This weekend is one of celebration and remembrance to honour our Armed Forces past and present – It’s Nottingham’s annual Armed Forces Day. This hugely popular weekend attracts thousands of people every year and is the flagship Armed Forces event for the East Midlands. Come along and join us in an action-packed family event capturing the past, present and future of Britain’s Armed Forces held at Wollaton Park.
There will be a variety of food outlets, live music, military band, veteran stands from the army, navy and air force plus cadets, fire and police service displays. There’s going to be interactive re-enactment camps and displays from all the military services, a funfair and events in the arena. If that wasn’t enough, you can explore also the refurbished 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment exhibit in the courtyard and a fly-over from the RAF.
Come and find out what it’s like to be a member of the armed forces past and present.
The event is free, a £6 parking charge applies.
The public vehicle entrance is the Lime Tree Avenue entrance off the ring road near the QMC, only exhibitors will be allowed access via Wollaton Road.
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.
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.
