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Shaé Universe made her CSTR Nottingham debut and what a night it was! We sat down after the show with @shaesuniverse and her guitarist @matt.gudgeon.music to talk about their incredible synergy on stage and the collective energy in the room - you had to be there! A big thank you to our CSTR family for making this night unforgettable and big love to @mimm.studios and @notts_can for making the Let’s Build Fam series possible🙏🏾 Stay tuned as we take you behind the scenes with the artists and relive the night! If you missed out or simply want in on future events! Join our mailing list & become part of the CSTR community - there’s so much more coming from us this year😉 Join Us For More Good Vibes Throughout This Year🔗Link In Bio!

THIS SATURDAY @behindcloseddoors.unlocked Presents… The Frequency We Carry: Celebrating Caribbean Women Who Shaped British Culture @new_art_exchange 🎫 FREE TICKETS VIA 🔗 IN USUAL SPOT 👆🏾 A live, intergenerational experience celebrating Caribbean women’s cultural legacy through sound, conversation, and a growing archive. While this space centres Caribbean women, it’s welcome to all who want to connect, learn, and be part of the experience. The Frequency We Carry is a live community archive experience exploring the impact and legacy of Caribbean women in the UK. Schedule / What to Expect: 11:30 – 12:30 | Live Behind Closed Doors Community Radio Step into the Our Yard living room-style pop-up and enjoy an intergenerational music experience, hosted by @jackiepgardner (Kemet FM) + @shekaylarewyld (@ziroziroworld ). Curated sounds, storytelling, and shared cultural moments explore Caribbean music, memory, and legacy. 12:50 – 2:00 | Behind Closed Doors Time Capsule: Living Archive A community-led space to reflect, share, and be heard. Record your own story and add your voice to a growing archive of Caribbean women’s experiences, part of an evolving cultural record rooted in Nottingham and beyond. 2:30 – 3:30 | In Conversation: @tashlc & Cherelle Fulton (Behind Closed Doors) An intimate discussion exploring Tash LC’s creative journey, sound, identity, and the influence of Caribbean women across music, fashion, and culture. Includes audience Q&A and reflections on the pioneers who laid the foundations. 3:30 – 4:00 | Closing Sound Selection Wind down with curated music to close the day and carry the energy forward. Why This Matters: From Windrush generations to today’s creatives shaping sound, style, and spaces, Caribbean women have played a vital role in British culture, often without recognition. This event creates space to honour that legacy, connect across generations, and build something lasting together. Join Us: Come to listen, reflect, connect, and add your voice. Free event – limited spaces. Book now. Curated by Behind Closed Doors as part of the Our Yard: Foundations programme at New Art Exchange.

So grateful for the connections, conversations, laughter and genuine energy in the room during our last meet up🤍 The way everyone took time to listen and pour into each other was beautiful. Behind Closed Doors is growing into such a thoughtful and supportive space and I’m really excited about what we’re building together🫂 If you’d like to connect with us this month, you can find us at: @mimm.studios for the @notts_can x @catsmothernetwork panel talk discussing ~ Building the Bridge between London & Nottingham - hosted by Yazmin Lacey 🗓️13th March @hockleyhustle Industry Weekend - we join with @ladiesmusicpub to discuss Radical Care in the Music Industry ❤️‍🔥- 🗓️21st March Behind Closed Doors Community Meet Up🫂 - 🗓️ 28th March ✨ Can’t wait to see some familiar faces and welcome new ones into the room 🤍 Shout out to @movers.venue for hosting us🤗

My twin and I… not sure where the time has gone 😂😕, but someday I’ll be the one upholding our history 🤍 So much of our history lives through oral storytelling passed down, not written. With @ouryard.co @behindcloseddoors.unlocked is curating a space to honour that. Join us for The Frequency We Carry. A live, intergenerational experience celebrating Caribbean women, our stories, and the legacies we’re still building today ☝🏾 Add your voice to the audible archive, tune into live community radio from the Our Yard living room with @shekaylarewyld & @jackiepgardner and hear an in conversation with a special guest exploring sound, creativity, and life today, while paying homage to the true pioneers. Come through to connect, reflect, record what matters and honour the fact that we’re becoming the new holders of history! While this centres Caribbean women, we’re all interconnected across the diaspora🖤Everyone is welcome to come, listen, and be part of the experience. 🗓 11th April 📍 New Art Exchange – BCD Our Yard Exhibition Takeover 🎟 Free to attend limited spaces. Link in bio to book ✨

Radical Care in the Music Industry | Saturday Workshop ❤️‍🔥 @ladiesmusicpub (LMP) is a community-driven organisation supporting women, FLINTA* and gender diverse folk working in the music industry. LMP’s mission is to support and celebrate our community through safe and inclusive spaces — providing advocacy, mentorship, and creative opportunities that empower members to reach their full potential- both as artists and industry leaders. They’ll be joined by @behindcloseddoors.unlocked a growing community where women in the creative industries, particularly women of colour and those shaping the creative industry behind the scenes, come together to connect, share, and amplify each other’s voices. BCD is all about building support, collaboration, and creative momentum. Through conversation, & knowledge-sharing, BCD creates spaces where underrepresented voices thrive and connect. You can hear from LMP co-founders @__tyson and @marinajgb , as well as BCD founder @_lemoneye , as they talk through what it means to enjoy a healthy and sustainable career in music, with care at the core of the conversation! Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2026 | @1fishergatepoint 📍 Tickets available via the @eventbrite link above! 🫶 @hockleyhustle @ladiesmusicpub @aceagrams

