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Viewpoint Arts Summary

Arts Links, Comment and Southampton Area Diary

for general users.

Special Collection

1. General and Miscellaneous
   sotONLINE daily news and events service for Southampton University.
   Hampshire Arts Listings
   Winchester School of Art information, graphics files and Webcam - watch the (student) artist at work.
   Curriculum, a web exhibition by Mike Chisholm of 36 photographs of the campus stream taken over two years, structured into three sequences.
   Virtual Tour of the Valley Garden
   University Public Lectures
   Wessex Mediæval Centre including seminar programme
   The Annual Writers Conference at King Alfred's.
   Nigel D. King's Clubs and Societies in the Southampton Area list
   The Scottish Tattoo Including the Highland Spirit Tour 2001, organised from Salisbury by Ian McLennan.
   Folk In Southampton summary index
   The inevitable batch of commercial gateways:

   Touch Southampton (previously 'Southampton Online').

   Southampton entry of the datasouth area-specific shopping and services mall

   Southern UK (previously Solentonline) commercial gateway for the Solent area

   South Online gateway and internet services
   Hartley Arts Group Hartley Wintney
   Test Valley information including a reproduction of the Test Valley Tapestry housed in the Council Offices at Andover.
   Southampton University Photographic Society Club, darkroom in the Students Union and regular competitions.
   City Eye Media Centre Northam Centre, Kent St, Northam, Southampton. Production, Equipment, Projects, Training, Awards.
   Soundings Arts-Science collaboration with poet Simon Armitage (ex Portsmouth Poly), artists Jane McDonald, Colin Ruffell, Henrietta Hine and MRC Institute of Hearing researcher Jemma Hine.
   The Regional Arts Councils Pages (increasingly comprehensive but a bit cumbersome in the past; now said to have been streamlined by On-Line Publishing)
   The Arvon Foundation informal creative writing courses with established writers, suitable for all-comers and with centres in Devon, Yorkshire and Inverness-shire.
   The Richmond Review high quality online literary magazine.
   The Scanner The alternative Media, Science Fiction and Miscellaneous Fanzine.
   Exbury Gardens in the New Forest.
   The Jubilee Sailing Trust, Woolston, Southampton, builders of the new 65 metre wooden sailing ship Tenacious. She is the largest of her kind in the world, launched Autumn 1999. The Trust already owned the STS Lord Nelson.
   The Royal Society of Chemistry(www.rsc.org)'s Historical Images Collection (not to be confused with The Royal Shakespeare Company, www.rsc.org.uk.)
   3D Archaeological Objects on the web in high resolution accurate colour; don't go here unless you have full bandwidth connection (no modems) and a java-enabled browser.
   The University Community Arts Index (since we are both fallible and both have limited time, try here if I give you a bum link or do not provide what you want; and vice-versa)

2. Specialist Music Links (for large Venues see Arts Venues and Galleries)
   *Fo'c's'le Folk Club* Home Page, Programme and many additional interesting music links.
   *SCoFF*, Southern Counties Folk Federation, including newsletter, member Club details and a register of Southern Counties Folk Artistes.
   *Solent Waves* Diary dates and club and dance side information from the Folk Association of South Hants (FASH), the local affiliate of the EFDSS and a successor organisation to the South Hants Region of that Society. The diary is most complete in the dance area, but there is a growing song presence.
   Hampshire Gig Guide Mainstream (jazz, rock, pop, folk rock, indie, reggae, celtic etc) with free hardcopy summary.
   Lunchtime Concerts at the Turner Sims.
   Segalula Women's Folk and World Music Choir, Edmund Kell Hall, Bellevue Road, Southampton.
   #Hillside Singers
   Southampton Concert Wind Band
   University Sinfonietta
   Southampton University Symphony Orchestra
   Hampshire Caledonian Pipe Band based at Marchwood (with links to other local pipe bands)
   Lyndhurst Music Society.
   Southampton Philharmonic Choir
   
