Arts and Culture FeaturesYou are in: Hampshire > Entertainment > Arts and Culture > Arts and Culture Features  The sounds of the outback as the Isle of Wight prepares for its first didgeridoo festival.  Spectacular sights and crazy characters as Winchester celebrates the 35th Hat Fair.  It's 200 years since the birth of the poet who made the Isle of Wight cool in Victorian times.  Veterans of D-Day are immortalised in a special series of photographs taken in Portsmouth.  A new exhibition of photos reveals how commoning has shaped the New Forest landscape.  Poets and students combine to produce a unique view of people and places around Portsmouth.  Portsmouth artist Karl Rudziak on his acclaimed new portrait of Pompey fan John Westwood.  Ventnor photographer David Yates explains tilt-shift, making life-size seem miniature.  BBC Radio Humberside unearth one of Anthony Minghella's first stage productions.  The sculptor who's been working with wood, trees & the natural environment for the past 20 years.  We meet the emerging artist as she prepares to exhibit in Southampton's most historic monument.  A play which tells a fictional love story set in a New Forest gypsy camp is touring the south.  Film stars including Jude Law & Alan Rickman visited the Island to pay tribute to the late director.  A unique project which hopes to uncover the ancestors of Hampshire's bygone folk scene.  How to submit your video to be shown on the BBC Big Screen in Portsmouth's Guildhall Square.  Southampton's Uke-fans hit the streets to prove the minature instrument can be cool.  The Hampshire artist who uses a CSI-style technique on artefacts to produce stunning visual arts.  A portrait of actor Colin Firth as Mr Darcy has sold for double its estimated price.  Look back at the 80's TV super-soap set in the glamourous world of Solent boat building.  Portsmouth teenager Chelsie Jones dances on stage with Strictly Come Dancing winner Tom Chambers.  Free tickets for 22 theatres in the South East are being given out to young people.  Hayling Island actress Wendy Adams-Evans appears as the Wicked Queen on festive stamps.  Army Gurkha chefs in Hampshire are recognised for making eye-catching sculptures - made from lard.  Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons receives an honorary doctorate from Solent University.  Catriona Parfitt wins Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year with her dramatic African shot.  Meet Coco P, the magical storyteller and mesmerising musician from Trinidad & Tobago.  Farnborough students get the chance to perform Shakespeare's works in a professional theatre.  The story of Southampton's reggae band who rocked the south in the early 80s.  A Portsmouth student creates a unique new map of the city using local slang for streetnames.  Meet Claire Mason who carves beautiful pieces of art in the grounds of a Hampshire manor.  A sculpture of a sheep cast from soap was a highlight of Winchester College of Art's degree show.  Beautiful paintings and drawings of the animal kingdom at Marwell Zoo's annual exhibition.  A graduate from Titchfield has produced 80 paintings inspired by stamps from the British Empire.  The colourful and crazy celebration of street art and theatre hits Winchester once again.  Urban acrobatics performed with organ music at Portsmouth Cathedral.  Art Asia's annual celebration of arts, music and food spices up Hoglands Park.  The home of Hampshire's most famous literary daughter has plans for expansion.  Actress Sheila Hancock is installed as Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.  Hurst Castle hosts a wartime concert to mark the restoration of its garrison theatre.  The historic city plays host to a unique recreation of the Easter story on Good Friday.  Memories of the Oscar-winning director from the Isle of Wight who died in March 2008.  Love it or loathe it, the M27 is the inspiration for a unique new interactive radio play.  Inmates at Winchester Prison team up students from the city to stage a unique play.  Suzie Templeton, from Romsey, picks up an Oscar for best animated short film. You are in: Hampshire > Entertainment > Arts and Culture > Arts and Culture Features |
