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Street photographer Charlie Valentine talks Nottingham: Urban Decline, her series currently displayed at New Art Exchange

Tue 05 Aug 2025

When it comes to versatile photographers, Charlie Valentine certainly stands out in Notts, having made her name with grimy, analogue street photography, printmaking, and photography workshops. Currently, her series Nottingham: Urban Decline is featured at the ongoing Open exhibition at the New Art Exchange - she tells us all about this series, plus life as a photographer.

Exhibition Review: Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen at Nottingham Contemporary

Mon 28 Jul 2025

Combining many different artistic mediums, from sculpture to sonic installation, the Nottingham Contemporary’s latest group exhibition: Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen, explores sound and music and their relationship to themes like colonisation and dispossession.

Blue Peter stars, football tournaments, and immersive adventures: Gloworm Festival unveils its most expansive lineup yet

Wed 25 Jun 2025

Gloworm Festival is one of the most well loved fixtures in Nottingham's summer calendar - a dedicated family event that each year welcomes 20,000 visitors to Thoresby Park, in the heart of Nottinghamshire. With their most jam-packed line-up yet recently unveiled, we've provided you with some highlights at this year's instalment.

Exhibition Review: Country Lives at Lakeside Arts

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Over at Lakeside Arts, the current exhibition ‘Country Lives’ explores the use and depiction of the English countryside over the last 200 years. We went down to check it out…

Art exhibitions, community events and legendary gigs: here's what's on events this week in Nottingham 12 - 19 May 2025

Sun 11 May 2025

This week in Notts, explore our material world, take One Step At A Time for community, or listen to some big tunes shaking the Arena...

Exhibition Review: Human Life in Motion at Primary Gallery

Sat 10 May 2025

With reflections on travel, migration, identity, and what it means to be left behind, artist Maia Ruth Lee’s current exhibition at Primary brings sculptures and banners that are grounded in meaning and memory, whilst also being weightless and liberated.

Experience different cultures, historical theatre, and homegrown Notts music: here's what's on this week 5 - 11 May 2025

Sun 04 May 2025

This week in Notts, learn the Afro Brazilian martial art of Capoeira, experience Greek culture, check out some historical theatre or enjoy some lovely homegrown talent from local musicians...

Exhibition Review: Money Talks: Stories from the Coins at Mansfield Museum

Mon 28 Apr 2025

An exhibition about money featuring, amongst other things, a hoard of Roman coins that have gone on public display for the first time and date back to the BC era...

Musicals, exhibits, legendary bass players and groovy deep sea gigs: Here's what's on this week in Nottingham 21 - 27 April

Sun 20 Apr 2025

From a musical adaptation of British TV classics to giant replicas of Earth, take a look at what's happening in Nottingham this week...

Exhibition review: The Lovers at New Art Exchange chronicles LGBTQI+ couples over the years

Fri 11 Apr 2025

New Art Exchange presents The Lovers, an exhibition of photographic works by Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh. Bringing together two collections of photographs taken forty years apart, the exhibition depicts LGBTQIA+ couples alongside a slideshow of images and a vitrine of publications featuring Gupta’s work.

Corner Cafe brings an ethnically diverse menu to New Art Exchange

Wed 09 Apr 2025

Opened at the end of February 2025, the Corner Café is a brand new rejuvenation of the coffee and food spot attached to the New Art Exchange, the UK’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary visual arts from the Global Ethnic Majority. With a lack of community-led food, drink and social spaces present in the Hyson Green area, the NAE team sought to provide that, enlisting community on everything about the venue, from the decor, to the food, to the events. We popped down to see the colourful results.

Theatre Review: Murder on the Orient Express

Wed 02 Apr 2025

A first class murder mystery on the famous steam train

Beyond the Blame: Photographer Jayne Jackson on her social justice exhibition Asking For It at the National Justice Museum.

Sun 30 Mar 2025

Documentary photographer Jayne Jackson’s award-winning exhibition Asking For It examines the pervasive issue of victim blaming in sexual and gender-based violence through a historical lens. Ahead of its installation at Nottingham’s National Justice Museum, we spoke to Jayne about the personal, political, and emotional layers of the work, highlighting the urgent need to shift societal perceptions and better support survivors of sexual violence.

