Welcome to The Solent Metropolitan What's on across the Greater Solent View more Events Black History Month South Thu 1 Oct - Fri 30 Oct Various Southampton Culture / Heritage & History We Connect Conference 2026 | Wellbeing At Work Tue 6 Oct, 9am Portsmouth Guildhall Portsmouth Sectors / Creative Rave & The Cause Sat 10 Oct, 6 - 10pm Portsmouth Distillery Portsmouth Culture / Music Drawing Mini-beasts Tue 13 Oct Gosport Museum and Art Gallery Gosport Culture / Workshops Figure Drawing Course Wed 14 Oct Gosport Museum and Art Gallery Gosport Culture / Workshops The Spitfire, Mitchell's Finest: What made it great? Wed 14 Oct, 7 - 8:30pm Turner Sims Southampton Culture / Heritage & History 'And There it was': Southampton Creative Writing Group Session Wed 14 Oct, 7:30 - 8:45pm Network Eagle Lab Southampton Culture / Writing Innovation Begins at Home - Andy Stanford-Clark. IoT Talk. Thu 15 Oct, 7 - 9pm Concourse, Avenue St Andrew's URC Southampton Culture / Technology 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.
'And There it was': Southampton Creative Writing Group Session Wed 14 Oct, 7:30 - 8:45pm Network Eagle Lab Southampton
Innovation Begins at Home - Andy Stanford-Clark. IoT Talk. Thu 15 Oct, 7 - 9pm Concourse, Avenue St Andrew's URC 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
