Petroliana: Celebrating the Lost Artform
14 August

The winner of this year’s Guildhall Graduate Award, Carl Frederik Wigernes, exhibit his work which comprises a large set of collectable posters celebrating the incredible craftsmanship and attention to form and functionality in vintage petrol pumps. from 25 to 28 September 2018.

The exhibition is part of an ongoing collaborative exhibition programme hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries and Portsmouth Cultural Trust to enrich the visual and cultural experience of visitors to the Guildhall, giving graduates and alumni an opportunity to showcase their work to a broad public audience and develop their professional creative practice.

Portsmouth Chamber Music Series announces new season
14 August

Portsmouth Chamber Music Series announces its lineup for the 2018-2019 season in Portsmouth Guildhall, beginning on Monday October 8, 2018 at 7.30 pm.

The series marks its 15th year with six concerts, featuring works by five composers new to the programme, including the young British composer Joseph Phibbs. The series welcome back Ensemble 360 and the Piatti Quartet. New to the series will be world renowned pianist Steven Osborne, Goldmund Quartet and Trio Isimsiz.

Sponsored by the University of Portsmouth, the concerts are jointly promoted by Music in the Round in Sheffield, the UK’s largest promoter of chamber music outside London, as well as the Portsmouth Cultural Trust and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

All concerts are held on Mondays at 7.30 pm at the Portsmouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth PO1 2AB and followed by a question and answer session with the musicians. Tickets are available from the Guildhall on 023 9387 0211.

New book explores modern India
7 August

Professor Leïla Choukroune, Director of the Democratic Citizenship research theme, launched her new book this week at the India International Centre in New Delhi.

The book ‘Exploring Indian Modernities: Ideas and Practices’ analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from a multidisciplinary perspective of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities.

She was joined at the launch event by Professor Balveer Arora, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi; Professor Savita Singh, School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University; Anshul Avijit, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge; and Dr Simona Sawhney, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi.