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.
The University of Portsmouth Level 2 BA (Hons) Photography have four separate group exhibitions for their unit exploring the theme of ‘space’. Starting from Friday 10th December there will be exciting photography showcases all around Portsmouth. All of the exhibitions have been curated by students themselves.
Fri 10 December: 10am-4pm Pop-Up Portsmouth, a one day outdoor exhibition at Guildhall Square, Portsmouth
Sat 11 December: 7.30pm-10.30pm Opening night of Engage the Space, including guest speaker Stephen Bull, in Third Space at the UOP Students Union.
Mon 13 December: 4pm is Art Crawl, starting from the Deco pub on Elm Grove, Southsea, continues until 17/12.
Tue 14 December: 7.30pm Preview night of On the box 24/7 at the Pop-up shop at the top of Commercial road, and continues until 20/12
CCi Live is a Live television show produced by students on the University of Portsmouth’s BSc Video and Broadcasting course. The course is based within the Creative and Cultural Industries Faculty and the pogrammes are shown as transmitted to convey their ‘live’ nature.
The current episode shown below contains features on the Bell isle, The Solent Camera Club’s new exhibition and The Big Draw (including an interview with Strong Island member Claire Sambrook). You can keep up with new episodes on the CCi Live Blip channel:
Every year The University of Portsmouth Student Union run a Naked Calender Shoot to raise money for local charities. This is always very popular and generates a lot of money. Each of the sports societies get more and more daring each year and this year things are getting a lot more urban and extreme. They have been getting up at the crack of dawn to take photographs around the city and plan to take over a local supermarket for an indoor bowls shoot.
Whilst walking my dog on the seafront in Southsea this morning I came across Tom Worman a graduate of BSc Digital Media who is the Marketing Coordinator for the Student Union. He was lining up the Windsurfing Team for their photoshoot in front of Southsea Castle. A new use for the pool perhaps?
Watch Strong Island for further photographs (the official ones from Tom). Can you spot the bare behind?
Sorry – the photographs have been removed due to a legal issue.
Hot off the press another live event at Guildhall Square. Ballet and Breakdancing with BMX Bikes!
Extreme Sport, Physical Theatre, Breakin’ & Contemporary Dance live in Guildhall Square.
In association with the New Theatre Royal, Creative Campus Initiative and the Big Screen
“Kompany Malakhi continue to create their unique brand of cutting edge work with this gritty yet graceful exploration of cause and effect. It comes to Guildhall Square, Portsmouth on Friday 25 June at 12pm and 1.15pm and it is FREE for everyone!
Fusing BMX flatland, Breakin’ and contemporary dance, Kompany Malakhi premiere their latest work, Rotations, in Portsmouth ahead of a national tour.
Hailed as “powerful and enlightening” by critics, Rotations began as Project 360° in 2008 and was a great success, the new show is anticipated to be one of the most exhilarating outdoor performances witnessed this year.”
The event will also feature a short experimental film about the Portsmouth Olympian Cyclist, Clarence Kingsbury. All created with the BBC, the Big Screen and Creative Campus Initiative from the University of Portsmouth as part of the developing Portsmouth History Project.
Each performance lasts 20 minutes (12pm – 12.20pm and 1.15pm – 1.35pm) so make sure you are in Guildhall Square on Friday 25 June to catch this stunning display!
For more information please contact the box office on 023 9264 9000 or visit www.newtheatreroyal.com
University of Portsmouth’s BA (Hons) Photography Final Year Degree Show ‘Wide Eyes’ has it’s private viewing in the Eldon Building on Friday 4th from 5pm and then opens to the public and runs daily until the following Friday, the 11th. The show features over 40 photographers plus there’ll be exhibitions from other disciplines going on across the building at the same time… and the best bit? It’s totally free.
