Chinese New Year celebration, give us Light Night feedback, and LGBT History Month.

Nottingham City Council sent this bulletin at 08-02-2016 03:56 PM GMT

Chinese New Year

Nottingham welcomes the Year of the Monkey!

Don't miss the FREE public celebration on Sunday 14th February, with fireworks,

Thursday 10 Feb: Chinese Contemporary Dance Workshop at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Sunday 14 Feb: Spring Festival Finale at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Saturday 20 Feb: Chinese New Year Gala at the Royal Concert Hall

Tell us your thoughts on Light Night

Fill in a short online feedback survey to give us your thoughts about Light Night, which took place on Friday 5 February.

Save the date! Light Night 2017 will happen on 10 February 2017!

Half-Term is coming!

Nottingham schools are on holiday from 15 - 19 February, so if you're planning how to entertain the kids next week, we can help!

There are lots of events happening, including FREE events.

Pick up the February - May What's On guide!

The spring What's On guide is now available around the city! Pick up a copy from

Nottingham Tourism Centre (opposite Primark)
Nottingham Station
Nottingham Castle
and lots more venues around the city, including cafes, shops and cinemas

Get your tickets for the European Archery Championship 28 - 29 May

Tickets are selling fast for the chance to see Team GB compete in the top-flight archery championship! Don't miss your chance to see exciting live archery in an arena in the Old Market Square.

In association with The Nottingham Building Society.

Get tickets (from £10)

Digitopia at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Friday 12 Feb at 7pm and Sat 13 Feb at 11.30am & 2.30pm

Dotty's friend Hex is a simple two-dimensional line. He can make angles and the most he can make is six, but one day, he really wants to make a curve. With a lot of effort, he learns to bend, then multiply, and suddenly, he can turn into anything he wants to, eventually popping into three dimensions!

Suitable for ages 5 and up - get tickets

FREE open weekend at Nottingham Tennis Centre 13 & 14 February

Come along to the tennis centre this weekend to play tennis, take part in a class or try the gym completely FREE! There are plenty of activities for kids to get involved in, too.

Find out more

Don't forget Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is Sunday 14 February

Why not support a local business as you spoil your Valentine - Woodthorpe Park Plant Shop is now taking orders for Valentine's Day flowers, with beautiful bouquets starting from just £20.

Call into the shop to see our range of baskets, aquapacks and plants, with FREE delivery within a three-mile radius of the shop.

Visit the Plant Shop

LGBT History Month Events

The University of Nottingham are putting on great, FREE events this February as LGBT History Month continues.

Lesbian pulp fiction: then and now, 6.30pm Wednesday 10 February. Book online.
Hate crime in Nottingham and beyond, 7pm Thursday 11 February. Book online.
Polari: the lost and found gay language, 6.30pm Wednesday 17 February. Book online.
LGBT rights are human rights, 5.30pm Thursday 18 February. Book online.
Mojisola Adebajo: a retrospective presentation, 7pm Friday 19 February. Book online.
Discipline and punish: Foucault, BDSM and his philosophy of power, 6.30pm Thursday 25 February. Book online.
London Spy screening and Q&A, 4pm Sunday 28 February. Book online.

Moscow State Circus

Forest Recreation Ground 16 - 24 February

.Wizard Wako, and his crazy side kick Natalia Mezentceva, invites the audience to a wondrous and mysterious enchanted garden, a place where dreams come true and a place to see magnificent feats of human achievement, the like of which have never been witnessed in Great Britain before.

As our Loveable Buffoons guide us through this tantalising tale, granting wishes to the beautiful Kushka Veslovskiy who plays Zhenya, surrounded by a multitude of flying, back flipping, juggling, wire walking and roller-skating performers.

Get tickets (from £15.30)

More events in Nottingham

This week

Tuesday 9 February: Trash to Treasure talk at Basford Library (FREE)
Wednesday 10 February: NTU Lunchtime Concert at Nottingham Trent University (FREE)
Wednesday 10 February: Christy Fearn author talk at Nottingham Mechanics
Wednesday 10 February: £1 Comedy Night at Canalhouse
Thursday 11 February: Talk - what can you do about Food Waste? At City Arts (FREE)
Friday 12 February: Safer Internet Event at Meadows Library (FREE)
Friday 12 February: Skills Demonstrations at intu Broadmarsh (FREE)
Saturday 13 February: Watercolour Workshop at the Malt Cross
Saturday 13 February: Night Run at Clumber Park
Sunday 14 February: Community Food Swap at Green's Windmill

Next few weeks

Until end Feb: Snowdrops at Holme Pierrepont Hall
6 Feb - 6 March: Snowdrops at Hodsock Priory

Exhibitions

Until 28 February: The Story of Art at Patchings Art Centre
Until 13 March: Larissa Sansour: In the Future they Ate from the Finest Porcelain at New Art Exchange
Until 17 April: Inspiring Beauty: No.7 at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Until 31 December: Fragments in Time at Rufford Abbey

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