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Wooden bead necklaces, origami flowers, plant printing, poetry and more with the Young Producers
Our Young Producers have been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide you with inspiration and motivation; help you look at your…
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Tissue paper stained glass, bunny bunting, collage poetry and more with the Young Producers
Week 4! Are you keeping up with our Young Producers #IsolationCreations? Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide…
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Van Gogh inspired painting, Funky rock painting, Origami Cranes and more with the Young Producers
Week 3 of our Young Producers #IsolationCreations project! Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide you with inspiration…
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Watercolour Resist, Rorschach Ink Blots, Tie-dying with Bleach and more with the Young Producers
Last week was week 2 of our Young Producers #IsolationCreations project. Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide…
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Armchair Gallery – get creative in isolation with our free app
The coronavirus crisis is bringing isolation and social distancing to us all. But for many of the country's older people this experience is not new. In England, more than 2…
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Choice Gossip for Retail Later
Sadly, the COVID-19 outbreak means the shutters are down on our current window exhibition. And anyway, there’s no one out on the streets to look at it. Here it is…
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#IsolationCreation with the Young Producers
Our wonderful Young Producers group have decided they want to help people get through this difficult time of self-isolaton and social distancing. Being creative - making art - has lots…
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Photographer Siobhan Jackson captures Nottingham art charities
We were delighted to stumble across this fantastic series of images on Instagram. They were conceived, captured and composed by Siobhan Jackson. Siobhan is a Photography student at Nottingham Trent…
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Parades, play and emotions at Light Night 2020
We had a wonderful time at Nottingham Light Night 2020. For the first time the event took place over two days, Friday 7th & Saturday 8th February. City Arts produced…
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Nottingham Puppet Festival returns for 2020
Following the success of the first Nottingham Puppet Festival in 2018, the Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall, in partnership with City Arts and Nottingham Trent University, has announced a…
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Silent Orchestra – multi-sensory instruments for people with dementia
City Arts has been supporting artist Jenny Hibberd, music tutor James Sykes and programmer Andrew Johnston to create multi-sensory musical instruments for people with dementia. Their creations are a creative…
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Alan Sillitoe and Nottingham – An Oral History
Four films that examine the inspiration behind and impact of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by legendary Nottingham writer Alan Sillitoe. Alan grew up in poverty in Radford, Nottingham. Both…
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