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Morning! Nottingham Winter Wonderland opens in Old Market Square on Thursday, with a big wheel, an ice bar and a market that will happily eat your Saturday.
Elsewhere, Pippley Walled Garden runs a mince pie and yule log baking day on Sunday, Nottingham Castle holds its Diwali celebration the same day, and there are 23 gigs from Friday to Sunday.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK
🎡 - Nottingham Winter Wonderland Opens - A Big Wheel, an Ice Bar and a Market That Eats Your Saturday!
📍 - Old Market Square
📅 - Opens Thu 12th Nov (runs to 31st Dec)
⏰ - Market: Sun-Thu 10:00am-6:30pm
⏰ - Market: Fri-Sat 10:00am-8:00pm
🎟️ - Free to enter, attractions priced individually
📷 - @winterwonderlandnottingham
The Christmas market takes over Old Market Square again, with the Observation Wheel turning above it, an Ice Bar and ski bars going up around the stalls. It opens on Thursday, so four of this issue's seven days get the full thing.
A toboggan slide is there for anyone who insists they only came for the mulled wine. Wrap up, because an ice bar is exactly as cold as it sounds.
THE WEEKLY PLANNER
MONDAY
Jake Sexton Art Exhibition (to Mon 30th Nov) - Attenborough Nature Centre
9:00am | More Info
TUESDAY
Tots Secret Garden (Tue 10th and Thu 12th) - Wollaton Hall
10:30am | More Info
Wellbeing Walk - Attenborough Nature Reserve
10:30am | More Info
Northern Soul Orchestrated - Royal Concert Hall
7:00pm | More Info
Leo Sayer - Can't Stop Loving You! - Theatre Royal
7:30pm | More Info
Femmephobes and Femmephiles, an Evening with Sophie Lewis - Five Leaves Bookshop
7:00pm | More Info
Adventures in Music - Hucknall Library
10:15am | More Info
WEDNESDAY
Small Sounds - St Mary's in the Lace Market
10:30am | More Info
Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within - Five Leaves Bookshop
7:00pm | More Info
THURSDAY
Thomas Green - Brainstorm Extended - Nottingham Arts Theatre
8:00pm | More Info
Inclusive Reclaim The Night Banner Making - Nottingham Contemporary
4:00pm | More Info
The Music of James Bond - Royal Concert Hall
7:30pm | More Info
Coffee, Cake and Connection - Thrumpton Hall
1:30pm | More Info
Footprints Bingo Night - Mecca Bingo, Beeston
6:55pm | More Info
FRIDAY
Christmas Craft Fair (Fri 13th to Sun 15th) - Attenborough Nature Reserve
9:00am | More Info
Bar Tango by Benni Bosetto (Fri-Sun) - Nottingham Contemporary
12:00pm | More Info
Clothes Swap with After.Shwop - New Art Exchange
7:00pm | More Info
SATURDAY
Dancin' Motion in the Spotlight (Sat-Sun) - Nottingham Arts Theatre
1:00pm | More Info
Nottingham's Makers Market - St Mary's in the Lace Market
11:00am | More Info
Vegan Market - Sherwood United Reformed Church
10:00am | More Info
Craft and Gift Fair - The Square, Beeston
10:00am | More Info
Forever Stars Panto - Alice in Wonderland - Victory Club, Beeston
6:00pm | More Info
SUNDAY
Diwali - Nottingham Castle
11:00am | More Info
The Salsa Romantica Fiesta with Jayne - Mapperley Plains Recreation and Social Club
12:45pm | More Info
SCRUMPTIOUS SCOOP
🥖 - French Living - Onglet Steak, Chicken in Cider and Snails in Garlic Butter, All Done the French Way!
📍 - 27 King Street
⏰ - Tue-Sat: 12:00pm-2:00pm (lunch)
⏰ - Tue-Sat: from 5:00pm (dinner)
📷 - @frenchlivinguk
French Living is a family-run French restaurant on King Street, two minutes from the Theatre Royal, cooking homemade French food since 1994, so the snails are in very good company.
The steak frites is onglet in blue cheese sauce, the poulet au cidre falls apart in cider and apple sauce, and the escargots arrive in garlic and parsley butter, for whoever insists that is basically mushrooms.
ACTIVITY ALLEY
🥧 - Festive Mince Pies and Yule Log Baking Class - A Whole Day of Other People's Christmas Baking Going Right!
📍 - Pippley Walled Garden
📅 - Sun 15th Nov
⏰ - 10:00am-2:00pm
🎟️ - £65pp
📷 - @pippleywalledgarden
You spend the morning making your own mince pies with a chef on hand for when it goes wrong, then sit down to a festive lunch and garden tour with mulled wine. The afternoon is a yule log masterclass where the chef does the hard part, and you leave with recipes and flour on your jumper.
Suitable for 16 and over, or 12-15 with an adult. Apron, utensils and ingredients are taken care of. Rolling pin technique: your business.
FRESH EXPERIENCES
👗 - Clothes Swap Night - Your Old Wardrobe Is Someone Else's New Favourite Thing!
📍 - New Art Exchange
📅 - Fri 13th Nov
⏰ - 7:00pm-10:00pm
🎟️ - £3.70
📷 - @after.shwop
This clothes swap from After.shwop takes over New Art Exchange. You hand over a bag of clean clothes at 7pm, grab a drink and wander the galleries, and the swapping starts at 8pm.
Nothing is bought or sold, and you take home a bag-sized haul, which makes it the only shopping trip where leaving the old jumper behind counts as spending.
LIVE MUSIC
FRIDAY
Shed Seven - Rock City - 6:30pm
EYEHATEGOD - Rescue Rooms - 6:30pm
Young Knives - Metronome - 7:00pm
Motley Crude - The Old Cold Store - 7:00pm
Reliquia - Billy Bootleggers - 6:30pm
Granny's Attic - Squire Performing Arts Centre - 7:30pm
Enter Shikari - Motorpoint Arena - 6:00pm
Natalie Duncan - Peggy's Skylight - 6:45pm
SATURDAY
Day Fever November - Rock City - 3:00pm
DE STAAT - Rescue Rooms - 6:30pm
George Gadd and The Aftermath - Bodega - 7:00pm
Absolute Bowie - Metronome - 7:00pm
Twisted System - Billy Bootleggers - 7:00pm
Grim Lamentations - Mist Rolling Inn - 6:30pm
SOTA - The Nest - 5:00pm
Back-A-Yard Reggae Night - New Art Exchange - 7:00pm
Squeeze - Motorpoint Arena - 6:30pm
Saturday Afternoon Unplugged - Peggy's Skylight - 12:30pm
Pete Letanka Trio - Peggy's Skylight - 6:45pm
SUNDAY
Embrace - Rock City - 6:30pm
The Zac Schulze Gang - Rescue Rooms - 6:30pm
Mason Hill - Bodega - 7:00pm
A Sketch of Chet - Peggy's Skylight - 2:00pm
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