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Jennifer Brough Tells Us About the Resting Up Collective, Who Bring Together Art Therapy, Mindfulness And Disability Representation
Mon 10 Jul 2023When creativity turns into another hustle, it can quickly lose its therapeutic benefits. Rose Mason speaks to Jennifer Brough about the Resting Up Collective, who look to incorporate rest and creativity into lives of chronically ill or disabled people...
Nadia on… Coming Together Through Grief
Mon 03 Jul 2023Our regular columnist and Nottingham East MP reflects on the loss of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates...
Gig Review: Badly Drawn Boy at Metronome
Mon 27 Mar 2023Badly Drawn Boy celebrates the 25th anniversary of the start of his career with an intimate UK tour...
How Incredible Edible Beeston Are Helping to Tackle Climate Change and Bring the Community Together
Tue 12 Apr 2022In the face of widespread isolation and individual feelings of powerlessness over climate change, and where the supermarket food we eat often comes from far-flung places long out of season, local movements are springing up to fill in the gaps and restore balance. Christina Geggus investigates one such magical group - Incredible Edible Beeston - and finds shoots of hope and community growing in unlikely places…
The Art of Beer's Seth Smith Has Drawn 41 of Our City's Best Boozers
Thu 16 Jul 2020Meet Seth Smith, aka the Art of Beer. He’s spent the last half-decade creating illustrations inspired by the nation’s favourite alcoholic beverage. This year he’s drawn 41 of the city's best boozers in conjunction with Nottingham Craft Beer Week and soon they’ll be available as free postcards at a pub near you…
‘The World Is For Everyone’: Creative Voices of PAMOJA Women Together Group
Wed 05 Jun 2019If you’re not looking for it, you could miss the network of women all around Nottingham who are working their socks off to bring together refugees and welcome them to our communities. Reading, sharing, laughing, crying and integrating to recognise each other through the key thing that they all have in common, regardless of their backgrounds. They are all women. They have all led very different paths to somehow end up here, in Nottingham. I went along to a beautiful afternoon poetry led by the PAMOJA Women’s Group. It moved me to tears. I’ll do my best to justify what a special afternoon this really was…
Communities Inc. Bring Nottingham Together to Tackle Hate Crime
Thu 16 Feb 2017Communities Inc., a not-for-profit organization set up to challenge inequality and discrimination in and around Nottingham, took over the Council House on Valentines Day for their first ever Love Not Hate event...
Interview: Mother Nottingham Su Pollard
Thu 26 Sept 2013For the last decade she’s been our unofficial mascot. Su Pollard, or ‘Mother Nottingham’ as we like to call her. She made her name in TV series like Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M’Lord? She even got to number two in the UK singles charts in 1986 - a time when that actually meant something. She’s coming home this December as Theatre Royal have confirmed her for this year’s panto. We finally hooked her up with Nottingham’s Mr Sex...
Drawn Together
Thu 01 Oct 2009Since the sixties Nottingham has been very much the capital of the region in terms of contemporary art. LeftLion's Arts Editor takes you through the current scene...
Interview: Badly Drawn Boy
Sun 01 Oct 2006"I think what Oxfam has done over the years is excellent. People have always got a bit of disposable cash and they don t always know where to put it"