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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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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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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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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National Justice Museum, Nottingham

It's the electric eighties and we're celebrating the old Shire Hall as it shuts its doors for the final countdown. But is it game over for the guest of honour?

Drinks are flowing, and sweet dreams are being made but something suspicious is going on...Don't stop believing, we need you to crack the case.

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New Theatre, Nottingham University

In 2023 Nottingham Shakespeare Company officially launched their Outreach Programme whose aim was to develop opportunities for schools, colleges, companies, care and support settings and other organisations to engage with Shakespeare.

As part of this, the Company decided to create First Encounter versions of popular Shakespeare plays that students may be studying and people will have heard of and perhaps want to know more about.

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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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Nottingham Arts Theatre

1 in 4 is a play written to expose some of the reasons why Black men (1 in 4) as opposed to White men (1 in 8) are affected by Prostate Cancer.

1 in 4 tells the story of a 50-year-old Black man who thinks he’s young. Adelbert lives the high life, partying and behaving like a man in his 20’s.

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The Carousel, 25 Hockley, Nottingham
12th June

A gathering of like minded creatives (a writer’s salon, of sorts!) who want to develop, discuss, and learn about the craft of writing using unique forms of practice and theory.

For lyric writers, singers, spoken word artists, musicians, authors, poets, MCs, artists, blog writers, social media content providers, storytellers, script/screenplay writers, and all kinds of people with overactive imaginations.
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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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Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham

Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all.

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Online
13th June

Connecting with your audience can feel very different in person to how it feels on paper. As a result, there are many published and unpublished writers who dread giving readings and interviews. Yet the enjoyment of connecting with your audience in person is closer than it seems to connecting with them on paper.
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The Old School, Bottesford.
13th June

We've been meeting monthly since 2018, first in St. Mary's Church, Bottesford, then online (because of, well you know), and now in our new home at the Fuller Room, The Old School, Bottesford.

Our meetings are free to attend. We'd love to hear what you've been writing, but you are welcome even if you're just at the ideas stage or want that extra support to get started,
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Nottingham Playhouse

Roll up, roll up. . . a scintillating night out of sparkling entertainment – the UK’s longest running burlesque show – is back touring the nation. And, it’s bigger than ever.

Join us for the good old-fashioned night out as we bring you the ultimate variety show, blending stylish cabaret, comedy, music, circus and burlesque to light up all your senses.

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Robin Hood Theatre, Averham, Newark

Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second class citizens, can her charm and spirt protect her from the dangers of the Court?

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Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham
14th June

This summer sees the return of Film & Food! And we're starting with.... CLUELESS!

It's going to be totally bitchin', with 90s treats and themed drinks! You'll get a two course meal, with the option of dessert and drinks, to enjoy as you watch the iconic cult classic starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd.
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Oxford House Derbyshire Road, London
14th June

The World is in Our Words follows Searle’s teaching, writing and anti-racist mobilising experiences in East London, Sheffield, Canada and Manchester, in particular his five years as a headteacher at Earl Marshal Comprehensive School, Sheffield, where he and the school governors established England’s first non-permanent exclusion policy. The book is about the search to create a truly internationalist school curriculum, using critical literacy, community activism, student self-organisation and academic excellence as its founding principles – an exemplar of Bob Marley’s lyric and the watchwords of the school: ‘None but ourselves can free our minds’.
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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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Upstairs at Cleaver & Wake, Nottingham

In 2023 Nottingham Shakespeare Company officially launched their Outreach Programme whose aim was to develop opportunities for schools, colleges, companies, care and support settings and other organisations to engage with Shakespeare.

As part of this, the Company decided to create First Encounter versions of popular Shakespeare plays that students may be studying and people will have heard of and perhaps want to know more about.

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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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The Studio Theatre, Stamford Road, West Bridgford, NG2 6LS
12th - 15th July

Eurydice
This reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story

Miles
Miles is a brash American banker, caught up in the London bombings of 2005. A short monologue, that paints a picture of London, aspiration, hope and despair.

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