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Theatre Review: The Paper Cinema at Lakeside Arts
Mon 31 Mar 2025The Paper Cinema’s take on moving pictures dazzles and delights at Lakeside...
Artworks: Hallo Ceramics talks about their projects, inspirations and making a name in pottery
Tue 25 Mar 2025Popping up at this month’s Ay-Up Market, Heather Kirk of Hallo Ceramics talks us through their journey to becoming a ceramic artist.
Theatre Review: Look After Your Knees at Lakeside Arts
Sat 22 Mar 2025Natalie Bellingham delivers a solo performance celebrating the messy business of life...
"They were roomates": inside Nottingham Castle's LGTBQ+ history and art walking tour
Sat 22 Mar 2025When it comes to queer history, there is a certain level of pressure to ‘prove it.’ How can you tell that an object, a space, building or area of a city has a queer past? There are so many hidden histories that are simply forgotten about over time but queer communities have always been here. CJ De Barra recounts the stories of some of the objects on show at Nottingham Castle, on their LGBTQ+ audio walking tour.
Theatre Review: Three Little Vikings at Lakeside Arts
Mon 17 Mar 2025Three brave little Viking girls save the day in this bold and funny adventure story for little rebels...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #18: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 14 Mar 2025In our latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews a selection of recent new releases. This time it's the turn of ROB.GREEN, Dead Mint, Drew Thomas, Sam Oakley and Stuart Pearce...
Theatre Review: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Nottingham Arts Theatre
Thu 13 Mar 2025The joyful coming-of-age musical struts into Nottingham Arts Theatre with a bright young cast and plenty of sass
Offline crafting, theatre, day parties, cultural festivals, and 80s new wave: here's what's on events this week 10-16 March 2025
Sun 09 Mar 2025This week in Notts! Get yourself out to enjoy the first inklings of spring, plus a load of great events around the city. Check out a four day festival at New Art Exchange, enjoy gripping theatre at Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal, get crafting in a no-phone-zone, or head down to Vicky McClure's Day Fever at the Palais...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #17 special edition: Divorce
Fri 07 Mar 2025In this special edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, we sample the debut album Drive to Goldenhammer from Nottingham's own Divorce...
Local playwright Jane Upton on her brand new play (the) woman
Thu 06 Mar 2025Written by Nottingham’s own Jane Upton and shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, (the) Woman is coming to Nottingham Playhouse this month. Following a woman struggling to balance her potential as a playwright with her responsibilities as a mother, it tackles hard truths about motherhood and conflicting identities. Jane was able to take the time out of her day to talk to us at LeftLion, having raced back from picking up arts and craft supplies for her children. But, as Jane herself puts it: “Sums it up, doesn’t it?”
Mancunian indie-rockers Doves talk past gigs in Notts and their brand new sixth studio record
Mon 03 Mar 2025When people think of great Manchester bands, alt-rockers Doves can often be overlooked. But across their six albums and multiple decades together, the band have rarely put a foot wrong. With their latest opus Constellations of the Lonely just released – their first in five years - and a show at Rock City on the horizon, we sat down for a catch up with drummer Andy Williams.
A new play shines a light on the first pioneer of film-length animation and it is not Disney!
Sun 02 Mar 2025Lakeside Arts hosts this intriguing and inspiring play about Lotte Reiniger...
Film review: 1% of War, a new documentary reveals harrowing details from the frontline in Ukraine
Sat 01 Mar 2025Ukraine war three years on: new documentary, 1% of War reveals harrowing details from the front...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #16: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 28 Feb 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Otala, Sam Shaw & The Real Eyes, Green Grango, Fallowed and Divorce...
Art works: Brendan O’Melia, aka Metempsychosis Lights
Fri 28 Feb 2025Hailing from Leeds and having made his name in Nottingham art and music, Brendan O’Melia, aka Metempsychosis Lights, is one of our city’s most creative minds in stage lighting and visual art. His work has featured in live music shows of many genres, from trance to space rock, in venues from Liquid Light to The Angel. Here he speaks on how he built himself such a unique career.
Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe at Lakeside Arts
Tue 25 Feb 2025In 1980, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham received a letter containing a loose piece of chalk. The letter was from a former student, who explained that the chalk had been used by Albert Einstein during his visit to the university on 6 June 1930. Einstein had written equations on a blackboard during his visit, signing the corner once he had finished. This unique blackboard is now preserved at the university. Nearly a century after Einstein’s visit, Lakeside Arts is presenting Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, an exhibition featuring newly commissioned artworks by nine artists. Jo Herlihy reviews...
Theatre review: Rosy Carrick's Musclebound at Lakeside Arts
Mon 24 Feb 2025Doctor Rosy Carrick brought her long-anticipated one-woman show to Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts on Thursday 6 February, in which she explores hidden sexual desire and female sexual empowerment through conversations between mother and daughter.
Theatre review: Rosy Carrick's Musclebound at Lakeside Arts
Mon 24 Feb 2025Doctor Rosy Carrick brought her long-anticipated one-woman show to Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts on Thursday 6 February, in which she explores hidden sexual desire and female sexual empowerment through conversations between mother and daughter.
Feathers and royalty: Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - Swan Lake flaps into town
Wed 19 Feb 2025Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - Swan Lake returns to The Theatre Royal. After thirty years, has the ballet lost any of its charm?
LeftLion's Latest Listens #15: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 14 Feb 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Confyde, Idolvein, Cara Flynn, Marseille and ALT BLK ERA...
Preview: The Animator at Lakeside Arts
Thu 06 Feb 2025Against the subversive background of 1920’s Berlin, Lotte Reiniger pioneered groundbreaking new methods of animation and filmmaking . The story of this ‘Queen of Silhouettes’ is coming to Lakeside later this month. Beverley Makin shares why this production matters...
Nottingham Artists Tom Dale and Barret Hodgson discuss Primal Future, their Light Night 2025 centrepiece
Thu 06 Feb 2025Promising to shine brighter than ever, Light Night 2025 will feature dozens of spectacular light installations, family-friendly activities and live performances across the city centre. Among these is a new collaboration called Primal Future, a dance and digital crossover which will be projected onto Nottingham’s Council House at the event. Created as a collaboration between Nottingham-based dancer Tom Dale and digital artist Barret Hodgson, we asked them to reveal more about their work…
Turning a new page: How Meadows Library escaped closure
Sun 26 Jan 2025Set up to support the library in the Meadows, Friends of Meadows Library has provided an essential hub for almost 100 years. Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library was recently saved from closure. We met Jackie and Di from the group, to find out what Friends of Meadows Library is there for, and why this special library was so worth saving.
Our January cover artist Paula Reid talks creative community and her love of Brutalism
Tue 21 Jan 2025This month’s cover artist Paula Reid tells us about her inspirations, projects and love of Brutalism…
Competition: Win Family Tickets For The Sooty Show at Nottingham Arts Theatre This Half Term
Mon 20 Jan 2025The Sooty Show is British institution that dates back to the 1950s. A new family show featuring Sooty, Sweep, and Soo with presenter George Akid is coming to the Nottingham Arts Theatre this February half-term, with shows at 11.30am and 3.30pm on Thursday 20 February. We have four tickets to give away to a lucky winner.
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