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Festival review: Day one at Download Festival
Fri 28 Jun 2024Every year, thousands of rock fans from across the globe make the pilgrimage to Donington Park, only half an hour from Nottingham city centre. This year, LeftLion joined them for an epic weekend at the 2024 edition of Download, perhaps our country's most legendary rock and metal music festival. Here's what happened on day one...
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Gig review: Belle Chen at Metronome
Thu 27 Jun 2024Belle Chen is a captivating modern classical artist, born in Taiwan and raised in Australia. Last week, she graced the stage at Nottingham's Metronome – a venue with a growing reputation for bringing our city the very best in established and new touring music as part of their ongoing Piano Sessions series...
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Notts Book Arts Festival Returns To A Library Near You
Thu 27 Jun 2024'Blend' is the word at this year's celebration of zines, illustrations and bookbinding...
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LeftLion Interviews Residency at Nottingham Central Library begins with The PETEBOX
Wed 26 Jun 2024We’re starting something new. It’s a series of live interviews at Nottingham Central Library with some of our favourite artists from or connected to Notts. We’re inviting you to join us for an early-evening of conversation about creativity.
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Art Of Belonging: Practice Sharing and Training for Artists and Creative Practitioners
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A Mini-Tour of The Nottingham Poetry Festival
Tue 25 Jun 2024Every summer a wave of dreamy-eyed people bearing notepads descends upon the city...
Now, although only in its seventh edition, the Nottingham Poetry Festival is already one of our most treasured parts of our cultural calendar. This year LeftLion sampled just a small slice of what was on offer...
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Dig it! We speak to York Archaeology about community digs at Wollaton Hall
Tue 25 Jun 2024Every year since 2019, a motley crew of students and local history enthusiasts has descended upon Wollaton Hall for a series of archaeological training excavations. They can be easily spotted about the grounds: a happy-looking crowd clad in mud stained high-vis, gleefully digging away or enthusiastically explaining themselves to curious park-patrons. These digs are run by Laura Parker and Tristan Cousins, community archaeologists from York Archaeology, who I met to talk about the project…
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Gig review: John Grant at Rough Trade
Sun 23 Jun 2024The great man that is John Grant visited Nottingham’s Rough Trade to support the release of his brand new album The Art of The Lie. We headed down to watch his performance and Q&A with the album’s producer Ivor Guest...
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Sneinton Community Festival is 20!
Sat 22 Jun 2024Sneinton Community Festival is a free family festival, this year taking place from the 6 to 14 July, for the people of Sneinton and beyond. This year’s theme ‘There’s no place like home’ celebrates the diversity, different cultures and ways of being in the area. Organiser Kathryn Cooper takes a look at the history of the festival and what is coming up this year.
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