• Nottingham Castle Open 2016 @ Nottingham Castle

    For the past 100 years, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery has played host to an ‘open-style’ exhibition, aiming to “throw a spotlight onto the many committed and talented artists that live and work in our community”. The biggest Fine Art and Contemporary Art prize in the Midlands returns...
  • Pirate Kings, Laughter and Medics: Interview with Duncan McGregor and Angus Kitchin

    It’s that time of year when the nights are getting colder, and we all need a bit of pirate fun that will shiver our timbers! In this vein, Impact Arts spoke to Duncan McGregor, the director of this year’s annual Medic’s musical who answered our questions with a little...
  • Arty Outings: Amsterdam’s Moco Museum

    During my trip to Amsterdam with friends this summer, I stumbled across a Banksy and Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Modern Contemporary (Moco) Museum, situated in Villa Alsberg, in the middle of the Amsterdam Museumplein. My friends and I intended to visit the Van Gogh museum instead, but since...
  • Opera North’s Der Rosenkavalier @ Theatre Royal

    A comedic opera centering around the wedding gift of a silver rose, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss has a complex plot, which involves a love affair between an older woman and her young lover, an arranged marriage between a baron and a blushing bride, and a network of webs that interlink the characters. Whimsical...
  • Very Pink and Somewhat Unsettling: Marguerite Humeau @ Nottingham Contemporary

    Marguerite Humeau is a French artist living in London, whose work focuses on the links that can be formed between worlds. Her work has been featured among many celebrated collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Serpentine Gallery and the MoMA. This, her first solo exhibition in...
  • Contractions @ Nottingham New Theatre

    With minimalistic set and lighting designs, Contractions relies on the strong performances of the two leads and Mike Bartlett’s darkly humorous script to create a thoroughly engaging, enjoyable narrative regarding individual privacy and freedom in the corporate world. For the entire play, the set consists of little more than...
  • Love, Acceptance and Fighting for What is Right: Interview with Laura Jayne Bateman and Aneesa Kaleem

    As the highly anticipated The Pride comes to the New Theatre this week, Impact Arts’ Michelle Williams sat down and spoke to the director, Laura Jayne Bateman and producer, Aneesa Kaleem about the show, its resonance today and how they juggled creating the show alongside university life.  Can you tell us a...