Summertime brings a monthly Roller Disco at Southsea Skatepark. Get your kit out and head on down to the skatepark tonight 24th June from 7pm. Poster designed by skateboarding legend Barry Abrook. DJ’s playing 70′s tunes til 10pm. You can also hire roller skates from the skatepark.
Date for diary = next month on 29th July BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Spoon will be providing the sounds.
The University of Portsmouth Brightsparks Entrepreneurial Society are hosting the entertainment extravaganza ‘The Not So Royal Variety Show’ at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. This is the first time that they have had the opportunity to showcase the talent from the University of Portsmouth in one of the largest professional theatres in the south. This event will take place on Tuesday, 5th April, 2011 at Kings Theatre, Southsea from 7pm and is open to all.
The show will consist of music, dance, comedy and more from a variety of different societies, clubs and individuals involved within the Students Union. The aim is to create a show that the Brightsparks Enterprise Society can repeat annually that involves the entire University and the Community of Portsmouth.
This year we have had over 30 potential performers register to be part of the show line-up – this includes other UPSU Societies, Clubs, Groups, Bands and Individuals. Some of the headlining acts are Keli Anne B (portsmouth’s poet laureate), Chris Whitelock (Magician), Heart of Blondie (cover band) and The Heavy Hands Comedy Society. Come along and be part of the show.
The show starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £7 for general public and £5 for concessions. For more information on the event please contact: contact@uopbrightsparks.com.
To book, please call the Kings Theatre Box Office on 023 9282 8282 or visit http://bit.ly/nsrtickets or check out the website: www.notsoroyal.net
MASQUERADE – Tilted Productions.
An excursion into the inner spheres of the sleeping mind
Masquerade, inspired by Freud’s interpretation of dreams, comes to the New Theatre Royal on Wed 2 February at 7.30pm.
Winner of Time Out Live award for outstanding choreography, Maresa von Stockert will collaborate with renowned SFX artist John Schoonraad, to create delicately sculpted faces and prosthetics that will be brought to life by the dancers and become an integral and intricate part of the piece’s physical poetry.
Feasting the eyes and provoking the mind, six outstanding performers will evoke vivid imagery from the beautifully macabre to the violently sensual.
Masquerade invites you to leave the rules of reason behind and dive into a dreamlike world that gives free rein to the choreographer’s ‘scrupulously focused yet wildly hallucinatory’ (the Guardian) imagination.
Student tickets from £6!
Following the show there will be a free question and answer session with the company.
Book now on 023 9264 9000 or at www.newtheatreroyal.com
Hot off the press another live event at Guildhall Square. Ballet and Breakdancing with BMX Bikes!
Extreme Sport, Physical Theatre, Breakin’ & Contemporary Dance live in Guildhall Square.
In association with the New Theatre Royal, Creative Campus Initiative and the Big Screen
“Kompany Malakhi continue to create their unique brand of cutting edge work with this gritty yet graceful exploration of cause and effect. It comes to Guildhall Square, Portsmouth on Friday 25 June at 12pm and 1.15pm and it is FREE for everyone!
Fusing BMX flatland, Breakin’ and contemporary dance, Kompany Malakhi premiere their latest work, Rotations, in Portsmouth ahead of a national tour.
Hailed as “powerful and enlightening” by critics, Rotations began as Project 360° in 2008 and was a great success, the new show is anticipated to be one of the most exhilarating outdoor performances witnessed this year.”
The event will also feature a short experimental film about the Portsmouth Olympian Cyclist, Clarence Kingsbury. All created with the BBC, the Big Screen and Creative Campus Initiative from the University of Portsmouth as part of the developing Portsmouth History Project.
Each performance lasts 20 minutes (12pm – 12.20pm and 1.15pm – 1.35pm) so make sure you are in Guildhall Square on Friday 25 June to catch this stunning display!
For more information please contact the box office on 023 9264 9000 or visit www.newtheatreroyal.com
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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