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Mayhem Film Festival to Return to Broadway This Year

After hosting a scaled-down 'Skeleton Event' last year, the organisers of the iconic Mayhem Film Festival are hoping to bring the event back to its full gory glory this October.. 

Myhouse Yourhouse: Coming Out of Retirement, Mental Health, and a Virtual Festival

It was only when the world came to a crashing halt and gig venues, clubs and record shops were forced to shut their doors, that people realised just how important music is in bringing us all together. But out of that dark period came the resurrection of Myhouse Yourhouse. Part-online gig, part community and part virtual venue, it entertained over 80,000 listeners during the last twelve months, raising huge amounts for charity in the process. Addie Kenogbon talked to creator and Notts DJ Alex Traska and DJ and events organiser Jakki Denton to find out just how this Nottingham subculture became a beacon for mental health awareness, hope and togetherness...

Confetti Set to Host British Esports Championship Live Grand Finals this July

The 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

Films 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

The dynamic collective of twenty spoken-word artists will be joined by Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey this Saturday...

Film Review: Paper Lives

Netflix’s new Turkish-language drama, Paper Lives, is a melodramatic slog…

Metronome Have Expanded Their Virtual Line Up with Three Events from Nottingham Poetry Festival featuring Henry Normal

Following the success of the virtual festival and a string of gigs at the latter end of 2020, the venue announced further big names for their Metronome Sessions… 

Beeston Film Festival returns for its seventh year

Beeston Film Festival is set to return for its seventh year.

Southwell Music Festival set to return in 2021

The programme of classical and choral music, which takes place in the heart of Nottinghamshire, is scheduled to return this August...

The No Jobs In The Arts Fringe Festival

The free digital festival takes place on February 26/27 and is aimed at creatives in the visual arts working across the East Midlands...

Robin Hood Beer And Cider Festival Set For 2021 Trent Bridge Switch

Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival, Nottingham CAMRA’s flagship annual event, has secured a new home at Trent Bridge cricket ground.

The Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is a Lockdown-Friendly Digital Event This Year

After wowing audiences with an eclectic programme of events last year, the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is back with a new look and a lockdown-friendly digital festival this February. We caught up with festival producer Megan Shore to find out more about what FoSaC 2021 has in store…

Beat the Streets Has Reimagined Its 2021 Festival As a Winter Fundraiser

2020 began on a high for charity music festival Beat the Streets when Jake Bugg took to the Rock City stage to headline the one-day, multi-venue festival, which raised £75,000 for Framework. But with the physical festival on hold, and the number of rough sleepers increasing, DHP Family have reimagined 2021’s festival for a post-COVID world… 

Gate to Southwell Festival Is Set to Bounce Back in 2021

Book it into yer calendars...

Final Round of Voting for Prospect Music Awards Live: Crown the Winner for 2021

Strictly 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...

Nottingham Playhouse's Adam Penford on This Year's Live and Online Pantomime, Cinderella

Cinderella 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...

Review: Nottingham International Film Festival 2020

Roshan Chandy reports from the online Nottingham International Film Festival, whose format could signal the future for film festivals worldwide.

Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Surrealism and Nottingham Poetry Festival 2020

As part of this year’s stellar online Nottingham Poetry Festival line-up, we chat to Anthony Anaxagorou: publisher, writer, poetry educator, Eliot Prize nominee and all-round prolific wordsmith. We talk lockdown, surrealism and his new book How To Write It...

Enter the Nottingham Poetry Hunt and Win Goodies from Rough Trade, Five Leaves Bookshop, Metronome and More...

Like a beacon of light in a seemingly endless sea of darkness, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back with (at time of printing) a nine-day programme of online events, performances and workshops. As part of this year’s festival, you can bag yourself some goodies by taking part in a poetry hunt around the city. 

Simply use the clues to work out these Nottingham venues – there’s treasure in poetic form waiting to be dug up in their windows, websites and social media pages.

Nottingham International Film Festival Moves Online

The Nottingham International Film Festival will now present its 30-film selection online...

Preview: Nottingham Playhouse's Unlocked Festival

The theatre is back with an absolutely corking three-week festival...

Hockley Hustle Presents Green Hustle: The Digital Festival Celebrating All Things Sustainability

A 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… 

The Inside World of Nottingham BID's Festivals...

Nottingham’s blessed with more than its fair share of events, ceremonies and festivals, many of which have been facilitated by the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID). Formed in 2012, Nottingham BID has offered support, information and funding to some of the city’s biggest cultural offerings and, with the upcoming ballot to determine whether they’ll continue next year scheduled for October, we caught up with some of the festivals that have benefitted from their support to see how they’ve coped during lockdown, and what Nottingham BID means to them…

Homegrown: A Glimmer of Summer this bank holiday

DHP Family have announced their new Homegrown festival, which will be taking place at the Arboretum this bank holiday Monday (31 August).

Nottingham Arts Mela Returns to the New Art Exchange for Its 32nd Year

As Nottingham Mela Network, in partnership with New Art Exchange, gets ready to celebrate the 32nd year of Nottingham Arts Mela in the UK, Alex Stubbs previews the exciting, eclectic online programme of cooking, films featuring South Asian diaspora worldwide, music, dance, debates, poetry and spoken word, family art workshops, murals, archives activated, morning raags and yoga…