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Gig review: Badly Drawn Boy in conversation and song at Metronome

Q&A SIDES FT BADLY DRAWN BOY ACOUSTIC AND IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS HAWKINS

Beltane, beer, Badly Drawn Boy and Shrek: Here's what's on this week 20 - 26 April 2026

This week in Notts! Enjoy craft beer, Beltane celebrations, Beeston Film Festival and lots more. Here's our top picks...

Not(t) Art: the arts and crafts pub night bringing people together

Aiming to take the ‘art out of the gallery and into the community’, the Not(t) Art Collective is a new project that hopes to provoke interest from people who wouldn’t necessarily ‘do’ art. Taking place at The Barley Twist pub on Carrington Street, the collective looks to engage people in a range of social creative activities; from portrait drawing socials, to bring your own arts-and-crafts evenings, to the bare essentials - life drawing! We spoke to Matt Smith, founder of the Collective about his motivations for starting the group.

Cooking and Eating Together With Refugee Roots

Community action from #LoveChilwell brings people together this weekend

The only thing better than enjoying a beautiful Spring day out in Chilwell is enjoying it with other people in the community and making a difference at the same time. After its success in December, #LoveChilwell is back with another campaign and a Community Action Day on Saturday 7 June 2025.

Green Hustle Festival Returns to Nottingham's Old Market Square at the End of May

Music, food, fashion, art and environmental action will once again all come together at the free entry Green Hustle Festival in Nottingham city centre on Saturday 31 May

Togetherness Sen Family Afternoon

Badly Drawn Boy

Make It Yours: Drawn to Hope

Beeston Tales - Travelling Together

Gig Review: Squeeze at the Royal Concert Hall, with Badly Drawn Boy

Squeeze wowed the crowd at the Royal Concert Hall with an epic set spanning the decades, while Badly Drawn Boy provided solid and emotional support...

Together We Cycle

Cooking and Eating Together

Piecing Together Pottery

Jennifer Brough Tells Us About the Resting Up Collective, Who Bring Together Art Therapy, Mindfulness And Disability Representation

When 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

Our 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

Badly Drawn Boy celebrates the 25^th anniversary of the start of his career with an intimate UK tour...

Badly Drawn Boy

How Incredible Edible Beeston Are Helping to Tackle Climate Change and Bring the Community Together

In 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

Meet 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

If 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

Communities 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

For 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

Since 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...