Nottingham's biggest and most popular free festival weekend! The Riverside Festival is Nottingham's biggest free festival weekend offering three days of family entertainment. It is a unique and fun festival covering one mile along the banks of the River Trent, at Victoria Embankment, adjacent to Trent Bridge. Three days of live music, great food and [...]

Join in with an entire weekend of celebratory events for the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force across Lincoln including 1940s Weekend, aviation displays, and fireworks. Celebrate the spirit of 1940s Britain from The Strait to Bailgate, with two days of period activities and displays, vintage market stalls, entertainment, and reenactors. The city will [...]

The Southwell Music Festival is a celebration of classic music that will run over six days, from 22 August to 27 August. The main Saturday night concert at the Minster will present Sir Michael Tippett’s moving oratorio A Child of our Time preceded by a performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in which the soloist will be the [...]

Grandslam 2018 Tour with Simple Minds, The Pretenders and special guest KT Tunstall.  

The annual Brass Explosion at Newark Castle takes place on 26 August. The finale to the 2018 event is being performed by Newark and Sherwood Concert Band who will be on stage at 9:00pm. Free entry and all are welcome

For over 30 years this favourite family event has been entertaining visitors to Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre.  Skirmishing, costumed characters, and medieval themed activities ranging from historical re-enactment to slapstick comedy, from music of the Middle Ages to family trails and craft demonstrations – all within the authentic leafy setting of Robin Hood’s legendary Sherwood [...]

Have you ever dreamt of dancing around an authentic Regency ballroom? Well now is your chance, guides in fabulous Georgian attire will be conducting tours of Newark Town Hall including the magnificent ballroom, built in 1776 by the architect John of Car Opening Times Thursday 6 September: 10.30-15.30 Friday 7 September: 10.30-15.30 Saturday 8 September: [...]

  The museum looks at the extraction of oil from both the Nottinghamshire countryside and oil rigs at sea. There are artefacts from the industry and the individuals involved in that industry. One of World War Two's best kept secret was the stationing of US oilmen from Oklahoma and Texas with the monks, then living [...]

Newark is full of secret little gems and during this walk you will be spotting the less obvious and well-disguised timber framed buildings. This walk guided by local architect Bernard Martin will also visit the interior of the famous Old White Hart. Opening Times Friday 7 September: 1300 Booking Details Pre-booking: Required Booking by phone [...]

The penultimate stage sees the OVO Energy Tour of Britain return to Nottinghamshire to build upon the success of the 2017 stage in the county.  This year’s longest stage of the race heads departs from West Bridgford, just a short distance away from the iconic Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, and finishes in Mansfield.