More Love Albert Road Day

I finally got a roll of film developed from Love Albert Road Day and the Slammers and Hammers game of Skate, such good times. See them all over at Forever Circling.

Independents Day Fundraiser

Concluding a weekend of fundraisers with all proceeds going to the Love Albert Road Day festival, Gentle Bren plays his usual lazy Sunday blend of Funk, Soul and Hip Hop at the LJR Fundraiser.

Love Albert Road Development is dedicating it’s time & efforts to raising money to support this year’s Love Albert Road Day on September 27th through gigs & dance events in and around Albert Road. The event costs a lot of money to put on, so every donation will be gratefully received!! £2 Donation on the door, 6pm onwards

Emptifish & Archive 45

The first of LARD’s fundraisers for this year’s Love Albert Road Day has been announced. Emptifish & Archive take to the stage to support your favourite street festival. Tickets are limited to 120, so first come first served at just £5 each from Southsea Gallery, Albert Road.

LARD – (Love Albert Road Development)

Love Albert Road Development is dedicating it’s time & efforts to raising money to support this year’s Love Albert Road Day on September 27th through gigs & dance events in & around Albert Road. We will be posting news of bands & dates as we get them, but be assured there will be some fantastic entertainment coming your way… Keep checking back for more info & please pass onto friends… SPREAD THE LARD!!

Although Love Albert Road Day will only be in it’s 3rd year and it already feels like an integral part of the Southsea scene. It’s such a good day and such a strong community vibe that we must make every effort to ensure it’s survival. Get involved.

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