The ‘Festival Weekend’ in 2025 takes place oon the 17th & 18th of May 2025
We are excited to be running the first Lady Bay Arts Summer workshops for all ages. Find out more
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.
We are working towards becoming a Community Interest Company (CIC) which 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.
This year’s project is the Lady Bay Community Quilt.
Sponsorship by FHP Living
We are proud to be working with FHP Living, who have kindly sponsored our 2024 Festival Weekend taking place on the 18th and 19th of May.
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.
This year we have developed opportunities for young photographer, a sound artist and for a historian/archivist to take the first step in creating an archive of creative communities in Lady Bay.
2024 Open Call
The 2024 Open Call process finished in February.
A massive thank you to the 115 people who applied including 55 who are new to Lady Bay Arts
Go to the open calls page to find out more about the process
Our 2023 Lady Bay Arts Trail Artists
Our event in 2023 included a wide range of artists, designers and makers from different background and with different stories about their work.
This is a link to their websites/social media
Rachel Appleby - Hazel Atkinson - Faye Baines - Mike Beard - Mark Beaven - Anna Binns - Loree Bologna - Becca Bradford - Kate Brooks - Graham Brooks - Marie Brown - Carly Burton-Dodsley - Gabriele Cameron - Anjana Cawdell - HOAT Ceramics - Stella Chadwick / Cracking Glass - Gael Cherry - Anna Collette Hunt - Megan Crook - Fulton Douglas - Liz Emery - Nikki England / Timeless Curiosity - Nina Faresin - Dawn Feeney - Lois Gardner Sabet - Jo Gray - Fiona Harris - Laurie Hastings - Sally Hellewell - Katherine Hill - Jane Hindmarch - Oksana Holbrook - Sarah Hughes Parry - Christopher James Turley - Karen Johnson t/a Millie Moth - Hannah Lane - Kathryn Levy - Zaza Lewis - Oliver Lovley - Rachel Mahon - Jo McAree - Clare Morgan - Katie Pinkney - Alys Power - Alexandra Rayner - Sarah Reed - Keith Rollin - Judith Rollin - Corrina Rothwell - Sue Sareen - Paul Searson - Helen Shere - Becky Storey (Miissspottery) - Michal Tekel - TreeHuggery - Jeanette Ward - Mark Watkins - Karen Williams - Emma Williams - Christina Williams - Ruth Woodcock - Zoe Zegzula
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.