Challenge Nottingham

Get ahead and sign up for our next Primary Culture Meet, Mon 27 April 4-5pm.

Join for an online update with arts providers to hear first hand what’s coming up across the arts, culture and creativity sector. Stay at the heart of these exciting conversations, one of the key characteristics of a Cultural Rucksack school - helping you plan more meaningful, creative experiences that link classroom learning with Nottingham’s vibrant cultural scene.

Come along, get inspired, and discover new opportunities for your pupils this term. We warmly invite all schools to join in!

https://bit.ly/PrimaryCultureMeetApr2026
(Photo credit: Lakeside Arts)

Spring is in the air and our latest newsletter for Primary colleagues has landed too! See what connections and opportunities you can grow to build a cultural entitlement in your school. Its bursting with ideas, resources, exhibitions and so much more across Nottingham.

Share it in your teams and sign up for future editions
🎯 https://bit.ly/4f28PU9

Schools can also submit ideas for their own action learning proposals for up to £1500 towards Nature Connections projects; and also bring Ideas to our 'Test and Pilot fund' to support pupil visits to galleries, theatres and museums in Nottingham.

✅️https://bit.ly/PrimaryENewsMar26

Still time to see this wonderful exhibition…

🗺️ Transitions - Danny

💬 'Nottingham was there for me when I was carrying more than I should have ever had to, and now I'm trying to give that back.'

'Transitions' is an exhibition by Nottingham-based artist Anthony Donnelly that explores stories of change, resilience, and transformation through the portraits of seven city residents. Selected and interviewed by the artist, each participant has a family history shaped by migration.

The stories, recalled here by the artist, remind us that transitions are not abstract or remote, but both personal and universal. Whether through migration, loss, or new beginnings, we all carry stories of change.

📅 On display until Sunday 8th March 2026
🎫 Included in your Standard Admission to Nottingham Castle - pay once, visit all year round!

🔊 Visit our website to hear how the sitters for this exhibition feel about their home and adoptive city of Nottingham: https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/transitions/

'Transitions' was commissioned by Nottingham City Museums, and is presented alongside the National Portrait Gallery's travelling exhibition 'Lives in Motion: Stories of Migration from the 11th Century to the Present Day'.

Visit Notts What's On Nottingham My Nottingham Anthony Donnelly National Portrait Gallery

February half-term is upon us!
The Parent & Carer E-News has been out for a week and is on the website
Find it here: https://bit.ly/ParentCarerENewsFeb2026

Your guide to arts, culture and creative activities to banish the ☔️☔️
It's full of what's happening across the City.

Find it here: https://bit.ly/ParentCarerENewsFeb2026