The Nuffield – The Elves and The Shoemaker – 9 and 10 April  

Sat in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell them online. They are so bad that no-one really wants them, not even his neighbour (who thinks he should give up and get a real job!). Then one night, two tiny visitors climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing… and Sam’s life is never quite the same again!

The Phoenix – Mr Turner – 22 April 

The Spring and Summer programme for the Phoenix includes 22 April Mr Turner; 9 April Two Days, One Night; 13 May Like Father, Like Son; 20 May The Great Beauty; 27 May Audience Choice.

John Hansard Gallery – Artist Research Conversations – 23 April

Join artist Chantal Powell in a research development discussion exploring concepts which will inform her artistic practice. During this participatory event, coinciding with Uriel Orlow’s Unmade Film, Powell will be exploring how personal myth building takes place, and how we create a final story that can become distorted from the original.

Turner Sims – Andy Sheppard Quartet – 30 April

Legendary British saxophonist Andy Sheppard brings his new quartet to Turner Sims to showcase music from his latest ECM Records release.  The event will feature Andy Sheppard on saxophones, Eivind Aarset on guitar, Michel Benita on bass and Seb Rochford on drums.

Turner Sims – Ravi Coltrane Quartet – 13 March

Grammy-nominated saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, son of the legendary John Coltrane, has matured into an artist at the height of a career built on his talent, not his name. He has been praised for his music’s elusive beauty (Downbeat) and for his style informed by tradition but not encumbered by it (Philadelphia City Paper). Tonight he appears at Turner Sims with his talented quartet.

Beethovathon – Nine Symphonies In One Day – in aid of Comic Relief – 21 March

In 2009 Turner Sims hosted Haydathon, performances of all 104 of Haydn’s symphonies in a single weekend. Now, as part of our 40th anniversary year and in aid of Comic Relief, it’s Beethoven’s turn. With a hand-picked orchestra and choir on stage, experience all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in one day in the order in which they were composed. Choose your favourites to enjoy, or undertake the marathon with us beginning at 11 and ending (with a few breaks) some 10 hours later.

John Hansard Gallery – Uriel Orlow: Unmade Film –  3 March – 25 April 2015

Unmade Film is an ambitious body of work by Uriel Orlow shown for the first time in its entirety in the UK. The work takes the form of an impossible film, fragmented into its constituent parts. An expansive collection of audio-visual works that point to the structure of a film but never fully become one, Unmade Film takes as its starting point the emblematic yet wholly invisible Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, formerly on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Turner Sims – Christmas Concert – 12 December 2014 13:00 

Featuring some of the outstanding young musicians currently studying Music at the University of Southampton, this concert should get you into the festive spirit with carol singing, Christmas songs and music, arranged by the Music’s final-year undergraduates. 

John Hansard Gallery – Tom Dale: Terminal Blue – opens 9 December 2014

Terminal Blue will concentrate on important works in the development of Tom Dale’s practice that are, for the first time, to be fully realised, as well as one set of works that have been commissioned especially for John Hansard Gallery.

Nuffield Theatre – 451 – 15 December 2014 19:00

A bi-monthly celebration of poetry and spoken word. This month featuring Salena Godden, Vanessa Kisuule, and Dae Fletcher. 

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.

Turner Sims – Red Priest – Sunday 3 August

Creating a virtual orchestra through their creative arrangements, performing from memory with swashbuckling virtuosity, heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft, Red Priest’s performance will include some of the most famous works of the Baroque period by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

Nuffield – Saints – 1 to 17 August
The Saints, written by Luke Barnes and directed by one of British theatre’s best directors Matthew Dunster, explores football in Southampton, the history of the club and how it’s shaped our understanding of ourselves in the city.

John Hansard- The Small Infinite – 05 August – 20 September
The Small Infinite celebrates the strength and endurance of the minuscule. Rejecting the current trend for grandiose gestures, the show reflects upon a world where worth and value are often represented through the most disproportionate of terms.

The internet of cars – Turner Sims, Monday 2 June, all day
This exhibition offers audiences and communities the potential to rethink how or what a future transport network might be. On show is a series of artworks developed specifically by artists who have worked with Sixth Sense Transport data both collected from the project in real time and in the past.

Batteries not included – Nuffield, 10 – 13 July
With a cast of four hundred dancers, this is a show that will capture your heart, and where friendships are cemented forever.

 
Centenary Celebration Day for Geography at Southampton – 11 July
Global in its reach and collaborative in nature, geography at Southampton has over the last 100 years addressed some of world’s major challenges, including climate change, social and health inequalities, poverty and global recession – join the celebrations.

Nuffield Theatre – 10 April – 12 April
The Laramie Project tells of the tale of Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who was brutally beaten while tied to a fencepost and left to die. The members of The Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of Laramie that form this deeply moving look at the American psyche.

The Showcase series performance – Friday 28 March
The Music Department invites you to it’s Showcase Series, part of our established professional lunchtime concert series.  Come and watch advanced undergraduate and postgraduate performers gain professional experience and exposure. For more information on our Showcase performers, please email showcasemusic@soton.ac.uk

Turner Sims – Saturday 5 April
Southampton Choral Society perform Brahm’s Requiem, sung in English and accompanied by two pianos, as at the first performance of the work in England in 1871.

Professor Bill Levason’s Retirement Symposium – Thursday 10 April
In order to celebrate the long and distinguished career of Professor William Levason, in Organic Chemistry at the University, we will be hosting day of seminars from his colleagues and collaborators. All are welcome!

Nuffield Theatre – 25 March – 5 April

A Spring Awakening comes to the Nuffield. Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Wedekind’s definitive play about youth caused riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906 and has lost none of its provocative power.

Turner Sims – Friday 14 March

Who needs instruments when you have seven voices and seven bodies? The inimitable a cappella group Naturally 7 play a special show at Turner Sims, having opened for Michael Buble at his recent ten-night O2 Arena residency. Building on the heritage of gospel with a style described as ‘vocal play’, the group performs its own original material as well as its inventive arrangements – which incorporate scratching, drum kit, harmonica, brass, electric guitars and bass all produced, naturally, with the human voice.

John Hansard Gallery – 28 – 29 March

Interested in learning more about aspects of art history and contemporary art? Join us for a special two part course at the John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum for the third in the series of informal adult short courses which provides an introduction to contemporary art practice within the context of art from the past.

Theano Zumba – 7 March

Free Zumba class for everyone! Come and join us and party yourself into shape in The Cube on Highfield campus from 12pm for 45 minutes.

Music Department – 7 – 9 March

“Made in Italy” – The Music Department presents an Italian Festival, a weekend celebration of the music of Italy, performed across the city by University’s staff and students. Admission to all events is free!