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What To See At Light Night 2026: Strobes in the Square, A 10 Metre Long Purring Cat, An Obelisk and More

Back for its eighteenth year this weekend, see the city glow after dark for this free, family-friendly event and explore landmarks, streets, art and hidden corners. 

E.ON, Green Hustle & My Square Metre Launch Really Big Wildflower Meadow Project in Aspley

Green Hustle are at it again transforming Nottingham parks into wildlife (and human) oases - this time they're working with E.ON, My Square Meter, and Nottingham City Council to rejuvenate a massive meadow in Aspley.

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

Ay-Up Market returns to the Old Market Square from Friday 28 March to Sunday 30 March

Bringing communities together, the popular Ay-Up Market returns to Nottingham city centre bigger and better than ever this year, with stalls from local businesses, food, drinks, workshops, music and entertainment for your little ones...

"The power is with the people": standing up to knife violence in Old Market Square

After three tragic spates of knife violence rocked Nottingham, and were subsequently highly publicised, local campaigners organised a demonstration in Old Market Square to draw attention to the underlying, community problems that cause it. LeftLion went down to report...

Free Green Hustle Festival Returns to Old Market Square this June

Green Hustle returns on Saturday 1 June with another all singing, soil-slinging festival of positive action, and it's all taking place smack bang in the middle of town...

Theatre Review: Liberation Squares at the Playhouse

Truth be told, Sonali Bhattacharyya has written a big play over a long period of time to fit into the relatively small Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse. And this is the kind of hugeness that Bea Udeh found bursting from the scenes of this world premiere production of  Liberation Squares...

Preview: Liberation Squares at the Playhouse

Tips on How to Find The Light in Being a Teen Under Surveillance.

Nusic New Music Podcast #216 with Joe Baxter, Ella Knight, Tori Sheard, Trinity Square and More...

Interview: Creepin' With Trinity Square

Notts Lads Trinity Square are moving up fast in the hip-hop grime world. Rachael Halaburda heard all about it…

Michael Graves, Noise Pollution and The Atoms at The Square Centre in Photos

Our Richard Davies from Chud Photography & Digital Design got down to The Square Centre to check out former Misfits frontman Michael Graves, with support from Noise Pollution and The Atoms...

Film Review: The Square

Hang on to your champagne and get ready to squirm – this is going to be the worst week of Christian the art curator's life.

Photos: Food and Trinket Market in Nottingham Market Square

Sun's out, fun's out. We got down to Nottingham's Market Square to check out what the latest market has to offer. Turns out, lots of tasty treats and beautiful bits...

Photos: Anti-Donald Trump Rally in Nottingham Market Square

Following the news of US President Donald Trump's recent controversial Executive Orders, the Nottingham populace gathered together to voice some opinions...

Square One Talk Drum 'n' Bass in Nottingham

After celebrating its second birthday last month at Rescue Rooms with The Upbeats, Tantrum Desire and GLXY; Square One has found its home in Nottingham and has been taking the city by storm. Month after month, the music promoters have been booking artists from labels likes Ram, Hospital, Viper, Spearhead, Critical Sound, Shogun Audio and plenty more in the drum 'n' bass world. It’s only getting bigger. We talked to the guys behind it all – Jake Springthorpe and Miles Waghorn – ahead of their next night this Friday.

Interview: Ben Bloore of B Squared Productions

Street Tales: Market Street

Once upon a time, the proles of Nottingham got one over on the gentry through the medium of road-signage...

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...

FSN in the Market Square

Eleven new Notts acts play right in the centre of town in the semi-finals of the Future Sound of Nottingham contest

Preview: GameCity Squared

GameCity - Nottingham’s very own console convention is back and has been described as ‘the Sundance Festival of videogaming’

Ten Reasons Why Slab Square Is Skill

Why Nottingham's Market Square is so much more than an Emo concentration camp...

Nottingham's Rebuilt Market Square Launched

"It has been the de facto centre of every major celebration in Nottingham - from VE Day to Forest coming home with the European Cup"

Market Square Makeover

The centre of town is set to be closed for a year and get a makeover. This is what we make of it...

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