Exhibition Review: My Order by Allan Weber

Thu 20 Mar 2025

Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist Allan Weber makes his international debut at Nottingham Contemporary with a solo exhibition: My Order, a show exploring the many meanings of the word ‘order’ with its focus spanning orders enforced by police in Rio de Janeiro to orders received by food delivery drivers.

Sale of Broad Marsh Site Approved At City Council’s Executive Board

Tue 18 Mar 2025

Nottingham City Council has approved a sale of the Broad Marsh site to a buyer with a track record of major development. It is hoped the sale will create 1000+ new homes and up to 20,000 square metres of retail, office and community spaces...

Notts writer Hongwei Bao on the poetics of queer and diasporic experiences

Mon 17 Mar 2025

Raised in Inner Mongolia, Dr. Hongwei Bao is now a Director of Research at the University of Nottingham and the industrious community organiser of events like the Queer Chinese Arts Festival, Poetics of Migration, Ode to Notts, plus many more. He’s also one of our most exciting creative writers, so we decided to invite him for a coffee…

Competition: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial at the Royal Concert Hall

Mon 10 Mar 2025

One of the most iconic movies of the 1980s is coming to the Royal Concert Hall big screen, accompanied by a magnificent live orchestra. We have two pairs of tickets to give away…

Pick Six: Rastarella Music Programmer & Community Engagement Expert at Cultural Vibrations (Unity Through Music)

Fri 07 Mar 2025

For this month’s Pick Six, we spoke to Rastarella - Music Programmer & Community Engagement Expert at Cultural Vibrations (Unity Through Music) and Radio Host at 97.5 Kemet Fm. Rastarella will oversee the music programming at this month’s Ay-Up Market.

Punk, Shakespearian tragedy, trans cinema, and photography exhibitions: here's what's on this week 17 - 23 Februray 2025

Sun 16 Feb 2025

This week in Nottingham! Be sure to check out The DSM IV on tour at The Grove and Scotland’s finest Hamish Hawk at Rescue Rooms, if you love to cook or simply want to scrub up on your culinary skills check out James Martin Live down at the Royal Concert Hall, the history of trans representation will be televised in Broadway, indulge in a Shakespearian tragedy, or visit the critically acclaimed The Lovers exhibition at the New Art Exchange…

Bowie, True Romance, theatre, film, exhibitions and flamenco: Here's what's on in Nottingham, 27 January - 1 February

Sun 26 Jan 2025

There's such a variety of events happening in Nottingham this week that we couldn't stick to five. Whether you're a David Bowie aficionado, a cinephile, a museum-goer or somebody invested in local politics, there'll be something for you...

Gig review: The L1nKn P4rk Experience at SaltBox

Tue 21 Jan 2025

On Saturday, The L1nKn P4rk Experience arrived at Saltbox in Nottingham to grace us with their amazing tribute act to the legendary rock band Linkin Park…

Magic, caves, exhibitions and music: Here's what's on in Nottingham events 6 - 12 January 2025

Mon 06 Jan 2025

It might be cold outside, but there's no need to be bored in January. This week in Notts there's magic, exhibitions, caves, live music and more....

Screen round up: best cinema experiences of 2024

Sun 29 Dec 2024

To close out 2024, our cinephile screen team share some of the movies and experiences that have shaped their year, particularly spotlighting those independent efforts that found a home at Nottingham cultural hotspots, like Broadway Cinema. If you’re eager to experience new cinematic worlds, learn about people from different walks of life, or just remind yourself what an excellent offering we have in our local cinemas, read on…

Who do you think you are? We meet the experts tracing George the Gorilla at Wollaton Hall

Mon 09 Dec 2024

Most long-term residents of Nottingham will at the very least be aware of George the Gorilla: a well-loved taxidermy exhibit residing in the natural history museum at the heart of Wollaton Park. But what kind of animal is he, really, and where does he come from? A newly-formed collective of scientists and heritage specialists at the Uni of Nottingham set out to answer these questions. In doing so, they hope that visitors to the museum will see the exhibit, and the site as a whole, in a whole new light...

Exhibition Review: Man Hours by Grayson Perry

Wed 27 Nov 2024

Lakeside Arts presents Grayson Perry’s Man Hours: a satirical exploration of contemporary life featuring bold woodcut prints and a mixture of mediaeval and antique maps of imagined territories. Initially popularised by his decorative pottery and subsequent winning of the Turner Prize in 2003, this exhibition presents the diversification of Perry’s media with this tongue-in-cheek social commentary in print.

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