Strong Island 11/11/11

Thanks to those of you that added photographs to the Strong Island 11/11/11 Flickr group.

Scenes from around the city below from: Quiet Corners, Southsea Dave, John Scriven, Duncan Toms and Claire Sambrook.

Caravan Gallery – Pride of Place Portsmouth

If you have not yet been to take part in the wonderful Pride of Place Portsmouth project by The Caravan Gallery at SPACE, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue then we urge you to do so. It is filled with photographs, stories, found objects, souvenir’s, notes and video interviews of what is the city means to the residents.

They will be having a closing event on 17th May between 4-7pm to celebrate how the exhibition has evolved. More details on their Facebook Page.

My Portsmouth by Hannah Treagus

Local resident Hannah Treagus in her own words and photographs.

“Portsmouth is home.  I realised that when I took a job in Essex last summer and less than six months later, I was drawn back here.  For me, Portsmouth’s creative heart is Southsea; it’s hard to walk down any street and not spot something worth taking a photo of. the sea, for example, is a constant source of inspiration because it is forever changing and evolving – no two photos are ever the same. I like taking photos of quirky things and there’s none quirkier than Portsmouth.”

Strong Island agrees.

S N O W

Finally the snow has arrived. Travel chaos but oh so seasonal and there is more on the way. Travel, news & weatherwatch at http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/. Keep safe and warm out there.

Loads of photographs from Strong Islanders. Here is a sample starting with midnight walks from Stu Trett and Matthew Maber. Will post more photographs during the day. Also post to the Strong Island Flickr Group and Portsmouth Big Screen Group.

Vintage Portsmouth Photographs

Following up from our Vintage Portsmouth Postcards article on Monday, Strong Island reader Centro Design posted a link to some rad old photographs of the city.

As always click read more at the bottom to see a small selection, but be sure to click this link to view all of them online.

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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