Southampton’s Keepers Artists Group are holding their latest exhibition in Southampton City Art Gallery’s foyer. The exhibition features a wide array of artworks from paintings, ceramic, willow weaving and recycled/upcycled creations. The Keepers Artists Group is a non-profit group of artists temporarily based on East Street in Southampton city...
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds announce intimate headline show at Portsmouth Guildhall
Image by Matt Crockett. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today announce their first UK live performance for 2024 with an intimate headline show at Portsmouth’s Guildhall on Wednesday 20th March. Tickets will be on sale from Friday 15th December at 9:00am GMT here. The Portsmouth show will take place ahead of four huge outdoor performances...
Review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 12 December 2023
By Sally Churchward. Images by Stuart Martin. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was as brilliant and bonkers a Christmas pantomime as you could hope for. It was a step back to a more traditional show after last year’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears, starring Jason Donovan, and featured...
Southampton listings 12 – 18 December
By Neil Glasspool. Image: Southampton Christmas Market by Mabel Wellman. It’s mid-December and we’ve hit the Christmas motherload, but that doesn’t mean Southampton has suddenly become a one-trick pony on the entertainment front. If going hard into Christmas-related activities is your thing, then you are certainly spoilt for choice,...
Southampton’s Itchen Bridge takes centre stage in BBC Radio 4 festive drama
By Carolyn Thomas Woolston-based author Ali Sparkes has written a new play for Radio 4, inspired by the tales of tollbooth workers on Southampton’s Itchen Bridge. Billed as a ‘festive romcom’ starring comedian Shaparak Khorsandi (pictured top with Ali), Tess of the Tollbooth explores the developing relationship between tollbooth...
Peace Protest for Palestine to be held in Southampton this weekend
A Peace Protest for Palestine is being held on Saturday, December 16th, in Southampton city centre. The event is being organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Southampton, working with the Muslim Council of Southampton. The event is expected to attract hundreds of people, calling for an immediate ceasefire in...
Review: Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas, Berry Theatre, Hedge End
By Melanie Adams. It’s a charming festive tale that has stood the test of time – 50 years to be exact! And as Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas takes to the Berry Theatre stage to celebrate the major milestone, it is easy to see why. Sat with my very excited...
Review: Skinny Lister at The Engine Rooms, Southampton, December 8, 2023
By Graham Hiley If Shane MacGowan had been a pirate instead of a Pogue, he might have come up with something like Skinny Lister. On the day of the Irish singer’s funeral, his influence was clear as the Greenwich band took Southampton’s Engine Rooms by storm with their own...
The Big Queer Christmas Lunch returns to Southampton
On December 25th, Trans Pride Southampton and People’s Pride Southampton will be delivering a Christmas meal for free to any LGBTQIA+ people who might otherwise be isolated on Christmas Day. The event will be held at Edmund Kell Unitarian Church, on Bellevue Road (about 10 minutes walking distance from...
Christmas Markets: A Review of Southampton, Winchester and Gunwharf Quays
By Mabel Wellman. Normally, I am not one for Christmas markets. In fact, my first exposure to these was slowly moving between people on Above Bar Street to get through the Southampton market in 2021 and trying not to think how having less than 5 centimetres between people (rather...