The team at SEE Southampton have been working hard behind the scenes in conjunction with the City Council Archaeology Unit, updating exhibitions at the western walls’ historic Westgate. The not-for-profit organisation’s free to enter exhibition is now open for the 2025 with its main ‘Provisioning the Pilgrims’ displays –...
Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – The Drone Lightshow, The Rose Bowl, Hampshire
By Sally Churchward. It’s a bit of a bonkers concept – light up drones creating gigantic moving images in the night sky to a narrated abridged telling of the plot of a classic movie. But The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – The Drone Lightshow works, and makes for...
International Women’s Day: The once and future queens – women writers of science fiction and fantasy
By Christopher Taylor. It’s no secret that the world of sci-fi and fantasy has rarely been welcoming for female authors: publishers often lacked faith in women, and readers gravitated to male names. Worse than that, even female authors who break through seem more at risk of disappearing from...
International Women’s Day: Crowning the Queens of Horror Literature
By Laura McCarthy. To mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, we take a look at the great women of horror writing. Stephen King may be known as the ‘King of Horror’ but to decide on a Queen poses too much of a challenge, as there are just...
Opinion: This International Women’s Day I’m feeling bitter and proud
By Elliott Eden. I’m a 16 year old AFAB (assigned female at birth) and this is how I’m feeling this International Women’s Day: bitter. Most days I feel too scared to leave the house, mostly not from any fear of physical danger but just from the usual...
Edwyn Collins brings farewell tour to Southampton’s Central Hall
By Darren Grayer. Scottish pop legend Edwyn Collins has this week announced a farewell tour that sees him visit Central Hall in Southampton on 2nd October. I know what you’re thinking, yet another artist that will be embarking on the first of several farewell tours that will hopefully draw...
Review: …Earnest? MAST Mayflower Studios
By Lewis MacLean. Image: Mark Senior. The Importance of Being Ernest is a play by Oscar Wilde. The similarities kind of end there. To describe this play entirely could potentially ruin it, so you simply need to see it for yourself. Those who like live theatre will love it....
Charity plea for gardeners to plant extra seeds for fundraising sale
Greenfingered locals are being asked to sow some extra seeds, take additional cuttings or pot-on plants to donate to a charity Spring Plant Sale in the city. Communicare is hosting the event at the community bakery CommuniBakes in May and is asking for plant donations to sell to raise...
Opinion: Mutual aid – a response to fascism
By Manthan Pathak. If you haven’t watched Ken Loach’s final film, The Old Oak, it tells the story of a village divided by the arrival of a family of Syrian immigrants who are greeted with tremendous hostility, but build friendships as they work with the community to save...
Hampshire Young Poets Competition returns for 2025 with the theme Friendship
Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust are working together once more to encourage young people in Hampshire to express themselves through poetry, in the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2025. This year’s theme is ‘Friendship’ and young people from across Hampshire are asked to write a poem of no...