We hope you're well and staying safe. With all planned VE day celebrations forced to turn digital, here is a selection of some of the ways you can honour the...

King Lear prizes is a new national creative arts competition that has been set up for people aged 70 and over to create new works of literature, poetry, musi...

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision that fact that you can do something. You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." Arno...

Thoughts of Hope - SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS CHANGE THE WORLD In 2017, an exhibition celebrating three men who led extraordinary lives and shared one common goa...

“Solitude sometimes is best society.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost What’s the first thing you think of when you think of Nottingham? Is it the link to Englis...

A Day in the Life In 2010 award winning film director Kevin Macdonald worked on a new idea for a film, one that didn’t depend on scripts or actors but of the...

And breathe.... The benefits of yoga has long been explored and there is a widespread understanding that it is a safe and effective form of exercise that can...

Local scenes - What’s your favourite spot in Nottingham? Does the scenery change much throughout the seasons? Do you have any photos of it? Can you draw it f...

Anyone for the Ballet? The Royal Opera House are bringing opera and ballet straight to your living room with their new series - Our House to your House. Once...

Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no mat...

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” Roy T. Bennett “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all thos...

Today our focus is on reading and sharing words. Words of wisdom, of reality, of hope, poignant words, and words to inspire and motivate. To do this, we’ve s...

Look at things differently and find inspiration from anything and everything around you. Here are a few ideas for how you can be creative during this time wi...

Throughout the week we're going to be sharing content under daily themes such as: Monday Motivation, Tuesday Tasks, Wednesday Words, Thursday Thoughts, Frida...

At a time when a lot of us are having to stay indoors, potentially having to self isolate, and have no access to the things we enjoy, like the city's cultura...

With regard to Government recommendations given on Monday 16 March, ArtSpeak has suspended all activities, workshops and events throughout March and April; i...

The Nottingham Playhouse has kindly given us some tickets to their upcoming comedy Moonlight and Magnolias on Thursday 27 February, 7:30pm. This (almost) tru...

ArtSpeak and Age Friendly Nottingham are looking for participants aged 60 and above to be models for a bespoke photography project. The images taken will be ...

Explore your creative writing potential and get involved in our Creative Writing Hub by attending a new series of six writing workshops with Artist, Writing ...

Ever wondered what life was like in the rural countryside, in the early 19th Century, and how this influenced a writer who became one of the most renowned po...