Step into the shoes of Maid Marian and dive into Nottingham's legendary past in this immersive walking tour and escape game. Visit iconic locations like Nottingham Castle, the Robin Hood statue, and three historic pubs, all while solving clues to rescue Robin Hood himself. Crafted by local storytellers, this self-guided adventure offers a perfect mix of sightseeing, storytelling, and brain-teasing fun. Get your tickets for Maid Marian's Nottingham Outdoor Quest in Weekday Cross now!

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring like never seen before. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Christmas Classics under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring like never seen before. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Christmas Movie Soundtracks under the gentle glow of candlelight. Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone. If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (. 30 people). To treat your friends and family to a Candlelight gift card Programme All I Want for Christmas Is You from Love Actually Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Meet Me in St. Louis Christmas Time Is Here and Skating from A Charlie Brown Christmas White Christmas from Holiday Inn You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Silver Bells from The Lemon Drop Kid Winter Wonderland and Let It Snow! Let It Snow! from While You Were Sleeping The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) from Alvin and the Chipmunks Carol of the Bells from Home Alone Jingle Bell Rock from Jingle All the Way The Nightmare Before Christmas Medley Where Are You Christmas? from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas I Believe in You and Me from The Preacher's Wife Believe from The Polar Express Performers String Quartet - Ensemble M

May Half Term is coming up and we can’t wait to see you at our Family Activities! Inspired by our upcoming exhibitions - Augustas Serapinas: Physical Culture and Chico da Silva: And the soul is for the birds, join us to make, explore and play. The workshops are drop-in; however, we invite you to book a space for your session as spaces are limited. Our sessions take place on Tuesdays, Wednesday & Thursdays at the following times: Tue 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm Wed 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm Thu 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm Please note we run SEND Sessions on Wednesday Afternoons, 1pm-3pm. These are lower stimulation sessions for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) including neurodivergent children – and their families. These sessions are for families who feel this environment would be more suited to them, with a diagnosis or not. If you are interested in these sessions, please find out more and book here. Book one ticket per person, including adults & children. If you are unable to make it on the day, please cancel your tickets so that others may attend. If you would like more information, or would like support in completing your booking, please call us on 0115 948 9750. Limited Capacity. Booking is required. Make a Day of it, by visiting the Nottingham Central Library, for lots of free fun and it’s just over the road from us! We are taking part in the Robin Hood Adventure Trail by It's in Nottingham, a wonderful free city-centre mission for you and your family.

This Summer we are presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in England by Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas featuring his large-scale sculptural installation, Physical Culture. Join Marta Marsicka, a curator, researcher, and art historian for a walkthrough of the exhibition. Drawing on visual cultures from Central and Eastern Europe during the socialist and postsocialist period, Marta’s walkthrough will trace the intertwined histories of physical education, hygiene, and state-sponsored ideals of the body. From gymnasiums to studios, these contexts reveal how training, of both mind and body, has been structured, aestheticised, and politicised. Positioned in dialogue with Augustas Serapinas’ gym-like installation, the walkthrough will consider how regimes of repetition, discipline, and self-improvement have operated across both artistic and athletic training, in art histories spanning Western and Eastern Europe. The session will invite participants to think collectively about how bodies are shaped through education, and how these histories continue to resonate within contemporary artistic practice. Marta Marsicka is a curator, researcher, and art historian based in the Midlands. Their practice engages with East-Central European identity, migration, care, and the politics of representation in post-Brexit Britain. They are Artist Development Coordinator at BACKLIT, Nottingham, and a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London, where their Techne-funded research investigates the representation of Central and Eastern European women artists in British exhibitions after 1989. Their writing has been published in ArtMargins, JAWS: Journal of Arts and Writing, British UnCanon, among others. Marta is a co-founder of The Lilac House, a queer, feminist, and working-class curatorial counter-practice.

Join us for an art-making and practice-sharing educator session led by our Associate Artist Charlotte Tupper. The workshop will be part of a special viewing of our two new exhibitions, Augustas Serapinas: Physical Culture and Chico da Silva: And the soul is for the birds. Chico da Silva’s vivid, colourful paintings are a glimpse into a cosmology fuelled by the artist’s imagination, mythology and folklore. Chico’s works call attention to the interconnectedness of everything. Augustas Serapinas’ work reimagines spaces to reveal and challenge social norms. Reflecting on his experience as an art student within a system that emphasised practice and repetition, he transforms the gallery into a functioning gym and art school. Explore approaches to creating environments for discussion, reflective thinking and making in the classroom with our free gallery resources developed by our Associate Artist team. Meet our learning team and find out more about our schools offer. Join our associate artists for exploratory activities in the galleries. Create in our galleries including our new learning space Studio 1. Suitable for educators of all stages, including Early Years, SEN/D practitioners, tutors at FE and HE, and early career teachers.

