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Film Screening at the Sumac at 7:30 on Tuesday 29th June

24-06-2010 10:51 | Culture | Nottinghamshire

We will be showing Defiance, a ripping Hollywood action interpretation of a true story about the guerrilla war waged by Belorussian Jews against the Nazis in the forests of Eastern Europe.

Vegan real ale festival

07-06-2010 17:21 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Nottinghamshire

On June 5-6, the Sumac Centre hosted the "first ever Vegan Beer Festival".

Sounds on the Downs returns on June 9th!

31-05-2010 20:32 | Culture | Education | Free Spaces | Nottinghamshire

Nottingham's only 100% renewably powered greenfields festival returns on the 9th June from 1-9pm.

Green Festival 2010

24-05-2010 17:56 | Culture | Nottinghamshire

Nottingham's Green Festival was held in the Arboretum on a gloriously sunny Sunday May 23rd 2010.

Survival Tales - a performance and workshop by Eirlys Rhiannon

21-05-2010 08:51 | Culture | Nottinghamshire

7pm, Tuesday 25th May at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, NG7 6HX

Survival Tales is a series of small, intimate performance events. Each event has two parts: a performance featuring personal stories and songs; a short workshop about how we make our survival stories. Booking essential.

Local activists protest circus cruelty

15-04-2010 20:30 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Education | Nottinghamshire

Local activists protest circus cruelty

Interview with Leonie Meikle of Erondu about the Radford Unity Centre

21-03-2010 11:57 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

To find out more about what the closure of Radford Unity Centre means to the groups that use it, I got in touch with Erondu, an after school club, that is based there. Leonie Meikle answered my questions.

Radford community on the march

21-03-2010 11:51 | Culture | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

Yesterday, over 100 members of the Radford community braved pouring rain to march from the Radford Unity Complex (RUC) to Nottingham's Market Square. They were protesting the City Council's proposed sell off of the RUC to an unknown buyer, despite the fact that many community groups have been using the building for over 20 years. Speeches were made at Speakers' Corner and then the group congregated outside the Council House. The mood was good natured and energetic but people were angry and defiant.

Micmacs: A film about direct action against the arms trade

16-03-2010 23:11 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Nottinghamshire

The latest film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, is a wacky caper about a group of oddball characters who decide to take direct action against the arms trade. In it, the products of one Nottingham-based arms company – Heckler & Koch – make a brief appearance.

Questionmarc takes on H&K

15-02-2010 19:06 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Nottinghamshire

Nottingham-based graffiti artist and troublemaker Questionmarc is probably most famous for pasting up "urinate here" signs all over Nottingham city centre. Now she/he has turned her/his attention to local dealers in death Heckler & Koch and plastered the city with posters designed to act "as a subliminal awareness raiser that the corrupt firm continue to operate from our city."

Graffiti art with consent banned in Nottingham

10-02-2010 01:55 | Culture | Repression | Nottinghamshire

The local council has banned youth clubs from hosting legal graffiti art walls in the latest attack on the basic right of freedom of expression. A petition has been launched against this draconian assault, and further action may follow.

Council does the dirty on the Save Victoria Bath Campaign

18-01-2010 13:39 | Culture | Health | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

VICTORIA LEISURE CENTRE TO CLOSE IN WEEKS - AND NO PLANS TO REBUILD

Nottingham City Council is trying to close Victoria Leisure Centre on 31 March 2010, despite having no approved plans for development and no planning permission to demolish what is already there. If they succeed, the current Leisure Centre will be lost forever and the local community will have nowhere to go.

The Council must be persuaded to change their mind!

The Skill Shares are Back!

09-01-2010 19:12 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

The Sumac Skill Share is back, and this time it’s three times a week.

In collaboration with the Nottingham Free School and the Sumac Skill Share collective is taking Skill Shares to the Square Centre, and adding a weekly idea share into the mix.

Subvertising hits the big time - media outrage at poppy appeal subverts

The power of simple subvertising was demonstrated this week when a little cut and paste work on a few billboards became a national media story. Elevated from a being noticed by just a few passers by to tens of thousands of readers and TV viewers, the subvertisement of poppy appeal posters has apparently hit a chord.

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Nottinghamshire Culture Newswire Archive

Nottinghamshire Culture Newswire Archive

Film Screening at the Sumac at 7:30 on Tuesday 29th June

Vegan real ale festival

Sounds on the Downs returns on June 9th!

Green Festival 2010

Survival Tales - a performance and workshop by Eirlys Rhiannon

Local activists protest circus cruelty

Interview with Leonie Meikle of Erondu about the Radford Unity Centre

Radford community on the march

Micmacs: A film about direct action against the arms trade

Questionmarc takes on H&K

Graffiti art with consent banned in Nottingham

Council does the dirty on the Save Victoria Bath Campaign

The Skill Shares are Back!

Subvertising hits the big time - media outrage at poppy appeal subverts