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International Women's Day 2021: Women Who #ChooseToChallenge
Mon 08 Mar 2021In celebration of International Women's Day 2021, we've complied a list of articles showcasing times in which Nottingham Women have actively chosen to challenge the norm...
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Dead Quiet is a New Short Film That’s a Different Viewing Experience Because of Lockdown
Sat 06 Mar 2021Screen section co-editor Jamie Morris talks to filmmaker Alex Withers about how the pandemic has changed the way people will experience Dead Quiet, his new short film...
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Interview and Video: Watch Re Teu's Isle Of Dogs (Orchestral Version)
Fri 05 Mar 2021Re Teu catches up with our Ellie as he revisits his track 'Isle of Dogs', offering a new orchestral version, complete with a stunning video. Read on for chats on personal goals, film scores, revisiting the song and his thoughts on the Nottingham music scene...
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Creative Incubators: Nottingham's Music Studio Scene
Fri 05 Mar 2021A rite of passage for musicians with a hunger to progress their ideas. A collaborative creative melting pot. A place to make memories with your mates and, for some, a lifeline. From Rockfield to the Brownswood Basement and the recent rise of Digital Holdings, the UK hosts a number of iconic music studios that have moved on from simply being a place to lay down some tracks. Adding to this is a steadily growing number of studios in Nottingham. Eileen Pegg takes a look at the role these spaces play for the creative community, speaking with established hubs in the city and those launched over the past ten turbulent months...
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Nottingham Creatives Launch New Platform To Tackle Everyday Racism
Fri 05 Mar 2021Be The Change, launched by Yasmin Bryan and Jade Vowles of The Media Group UK, is already being used in schools in help educate in the fight against racism...
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Framework's Winter Appeal Raises £232,000 to Support Work with Homeless People
Wed 03 Mar 2021The Nottingham charity's Winter appeal, which organisers hoped would raise £60,000, made £231,687.22 to support their work with homeless people...
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Deep Fakes From Nottingham History
Wed 03 Mar 2021Ever wondered what it would be like to see video of historical figures who existed before video cameras? We've deep faked some figures from Nottingham history so you need wonder no more...
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Southwell Music Festival set to return in 2021
Wed 03 Mar 2021The programme of classical and choral music, which takes place in the heart of Nottinghamshire, is scheduled to return this August...
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Notts Filmmaker Jay Martin to Direct BBC Documentaries
Tue 02 Mar 2021Jay Martin won awards for his political documentary REDt'Blue, which focused on Mansfield voters' decision to vote Conservative in the 2019 General Election. Now the Notts filmmaker talks to LeftLion about his upcoming trio of BBC shorts which will focus on the impact of Coronavirus on health workers, the creative industry and more...
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Two Free Doughnotts For Every LeftLion King Supporter on Patreon
Tue 02 Mar 2021Yes, you read it right. We're giving away a couple of Nottingham's tastiest donuts to our beloved King supporters. Read on to find out how to get your mitts on them...
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Black Iris Brewery’s Director Alex Wilson on Producing Beers for Ten Years
Fri 26 Feb 2021Black Iris Brewery celebrate their tenth birthday later this year. We caught up with Director Alex Wilson to talk artwork, music, history and that time that they raised a smile from Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies...
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The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner: Reimagining Sillitoe During Covid
Thu 25 Feb 2021On the event of Sir Tom Courtenay's 84th birthday, Dawn of the Unread's James Walker has re-written The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in the time of COVID. His take on Alan Sillitoe's classic work, re-titled as The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner, is being launched on Twitter today at 5pm...
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Nusic New Music Podcast #244 with Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, Wolf Club, Sade Ebone and More...
Wed 24 Feb 2021This week’s New Music Podcast features the launch of sad-boy UKG, the artist selling his own condoms, plus the song that makes us think of pandas.
The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.
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Metronome Announces New Series of Virtual Events Starting in March
Wed 24 Feb 2021After the success of the first fully-virtual Nottingham Poetry Festival in November, as well as their live-streamed gigs, the Metronome Sessions will see the Notts venue host a new series of virtual events beginning this March...
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To Hull and Back: Music Showcase Throws Lifeline to Grassroots Music Scene
Tue 23 Feb 2021With live gigs off the cards for almost a year now, a new project has won funding from the Arts Council to showcase the musical output of Hull and Nottingham in one mammoth event on 20 March 2021.
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25 Years Later: Sense and Sensibility
Tue 23 Feb 2021This period drama, released in 1996 in the UK, is in many ways a standard nineties rom-com; but does this adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel actually have too much sense, and not enough scandal?
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Nottingham-Born Actor Tom Blyth on His Journey from the TV Workshop to HBO’s The Gilded Age
Tue 23 Feb 2021We talk to Nottingham-born, New York-based actor Tom Blyth about his journey from the TV Workshop to The Juilliard School, working with Terence Davies on Benediction, and his upcoming HBO series The Gilded Age...
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Notts duo launch campaign to fund animated sitcom
Mon 22 Feb 2021A pair of Notts creatives have launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund an animated sitcom.
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