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Treat Kitchen Joins Forces with Base 51 in the Face of Funding Cuts to Young People’s Services
Wed 23 Mar 2022Nottingham based food gifting retailer Treat Kitchen and local charity partner Base 51 join forces to rally support and donations from the general public and other local businesses and universities. This follows Nottingham City Council’s announcement that they’ll be reducing youth provisions across the city, as they make cuts to the tune of £28m to balance their budget; resulting in the closure of five local children’s centres
6 of the Best Sustainable Fashion Stores in Nottingham
Sun 20 Mar 2022With fast fashion brands now jumping on the environmental bandwagon, how can we really tell which clothes are actually sustainable? Emilie Mendham explores…
A Personal Shopper in Notts
Thu 17 Mar 2022A personal shopper in Notts talks us through picking outfits, working with clients, and why their job might not be exactly what you think...
Artist Caroline Walker on A Female Gaze, the new Nottingham Castle Exhibition Showcasing Her Work Alongside Dame Laura Knight's
Wed 16 Mar 2022With A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle are celebrating the work of two generational talents from the art world. The first is Dame Laura Knight, who, as the first woman elected to the Royal Academy in 1936, was a critically acclaimed and much loved painter who created some of her most iconic work here in Nottingham. The second is Caroline Walker, a renowned British contemporary artist whose rich, atmospheric oil paintings reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Despite being born almost a century apart, A Female Gaze celebrates the work of both women, while exploring the developments of women artists over the past hundred years. We caught up with Walker ahead of the exhibition's opening to find out more...
100 Notts Writers Speak Out On Library Closures
Wed 16 Mar 2022Over a hundred local or locally connected writers, together with some local publishers and bookshops, have signed a joint letter opposing Nottingham City Council's planned closure of Aspley, Basford and Radford/Lenton libraries.
Nottingham-Born Influencer Lauren Black Lifts the Lid on Social Media’s Impact on Body Image and Mental Health
Wed 16 Mar 2022We chat to Lauren Black, an influencer from Nottingham with over 120,000 followers on Instagram, about the potential mental health challenges for models online, how she’s using her own platform for good, and her work on BBC documentary The Instagram Effect, which explores the darker side of an ever-expanding digital world…
We Hear About the Importance of One Thoresby Street as They Begin Their Search for a New Home
Tue 15 Mar 2022As their time at the iconic location looks set to come to an end, Arts Editor Alex Stubbs explores the important creative hub that is One Thoresby Street…
Nusic Future Session: Jungleland
Mon 14 Mar 2022From the music city of Nottingham, the latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is Jungleland...
How Notts Photographer Lucie Nechanická’s Book I Didn’t Ask For It Is Breaking Stereotypes Around Sexual Harassment
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Tired of the victim blaming narrative around sexual harrasment, photography student Lucie Nechanická created I Didn’t Ask For It - the photobook chronicling sexual harrasment in Nottingham. We chat to the budding photographer about breaking stereotypes, better sex education, and her process behind making the book…
Notts Sneaker Heads Discuss the Boom of the Trainer Industry
Sat 12 Mar 2022It’s hard to imagine a time when trainers weren’t everywhere you looked. For most of us, figuring out which sneakers to wear is just as, if not more important than, the rest of our outfit. But from an engineering breakthrough of fusing canvas and vulcanised rubber together in the early twentieth century to a multi-billion-dollar global business, the sneaker industry has taken over the world in a relatively short time. And Nottingham is no exception – walk down any high-street in the city and you’ll see multiple retailers flogging the latest creps, with queues forming outside some of the biggest brands before they open on most days. Footwear fan Isabella Read talks to some of Nottingham’s biggest sneaker heads to find out more about trainer culture in the city…
Music Review: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Royal Concert Hall
Thu 10 Mar 2022An evening of live music featuring Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky is the perfect antidote to the worries of the world...
Drag Queen Kitty Tray Chats Fashion, Consent and Making a Statement
Tue 08 Mar 2022Ditching high-heels and corsets for fluffy slippers and baby doll dresses, Kitty Tray has never been one to follow the usual trends in drag fashion. We catch up with Ashley Cross to talk sausage necklaces, how he goes about choosing what his drag alter-ego will wear, and why Kitty Tray refuses to be a dedicated follower of fashion…
5 Confetti Graduates Now Working in the Screen Industry
Tue 01 Mar 2022From The Batman to Edge of Tomorrow, graduates from our city have worked on some pretty amazing projects...
LeftLion Screen Podcast 2.2 - Koko Basigara, Star of Jersey Boys
Fri 25 Feb 2022The second episode of the new LeftLion Screen Podcast takes a dip into the world of the West End, with Nottingham's Jersey Boys star Koko Basigara - who also featured in the big screen version of Aladdin - joining us for a chat...
Squire PAC Announce Their Performing Arts Lineup
Wed 23 Feb 2022Featuring comedian Scott Bennett and poet John Hegley, The Squire Performing Arts Centre boast an impressive lineup...
The Thompson Brothers on Valentine's Day, Pancakes and Colin Slater
Sun 20 Feb 2022Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
40 Years Later: Swamp Thing
Fri 18 Feb 2022Wes Craven's DC Comics adaptation is a mixed bag with something for everyone...
65 Years Later: The Seventh Seal
Wed 16 Feb 2022The questions posed by Ingmar Bergman’s seminal work remain unanswered…
Jamal Sterrett on Bruk Up Dancing, His Inspirations, and The Young Creative Awards
Wed 16 Feb 2022Passionate about Bruk Up and Flex dancing, Jamal Sterrett won the Young Creative Awards in 2015. We talk to the dancer about his New York inspirations, dancing as a form of self expression, and growing up in St Ann's.
8 of the Best Sci-Fi Films of All Time
Mon 14 Feb 2022To tie in with the Science issue of our magazine, we dive into some of the greatest sci-fi movies ever...
Free Skateboarding Lessons This Half Term
Mon 14 Feb 2022In a collaboration with Free Movement Skateboarding and Concrete Jungle Foundation, Skate Nottingham are providing free skateboarding lessons for young people this half term...
National Justice Museum Launches New Podcast Series Open Court
Mon 14 Feb 2022The weekly podcast will dive into the UK's judicial system with first-hand accounts from the people working in it...
Preview: Silk to Silicon at Backlit Gallery
Mon 14 Feb 2022We chat to artist Sebastian Koseda, whose exhibition Silk to Silicon shines a light on the potential challenges of technological change...
Exhibition Reviews: The Eye as Witness and Fragments of Sudan at Djanogly Gallery
Thu 10 Feb 2022As Lakeside Arts presents two chilling new exhibitions, The Eye as Witness and Fragments of Sudan, our understanding of agency, suffering, and war are refigured through photography and virtual reality…
Exhibition Review: Our Silver City, 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary
Wed 09 Feb 2022Sci-Fi and contemporary art join together in Nottingham Contemporary's first exhibition of the 2022 season, Our Silver City, 2094. A time machine to a future Nottingham, where remnants of an old world exist in a vision of the city shaped by an all too familiar climate crisis...
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