Portsmouth Climate Action Network (PCAN) brings you the Portsmouth Summer Fair and Picnic – Saturday 25th June 11- 4 Victoria Park. This is the fifth fair PCAN has organised and it’s in partnership with Portsmouth City Council.
You can see loads of pictures from last year here.
Pedal-powered and solar stage provided by Veggiepower with live entertainment throughout the day with local bands and DJs. Around 100 stalls: crafts and eco-gifts, plants, money saving tips, green fashion, wildlife conservation, campaigns and energy saving tips. Also street entertainers, a Green Motor show, a therapy area, poets, swing dancers, get fit, art displays and demonstrations of green crafts and technology like bushcraft skills and building a cob oven.
For children: games, rides, art and crafts, face painting, circus skills, hula hoops, story-tellers, bouncy castle, solar challenge, parade and competitions.
Lots of food and drink stalls selling local, organic & homegrown food. Café-bar and gallery.
Free fun for all the family.
Further details on their website – http://www.portsmouthcan.co.uk/portsmouth-summer-fair.html
Summertime brings a monthly Roller Disco at Southsea Skatepark. Get your kit out and head on down to the skatepark tonight 24th June from 7pm. Poster designed by skateboarding legend Barry Abrook. DJ’s playing 70′s tunes til 10pm. You can also hire roller skates from the skatepark.
Date for diary = next month on 29th July BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Spoon will be providing the sounds.
Local Portsmouth tea merchants All About Tea have won another award. This time it is the Gold at the Cannes Lion’s Awards for their branding by Moving Brands. Well done to Andrew and all the team at All About Tea and Ben and the team at Moving Brands.
“Since implementing the new identity we have not been able to keep up with the increased interest from new customers. It seems to have caught the imagination of a market tired of the same old design cliches in the tea sector. The rebrand was a total redefinition of what the company is and what we do. The branding feels so solid and correct. I am passionate about telling this story. It has been an incredible experience and it’s an extraordinary story of business transformation as well as of design and creativity.” Andrew Gadsden, CEO of All About Tea.
Expect to see more of All About Tea around the city in the next few weeks. The Strong Island Tea blend went down rather well at The Strong Island Exhibition at The Round Tower back in April. More details due soon about their new ventures.
Local design and animation studio We Are Pseudonym have a new website – http://www.wearepseudonym.com/
Take a look around and see their vast range of work. Great stuff Carl, Dan and Luke.
Local band Munroe Effect have just released a new video from their new album ‘Ultraviolenceland’. They also have some new tees for £10 which you can buy on their merchandise store.
The Future Skills Festival is a dynamic programme of workshops and seminars that will explore the ways that new media and technologies are creating new opportunities and ways of working in the creative and cultural industries. Events are designed specifically for artists, designers, performers, writers, creative businesses and professional people working in the arts, culture and creative industries.
The Festival is presented by Cibas, the creative industries business and skills development agency based at the University of Portsmouth.
The festival runs from 20th June – 14th July at different venues across the city.
Local band MUNROE EFFECT deal in a unique brand of progressive, schizophrenic rock music characterised by passages of relentless epic noise and brooding intimate melody. They have a new album launch next Sunday 29th May at The Fat Fox. Grab a ticket before they all go.
” with a touch of At The Drive-In, some gorgeous sonic textures and aching vocals, this Portsmouth mob demand your attention from the off.” – Kerrang!
“all over the place – in a good way – with the odd, math-rock time signature mix-up pushing them away from local band mediocrity, and attention-grabbing vocals that drift between melodies and high-pitched screaming.” – Rock Sound
“jagged guitars and a pounding rhythm section … moments of shouting and lifting melodies mix and softer, intimate verses sound natural and unforced” – Big Cheese
The workshop will look at the current popular style of paper cutting. Looking particularly at the work of contemporary illustrator/designer Rob Ryan.
TUESDAY 28th June
This session will enable you to design your paper cut(s). Planning and drawing out the image on your paper surface ready for cutting the following day. Books will be provided for inspiration and to aid stylisation of images if required.
WEDNESDAY 29th June
With your design ready drawn, this session will be spent cutting your design – revealing a stunning paper cut illustration by the close of the workshop.
Time allowing, images can be mounted onto another colour paper background, ready for you to frame at a later date.
There is a maximum of 4 adults per session to allow for more individual attention.
Each session runs from 7pm – 9pm at Flo & Stan’s, Albert Road. The total cost of £45 per person which includes all equipment.
Payment can only be made at Flo & Stan’s. Places are on a first come first served basis.
Tea and homemade cake will be served half way through each session to keep the creative energy flowing!
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.
Today is the last day of The Strong Island Exhibition at The Round Tower, Old Portsmouth. It is open from 10am – 3pm. Last chance for you to buy exclusive work by over 30 local creatives. It has been such a success with over 4,000 people visiting in 2 weeks. Thanks to all the support we have had and big thanks to Fark for all his help and enthusiasm. Photographs below of some of the visitors and also limited edition screenprints by Portsmouth University BA Graphic Design student Kingsley Nebechi.
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
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