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COL 6 Live Show
Friday 10th October – Doors Open 6:30pm
Fisher Gate Point, 1 Fisher Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1GD
For the past 6 years young artists from across the East Midlands have been converging at Fisher Gate Point to create one of Nottingham’s most anticipated collaborative albums – and they’ve been at it again this Summer!
Ticket Price: £1.00 BOOK HERE
Young Hustlers 2025 Nottingham
Sunday 19th October 2025
Various Nottingham Venues, Nottingham
Doors at 11:00
Young Hustlers is a vibrant music and arts festival held annually since 2017 in the heart of Nottingham’s Sneinton Market. Young people and families are encouraged to immerse themselves in a world of creativity, offering a platform to enjoy and create music and art alongside talented local artists.
Taking place across multiple indoor and outdoor venues, the festival features a mix of live performances, interactive workshops, and energetic parties.
Tickets are Adult: £12.10(18+), Child: £4.40 (2-17)
Nottingham Contemporary Exhibition Launch Party: Autumn 2025
Fri 26 Sep, 6.30pm – 11pm, Galleries close at 9pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of our two new exhibitions, a major new commission by the Palestinian artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih: Feels Strangely Good, Ya?
Abbas and Abou-Rahme collaborate across sound, image, text, installation, and performance. Their practice involves uncovering, reactivating, and imagining incidental narratives, gestures, figures, and sites—using these elements as raw material to rethink the present and explore alternative possibilities for what is, and what could be. This exhibition will feature the artists’ largest multi-media installation to date, celebrating their significant contribution to the field of research driven audio-visual art.
Murni (1966–2006, Bali) was a prolific and fiercely independent artist whose vivid, deeply personal works emerged from her subconscious—functioning as both therapy and a kind of visual diary. Feels Strangely Good, Ya?highlights the full force of Murni’s boundless imagination and offers a rare opportunity to experience her work in depth.This exhibition marks an important step in championing Murni’s legacy to audiences globally.
Galleries Open 6.30-9pm
Blend at Contemporary Open until 11pm with a night of DJ sets, delicious food and drinks.
Kicking off our DJ sets will be ‘Aura b2b Stargirl’ as part of Gyals In Notts, 7-9:30pm. You can expect highly contagious energy vibing from the sets they play, with music heavily focused on bass genres such as garage, techno, dubstep and more.
Up next we have FEMINEM 9.30-11pm, a multi genre DJ with a particular taste for hard drum, jersey, global club and UK funky. DJ’ing with ‘beautiful chaos’ as their mantra, expect a lot of drums, kick and anything you can stomp your feet and shake your ass too, as well as a few curveballs designed to make you dance.
Poetry School
Saturdays 1-3pm, Nottingham Central Library
Nottingham Central Library are very proud to present the pilot for the Nottingham Poetry Society: Poetry School, a monthly program of poetry and poetics.
Craft and Community
Join us to hear readings from poets Fiona Theokrifoff and Jan Norton, followed by a workshop on craft and community.
Jan and Fiona are experienced teachers, and have worked with many different groups between them. In this session, they will start by reading some of their work. For the writing workshop, the group will divide in two so that everyone has the opportunity to participate in two writing sessions. The afternoon will finish with some more poems and an opportunity to browse their Five Leaves pamphlets.
Event Information
Date: Wednesday 17 September
Time: 3.30pm, start 4.00pm to 6pm
Tickets: Reserve a spot today to save disappointment, and pay on the door on the evening (£4 on the door for non-members, Nottingham Poetry Society members free). Payments will be taken by NPS team, not library staff.
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abu-Rahme in-conversation with Hazem Jamjoum
Sat 27 Sep, 2pm–3.30pm, Nottingham Contemporary
Join the artists Ruanne Abu-Rahme & Basel Abbas for an in-conversation moderated by Hazem Jamjoum that gives insight to their practice and new work on display at Nottingham Contemporary in the exhibition Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom.
Making Dough and Getting By
Friday 19 September, 11am – 1pm. National Justice Museum.
Making Dough and Getting By is a unique, hands-on zine-building workshop inspired by Richard Wentworth’s “Making do and getting by” and the We Roar exhibition. This workshop delves into the themes of creativity in constrained environments, humanity and individuality, and resourcefulness and adaptation.
You will create with bread and its packaging. Each participant will be invited to use only a cheap loaf of sliced bread and the bag it comes in as their materials for the session, where they will illustrate and reveal the human touch in everyday adaptations and modifications. Imagine sitting on an orange crate, using a tuna tin as an ashtray or turning an empty milk carton into a flower vase.
Nottingham Playhouse Business Club September 2025
Wed 24 September, 10:30am-12pm
Join us for an exclusive networking event at Nottingham Playhouse’s distinctive ‘Company’ event space. This is your opportunity to meet and connect with local professionals, exchange valuable experiences, and gain practical skills that can drive your business forward.
