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Theatre Review: Wendy and Peter Pan at The Television Workshop

Sat 30 Mar 2019

The third play in the Television Workshop season took place at Metronome and we were all hooked...

Theatre Review: Brave New World at The Television Workshop

Sat 23 Mar 2019

Written by award-winning playwright Dawn King, Brave New World is the theatre adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel of the same name. We got down to The Television Workshop, to see the performance as part of their 2019 Play Season..

Jenny Sealey MBE: The Journey of a Deaf Artist in the World of Disability Arts

Fri 22 Mar 2019

Artistic Director and CEO of Graeae Theatre Company, local woman Jenny Sealey MBE has been advocating for the rights of D/deaf artists, and artists with disabilities, by promoting access in theatre for over two decades. She recently appeared at Nottingham Trent University's Distinguished Lecture series, looking back at her life, career, and incredible achievements...

Under Cover Artist: Alex Traska

Sat 16 Mar 2019

What do Nottingham and outer space have in common? Well, if you’ve got the creative skills of Alex Traska, quite a bit. We had a chinwag with the Nottingham artist to find out how he managed to put together such a cracking cover and pull-out poster...

Art Works: David Smee

Fri 15 Mar 2019

David gives us the lowdown on his illustrations...

Art Review: Familiar Machines at BACKLIT

Wed 13 Mar 2019

Familiar Machines brings together works which explore the movement of body and machine through public and online space. The exhibition presents mechanisms of power and feminine governance that question patriarchal systems, and reinforce ideas around social disobedience. Our Caroline got down on International Women's Day to see the exhibition...

Theatre Review: Posh at Television Workshop

Sun 10 Mar 2019

The new season from Nottingham's Television Workshop kicked off with a group of characters you'll love to hate...

Artist and Curator Diana Ali on Her Role as Mentor on BBC's The Big Painting Challenge

Sat 09 Mar 2019

This month sees The Big Painting Challenge back on our screens for a third series. We caught up with artist, curator and Nottingham resident Diana Ali to talk about her career and role as a mentor on the BBC One show…

The Colour of Love at New Art Exchange

Thu 28 Feb 2019

Contributors from The Colour of Love project came together to share their photographs of life and love as Black African-Caribbean and White British people in mixed-race relationships through times of resentment and hardship. We went along to the launch event of the new exhibition to celebrate a significantly important and moving local heritage community project...

Workshops Extend Wigflex City Festival to Entire Bank Holiday Weekend

Thu 21 Feb 2019

With 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.

Send Project Join YMCA and CRS to Deliver Music Workshops in the Community

Tue 19 Feb 2019

With a mission to engage people in creative experiences, Send Project has been providing music workshops and courses around Nottingham since 2005. Having recently teamed up with YMCA and CRS, the Sneinton-based studio continues to grow year after year, reaching out to more people than ever before. We caught up with Moon Cavanagh and Gaz Frost to find out how their music projects help young people and vulnerable adults in the city…

UK Young Artist City Takeover in Photos

Fri 15 Feb 2019

The UK Young Artist City Takeover took place around Hoodtown from Thursday 7 to Wednesday 13 February. We got down to as many events as we could to take some snaps...

NTU Student MJ the Art Traveller to Appear on Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

Thu 14 Feb 2019

It's that time of the year again. Portrait Artist of the Year returns to Sky Arts with a new round of contestants ready to get painting. The set-up is simple: paint a portrait of a surprise celebrity in your own style in be in the chance to win a £10,000 commission for a major British Institution, plus £500 of materials from Cass Art. What’s not so simple is that you are judged by some of the best art curators and artists in a portrait you can do in four hours under the glare of TV lights. This year, the competition features Nottingham Trent MA student Michael Sheppard aka MJ the Art Traveller...

Art Works: Ronan Somerville

Thu 07 Feb 2019

Ronan's illustrated chess board is decorated with meaningful creatures...

Art Works: Kelly Fung

Thu 07 Feb 2019

Kelly Fung gives us the lowdown on her contemporary piece, Sit Down...

Art Review: Adrift by Harry Martin

Tue 05 Feb 2019

Taking some time out for yersen can be something we don't do enough, our Ewan got down to Wessie B to go through a guided meditation with artist Harry Martin, before viewing his new exhibition 'Adrift'...

Under Cover Artist: Carrot

Tue 05 Feb 2019

Carrots. If you’re looking, you’ll see them painted all over these streets. We got the notorious graffiti artist Carrot to dob us a cover and pull-out poster for this issue, and asked him what’s up, Doc...

Light Night 2019: Artist Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon Installation in the Royal Concert Hall

Thu 31 Jan 2019

It's the closest this installation has ever been to Nottingham, so it's dead exciting...

Nottingham Bands and Artists - Send Us Music!

Sat 26 Jan 2019

Want your music reviewed in LeftLion? Read on...

Paranoid Picnic at NAE

Tue 22 Jan 2019

Paranoid Picnic: The Phantom BAME is a solo exhibition from Hardeep Pandhal taking place at the New Art Exchange from the 19th of January to the 17th of March. This is an exhibition of two halves, with one half in the NAE and the other taking place in Primary. We got trusty Caroline down to check it out...

Under Cover Artist: David Severn

Thu 03 Jan 2019

This month’s cover artist is one of the most hardworking photographers in the city. Having just released his Whitby Goth Weekend photobook, and with a bunch of other projects in the pipeline, we sat down with David Severn to get the skinny on his wrestling shoot at Nottingham’s House of Pain, for this issue of LeftLion...