The ‘Festival Weekend’ in 2025 takes place on the 17th & 18th of May 2025
The Festival Weekend will feature:
Wonderful work created by over 80 artists, designers, makers and performers from across the East Midlands
Art in 30 venues including homes, studios, gardens, the school, the church and public spaces
A vibrant community event that offers adult guides, discovery maps for youngsters, workshops, collaborations and more
Fantastic food & drinks from cafés, pubs and pop up stalls
There is something to inspire everyone!
Go to the 2025 Festival Weekend section
Click on the image to go to the Facebook event page
About Lady Bay Arts
Lady Bay Arts is a not-for-profit community organisation, committed to delivering a range of arts and creative activities across the community of Lady Bay, Nottingham and beyond, culminating with our annual ‘Festival Weekend’ which takes place in May.
Lady Bay Arts become a Community Interest Company (CIC) in 2024, this will embed a not-for-profit framework throughout all our activities, including events, creativity grants and more.
To find out more please go to the About Lady Bay Arts page
Our Activities
The annual ‘Festival Weekend’
Our ‘Festival Weekend’ takes place annually in May and is a celebration of the arts in the public buildings, houses, studios, local businesses, and gardens of Lady Bay.
The event runs from 11am - 5pm both days.
The Lady Bay Arts Creativity Fund
The Creativity Fund is designed to offer meaningful activities and opportunities that include creativity, skills development and communication of ideas,
Our annual community project
Our community project has become an annual feature thanks to members of our community who thrive on bringing people together to share experiences and engage in creativity.
2025 Creativity Workshops
We have received a grant to run a series of creativity workshops across 2025. We started in February with two ‘Beat the winter blues’ workshops.
Lady Bay Arts sponsors
Sponsorship by FHP Living
We are proud to be working with FHP Living, who have kindly sponsored our 2025 Festival Weekend taking place on the 18th and 19th of May. This continues a great relationship started at the 2024 Festival Weekend.
The sponsorship is in two parts, both of which enable us to enhance awareness of Lady Bay Arts, the Festival Weekend, and our amazing hosts who open their homes, businesses, and public spaces.
Co-branded signage
FHP Living are providing ‘for sale’ boards for each host, these include information about the Festival Weekend and the Lady Bay Arts and FHP Living logos. We hope that the signs will give you a sense of connection in the run up to the event.
Sponsorship of the Creativity Fund 2024
Our evolving Creativity Fund offers opportunities for us to fund meaningful opportunities for people to develop their skills and to showcase their work during the Festival Weekend. We are very grateful for FHP Living's contribution to making the Creativity Fund a success.
In 2024 we created opportunities for young photographer, Kassidy-Ann Jex, and for Ieva Vaiti, a sound artist. They are both showcasing their work at this years Festival Weekend.
Nottingham Rugby Club are kindly providing FREE parking to our visitors over the Festival Weekend.
Head to 1 Holme Road, NG2 5AA on the day.
Visit their website Nottingham Rugby Club to find out more!
Questions?
Please use the form below to get in touch with any questions you might have.
Find us
Parking in Lady Bay is limited, avoid driving if you can.
Arriving by bus
From the City Centre
The number 11 bus from the City Centre will take you to Lady Bay, for a full timetable please click here.