Enjoy informal networking with like-minded peers over refreshments in a relaxed setting, followed by a focus-driven talk from our region’s influential arts and business leaders.
As a Nottingham Playhouse Business Club member, you’ll have access to a unique venue that fosters authentic connections and provides opportunities to expand your professional network. It’s the perfect environment to discover fresh perspectives, learn new skills, and build on the value of culture in your business.
Event Details
A mark of business success lies in being able to navigate difficult headwinds with focus and agility. At a time when business confidence has reportedly slumped, challenges to your business can lead to a heightened sense of anxiety and demoralisation.
We are delighted that this Business Club session will be led by Nottingham Playhouse’s Chief Operating Officer, Lee Henderson. Lee has spent his career helping theatres to innovate through challenging times.
In this session, Lee will reflect on how his 16 years of arts leadership have informed his approach to building long-term business resilience and staying motivated when the going gets tough.
Interested in attending? Contact James Cottis, Fundraising & Development Officer, for more information or to RSVP.
Flat | Exhibition
EXHIBITION: 13 September – 29 November 2025
OPENING TIMES: Thursday–Saturday, 10AM–6PM, or by appointment.
Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham, NG7 1NU, United Kingdom
Flat is an exhibition that is like two sides of the same coin.
Through material play and creative research, the show will feature work by Primary resident and member artists—Louisa Chambers, Craig Fisher, Lynn Fulton and Sam Metz—across Gallery 1 and 2, exploring the word ‘flat’ in two distinct contexts.
On one side of the coin, the works interpret ‘flatness’ from multiple vantage points, particularly in relation to spatial perception. Be it the collapsing, flattening, and reconstruction of sculptural form or the smoothness of a surface. In the 1960s and 1970s, art criticism referred to flatness as the smoothness and absence of curvature or surface detail in two-dimensional artwork, particularly modernist painting. American artist Donald Judd’s ‘Specific Objects’ (1964 text) is interesting to bring into the fold, using the exhibition to put into contention what Judd wrote in Arts Yearbook: ‘Almost all paintings are spatial in one way or another’.
If flatness is on one side, on the other side, the project will test and materially play with the idea of the word ‘flat’ in another sense: a form of housing. The term ‘flat’ originates from the Old Scottish/Old English word ‘flet’, which means an interior space of a home. Some believe the term has persisted because most flats are located on a single floor, meaning there are no stairs inside the accommodation. The concept of a flat is deeply rooted in British housing tradition, starting with mansion flats in 1800s London, flats rebuilt after the interwar period, council estates—Nottingham was one of the largest builders of council housing in the country until the 1970s—and housing for the working-class that’s historically affordable, and included communal areas. However, with the rise of studentification in Radford (where Primary is based) and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the word ‘flat’ and the socio-politics of being a ‘resident’ in some form of dwelling, be it a studio or a home, could take on new meaning.
Primary is then thinking further to how arts organisations are borderlands—bridges between civic space and urban renewal/planning, and how the art institution and public artwork can sit (un)comfortably in between, like Konsthall C (initiated in 2004, a year before our organisation), a cross between all three, located in a former communal laundry in Hökarängen, Sweden; and then us, housed in a former school (c. 1885 until 2005) that became occupied by artists—becoming Primary.
ACOUSTICKLE INDIAN SUMMER
26 Sep at 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm at New Art Exchange
Acoustickle Indian Summer is a beautiful evening of eastern-inspired music, poetry, themed decorations and pop-up stalls. Artists performing come from Asian, Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds, fusing their cultural heritages with genres like jazz, R&B and hip hop.
See emerging musicians from Nottingham’s dynamic scene early in their careers, before they become internationally known.
Indian Food by SFiCE Foundation; Jewellery by Eastern Spice Girls; Mandala Colouring
And Henna Hand Designs.
Booking is required. +16 only
EXHIBITION LAUNCH – TO FARSE ALL THINGS & BONINGTON VITRINES #28: GESTURES – SOMEONE’S DOING SOMETHING
25th September, 6-8pm, Bonington Gallery
Join us for the launch of the first exhibition of the academic year, a two-person exhibition by William English and Sandra Cross bringing together film, photography, sculpture, sound, and archival material formed independently and collaboratively over several decades.
To Farse All Things offers a rare opportunity to explore the intertwined lives and practices of two artists whose work resists categorisation. Through a shared and uncompromising commitment to experimentation, hospitality, and social engagement, English and Cross have cultivated a body of work that is as generous as it is radical.
As part of the 28th instalment of the Bonington Vitrines series, we’re delighted to present Someone’s Doing Something, a project by London-based curatorial, research, and archival platform Gestures, developed in dialogue with writer Isabelle Bucklow.
Enjoy a free welcome drink, delicious food (first come, first served!) and music.