To mark their royal return to Mayflower Theatre in 2025, and yet another sell out run this year, Mayflower Theatre and SIX visited Tudor House in Southampton to visit the Bronze Cannon which is in situ in the house garden. The cast of SIX visited the bronze cannon which...
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RunThrough announces return of Southampton Common Running Festival in 2025
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,...
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...
Audition to be part of the Mother Goose panto support cast
Play to the Crowd – the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers – is looking for support cast members for this year’s traditional family pantomime, Mother Goose, which will run from Saturday 30 November 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025. The charity,...
Local businesses enjoy Backstage Breakfast
Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester, Hat Fair and Playmakers, welcomed businesses from across Winchester to a Backstage Breakfast to mark the launch of this year’s Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts, which this summer will...
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...
Charity partners with dance theatre to boost men’s mental health
Hampshire’s largest mental health charity, Solent Mind, and nationally acclaimed Southampton based company, ZoieLogic Dance Theatre, has teamed up to raise awareness of men’s mental health, with a new two-year partnership. With research revealing that one in three men will face isolation and loneliness in their life, the partnership...