The local artist on her process...
The countdown to Mayhem 2018 has officially begun...
Broadway and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature have joined forces to revive Nottingham's International Crime, Mystery and Thriller Festival: Shots in the Dark.
"We have a letter in the Archive written by Oswald George Powe to Norman Manley, imploring him to refuse consignments of bicycles from Raleigh because they did not, at the time, employ black people..."
Jonas Carpignano's compelling new film heralds a return to the neo-realism traditions of Italian cinema...
As the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia, we've picked out a starting eleven of cracking football films to get you in the mood for England's inevitable early exit...
I approached this – I have to admit – with a little caution, but decided to attend without any preconception (and little previous exposure to the expected musical genre), and (dis)cover the Gate to Southwell 2018 Festival for LeftLion.
Do you know your ganache from your mirror glaze, your Battenburg from your Victoria sponge, your macarons from your macaroons?
Meet a professional Jazz Quintet from Nottingham, a group of young talented musicians that’ll have you dazzled with their impressive tunes and funky beats…
For when the sofa just isn't good enough...
Meet Valentine Nkoyo; the woman who’s been fighting tirelessly against FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), changing the lives of women locally and around the world through her activism. Her organisation, the Mojatu Foundation, has lead the way in declaring Nottingham as the first city in the UK to have a zero tolerance to FGM, and has joined with Farmeco Community Care Farm in Screveton to host an area where people can pay their respects to victims of the practice. We met Valentine at the farm to find out more about what she does...
Lucrecia Martel's big-screen adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel is currently screening at Broadway Cinema...
A well-crafted, uncomfortable look into the high school years of future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
In the immortal words of Björk, it's been oh so quiet in Nottingham this month with the launch of Psst., the latest in a long line of poetry events based in the city centre. The brainchild of Christopher Lanyon, Psst. is (in addition to being a grammatical nightmare), a prime example of the newest breed of Nottingham poetry: inclusive, soft, powerful and punchy. I popped down to Jam Cafe for their debut, and while I was there I managed to collar Chris for a chat over a pint of posh ale.
Britain's best-loved detective returns to the stage at The Theatre Royal Nottingham...
The second film of the re-booted franchise, and fifth film in the Jurassic Park world overall, picks up in the chaotic aftermath of Jurassic World
Backlit’s new exhibition Mountain of Tongues is devoted to the transmission of languages in the Caucasus region – on the border of Europe and Asia – which Arab geographers call "Jabal Al-Alsun" or "Mountain of Languages". The show features works by local artists like Leila Al-Yousuf and Ryan Heath, as well as the internationally renowned collective Slavs and Tartars, or the “archaeologists of the everyday” as they call themselves. We grabbed a coffee with Ryan Heath to find out more…
We think football should be for everyone, not just overpaid prima donnas. That’s why we were well excited to hear about The Renewal Trust’s new Footie Starz programme in St Ann’s...
Awarded the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play in 2017, Shebeen – written by local bloke Mufaro Makubika, and directed by Matthew Xia aka Dj Excalibah – has its world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse this month. With the play set against the backdrop of St Ann’s in the fifties, we delve into the shebeens and race-riots of 1958, the relationships between them, and the stories being told today in our city...
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Poet, 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…
If you've got a crackin' cat or a damn-fine doggo, listen up...
Nottingham's Wellington Films are back with the highly anticipated Netflix original film Calibre
Dan Wright checked out the latest addition to the Star Wars franchise
Based upon Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name, On Chesil Beach follows the lives of a young British couple on their wedding day in 1962.
