With a raucous harmony of traditional instruments (fiddle, harmonica, accordion, banjo and guitar) underpinned by a cooking rhythm section, Wholesome Fish create music to...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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’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...
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 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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Talk
Marco Scotini, curator, Luca Frei, designer of Disobedience and Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary.
Venue: ‘Beatties’, Angel Row,...
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...
Meaning, Truth and Prisons: The Legacy of Michel Foucault
David Macey in conversation with Jonathan Rée
David Macey, Foucault’s biographer, will discuss the...
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...
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...
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...
