Last Minute Gift: Pompey Eye Test Tee

If you are looking for a last minute gift by a local designer get in touch with Mark Persaud and grab one of his Pompey Eye Test tees. Get in touch with Mark via:

www.lovedadesign.co.uk/about

Keep the pound in Pompey – Southsea Gallery

Southsea Gallery are located at 51 Albert Road, Southsea. They sell prints and photos including designs by local artists.

They stock hundreds of ready made frames from 6×4″ to 70x1000mm. In addition, they also framing for non-standard sized prints, medals, football shirts, programmes and magazines. Call in to see them for more information.

Get your orders in before 20th December to receive it in time for christmas!

Here are some of the artists who’s work is stocked at the gallery.
Alex Ings
Ami Lowman
Chris Gibson
Emma Luckins
Gina Simmons
Jodie Silsby
Ken Leung
Mark Persaud
Michelle Lancaster / Wink Design
Richard Oakes
Rob Luckins
Roo Abrook

Devine Aesthetic Social Media Seminar

Southsea face and Strong Island friend Mark Persaud is holding “How To Really Use Social Media To Improve Your Business” seminar this Friday from 10am to 4pm at Gunwharf and there are still a few spaces available. Mark and Devine Aesthetic have teamed up with one of the UK’s leading Social Media consultants to provide some invaluable information on just how Social Media can be used to improve business and how to make the most of this essentially free marketing channel.

If this sounds good click below for all the details and to secure your seat.

www.lovedadesign.co.uk/how-to-really-use-social-media-to-improve-your-business

Better late than never…

Southsea Gent Mr Mark Persaud just sent me these awesome panoramic photos from last years Strong Island Bike Ride. It’s really great to see the full group photos and get a feel for how big the ride really is. Good work mate. Look forward to seeing this years too. Click the lower panoramics for a closer view.

COR’s Mark Persaud plays out Sunday

Well known Southsea man about town and top chap Mark Persaud will be helping bring the Bank Holiday to it’s inevitable close this Sunday 29th from 9.30pm at Drift Bar. With some underground disco and house entertainment to ease the pain, all you need is a few drinks and your dancing feet. To give you an idea of what’s in store, check out this mix that Mark did for COR a while back over HERE.

Journeys in the Metropolis

One of Southsea’s friendliest faces, awesome photographer and part of the COR crew Mark Persaud just uploaded ‘Journeys in the Metropolis’, a series of timelapses showing people’s travels within Southsea and Portsmouth. For more information about the edit see the YouTube page.

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