National Justice Museum, Nottingham
Until 23rd July

The National Justice Museum launches an intriguing new interventional exhibition with iconic photographer, Brian Griffin. The series of black and white photographs, entitled “Darkness”, showcases twelve portraits of people engaging with artefacts from the museum’s crime and punishment collection.

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New Art Exchange
Until 15th July

The Black Heritage Exhibition presents a collection of art, stories and conversations around the wider black diaspora and the connection it has amongst its diversity. The exhibition invites a cross-generational collective of four local female Black Artists to showcase a collection of mosaics, artefacts, paintings, photography and archives.

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Nottingham Contemporary
Until 3rd Sept

Kresiah Mukwazhi’s work is informed by her observations of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse in her native Zimbabwe. Within this structurally patriarchal society, Mukwazhi has developed a long-term engagement with female sex workers in the suburbs of Harare over many years.

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Nottingham Contemporary
Until 3rd Sept

Eva Koťátková’s installations invite us to enter a different kind of world – one where social rules and hierarchies are critically reimagined. Combining sculptures, collages, costumes, texts and sound, her vast and playful scenographies centre the agency of the imagination.

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Nottingham Contemporary
Until 3rd Sept

Abbas Zahedi’s (b.1984, UK) interdisciplinary practice blends contemporary philosophy, poetics and social dynamics with sound, sculpture and other gestures. With an emphasis on how personal and collective histories interweave, Zahedi’s interest lies within the connections found or formed around specific contexts.

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30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts' annual challenge where we ask everyone to do one wild thing a day throughout the month of June.

You can sign up below to receive a FREE pack either through the post* or via email (see images below). You'll also receive lots of fun activities from us throughout the month to keep you inspired! Packs are available in English and Welsh.

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Old Market Square
Until 4th June

Green Hustle Festival is a celebration of life and creativity that aims to make our city greener, healthier, and more connected. Join in and be part of an epic party of positivity, hosted by an unparalleled cross-pollination of humans, from talented creatives to independent makers and cultural institutions.

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Surface Gallery, 16 Southwell Road Nottingham
Until 10th June

Conversations with Lines explores the relationship between landscape and art, and considers the way we experience and mark those landscapes in which we live, work, and walk. The artwork on display has a direct relationship with the steps taken by Gear in the “edgeland” landscapes of Nottinghamshire, and also refers further afield to the Peak District and Lake District national parks.

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Nottingham Contemporary
Until 4th June

We are delighted to be running a Summer Craft Fair at Nottingham Contemporary over the first weekend in June.

There is an exciting range of creatives joining us for the fair, showcasing almost 40 designers and makers, from local independents to creators from around the UK.

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The Rams Trust is proud to join with the Derby County Community Trust to bring a first-class display of Derby County Football Club’s history and memorabilia to Pride Park Stadium.

From the early days in 1884 with the pioneers of the club playing at the Racecourse in Derby where grassroots football is still played to this day, all the way to becoming FA cup winners at Wembley, European Cup semi-finalists and First Division Champions from the Baseball Ground to Pride Park, Rams Trust and Derby County Community Trust are bringing you a real timeline from 1884 to the present day.

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Nottingham Playhouse
5 June, 12 June, 19 June, 26 June, 3 July and 5 July

The Sky Mirror Dance Collective is a group of older dancers which has developed from various local movement projects, including the Encore Dance Performance class based at Nottingham Playhouse. Following the success of these initiatives the collective aims to bring together a group of enthusiastic over 50s to create and perform. For each workshop we invite people to share the joy of dance and maybe to join the Collective.

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The Lord Harrowby, Grantham
6th June

Grantham's Poetry Open Mic, first Tuesday of every month at The Lord Harrowby in Grantham. With host Mike Alderson.

Tuesday June 6th from 7:30pm. Why not join Mike and friends for poemz & pintz

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Bunk, 8 Sadler Gate, Derby, Derby, United Kingdom info@bunkwings.
6th June

After May's excellent event we are back on Tuesday 6 June! This month's workshop facilitator and headliner is Tom McMahon who is a musician and spoken word poet.

Workshop starts at 6pm and the open mic from 7pm.
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The Organgrinder, Nottingham
6th June

Claire Meyrick (nee Hancock) is originally from East Anglia and now resides in West Bridgford ,Nottingham. She is a writer, spoken-word performer and singer. Claire has performed in a number of events across Nottingham including Crosswords open mic night and The Avenues Sneinton Market with DIY Poets.

Kathy was born in Nottingham, in the shadow of Player’s cigarette factory but has spent her adult life in London, the last 40 or so years in Covent Garden, specifically, in Seven Dials. She has had a rag-bag career in social work, community activism, arts television and artist development and now works on community-led public realm projects.

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Derby Theatre

A band of travelling circus performers embark on their most daring feat yet: to recreate the adventures of Phileas Fogg as he sets off on his race around the world.

