What’s on

Exhibitions
New Perspectives Gallery Tour: Scaling the Sublime

Friday 15 June

New perspectives is a walkabout tour of the exhibition led by a relay team of postgraduates at the University of Nottingham.
Take Part & Learn
Scenic Screenprints

Sunday 17 June

In this workshop you will spend a day with Nichola Hingley creating stencil screenprints inspired by our Scaling the Sublime exhibition.
Music
University Festival Choir & Orchestra

Wednesday 20 June

For the final concert of the academic year, students join to perform a mixed programme conducted by student and professional conductors.
Exhibitions
Stephie Richards

Saturday 23 June - Sunday 26 August

Steffie Richards’ paintings are physical traces of heightened emotional states and moments of self-awareness that, for the artist, encapsulate something of the original sensation.
Theatre
The Snail and the Whale

Saturday 23 June - Sunday 24 June

A tiny snail longs to see the world, so she hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. But when the whale gets beached, how will the snail save him?
Museum
The 5th Annual Nottinghamshire Local History and Archaeology Festival

Saturday 23 June

Now in its fifth year, this hugely successful regional festival and celebration will be displaying the wide and varied work taking place throughout Nottinghamshire by local history and archaeology societies, archaeological units, museums and other regional archaeological organisations.
Museum
Short talks on local projects

Saturday 23 June

The Nottinghamshire Local History and Archaeology Festival begins with short talks on local history and archaeology projects.
Special Events
2018 UNESCO City of Literature Lecture: Elif Shafak

Wednesday 27 June

UNESCO City of Literature are delighted to announce that Elif Shafak will give the second UNESCO City of Literature lecture in Nottingham.
Theatre
Plurality of Abhinaya

Tuesday 03 July

An exciting new collaboration exploring Abhinaya (the art of expression) through the classical and creative vocabulary of Kathak and Bharatnatyam. Choreographed by Nilima Devi MBE and Anusha Subramanyam.
Take Part & Learn
Lake Enders Public Sharing

Wednesday 04 July

Lake Enders is Lakeside’s theatre arts company for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. Join us to watch their public sharing at the end of term.
Special Collections
Invisible Storytellers: the remarkable role of translators in British Children's Literature

Thursday 05 July

Gillian Lathey, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton London, will introduce some of these invisible storytellers and pay homage to their neglected craft.
Exhibitions
Lecture: A Journey into Space Light Colour

Friday 06 July

Calvin Winner, Head of Collections, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, explores the transformative, sensory and immersive quality of Begum’s gallery-based works as well as her public art projects.