What's on
From events including issues-focused free exhibitions and stimulating free workshops, join the discussions, gain valuable insights and enjoy a fun and memorable experience. We also have regular daily performances - click here to find out more.
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Exhibition:
Saturday 10 February - Sunday 3 November 2024
Juvenile In Justice
Our latest exhibition, ‘Juvenile In Justice’, is an exploration of the lives of young people living in prison, made in collaboration with Californian artist and activist, Richard Ross
Escape Room
Event:
Select dates April - August 2024
Guilty?! - A National Justice…
A brand-new multiple-choice escape room from the National Justice Museum!
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 3 May, 10am-12pm
Restriction & Repetition
Artist Mary Broddle, inspired by traditional Japanese sashiko and boro techniques, will take workshop participants through the process of collaging monochrome fabrics and using a repetitive running…
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 10 May, 10am-12pm
Block Printing
Join artist Donna Griffiths to create a printing block inspired by the National Justice Museum’s Juvenile In Justice exhibition.
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 17 May, 10am-12pm
Expressive brushstrokes and…
Come and join artist Neelum Aftab and learn about Expressionist Art and how artists have created portraits through expressionism bringing to light hidden feelings and emotions through colours and…
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 24 May, 10am-12pm
How we tell our stories.
In this workshop you will explore feelings through mark making, poetry, graffiti and using patterns to express yourself.
Crime Club
Crime talk
Event:
Thursday 30 May, 6pm - 8pm
Crime Club: The Reprieved
Join us for our next instalment of Crime Club where we will dive into historic cases of Nottinghamshire men and women who originally received a punishment of execution and then had their sentences…
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 7 June, 10am-12pm
Body and Space Drawing…
With Marcia Porto you will exercise your eye and perception, concentration on gestural expressive details.
Cocktails and Crime
Murder Mystery
Event:
Saturday 8 June 2024, 7pm
Live and Kicking - Cocktails…
Head back to the 90s with our June murder mystery where you are a guest at a new magazine launch party.
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 14 June, 10am-12pm
Found Poetry - Special…
View the Juvenile In Justice exhibition through a new creative perspective and produce multiple poems in response to the exhibition with Oak Lawrenson.
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 21 June, 10am-12pm
Our Home - Special Refugee…
Use collage materials such as magazine images, photocopies, buttons, lace, fibres and fabric, letter stamps and posca pens to create their unique little version of home.
Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 28 June, 10am-12pm
Rethinking Rehabilitation and…
In this workshop with Paula Daniel Pontes, you will make transfer prints inspired by words and drawings exploring alternative ways of rehabilitating young people caught up in the criminal justice…
Crime Club
Crime talk
Event:
Thursday 25 July, 6pm - 8pm
Crime Club: A Day In Court
The Assizes were held three times a year in the Nottinghamshire County Courts, here at the Shire Hall. The Judges travelled around the country and saw the felons awaiting trial.
Cocktails and Crime
Murder Mystery
Event:
Saturday 24 August 2024, 7pm
Dead to Writes - Cocktails &…
Travel back in time this August Bank Holiday weekend with our brand new 1950s-themed murder mystery.
Murder Mystery
Christmas
Event:
Thursday 28 November - Saturday 21 December 2024, 6.30pm
The Spirit of Solstice: A…
Join this festive evening of intrigue, accusations and suspicion – complete with cocktails, dinner and laughter.