Those who enter the realm will encounter fairytale characters in the woods, and must keep all their wits about them to watch out for creatures and witches. Once inside the castle, there will be all manner of familiar characters to spot from Cinderella and the Ugly Sisters, Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbledore and Fawkes, to the Ice Queen, staged throughout the historic rooms using mannequins dressed in fairytale-inspired Steampunk outfits.
This will be the 10th year that Mansfield has hosted this event and Inspire will be celebrating with a fun-filled day of activities and attractions for all the family. To mark 60 years since The Beatles performed in Mansfield at The Granada on West Gate where the library is now situated, there will be themed music performances from Inspire Music and Inspire Youth Arts throughout the day.
The Spirit of Wartime Sherwood event celebrates the three-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project focused on the impact of World War Two on Sherwood Forest’s landscape and communities.
Nottingham Poetry Festival is returning once again to celebrate the thriving spoken word scene across the city. Taking place in multiple locations over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, the festival is themed ‘Hope’ offering four days of masterclasses, developmental workshops, local showcases, music performance, VR experience, poetry walks and top drawer headline acts.
On 14th April, 2023 the Newark Air Museum (NAM) will have been officially open to the public for fifty (50) years. To celebrate this golden jubilee anniversary, NAM is hosting a two-day special event on the weekend of 15th and 16th April, at its site in eastern Nottinghamshire, close to the Lincolnshire county border.
On a visit in the 1840s, it was said that the visiting Duchess of Bedford decided the wait between lunch and dinner was too long, and asked for sandwiches, cakes and tea to be brought to her rooms one afternoon when she and her husband were staying for a hunting weekend.
The Heights of Abraham has announced details of a forthcoming Victorian Weekend (25th and 26th March), the first in a series of “Fantastic Happenings” taking place at the award-winning visitor attraction this year.
Jan 25, 2023
Unseen Treasures of The Portland Collection, at the Harley Foundation, North Nottinghamshire, offers a new, revealing look at this world-class art collection.
The Portland Collection, built up over 400 years by a single aristocratic family, is vast and varied. Exhibitions in its dedicated museum change every three years.
