Wow, didn’t the sunshine hit us with a blast on the first days of March? There seemed to be constant sunshine and it made everyone feel so much better.
I always love March, as for me this feels like I am some hibernating animal coming out of my den to explore the world again with a new enthusiasm.
March has a lot of cool things happening, so check out the cultural things below I have picked out.
Friday Late – 8th March – Aspex Gallery – Gunwharf Quays
Aspex Portsmouth has its Friday Late this Friday evening, which is a theme of Earthly Echoes, an exciting event in collaboration with Women in Art and Kino Cult CIC to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025.
Inspired by the themes of Embodied Activism, Earthly Echoes explores ideas around ecofeminism through art, performance, music and communal dancing.
You can expect access to the current exhibitions on display, a live drawing class with Winnie May and a DJ set. There will be a lot of activities throughout the evening too.
My Dog Sighs Digital Film Release – 8th March – Online and at Southsea Cinema
Following its world premiere in Portsmouth in 2024, the highly anticipated documentary film We Shelter Here Sometimes is set to be available for download from the artist’s official website on March 8, 2025.
Did you get a chance to go and see the exhibition INSIDE ‘We Shelter Here Sometimes’? My Dog Sighs fan base queued around the block to get into the old casino building and there was a real buzz about Southsea during the 2-week window that it was on show.
You can listen to the podcast that Southsea Folk did with Paul, where he announced the location of the exhibition, which had been kept under wraps for a long time.
You can also head on down to the Southsea Cinema to watch the premiere with the artist and filmmaker and attend a Q&A with them on the 8th and 9th of March. Or you can watch it online for free.
Goodfellas – Saturday 22nd March – No6 Cinema – Historic Dockyard
No6 Cinema is back and what better way to celebrate than a trip to see an all time favourite, Goodfellas.
Gangsters never refer to themselves as gangsters. They are made-men, wiseguys or Goodfellas.
Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious and violent underworld of New York’s Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime thug to mobster under the guidance of Jimmy Conway (Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.
Pop up with Home by Olive – Saturday 15th March – Stay Lucky – Elm Grove
Saturday with Friends has been a huge success at the Indie gift shop in Southsea, which started the summer it opened. Join Tilly as she showcases the most amazing candles that are natural soy wax with absolutely no chemicals in. The staff favourite is the Lemongrass and Ginger candle, but there will be a huge selection to choose from. The pop – up will be there from 10am until 2pm.
When We Were Cows has a brand new exhibition of his latest work at the Corner Collective. His last exhibition was an enormous success. For fans of his work, it has been great to get a sneak peek into the development of his style since 2022. You can catch up on his work that he did in 2022 here.
Tracking down and gathering a selection of natural objects is a wonderful pastime that John loves to do and his guardians of nature (as I like to call them), hold a lot of natural elements like feathers, bones, and pebbles in his pieces, that all work so well together as a visual statement.
Look out for more info on this, including an exclusive podcast where I chat to John about this exhibition and his latest work that will be something for his fans to look forward to.
Pompey Dogs – 22nd March – Staggeringly Good Brewery – Fratton
Making Waves Film Festival hosts Pompey Dogs, a live immersive cinema experience at Staggeringly Good Brewery.
Step into a wild night of Tarantino-inspired chaos, cunning, and colour.
Six shades of shifty, disguised as decorators, have hijacked the brewery. They’re dripping with sweat, not paint, after a cop chase. Their van’s a wreck, the art’s gone, and the only colours left are suspicion and blame.
You are the missing pigment. Armed with a brush – and a thirst for trouble – you’ll be sucked into a whirlwind of accusations, cryptic clues, and alibis so thin you could paint a house with ’em. Who’s the rat? Who’s a friend? Who just here for the beer?
The night explodes into a dramatic showdown. Then, roll the dice with an atmospheric screening of Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in the brewery’s warehouse and an afterparty soundtracked by iconic tracks you’ll already be humming.
Don’t just watch the story – dress up and become a masterpiece in this twisted game of betrayal and bloodshed.
