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This bank holiday weekend, Nottstopping Festival is celebrating and connecting Nottinghamshire - all whilst fundraising to provide gifts, treats and experiences for frontline workers.
Join in with over 180 activities and 200 hours of entertainment for the whole family!
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FESTIVAL PREP
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*It's not a real festival if you haven't got a wristband, right?*
The Nottstopping team have thought of that and have created a snazzy*Festival toolkit* with wristbands to print off or design your own, along with bunting to festoon your festival pitch.
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Why not use the handy* two-day planner* and check out the whole line-up. Filtering by category, means you won't miss any of those "must see and do" moments.
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR FAMILIES
The Edi Johnston Bit Show
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*Sunday4-5pm*
Tune in for skits, songs and an hour of laughs to make the whole family giggle.
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Little Movers with Oksana
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*Saturday and Sunday 11- 11:30am* - 0-5yrs and their adults!
Join Oksana for a fun creative movement session as you slip, slide, hide and explore sensory experiences with textures, sounds, stories and more.
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Mystic Beats : DAF Drum Workshop
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*Sunday 2pm
*Join Robina and Mystic Beats to learn about Frame Drumming, its history, different ways to hold the drum, how to play some basic beats, how to layer the beats and how to apply the beats to songs. Banging!
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A Tiger's Tale
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*Saturday 10-11am*
Join Lakeside Arts for the extraordinary story of Fenella, the Holmfirth Tiger - a high spirited balancing act of circus, puppetry, live music and song.
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The Worst Witch Q&A
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*Sunday 12-1pm
*Live-streamed Q&A featuring The Worst Witch stars Bella Ramsey and Lydia Page. Young fans of the show andtheir families can find out what goes on behind the scenes, and what its like to be the star of a huge childrensshow.
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Make Your Own Worm Farm
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*Saturday**12-12:45pm
*Learn how to make a mini worm farm, on a mini budget, in a mini space.
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE GROWN-UPS
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Beeston Film Festival : 2020 Top Picks
*Saturday 6pm & 8pm
** &Sunday 8-9pm*
Watch three one-hour Facebook Watch Party broadcasts of the best films from the 2020 Festival.
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Justice [ [link removed] ]
Constraint & Restraint: Exhibition
*All weekend*
Objects symbolising restraint and constraint are the foundation of this thought-provoking, co-produced exhibition from *National Justice Museum.*Youll see handcuffs, keys, locks and cell doors from our collection, alongside powerful and surprising contemporary artworks.
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Nottingham Castle - Kenyan Food With Josh Osoro Pickering
*Sunday4:30 - 5:30pm*
Josh will be talking about the history of food in Kenya while cooking some typical food from the East African country. Kenyan cuisine is relatively unknown globally, but it blends Indian, British, Arab and Portuguese flavours, alongside millennia-old African cooking methods.
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Grannies In Lockdown With Jane Horrocks and Esther Coles
Grandmas, Grannies, Nanas and Nans will be spinning yarns out of their lockdown larks and quirks from quarantine, telling all their self isolation woes, and their favourite pie recipes. How has your Grandma been keeping herself out of trouble?
*Sunday6-7pm*
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CONNECT WITH YOUR COMMUNITY!
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*Here's a couple of the Festival's awesome Community Connect Projects [ [link removed] ] to get involved in too!*
*'From Me To You'*-Nominate your favourite front-line worker and *donate* to the *Nottstopping* *fund* to raise money for all key workers then sign your loved key worker up for the chance to win some great gifts, treats or experiences!
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Pack up your troubles with Nottingham Playhouse and BBC Radio Nottingham*
Tune in to BBC Radio Nottingham at 2pm on Saturday and Sunday to have a good old sing-along to some old classics. Plus sign up to the Playhouse pen pal scheme to send a letter, story, poem or drawing to give a boost to care home residents.
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IN OTHER NEWS!
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*Have Your Say!*
We'd like to know what you think about the citys events programme and the way we communicate through our website, weekly and monthly emails and our social media channels.
We'll use your feedback to make improvements in the future to help keep you updated on whats on in the city and across the region.
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Soul Boy Documentary
*27 May - 7:30pm* *BBC 1* as part of their "Our Lives" series.
From local film creatorsToby Curson and Luke Radford, you follow Nottingham-born Anthony, a 17-year-old student, whose great passion is the culture of the 1960s and 70sand especially Northern Soul.
Anthony grew up in the care system from the age of six and says he has seen many people come and go in his life. But in Northern Soul, and the community around it, Anthony finds a sense of belonging.
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