UPDATE: TriFest has been cancelled due to bad weather forecast. Organisers are in talks with the council to rearrange it for later in the summer. TriFest, a free community event, comes to the Cobden Bridge end of Riverside Park on Saturday, July 22nd from noon to 7pm. Why TriFest? ...
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Circa Waves to support local foodbanks on UK tour, coming to Southampton’s Engine Rooms
Picture by Lewis Vorn. Circa Waves have announced a special run of UK live dates from which a portion of the profits will be donated to local foodbanks in each town they are touring through. They will be coming to Southampton’s Engine Rooms on October 12, and will be...
Preview: Smoked & Uncut, Lime Wood Hotel, Lyndhurst
Here come the girls! Lime Wood has an all female line-up for Smoked & Uncut, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. Headliners, Kelis, Gabrielle, and DJ Harriet Rose will take centre stage at the fabulous summer festival, which takes place on Saturday 8 July at Lime Wood hotel...
No Limits celebrates 30 years of helping children and young people with a powerful new film
Southampton-based children’s and young people’s charity No Limits celebrated its 30th birthday recently, with a breakfast attended by senior representatives from organisations across Hampshire, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight and Southampton, young people, funders and partners. As part of the event, the charity premiered its powerful new film – Four Stories – made by four young people whose lives have been changed by...
Southampton listings 28 June – 3 July
Southampton’s annual Thai Festival takes over Hoglands Park this weekend, with two days of food, entertainment and more. There are more festivities at the other end of the city centre on Sunday, with the Bedford Place Summer Festival, featuring local favourites Still Moving DJs amongst others. There’s also a...
Preview: Hip Hop & Graffiti Jam, The Common & The Bargate, Southampton
A Southampton graffiti artist, in collaboration with Do1Cancer, is hosting a charity hip hop and graffiti jam at Southampton Common and the Bargate this weekend. The free family-friendly event, where graffiti, street artists, and the hip hop community come together on the same day and simultaneously paint pieces, will...
Robert Jon & The Wreck go on tour later this year, coming to The Brook, Southampton, in August
Image by Rob Bondurant. Southern California-based roots rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck have announced Ride Into The Light, their seventh studio album, out August 4th, and will be following up with a UK tour, bringing them to The Brook, Southampton. Packed with blistering blues-rock and sun-soaked Americana ballads,...
Preview: The Mikado, Theatre Royal Winchester
Audiences can enjoy a fresh take on a Gilbert & Sullivan classic when an all-male adaptation of The Mikado comes to Theatre Royal Winchester from Monday 3 to Saturday 8 July. This recently award-nominated production of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operettas begins in 1950s England, where...
People’s Pride Southampton to launch permanent city centre LGBTQI+ charity shop and outreach centre
Image by Mike Daish shows recent People’s Pride Party in the Park event. People’s Pride Southampton is launching a permanent LGBTQI+ charity shop and outreach centre in the Marland’s Shopping Centre. The centre will open on Saturday July 1st 2023 at 10am. Visitors to the shop and outreach centre...
Southampton International Boat Show is back
Now in its 54th year Britain’s largest festival of boats is back and bigger than ever. Southampton International Boat Show returns from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 September 2023, with something for everyone interested in life on the water. And, this year’s event promises to be show stopping, helping everybody...