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Term ended a few weeks ago and already the bubble that is University is fading into blackness, as students up and down the country, far away from their Midland home of Nottingham, are beginning to wonder: what did I ever used to do with all this spare time? We look at how to...
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Ahead of its running at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, University of Nottingham 2015 Medics Graduate Aaron Calvert returned to UoN to perform a preview of his show Decisions. Impact Arts set out to review the hypnotic psychological show… The thing about these kind of shows – magic, mentalist, illusionist –...
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A year and a half ago, Ed Miliband was a household name, and the ‘Milibabes’ were in full swing; sharing photos of the then-Labour leader struggling to eat sandwiches on social media, flocking out in their dozens to take selfies with the great man, and stirring up a whole...
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With bad puns, excellent acting, and a disappointing lack of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Sketch has it all! Well, apart from the dinosaurs. Impact Arts reviews this ambitious sketch show written by Nottingham students Jamie Drew and Ian Sheard (and also starring the latter), and produced by Joanne Blunt, ahead of its...
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The University of Nottingham Students’ Union have announced that they will remain in the National Union of Students (NUS). Below are the statistics for the Nottingham referendum: Remain: 1227 votes Leave: 803 votes Abstain: 10 votes Total: 2040 votes The quoracy level for this referendum was set at 836 votes. Angharad Smith, President of...
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We live in a world not only controlled, but also constructed, by the media. Our realities are fundamentally based on what we are told, as much as by what we see. Journalism is by nature un-objective, inseparable from a larger political motive or narrative. Stories are exaggerated to sell...
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With junior doctors dominating the news, Impact Features tries to give you the key facts about the current debate between the medics and the government. The reasons for the recent junior doctors’ strikes are many and complex, but they fundamentally stem from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plan to make a ‘Seven Day...