Portsmouth’s twin city Duisburg, has put out a call to street artists from our city who they invite to paint their grey bridges..
Early 2020, before the pandemic set in, I wanted to pick up the street art persona I had created the year before for Cursed City Dark Tide and create more street art. I had it seems, developed a taste for running around the streets at night with a bucket of paste, a fox mask and some newly created pieces of art. I didn’t want to leave @lissitch2019 behind and I wanted to continue to develop the persona of the street art pasting fox.
Artists Call for The Imaginarium of Dreams – an evening of live performance, music, video and spoken word created by Portsmouth artists.
Transmedia is a popular term these days, but all it means is that the story is told across multiple platforms, channels and situations. Taking the story world fromThe Snow Witch novel by Matt Wingett we developed new characters and a new narrative that saw the city of Portsmouth threatened by the restless spirit of a dead woman.
Working in partnership with Portsmouth author Matt Wingett and blacksmith Lucille Scott, owner of Little Duck Forge. We worked up an Arts Council funding application and were successful in raising enough money to stage the exhibition in October/November 2019.
Darkside Portside is a self-guided poetry film trail through an imagined 18th century Portsea, Portsmouth, UK.
In March 2019, The FRONT ROOM staged a second night of performance-poetry-film following up our Waving Not Drowning event in 2017. The event took place on Thursday 31st May at The Loft, Albert Road.
In partnership with the New Theatre Royal as part of their Festival of the Sea, the Front Room staged an immersive theatre experience ‘Octopuses and Other Sea Creatures’ at The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth on the 1st March 2019.
A series of active participatory workshops are intended to inspire, inform and galvanise your interest in new forms of writing. The workshops aim to provide an understanding of the concepts of transmedia storytelling, providing skills for telling transmedia stories.
A night of ghastly short films, live cinema performance, spoken word and music – telling tales of gothic horror and supernatural terror.
This November Dr Lighthouse had the opportunity to again collaborate with the good people at The Front Room on an opening event for the 2017 Darkfest called Cure or be Cured.
Staged as part of Portsmouth Darkfest 2018, ‘Cure or be Cured’ was an evening of spoken word, film projections and immersive theatre all inspired by the iconic Plague Doctors who tried to cure sufferers of the Black Death in the 14th Century.