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

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…

Preview: Fade II Black Film and Music Lounge

Express Yourself in Notts: We Made a Zine with Hannah Whitlow and Dizzy Ink

We visited Nottingham Zine Library down at Nottingham Contemporary, to get inspired by the city in a zine workshop put together by Express Yourself...

Jam & Chutney Session with Just Grow Project

Last Tuesday, Windmill Community Gardens hosted a jam and chutney making workshop and gee whiz it was a real treat! 

Make Your Cake and Eat It with Sherwood Textile Workshop

Do you know your ganache from your mirror glaze, your Battenburg from your Victoria sponge, your macarons from your macaroons?

Poetry Profile: Translating Activism Workshop with Kalyani Thakur, Sipra Mukherjee, and Jo Dixon

If you thought that we'd be sick of poetry after last week's festival, you'd be dead wrong. Today we're highlighting the incredible work of Kalyani Thakur, a Dalit poet and political activist from West Bengal, following her appearance at the Translating Activism workshop hosted by the Postcolonial Studies Centre at Nottingham Trent University. 

Storytelling in Notts: Beeston Tales at the White Lion

Our Lily got down to The White Lion in Beeston for a night of gripping storytelling, belly laughs and great company. Here she tells us all about this little-known monthly event and why she encourages the rest of us to check it out...

Theatre Review: Instinct at Television Workshop

The third installment in Television Workshop's annual season is a well thought out critique of social media addiction...

Review: Fake-Up Prosthetic Workshop at The Malt Cross

Steve Best of Fake-Up has been working in the special effects industry for years, and now imparts his wisdom on the gore-lovers of Nottingham in his workshops...

Theatre Review: Nell Gwynn at Television Workshop

The annual season at Television Workshop continues with a play about a gender inequality among actors four hundred years ago. Sound familiar..?

Theatre Review: Enron at Television Workshop

The annual season at Television Workshop kicked off with a play about a financial scandal that took place on the other side of the world before some of the cast were born...

Workshop Opportunities for Designers, Inventors and Makers in Notts

If you’ve got a creative mind, fancy yourself a designer, inventor or maker and you’re currently living in Nottingham or Derby, we’ve got some cracking news for you...

Cappo on the Importance of Lyricism in Hip Hop

The Notts veteran explains what wordsmithery means to the art form

Television Workshop Talk Nottingham's Capital of Culture Bid

Television Workshop's Nic Harvey chats about naturalistic acting techniques and their long list of success stories... 

Folky Finesse and Lyrical Larks at Oyster Launch

With the launch of his new book and a nation-wide tour underway, it's clear that for Michael Pedersen, the world is his oyster. Last week we sent Chloe Campbell out to Rough Trade to check out his folk-infused Nottingham launch party. 

The Television Workshop Needs Your Help

After being unceremoniously kicked out of their former Stoney Street home, in favour of luxury flats – gah – The Television Workshop are in desperate need of dollar to renovate their new space. After churning out talent like Vicky McClure, Bella Ramsey and Joe Dempsie, it’s now down to yow lot to keep the training ground for young actors alive. Well, at least without a flooded basement…

Nyasha at Dizzy Ink Risograph Printing Workshop

Nottingham's risograph specialists, Dizzy Ink, spent the day in Primary Studios letting people unleash their creativity on their printing machines. Our vlogger Nyasha went along to have a go...

Television Workshop To Relocate

Nottingham’s Television Workshop is moving from its basement premises at 49 Stoney Street after more than thirty years...

The Festival of Science and Curiosity: Worms, Lava Lamps and Mixed-Reality Storytelling

In its third year, the Festival of Science and Curiosity is bigger and better than ever. Like all festivals, you had to pick and choose a bit in terms of what to see and what to do but here's what Gav Squires checked out over the weekend...

Prosthetic Wounds and Body Casting Workshops with Fake-Up

Steve Best of Fake-Up has been working in the special effects industry for years. This month, for the second in a series of monthly workshops, there’s the chance to have a go at body casting with the man himsen, upstairs at The Navigation Inn. We put a few questions to our Steve ahead of the day…

The Woolly Tellers Talk Storytelling in Nottingham

This December, Wollaton Hall is to be taken over by two men who’ve got sacks of tales, stashed. After making a name for themselves as a couple of the best storytellers about, The Woolly Tellers are bringing those magical Christmas bangers that leave gobs on floors and tears in peepers…

Nottingham’s Newest Gaming Lounge: [ALT]

The lounge recently had its official opening party, and we went to check it out.

Nottingham Bike Works' New Raleigh Community Workshop in Photos

If you need to get your bike fixed up, fear not. The chaps over at Nottingham Bike Works have opened up a new space for you learn how to mend your pedals

Television Workshop: Director Ian Smith Hands Over To Nic Harvey

"Everyone knows the Workshop won't be the same without Ian and it will be a great loss for us, but I don't want it to be the same"

Lyric Lounge: Open Mic

We gathered round to listen to a few stories in an evening of music, poems and Jewish folk tales