One of the most urgent issues of our day is the degradation of the environment caused by human activity. A project by University of Portsmouth students is using interactive installations to provoke visitors to think [… read more ]
Dan Musty’s latest films celebrate Black History Month in Portsmouth by shining a light on the pioneering work of Marie Costa and Honorine Djenaba-MacDonald in the city. He spoke to Ivana Domozetska about empowerment, creativity [… read more ]
Have you ever wanted to visit a recording studio and perform for posterity? Supported by Portsmouth Creates, Pens of the Earth are offering people in the Portsmouth area two day-long opportunities to attend a practical [… read more ]
The horrors of nuclear war will be confronted at a series of events at the University of Portsmouth and Southsea Library on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (15-17 July). Among the speakers will be Tom Unterrainer, [… read more ]
Filmmaker and journalist Habibur Rahman explains how a disconnected telephone is moving around Portsmouth as a symbolic tool for connecting people and as a means of documenting powerful local stories. Based on the principle [… read more ]
A team of students from the University of Portsmouth recently created a short documentary about finding community through the rock music society and we are delighted to showcase it on S&C. [… read more ]
We present the second and final part of Portsmouth journalism student Emil Hallqvist’s deep dive into the Dune phenomenon. Part III: Comparisons, Improvements and Differences Where in this vast thematic desert do our hunter-seekers find Dune: [… read more ]
In the first of two articles, University of Portsmouth journalism student Emil Hallqvist reflects on last year’s Dune: Part 2 and its part in the legacy of the classic science fiction novels. Introduction Frank Herbert’s [… read more ]
Author, S&C Literary Editor and Emeritus Professor of Film History, Sue Harper, shares some thoughts on writing historical fiction. This is a thorny issue, and it is probably foolhardy to undertake it. I suppose, to [… read more ]
If you frequent any social media, especially those run by Meta, you are probably aware of recent developments in the name of ‘free expression’ – though exactly what the Meta megalomaniac means by this is [… read more ]
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