Welcome to The Solent Metropolitan What's on across the Greater Solent View more Events The Playbook Chapter 7 30 Sep IO next to Planet Sounds Terminus Terrace Southampton Sectors / Arts & Culture TMM IRL: Know What You Stand For — Then Say It! (The Marketing Meetup) 30 Sep, 6 - 7:45pm Sir James Matthews Building University of Southampton Sectors / Marketing Black History Month South 1 - 30 Oct Various Southampton Culture / Heritage & History Saturday monthly men's walk & talk from The Big Movement & Mangang 3 Oct, 10am Design Chapel Southampton Living / Mental Health Portsmouth 100: Our Naval City Festival 3 Oct, 10am - 9pm Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Portsmouth Culture / Heritage & History Night Currents 2026 Indie & Alt-pop Festival 3 Oct, 3:30pm The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth Culture / Festivals Soton Hardcore October Weekender - Saturday 3 Oct, 5pm Edmund Kell Unitarian Church Southampton Culture / Music Bunkerfest 2026 4 Oct, 12 - 7pm Planet Sounds Southampton Culture / Festivals View more Events The broader perspective, for a distinct region. The Solent Metropolitan is an independent media platform championing the Greater Solent's cities: Southampton and Portsmouth, Isle of Wight and towns and villages, all connected by the Solent water on the central southern coast of the UK. Read more about Latest articles View more Articles Past newspaper articles on official creation of the Solent region We've been here before... Sectors / Regional Development Are we deluded about a better future? Mindset can happen today. While previous articles on here talk of the possibility of grand transport infrastructure, the question is: will it… Sectors / Regional Development The new infrastructure quangos to watch Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/04/what-quangos-set-up-labour With our passion for some… Sectors / Public Sector Introducing the "Made in Greater Solent" celebration Along the lines of elsewhere, like https://www.madeinnyc.org/ For local manufacturing and makers. Physical and… Sectors / Regional Development We don't need provincial rivalry Celebrating our 2 great Solent cities. Culture / Identity Time for Solent Walking into a bank or other institution building, sometimes there are clocks on the wall showing the time in well known places. Culture / Identity What do great cities do when they need space? New York City does it. London does it. Greater Solent can do it. Sectors / Design View more Articles Vibrancy happens in three dimensions Championing the Greater Solent region in three dimensions: Culture, Sectors and Living: making up the triple helix of the Solent's "DNA", its identity. Discover Culture Discover Sectors Discover Living Culture, Sectors and Living are interconnected and can help each other grow. We're here to help make that happen, connecting them across the Solent region.
TMM IRL: Know What You Stand For — Then Say It! (The Marketing Meetup) 30 Sep, 6 - 7:45pm Sir James Matthews Building University of Southampton
Saturday monthly men's walk & talk from The Big Movement & Mangang 3 Oct, 10am Design Chapel Southampton
Past newspaper articles on official creation of the Solent region We've been here before... Sectors / Regional Development
Are we deluded about a better future? Mindset can happen today. While previous articles on here talk of the possibility of grand transport infrastructure, the question is: will it… Sectors / Regional Development
The new infrastructure quangos to watch Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/04/what-quangos-set-up-labour With our passion for some… Sectors / Public Sector
Introducing the "Made in Greater Solent" celebration Along the lines of elsewhere, like https://www.madeinnyc.org/ For local manufacturing and makers. Physical and… Sectors / Regional Development
Time for Solent Walking into a bank or other institution building, sometimes there are clocks on the wall showing the time in well known places. Culture / Identity
What do great cities do when they need space? New York City does it. London does it. Greater Solent can do it. Sectors / Design
