Apologies for the self post but I’m holding two workshops at Making Space in Leigh Park soon, one on filmmaking and another on digital editing. There are still a few places left and if you sign up to both courses you get a discount.
Hipshaker is back this Saturday (11th February) at The Wedgewood Rooms and will feature a live performance by Janice Graham Band who recently signed to Acid Jazz.
Spotted this antique Pompey football clacker in the window of Robert’s in Castle Road yesterday, looks like it has seen a fair few games and no doubt makes a royal racket too.
Wednesday night saw the tasting and judging for our second annual homebrew competition. Once the golfers had departed for the next hole the judges got cracking going through the 14 different entries. Due to there being so many entries this year plus our first lagers and ciders the field was split in to beers/ales and ciders/lagers with the top three winning awards.
The beers category began with last year’s best in show brew re-entered. This year it had been slightly modified and changed. Island Hopper you might remember being brewed by Irving & Co. Brewers and sold as Strong Island Hopper around Portsmouth early last summer. A number of other beers from local teams and from as far as Essex entered beers and it was a tough call to pick a winer from all the quality entries.
The competitions first lagers were tried at the start of the second category judging, with the rosemary version going down a storm. Fragrant and tasty. The ciders were entered by lots of teams and ranging in different potency and taste.
The final results are shown below:
Category Cider/Lager
- 1st: Milton Pride (Cider)
- 2nd: Tucker B’s Rosemary (Lager)
- 3rd: Ginsters Paradise (Cider)
Category Beer
- 1st: Dry Dock No. 1
- 2nd: Elder Tail
- 3rd: Dark Matter
The Best in Show award went to Dry Dock No. 1 which will be brewed by Irving & Co. Brewers ready for sale in Portsmouth around May. The winner was very highly regarded and is sure to go down a storm on those early summer days. Looking forward to it!
Strong Island would like to thank the judges for their hard work…the teams for entering and Little Johnny Russells for hosting the event. Cheers!
Back in the summer at the University of Portsmouth graduate show local photographer Katie Anderson had on show her book documenting Southsea’s The Wedgewood Rooms. The book is made up of different sections that all form a picture of what goes on behind the scenes, on the stage and the people that make it happen. The book also covers the history of the venue, even down to the cover being made up of all the acts that have performed there.
I contacted Katie to find out if the book was ever released (would love a copy) but sadly at the moment Katie is still looking for a publisher and/or funding. If anyone out there is interested in maybe making this book available in any way you can contact Katie at www.katieandersonphotos.com.
Tomorrow night (Wednesday 7:30pm) Portsmouth Film Society presents ‘The Skin I Live In’ by Pedro Almodóvar. Almodóvar’s latest film is a bizarre and stylish thriller and will be shown at Boathouse No 6 Cinema at the Royal Naval Dockyard.
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, (Antonio Banderas) an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig.
“The Skin I Live In feels unlike any other Almodovar film – a quasi-horror exercise that’s improbably august and elegant. Yet it’s also uncannily familiar – an Almodovar film to the hilt.” (Jonathon Romney, The Independent 28. Aug. 2011)
With an opening talk by Dr Deborah Shaw, Film Studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.
Kindly supported by the School of Creative Arts Film and Media, Portsmouth University. Entry is free for SCAFM students.
Portsmouth’s own Mayhem Magazine‘s latest issue has just been released. This issue gears up for St. Valentine’s Day and has interviews with Keira Knightley, Kaiser Chiefs and is full of lifestyle articles. The magazine is available free around many bars and shops all over the city so keep your eyes open and grab a copy.
Friend of Strong Island Chinzia got in touch about an article on The News website about her brother’s latest charity fund raising, riding a moped the 1000 miles or so from one end of the country to the other. Raymond Olgilvie has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity in recent years and is set to raise a load more with this epic moped journey. You can find out the full story HERE and we wish him the best of luck. And the best of weather too…
(Photo from The News)
A quick edit of Southsea skater Matt O’Neill skating the Leigh Park skatepark before the rain set in. Matt and his wife have left Southsea for a new life in Melbourne, Australia, wishing them the best of luck in their new adventure!
P.S. Song is a little NSFW, just so you know
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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