Young Hustlers at Sneinton Market

A music and arts festival for Nottingham's younger generation and their adults. After ten years of awesome music, packed-out dance floors, thousands of bands and smiley faces all round, Hockley Hustle Music Festival was proud to present Young Hustlers.

The first installment brought a multicultural and family-orientated day of creative activities to Nottingham’s younger generation and their adults. This year will be even better!

Following the success of last years festival, which sold 500 tickets alongside giving 200 tickets to low income families across Nottingham, Young Hustlers, funded by Arts Council England, is gearing up to bring you a whole day of fun on Sunday 28 October.

Young Hustlers will be taking place at Nottingham Writers Studio, Nottingham Contemporary, Sneinton Market, City Arts and Blend Coffee Shop.

Alongside the day’s events, Young Hustlers will be running projects leading up to the festival, aimed at encouraging a wider involvement and a sense of ownership from the city as a whole.

Party sensations, Big Fish Little Fish, are returning to Nottingham Contemporary with their award-winning, critically-acclaimed, family rave. This year, they’ve teamed up with Petebox and the Able Orchestra - co-produced by Orchestras Live and made up of fourteen young people from Fountaindale School, each of whom has a variety of physical disabilities - to bring you a very special live performance.

Following the success of last years festival, which sold 500 tickets alongside giving 200 tickets to low-income families across Nottingham, Young Hustlers, funded by Arts Council England, is gearing up to bring you a whole day of fun on Sunday 28 October

Award-winning beatboxer, Alex ‘Motormouf’ Young will be leading beatboxing workshops; world-renowned graffiti artist and owner of Montana Shop Nottingham, Dilk, will be encouraging young people to make their mark on the 2018 Young Hustlers graffiti mural; and local practitioner, Natalia Bruce, will be fronting the Kids Council, encouraging Nottingham’s kids to get all political. City Arts will be taken over by SHEAfriq, the Nottingham-based, creative, grass root collective comprised of creative women of African heritage in Nottingham and beyond. They’ll be leading DJ masterclasses, songwriting and music production workshops, and even creating a Young Hustler’s documentary, with the help of the Young Hustlers themselves.

A series of free arts workshops will be held at the Nottingham Women’s Centre (dates tbc), and the festival will be running their very own Samba Schools project with Crabtree Farm Schools, Bulwell, and Can Samba. Participants will be schooled in all things Samba, before taking part in the larger-than-life street parade at the Young Hustlers Festival. The festival is also working alongside Nottingham City Libraries to offer young people in the city the chance to see their poems, stories, and musings published in a Young Hustlers anthology. There will be free workshops in Nottingham City libraries in the lead up to the festival, where participants will be encouraged to reflect on where they call home.