Nonsuch Studios

CENTRE STAGE is BACK! Thanks to Arts Council England, we've secured two years of funding to support our headline project that programmes and commissions bold and exciting new work for 12-18 year olds in Nottinghamshire. Since 2017, CENTRE STAGE (prev. Nonsuch:START) has worked with 7 schools and thousands of under 18s presenting some amazing shows from incredible boundary pushing artists such as Nouveau Riche, Boundless Theatre, Next Door Dance as well as ourselves at Nonsuch. We’ve got a whole host of commissions and programming opportunities ready to be released for the 24/25 and 25/26 shows, particularly focussed on company led, devised, physical theatre and international work. The first Programming Opportunity is LIVE NOW for our November 2024 schools week! First Artist Call-out: https://lnkd.in/eBHtdshX

TLDR: We closed a venue. It was really hard. Now we're dusting off the cobwebs and doing cool stuff again. Hear from our Artistic Director Edward Boott 6 months on from closing Nottingham's only fringe theatre and what's up next. https://lnkd.in/e25z9fR5

We had a fantastic time at the Youth Voice workshop, on Wednesday, 22nd May, which we hosted at Castle Meadow Campus in partnership with Nottingham City Council and Nonsuch Studios.   This workshop provided an opportunity for experienced youth survey creators from the University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire YMCA and beyond to collaborate on producing ideas for UNICEF's child-friendly Nottingham programme survey, set to go live later this year.   UNICEF’s child-friendly Nottingham programme is an ongoing project to make the city of Nottingham a safer and prosperous home for our younger generations to thrive in. We look forward to seeing how the survey develops and what results it produces.   Special thanks to our guest speakers: Edward Boott - Nonsuch Studios, Caroline Rowland - Nonsuch Studios, Dr Tara Webster-Deakin – University of Nottingham, Rachel Quinn - Nottinghamshire YMCA, Ekua Ghansah - Nottingham City Council, and Jon Rea - Nottingham City Council.

Nottingham! Still looking for the perfect Christmas night out? Then you simply have to see OUTLAWED! Prepare to forget everything you know about Robin Hood in this hilarious, wild and outrageous drag, cabaret spectacular. It’s really the naughtiest night out in Notts this Christmas but in all the right ways! Book now: https://lnkd.in/ertP_uSC

After almost 5 amazing years at our Lennox Street home in Hockley, today we’re announcing that we’ll be shutting our big red doors at the end of December 2023 to refocus our activities on our Community, Creative and Producing programmes. This isn’t the end of Nonsuch Studios, but it is the end (at least for a time) of our public programme and venue operations. But before you panic, crucially, all events, projects and programme scheduled to happen before December 31st (including our amazing Christmas Season) are still going ahead as planned, and our community programme and regular classes will continue as normal (just somewhere else) in the New Year. Everyone at Nonsuch is bound by our belief that Creativity is Power and going forward we want to invest all the time and effort we can into that belief going forward, returning to our roots as a producing company working to create incredible arts experiences for communities and next-level productions for audiences across the UK and beyond. Over the past 18 months, what’s become clear is that whilst in another universe having a building would have been a massive asset to us, the realities of the world at the moment mean that our capacity to deliver great things has been diverted to providing TLC to bricks and mortar over anything else (yes, even I’ve unblocked far too many toilets to remember). Nonsuch Studios is a fully independent and artist-led organisation, receiving no core funding to support our activities and so we’ve made this difficult decision to safeguard our charitable work for the future. Within all this, I really want to highlight, celebrate and centre the work of the incredible Nonsuch team, both past and present, who’ve given their all to create Nottingham’s only fringe theatre from the wrecks of an old warehouse against all the odds. They stand head and shoulders above the work that we do and over the past 5 years it is them who’ve enabled us to welcome thousands of audiences to some truly incredible shows that otherwise wouldn’t have made it to Nottingham, invest thousands into new work and artist support, and set the standard for what a welcoming, artist-led space can be. They even made and delivered over 13,000 pizzas in the panny-d giving Dominos a run for their money. Together, we are the spritely folk who decided to set up a venue at the end of 2019 not knowing at all what was in store for them, but even with the wonder of hindsight, we wouldn’t change any of it! That’s all for now, it’s not the end but it is a BIG shift, and we have some INCREDIBLE and OUTRAGEOUS shows, events and programme coming up for you to enjoy all Autumn long. So, if you come regularly or still haven’t gotten round to paying us that visit yet, you’ve got three months to do just that! Read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/euek58-V Lots of Love Edward & Team Nonsuch xx