   Southampton/Winchester area Concert Diary
   Southampton Choral Society.
   City of Southampton Orchestra
   Saxofony saxophone quartet based in Southampton with a mainly jazz/classical repertoire.
   Botley Choral Society.
   Hedge End New Music Makers four-part choir singing popular well-known songs.
   Waynflete Singers
   Winchester City Festival Choir.
   Hampshire County Youth Orchestra.
   Hampshire Youth Jazz Orchestra
   *Southampton Jazz Club* Current Programme (as soon as it is known every term) and Society details.
   Romsey Abbey Choir.
   Romsey Singers.
   Romsey Choral Society
   Basingstoke Choral Society or try this one.
   London Gaelic Choir.
   Salisbury Combined Music Societies web version of Music in Salisbury.
   Blues Etc website
   Blues in the South (BITS) comprehensive blues gig guide for southern UK.
   Sultans of Swing (Greg Watkin's Dire Straits Tribute)
   *Vox Humana and Gregoriana* mediaeval and modern music
   Southampton Classical Guitar Society
   Hampshire Area Guitar Orchestra a unique amateur ensemble playing 4 sizes of classical guitar. We welcome new members.
   Peter Hyland - local classical guitar tutor.
   West Sussex Guitar Society
   City of Southampton Orchestra.
   The index page for Isle of Wight Rock and Clearspot Magazine. Four decades of Isle of Wight music history plus Clearspot magazine.
   The Sussex Folk Guide
   Southampton University Music Department Home Page
   JazzManix
   Voices Foundation Susan Digby's charitable trust founded to promote the use of Kodály principles in Primary School Education throughout the British Isles, to enable all primary teachers to teach music through singing as they teach all other subjects.
   Mambo Jambo (now defunct) Cumbia in Southampton (Descended originally from a nineteenth century "slave dance", Cumbia combines Hispanic melodic structures with African rhythms and native American harmonic components).
   Bursledon Village Band, famed local traditional dance band led by Dave Ingledew.
   Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia based at Havant Arts Centre and performing at main venues all over Hampshire, includes details of newly issued CD.
   
   The Bob Hall Show Boogie Woogie Blues Piano with Slide/Ragtime Guitar (now featuring ex-Reet, Petite & Gone, Portsmouth-based Stewart Carr).
   Southampton University Concert Band. (site down at last attempted access)
   Melting Pot Record Label and Contact Organisation for local groups including Souls of Fire.
   **SCoFF Southern Festivals List**
   The Folk Roots National Festivals Page including all known folk and international music festivals in this country and Europe.
   Festival Festivals - a guide to music festivals of all kinds around and on both sides of the English Channel (La Manche)
   Irish-music.net CDs, Festivals, Summer Schools etc.
   Cajun Life and Times UK Cajun and Zydeco Resource - online version of the mag taking the place of Ron Knowles' previous 'Cajun Times'.
   Monthly (2nd Saturday) 'M27 Megabops' (Barn Dances) are held at 7.30pm at the Eastpoint Centre, Burgoyne Road.
   Southamptons Musicians Cooperative (currently in abeyance).
   ArtistLed: Recordings produced by David Finckel and Wu Han.
   www.websounds.co.uk aims to help artistes from a wide variety of musical backgrounds to promote and sell their music on the World Wide Web.
   http://www.peoplesound.com sound samples from artistes and bands of many different descriptions (32 bit browsers only).
   The Mudcat Cafe American Super-Site for Folk Music including gateway to the Digital Tradition archive.
   Musicians Net
   Music Base (uk based pop music search engine and news service)
   Fret Music, Shirley.
   Contemporary Music Network
   Mp3.com Online Record Marketing and Distribution Company.
3. Dramatic and Operatic Groups
   *Southampton University Players*
   MikeRoTheatre Mike Rogers' own theatre company.
   Southampton University Students Union Theatregroup.
   Hamble Players
   Chesil Theatre Winchester.
   The Plaza, Romsey and RAODS
   Sarah Siddons Fan Club Historical Street Theatre in Southampton in the Summer.
   Southsea Shakespeare Actors
   Westfield Productions
   Winchester Amateur Operatic Society
   Southampton University Light Opera Society.
   Southampton Musical Society
   Southampton Operatic Society
   Maskers Theatre Company
   Nuffield Theatre including Amateur Shows.
4. Dance Links
   The University (mixed) Border Morris Side, Red Stags
   *Solent Waves* Diary dates and club and dance side information from the Folk Association of South Hants (FASH), the local affiliate of the EFDSS and a successor organisation to the South Hants Region of that Society. The diary is most complete in the dance area, but there is a growing song presence.
   World Contemporary Dance site based round The Hawth at Crawley and Horsham Arts Centre.
5. Listings and gig guides
   Hantsnet Searchable Public Access Collection including many, many arts-related entries and the following relevant sub-sites:

   What's On in theory whatever anyone cares to send in; in practice little but established mainstream Arts venues do so as yet.

   COUSIN database of Arts organisations in Hampshire.

