Portsmouth poet Richard Williams reflects on censorship and social media after his comment mentioning Palestine was blocked by Facebook. I am performing some poetry at Victorious Festival in August. It’s a 12-minute set at 12.15 [… read more ]
Local charity Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling (PARCS) has launched a new photography competition for young people to raise awareness of sexual abuse in our communities, the ‘Elephant in the Room.’ Sarah Cheverton reports. The [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 86, and Ian chooses the next three songs as part of his short series, [… read more ]
The first Creative Portsmouth event took place on 31st January 2019 run by Portsmouth City Council. Local writer Maddie Wallace reports. Judging by the huge turnout at the city’s first Creative Portsmouth collaborative event at the [… read more ]
We gathered on the Common were searched at the gate for illicit chairs – no dispensation for me. We watched the ukulele rap duo and waited for the voices our bums on beanbags on rainbow [… 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 ]
S&C contributor, Andrew Larder, reviews the music and experience of last week’s Victorious Festival and offers a somewhat embarrassed apology to musician Marley Blandford. ‘One day like this a year would see me right’ sang [… read more ]
The final part of Emily Priest’s three part Victorious review comes to a climax full of glitter and grit on a chaotic last day. Catch Part 1 and Part 2 to capture Emily’s full festival [… read more ]
Emily Priest watches more local bands and explores the rest of the Victorious festival in part two of her three part review. Read part 1 here. On the Saturday morning of Victorious festival, I groggily [… read more ]
Emily Priest visits her first ever Victorious festival and tells all, good and bad, in a three part series about Portsmouth’s biggest event, starting with Friday night Madness. Victorious, always on the last bank holiday of [… read more ]
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