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Hockley Hustle and LeftLion Present: Ella Knight Live at Metronome
Fri 09 Jul 2021The first instalment in a series of live sets featuring some of our favourite Nottingham artists with interviews conducted by our very own Bridie Squires...
Award-Winning TV Producer Henry Normal Brings Live Poetry Show to Metronome
Mon 05 Jul 2021Nottingham-native Henry Normal comes home with a new poetry tour, stopping off at Metronome on Tuesday 16 November. His brand new live show The Escape Plan draws on over forty years of work, featuring stories, jokes and poems from the BBC Radio 4 series and his ten poetry books, including the two latest collections. This is no normal poetry show...
The Thompson Brothers on Nottingham Castle, Old Money and Their Favourite On-Screen Robin Hood
Sun 04 Jul 2021Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
10 Years Later: Green Lantern
Wed 30 Jun 2021It's remembered as being so bad that it's become meme material. But is there anything to enjoy about Green Lantern? We take a look 10 years on...
Green Hustle Gears Up For Nottingham's First Post-Lockdown Festival
Mon 31 May 2021After a successful virtual event last year, Green Hustle returns for an in-person festival in June...
Confetti Set to Host British Esports Championship Live Grand Finals this July
Mon 10 May 2021The educational institute have teamed up with the British Esports Association to bring one of the biggest events on the esports calendar to Nottingham...
Generations of Film: The Movies That Shaped Our Lives
Sat 03 Apr 2021Films have the power to shape our identities and the way we see the world, as well as transporting us back to simpler times. We asked our screen section writers to each share three movies that left an impact on them at three different stages over the course of their lives...
GOBS: Notts Spoken-Word Collective set for Live Digital Showcase
Thu 25 Mar 2021The dynamic collective of twenty spoken-word artists will be joined by Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey this Saturday...
Nottingham Is Getting its Own Tiny Forest Thanks to Green Hustle
Wed 24 Mar 2021The city's first tiny forest will be planted on Woodthorpe Grange Park...
Film Review: Paper Lives
Sat 20 Mar 2021Netflix’s new Turkish-language drama, Paper Lives, is a melodramatic slog…
Robin Hood Beer And Cider Festival Set For 2021 Trent Bridge Switch
Mon 15 Feb 2021Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival, Nottingham CAMRA’s flagship annual event, has secured a new home at Trent Bridge cricket ground.
How the New Art Exchange Became a Leading International Arts Space
Thu 28 Jan 2021Skinder Hundal has been Director at New Art Exchange (NAE) since 2008, from the moment their iconic black box building in Hyson Green first opened its doors. Now, as he takes up a new position as Director of Arts, British Council, Skinder reflects on NAE’s journey from a small community-led organisation to a leading international arts space, and the important role it has played in championing art from diverse culture.
Gate to Southwell Festival Is Set to Bounce Back in 2021
Tue 22 Dec 2020Book it into yer calendars...
Final Round of Voting for Prospect Music Awards Live: Crown the Winner for 2021
Sun 20 Dec 2020Strictly might be over for another year but turn yer attention local and there’s still another talent competition to keep us entertained. Craig, Motsi and Shirley are replaced by a number of known names for the Notts-based Prospect Music Award. Get to know more and place your votes ahead of the finals on NYD...
Under Cover Artist: Rob White
Thu 17 Dec 2020Multidisciplinary artist Rob White takes us inside his sixth LeftLion cover, an ode to putting 2020 behind us for good...
Green Party and Lib Dems Launch Broadmarsh Proposal
Thu 17 Dec 2020The Green Party and the Liberal Democrats in Nottingham have joined forces with an environmentally-frienly plan to replace the old Broadmarsh shopping centre.
Nottingham Playhouse's Adam Penford on This Year's Live and Online Pantomime, Cinderella
Mon 14 Dec 2020Cinderella will go to the ball! The Nottingham Playhouse panto will be going ahead this Christmas, despite the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown. It will look a little different – and, for the first time in years, there is a new writer/director at the helm: Artistic Director, Adam Penford. Our Stage Editor Rebecca Buck caught up with him for a chat...
Season's Greenings: How to Have a Sustainable Christmas This Year
Wed 02 Dec 2020This December, Carbon Neutral Nottingham are sharing green-fingered tips with the help of local businesses...
Exhibition Review: Jimmy Roberts' Akimbo at Nottingham Contemporary
Mon 19 Oct 2020Akimbo, Guadeloupean-born artist Jimmy Robert’s latest exhibition currently on view at Nottingham Contemporary, captures an important moment not only in the artist’s career but also the social moment we are living in.
Comedian Sara Pascoe on Her Move From Actress to Comedy and Singing For Robbie William's Dad
Thu 08 Oct 2020Stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, author, podcast host. There aren’t many things in the world of entertainment that Sara Pascoe can’t do. Ahead of her return to Nottingham to play Just the Tonic this month, we caught up with the popular comic to talk lockdown, her two new TV projects and being a backing singer for Robbie Williams’ dad…
I'm Not From London Are Celebrating Their Fifteenth Birthday
Wed 23 Sep 2020Whether lockdown is coming to an end, or there’s still some way to go, time continues unrelenting. So as the legendary Nottingham record label, promoter and publisher I’m Not From London reaches its impressive 15th birthday, it continues to look ahead with a series of exciting projects, including the current Be Scene and Heard, a Youth Music project aimed at helping partial to fully deaf 18-25 year-olds get experience in the music industry. With one eye looking back over fifteen years of shaping Nottingham’s musical landscape, and one firmly placed on the future, we caught up with Managing Director Will Robinson to discuss the importance of I’m Not From London...
Hockley Hustle Presents Green Hustle: The Digital Festival Celebrating All Things Sustainability
Sun 13 Sep 2020A highlight in our calendar comes every October when, on the last weekend of the month, the streets of Hockley are taken over by musicians, poets, street performers, food vendors and punters for the annual Hockley Hustle festival. For obvious reasons, it won’t be returning for its fourteenth year, but that doesn’t mean Team HH are taking a (probably well-deserved) break. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, they’ll be treating the people of Nottingham to a few different projects. The first of those is Green Hustle, a digital festival celebrating, promoting and exploring all things green in our city…
Should the Broadmarsh Site Be Turned Into a Green Space?
Wed 19 Aug 2020After shopping centre giant intu collapsed into administration, causing yet another Broadmarsh development plan to fall by the wayside, Ewan Cameron decided it was time for something different. Creating an online petition calling for the area to be turned into a communal green space, his campaign has over ten thousand signatures at the time of printing. Here’s exactly why he thinks the plan to turn Broadmarsh green is essential for Nottingham...
Art Works: Naa Ahinee Mensah
Tue 21 Jul 2020Artist Naa Ahinee Mensah tells us about her George Floyd triptych...
The When We Worked at Raleigh Project Celebrates the Lives of the Factory's Black British Caribbean Workers
Fri 10 Jul 2020Whether it’s due to its legacy as one of Nottingham’s most quintessential institutions, or the place that Arthur Seaton so resented working, everyone knows that the Raleigh Factory is woven into the very fabric of Nottingham’s DNA. While much has been written about its iconic cultural status, often overlooked is the impact of its many Black British Caribbean workers. That’s where When We Worked at Raleigh, the archival project that has collated visual and audio histories of those workers and their relatives, comes in...
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