Exhibitions and Events
Events
Wellbeing Walks
We offer a programme of monthly Wellbeing Walks focused on getting an hour of fresh air, exploring the local area and meeting people. On the walks you can enjoy Broxtowe’s beautiful countryside, whilst learning about local heritage, and of course, D.H. Lawrence.
Wellbeing walks will take place on the first Tuesday of most months, meeting at 10.00am at the Birthplace Museum on Victoria Street, Eastwood.
2026 dates will therefore be:
- 4 August
- 1 September
- 6 October
- 3 November
- 1 December
Talk: D.H. Lawrence's Plays
Wednesday 5 August, 2pm.
D.H. Lawrence Society member, Jonathan Long, will explore the varying dramas involved in Lawrence's attempts at getting his plays published.
This is a FREE but ticketed event, as part of the D.H. Lawrence Festival. Reserve your space here (opens in new window).
Reading Group: 'The Christening'
Wednesday 26 August, 7pm.
Dr Andrew Harrison (University of Nottingham) will lead this reading group on D. H. Lawrence's 'The Christening', a fascinating early short story set in Eastwood, exploring the themes of illegitimacy, shame and rebellion. 'The Christening', depicts the daughter of a retired miner, who has brought shame on her family by having a child outside marriage. Lawrence reverses traditional moral norms by presenting passion and the daughter's physical affection for her child as vital, in contrast to the distorting patriarchal perspectives of her father and the clergyman who comes in secret to the family's home in order to baptise it.
This is a FREE but ticketed event, as part of the D.H. Lawrence Festival. Reserve your space here (opens in new window).
Image courtesy of, Dallas Museum of Art, Sleepy Baby, Mary Cassatt, c. 1910. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The D.H. Lawrence Music Festival
Saturday 5 September, 12-4pm in the museum garden (full event continues later throughout Eastwood).
The D.H. Lawrence Music Festival is an amazing event, offering FREE live music throughout pubs and venues in Eastwood. The D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum has a stage at the event, sponsored by the fantastic people at The Old Nottinghamians' Society and supported by Broxtowe Borough Council.
The garden of the museum is the perfect place to catch some intimate performances by 4 wonderful singer-songwriters.
This stage also starts earlier than all the rest. Starting at 12 and ending at 4. so come down if you're an early bird.
See more details of the acts performing here (opens in new window).
Book Launch: D.H. Lawrence and the Gypsies, with author John Pateman
Tuesday 8 September, 2pm
D.H. Lawrence first encountered Romanies/Gypsies when they passed through Eastwood, and they appear in many of his works; his descriptions of Gypsies reveal his intimate knowledge of their lifestyle and culture. John Pateman explores how Lawrence's representation of Gypsies as 'the other' formed part of his analysis of race, class and domestic purity in English society.
John Pateman is the author of several books about his own Romany family. He is a Council member of the D.H. Lawrence Society and the author of Willie Hopkin: D.H. Lawrence's Socialist Friend and D.H. Lawrence in Nottingham.
A FREE event as part of the D.H. Lawrence Festival, no booking required, refreshments provided.
Reading Group: 'Return to Bestwood'
Thursday 10 September, 7pm.
Led by Dr David Amos and John Pateman, this reading group will examine D.H. Lawrence’s short story, 'Return to Bestwood'. Lawrence visited Eastwood for the last time in September 1926 at a time when the Miner’s Lockout was starting to collapse and the return to work was gathering momentum. The reading group will discuss aspects of the text in relation to the General Strike and Miners Lockout in general, and what followed after Lawrence’s visit, reverberations from which still exist in the complicated and contested history of the Nottinghamshire miners’.
This is a FREE but ticketed event, as part of the D.H. Lawrence Festival. Reserve your space here (opens in new window).
Image, Outcropping during miner's lockout, courtesy of Dr David Amos.
Heritage Open Days
Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September, 10am - 4pm
Step back in time with costumed guides describing family life in Lawrence's first home, part of the National Heritage Open Days.
A FREE event, no need to book.
Gin and Gaslight
Friday 9 October, 7pm.
The D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum is lit with original gaslight, making an evening visit especially charming and atmospheric. Guests will have time to engage with the hosts and learn more about D.H. Lawrence and the Eastwood of old. Then, guests will be offered several gins to sample and learn about their history and flavour profiles.
This is a popular ticketed event and places are limited, therefore booking early is advisable. Victorian costume is not essential but always celebrated.
Over 18's only.
Book here (opens in new window).
Exhibitions
The Optimist’s Incomplete by SEVHAGE: A Poetry and Photo Exhibition of (Un)Finished Becoming and More
23 July - 13 September
Produced by SEVHAGE ABC4DE, TransitUs, and BBAAF, and curated by Su’ur Su’eddie Vershima Agema, this exhibition brings together poetry, photography, letters and handwritten notes, in a layered conversation around love, (dis)trust, memory, nostalgia, sensuality, migration, inheritance, fracture, healing, and unfinished becoming. The exhibition will also feature some open poetry readings inspired by its central themes.
Inspired in part by D.H. Lawrence’s poetry and literary oeuvre, the exhibition explores a broad range of themes and interrogates various shades of optimism – what it means to be or not be, and the incompleteness of what lies in-between in our contemporary reality.
C-City: Connecting Europe Through Art
17 September - 31 October
Broxtowe Borough Council is engaged in a cultural partnership known as the C-City Project, which is focused on European cultural cooperation. Broxtowe signed a charter alongside cities in Germany, Sweden, France and Poland to share arts, heritage and community best practices.
The travelling art exhibition is part of the C-City: Connecting Europe Through Art project. This collaborative European initiative features artworks created by citizens and artists from five twinned "C-Cities": Falun (Sweden), Broxtowe (UK), Gütersloh (Germany), Châteauroux (France), and Grudziadz (Poland).
Exhibit in our space
We host an exciting programme of ever changing exhibitions in our Gallery Space. We love to promote our local community so if your group has an exhibition that you think would work well in our Gallery Space please contact us.