Alec Laverty wrote this creative non-fiction short story after participating in a local writing project called Portsmouth, City of Stories, part of a wider 2 year festival of festival of stories, creative writing, storytelling and [… read more ]
Community reporter, Paul Valentine, reviews the recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance, Smooth Classics II, at Portsmouth Guildhall on 16th November 2018, conducted by Marta Gardolińska. As someone who wants to find messages and story [… read more ]
S&C Community Reporter Andrew Hurdle interviews Richard Stride from Pompey’s Groundlings Theatre about the history of the theatre and the coming season. Richard Stride explains the history of the Groundlings Theatre, including that Charles Dickens’ [… read more ]
Community reporter and S&C reviewer Paul Valentine attended the book launch for Clare Best’s new memoir The Missing List and finds a masterfully written and powerful reflection on abuse. I’ve read a lot of memoirs [… read more ]
The Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a festival of British culture, sport and innovation to take place in 2022, inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851. S&C can now exclusively reveal an anonymously leaked [… read more ]
Community reporter, Paul Valentine, reviews the recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance, Beethoven Five, at the opening concert of their returning programme at the Guildhall. All is marketing these days, but not in terms of [… read more ]
Publishing, writing and reading in Portsmouth have been boosted this year with a new funding award for storytelling at Central Library, the inclusion of a new literacy focus at Victorious Festival, and the launch of [… read more ]
Following this week’s announcement by Portsmouth Libraries that Neil Gaiman’s Stardust was this year’s Portsmouth Reads title, the writer himself has taken to social media to share his support for the scheme and his love [… read more ]
The University of Portsmouth has launched two short courses for Portsmouth people to explore painting and drawing with local expert artists. PAINTING WITH ACRYLICS: A SHORT COURSE In October, a new evening course will start [… read more ]
It’s late afternoon, summer light fills Portsmouth Cathedral, choral song sounds through the air and the Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society’s (PHAS) annual exhibition is in full swing. Lucy Brown reports on this enchanting and [… read more ]
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