Hilsea Lido Pool for the People are collaborating with Portsmouth City Museum to create an exhibition to celebrate 75 years of Hilsea Lido. If you’ve got memories, photos, your granny’s old swimsuit or swimming cap or anything that you feel recreates the glamour & fun of Hilsea Lido in the past they would love to meet up with you! Exhibition organisers will be at Portsmouth City Museum on Sunday 27th June between 11am-4pm.
Hilsea Lido Pool for the People have been battling away raising awareness and funds for the restoration and re-opening of the landmark and iconic Hilsea Lido for some time. Word just came through that tomorrow Hilsea Lido Pool for the People will be at Portsmouth City Council signing a 99 year lease for both Hilsea Lido and The Blue Lagoon.
Congratulations to everyone involved for the success all of their hard work has achieved!
More information about Hilsea Lido and the work done to save it can be found at their Facebook group.
Hilsea Lido Pool for the People are hosting an open air fundraising concert at the Hilsea Lido on 22nd May, 3:30-7:00pm. This is an all ages concert providing an opportunity for the whole community to show their support for the revival of the Hilsea Lido. The concert will take place within the area surrounding the main pool however the pool its self will remain closed to the public until next year.
Live performance from:
The Trevor John Band
The Rivers of Sound
The Racketeers
For the younger members of the audience there will be a range of children’s entertainment including face painting, art workshops and performances. The audience is encouraged to bring a picnic, blankets and portable chairs and stay for the day. Refreshment stands will be available and all proceeds go to the Hilsea Lido Pool for the People Trust for the future of the Hilsea Lido.
Tickets £5.00 (+50p booking fee) available from the Wedgewood Rooms – 023 9286 3911. For more information 07985 706061, lauren@hilsea-lido.org.uk, www.hilsea-lido.org.uk
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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