Collective
Summer show of work for graduating students from Art, Design and Media plus Creative Technologies. Opening Evening 4 June, 5-8pm
Open to the public Monday 7th-Friday 11th June, 10-4 daily and Saturday 12th June 10-3pm
To complement this, there will be a small exhibition of personal collections from staff in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries. What is collection and why do we collect?
Members of staff from the Faculty reveal their collective treasures. There will be a small programme of lectures around this event.
CCi Space and Eldon Gallery are open to the public from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday.
Access is from the Winston Churchill Avenue entrance.
A new show kicks off the University of Portsmouth summer shows season and it’s a cracker.
It’s called State of the Art, a name which reflects the difficult position fine art/creative students find themselves in.
In a time when funding is being cut across the board, and, as is so often the case, the creative courses tend to be the first to suffer. It will feature a number of artists who create work spanning a broad spectrum, from painting and sculpture to film, animation, performance and relational art.
State of the Art will also move ‘out into’ the local community of Portsmouth. Various art workshops will be held in specific locations in and around Portsmouth.
The exhibition features work by 2nd year BA Fine Art students.
Venues:
The Eldon Gallery, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth 10th – 21st May 2010
The Kraken Wakes, St Michaels Road, Portsmouth 31st May – 3rd June 2010
Drift in the City, Portsmouth 6th – 8th June 2010
More to be confirmed……
Last week Strong Island were invited to a dinner arranged by the University to pull together local organisations, groups and individuals for all to discuss potential schemes, raise awareness of the wealth of creative and cultural initiatives within the city and share visions for its future. You can find out more here and we will be posting more details on related future events too.
Students from the University’s UP for Sport Volunteer Scheme have seen their efforts at coaching bear fruit at a special show at the New Theatre Royal. For the past nine weeks they have been teaching ‘streetdance’ to youngsters aged nine and ten from schools across the city. Streetdance is a hip-hop dance style made popular on the streets of America which has taken off in the UK. The competition was a chance for local children to show parents and friends their skills.
Over 100 children performed at the New Theatre Royal on Monday 8th and the event was a massive success culminating in a performance from University streetdance troupe, Most Wanted. The project was part of Schools Sports Partnerships, a national scheme to engage youngsters from some of the city’s most deprived areas and encourage more children to take up a fun form of exercise. It was run in conjunction with the Heart of Portsmouth, a local scheme which puts schools at the heart of local communities. Children from Newbridge junior school took home the first prize with second and third places going to Isambard Brunel Junior School and Flying Bull School.
This was the fourth time the annual event has run and the University’s dance coach, Carly-Ann Purcell said it was the best event yet and in the interval even the judges took to the stage. She said: “The children had a great time and I was really pleased with their enthusiasm and proud of what they had achieved in just a short time. It’s a fun way to exercise and I hope some of the children will carry on dancing.” Carly, who choreographs routines and trains Most Wanted, runs dance classes in Portsmouth for children aged between five and ten and for older children from ten upwards at the Nuffield Sports Centre in Portsmouth.
To get a look at the Judges (2nd to Nun/220 crew), Carly-Ann and members of Most Wanted in action have a watch of this footage from Portsmouth Charity Dance Day:
We are very happy to announce the details for our Primary exhibition, with it’s preview night on Friday 1st June at Bonzo in Albert Road. We had well over 500 submitted photos by well over 100 different local photographers, all using their mobile phone cameras and an assortment of different apps like Instagram, Camera+, etc. The exhibition format itself will be something new and previously unseen in Portsmouth in this form and we will be unveiling the winners of competition too, with loads of photography related prizes. There will also be food, drink and some surprises we’ll let you know about nearer the time. This may well be one of the largest community arts projects to happen in the city in relation to the number of people who actively participated and we really hope everyone can make it down to see this absolutely unique view of our city and it’s people.
If you cannot make it down on Friday the exhibition will run through the whole of June so be sure to pop along. After the exhibition we will have an online, interactive gallery of all of the images to form a legacy to the project.
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.
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