Join us! Stand with Robin at our Robin Hood Week celebrations. Plus, half-term events, Malt Cross festival, FREE Shakespeare play and Halloween fun!

Robin Hood week is here!

Join our fun celebration of Nottingham's hero outlaw which is now on! Here's what you can enjoy:

• FREE Robin Hood fun every day from Monday (today) until Thursday 22 Oct in the Old Market Square, from 11.30am - 3.30pm. See combat displays, handle weaponry and experience medieval justice, meet hilarious and hapless characters, and meet Nottingham’s own Robin Hood as he performs daily. 
• FREE talk at City Arts, Nottingham, to find out about the cloning of our iconic Robin Hood statue - hear from the team involved and find out why Robin's twin was created.
• OFFER: Get a half-price Robin Hood hat from Nottingham Tourism Centre, on Smithy Row, this week - just £1.50! Offer ends 24 October.

>>Find out more about Robin Hood Week

Robin Hood Pageant - This weekend!

Travel back in time to experience life in a medieval village, as Robin Hood and his merry men clash with the Sheriff of Nottingham and his forces. 

There's SO much to see and do for everyone in the beautiful autumnal grounds of Nottingham Castle, including jousting, living history demonstrations, falconry displays, having a drink in the medieval alehouse, have a go at archery, and meeting medieval characters including alchemists and minstrels! 

A family (2 adults and up to 3 children) can enjoy the daytime event for just £25, or the nighttime event for just £20! 

Thanks to The Nottingham Building Society for their sponsorship of the Robin Hood Pageant. 

>>Find out more and get tickets

Malt Cross Festival - 23 - 25 October Celebrate the birthday of Nottingham's beautiful Victorian music hall with a weekend of fun (FREE entry).   Featuring arts and crafts, cave tours, live music, and delicious food and drink.  >>See what's on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Ready for Half-Term?

Half-term starts today! There's so much on to entertain kids of all ages, including:

• Robin Hood Week 
• Robin Hood activities in Nottingham libraries
• £1 daily School's Out fun giving kids 8-15 the chance to try and take part in a variety of sports, games, and arts and crafts
• Half-term activities in Nottingham children's centres
• Ghosts and Ghouls activities at Nottingham Castle
• Go batty at Newstead
• Have fun at Stonebridge City Farm
• Halloween fun at the Galleries of Justice
• Modelling, biscuit making and Halloween mask making at Green's Windmill

 >>Plus, visit our half-term page for more ideas

FREE tennis in Nottingham!   FREE Social Tennis at Nottingham Tennis Centre for the whole of October – Monday 8-10pm, Tuesday 11-1pm & Sunday 3-5pm. Coach led, all courts, balls, racquets and partners provided. Just turn up!

GameCity 10 is almost here! 22-31 October GameCity is back for its tenth year with a fantastic programme full of (mostly) FREE videogame related fun, including; Gamechangers Football - Join us in the Old Market Square every day from 11am as we invent new ways to play Mario the Musical: Friday 23 Oct Minecraft: Inside the Blockopedia on Monday 26 Oct   >>See the full festival programme

Get ready for Halloween!     Celebrate in style with some spooky activities:  Ghostly Dungeon Tour at Nottingham Castle Halloween Mask Making at Green's Windmill The Nottingham Ghost Walk Haunted Happenings at Newstead Abbey Halloween tours at the Galleries of Justice Halloween at the City of Caves Guts and gore tours with Ezekial Bone Halloween at White Post Farm Halloween Beer Festival at Hand and Heart

The Duchess of Malfi at Nottingham Playhouse From Fri 30 Oct Get your Halloween weekend off to a murderously good start, with a heart-stopping piece of theatrical creepiness at Nottingham Playhouse. For The Duchess of Malfi, a secret marriage behind her evil brothers’ backs can only lead to one thing: fury, torture and a high body count. Nottingham Playhouse Associate Director Fiona Buffini directs this blood-soaked masterpiece following her critically acclaimed productions of Time and the Conways and A Skull in Connemara.  >>Get tickets from just £10.50

The Little Match Girl Passion - Wed 21 Oct Nottingham Lakeside Arts Cryptic presents David Lang's Pulitzer Prize winning The Little Match Girl Passion, combining Hans Christian Andersen's heart-breaking tale with JS Bach's setting of the St Matthew Passion. In a unique presentation of this previously unstaged masterpiece, the tragic story of the little match girl is brought to life by vocal ensemble and percussion. >>Get tickets

Save the date!

5 November: FREE Bonfire Night Celebration at Forest Recreation Ground
7 November: Readers' Day Celebration at County Hall, West Bridgford
7 November: Autumn Fair at Green's Windmill
14 November: Diwali Celebrations at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Nottingham Comic Con - Saturday 24 October At Nottingham Conference Centre 10am - 5pm Nottingham Comic Convention takes place this weekend. Featuring talks, film screenings, live music and lots of well-known guests from the comic book world.    Children 12 years and under go free, and adults are just £7!  >>Get tickets

Crafternoon Weekender at Debbie Bryan

Saturday 24th October 10.30am – 3pm: Textile Lampshade, £48

Learn specialist techniques from fabric folding and distressing to appliqué and slow embroidery, to create a one of a kind lampshade. Spend a couple of hours surrounded by a multitude of materials and let your creative juices flow to make something truly individual.

>>Find out more and book

FREE - A Midsummer Night's Dream Tue 20 October 7pm at Activeace Arena   After a sell-out performance at Nottingham Castle this summer, The HandleBards – a bicycle-powered, 4-strong, all-male troupe of players – are returning to Nottingham with a one-night-only performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Come and watch Shakespeare’s most famous play performed as you’ve would never have imagined: by four bonkers cyclists with side-splittingly surreal imaginations.

Halloween Cake Club Sunday 25 October at Ned Ludd 2pm - 4pm   Have your cake and eat it as you help to raise money for local charities! Bake up a storm then join other cake-lovers for a sugar and tea filled afternoon upstairs at the Ned Ludd. >>Get tickets (from £3)

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