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Free Download! A mindful art activity booklet to reduce isolation…
Download 'Create to Connect', our free PDF activity booklet. The specially designed booklets detail art activities that you can do at home, on your own or in a group. They…
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Exhibition
Perception Together
Dates of event: 10 Jul 2022 - 10 Jul 2022 Sunday, Daily Opening Time: 11:00am - Daily Closing Time: 3:00pm
Venue Address: City Arts, 11-13 Hockley, Nottingham, NG1 1FH
Enter an immersive, interactive multi-sensory installation artwork. Perception Together takes inspiration from synaesthesia. This is the phenomenon of distinct senses intersecting, for example seeing music or hearing colours. The installation…
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Exhibition
Hope and Healing
Dates of event: Until 27 Jul 2022 Mon - Thur, Daily Opening Time: 10:00am - Daily Closing Time: 5:00pm
Venue Address: The Window Gallery, City Arts, 11-13 Hockley, Nottingham, NG1 1FH
City Arts is proud to host an exhibition by Refugee Roots for Refugee Week 2022. It celebrates the hope felt in art workshops run by the charity, and the healing…
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Project dates: January 2022 - November 2022
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Project dates: October 2020 - June 2022
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Project dates: December 2021 - September 2022
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28 COVID-safe doorstep puppet shows
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Residence: Introducing bursary award recipients ‘Perception Together’
Perception Together is an interactive community art project, created by artists Callum Mulligan, Hannah Satchwell and Meridith Dickin. The artists were awarded the Young Producers bursary as part of City…
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“I felt that what I had to say was valued. I started to value what I had to say for myself.”
Honey Williams is a creative powerhouse. She is a singer-songwriter, a visual artist and designer. Between April 2021 and October 2021, Honey was artist-in-residence at City Arts. In 2020, in…
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Opportunity
Residence: Bursary for artists/creatives from St Ann’s or Sneinton
City Arts is offering a bursary of £1200 for an artist/creative to take time to develop their work and share the outcomes with us. There is an additional £200 for…
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Residence: Bursary for artists/creatives from Black, South Asian, East Asian or mixed ethnic backgrounds
City Arts is offering a bursary of £1200 for an artist/creative from a Black, South Asian, East Asian or mixed ethnic background, to take time to develop their work and…
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Residence: Bursary for D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent artists/creatives
City Arts is offering a bursary of £1200 for a disabled artist/creative to take time to develop their work and share the outcomes with us. There is an additional £200…
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Blog
Word Sounds Empower
For our current exhibition, Old Time Sayings, Panya Banjoko writes about the history and contemporary status of Jamaican vernacular. Panya Banjoko is a UK based writer, poet and PhD Researcher.…
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