Preview: Emergency Festival, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton

From the 5 to the 29 October, MAST Mayflower Studios is hosting Emergency Festival – a month of events to discuss all things climate change. The temperature is rising, there’s plastic in the oceans, the rainforest is disappearing… and maybe using a ‘bag for life’ isn’t going to turn...

Preview: The Little Mermaid, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

Northern Ballet is bringing Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale to life this autumn, as it brings The Little Mermaid to Mayflower Theatre from Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 October. When a young mermaid is finally allowed her first glimpse of life beyond the ocean, she is enthralled by...

Review: Lime Cordiale at The 1865, Southampton

by Anita Foxall. “You want some?” You most definitely want some (or a lot) of Lime Cordiale. They were nothing less than a powerful explosion of colour and sound invading  The 1865, Southampton, last night (9 September). Lime Cordiale were certainly as refreshing as their name suggests. Their charisma...

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...

View from the Kingsland: Ralph’s Rollercoaster

by Nick Mabey. Before the season kicked off, Ralph Hasenhuttl was the bookies’ favourite to be the first manager in the Premier League to lose his job.  After losing our first fixture heavily at Spurs, Southampton were priced as second favourites to be relegated.  And, when the team trudged...