Nottingham Comtemporary

Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55 and over based in Nottingham Contemporary. Referencing the current exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, the group explore and develop relationships between visual arts and movement. Key to these workshops is the integration of social and creative elements which empower the work of the group. Workshops are facilitated by Deane McQueen, professional choreographer/ director and Backlit Gallery studio artist.

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National Justice Museum

HEAL Collective with Cecilia Mwenda

A co-created documentary project enabling a personal story of immigration detention survival, justice-seeking and rebuilding to be shared.

It’s 2008 and a woman is fleeing gender-based violence in her unstable home. How do she and her 8-year-old son end up in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in the UK? And how does she rebuild her life afterwards, while navigating the trauma of a system that continues to haunt her?

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National Justice Museum, Nottingham

Many people have been imprisoned and executed over the centuries of our building's macabre history. Do these souls still reside in the cells and halls of this ancient gaol? Retrace the steps of those who were locked away here, uncover eerie tales from staff and visitors alike, and learn of the many paranormal experiences reported within this historic building.

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Learning Studio, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

Take inspiration from our current exhibitions and explore materials, develop art skills and techniques whilst building confidence in a relaxed and sociable environment.

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Nottingham Castle

Impressions: Nottingham’s collection meets four masterpieces from the Clark Art Institute, USA.

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery presents an exciting new collection exhibition, taking the lead from four Impressionist paintings Artists Claude Monet (1840-1926), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) that helped to define the artistic movement known as Impressionism.

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Nottingham Central Library

Discover the captivating life and legacy of Lord George Gordon Byron at our Local Studies exhibition, marking the 200th anniversary of his death. Explore his time in Greece, his passing in 1824, and the journey to his final resting place at St Mary’s Church, Hucknall. The exhibition is free and will be on display until May 2025.

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University of Nottingham Museum, Lakeside Arts

Iron Age hillforts are few and far between in the East Midlands, and not very well understood.

However, archaeological discoveries from Burrough Hill and Breedon Hill, both in Leicestershire, are providing important clues about life and beliefs at these important fortifications.

This exhibition will feature a fascinating range of everyday objects from both hillforts, with a spotlight on a spectacular hoard of chariot fittings from Burrough Hill.

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The Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham

This exhibition unites art and science in a captivating exploration of the quantum universe, celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Quantum science deals with the smallest particles in nature. It is bringing about a revolution in our understanding of the origins of the universe and delivering ground-breaking technology. At the forefront of quantum research are scientists from the University of Nottingham and across the country, whose pioneering work has established both the university and the UK as centres of excellence in this fast-evolving field.

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Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Contemporary is delighted to present the first major exhibition of artist Daniel Lind- Ramos (b. 1953, Puerto Rico) in a European institution, showcasing five of the artists’ monumental sculptural assemblages, including a newly commissioned work, The Green Guardian (2024).

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Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Contemporary is excited to present the first institutional solo exhibition dedicated to Weber’s work in a major UK cultural institution. The exhibition co-curated by Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, will include existing works, alongside ambitious new site-specific commissions. ​

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Nottingham Playhouse

“I met my husband in the queue to board an EasyJet flight and I have to say I took an instant dislike to the man.”

It starts as a typical love story – boy meets girl and sparks fly. An intense, passionate relationship begins. In time they settle down, have children and live ordinary, chaotic lives. But beneath the veneer of normality, a disturbing undercurrent is growing. Their seemingly perfect world unravels, revealing shocking truths about family, violence and what really goes on behind closed doors.

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Nottingham Central Library

Explore Bestwood through a new Perspective

Nottingham Central Library invites you to Shifting Light: Bestwood through a Local Lens, an evocative photography exhibition by talented local photographer Paul Binnion. Through Binnion’s lens, the exhibition captures the unique character, beauty, and shifting light of Bestwood, showcasing its vibrant essence on the Huddle Space screens in the library.

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Lace Market Theatre, Nottingham

Alys, Always is a superbly disquieting psychological thriller, with a mischievous satirical undercurrent.

Frances Thorpe leads a mundane life as an over-worked and underappreciated sub-editor on the book’s pages of a Sunday paper, until the day she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte.

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Grange Hall,Vicarage Lane, NG12 2FB Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire

Written for the stage in 2012, pre Brexit, and pre pandemic, it follows a weekend at Chequers with the beleaguered Prime Minister, Jim Hacker being managed and manipulated by Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey as Jim attempts to stay one step ahead, while Bernard the Private Secretary tries (but doesn’t always succeed) to keep things on the straight and narrow. These brilliant writers are at their satirical best in this comedy, and writing for the stage, rather than TV, allowed them to be sharper than ever!

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Squire Performing Arts Centre, Nottingham

West Bridgford Operatic Society presents Curtains, a brassy and bloody whodunnit from award winning songwriter duo Kander and Ebb (writers of Cabaret, Chicago and Fosse). The show delivers sublime musical numbers and orchestration, fantastic dance numbers, and joyful comedy!

Set in a theatre in Boston USA, the musical centres around Police Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, a musical theatre fan who is tasked with solving murders within the cast of a fictional 1950s show ‘Robbin Hood’.

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Theatre Royal, Nottingham

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns for its 30th anniversary. This audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. In celebration of that ongoing impact, Swan Lake will take flight once more in this major revival for the next generation.

Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, this genre-defining event is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.

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Various Venues

Desire, Destiny, Damnation He's Scotland's fiercest warrior. She's brilliant, untameable, and impossible to resist. When ancient prophecies ignite their smouldering desires, passion and power become a deadly dance.

