While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. This grim fact is highlighted by Winchester’s Blue Apple Theatre, whose performers have learning disabilities and have been making a short...
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Preview: 50 Years of Fender: The Stratocaster Story, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of the world’s most iconic guitar, the Fender Stratocaster, will be excited to learn that a celebration of the instrument returns to Theatre Royal Winchester on Thursday 13 February. 50 Years of Fender: The Stratocaster Story tells the story of the world’s most recognisable guitar through the five...
Preview: Room on the Broom, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
‘Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom!’ Tall Stories is delighted to announce that the company’s Olivier Award-nominated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic picture book, Room on the Broom, directed by Olivia Jacobs, will be flying into MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February 2025. Enchanting...
Hundreds of anti-racist demonstrators gather for Southampton counter-protest
Hundreds of local anti-racist protesters gathered in Southampton city centre to tell UKIP supporters they were not welcome in the city. UKIP leader Nick Tenconi announced his intention to march through the city, calling for mass deportations, in December, after a Southampton pub cancelled a booking he had made...
Southampton’s Welly to play homecoming gig at Heartbreakers
Welly have announced that their debut album Big In The Suburbs will be released on 21 March 2025. The record was launched alongside the latest single and title track Big In The Suburbs. In addition, they headline Dork Hype List tour, which kicks off next month, coming to Heartbreakers...
Interview: Michael Maloney and Bob Barrett on playing Poirot and Monsieur Bouc in Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie Ltd, Fiery Angel and Lucy Bailey (director of the West End hit Witness for the Prosecution) will bring Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of another Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express to the Mayflower Theatre stage from Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 February 2025. We spoke to Michael...
Reader’s letter: Southampton rebranding “feels like a slap in the face to every creative in the city”
By Mark James (Allerton), director of Southampton’s Inkjet Media, local dj and owner of Overdraft Records Store, in response to: “Southampton council criticised for handing city rebrand to London firm” Eighty grand gone! This, honestly, feels like a slap in the face to every creative trying to make a...
What’s Coming Up In February At October Books?
By Laura McCarthy. Southampton’s beloved independent bookshop October Books will be hosting a variety of exciting events for lovers of reading, writing, and even cooking this February. Things get underway half way through the month, when they will be holding a poetry fundraiser on Saturday 15th February from 2.30pm...
Community bakery celebrates 3rd official birthday by offering free cake
A Southampton community bakery that is the commercial venture for a charity in the city is celebrating its third official anniversary this month by offering visitors free birthday cake. CommuniBakes in Shirley was taken over in 2021 to solely support the charity Communicare, which is dedicated to eradicating loneliness...
Southampton Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2025
Southampton and the surrounding areas will mark the UK’s national Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day (HMD) with a commemorative event organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton on behalf of the city. Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day is the annual, national commemoration...