But this is a telling of two tales; fact meets fiction as we learn the incredible true story of American journalist Nellie Bly who emulated the character of Phileas in her record-breaking trip around the world.

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Theatre Royal, Nottingham

This thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship, is a five-star spectacular which blends magic with memory in a tour-de-force of storytelling that takes audiences on an epic journey to a childhood once forgotten and the darkness that lurks at the very edge of it.

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Online
6th, 13th, 20th June

Join actor & best-selling author Rebecca Humphries to find your comic voice! Each week you’ll explore a new form of comic storytelling – looking at each’s specific set of rules and picking up tips on how to apply them. Rebecca will impart advice, encourage opinion, and leave you equipped with a practical framework & inspiration from iconic stories and characters.

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4 workshops going through the process of creating and recording a new audio drama from a blank page.
a devised approach.

Hothouse Theatre
@ Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham
6th, 13th, 20th and 27th June
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Waterstones, Nottingham
8th June

We are thrilled to be joined by Rachel Dawson to discuss her queer, political, heart-warming coming of age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s!

In Neon Roses Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her community; her sister's swanned off with a Thatcherite policeman; and her boyfriend Lloyd keeps bringing up marriage. And if they play '99 Red Balloons' on the radio one more time, she might just lose her mind.
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Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham

Purdah is about finding your place in the world. Mir realises they are Genderqueer whilst working in a binary, tick-box and oppressive Job Centre. This play explores identity and mental health against the backdrop of a patriarchy disguised as a matriarchy. In a reality where computers talk, virtual life and real life are blurred, we peer into Mir’s mind and lived experience.

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Nottingham Playhouse

A visceral and lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy Macbeth by the award-winning Flabbergast Theatre.

Flabbergast bring aspects of puppetry, clown, mask, and physical theatre to the bard’s original text, combining it with exhilarating live music to produce a provocative and enjoyably show.

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National Justice Museum, Nottingham

Join artist Nicki Dennett in a playful exploration of stitch and compassion. Using unusual threads and ingenuous stitch techniques you be gently guided to craft of a message of compassion stitched onto a cushion, ready to take home. Inspiration will come from a precious sampler from the museum collection stitched with the maker's hair.

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Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham

Days after Andrew ends his seven-year relationship with college sweetheart, Jake, he is messaged out of the blue by a former ‘friend’. This unwelcomed advance triggers an emotional spiral as Andrew recounts his unstable first steps into the world of gay sex and queer identity; all under the increasingly imposing guidance of Kevin, a teacher at his drama academy.

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Waterstones, Nottingham
9th June

We are thrilled to welcome Tim Marshall to discuss his latest book The Future of Geography.

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and has worked for both the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
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Nottingham Playhouse

A playground overflowing with mischief and games where they imagine countries a luxurious life away from theirs in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

But when Darling moves to Michigan, the western world she encounters as a teenager is far from the American utopia of her dreams…Based on the novel by the first Black African woman and first Zimbabwean to be Booker Prize-shortlisted, this defiant coming-of-age story is full of exuberance, humour and humanity.

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Rotterdam
9th - 11th June

Poetry takes you everywhere. Discover the world of the 53rd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, meet surprising poets from all over the world and get inspired by their unlimited imagination.
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Derby Theatre

Yasmin has had enough. She wants the exciting, glamorous life she has always dreamed of and her XXL body doesn’t fit. It’s time for more drastic measures. She is about to undertake a radical cosmetic procedure that promises to deliver the perfect body and the contentment that seems just out of reach. But it comes at a cost.

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Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham

Want to learn more about the leading drama schools in the country, whilst also having fun and practising your craft? Come and join us for a day of flexing your acting muscles and learning more about your next step.

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Online
12th June

This is a workshop for writers, performers and theatre-makers looking for a playful, collaborative space to experiment with writing.

A Yorkshire born writer, theatre-maker, performer, poet and clown, Katharine read English at Cambridge and trained in physical theatre creation and performance at the London International School of Performing Arts.
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Wollaton Hall, Nottingham

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men invite you to join them this summer for the timeless and classic love story, Romeo and Juliet. With a history stretching back to William Shakespeare himself they present this great play as he first saw it, in the open air, with an all-male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance.

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Bunkers Hill, Nottingham

Inbetween our usual June and July Speech Therapy nights we'll be holding a one-off music only night celebrating the magic of wordsmithery!!! The night is called Lyrical Allsorts and in the true spirit of ST it will be FREE ENTRY and there may even be some rammel to be raffled.

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Hothouse Theatre will be holding an audition workshop for their forthcoming production of The Mermaid and the King. Hothouse Theatre's auditions are done in a workshop style. No experience is necessary, and there is no need to prepare a piece. We just have a lot of fun playing around with bits of script and see who is interested. It is more like you auditioning the play than us auditioning you.

Hothouse Theatre
@ Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham
4th July
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