Writing Retreat

Date: 12th & 13th September
Time: 10.00 – 13.00
Location: Portsmouth Central Library, Lower Ground Floor
Cost: £10 for both days, £5 concessions.

Make the most of your inspirations. Get words on the page. Join the community.

Meeting Your Muse

Date: 12th September
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Location: New Theatre Royal
Cost: £20 , £10 concessions.

Come along and elevate your writing into the mythosphere.

Write to Be Heard

Date: 16th September
Time: 16.00 – 18.00
Location: Motiv8 – Unit 2 & 3 Cumberland Gate, Cumberland Road PO5 1AG
Cost: Free

No experience needed—bring your voice, your ideas, and your curiosity. Write it. Share it. Be heard.

The Holmes Fest Show

Date: 19th & 20th September
Time: 19.00
Location: The Groundlings Theatre
Cost: £15 Regular, £45 VIP

After last year’s fun and laughter, Holmes Fest returns for music, silliness, sketches and storytelling with an all-new show!

Dinosaur and Fossil Fun: The Lost World Workshop.

Date: 20th September
Time: 12.00 – 15.45
Location: Southsea Cinema
Cost: Free

Kids are invited to get their hands dirty painting fossil dinosaur eggs or dinosaur skulls in this fun, free workshop.

The Dinosaur That Pooped

Date: 21st September
Time: 12.30 & 15.30
Location: New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth 
Cost: £19.50 Adult, £18.50 Child, £66 Family.

When Danny and Dino’s favourite rock band are playing their last ever concert, they go on a quest to get the last two tickets. But with a villainous band manager lurking, nothing goes to plan.

The Mysterious Case of the Haberdasher’s Scissors

Date: 21st September
Time: 15.00-16.30
Location: Hunter Gatherer, Southsea
Cost: £7.50

In this fun illustrated talk, local writers and researchers claim to have discovered an extraordinary fact: three famous literary figures met each other in the early 1880s on King’s Road in Southsea.

In Sherlock’s Footsteps. Guided Walk: Conan Doyle’s Portsmouth.

Date: 22nd September
Time: 14.00
Location: Meet outside A Bar, 58 White Hart Road, PO1 2JA
Cost: £15

Matt Wingett invites you to walk the streets that young Arthur Conan Doyle walked 140 years ago.

Zoinks! The Mystery Machine Meets Sherlock Holmes!

Date: 23rd September
Time: 19.30-21.00
Location: Hunter Gatherer, Southsea
Cost: £7.50

The spooky folklore behind Scooby-Doo  – with special appearance by Sherlock Holmes. 

Talk: Sherlock Holmes and the Folklore Behind the House of the Baskervilles

Date: 24th September
Time: 19.00-21.30
Location: Portsmouth Central Library
Cost: £10

Join two world-renowned experts to discuss how Sherlock was created, and the legends behind the Hound of the Baskervilles in this fascinating double bill.