The Sheriff's Gauntlet, spooky Halloween fun, Home of Sport, Oktoberfest, and more!
Nottingham City Council sent this bulletin at 30-10-2015 10:51 AM GMT
The Sheriff's Gauntlet, spooky Halloween fun, Home of Sport, Oktoberfest, and more!
Did you hear? Nottingham is England's official Home of Sport!
Nottingham has beaten London and Manchester to be crowned England's Home of Sport in a public vote! Thank you for helping us to win this honour by voting and spreading the word!
Become Legendary! Sheriff's Gauntlet Saturday 31 October
Do you want to be legendary? Assemble at 12noon this Saturday 31 October in the Old Market Square for your chance to join the Council of Legends alongside Robin Hood! To see if you're worthy, you'll take part in a fun free competition that will take you all over the city of Nottingham.
Oktoberfest - until 1 Nov at the Forest Recreation Ground
Did you know that The Forest will host its very own German style beer festival, complete with traditional food, drink and music? Entrance is free every day except Saturday (£5).
Can you carve an impressive pumpkin? Enter the annual pumpkin art competition at Hart's Hotel this Sunday.
Come up with their most scary and imaginative designs for the competition and you could win a great prize!
The Pumpkin Art competition starts at 5pm on Sunday 1 November, in the Park Bar Courtyard at Hart’s Hotel. Pumpkins must be delivered to Hart’s before midday and judging will take place at 5:45pm.
If you're visiting Nottingham on Saturday 31 October or Sunday 1 November, look out for volunteers in the Old Market Square ready to tell you all about the new FREE app all about Nottingham's caves. The volunteers will be wearing high-vis jackets and hard hats and will be around from 10:30am - 3pm.
The new app gives an insight into the hundreds of sandstone caves which lie beneath our feet in the city, using exclusive flythrough videos and images of caves which are not publicly accessible.
To download the app, search 'Nottingham Cave Trail' on your app store.
The Duchess of Malfi at
Nottingham Playhouse
From today!
Get your Halloween weekend off
to a murderously good start, with a heart-stopping piece of theatrical creepiness at
Nottingham Playhouse. For The Duchess of Malfi, a secret marriage behind her
evil brothers’ backs can only lead to one thing: fury, torture and a high body
count.
Nottingham Playhouse Associate
Director Fiona Buffini directs this blood-soaked masterpiece following her
critically acclaimed productions of Time and the Conways and A Skull
in Connemara.
Exhibition: Jamaica Hidden Histories: Sugar was king
New Art Exchange until Sunday 1 November
Don't miss your final chance to see this exhibition, which explores the impact sugar has had on domestic culture in Britain and Jamaica. Through oral testimonies of Jamaican elders and a collection of archival photographs, the resulting exhibition explores how Sugar left a legacy central to British and Jamaican heritage.
The exhibition also features the work of notable Jamaican-born artists from Nottingham - Esmel May and Lorna Holder.
