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LeftLion to Launch New Stand-alone Nottingham Events Platform
Mon 01 Jan 2024For over a decade we at LeftLion have run an online events directory offering a service to events promoters, organisations and venues across the city. We are delighted to let you know we’ll soon be seriously upping our game…
Standing in This Place: A New Statue Commemorating the Historical Women of Nottingham
Thu 16 Nov 2023In April of 2024, Rachel Carter & The Legacy Makers are due to raise a statue titled Standing in This Place in the rejuvenated Broadmarsh. It depicts two women hand in hand - a white female garment worker and an enslaved African woman. The project is still seeking fundraising so that it can stand life-size and do justice to its inspiration...
We Chat to NTU Graduate and World-Renowned Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay About Her Long-Standing Connection to Broadway Cinema
Sat 23 Sept 2023One of the most notable aspects of Nottingham is the rich film scene and array of fantastic independent cinemas available in the city. We chat to NTU graduate and world-renowned filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her long-standing connection to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, how she got into documentary making, and her latest award-winning film Your Fat Friend…
Newark Book Festival 2023 - Mother’s Ruin: The history of gin with Mildred Freeman & Spirit of Trent Gin
Fri 07 Jul 2023How Nottinghamshire Bat Group Are Standing up for Our Misunderstood Critters
Wed 26 Oct 2022With Halloween just around the corner, we wanted to take a furry close look at one of our most feared and mythologised critters - bats. Angelena Efstathiou of Nottinghamshire Bat Group tells us about the work they do to better understand our local bats, and how you can help protect them…
How Nottingham’s Stone Soup Academy Are Using Comedy to Crack Down on Knife Crime
Fri 08 Jul 2022Though it may have fallen out of popular conversation, knife crime is still a major issue in Nottingham, according to Oliver Sillito from the city’s Stone Soup Academy. That’s why the free school is throwing a creative showcase on Tuesday 19 July to open up conversation and challenge standing perceptions about young people and crime…
Academic and Stand-Up Comedian Dr Claire Sedgwick on COVID-19's Impact on the Industry
Thu 09 Jul 2020Unpaid sets. No trade unions. Class inequalities. Even by the already difficult standards of the creative industries, stand-up comedy is a particularly hard industry in which to carve a career path. Dr Claire Sedgwick, an academic and stand-up comedian, explores how COVID-19 has only exacerbated those difficulties, and what the comedy scene is doing to keep the industry alive ...
My First Time... Ruining Christmas
Mon 16 Dec 2019The family is all together, the mince pies are coming thick and fast and Home Alone is on the box. What could possibly go wrong?
Hockley Hustle's Tommy Farmyard on Stand Out Moments, Being Eco-Friendly and Future Plans
Sat 26 Oct 2019Summer might be bowing out for another year but that doesn’t mean the festival fun is over just yet. We catch up with our mate Tommy Farmyard, one of the brains behind Hockley Hustle, to find out what to expect from this year’s edition of the much-loved community festival...
Vikki Stone is Putting on Her Stand-Up Song Show at Nottingham Playhouse
Fri 18 Oct 2019She’s serenaded the likes of Professor Brian Cox and Phillip Schofield, and now Vikki Stone is bringing her new stand-up show Songbird to Nottingham. We caught up with the award-winning comedian and musician to talk about her comedy inspirations, creative process and what she thinks of our fair city…
Stone Soup Academy is Standing Up to Knife Crime
Wed 16 Oct 2019Stone Soup Academy is a secondary school in the centre of Nottingham that works with troubled students, helping them do better both inside and outside of the facility. We spoke to Headteacher Kerrie Henton and Head of Engagement Oliver Sillito about its recent Stand Up to Knife Crime comedy event and how it engages its students...
The Thompson Brothers on Stand Up Comedians, Goose Fair and Pumpkins
Sat 28 Sept 2019Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
Artist Tristram Aver is Raising Awareness of Austerity and Autism Through His Native British Trees Series
Tue 30 Oct 2018Tristram Aver is a father, artist and curator who recently used lino-printing techniques to create 1,000 prints in one day, all on his tod, to raise money and awareness for Autism East Midlands and The Woodland Trust. An extension of his Native British Trees series, the project delves into topics ranging from austerity and war, to sustainability and mental health. We sat down with Tristram beneath the yellowing Victoria Park leaves to find out what's rustling in his brain crevices...
The Last Fish Man Standing
Wed 04 Apr 2018Dave “The Fish Man” Bartram is a legend around these parts. Turning 72 this November, he walks from pub to pub selling various seafoods and tasty snacks from his basket, raising money for the charity Rainbows. He’s faced some adversity over the past year; he got mugged, broke his ribs, and as a result, discovered he had cancer. Looking back to our 2008 interview with Dave in issue #22, we sat down with him in The Bell for a catch up...
The Impractical Jokers Bring Their Stand Up to Notts
Wed 11 Oct 2017As the opening warning says, Impractical Jokers is a show that contains scenes of graphic stupidity among four lifelong friends who compete to embarrass each other. Having just wrapped their seventh series, Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano, Brian “Q” Quinn and James “Murr” Murray, a.k.a The Tenderloins, are heading to the UK for their biggest British tour to date. We caught up with Murr to find out what the Jokers have got in store for their British fans…
Art Review: Castle Ruins – A Celebration of Rejection
Tue 17 Jan 201713 artists out of the 447 rejected form this year’s Castle Open exhibition have come together at The King Billy pub in Sneinton to offer a truly enjoyable show. This one goes down well with a pint or two of snake eyes and a packet of crisps...