Future Hustlers, hello! Midlands artists, this one’s for you! 🫵 Hockley Hustle x Ladies Music Pub are launching a brand new Artist Development Programme for music-makers ready to grow. Open to: 🎤 Vocalists 🎧 Producers 🎸 Instrumentalists 🖋️Songwriters 🎹 Music-makers If you’re trying to level up your craft AND your career, this is for you. ✨ What you get: • Free specialist workshops • Direct industry access • Mentorship + real guidance • Showcase + collab opportunities Whether you’re early in your journey or already building momentum we wanna hear from you. Applications close Jan 5. Don’t miss this. 📩 How to apply: Email [email protected] with: • a 1–2 min video or 300 words • who you are • why you want in • 2 links to your music/work No perfection needed just show us you! Supported by Arts Council England | @aceagrams 🫶

We’re back! Join us 🗓️Saturday 30th August at @new_art_exchange for the last @behindcloseddoors.unlocked gathering of the summer! This session is extra special — we’re launching our very first Creative Bursary to support one woman’s creative work, alongside an opportunity to contribute to a BCD-led project. ✍🏾— More details on how to apply will be announced soon! As always, it’s FREE to attend RSVP via the link in bio. Can’t wait to see some familiar and new faces in the room🫂✨ 📸 @tom_platinum_morley

I’ve been talking about the change I want to see in Nottingham for years 🥴 and this Saturday, I’m taking over @new_art_exchange to hold space for the conversations, collaboration, and connection women here actually need myself included. 🎟️ Free tickets are live let’s build the change we want to see. Link in bio. I’ve invited some incredible women in the industry who inspire me with their honesty, care for well-being, and how they move for the community behind the scenes: ✨ Honest Q&A w/ @nessamariaw ✨ Creative reset w/ @bloomandflow_ ✨ Making your mark off-camera w/ @kayahhazell 🎤 Open mic hosted by myself with Producer @kayahhazell from BBC 1XTRA in attendance! (Artist announcements + Open Mic details drop tomorrow) Women to the front. Community at the centre. Come throughh! 🗓️ Sat 28 June 📍 New Art Exchange 🕒 11AM–8PM To everyone who grabbed tickets before this poster even dropped I actually love you 🥹🫂 Capacity is limited, so move quick! 💛

🚨 GIVEAWAY ALERT 🚨 We visited Rowan who’s just taken over @societythirteen a tattoo studio on Mansfield Road! We’re keeping the International Women’s Month vibes going by teaming up with amazing women-led businesses! What’s better than new tattoos, TWO FREE concert tickets, to show them off😝 Come and support Rowan who will be running Society Thirteen from here on out!! We have 2 FREE TICKETS to see @shaesuniverse live in Nottingham - waiting for the FIRST person who: Books in & says “Can’t Stand The Rain” at checkout in person or online 👉 Society 13 will collect your details & share them with us 👉 Don’t forget to follow @societythirteen , @cantstandtherain__ & @rowan_tattoo we’re only giving these tickets to someone who’s locked in with us 💛 This is your ONLY chance to enjoy a free night out, because we’re completely SOLD OUT for the CSTR event on the 28th March. First come, first served 😉

Big love to @djnico_d and the @975kemetfm team for having me on air to talk all things @cantstandtherain__ takeover for Let’a Build Fam! Catch a glimpse of our chat about the competition and what’s going down this Friday, March 28th! I’ve been listening to @shaesuniverse since 2016, so curating this lineup and bringing her to my hometown feels special! 💛 Huge shoutout to @mimm.studios @notts_can and the @aceagrams for backing grassroots events like this. It wasn’t a big brand or an established company that put this lineup together - it was me, as an independent grassroots promoter, bringing a vision to life with their support! Head over to @cantstandtherain__ to see who won our competition - announced last night on BBC 1Xtra 😉🏆 Big up @kayahhazell 🤎 & Of Course, Shoutout The Incredible Homegrown Talent Making This Night Unforgettable: ✨ @itsriddla ✨ @veeadu ✨ @mollyinthemetro ✨ @alfiesharp ✨ @its.yinka P.S. Only one ticket left!! Who’s grabbing it? 👀🔥

🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨 We’re super excited to feature @lilac.eatery as our latest business to spotlight for international women’s month – one of thee tastiest brunch kitchens in Notts🤤 We’re giving one lucky foodie a chance to experience a brunch paired with Two FREE concert tickets to see @shaesuniverse live in Nottingham on the 28th March - waiting for the FIRST person who: 🟣Pops into Lilac and enjoys their favourite brunch dish!🥞 🟣 Says “Can’t Stand The Rain” when they pay 👉Lilac will take your details and snap a pic 👉Don’t forget to follow @lilac.eatery & @cantstandtherain__ —we’re only giving these tickets to those locked in with us 💛 PSA: ALL Q&A + Evening tickets are SOLD OUT - for your chance to still attend the Q&A pull up to Lilac😉 …Stay tuned for our behind the scenes chat with co-owner Gemma! 🎥💬

Let’s Build Fam 008 : @cantstandtherain__ presents @shaesuniverse 🎫 £10 Earlybird Q&A + Evening Tickets available via 🔗 in usual spot 👆🏾 For our next instalment something for the soul, we welcome Shae Universe as Can’t Stand The Rain takes over the mimm loft with a stacked line up to take you on a journey through RNB, UK Rap and Black Diaspora sounds. 🗓️ Friday 28th March ⏰ SCHEDULE 19:30 - 20:30 - Q&A Shae Universe in conversation with CSTR founder @_lemoneye 20:00 till Late SHAE UNIVERSE + support @itsriddla @veeadu @alfiesharp @mollyinthemetro @its.Yinka ‘Let’s Build Fam’ is a 10 part series at Mimm Studios in partnership with Art Council England & Nottingham Can with Q&A’s and Performances from industries professionals exploring Global Sounds in our intimate loft space working along side some of the best grassroots promoters in Nottingham. Supported by @notts_can & @aceagrams