This weekend the Green Hustle Festival will take over Nottingham’s Market Square with a celebration of life and creativity and the aim to make Nottingham a greener, healthier place. The festival will feature a host of activities, talks, presentations, musical performances and more.
The weekend’s line up will include art and creativity, discovery and learning, nature and wildlife, sport and movement, music and performance and much much more. Whether you want to check out a fashion exhibition, try your hand at some graffiti nature stencilling, learn about pop-up community gardens, try some seed bomb making, try your hands at boxing, dancing or capoeira, or check out the #BlackFlowersBlossom art workshop from the wonderful Honey Williams, there is plenty to do. Plus they’ll be talks from the likes of Switch up founder Marcellus Baz and University of Nottingham’s Dr Mike Clifford.
You can also find out how you can get involved in a host of great green initiatives including Nottingham Clean Champions, the Nottingham Climate Assembly, Nottingham Green Guardians, Nottingham Green Partnership, and Nottingham Green Map – all of whom you can learn about at the Action Cafe. Plus they’ll be Cooking Workshops, upcycling, street performances and a workshop featuring a reading of the book ‘The Whale Who Disappeared’ led by author Emma Oldham.
Of course, as a offshoot of the Hockley Hustle, you can’t have an Hustle event without music and the wonderful Acoustickle, who are celebrating a decade of putting on fantastic gigs in Nottingham, will be presenting a fantastic line up of acts on Saturday including Mumtaz Yoga, Molly Hindley Band, Chai + Ben and Jayahadadream. Meanwhile Sunday’s entertainment comes from the fantastic Cultural Vibrations – Unity Through Music, and will feature performances from DJ Suga Lion, Iruna Muha, A Poem For Our Planet with Georgina Wilding, Kaira Kafo, Lisa Hendricks and Belly B & Val B – V Rocket Int.
As if there wasn’t enough happening at the main festival there is also an entire fringe happening around it, with events and activities as far out as Attenborough Nature Reserve, near Beeston, where you can take part in Camino Film Walk, you will head from the reserve along the canal to the festival, all in the spirit of the film OWOTI (Camino to Cop26), there will be a Bike Bus from Sherwood to Nottingham Trent University, Skateboard Deck Recycling – Board Art & Stencil Workshop, a host of activities from The Renewal Trust at King Edward Park, Queerville – Arts & Crafts at The Carousel, Mindfulness and wellbeing activities at By Our Hands and much more.
Plus there is, practically, a whole film festival taking place during the festival, with a host of films about climate, sustainability and ways to a greener future being shown at Broadway Cinema and Mammoth – A Climate Action Cinema, including Of Walking on Thin Ice: Camino to COP26 – the inspiration behind the Attenborough to Green Hustle walk mentioned earlier, and featuring a Q&A with the director, When Pigs Escape which includes a Director Q&A, a Short Films Drop in and even The Lorax.
So as you can see there is absolutely loads for you to check out across the weekend, whether you’re already actively looking for ways to live greener or want some inspiration, or just have an interest in how we can be more sustainable and protect out planet and home then make sure you head down to the Green Hustle Festival this weekend. We definitely will be.
You can find out the full line up for the festival by heading to the Green Hustle website.
The Green Hustle Festival takes place in Nottingham Market Square on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June 2023.
Darren Patterson – @pogester
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