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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…

Food Review: Secret Burger Club

Thu 24 Sep 2020

Frequently found at Nottingham Street Food Club, we put their patties to the test...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

Tue 22 Sep 2020

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

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

Sun 13 Sep 2020

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...

Wed 09 Sep 2020

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…

Nottingham's Rock Cemetery is Filled with Mass Graves From the Spanish Flu

Thu 27 Aug 2020

If you didn’t catch her article in our June issue, (Little Miss Lockdown, #126) Jagoda Brown-Polanowska explained what lockdown life was like through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl in Nottingham. Having recently turned twelve, Jagoda has continued to explore her local surroundings, making some interesting and timely discoveries at Rock Cemetery in the process…

Homegrown: A Glimmer of Summer this bank holiday

Tue 25 Aug 2020

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

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

Tue 25 Aug 2020

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

BelieveMe is Aiming to Create a Safe Space for Victims of Bullying in Nottingham

Mon 24 Aug 2020

Being forced into lockdown has seen Notts’ creative cohorts turn their hands to all sorts of projects, from live-streaming music to socially-distanced filmmaking. But for seventeen-year-old Alice Lynn, lockdown provided the opportunity to create something personal. We caught up with her to find out more about BelieveMe, the new project aimed at creating a safe space for victims of bullying...

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum Having Been Helping Asylum Seekers For 20 Years

Thu 20 Aug 2020

Stranded boats at sea. Last breaths in lorries. Traumatisation by traffickers. These are just some of the horrific risks refugees take to reach the UK – a place that historically has been full of promise and hope for them. Yet when they arrive here, they’re met with a hostile government and campaigns of hate. However, the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum provides a range of services to help them survive and thrive in the face of adversity. As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Eve Smallman talks to Director Matt Atkins about what they’ve achieved and how you can help them carry on their work…

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