A round-up of club meetings, community events and theatre and music shows for the week ahead.
Thursday, June 6
Balderton: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 2.30pm-3pm
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, Rachel Parris — Poise, 7.30pm
Newark: Spotlight Gallery, Colour, Texture, Light art exhibition by Clive McCarthy, to Saturday
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Mini Museum activities for under 5s, term-time only, 10.30am
Newark: Stray’s, 4&6, 7pm
Newark: Town Hall steps, D-Day 80th anniversary service, 8.15pm
Nottingham: Motorpoint Arena, Pet Shop Boys
Nottingham: Theatre Royal, The Syndicate, 7.30pm plus matinees, to Saturday
Nottingham: Royal Concert Hall, Disney In Concert: The Sound Of Magic, 7pm
Nottingham: Playhouse, Scummy Mummies Greatest Hits, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Rock City, Toby Jepson acoustic
Nottingham: Rescue Rooms, Darren Wharton’s Renegade
Nottingham: Bodega, Swim Deep
Southwell: Library, Open Studios Notts Bringing Artists Into View exhibition, to Sunday
Friday, June 7
Newark: Palace Theatre, Frankie — The Concert, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Playhouse, Punt And Dennis, 7.30pm
Newark: Stray’s, Karen Lake Jazz, 7.30pm
Newark: Navigation, Ferrocene, 9pm
Nottingham: Rescue Rooms, AC/DC Live
Nottingham: Bodega, San Quentin
Southwell: Library, Children’s Lego Club, 3.30pm-4.30pm; and tomorrow, 10am-noon
Saturday, June 8
Edwinstowe: Sherwood Forest, War Of The Roses re-enactment weekend, and tomorrow
Edingley: Hill’s Farm, NG22 8BU, open gardens, 1pm-4.30pm
Fulbeck: Craft Centre, artisan market, 10am-3pm
Halam; The Old Vicarage, Halam Hill, open gardens, 1pm-4.30pm
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, ELO Again, 7.30pm
Newark: Inspire, Buttermarket, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for under-fives, 10am-10.30am; Chilldren’s Lego and Games Club, 11am-1pm; adult social Scrabble, 1pm-3pm; children’s craft activity, 1.30pm-2.30pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, start of Besieged But Never Beaten town tour, 1.30pm
Newark: Flying Circus, Jed Potts and The Hillman Hunters, 4pm
Newark: Palace Theatre, Love Hurts: Power Ballads And Anthems, 7.30pm
Newark: Stray’s, Andy Too, 7.30pm
Newark: Navigation, Bad Habit, 9pm
Nottingham: Motorpoint Arena, EM Con, and tomorrow
Nottingham: Playhouse, Fastlove: The Tribute To George Michael, 7.30pm
Southwell: Minster, Divorced, Beheaded, Died: And Audience With King Henry VIII, 7.30pm
Sunday, June 9
Bottesford: Off A52, carboot sale, 7am-1pm
Hoveringham: Various addresses, open gardens trail, 11am-4.30pm
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, Six Chicks Flicks, 7.30pm
Newark: Flying Circus, Stuart Earl, 4pm
Nottingham: Theatre Royal, Brian Butterfield’s Call Of Now, 8pm
Southwell: Minster, guided tour, 1.30pm-2.30pm; Music In The State Chamber: Cathedral Choristers, 7.30pm
Winthorpe: Newark Showground, ‘Normous Newark Autojumble
Monday, June 10
Nottingham: Bodega, Spotlights
Southwell: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 9.30am-10am; followed by Stay And Play; Poetry Hour with Henry Normal, 4pm
Tuesday, June 11
Averham: Robin Hood Theatre, Robin Hood Theatre Company presents The Lady In The Van 7.30pm plus Saturday matinee, to June 15
Edwinstowe: Sherwood Forest, Hygge Nordic walk, 10am-noon
Lowdham: The Bookcase, talk on the Nottingham-Lincoln railway by Jeremy Lodge, 2pm
Nottingham: Playhouse, Rich Hall — Shot From Cannons, 7.30pm
Southwell: Library, Storyhullaballoo for under 5s, 4pm-4.30pm
Wednesday, June 12
Lincoln: New Theatre Royal, Zog And The Flying Doctors, 4.30pm plus 10.30am and 1.30pm tomorrow
Nottingham: Motorpoint Arena, Girls Aloud, and tomorrow
Nottingham: Playhouse, Rush – A Joyous Jamaican Journey, 7.30pm
Southwell: Minster, tour of The Archbishop’s Palace and Palace Gardens, 10.30am-11.30am
Thursday, June 13
Balderton: Library, Rattle, Rhyme And Roll for babies and toddlers, 2.30pm-3pm
Newark: National Civil War Centre, Mini Museum activities for under 5s, term-time only, 10.30am
Newark: Stray’s Adam Schofield, 7pm
Nottingham: Playhouse, The Rocket Man, Elton John tribute, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Royal Concert Hall, Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, 7.30pm
Nottingham: Rescue Rooms, Oh My God! It’s The Church
Southwell: Minster, The Sixteen’s 2024 Choral Pilgrimage Concert, 7.30pm
Friday, June 14
Lincoln: Engine Shed, Porkpie – Bouncin’ Off The Walls
Newark: Palace Theatre, Genesis Connected, 7.30pm
Newark: Flying Circus, Time And Grace, 8pm
Nottingham: Royal Concert Hall, Now Hear This, 1pm; Drivetime Choir, 6pm
Nottingham: Rock City, Hawkwind
Nottingham: Rescue Rooms, Cloudbusting
Nottingham: Bodega, Sunnbrella
Southwell: Minster, Friday Lunchtime Concert: Stephen Cooper, 1.30pm
Southwell: Library, Children’s Lego Club, 3.30pm-4.30pm; and tomorrow, 10am-noon
Winthorpe: Newark Showground, Advertiser Newark Business Awards
