Nottingham’s biggest and most popular FREE festival returns with three days of unmissable family entertainment! From Friday 4 – Sunday 6 August, Riverside Festival will take over Victoria Embankment for one of the highlights of the Nottingham events calendar. Stretching a mile along the banks of the River Trent, enjoy live music on the Monument, Jazz and Folk Stages. Enjoy a Mini-Big-Top & Fun Fair; Street Theatre; and on Sunday, see the Dragon Boat Challenge and now famous Duck Race; Food and Drink Stalls; Roaming Dinosaurs; Saturday Night Fireworks and much more…..
The children’s zone activities include the building of a tree installation; puppet theatre; creating clay flowers; festival hat making; building your own kite; storytelling (from none other than Nottingham Playhouse’s Dame); circus skills workshops and a Nottinghamshire Scouts activity area. Be aware that this year the Children’s Zone has moved from the Children’s Play Area (besides the paddling pool) to the Memorial Gardens at the rear of the War Memorial itself.
Visitors to Riverside can also enjoy a range of food and drink including Italian (pizza), Caribbean, Indian, Greek and Mediterranean, plus gourmet burgers and sausages, noodles and wraps in addition to traditional treats in candy floss and doughnuts.
Following the fireworks display (from 10.30pm Saturday), Nottingham City Transport will run a shuttle bus service from the Trent Bridge end of the site to get people back into the city centre along with a Hackney Cab rank in the same area.
Car parking is available at a cost of £6 per car per day with entrance via Riverside Way, off Queens Drive. To plan your journey visit www.traveline.info
There are stories you find when you open a book. And there are others…that wait to find you.
Sylvia South is settling in for a quiet day at her local library, when she looks up from the pages to see something outrageous. Knowing she’d best be off before something more terrible happens…something more terrible happens!
And suddenly Sylvia South is off on an adventure, navigating streets on a borrowed bicycle to chase a strange little man with an armful of other people’s books.
It would be an exciting story to read – if only she wasn’t inside it!
Designed with young audiences in mind this play is suitable for children aged 5+ and has a running time of 50mins. Come on down this summer and catch Sylvia South and the Word Catcher!
You’re Among Ideal Friends…
This exciting piece of family theatre is part of our Among Ideal Friends initiative – a theatre touring consortium developed by The Spark Arts for Children in partnership with libraries in the East Midlands, including Inspire!
Sylvia South is a brand new piece of theatre created specifically for the project and the libraries involved. It has been written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, an award-wining playwright, who has had 81 commissioned plays performed on five continents and translated into six languages.
The Reading Agency and Nottingham City Libraries bring you the 2017 Summer Reading Challenge – Animal Agents – a whole host of clever creatures, ready to solve all kinds of crimes! This band of furry, slippery and feathered friends are specially trained to use their skills and natural instincts to unravel mysteries – with a huge helping of fun along the way.
Don’t be bored over the summer come and join in the fun at your local library!
Are you up for the challenge?
To take part all you have to do is read 6 library books over the summer holiday period. It’s FREE to join too! The only rule is they have to be library books! You can read anything, and that means ANYTHING: picture books, fact books or stories from your favourite authors.
Take your library card along with you and ask a staff member to join. Fill out a registration card and choose some books. As you return books you will start to receive incentives, a collector’s card and stickers. If you read all six books you will get invited to a medal ceremony where you will be presented with a medal and certificate.
The fun begins tomorrow, 15th July, and runs until 2nd September 2017. You can visit the library anytime during this period to sign-up and take part. We have lots of great performances, crafts and activities for families in libraries over the summer. Click here to view our Summer holiday activity programme and find out what’s on and when. And, if you’re going on holiday – don’t worry you don’t have to visit the library every week to take part – you could visit before you go and when you come back!
