John Callaway continues his love letter in photography to live music, after he recently attended the Wickham Festival. A minotaur? A non-thematic collection of oddities and outliers from the Wickham Festival. As Neil Innes once [… read more ]
Community Reporter for Covid 19, Dianna Djokey, interviews Roni Edwards, the creative director of Padmodzi Creatives, mother, and person of colour, about her work in the art sector and how she navigated the pandemic, when [… read more ]
Like many other arts organisations around Britain, Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is adapting to the unparalleled new landscape that COVID-19 has shaped. S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes discusses sustainability, new tech solutions and the changing role [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon welcome Geoff Priestley, General Manager of The Wedgewood Rooms and Richard Stride, founder of Groundlings Theatre Company, [… read more ]
‘This work is a spontaneous response to missing the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain due to the dreadful pandemic.’ Trudy Barber Star & Crescent is Portsmouth’s only independent community news outlet. We don’t [… read more ]
In an exclusive two-part series, Paris Ali-Pilling interviews Richard Stride, the Artistic Director of Groundlings Theatre. Check out Part I, published yesterday. In part II, they discuss how the Theatre raises money to operate, celebrities [… read more ]
In an exclusive two-part series, Paris Ali-Pilling interviews Richard Stride, the Artistic Director of Groundlings Theatre. In part I, they discuss the challenges of running Groundlings and finding support, the recent addition of the Theatre [… read more ]
Jonathan Smith from Brightword reports on a unique artwork and video installation inspired by the chalk springs which keep Portsmouth supplied with water. The Spring in Havant commissioned Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer to create [… read more ]
S&C’s newest team member and Contributing Editor, Esti Chivite, describes her experience of the recent launch of a local arts project and a pleasant, if unexpected, surprise. When my editor Tom Sykes emailed me asking [… read more ]
Purbrook resident Rosalie Cuthbert reviews Groundlings Theatre’s current productions of two Shakespeare classics, featuring a replica of The Rose Playhouse, where Romeo & Juliet was first performed. When Richard Stride had the idea of recreating [… read more ]
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