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We Shine Portsmouth: Artist - Claudia la Bianca, Photography - Joe Watson

Spectacular festival will light up city as popular We Shine returns

Explorer Coffee in St Vincent, Gosport will be displaying the works of local artists

Appreciate some art and enjoy a cuppa at the Gosport Art and Tea Trail

The students, staff and artists who helped bring the design to life

Portsmouth students transform school space with eye-catching mural

Artist Flora Duley on her artwork near Clarence Pier, Southsea

Picture: Habibur Rahman

Colourful new sculptures are installed on Southsea seafront

Theatre Royal in Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth, on Thursday, October 1, 2026. Renovation works are underway after a leaking roof forced a show to be cancelled.

Urgent repairs aim to fix theatre roof after leak and show abandonment

We Shine Portsmouth is set to make a return across the city this year.

Stunning We Shine Portsmouth festival of light and art to return

Aerial of Gosport's waterfront

Plans revealed for Gosport’s £5.8m historic waterfront makeover

A performance at Portsmouth Guildhall on July 9, 2026 for Portsmouth100, organised by Portsmouth Music Service

Portsmouth100 marked by hundreds of young performers at Guildhall

The city has celebrated the first Portsmouth100 event in Southsea.

Hunt for young poet laureate to represent Portsmouth in centenary year

Attendees at an arts event led by partners in Gosport

Gosport Awarded £750,000 as Arts Council England Creative People and Places port...

A series of poems played out in Guildhall Square on Thursday, October 2 to celebrate National Poetry Day.

“Grit, humour and heart”: Portsmouth celebrates National Poetry Day

Simon Armitage

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage inspires Portsmouth pupils in free live literature ...

Playground Proms

Playground Proms bring classical joy to Portsmouth pupils in final tour week

Still Moving - A celebration of older people moving

Portsmouth community dance project celebrates older people moving

The HMS Warrior

Ambitious artwork sees HMS Warrior hoist sail after 160 years

Pete said: "It was incredibly important for me to showcase this sail at a club that I love deeply. Portsmouth FC has always been a significant part of my life, and to see this artwork unveiled at Fratton Park is a dream come true."

"Magnificent" artwork attracts huge crowd to Fratton Park
A tribute to the city by a local artist drew large crowds as it was unveiled at the home of Portsmouth FC last weekend.
Joe Williams

Penbridge Infant and Nursery School has received a prestigious national award, recognising its dedication to delivering a vibrant and engaging arts curriculum.

School awarded with Artsmark award for its art curriculum

Cheers all round for Meon Way Federation as they gain their Artsmark award.

Three schools bag awards for impressive art curriculum

Carpenter's Yard in Priddy's Hard is going to be transformed into an artists quarter for Gosport residents. Pictured is: (l-r) Phil Gibby, South West director for Arts Council England, Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, Gosport MP Dame Caroline Dinenage and Hannah Prowse, chief executive at Portsmouth Historic Quarter. Picture: Sarah Standing (100524-2246)

Priddy's Hard art studio conversion will "make peoples lives better"

Carpenter’s Yard at Priddy’s Hard is going to be transformed thanks to £600,000 worth of funding. Picture: Stacey Johns

Charity: Priddy's Hard project fills "enormous" artist demand

Carpenter's Yard at Priddy's Hard in Gosport is going to be converted into an arts centre with nine studios. Picture: Alison Treacher.

Carpenter's Yard at Priddy's Hard to be transformed into arts centre

Salsa Katanga will be performing at the Open Ya Mouth Fair on May 4. Photo by Alex Shute

One-day festival to celebrate city's creativity with a wide range of acts

Southsea sea defence CGI

New artwork could be installed along the new-look seafront in Southsea

Billie Coe led the Portsmouth Creates project in 2020 where 20 local artists, who weren't eligible for government grants during lockdown, created art works which were put up on poster boards in the city.Picture: Sarah Standing

New £30k match funding pot ‘to support creative growth in the city’

The perfomances were witnessed by over 1,500 people who stood in the rain to get involved in the fun.
Picture: Keith Woodland (170721-64)

Over 1,500 people turned out for Gosport's Hi! Street Fest

Bridgemary Library

Bridgemary set to become Hampshire County Council’s first ‘Green Library’

Farrah the Fox is making an appearance at the Hi! Street Fest.

