{"id":590475,"date":"2025-11-24T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590475\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:07:14","slug":"creative-gap-fear-as-nottingham-arts-centre-faces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590475\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Creative gap&#8217; fear as Nottingham arts centre faces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer and painter Honey Williams started using the City Arts space in 2020, after she was discharged from hospital where she had been treated for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It was like a rehab place for me almost. It just gave me such a huge opportunity as an artist, they encouraged me to grow, take up space, and to learn to ask for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was just a place where anyone could go, any age, any race, anyone. I would describe it as warm, life-changing. It was a place that felt safe to dream in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Where does a fledgling artist go in Nottingham now? Where do you turn to? It&#8217;s left a gap in Nottingham.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre has received regular funding from the Arts Council but this has been frozen for five years, a real-terms cut of around 30%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On top of this, the city council closed its cultural, heritage, and creative capital (CHC) grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer and painter Honey Williams started using the City Arts space in 2020, after she was discharged from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-590475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115603888103185459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}