Get arty in Sherwood: It’s Art Week!

Gareth Morgan All, Opp Notts

This week, when we’ve not been watching the footy or hearing all about the pros and cons of being in or out of the EU, Sherwood has been hosting its annual art week! There’s great school and community support for the event with Carrington, Claremont, Haydn, and Seely Primaries plus The Nottingham Free School all taking part in a variety of activities before and during Art Week.

The schools will be exhibiting their work in Sherwood Library throughout the festival week, open every day apart from Thursday. This includes pupils making 2D and 3D artwork and textiles, taking part in performances, yarn bombing and book swaps. The children at Carrington Primary School are looking forward to participating in SAW. They will be exploring Maths through Art and exhibiting their work influenced by 20th century artists. Seely Primary School will be producing sculptures and artwork from recycled materials this term to exhibit alongside 60 of their milk bottle lanterns that were shown in the city on Light Night. The school is turning their hall into a gallery again for the general public to visit from 3.30pm to 5.30pm Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 June and pupils in KS2 are doing performance arts including a scene from The Tempest by Shakespeare as part of the celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare. The school are even working with an artist to develop bunting to celebrate SAW!

The whole event is rounded off by The Remarkable Recycling Gala on Sunday 26th 11am – 4pm at Sherwood Community Centre on Mansfield Road, which promises to be a fun filled family day out celebrating recycled art. There’ll be 20 Recycled Craft Stall holders including soy candles in vintage tea cups, recycled wood items, to bags and purses made from denim jeans. Plus super workshop activities:  make your own hedgehog, origami mobiles, musical instruments and Tetra Pak wallet or bicycle tyre belt – each activity is £1. Or, create a creature out of milk bottle tops for free! There will be performances by bands and poets throughout the day, exhibitions by Nottingham Free School and Central College Horizons, food and drink and even a pedal powdered ice cream bike.

For more information visit The Sherwood Art Week website!

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On yer bike with the Aviva Women’s Tour!

Gareth Morgan All, Opp Notts

The Aviva Women’s Tour is Britain’s biggest women’s cycling event. The 2016 race will take place 15 – 19 June, with Nottingham hosting the stage 4 start on Saturday 18 June. The top cycling teams in the world have now announced that they’ll be taking part in the event. Currently Team GB’s Lizzie Armitstead is leading the race ahead of second-placed Ashleigh Moolman of South Africa and the Italian Elisa Longbo Borghini back in third.

Join us in the Old Market Square for a morning of free activities and entertainment from 9am, and to watch the racers depart at around 10:30am. They’ll then race along the route below: up the steep Derby Road then down Ilkeston and Wollaton Roads to Crown Island. They will then skirt round Wollaton Hall and the University, leaving the city into Beeston.

Stage four sees the cyclists travelling 120km from Nottingham to Stoke-On-Trent, over the hilly peak district (they’ll ascend 1500 metres on the ride!). See more on the Aviva Women’s tour website.

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Aegon Nottingham Men’s Open Returns Too!

Gareth Morgan All, Opp Notts

2016 sees the return of Nottingham’s own grass court tennis tournaments, Aegon Open Nottingham WTA and ATP, after sell-out success last year. Why not head down to the Tennis Centre and watch the action out on court!

Last year the ATP tournament saw a win for for Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, as he saw off 2010 Aegon Championships winner Sam Querrey in a thrilling two set final, to win his first ever ATP World Tour title. It returns this weekend running from 18th to 25th June.

Nottingham is looking forward to welcoming Denis Istomin again, who will return to defend his Aegon Open (ATP) title. He will join a field that also includes last year’s semi-finalist Alexandr Dolgopolov. World No. 19 Kevin Anderson also play. He was runner up to Andy Murray in the final of last year’s Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club. Jiří Veselý — one of the only players to beat World No.1 Novak Djokovic so far in 2016 is also in the line up.

You can buy your tickets online by visiting the tournament website! Go on – see some world class tennis in Nottingham!

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