Join us to celebrate the launch of our two new summer season exhibitions, Augustas Serapinas: Physical Culture and Chico da Silva: And the soul is for the birds. Augustas Serapinas' exhibition will invite audiences into a hybrid space of activity - performance space; drawing studio; and gym - featuring fully operational metal fitness machines with jesmonite sculptures replacing conventional weights. The work will be activated with a dynamic live programme punctuating the exhibition season; where local fitness groups will be invited to participate in exercise classes in the galleries; students from local universities will be invited to partake in life drawing classes; and community wellbeing groups will be invited to host mixed ability sessions and holistic workshops. Chico’s paintings are a glimpse into an immense non-hierarchical cosmology that was fuelled by the artist’s own imagination, mythology and folklore. Depicting sea creatures swimming on the currents of outer space, and fantastical creatures vividly painted in hallucinatory battles or stretching their jaws agape to consume smaller creatures, Chico’s works call attention to the interconnectedness of everything. Party the night away with music in our café bar from Revenge of Calculon and DJ Tano, alongside delicious food and drink. Funkatronic Luchadors Revenge of Calculon dominate the dirty synth and sleazy bass groove world. If you like your Sci-Fi Funk wrapped up in a neat bundle by two guys wearing tracksuits and Mexican wrestling masks, this is the band for you. Tano is a Uruguayan DJ based in Nottingham. His sound constantly shifts from afro-latin, breaks, garage, sambass and more. This exhibition launch, like all our programme, is free admission for all but donations are both encouraged and needed. As a registered charity, every donation – no matter the size – makes a big difference. Suggested donation £5. Thank you. Timings Galleries open 6.30pm - 9pm Performative activation of Augustas Serapinas' exhibition from 6.30pm Blend at Contemporary open 6.30pm - 11pm Revenge of Calculon 7.45pm-8.30pm DJ Tano 8.30pm-11pm

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before. - Let it Snow - Christmas Song - The Maestro - Hans Zimmer - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra - Winter Wonderland - Last Christmas - Wham - The Christmas Waltz - Frank Sinatra - The Little Drummer Boy - Sleigh Ride - Jingle Bells - White Christmas - I'll Be Home for Christmas - It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas - Glasgow Theme - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree - Love is All Around - Let it Go (Frozen) Performers String quartet: Lakeland String Quartet

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience. Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone. Performers String Quartet - Chaos Collective

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of Hans Zimmer under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring like never seen before in Manchester. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Joe Hisaishi under the gentle glow of candlelight. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Opening Theme Laputa: Castle in the Sky - Kimi wo Nosete - Carrying You My Neighbour Totoro - Kaze no Toori Michi - Path of the Wind My Neighbour Totoro - Tonari no Totoro - Main Theme Kiki's Delivery Service - Umi no Mieru Machi - A Town with an Ocean View Kiki's Delivery Service - Tabidachi - Journey Princess Mononoke - Main Theme Spirited Away - Inochi no Namae - Name of Life Spirited Away - Chihiro's Waltz Ponyo - Gake no Ue no Ponyo - Ponyo on the Cliff Kikujiro - Summer Howl's Moving Castle - Merry Go Round of Life. Performers String Quartet- String Infusion - SQ

Join local artist and academic Dr. Sarogini G Reddiar alongside Nottingham Contemporary staff in welcoming our latest exhibitions with this innovative walkthrough and creative workshop opportunity. This summer we're presenting two new exhibitions: Physical Culture by Augustas Serapinas in Galleries 2 & 3, and And the soul is for the birds by Chico da Silva in Gallery 1. This walkthrough will be approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes of Q&A time at the end. This will be followed by a creative workshop in Studio 1 exploring the exhibiting artists and Sarogini's own practice. All materials provided - no previous experience required. Everyone is welcome, though this event is designed for visitors who are new to the galleries and/or have not visited the current exhibitions. This is a light overview and conversation style event; you do not need any specific level of knowledge about art or the exhibitions.

We welcome one and all to Nottingham Refugee Week’s closing party in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary's communities programme and Himmah. Our evening will be host to several performances including music, spoken word and speeches, an art exhibition by Bluecoat Beechdale Academy students in response to Nottingham Castle’s Lives in Motion project, as well as interactive drumming and arts workshops. Delicious vegan food will be provided. This will be free for all to enjoy! This year’s Refugee Week closing party will be compered by founder of Nottingham City’s Poets Against Racism, Manjit Sahota, opening the festival with a specially commissioned poem on the theme of courage. With more to be announced, performances confirmed so far include Iranian artist Mina Fatemi performing with her five piece band, Poets from the Poetics of Migration project and local Comedian, Poet and Writer, Jay Sandhu. Accompanying the evening will be a breakout space where Artist Elaheh Raofi will lead an arts workshop, alongside a buffet of delicious food and a drumming workshop for all to join in with. More to be announced soon! This event will be held off-site at Himmah Hub, Hyson Green Community Centre, NG7 6BE. This is approximately 25 minutes walk from Nottingham City Centre. The nearest tram stop is Forest Recreation Ground. For information on nearby parking click here. If you have questions about the venue, please contact [email protected] or phone Himmah on 0115 837 6116. Approximate Timings 5pm - Event starts 5.15pm - 6pm - drumming workshop 6pm - buffet opens 6.40pm - 7pm - Welcome and opening poem by Manjit Sahota 7pm - 8.45pm – Entertainment 8.45pm - 9pm – Closing speech

Join our experienced Play & Learn Facilitators and book your place on our We are Wonderlings workshop. You and your little one can explore the world through sensory free play, in a safe and stimulating environment. From babes in arms, to bum shufflers, snoozers, and movers these are workshops for different age categories, so we can focus on those important developmental stages. Each session is an hour, and takes place in our Space on: Mon 15 June Mon 29 June Mon 13 July Please make sure to book the right session for your child's age group: 10am – 11am, birth – 12 months 11.30am – 12.30pm, 1 – 2 years 1.30pm – 2.30pm, 3 – 4 years If you have children from multiple age groups, please book tickets for the age slot of your eldest child. If you have booked a ticket and can no longer make it, please email [email protected] so we can allocate your ticket to someone else, thank you. If you would like more information, or would like support in completing your booking, please call us on 0115 948 9750. What our participants say: "The baby sessions are so valuable and give families something to look forward too. We absolutely love them!" "The play sessions for toddlers are wonderful, the variety of play areas and the creativity that goes into making it is just incredible! My son loves coming to these sessions and it's great that these are free."