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Archives for Nottinghamshire events

Mayhem Film Festival 2019

Pig hybrid soldiers and supernatural driving instructors at Mayhem Film Festival

Mayhem Film Festival 2019 will showcase some of the best features and short films in horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, through premieres, previews, and special events…

Neal Pike Five Years

An exploration of adolescence in Five Years

Based on memories of life at a special educational needs school, Five Years uses poetry, storytelling and direct address to explore an adolescence…

Past Imagined

Meet Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest

Join Robin Hood and his band of merry men this August in Nottinghamshire’s Sherwood Forest, for a fun festival with outlaws and wacky characters…

Mayhem Film Festival 2018 - Nottingham

Vampire reindeer and zombie musicals at Mayhem Film Festival

The 14th Mayhem Film Festival will take place at the Broadway cinema in Nottingham, from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th October, with a mix of horror, sci-fi and cult cinema…

Stroke Odysseys (Image: Pari Naderi)

Stroke survivors take to the stage for an innovative project

This autumn, stroke survivors will take to the stage in a daring movement and song project. Stroke Odysseys will tour the UK from Thursday 4th October to Friday 16th November…

Antic Disposition Much Ado About Nothing UK tour 2018

Watch some Shakespeare in unusual historical locations

This summer, watch a unique production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in some unusual and beautiful historic locations across the UK…

Nottingham Puppet Festival 2018

Mechanical hippos and giant creatures in Nottingham

An iron man, giant pedal-powered creatures, a diabolical Mr Punch, a mechanical hippo and a host of marionettes will be taking over Nottingham this month for the city’s first ever Puppet Festival…

Mayhem Film Festival 2017 - Nottingham

It’s Mayhem in Nottingham as film festival gets under way

Mayhem Film Festival will take place at Broadway cinema in Nottingham from 12th to 15th October, showcasing features and short films in horror, sci-fi and cult cinema…

Spooky Dash - Halloween 2016 - Nottingham

The Spooky Dash, an alternative to trick or treating

Looking for a family friendly alternative to trick or treating this Halloween? The Spooky Dash will take place on Saturday 29th October in Nottingham…

Nottingham Zombie Dash - Halloween 2016

Outrun the zombies in this 5K with a difference

Looking for something unusual to do this Halloween? Fancy a run with a difference? Try the Zombie Dash in Nottingham on Saturday 29th October…

Run or Dye - 5k - UK

A colourful 5K challenge with Run or Dye

Run or Dye, the world’s most colourful 5K, is making a splash in the UK with events across the nation including Cheshire, London, York and Oxford…

Curiosity of the Week - Mr Straw's House - National Trust

Mr Straw’s House

This week’s Curiosity is not really all that unusual from the outside, in fact it could be easily missed if taken at face value…

The HandleBards - Peculius - (Photo: Callum Cheatle)

4 actors, 4 bicycles, 40 characters and a 926 mile adventure

The HandleBards, a cycling tour of two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, will be pedalling to a town near you…

2.8 Hours Later - Zombie game - Contrary Life (Photo: James Koch)

Can you survive the zombie apocalypse?

Armed with no more than your wits and a map, you have to navigate your way across a city at dusk to find the Survivor Camp, encountering groups of survivors and bloodthirsty zombies en route…

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A world of words in Nottingham

The Nottingham Festival of Words takes place from 9th to 24th February 2013 and will feature Michael Rosen and Alice Oswald as well as local writers, poets and storytellers…

Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

Top Story

Make some noise for Whitby’s Krampus Run
Whitby Krampus Run 2018 - photo by Cassandra Sutton

As Father Christmas makes his annual visit to towns across the UK this weekend, there’s another, much darker character making his way to Whitby in North Yorkshire…

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