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Wholesome Fish
events - Live
Wholesome Fish
31 July 2010
With a raucous harmony of traditional instruments (fiddle, harmonica, accordion, banjo and guitar) underpinned by a cooking rhythm section, Wholesome Fish create music to...
Meet the Twins
events - Talks & Lectures
Meet the Twins
31 July 2010 - 21 August 2010
Three pairs of identical twins will talk to our visitors in the galleries about the work of Diane Arbus and Gert and Uwe Tobias. Timothy and Matthew Chesney, Hayley and...
Scribal Gathering
events - Live
Scribal Gathering
04 August 2010
7.00pm to 10.30pm Café Bar Contemporary in association with Left Lion are pleased to present Scribal Gathering – the first of what is hoped to be a bi monthly...
Geoff Dyer: Explaining a Trick by a Further Trick
events - Talks & Lectures
Geoff Dyer: Explaining a Trick by a Further Trick
05 August 2010
Geoff Dyer is a successful novelist, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, as well as a photography historian and journalist. In this lecture he discusses Arbus’s work...
Charles Washington Quintet
events - Live
Charles Washington Quintet
07 August 2010
The Charles Washington Quintet returns to Cafe.Bar.Live, playing an entertaining mix of soulful ballads, lively swing and latin jazz standards. The band is led by...
Thomas Bloch and Origami Biro:
events - Special Events
Thomas Bloch and Origami Biro:
14 August 2010
Nottingham Contemporary’s galleries will reverberate with music as two very different musicians supply soundtracks for the two exhibitions.
Maniere Des Bohemiens
events - Live
Maniere Des Bohemiens
14 August 2010
Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli...
Fifty Buildings, 50 years
events - Special Events
Fifty Buildings, 50 years
20 August 2010
This major exhibition from the Royal Institute of British Architects showcases innovative and enduring architecture from the “swinging 60s” onwards. It reveals how...
Germaine Greer: Framing the Subject
events - Talks & Lectures
Germaine Greer: Framing the Subject
02 September 2010
Germaine Greer’s first book, The Female Eunuch (1969), took the world by storm and remains one of the most widely read texts of the feminist movement. She has since had...
Spooks at Savoy
events - Special Events
Spooks at Savoy
03 September 2010
Cameron Jamie presents a special screening of BB (2000), Spook House (2003), Kranky Klaus (2003), JO (2004) and Massage the History (2010) in a traditional 1930s cinema....
Jazz Junction
events - Live
Jazz Junction
04 September 2010
Jazz Junction is a band comprising six local musicians keen to promote an easy to listen to style of jazz that will engage the new listener as well as the enthusiast. ...
Goth Night
events - Special Events
Goth Night
09 September 2010
Nottingham Contemporary is summoning the city’s Goths to appear in all their finery for a special photo shoot, from 7 – 8pm. The gloriously pale and sartorially...
Maniere Des Bohemiens
events - Live
Maniere Des Bohemiens
11 September 2010
Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli...
Mas Y Mas
events - Live
Mas Y Mas
18 September 2010
Resident Café Bar Live favorites Mas Y Mas make a welcome return for an evening that is guaranteed to have the whole audience on their feet to swing to the Latino dance...
Camera Lucida Revisited
events - Talks & Lectures
Camera Lucida Revisited
23 September 2010
Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman, as well as...
Strange Dance
events - Talks & Lectures
Strange Dance
24 September 2010
Performance by members of the MA Framework at Nottingham Trent University exploring folk art and Constructivism. Free Galleries 1 and 2, 7pm - 9pm
Anthony d’Offay in conversation
events - Talks & Lectures
Anthony d’Offay in conversation
29 September 2010
Anthony d’Offay was arguably the most influential gallerist in London during the 80s and 90s, representing art luminaries such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Bruce...
Marcia Farquhar: Absent Friends
events - Talks & Lectures
Marcia Farquhar: Absent Friends
30 September 2010
Marcia Farquhar is a many-storied artist who wilfully fuses life and art in her work. Like Diane Arbus, to whose work she will be indirectly paying tribute, Farquhar has...
Matthew Beresford:
events - Talks & Lectures
Matthew Beresford:
01 October 2010
The first vampire story in English was written in 1814 by John Polidori, Lord Byron’s physician, during a famous Gothic horror story competition on the shores of Lake...
Vampire Camp
events - Special Events
Vampire Camp
01 October 2010 - 02 October 2010
Bag a camp bed for a long night of blood stained fangs, shrill screams and strange shadows in The Space. Bring your own garlic as we bed down to watch the most famous...
Matt Chandler Trio
events - Live
Matt Chandler Trio
02 October 2010
Guitarist Matt Chandler, one of the rising stars of the UK jazz scene whose debut album After Midnight has been winning widespread critical acclaim, brings his trio to...
Maniere Des Bohemiens
events - Live
Maniere Des Bohemiens
09 October 2010
8.00pm 'til late Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by...
Mas Y Mas
events - Live
Mas Y Mas
16 October 2010
Resident Café Bar Live favorites Mas Y Mas mare back for an evening that is guaranteed to have the whole audience up on their feet to dancing and swinging to their...
Happenings
events - Talks & Lectures
Happenings
06 May 2008 - 18 May 2008
Talk Marco Scotini, curator, Luca Frei, designer of Disobedience and Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary. Venue: ‘Beatties’, Angel Row,...
That Beautiful Pale Face Is My Fate (For Lord Byron)
events - Talks & Lectures
That Beautiful Pale Face Is My Fate (For Lord Byron)
26 July 2008
Splendid Vices, our symposium in the Orangery, was standing room only, as our guests crowded in to hear speakers discuss Byron’s lasting influence on popular...
Disclosures II, Laxton
events - Talks & Lectures
Disclosures II, Laxton
06 September 2008
Part I 11:00 Meeting in Mount Street, Nottingham. A bus tour of Nottingham’s former common lands and open fields led by artist and historian Chris...
Impossible Prison
events - Talks & Lectures
Impossible Prison
10 November 2008 - 08 December 2008
Meaning, Truth and Prisons: The Legacy of Michel Foucault David Macey in conversation with Jonathan Rée David Macey, Foucault’s biographer, will discuss the...
Get Involved 17
events - Young Events
Get Involved 17
03 November 2009
If you’re 13 to 17, we’d like to pick your brains. In return you get to make art, make new friends, promote events – or promote your own career by getting...
Get Involved 17
events - Young Events
Get Involved 17
10 November 2009
If you’re 13 to 17, we’d like to pick your brains. In return you get to make art, make new friends, promote events – or promote your own career by getting...
Words, Worlds
events - Talks & Lectures
Words, Worlds
13 November 2009
Language is central to the work of Brannon, Stark and Wilcox. Each of these American artists exploits words for their literary, historical, psychological and graphic...

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