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Preview: New Nottingham Festival Meadowlands Announced for Summer 2022

Brand new festival Meadowlands is coming to Victoria Embankment on Bank Holiday Friday 3 June 2022, and they’ve announced the record-breaking Gerry Cinnamon as their first headliner… 

Nottingham International Film Festival 2021 to “Champion Young British Talent,” Says Director Neil Jeram-Croft

2021 sees the return of an in-person cinema experience for Nottingham International Film Festival. Aaron Roe sits down with festival director Neil Jeram-Croft to get the lowdown on the event...

How New Students Can Stay Safe in Nottingham

If you're just starting university and no longer have the ‘rents watching over your shoulder, you need to take responsibility for yourself. That includes staying safe around the city, and being a standup member of your local community. Student living is fun, but remember, your neighbours have jobs, families or may be elderly, and they won’t like listening to your drum and bass at 4am on a Tuesday. Take heed of this advice...

Nusic New Music Podcast #255 with Rob Green, Tori Sheard, Snowy and more...

This week’s New Music Podcast features new music inspired by coffee, new music inspired by fighting bears, plus the MC who has just made history.

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

The Best Places for Gaming in Nottingham

Video games have risen into the spotlight, and other aspects of “geek culture” are quickly following suit. Notts is home to a handful of awesome places where you can go along with your mates and dive into your favourite hobby, or even give something new a go...

Tracy Neale of Extinction Rebellion Nottingham on the Fight for the Future

A self-proclaimed rebel, Tracy Neale is on the front line in the fight for our future in her role with Extinction Rebellion. I spoke to Tracy about her active role in the XR Nottingham faction and beyond in order to understand a movement which is so much bigger than any individual...

The Best Places in Nottingham for Fans of Reading, Writing and Poetry

If words are your thing, our city is the place to be. Back in 2015, Nottingham was given permanent status as a UNESCO City of Literature, on account of our literary heritage, as well as our commitment to encouraging emerging writers.

How Nottingham Is Working Towards Becoming Carbon Neutral by 2028

Thanks to its love of solar panels and electric transport, Nottingham has become the UK’s most energy-self-sufficient city. That’s a title we are dead proud of, and we are always trying to improve and expand on what we’re doing – so much so that Nottingham City Council has recently launched a campaign to make the city carbon neutral by 2028. So, how has Notts painted itself this lovely shade of green?

Max Cooper On Studying a PhD in Nottingham and Performing at the Acropolis of Athens

Originally hailing from Belfast, electronica DJ and producer Max Cooper came to the University of Nottingham in the late nineties. He left the city eight years later with his debut EP and a PhD in Computational Biology, two assets that would coalesce to influence his career for years to come...

12 of Nottingham's Most Famous Graduates

Both of the universities in Nottingham have seen household names step foot through their doors over the years...

Welcome to Nottingham Guide 2021

The free guide for all new students joining Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham, brought to you by the team at LeftLion... 

The Resources, Groups and Organisations Committed to Nurturing Black Dignity, Joy and Achievement in Nottingham

We run through some of the most important support networks, arts organisations and community groups dedicated to ensuring social justice and equality in Nottingham and beyond... 

TikTok Star GK Barry Chats Pryzm, Forbes and Studying at Nottingham Trent University

TikTok sensation Grace Keeling - better known by her nom de guerre, GK Barry - has come a long way since starting out as a fresh-faced film student at NTU three years ago. We catch up with TikTok’s queen of comedy to talk about her career as a content creator, cancel culture, and how her appearance in a different magazine tops this one… *cries*

The Mental Health Services Available to New Students in Nottingham

Your time at university is exciting and rewarding, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. Life as a student can be tough at the best of times, not least without the complications of a global pandemic thrown into the mix. It’s very likely there will be bumps along the road, but thankfully both universities offer a vast array of services to support you during your studies...

University of Nottingham's Mental Health Expert Paul Crawford Gives Advice to New Students

Paul Crawford is a mental health campaigner and professor of Health Humanities at the University of Nottingham, a discipline which explores how the arts and humanities can inform public health. He talks us through the challenges we’re likely to encounter at university and gives some tips on how to handle them...

The Disability Support Services Available to New Students in Nottingham

Academia can sometimes be tricky to navigate with a disability, whether it’s hidden or otherwise. Each of the roughly 10,000 disabled students in Nottingham deserves to live their university experience to the fullest, whatever your access needs. Below you’ll find some tips and info to get you started...

Film Journalist Hanna Ines Flint Discusses Interviewing Stellan Skarsgård, The First Film Club and Her Time in Nottingham

Screen journalist Hanna Ines Flint has had an enviable career since graduating from the University of Nottingham with a degree in English and American Studies in 2009. This time, she experiences some role reversal as she answers our questions about the film industry and her career path…

Preview: Nottingham Mela at New Art Exchange

Nottingham Mela Network is taking over New Art Exchange from Friday 10 - 12 September with a programme featuring live music, art workshops and much more…. 

Paul Smith Talks Hello, My Name is Paul Smith Exhibition at Nottingham Castle

We get a one time only look around as Sir Paul Smith makes a homecoming to Nottingham Castle to visit the Hello, My Name is Paul Smith exhibition on its last stop of a fourteen-country world tour – the Design Museum’s most successful touring exhibition in its history.

Win a Pair of Tickets to See Nick Cave and Warren Ellis this Wednesday

Legendary collaborators Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are headed back to Nottingham with their new album, Carnage, and you could win one of five pairs of tickets...

First Ever Framework Film Festival to Play at Nottingham Contemporary

The one-night festival will be held on Monday 11 October, and will highlight the vital work of the Nottingham-based charity, Framework...

A Retrospective of Notts House Music: The 25-year reunion of Quadrant Sound System

As they get set to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a long-overdue reunion, Elizabeth O'Riordan looks back on the impact of Quadrant Sound System...

Tom Gordon Savage, the Nottingham Man Responsible for Juventus' Iconic Stripes

The links between Nottingham and Italian football are well known, from Mansfield Road-born Herbert Kilpin being a founding father of AC Milan to Juventus’ famous black and white stripes having connections with Notts County. But while details of the former are relatively solid, recent research into the latter, conducted by Roger Stirland and Luca Formara, has provided far more detail about the Notts links to la Vecchia Signora - in particular, the role of English businessman Tom Gordon Savage. With this month marking the ten-year anniversary of Notts County playing Juventus in their brand new stadium, we explore exactly just how one of the biggest teams in world football has Nottingham to thank for their iconic stripes…

Scalarama X: The Month-Long Celebration of Cinema Ready to Take Over Notts this Month

After a hiatus owing to that-which-shall-not-be-named, Scalarama Nottingham is back with a bang. The nationwide, volunteer-led month-long celebration of cinema encourages communities to come together to share their love of films in usual and unusual settings. With 2021 marking the tenth anniversary of the festival, we run down what Notts cinephiles can expect from Scalarama Nottingham 2021…

Meet the Owners of Biscuit and Brew, an Elegant New Tea Room in the Heart of Nottingham

Nottingham’s Biscuit and Brew is a little tea shop with some big ideas. We pop down to meet the owners, Darren Brookes and his fiancée Dee, to find out why so many locals are raving about this hidden gem...