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Just announced: 70 Glorious Years: The Queen in Nottingham

Queen's Jubilee [ [link removed] ]
Fri 27 May to Sun 5 June

*Old Market Square*

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Nottingham City Council and legal firm Geldards have announced a special exhibition to mark the Platinum Jubilee.

Entitled "70 Glorious Years – The Queen in Nottingham" will be a large format open-air photographic exhibition.

A collection of 22 images, celebrate the Queen’s visits to Nottingham over the last 70 years from the Coronation tour in 1955 through to her most recent visit for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012. The images also look at how Nottingham people have celebrated significant royal occasions over the years.

The exhibition will open to the public in Old Market Square for public viewing on Friday 27 May and will remain until Sunday 5 June, open between 8am and 8pm daily.

Other events announced this week are detailed below.

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Jubilee community events

Jubilee community [ [link removed] ]

From Sat 28 May

*Various locations*

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Many community groups have arranged smaller activities to mark the Platinum Jubilee, these free events are a mixture of community picnics, and craft activities, alongside organised fun and games for the kids.

Venues include King Edward Park, Queen’s Recreation Ground, Heathfield Park, Clifton Central Park, and Stockhill Park 

Dates and times can be found at the link below but please contact individual organisations for more information.

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Jubilee Beacon Lighting events

Beacon [ [link removed] ]

Thurs 2 June

*Woodthorpe Park [ [link removed] ]
Clifton Flower Park [ [link removed] ]
Green's Windmill [ [link removed] ]*

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On Thursday 2 June, as part of a chain of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee beacons, four Nottingham neighbourhoods will light their beacons, joining thousands of others throughout the nations and regions of the UK and across the Commonwealth.

All beacons will be lit at 9:45pm. Use the links above for details on individual events.




Blossom Together

Blossom Together [ [link removed] ]

Sat 28 & Tues 31 May

*Lenton Recreation Ground St Mary's Rest Garden*

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Join The Nottingham City Parks Team to celebrate their partnership with the National Trust to help communities ‘blossom’.

A range of free, family friendly activities will be on offer at Lenton Recreation Ground [ [link removed] ] (Sat 28 May) and St Mary’s Rest Garden [ [link removed] ] (Tues 31 May) between from 11am – 2pm,

Blossom Together is part of the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Green Canopy [ [link removed] ] project. 

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Meadowlands Festival

Meadowlands [ [link removed] ]

*Friday 3 June*

*Victoria Embankment, Nottingham
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Meadowlands will be staged at Victoria Embankment in two-weeks time.

Already a legendary live performer, headliner - "Gerry Cinnamon’s" gigs have become folklore.

The festival features some of the hottest bands to emerge over the last year and also includes indie stalwarts "The Kooks", Liverpool’s "The Mysterines "whose debut album "‘Reeling’" went top 10 in the UK album charts this week, Yorkshire breakout band "The Reytons" and festival favourites "Black Honey".

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Detonate Festival

Detonate 2022 [ [link removed] ]

Sat 4 June

*Colwick Park*

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Detonate brings Nottingham together for a massive party.

Set amongst the woodland, lakes and clearings of Colwick Country Park with floating stages, woodland hideaways, global street food, cocktails, fireworks, and live street art, the line-up includes more than 60 live artists and DJs from across House, Dance, and Drum n' Bass.

Check out the full line-up on the link below.

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Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Man Lakeside [ [link removed] ]

Thurs 2 to Sun 5 June

*Nottingham Lakeside Arts*

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He's back ...and he's still running. Join the bravest biscuit of all on his quest for survival.

Imagine being born in an oven and the first person you meet wants to dunk you in their tea! Up and down and into town our Gingerbread Man must use his wits to escape anyone who finds him tasty.

Stuff and Nonsense return with their brilliant mix of puppetry, live action, great music, humour and stunning staging in this fast-paced retelling of the much-loved classic tale.

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Sean Paul

Sean Paul [ [link removed] ]

Weds 31 August

*Motorpoint Arena*

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With over 26 million records sold, across seven studio albums, Sean Paul has taken the dancehall genre global, from its origin in clubs in Kingston, Jamaica to the pinnacle of the charts time and again.

Sean Paul has performed to enormous audiences, igniting stages and packing out some of the biggest venues in more than 120 countries.

Expect countless smash hits such as ‘Mad Love’, ‘Rockabye’, ‘Baby Boy’, ‘No Lie’, and ‘Body’ plus his most recent single ‘Dynamite’ to follow up the global smash ‘Cheap Thrills’.

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The Shires

The Shires [ [link removed] ]

Mon 23 May

*Royal Concert Hall*

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The UK’s best-selling country act *The Shires *are back with their latest album "Good Years"*.* 

The title of the group’s newest record couldn’t ring truer for Ben and Crissie as the release follows two gold-certified albums and three Top 10 singles cementing their status as two of country music’s most prominent voices.

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Woodland Disco Festival

Woodland Disco [ [link removed] ]

Sat 2 July

*Lime Lane Woods, Arnold*

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Submerged in a fairytale setting of majestic woodland just 10 minutes from Nottingham City Centre, expect a fully immersive festival.

Expect the biggest names in house and disco, confetti and disco balls, and delicious street food. 

The natural surroundings of the forest the perfect setting to showcase internationally-acclaimed artists across 2 stages including Dimitri From Paris, Jocelyn Brown (Live), and Dave Lee ZR

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Nottingham 10k - Still time to take part

Nottingham 10k [ [link removed] ]
*Sun 22 May*

*University of Nottingham, University Park Campus*

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Fancy a Sunday morning run in the park? It’s not too late to sign up and raise money for the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre at the same time.

You can register for the Nottingham 10K on the day – just head down to the Race Office by the University of Nottingham’s Portland Building from 7.30am on Sunday to sign up.

The route will take runners around the beautiful Nottingham University, which is known for its extensive woodlands and gardens, as well as Highfields Park Boating Lake. So whether you’re trying to set a new personal best or you just want to give it a go. Race starts 9.30am.

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Rothesay Open Tennis

Ons Jabeur [ [link removed] ]
Sat 4 to Sun 12 June 

*Nottingham Tennis Centre*

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The Nottingham Open is one of the key grass court events as top male and female stars warm up for Wimbledon.

Mutua Madrid Open winner and world No.7 Ons Jabeur (Pictured) makes her return to British grass courts after winning the Birmingham Classic last year.

Two former Nottingham Open champions are also set to return - 2019 winner Caroline Garcia, and 2015 victor Ana Konjuh.

On 4 and 5 June, kids go free during qualifying as part of the Family Fun Weekend. Adults tickets are just £6, so don't miss out on some great tennis and lots of fun activities for the kids too!

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