   Hants Ferret Southern Counties web search facility, on which you can ask to be included if you qualify.
   The Hampshire Chronicle which runs a joint Arts Listings service with Hampshire County Council.
   Gig Guide from Blues in the South (BITS)
   Live Wire web version of Bournemouth-based eclectic gig guide - "all kinds of music and then some" (Viewpoint).
   Venue Magazine Portsmouth-based gig guide run by Viv of Alleycats Music Club (previously by Greg Watkins) and Dave Trott and associated with Radio Victory.
   Pompey Music Scene
   Southsea (Portsmouth) Community Listings including New Theatre Royal pages, Portsmouth (Southsea) Arts Centre and many other links.
   The index page for Isle of Wight Rock and Clearspot Magazine. Four decades of Isle of Wight music history plus Clearspot magazine.
   The Sussex Folk Guide
   Artsline, general arts listings for the South of England, has finally got its act together; a bit establishment-oriented.
   Classical London free e-mail newsletter for classical and contemporary music (website is just a sample issue; subscribe via classicallondon@aol.com.
6. Arts Venues, Theatres, Concert Halls, Galleries
   John Hansard Gallery on the University campus
   West End Centre, Aldershot
   Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke
   Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
   Chichester Festival Theatre
   The Gantry Arts Centre, Southampton.[NOW DEFUNCT]
   The Point Arts and Dance Centre, Eastleigh.
   Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham
   Tower Arts Centre Winchester.
   Havant Arts Centre
   Forest Arts Centre New Milton
   New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth
   Salisbury Arts Centre
   Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight.
   The Millais Gallery the Southampton Institute [now Solent University] Gallery, East Park Terrace
   Gallery Cafe in the old Dolphin Yard (Below Bar, Southampton) with ongoing art exhibition.
   Gallery Go a co-operative programme involving five major galleries Aspex, John Hansard, Millais, Southampton City and Winchester (but without a web presence as at Dec 2001).
   The Wedgewood Rooms community-friendly music performance venue in Southsea.
   Portsmouth Studio Theatre, Tangier Road off Eastern Road A 3020 (Portsmouth College).
   New Theatre Royal - Portsmouth
   Turner Sims Concert Hall Full listings from the brochure
   Nuffield Theatre with Amateur Details also listed; or try instead:
   *The First Gallery, Bitterne* Illustrated Programme of events.
   Framing Service by Paul Clarke in association with The First Gallery (above).
   FOSMAG Friends of Southampton's Museums Archives and Galleries.
   Artsales including Chris Brown, formerly of Brompton Gallery, 'Old' Northam Road, Southampton and Gallery37 peripatetic sales in Salisbury, Southampton and other venues by arrangement.
   Southampton University Staff Club With information for affiliated clubs and societies, including:

   The Phoenix Film Theatre
   Not to be confused with: The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre, Bordon, Hants.
   Harbour Lights and other Picture House Cinemas
   Farnham Maltings Arts Centre
   Weald and Downland mediæval Museum and Arts Venue with rael houses, barns etc near Chichester.
   The Brook Local (Portswood) music (rock, pop, soul, funk, jazz & blues) pub.
   Platform Tavern, Town Quay (food & free music).
   Talking Heads Music Pub in Portswood, Southampton (Candle Club Open Mike on Mondays, Roots Nights Tuesdays & Thursdays and Blues Fridays, International Artistes, other nights on spec.
   Healthy Concerts Brighton-area organisation which helps people put on Concerts in their own homes!

7. Environmental links - wildlife, conservation, access, gardens
8. English Nature: Hardy's Egdon Heath Restoration Project, in association with the R.S.P.B.
9. The Dibden Bay Campaign fighting to prevent the destruction of Dibden Bay and its hinterland by the construction of a new container port for Southampton.
10. Solent Forum of interested organisations.
11. Itchen Hamble Conservation Volunteers
12. Hampshire County Council Countryside Service
13. The Open Spaces Society (more formally the Commons, Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society), along with the Ramblers, Great Britain's premier access organisation.
14. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions text of the Consultation Paper on Common Land (responses were required by 10 April 2000; The Open Spaces Society response is on their own website above.
15. The Ramblers
16. The RSPB The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
17. UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
18. The Birdguides website, source for many delightful and informative bird images and trial video clips.
19. National Gardens Scheme.
20. World Wildlife Fund.
21. UK Wildlife Trusts
22. UK Marine Conservation Society.
23. South East Marine Programme
24. Southampton Oceanography Centre Current News including monthly public lecture (1st Thursday).
25. Growing Native Trees advice site by Hampshire Tree Warden Dick Walters, with a folklore page by Lynn Fomison.
26. Local Heritage Initative Grants & Projects overseen by the Countryside Agency.
27. Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
28. The Eden Project, Cornwall
29. Earthwatch Environmental Research Support Holidays.
30. Wildlife News and Travel Conditions.
31. Survival International.
32. Greenpeace UK including Glastonbury Festival (when it happens).
33. Green Futures.
34. The Big Green Gathering, Nr Warminster 28-30 July in 2000.
35. Project Integra Hampshire Integrated Waste Management Scheme.
36. Ethics for USS Universities Superannuation Scheme, but this campaign is also about ethical investment in universities generally.
37. "Sane BP" Pressure Group.
38. Stop Esso from suppressing information about climate change, having its own nominees put in charge of climate research ... you name it.

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