Freelance writer and S&C contributor Phoebe Hedges reviews the first of two Pompey quarter-finals in the Isle of Wight New Blood competition. As someone who spent their formative years in bars and basements, with her [… read more ]
Gin and tonic. Gin and lemonade. Gin and juice. However you drink yours, the juniper-based spirit was the tipple of choice at The Great British Gin Festival at the Pyramids on 9th March 2019. S&C’s [… read more ]
In the second of a two-part interview, Helen Salsbury talks with Michael Woolley, the Chair of Friends Without Borders (FWB), a Portsmouth-based charity providing support and advice to asylum seekers. I wanted to know more about [… read more ]
In advance of his lecture at the University of Portsmouth’s Global Week on 19th March at 5pm at the Eldon Building, Filipino poet, journalist and activist Gene Alcantara discusses the unprecedented crisis engulfing his home [… read more ]
Tomorrow (Friday 15th) at 11 am in 106 towns and cities across the UK, schoolchildren, students and young people will take the day off from their work or educational establishments, to say with one voice, [… read more ]
Musical theatre teacher Helen Wallis from the TADAA performing arts school in Portsmouth writes about five successful students learning the art of TV presenting. TADAA (The Alternative Dramatic Arts Academy) performing arts school is a [… read more ]
Elizabeth Palmer has been interviewing various teachers of creative writing to gain insights into their motives, methods and approaches. Lately she spoke to Dr Alison Habens, novelist, poet and Head of Creative Writing at the [… read more ]
In the first of a two-part interview, Helen Salsbury talks with Michael Woolley, the Chair of Friends Without Borders (FWB), a Portsmouth-based charity providing support and advice to asylum seekers. How did you first get [… read more ]
Councillor Claire Udy shares why International Women’s Day is important to her, and why we should all celebrate and support women, every day. I have always been politically inclined. From the moment I sat in [… read more ]
Community reporter, Paul Valentine, reviews the recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance, Superhuman Strauss, and is far from disappointed Well here we are at the Guildhall in Portsmouth again. Tonight, I am full of expectancy; there [… read more ]
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