Originally commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse, RIOT ACT will be presented as a script-in-hand rehearsed reading with a community cast at the Framework Knitters Museum over two nights on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th March.
The Portland Collection, built up over 400 years by the Cavendish family and their descendants, is vast and varied. Exhibitions in its dedicated museum change every three years.
There are some creative spaces that feel less like studios and more like thresholds, where something softer, older, and quietly magical begins to stir. When we step through the doorway of Fragments and Faerytales, we feel it instantly. The mellow hush, the moonlit imagery, the shelves lined with antique linens, tiny patisserie tins and intricately designed stitched pieces… it is a sanctuary woven from stories, textures, and the kind of gentle enchantment that modern life so often forgets.
Deborah La Banca’s timeless photographs evoke a quiet calm and capture those fleeting moments that touch our hearts but are all too easily overlooked in our busy lives. Daylight falls on a faded interior; a highly polished wooden chair reflects a beam of sunlight.
Most National Trust properties inspire thoughts of historic mansions, wealth and grandeur. However, tucked away in a Worksop cul-de-sac, at 7 Blyth Grove, you’ll find Mr Straw’s House; the National Trust’s first small domestic property, acquired in 1990.
In a sunlit log cabin studio nestled in her garden, Vanessa Stone cuts paper with quiet precision and creative joy in her soul. The space, named Sunnyside after her grandfather’s home, is filled with light and silence—except for the occasional podcast murmuring in the background. It’s here, surrounded by nature and memory, that Vanessa creates her distinctive collages: layered landscapes and interiors that speak softly but powerfully of grief, joy, and the spaces we shape.
“I believe in picking up a golden thread and seeing how long it is and where it takes you,” she says. And for Vanessa, t…
Visitors to Clumber Park may be forgiven for wondering where the house is. Most National Trust country estates have a home at their heart, but of the mansions that once stood here, little now remains.
Julian Bray is well-known as an energetic and engaging tutor and his enthusiasm for Art has been inspiring countless students in Nottinghamshire for the last few decades. Alongside his successful career as a teacher, Julian has been a professional and commercial artist with paintings in private collections and public buildings.
Coming back to Nottingham after more than 20 years living in Scotland, Lucy Brouwer noticed buildings she did not remember seeing before. The Lace Market and Hockley had changed so much since the 1990s—the buildings were cleaner, and there was a vibrant shopping and arts scene.
