Local Arts Organisations and Venues

Compulsive Productions

Compulsive Productions are a small, friendly professional video company based in Making Space, Leigh Park.

They cover the whole of the south coast specialising in community video projects, working with local organisations, groups, schools and councils.

For further updates, films and photos, please click here for Compulsive Productions MySpace page or please click here for Compulsive Productions website.

The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre

The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre presents a varied programme of dance, theatre, comedy, music and cinema plus a range of workshops for adults and children. It has a 140 seat auditorium, gallery space, rehearsal rooms, a cafe´ and a licensed bar.

The arts centre is a registered charity which receives funding from Havant Borough Council and Hampshire County Council.

For further details of the full programme and a copy of the season brochure please click here for The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre website.

Making Space

Making Space is a registered charity which receives funding from Havant Borough Council and Hampshire County Council.

Making Space is a purpose-built craft centre providing high quality studio and technical spaces for craft makers in Leigh Park, with specialist facilities for jewellery making, ceramics and textiles.

Professional training is available for artists and community workshops are offered for people of all ages and abilities, such as 10-week courses for adults and school holiday workshops for children. For further information, please click here for the Making Space website.

Music Fusion

The Music Fusion project is lottery funded by Youth Music and runs a programme of activities for children and young people aged 0-18 years.

Havant Borough Council is a member of the Music Fusion consortium (with Fareham Borough Council, Gosport Borough Council, Hampshire County Council, Hampshire Music Service and Portsmouth City Council).

Click here for further details of the programme and to view the Music Fusion website,

SOOP

SOOP is Havant's very own professional theatre company, based at The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre. The company is dedicated to enhancing the cultural life of the local community through creating original, innovative theatre with a national profile and reputation for high quality. Crisp, stylised, vibrant and generous, our playing offers a highly theatrical, hugely satisfying event for audiences who love theatre in its purest, essential forms.

As well as producing distinctive, accessible performances, SOOP makes a direct contribution to the arts through engagement in community projects and education initiatives, working in schools and colleges, delivering workshops and larger scale programmes.

SOOP is particularly interested in providing opportunities for local creative people to gain real world experience of working in touring theatre.

For more information on our work, visit our website http://www.soop.org.uk/ or contact Nathan Chapman by email at nathan@soop.org.uk

Station Theatre

When the Hayling Station Goods Shed came up for disposal in 1992 the Hayling Island Amateur Dramatics Society (HIADS) campaigned and fundraised to convert it to a 144 seat theatre. The work was completed in 1997 and the theatre is leased to HIADS by Havant Borough Council at a peppercorn rent.

For full details of ‘Whats On’ please click here for the Hayling Island Station Theatre website.

Wordsouth

Wordsouth exists to promote with a passion words, books and art. Drop by to browse books (new and second hand), enjoy a fair trade coffee with home baked cake, to be inspired by book and text related works of art in their white-walled gallery or to join in some of the many writing courses and events they run. Book groups meet there regulary, they host Open Mics, author readings and run many writing courses from starting to write days to magazine writing.

Check out what is happening now on the Wordsouth website.