. An ensemble of eight performances, including mine, was the evening’s entertainment.
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National Refugee Week 2019
Mon 17 Jun 2019The theme of this years’ Refugee Week is you, me and those that have gone before...
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Top Names Celebrate Confetti’s Student Awards Ceremony
Fri 07 Jun 2019Vicky McClure and Shane Meadows were amongst those present to celebrate the creative achievements of Confetti Institute of Technology's students at their annual awards...
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Flat 21 Is an All-Female Written, Produced and Directed Web-Series Aiming to Address the Gender Imbalance in the Film Industry
Wed 05 Jun 2019Unless you’re an actor seeking work, the odds of you seeing a casting call for “Sexy zombie pole dancer in lingerie. No pay” or “Mid-20s woman, really attractive - pretty but still accessible” are pretty slim. Sadly, those are two real casting calls, but things in the film world are starting to change thanks to the hard work and dedication from those who have first-hand experience of how male-dominated the industry can be. We sat down with Georgie Levers and Esmee Matthews, the brains behind web-series Flat 21, to talk about how they’ve rounded up the all-star gals of the East Midlands to make the film industry a more level playing field…
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Tom Quigley's Weekends and Everything In Between Exhibition is a Behind the Scenes Look at Nottingham's Skate Scene
Fri 01 Mar 2019As 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…
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Workshops Extend Wigflex City Festival to Entire Bank Holiday Weekend
Thu 21 Feb 2019With headliners such as Honey Dijon, Midland, DJ Stingray and Call Super, there’s no doubt that there’s going to be a lot of sweating taking place at stalwart Nottingham promoter Wigflex’s debut festival. However, the recent announcements outlining panel discussions, workshops and art installations hint that there’s much, much more than just sore feet to be gained from the most exciting community gathering to hit Notts this year.
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Nottingham Greeting Card Business The Art File on Sustainability and the Creative Industry
Mon 12 Nov 2018Exchanging messages of goodwill has been common practice ever since the early Egyptians, who used papyrus scrolls to send greetings and sparked an international trend spanning centuries. While some may bash out a quick “happy birthday” text to their gran, the greeting card industry is still thriving. We sat down with James Mace, of local business The Art File, who explains why…
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5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week
Sun 21 Oct 2018We've got everything from theatre shows, to single launches, to Ruby Wax's philosophical musings. Goo on then.
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David Severn Documents Whitby Goth Weekend in New Photobook
Wed 17 Oct 2018Party with all the seaside spirit your black little heart can muster this Halloween season, with David Severn's Whitby Goth Weekend photograph book launch at Nottingham Contemporary's Ottar Cafebar on Thursday 1 November, from 7pm. In the meantime, check out some of the photos featured in the book, and have a read of our chat with David himsen...
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Women in Music: London In Stereo Editor Jess Partridge Talks Gender Equality in the Industry
Wed 10 Oct 2018From establishing her own music magazine to managing an international PRS Foundation initiative, Jess Partridge has forged a successful and multi-faceted career in the music industry, and is a firm believer in going your own way. This evening she will be part of the panel at DHP’s Women in Music event at Rescue Rooms, the second in a series of events in Nottingham aiming to unpick gender imbalance in the music industry...
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