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Lockdown is slowly lifting, but it might still be a while before we can return to our much-loved pubs, cultural venues and attractions, leaving us all with a bit more time to fill. Luckily, there are plenty of ways you can enjoy a bit of Notts culture from home! Here's our guide to weekly virtual events from Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's venues and cultural institutions to keep you entertained each day of the week. 

Having been crowned ‘Regional Theatre of the Year’ in 2019, Nottingham Playhouse have set the standard pretty high in the past couple of years. We’re delighted that their latest production Moonlight and Magnolias falls nothing short of the brilliance we’ve come to expect – a laugh-out-loud riot which doesn’t shy away from a sensitive and intelligent discourse on representation within popular culture. 
 

In the digital age, the era of screen time, when being a You Tuber is an actual career aspiration, for me there is absolutely nothing quite like being outdoors, moving, so on a chilly, damp and frankly gloomy January Saturday, we jumped in the car and headed to Conkers to blow away the week and do something for our minds and bodies.

On a brisk autumnal morning, a Visit Nottinghamshire blogger headed out to a quaint north Nottinghamshire town to discover Southwell Minster, a 900-year old stone cathedral and one of the county's major heritage landmarks. 

If someone asked you, “How would you like to walk around a dark room, blindfolded with a futuristic backpack on for 15 minutes”, what would you say? No? Let me rephrase that. How would you like to explore a world where up is down and down is up, where the laws of physics are optional, where flying whales and parrot rays have replaced the birds and glowing blue orbs guide you ultimately to an ancient alien temple?

The festive season is exhausting, and sometimes you just need a bit of time to step back, sit down and relax. Well, this is where Thor’s Tipi comes in. For the first time ever this giant festive tent has rolled into Nottingham’s Trinity Square, just a stone’s throw from intu Victoria Centre and Old Market Square.