Nottingham Contemporary is summoning the city’s Goths to appear in all their finery for a special photo shoot, from 7 – 8pm. The gloriously pale and sartorially...
Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli...
Award-winning composer, writer and filmmaker Michael Nyman premieres his moving-image work CINE OPERA commissioned by ArtReach for Night of Festivals 2010.
"An...
English GCSE students from The Nottingham Emmanuel School visited the Diane Arbus exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary and used a selection of photographs as stimuli...
Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The London Review of Books, The New Statesman, as well as...
Spaceships are Cool & The Bonsai Band
From 8.00pm
Spaceships are Cool
Café.Bar.Contemporary welcome back Spaceships are Cool on Saturday 25th September for the...
Anthony d’Offay was arguably the most influential gallerist in London during the 80s and 90s, representing art luminaries such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Bruce...
Marcia Farquhar is a many-storied artist in whose work life and art are wilfully fused. Like Diane Arbus, to whose work she will be indirectly paying tribute, Farquhar...
Music Exchange Live is a series of free and unique gigs featuring unusual bands, experimental music and one off collaborations being launched by The Music Exchange, a...
The first vampire story in English was written in 1814 by John Polidori, Lord Byron’s physician, during a famous Gothic horror story competition on the shores of Lake...
Bag a camp bed for a long night of blood stained fangs, shrill screams and strange shadows in The Space. Bring your own garlic as we bed down to watch the most famous...
An evening of local hip-hop, funk and soul talent including bands, DJs and visuals alongside exhibitions and photography.
Featuring:
Inkrument
1st Blood
Harleigh...
Café Bar Contemporary
7pm to midnight
Entrance Free
Alongside Urban Art Night in The Space, Café Bar Contemporary are also hosting a non-ticket full line up of...
Six established and emerging artists present solo works under a stark spotlight in The Space. Followed by a “haunted karaoke” party in the café bar. Selected by...
Saturday 9th October, 10am - 6pm and Sunday 10th October 11am - 5pm
The Notts Designers Market will take place in The Space featuring craft and designer items...
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009, Hiorns has worked with fire, foam, copper sulphate and animal remains to explore the physical and psychological resonances of...
Three video artists screen a new work before a discussion with the audience – the third event in a series offering a platform for Nottingham and Midlands based artists...
In 1951 Nottingham's Lace market was a thriving industrial hub and hummed to the sound of 120 family-led lace factories making "Nottingham Lace" for the world. In 2010...
Oxjam Salsa Party
7pm to midnight
Café Bar Contemporary welcomes OXJAM, Oxfam’s month-long music festival. It runs right the way through October with hundreds of...
In a Q&A with Rob Blackson, Nottingham Contemporary’s Curator of Public Programmes, the British Art Show 7 curators will discuss the collaborative process for selecting...
From 7.00pm, free
Featuring, Rivals, And Now We Wait, Your Weapons Are Useless, Cavalry, Hit Parade, Nitrox, Nobodys Fool and The Chase.
This competition is...
Resident Café Bar Live favorites Mas Y Mas mare back for an evening that is guaranteed to have the whole audience up on their feet to dancing and swinging to their...
Olivia Plender’s installations, performances, videos and publications address subjects ranging from the history of the global financial system to social and religious...
The JET Collective is the new artist-led network formed in the East Midlands to provide performance opportunities and promote original contemporary jazz by emerging...
Entrance Free, Charity Donations Welcome
8.00pm
On Saturday 23 October Nottingham art and culture magazine and website LeftLion have invited some of their favourite...
Chance Workshop
Take over the studio space to make a large collaborative floor drawing using only string, chalk and chance!
Sat 23rd and Sun 24th Oct
1pm - 4pm,...
Des Hughes
The two largest cabinets contain a new exhibition by Des Hughes, who has gathered an eccentric and engaging collection of found objects, including “antlers,...
Artists at Nottingham Contemporary Charles Avery, Karla Black, Matthew Darbyshire, Alasdair Gray, Brian Griffiths, Roger Hiorns, Ian Kiaer, Simon Martin, Tris...
This year, for the first time, Café Bar Contemporary is doing its thing as part of the Hockley Hustle festival. Playing host to the The Beat on the BBC stage we’ll be...
This series of study sessions will explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics,...
The imperative to ‘do deceleration’ is less a call to ‘slow down’, to withdraw or retreat from the process of production as such. Instead, the invitation is to explore ways in which we might...
Ahead of her performance commission, Steffani Jemison presents her work in the form of a listening session through works and music created from 2007 to the present. Works addressed will include:...
Led by visual artist Steffani Jemison, this workshop examines the phenomenon of artificial, planned, constructed, utopian, auxiliary, and artistic languages and writing systems—created by authors...