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Love Albert Road Day 2010 Cancelled

You may have read in The News on Monday that this years Love Albert Road street festival won’t be going ahead.  Rising police costs are one of the main reasons and organisers say it has become too much for them to do on their own.  Hopes of a major sponsor or aid from the City Council haven’t seemed to arise this year so the event will not happen in late September as it has done for the past three years.  It’s a sad turn of events as it has been a hugely popular and enjoyable day for the people of Southsea in recent times however organisers say that they will be concentrating on smaller events throughout 2010 including involvement with Love Your Bike on May 30th before hopefully staging another Love Albert Road Day in 2011.

You can read Fran Duckett-Pike’s full story in The News by clicking here

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.

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Game of Skate

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Love Albert Road Day – 2008

We should have posted up this video from last year’s Love Albert Road Day (filmed and edited by Lisa Gomer) before this year’s but didn’t manage to get round to it, sorry Lisa! It’s well worth a watch.

Love Albert Road Day

I’m sure this won’t be the last post from myself or Paul covering this years Love Albert Road Day. No doubt Paul will have some cracking photographs and hopefully we’ll be able to show a few other peoples images and footage as well. Me and Liz were lucky enough to get a view of everything from Ian Parmiters rooftop.

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LARD – Art Exhibition – City: Dwellings on Dwellings

As part of the Love Albert Road day there with be an art exhibition at French Bakery 190 Albert Road with the following local artists & photographers:

Keith Robertson
Tom Mccaughan
Christina Gyles
Daniel James Emo
Chris Ballingall

A collection of works from local artists following a city theme, from the current economic temperature explored in sculpture and wall hangings, to video installation based on city routine as well as light hearted photography of Southsea culture. This one day show has something for everyone. The quirky exhibition is guaranteed to fascinate and stimulate, and to top it off it is later followed by a finale gorilla projection after dark onto one of our much loved Albert Road buildings.

For full info on the exhibition and artists check out their blog at www.love-albert-road-art.blogspot.com.

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The Fishtank

Saturday 22nd August sees The Fishtank hosting for one night only a fundraiser for this year’s Love Albert Road day. Expect the usual great music & decor & generally a top night out. The evening will be at The Loft (Above The Kings pub) and tickets are £5 and available from Head, at 53 Albert Road. Numbers are limited & this event is already getting a great deal of interest.

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Love Albert Road – Love Rock’n'Roll

A quick reminder that tonight at the Wedgewood Rooms is the Love Rock’n'Roll fundraiser for the Love Albert Road Day. The bands playing are:

LITTLE LONDON
Southsea hard rock monsters fresh from supporting Metallica @ Sonisphere Festival.

THE GOODTIME CHARLIES
Classic Surfin’ Rock’n'Roll veterans.

THE LEVELS
Stomping Led-Zep-infused South Coast rockers.

THE ROBERTS
Brand new garage outfit feat members of Green Hornets.

BIG SQUIRREL
Big riffing nut-loving carnage-creating 2-piece.

Tickets are £3 and all proceeds to the Love Albert Road Day fund. Also after the bands its the IT’S A SIN Rock’n'Roll Indie Disco until 2:30am.

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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.

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

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.

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

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