Noir et Blanc’s new website NeBula has just gone live. Featuring both magazine and web only content if you liked the free magazine, get over to the website to see more and get involved. If you haven’t picked up the magazine, you can download it from the website as a PDF for free too. Not bad at all.
You may well have picked up a copy of Southsea’s newest magazine Noir et Blanc recently (if not, it’s available in a few different places for free), well some of the guys behind that are also behind a new radio show:
“For the first time ever, you can listen to your radio in black-and-white! That’s right; it’s the voice of the NeBula. Imagine letting your ears sink into a lovely warm bath full of really interesting, amusing water. It’s just like that, but without the bath and without the water. Alright, so maybe that wasn’t the best description, but the point remains the same – NeB Air is definitely worth tuning in to. It’s an hour-long radio show packed with interviews, musings and banter. All that, and there’re tunes as well. We’ve got a pair of fantastic people called Tom and Joel to host the show. We’re sure you’ll all get on like a house on fire.
Mr Tom Walters is your host for the evening.
Mr Joel Ransom the prat that interupts him.
There is a voice from above that likes to interject.
Higgy plays guitar.
And it’s all recorded in some lucky bugger’s house.We have games, BRILLIANT music, random (very random) chats about love, chocolate, holidays, festivals.
We have interviews, soundbites from famous friends and other things we’re just going to make up.”
The first show is on Monday June 29th from 7 til 8pm on 93.7 FM if you’re in Portsmouth, or listen online at www.expressfm.com if you’re not.
f you want to get involved and communicate while they’re on air hit them up over Facebook, but mainly via Twitter if you want to play the game, phone in, text or whatever: twitter is the only way of finding out the number to call.
Noir et Blanc has teamed up with Gunwharf Quays and Café Rouge to bring you another super-exciting opportunity to strut your creative stuff. What we want to see are lots of photographs of Portsmouth looking its dynamic best. We want to see places looking striking, people looking grand and things looking elegant! And of course, it’s got to be in black-and-white.
Check out all the details on the Facebook Events page and sign up on the Noir et Blanc website.
There are 3 different groups set up depending on your ability, so there is no reason not to enter. Get involved. We have some truly amazing professional and amateur photographers in and around Portsmouth & Southsea so expect some great work at all levels.
Peace Cafe in Castle Road (Southsea’s only Buddhist Internet cafe) is opening it’s gallery space today for the first time with an exhibition by the Noir et Blanc collective including work by local artists Steve Bomford, Karl March and many others. Be sure to pop in if you are passing by to check out the photography and artwork and grab a herbal tea. For more details check the exhibition’s Facebook event.
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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