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Duchess Theatre, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, NG10 1EF

This epic tale of broken dreams, passion and redemption is set against a nation in the throes of revolution. Winner of over 100 international awards and seen by over 65 million people worldwide, Les Misérables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. Featuring one of the most memorable scores of all time and some of the most memorable characters to ever grace the stage.

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New art Exchange, Nottingham

Join us to celebrate the launch of Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh’s new show, The Lovers, an exhibition of photographic portraits that celebrate LGBTQIA+ relationships and the changing visibility of LGBTQIA+ communities today.

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Mansfield Palace Theatre

And they lived HOPPILY ever after… Kissing a frog has started a whole new kind of adventure for our heroic princess. Join professional pantomime company, TaleGate Theatre Productions, on a Mardi Gras adventure that is toad-ally wild! This year’s spring panto is guaranteed to be our funniest and most spectacular pantomime ever. Packed with songs, slapstick, silliness, audience participation, and all the fairytale magic of traditional pantomime! You’d be hopping mad to miss it!

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Nottingham Central Library (Meeting Room 2) 1 Carrington Street Nottingham, England, NG1 7FH

GOBS Collective invites you to chat and scribble your heart away at our Poetry Book Club, hosted in Nottingham Central Library and via Zoom.

GOBS Poetry Book Club provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over our poetry collection of the month.

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Mammoth Cinema, Nottingham

This film screening and welcome event is an opportunity to meet and get to know your local Greenpeace organising team, find out what they do, and how you can get involved - because they want you on their team! It’s also a great opportunity to watch and discuss the fantastic new film ‘Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy’; directed by Emmy-winning writer and filmmaker Nic Stacey, which exposes the tricks companies like Amazon use to keep people buying, and the true costs of overconsumption on people and planet.

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Trent Vale Infant School, Trent Road, Beeston Rylands, Nottingham, NG9 1LP

Orchids are not just found in exotic locations; Britain has over fifty species. David attempts to track them down, explains their unusual biology and shows us a wide variety of habitats where they may be found. He will help us to identify these glorious flowers.

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Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review

“A magisterial critique of top-down social planning.”—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times

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Southwell Library
The Bramley Centre King Street Southwell NG25 0EH

Explore the art of poetry and discover your unique voice in verse. If the idea of writing puts you off learn tips to share your poetry ideas without pen and paper, all abilities welcome.

This experience invites you to unlock the world of poetry, offering tools and inspiration to shape your voice and bring your ideas to life.

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Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

Michael Eaton situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. He traces Chinatown’s relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, the wider culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film’s narrative and visual impact.

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Theatre Royal, Nottingham

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors – theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider – are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.

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Djanogly Theatre,Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

Against the subversive and glittering background of 1920’s Berlin, Lotte Reiniger changed the world of animation and filmmaking forever.

Step into the captivating world of Lotte Reiniger, the visionary who created the very first feature-length animation film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a decade before Walt Disney’s Snow White.

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Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

This February we’re bringing back a special set up we did a couple of times in the early days of the shop. We’ll be discussing the short story collection Mammals, I Think We Are Called, and for the first 45 minutes this will be like our regular book group discussion. However, this collection is written by Five Leaves very own Giselle Leeb, who will then be joining us for the second half of the evening and answering your questions on the book.

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Nottingham Arts Theatre

A fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the 2001 movie. Legally Blonde The Musical, follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she navigates new and old relationships and law school!

Elle's life is turned upside down when her boyfriend Warner dumps her so he can attend Harvard Law.

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Green's Windmill, Sneinton, Nottingham

Explore Green’s Windmill and Science Centre after hours on these special open evenings for Nottingham Light Night. Visitors will have the rare opportunity to climb the lit-in-multicolour windmill after darkness and a special treat awaits at the top - panoramic views of Nottingham City’s twinkling lights. Explore the science centre too, which will be lit in the colours of the rainbow.

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Various Venues

The city will be illuminated after dark for this free, family-friendly event, allowing visitors to explore landmarks, streets and hidden corners. More than 35 immersive and interactive light-based installations, performances and activities will be taking place across Nottingham over the two nights, created by local, national and international artists.

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Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens

Join us outside at the Community Gardens for our annual Light Night event, drop in anytime between 6.15 and 8.15pm; wrap up warm and come and enjoy the gardens looking magical after dark.

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Chainbridge Lane, Idle Valley, Retford, Nottinghamshire

Venture inside our beaver enclosure with a guide in search of signs of beaver activity and discover how they’re transforming the habitat.

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Attenborough Nature Reserve, Barton Lane, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, NG9 6DY

Green Sketching is an art movement that is helping to make the incredible benefits of sketching nature (which include mental wellbeing, nature connection, improved memory, focus and observation) accessible to all ages and abilities and we are delighted to bring this new opportunity to Attenborough Nature Reserve.

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Sconce & Devon Park, Boundary Road, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, NG24 4AU

Regular guided walks with Newark and Sherwood’s fantastic Park Rangers are held once a month at Sconce and Devon Park and Vicar Water Country Park, and everyone is welcome to join for free!

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Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global look at our histories of standing together and opening the door to moments where we worked through difference to build a better future for everyone.

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Nottingham Central Library 1 Carrington Street Nottingham NG1 7FH
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Women Say Stuff is ten years old! We’ve been saying stuff since 2016, and this year, we want YOU to join us! Women Say Stuff 10 runs at Nottingham Central Library from 5:30pm-8pm on Saturday 8th March 2025.

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day, and all proceeds from the event will go to JUNO Women's Aid, a local charity that supports women and children who experience domestic violence.

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Nottingham Playhouse

Have you ever wondered what influences the design of a production? Why an actor plays a character a certain way or what prompted the writer to make the play in the first instance? Then this is the group for you!

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