Event Details:
Saturday, 18 October 2025
12:30 – 3:00pm
Coreset, Newark (with free parking)
Free entry (donations for cakes and drinks are welcome)
The Repair Café invites local people to bring their broken or worn household items and give
them a second life. Volunteer repairers will be on hand to help fix small electrical goods,
bikes, laptops/pcs, and clothing – from hairdryers that won’t heat up, to laptops running slowly to jumpers with moth holes.
The beloved Christmas classic returns! After last year’s acclaimed tour, Crown Ballet® brings back its dazzling production of The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s timeless masterpiece. Follow young Marie as her Nutcracker doll transforms into a prince and leads her into a world of snowflakes, magical battles, and the sparkling Kingdom of Sweets. A heart-warming holiday tradition — magical, memorable, and utterly unforgettable.
With over 500,000 followers on social media and a host of sell-out shows across the country, Brian Bilston is one of the UK’s most popular poets. He has published several bestselling collections of poetry, including You Took the Last Bus Home, Alexa, what is there to know about love? and Days Like These. His novel Diary of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and he has also written collections of poetry for younger readers. In 2025 he released an album of his poetry set to music, Sounds Made by Humans, in collaboration with The Catenary Wires. This autumn sees Brian return to the stage with his latest book, How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside. Get ready for an evening of comedy and laughter, as he takes us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day.