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I'm reposting this what's on guide I wrote for the Portsmouth View. I was told it was the last issue and after 5 years writing for it, it's with sadness I see it go.  This weekend marks the end of the D-Day festivities and what a week it has been! June promises a few more festivals for your diary. On Sunday 8 June, Wimbledon Park residents are holding a Jumble Trail of yard sales around the neighbourhood. Sounds like a street party! Soak up free culture on your doorstep and watch The Royal Ballet in a live screening on the Big Screen on 11 June direct from the stage of the Royal Opera House at the Guildhall Square. The Art Society of Portsea Island holds a series of fascinating talks at the Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth, and on 11 June, Chloe Sayer will lecture on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The Golden Age of Mexican Painting. As part of Bike Week, Portsmouth Friends of the Earth hosts a bike ride on Wednesday 12 June to meet some of the trees in our

Portsmouth Festivities begins its 20th year in the city and is set to be their biggest yet. This festival continues to impress with a diverse range of events, many of which are free. The theme for the festival this year is TWENTY to celebrate its formation. Portsmouth Festivities are hosting some of the biggest names in the creative arts today. The festival’s guests this year include internationally renowned choirs The Cardinall’s Musick and the Tenebrae Consort. Other highlights of the Festival include jazz legend Jason Rebello, and Estonian folk sensation Mari Kalkun. It also boasts a fabulous line-up of speakers, including restaurant critic Jay Rayner, science writer Simon Singh, and bestselling author Kate Mosse. Aspex Gallery host Homage, an exhibition of artwork that celebrates the festival’s 20-year history, Hotwalls Studios and Art Space will open their doors to the public during the festival’s run. No.6 Cinema are honoring classics on film by screening three films in their 20t

Eyewitnesses in Portsmouth in June 1944 tell us that they 'knew something was happening, but we didn’t know what' and they wondered 'where are they going?' Thousands of allied servicemen marched through Portsmouth before boarding ships and landing craft that would take them to Normandy. Many of them would never return. Portsmouth residents are being invited to show their pride for the past and share the feelings and emotions felt by Portsmouth residents 75 years ago by supporting as re-enactors follow the exact embarkation routes marched by soldiers, sailors and airmen on Thursday 6 June 2019 from 8am - 9.45am. The re-enactment will start from the Mountbatten Centre at 8am and follow two routes through the city before meeting at South Parade Pier at 9.45am where a lone piper will play. The re-enactment will be followed by a Remembrance Service at the D-Day stone opposite the pier at 10.45am. Councillor Steve Pitt, Portsmouth City Council's cabinet member f

Portsmouth will be the focal point of the UK commemorations for D-Day 75. There will be a host of events taking place from 5 to 9 June, including the UK’s national event on 5 June - being organised by the Ministry of Defence on behalf of HM Government and in association with the Royal British Legion. The day will begin with a major national commemorative event on Southsea Common, for which heads of state from around the world have been invited. Hundreds of veterans will also be in attendance, before they head off to cross the Channel for Normandy once again. Due to the nature of this event and the invited guests, security will be high and large areas of Southsea Common will be closed to the public. However, the events will be shown live on BBC, with large screens set up for those who want to make their way down in person. The event will include a naval gun salute fired from a Royal Navy frigate, followed by a spectacular flypast of up to 25 modern and historic aircraft. These will

Get ready with your folding chairs, rugs, air beds, and picnic for a superb outdoor cinema experience this summer with Portsmouth Film Society. This year’s season of summer films launches on Friday 7th June with a free family show voted for by the public for the D-Day 75 celebration. Screening starts at 7.00 pm. The following evening, Saturday 8th June, the D-Day film Darkest Hour (2017), with an Oscar-winning performance by Gary Oldman, will be shown at Canoe Lake. Directed by Joe Wright, who made Atonement, another film with a wartime setting, it also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Churchill’s wife Clemmie. Local MP, Stephen Morgan, will give the opening talk. Chairman of the Society, Cecelia Young, says: “We are very proud to show outdoor cinema in Portsmouth. Last year our events were very popular because the weather was kind to us. We hope it will be the same again. We are also giving free tickets to seafront residents for Darkest Hour (8th June at Canoe Lake) and The Gre