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More Nottingham Eateries Join Marcus Rashford Campaign

Fri 23 Oct 2020

More Nottingham eateries will be providing free meals for children in a nationwide show of support for Rashford's campaign to end child food poverty

The Island: Trekkah Benjamin on His New Project with Nottingham Community Arts Network Aiming to Support Young Males with Mental Health Issues

Fri 23 Oct 2020

Through his charity organisation C.A.N, artist Trekkah Benjamin has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund a program that aims to help young men in communicating mental health issues...

The Most Haunted Spots in Nottinghamshire

Fri 23 Oct 2020

The National Justice Museum might be the most haunted location in Nottingham, but there are plenty more creepy spots to try your hand at ghost hunting. So grab a torch, a brave mate and a spare pair of kecks, and check out some of the following supposedly haunted Notts spots…

Exhibition Review: Jimmy Roberts' Akimbo at Nottingham Contemporary

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Akimbo, 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.

The Licengoons: A Short Film Which Pokes Fun at the BBC's Decision to Scrap Free TV Licenses for Pensioners

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Our Screen co-editor Jamie Morris speaks to the stars of The Licengoons, Miles Anthony and Alex Greensmith, about their hilariously punchy new short film…

Shaun Hoolan, New Owner of Hockley Vintage Store Wild Clothing, on Preserving the Shop's Legacy

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Wild Clothing first opened its doors in 1983 and, when its original owners decided to retire recently, word spread that the legendary location would be shutting its doors for good. But this couldn’t be further from the truth: our fashion editor, Anna Murphy, chats to Wild’s new owner, Shaun Hoolan, about his passion for this iconic Nottingham store and his plans for the future.

Places to Visit in North Nottingham

Sun 18 Oct 2020

For anyone who grew up in the city and its suburbs, north Nottinghamshire was either where you sometimes ventured to feed the ducks in Rufford, or to perhaps explore the patchy remains of Sherwood Forest, communing with Robin and his Merry Men. In fact, to many city-dwellers, it is defined by its coalfield status, an imaginary wasteland of former mining towns. But North Nottinghamshire, centred around Worksop and Retford, has always had more to offer and, lately, is undergoing a renaissance. The 2020 pandemic-induced rediscovery of the day trip or overnight stay close to home make this the perfect time to venture up the M1...

Nottingham BID Secure New 5-Year Term

Fri 16 Oct 2020

The Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID) has been successful in securing the votes required for a new five year term from 2021 to 2025, having received the overwhelming backing of businesses in Nottingham.

Lakeside Art's Djanogly Gallery Reopens with Mat Collishaw Exhibition

Fri 16 Oct 2020

After closing doors in March due to the pandemic, Lakeside Arts will be reopening from Saturday 17 October with the first major solo exhibition of a Notts-born contemporary artist…

Art Preview: The Near Room at Bonington Gallery

Fri 16 Oct 2020

Muhammad Ali described “The Near Room” as a mental space he would enter during a boxing match – an otherworldly state where you are accutley aware of your own mortality. Sophie Cundale’s new moving-image work, The Near Room (2020), gives substance to this imagined space. Set in a vivid hallucination in the mind of a disorientated boxer, The Near Room muddles historic references with the fantastical and supernatural...

Nottingham Contemporary is Reopening with Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio

Thu 15 Oct 2020

It’s hard to sum up someone like Grace Jones in a single word. Singer, model, actress, songwriter, record producer. Icon. With a life as eclectic as it was iconic, it’s only fitting that she’s the subject of the expansive, multimodal new exhibition, Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio at Nottingham Contemporary. Caroline Barry headed there for a sneak preview to find out more...

Banksy Visits Nottingham To Create Hula Hooping Girl

Thu 15 Oct 2020

Excitement has built across the city over a piece of artwork on Ilkeston Road by Banksy. The piece is of a girl hula-hooping a bicycle tyre, next to a post with a broken one-wheeled bike attached to it.

Nottingham Arts and Culture Venues Given Government Funding Lifeline with Culture Recovery Fund

Mon 12 Oct 2020

Seventeen organisations have received combined funding totalling over £4.5 million to help with post-COVID recovery...

Food Review: Bar Iberico

Mon 12 Oct 2020

We got down to one of Notts' best loved tapas-spots to see how things have changed post-lockdown...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

Sun 11 Oct 2020

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

The History of Nottingham's Goose Fair

Sat 10 Oct 2020

If 2020 hadn’t been enough of a stinker, this year’s Goose Fair has officially been cancelled for only the third time in its long history. In recent years, nearly half a million of us have flocked down to Forest Rec for both peas and prizes, and while both a reduced capacity or a longer ten-day run were considered, it was not meant to be. While we mourn the fate of all the pennies we could have wasted on the Waltzers, we did some investigating into the fair’s colourful history, and discovered twelve things you didn’t know about Goose Fair…

Nottingham Playhouse Will Be Performing Cinderella For This Year's Panto

Thu 08 Oct 2020

Despite current restrictions, Nottingham Playhouse are determined not to let Coronavirus ruin Christmas…

Comedian Sara Pascoe on Her Move From Actress to Comedy and Singing For Robbie William's Dad

Thu 08 Oct 2020

Stand-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…

Why Zelda’s Hyrule Is Secretly Nottingham: A Link To Our Town

Wed 07 Oct 2020

Teo Eve docks a deerstalker hat, picks up his magnifying glass and investigates the links between Robin Hood, Peter Pan and The Legend of Zelda...

Preview: Nottingham Playhouse's Unlocked Festival

Tue 06 Oct 2020

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

Road to Recovery: Hospitality Venues on How Nottingham BID Helped Them Through COVID

Mon 05 Oct 2020

With the hospitality industry in the most precarious state it’s been in for a generation, we catch up with five of Nottingham’s most popular venues and organisations to find out they’re thoughts on the ever-changing Government policies, adapting to life post-lockdown and the important role the Nottingham Business Improvement District has played in supporting the sector...

Nadia on... The Climate Crisis

Mon 05 Oct 2020

In the first of her new monthly columns, where she will discuss issues going on in both Nottingham and Westminster, Nadia Whittome talks the climate crisis...

Future Bubblers: Nottingham's Ella Knight and TONYSPARK on the Gilles Peterson Discovery Scheme

Sat 26 Sep 2020

Now in its fifth year, the Gilles Peterson and Brownswood recordings-backed talent discovery scheme Future Bubblers has a long-standing connection to supporting new musical talent here in Nottingham. We caught up with Ella Knight and TONYSPARK, two of the Y5 Bubblers that will follow in the footsteps of many, now household, names that have been through the programme…