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We Hear about Under the Bridge From the Project’s Coordinator Trekkah Benjamin
Wed 21 Feb 2024The Under the Bridge project is a men's group that explores the positive mental health impacts of spending time in Blue Spaces. Established in the spring of 2022, the project has been delivering weekly sessions in, on and around water. Project Coordinator Trekkah Benjamin tells us more…
We Chat to Framework Night Support Worker Jordan Francis Ahead of Beat The Streets
Mon 22 Jan 2024Ahead of this weekend’s Beat The Streets festival - founded in 2018 by Nottingham promotors DHP in conjunction with Framework - we caught up with night support worker Jordan Francis to find out more about the challenges he faces and the role music can play in shining a light on an a spiralling issue...
Out of Time: Sir Francis Willoughby and the Construction of Wollaton Hall
Mon 31 Jan 2022Wollaton Hall has been a centrepiece of the Nottingham landscape for just under five centuries, proudly overlooking the city from the summit of its glorious grounds. We take a look at the unique life of Sir Francis Willoughby, a controversial yet influential figure who paid for the construction of the iconic mansion back in 1580...
Review: Patricia Francis’ The Art of Oppression at New Art Exchange
Thu 18 Mar 2021Alex Stubbs checked out Patricia Francis’ The Art of Oppression as it premiered at New Art Exchange
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 2020Through 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 Pythian Club's Benjamin Rosser on His Time in Nottinghamshire Police and the Removal of Statues
Fri 03 Jul 2020Not only did the death of George Floyd spark anti-racism protests all over the globe, it placed the role of the police in society under a level of scrutiny never seen before. While Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin replicated an event that has become depressingly commonplace in the United States, protests in Britain had large elements of anti-police sentiment to them. Having spent ten years as a member of Nottinghamshire Police before leaving to establish The Pythian Club – an organisation set up to enrich and empower young people in Nottingham – community leader Benjamin Rosser is uniquely placed to offer an insight into the inner workings of the British police force…
"This is the people against racism’’ - Writer and Musician Jack Benjamin on Nottingham's Black Lives Matter Protest
Mon 08 Jun 2020As hundreds of people gathered on Forest Rec to support the fight against racism, local musician and writer Jack Benjamin shares his thoughts on what the protest means, and how the day's events unfolded...
Live Music Review: Benjamin Zięć and the Rarebreeds EP Launch
Sun 21 Jul 2019There's a new band in town that's just released on local label, Phlexx Records. Elizabeth O'Riordan popped down to Peggy's to see what all the fuss was about...
Interview: Trekkah Benjamin Introduces us to ONEAM
Fri 15 Feb 2019Many might know local creative Trekkah Benjamin for his label, Phlexx records, but he’s recently announced his latest musical project that has got us pretty excited.
Film Review: Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Sat 11 Aug 2018There's bad films, there's terrible films, and then there's this pile of cack...
Music Video: Benjamin Luhis - Untitled (Live at The Chameleon)
Mon 06 Aug 2018Local songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jack Benjamin is currently working on his Benjamin Luhis project, and has released this independently made video of his Untitled track, produced alongside 8mm Orchestra and Major Ruse. Enjoy, ya boggers...
Nottingham Artist Trekkah Benjamin Visits USA on Roosevelt Scholarship
Thu 05 Jul 2018We had a chit-chat with Trekka Benjamin, who is jettin' off to the states on the Roosevelt Scholarship to learn about how we can improve community arts in the city...
Benjamin Zephaniah
Thu 07 Jun 2018Poet, activist, and self-proclaimed “naughty boy”, Benjamin Zephaniah has just released a new book and is coming to Nottingham’s Glee Club on his tour stop. We grabbed him on the phone to ask a few questions about his recent run-in with Five Leaves, the Windrush scandal, and the differences between spoken and scribbled words…
The Dilettante Society on Benjamin Mayo
Wed 15 Apr 2015"Far from being derided or politely ignored, the exploits of those who flourish in their individuality deserve to be remembered"
Interview: DIY Poets' Francis McMahon
Thu 05 Mar 2015"We want the public to want to read poetry and not see it as an irrelevant art form"
Francis Lowe and the Gotham Fool
Sun 08 Jun 2014Artist Francis Lowe discusses the techniques involved in creating a comic addressing mental illness
Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend
Sun 06 Oct 2013He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
Interview: The Austin Francis Connection
Wed 02 May 2012The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...