Playmakers is hosting a celebration of community talent with their Local Talent Night at Theatre Royal Winchester on Tuesday 13 September. The evening’s line-up, which includes music, song, spoken word and dance, showcases emerging homegrown talent as well as acts new to the city. Harry Corrie is a performance...
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Preview: The Future Of Climate Action: a talk by Zion Lights
Science communicator and environmental advocate Zion Lights speaking at the Railway Inn, Winchester for Wire Wool Events on Sunday, September 11. Zion Lights will be exploring The Future Of Climate Action and assessing its successes and failures, from the perspective of a long term climate activist. The last in...
Preview: The Lesson, Theatre Royal Winchester
Prepare to learn about power and knowledge in The Lesson at Theatre Royal Winchester on Thursday 15 September. It tells of a mild-mannered professor who takes on a new pupil and very soon becomes bent on her destruction. A classic written by Romanian-French playwright, Eugene Ionesco and translated by...
Listings: what’s on in Southampton September 6-12
Want to know what’s going on in Southampton this week? We’ve linked up with Shop Local Southampton to get you up to speed with what’s going on in our city. As ever, there’s a diverse offering this week. Starsailor, whose hits include Good Souls, are at The Brook on...
Poet Malika Booker to give 10th annual F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture
Poet Malika Booker will be giving the 10th annual F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture at the University of Southampton’s English department. Malika Booker has written poems, plays, and monologues, and her work has been included widely in anthologies, from Penguin Modern Poets to the school curriculum. She won the Cholmondeley...
Preview: Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
The critically acclaimed hit parody musical, Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, will visit MAST Mayflower Studios from 13 – 17 September 2022. Join everyone’s favourite Disney diva, Ursula, as she gives her take on what really happened all those years ago under the sea. With...
Southampton Black History Month 2022 set to kick off in style
Black History Month South in association with MAST Southampton Studios is hosting a spectacular Gala Night of Entertainment celebrating the diversity of Southampton and featuring a wealth of talent from the city in October. The Gala Night will be a fun-packed, family event featuring spoken word artistes such as...
Campaigners for NHS dentist access take to Southampton streets
The Toothless Southampton campaign had a good response on Tuesday (August 30) at its stall in Shirley High Street with a team of 12 volunteers out to share information with the public. Toothless in Southampton is a campaign to provide an NHS dentist for everyone. It was formed in...
Great Get Together to take place in Southampton’s Freemantle Lake Park
Regular visitors to Freemantle Lake Park in Southampton will have noticed that changes are afoot. Friends of Fremantle Lake Park were successful at securing a bid from The Veolia Environmental Trust and are delighted to see many years of hard work finally coming together. The money is being used...
Preview: Kiri Pritchard-McLean – Home Truths, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
By Catherine Collins. The amazingly funny Kiri Pritchard-McLean will be taking her latest live show, Home Truths, to the MAST Mayflower Studios stage on Saturday 10 September. Over lockdown, Kiri moved back home to Wales, and Home Truths explores her evolving relationship with that: what it’s like being back,...