Year on year, Young Hustlers proves itself to be a vital part of our city’s annual arts and culture spectacular Hockley Hustle, providing a host of fun activities to facilitate the creative expression of local kids. It also gets bigger each year, and in 2025 will have an extra-packed, arty and crafty programme, which is this year titled ‘Around the World’. Here’s what you can expect…
The 2025 edition of Hockley Hustle will mark the 8th year of the Young Hustlers Festival. The theme? Around the World: a celebration of the innumerable, global cultures that make Nottingham such a vibrant place to live. The idea, in short, is to get kids making and creating arts, crafts, dance, and food which originates from different countries. We’re pretty convinced that this edition of Young Hustlers will be one of the best yet which, given the truly enormous programme of Hockley Hustle 2025, is saying something. Here are four highlights –
Vietnamese cooking - Sneinton Market Avenues
Vietcentric is a business that regularly hosts cooking courses on how to make Vietnamese food. They’ll be participating in Young Hustlers, holding some particularly special workshops for kids, which will involve making Vietnamese summer rolls, painting rice paper lanterns, and writing lucky messages to take home in red envelopes.
Brazilian dance - Sneinton Market Avenues
At the Brazilian Cultural Centre, which is also a business located in Sneinton Market Avenues, there will be some exciting workshops for families, where Samba and Afro Brazilian Khattak dance styles will be taught in high energy sessions celebrating music, movement, and culture.
West African drumming - City Arts
A regular fixture of Young Hustlers, the Djembe drumming workshops facilitated by creative Biant Singh are consistently very popular each year. This year, they’re back again, and will see families encouraged to make noise, finding their unique voice via drumming, which for Singh provides a positive impact on mental and physical wellbeing.
Word class poetry - The Carousel
If you like the idea of having your kids listen to some of Nottingham’s best poetic minds, there’ll be an opportunity to do so during Young Hustlers, as Jah Digga, John Berkavitch, and Michelle Mother Hubbard guide poetry sessions, exploring what ‘home’ means as a theme.
Architects of Air - Sneinton Market
As an extra special treat, Architects of Air are bringing their magical Lumini to Sneinton Market. Inside Dodecalis, the spectacular inflatable sculpture which has been described as ‘a sensory dream’, you will be able to find performances and workshops celebrating world music.
There will be plenty more to check out at Young Hustlers 2025, from a family rave at Movers, to DJ workshops at Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. Young Hustlers and the Hockley Hustle take place on 19 October 2025.
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