Find theatre, classical & chamber music, world, folk & jazz gigs, live comedy, dance performances, children's shows, free talks and workshops, as well as our visual art exhibitions and museum programme below.
Derek Carruthers (Professor Emeritus, Nottingham Trent University) has been a practising artist for over 60 years.
Using photographs, marketing materials and business records from the University of Nottingham’s lace and hosiery archive collections, this exhibition explores surviving evidence of the textile trade which was once a major feature of the East Midlands.
Jade Fantom graduated from Nottingham Trent University’s BA Photography programme in 2018.
This exhibition will look at the different types of human figures displayed on medieval pottery including the famous Face Pots.
Angela Verdon creates exquisite abstract forms in burnished bone china. Utilizing her material’s inherent qualities of purity and strength, she explores the interplay of light and shadow resulting from hard edges and sensuous undulating contours.
Julian Atkinson and Roger Tanner, authors of Luddism in the East Midlands: Riots and Negotiations (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History Society: 2018), tell the true story of Luddism in Nottinghamshire.
Anne Goodchild gives an introduction to the exhibition and Hitchens’ remarkable sixty-year career.
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is much loved for his landscapes featuring swathes of bright colour.
An eagerly anticipated landmark in Nottingham’s arts calendar, Lustre is a friendly, relaxed, contemporary craft and design market.
A gallery tour of the Ivon Hitchens: Space Through Colour exhibition with artist, Roy Pickering.
Ivon Hitchens sought to make a song of nature in paint. Dr. Michael Tucker considers painting’s relationship to music through the work of Hitchens and other artists in
John Smedley Ltd. of Lea Mills, Derbyshire, one of the first companies to install fully fashioned knitting machinery, produces fine gauge knitwear using traditional hand finishing techniques alongside cutting-edge technology.