Five metre fox puppet will parade down Gosport high street tomorrow - here's why
A five metre tall fox puppet will parade down Gosport high street tomorrow as part of the Hi! Street Fest – here is what you can expect from the event.
Sophie Lewis

Artwork by Phlegm, who has been invited to take part in the first Portsmouth street art festival, Look Up, over September 9-10, 2023

My Dog Sighs to launch Portsmouth's first ever street art festival

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Cultural and creative industries gather for inaugural We Connect conference

We Shine Portsmouth is a Portsmouth Creates-led project
Picture: Sarah Standing (171122-6663)

Conference for creative and cultural sectors aims to put city on the map

A five-metre-tall fox puppet will be touring Gosport soon. Picture: Historic England/PA Wire.

Giant mechanical fox puppet on scooter to tour Gosport

Portsmouth Keys is a series of events and workshops centred around the piano taking place as part of Ports Fest 2023

Parades, pianos and poetry to feature in Ports Fest 2023

Inside Pete Codling's studio at the Historic Dockyard

How artist Pete Codling is creating a wall of faces at the historic dockyard

The machines are being refurbished by Devon-based Tukxi, a specialist in the conversion of Piaggio Ape vehicles. Picture: Contributed

Tuk-tuks to deliver books for city libraries

Cafe in the Park in Victoria Park, Portsmouth. Picture: The Society of St James

National Lottery Open Week: Places you can visit for free

The Diving Museum in Gosport.
Picture: Sarah Standing (220719-2031)

The Diving Museum receives major cash boost towards redevelopment project

Ports Fest and New Carnival Company are planning a 'Mardi Gras' parade for June 2023

Mardi Gras spirit is coming to city as plans for a summer parade are unveiled

Ankle Deep Picture by MA illustration student, Veronika Antlova

Experimental studio Ankle Deep marks a year in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard

Kakatsitsi Drummers, who appeared at The Spring Arts Centre in Havant in August

Arts organisations celebrate cash - but theatre boss left disappointed

Writing Our Legacy launch new writing programme

A diverse writing programme has been launched

A Sherlock Holmes project is coming to Portsmouth.

Sherlock Holmes inspired arts and theatre events to come to city

A 55ft multimedia map mural has been created in the basement of Portsmouth Guildhall for all the community to enjoy.

Pictured is: (l-r) Billy Bridle (12) and Kaiden Ross (13) from The Harbour School.

Social enterprise makes a 55ft Jubilee mural in Portsmouth Guildhall basement

Pictured: World Oceans team creative director Roni Edwards, producer Roy Hanney, project manager Angela Parks and project evaulator, Anna Marie Flynn at St Maryâ€™s Church with some of the artwork thatâ€™s being exhibited

Picture: Habibur Rahman

Art exhibition for World Oceans Day unites creators at St Mary's Church

Angela Mcmahon - Tragic Harvest.

Huge art exhibition from city's creators to come to city for World Oceans Day

Portsmouth Guildhall lit up for Foster Care Fortnight.

Guildhall receives £499,000 funding to continue venue 'renaissance'

We Create market, former Debenhams site, Palmerston Rd, Southsea
Picture: Chris Moorhouse (120920-06)

Disused Sainsbury's in Portsmouth to be used for We Create market

Pictured: Henry VIII impersonator at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Picture: Habibur Rahman

Portsmouth and Gosport named 'priority areas' in major arts investment plan

Outside The Spring

The Spring arts centre gets funding boost

Mayfield Records' boss man Dominic Elton on the studio's roof and performance space. Picture: Chris Moorhouse

Meet Mayfield Records - the Portsmouth label keeping music alive

Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

Mayflower Theatre in Southampton handed £3m grant to secure its future

National Poetry Day takes place on an annual basis, celebrating and embracing poetry in all its forms, encouraging others to do the same (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when National Poetry Day 2020 will take place - and how to get involved

Why funding problems are now ‘massive’ for arts centres

Artist, My Dog Sighs has finished painting his mural at Hilsea Lido on 23 July 2020.

Pictured: Artist, My Dog Sighs.

Picture: Habibur Rahman

My Dog Sighs finishes new art mural for Hilsea Lido

Mayflower Theatre Auditorium - View from Stage

Southampton’s Mayflower extends closure amid COVID-19's "devastating impact"

David Fawbert Photography

Escape from Lockdown will be your theme

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