Southampton Blackout – 14 November

The award-winning Southampton Blackout is back on Friday 14 November. The initiative was introduced in 2012, as part of our efforts to highlight and reduce our energy usage. If you would like to get involved or have any further questions, please email Julia Kendal

John Hansard Gallery – Mark Anstee: Enchantment of Distance – open until 18 January 2015

Mark Anstee has been making work about war, conflict and the monuments that commemorate battle since his time at Goldsmith’s College in the 1980s. His focus has always remained on the markers at either end of conflict; the preparation manifested in toys, games, stories of the heroic, and the commemoration of the dead in the proliferation of public monuments.

Turner Sims – Remembrance Day – Sunday 16 November 19:30

Michael Finnissy is among the most distinguished British composers working today. Remembrance Day is a major new work of over an hour’s length for baritone soloist, choir and orchestra, setting wartime texts by Henry Lamont Simpson.

Nuffield – Vanessa Redgrave – Thoughts, Poems and Songs – Sunday 7 December 19:30

We are delighted to be welcoming Vanessa Redgrave to the Nuffield Theatre on 7 December. Vanessa will be performing readings of her favourite poetry in aid of SWVG (Southampton and Winchester Visitors’ Group), which befriends destitute asylum seekers. Performing alongside her will be her daughter-in-law: actor and singer Jennifer Wiltsie, and acclaimed guitarist Mike Outram.