LeftLion Magazine Nottingham

26/07/2025

We hope that you've all been enjoying the cover of this month's LeftLion as much as we have - our wish is that we could step into it, for a while, and chill for a second under the branches of the Green Man fella at the centre.

The image was created Beth Gillespie - a very talented illustrator of natural landscapes, animals, and nostalgic, English scenes - we spoke to her about her art, inspirations, and finding fantasy in reality. Read the interview in the magazine, or on the site 🌲

This month’s cover artist Beth Gillespie talks about art, folklore and finding fantasy in reality.

25/07/2025

'Ay Up'
📸 by Lauren Freestone

24/07/2025

Last Sunday night saw the return to the stage of the much-loved local music artist Whycliffe Bramwell at Fisher Gate Point. Link to full live review in comments...

📷by Snappedbyaaron

24/07/2025

We've teamed up with our friends at Dukki Gifts & Souvenirs to offer something a little extra to our supporters this month.

To celebrate the launch of their new space at Hopkinson Vintage, Antique and Arts Centre, we have acquired a couple of boxes of their wonderful Notts Dialect coasters and will be including them in the mailouts to our 'Postal Service' members next week.

Full story > https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-gift-dukki-134842232

24/07/2025

'Window to the Heart'

📸 by Jason Thompson

23/07/2025

Murder on the Royal Concert Hall Dancefloor' 📸 by Gary Stringer

Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

23/07/2025

Time to give thanks to some of our amazing Patreon supporters:

❤️Dunford Elizabeth
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23/07/2025

We walk along the streets of Nottingham every day without paying much attention to their names. They may be just words to us now, but street names were often originally descriptions, giving us information about important goings on in that area. Here are the meanings and history behind some of Nottingham’s streets that you may not have thought about before -

We walk along the streets of Nottingham every day without paying much attention to their names. They may be just words to us now, but street names were often originally descriptions, giving us information about important goings on in that area. Here are the meanings and history behind some of Nottin...

23/07/2025

22/07/2025

RIP Ozzy Osbourne.🤘

Ozzy played ROCK CITY several times over the years, but he's probably best remembered here for the time he started a riot here by NOT PLAYING.

He cancelled his gig from his Notts hotel room just up the road in July 1988 due to having a throat infection.

However, Ozzy more than made up for it with his later appearances - including one or two unbilled ones. Were any of you at any of those shows? If so let us know...

22/07/2025

Aiming to take the ‘art out of the gallery and into the community’, the Not(t) Art Collective is a new project that hopes to provoke interest from people who wouldn’t necessarily ‘do’ art.

Taking place at Barley Twist on Carrington Street, the collective looks to engage people in a range of social creative activities; from portrait drawing socials, to bring your own arts-and-crafts evenings, to the bare essentials - life drawing! We spoke to Matt Smith, founder of the Collective about his motivations for starting the group -

Aiming to take the ‘art out of the gallery and into the community’, the Not(t) Art Collective is a new project that hopes to provoke interest from people who wouldn’t necessarily ‘do’ art. Taking place at The Barley Twist pub on Carrington Street, the collective looks to engage people in a...

20/07/2025

From pagan literature book clubs, to legendary ice rink openings for family summer fun- whether you're an art enthusiast, music lover, or just looking for a new club to join, there'll probably be something happening in Notts this week which you'll enjoy. Here are our picks for this week -

📙Nottingham Pagan Book Club at Five Leaves Bookshop
🟣Stone Soup Academy presents Stand Up to Knife Crime
🌈Roger Waters: This is Not a Drill at Savoy Nottingham
🖌Claude Money and Meg Wall at Bonington Gallery
🎤Bama Lama Sing Song at The Palais
⛸ Skate the Legacy at National Ice Centre
🏳️‍🌈Notts Pride
🏳️‍🌈Absolut Pride Party at Das Kino
🌿Dartmoor Calling + Where Is Heaven at Mammoth Cinema

From pagan literature book clubs, to legendary ice rink openings for family summer fun- whether you're an art enthusiast, music lover, or just looking for a new club to join, there'll probably be something happening in Notts this week which you'll enjoy. Here are our picks for this week...