We’re deep into the cricketing season and yet again fast approaching the biggest game in the summer sporting calendar. This Wednesday 13th July sees the titanic battle for the Albert Road Ashes contested for it’s 3rd year.
Held on the front lawn of Stansted House in Rowlands Castle, Lord Sonics XI take on Stanstead Park CC for the coveted urn which genuinely contain the charred remains of an Albert Road kebab. Play starts at 6pm and spectators are more than welcome.
The sound of leather on willow on a summer’s day, such an idyllic traditional English afternoon. Sunday 29th August sees the Apsley House cricket team play in their 3rd consecutive cup final, this time against fellow Southsea drinking establishment the Leopold.
St Helens cricket ground is the venue (next door to the Tenth Hole tea rooms in case you were wondering) with everyone gearing up for a great cricketing event.  Spectators are encouraged to come and cheer on both teams as well as bring your own picnic and drinks. Hopefully you’ll be needing suncream too!
I’m not too sure who my money is on. I have been known to frequent the Apsley however I am an Albert Road boy by nature. Whoever claims victory it promises to be a great sporting occasion.
Match starts at 2pm
We’re deep into the cricketing season and fast approaching the biggest game in the summer sporting calendar. This Wednesday 14th July sees the Albert Road Ashes contested for the second year.
Held on the front lawn of Stansted House in Rowlands Castle, Lord Sonics XI take on the Sir Allan Stansted Allstars for the coveted urn which genuinely contain the charred remains of an Albert Road kebab. Play starts at 6pm and spectators are more than welcome.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
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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