BBC Reel History Event

Portsmouth Film Society is taking part in the BBC series of events celebrating local history through archive film, in partnership with the Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Join PFS for a look back at Portsmouth and Southsea history on the big screen, with a talk from local artist Jez Stevens who will discuss his project “No Diving” on the Hilsea Lido, which uses footage from local amateur filmmakers taken at the Lido, and Portsmouth historian Dr. Dave Allen.
Date – Wednesday, November 16 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Omega Centre, Portsmouth.
Entry is £2 or free for full Portsmouth Film Society members.

No Diving film

For those of you that missed our post of Dave Allen’s lecture here it is below.

Community Arts Projects – Going Public

Going Public – How to make successful applications to run public arts projects

Portsmouth City Council regularly invites artists, groups and organisations to tender for public and community arts projects.

‘Going Public’, a professional development training course for artists who would like to work in community and public settings, will take place over three mornings in November and December.

“It will offer an invaluable insight into understanding your local authority’s commitment to the arts and community engagement as well as essential tools and techniques for making successful applications and delivering great projects.”

The three-part course will take place on consecutive Wednesday mornings, 30 November, 7 December and 14 December at the Central Library in Guildhall Square, Portsmouth

‘Going Public’ has been devised by Cibas (Creative Industries Advice Service) in partnership with Portsmouth City Council and is aimed at freelance artists and creative practitioners, arts professionals, groups and organisations.

The fee to take part in the course is £200 which includes materials and refreshments. However, thanks to the support of Portsmouth City Council’s Arts and Cultural Development Service, there are 15 free places available to Portsmouth and south east Hampshire based artists.

Email thomas.kinsey@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or call 023 9284 1519 for an application form. The deadline for applications is Wednesday 16 November.

Find out more about ’Going Public’ and meet the organisers at a free open evening and networking event on 2 November, also at the Central Library in Portsmouth. The event is free to attend, but booking is essential: http://going-public.eventbrite.com

Portsmouth Summer Fair & Picnic

Portsmouth Climate Action Network (PCAN) brings you the Portsmouth Summer Fair and Picnic – Saturday 25th June 11- 4 Victoria Park. This is the fifth fair PCAN has organised and it’s in partnership with Portsmouth City Council.

You can see loads of pictures from last year here.
Pedal-powered and solar stage provided by Veggiepower with live entertainment throughout the day with local bands and DJs. Around 100 stalls: crafts and eco-gifts, plants, money saving tips, green fashion, wildlife conservation, campaigns and energy saving tips. Also street entertainers, a Green Motor show, a therapy area, poets, swing dancers, get fit, art displays and demonstrations of green crafts and technology like bushcraft skills and building a cob oven.

For children: games, rides, art and crafts, face painting, circus skills, hula hoops, story-tellers, bouncy castle, solar challenge, parade and competitions.
Lots of food and drink stalls selling local, organic & homegrown food. Café-bar and gallery.
Free fun for all the family.
Further details on their website – http://www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/portsmouth-summer-fair.html

Love Your Bike Portsmouth – This Sunday

Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.

It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.

There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.

Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.

To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors

From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

PRIMARY – A Phoneography Exhibition by Strong Island – Call for entries

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

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

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