A Positive Money Film Festival comes to Southampton at the end of this month. Positive Money exists to encourage education and discussion about banks and the financial system in Britain. The Solent Branch is presenting this festival so that people in the Solent area have an opportunity to see...
Southampton community bakery to hold ‘bake-off’ competition to raise funds
A community bakery in Southampton is hosting a bake-off style competition for amateur bakers this month (July 2022) to help raise funds for new baking equipment. CommuniBakes, which is the commercial arm of the charity Communicare, is hosting the competition on Saturday, July 30 and the winning bake will...
Celebrating our NHS: Southampton Stories on Film at God’s House Tower
Since 2013 Southampton Keep Our NHS Public (SKONP) has been campaigning on streets, lobbying MPs and raising public awareness about the threats posed to the NHS through privatisation. As a local branch of Keep Our NHS Public, SKONP works to advocate the values of the NHS: publicly owned, accountable,...
Write a Note poetry: The Village Boy, Haribo and Steve Lowis
by Anita Foxall. Write a Note brings monthly poetry and spoken word at the MAST, in the heart of Southampton. In Common poetry editor Anita Foxall runs and comperes the event. In a monthly article she shares highlights of the evening. Fourteen poets and spoken word performers graced Write...
Preview: Jersey Boys at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the Olivier Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys, which is playing at the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 16 July 2022. They were just four guys from Jersey who had a...
REVIEW: Bat Out of Hell: The Musical at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. Having never seen it before, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Bat Out of Hell: The Musical when it opened at Mayflower Theatre last night (28 June). Yes, I knew some of the songs – who hasn’t heard of Meat Loaf? And, when it burst...
Preview: Let’s Rock Southampton: The Retro Festival at Southampton Common, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. Top Gun is showing in the cinemas, Kate Bush is number one in the music charts with Running Up That Hill and Southampton is set return to the ‘80s when Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival comes to Southampton Common on Saturday 9th July. Thousands of revellers...
Preview: Bat Out of Hell at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The award-winning Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s greatest hits, will burst onto the stage of the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2022. Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling over...
Dinosaurs are set to roam in Southampton this summer
IT has been 65 million years since dinosaurs last roamed the earth, but Royal Victoria Country Park in Southampton will see T-rex, Velociraptors, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyls roaming through its parkland once more as 2022’s most ‘roarsome’ experience comes to town. Jurassic, Triassic and Cretaceous periods are set to resurface...
Photography for mental health
by Mike Daish. I struggle from time to time with my state of mind and can get quite down and isolate myself . With the isolation and low mood comes a lack of exercise; I stop simply getting outside for a bit of fresh air. Recently I have started...