RunThrough has to announced the return of the Southampton Running Festival, set to take place on Sunday, June 15th, 2025, following the success of their event this year. Participants will experience a scenic route beginning and ending on Southampton Common. The course takes runners through diverse landscapes, including woodland, grassland,...
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Southampton Mental Health Network’s charity Quiz & Supper Evening
Quiz fans who attend Southampton Mental Health Network’s charity Quiz & Supper Evening this month will be in with a chance of winning prizes worth hundreds of pounds. As part of the Southampton City Council-supported charity’s event at Board in the City CiC on July 23 there will be...
Play to the Crowd announces new strategic partnership with Kuoni Travel
Image, left to right: Hat Fair and Playmakers Director Andrew Loretto, Paul Hermann, Manager of Kuoni’s Winchester store, and Communications and Development Director Kirstie Mathieson Play to the Crowd – the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers – announces Kuoni Travel as...
Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios become change partners with Ramps on the Moon
Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios are proud to announce that they have become a Change Partner with Ramps on the Moon, an organisation which supports anti-ableist practice within the performing arts sector. Partnering with People Make It Work over the next 12 months, Ramps on the Moon will...
Heritage: 350 years since the birth of Southampton born hymn writer, Isaac Watts
By Martin Brisland. If you pass the Civic Centre clock tower at 8am, midday, 4pm or 8pm you will hear the bells play the tune “St. Anne.” It was composed by the church organist William Croft and is used for Isaac Watts well known hymn, “Our God, Our Help...
Pride Month starts today
By Mabel Wellman. Today marks the start of Pride month across the world. Cities and towns internationally will be having LGBTQIA+ Pride events, some of which will be for celebrating the entire community, whereas some other events such as Trans Pride and UK Black Pride will be to give...
Frank Turner: Record Breaking Most Gigs In 24 Hours
Words and pictures by Callum Linklater. Portsmouth 9am, Sunday 5th May – Show 13 of 15 a self admittingly tired Frank Turner takes to the stage donning a shirt reading ‘Whose stupid idea was this anyway?’. “My name is Frank Turner, Welcome to my mid-life crisis. I am losing...
Photos: Queen Anne maiden voyage
Words: Mabel Wellman. Main image: Callum Linklater. At 9pm on Friday, 3rd May, the Cunard’s Queen Anne ship began her maiden voyage from Southampton. The Queen Anne will first stop at La Coruña, Spain and then Lisbon, Portugal before returning to Southampton on the 10th May. The maiden voyage...
Winchester Poetry Festival renames Winchester Poetry Prize’s ‘Hampshire Prize’ to honour local poet
Winchester Poetry Festival has launched its globally recognised Winchester Poetry Prize for the ninth year – renaming the ‘Hampshire Prize’ as the ‘Kathryn Bevis Prize’. The Winchester Poetry Prize receives around 2000 original and unpublished poems every year from all over the world. The competition judge this year is...
Play to the Crowd announces new partnership with Pulse Cargo
Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers, announces that Pulse Cargo, worldwide freight shipping experts, have recently become Corporate Partners supporting Hat Fair Festival Logistics. Since receiving the news that the charity would no longer receive core funding...