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Thursday is the new Friday, right? So the weekend starts here and here are what you can look forward to this weekend: Paint and drink night sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but apparently not. Join Paint Chill Co. for an evening of chilled painting, this Thursday, hosted by its professional local artists who will be providing step-by-step guidance and banter, to help you unleash your creativity and become your very own artist for the evening. Absolutely no experience required. All materials provided. Held at Southsea Castle where originally it was an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII. Southsea castle is a historic landmark well know in the local area and Paint Chill Co has created a quirky spin on this iconic landmark for you to paint and offer a sense of 'place' in your home. Tickets are £25 per person, and you can take your painting home with you that evening! Please arrive 15min before at the Slug and Lettuce on Palmerston Road. Grab a drink, sign in and ...

The University of Portsmouth music ensembles will perform at the New Theatre Royal on Saturday 19 May ahead of their Spanish tour. Every two years the music ensembles at the University of Portsmouth go on tour to a European country, performing four concerts in a variety of venues. This year they are visiting Figueres in Catalonia, Spain. Concerts are often full and our students enjoy the hospitality extended by locals. On one memorable occasion in Slovenia a local butcher held an impromptu barbecue for the 70 or so members because there was no restaurant in his village. On another occasion the choir performed to a huge crowd at the Zwickau Town Hall celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famous composer Schumann. Being part of such a momentous occasion certainly left an indelible memory on the students. In fact, since tour was introduced in 2004, alumni would often come back and join the ensembles for the week-long trip. “Our students really gel during this wee...

The award-winning University of Portsmouth Choir will be singing the Chichester Psalms to celebrate 100 years since Leonard Bernstein’s birth. The Choir, who recently scooped the Best Classical award at The News Guide Awards for their performance of The Messiah in March last year, will pay tribute to the legendary composer with a rendition of one of his greatest works. The concert, which takes place in St Mary’s Church, Fratton on Saturday 17th March at 7:30pm, will also feature Janacek’s Otcenas in its original Czech and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man as the Choir sings an exciting array of choral repertoire. Choir conductor, Dr George Burrows, says the four psalm texts of the Chichester Psalms, which is sung in Hebrew is “at once modernistic, powerful, dance-like, melodic and beautiful.” Comparatively Janacek’s setting of the Lord’s Prayer Otcenas is just as distinctive and modern but was written some 60 years before Bernstein’s work and the musical language is more sparse and mo...

The University of Portsmouth Choir performs at St Mary's Church this Saturday 2nd December under the direction of conductor Thomas Neal. The choir will be singing Britten's St Nicolas. The piece was written in 1948 for the centennial celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex. The text to was written by Eric Crozier, and it details the life of St Nicolas, his miraculous birth and his journey to become the Bishop of Myra, a pilgrimage destination for Byzantine Christians in Turkey. The University of Portsmouth Choir performs at St Mary’s fresh from their highly successful fundraising concert in March, in which they raised thousands of pounds for local charities, including the St Mary’s Music Foundation. The Solent Symphony, which celebrates their 25th anniversary this year, will once again be accompanying the choir. The tenor part will be sung by Dominic Bevan , a postgraduate diploma student at the Royal College of Music. Choral conductor Thomas Neal is a music teacher at the P...