- Urban Wild on the Common 2026
- Punk Poetry, Protest & Pantry news (August newsletter & Autumn what’s on)
- A Warm Welcome at Bitterne Station – Our First Friday Pantry at our new home!
- The Art House pop-up pantry at Bitterne Station open day!
- Event announcement: Valentine Noire with Jason Buck
- Gig Announcement: Grant Sharkey’s 24th Album Launch
- Bunkerfest 2024 Recap – a community effort that raised over £1200!
- Special guest for this month’s Moving Voices
Category Archives: Behind the scenes
Bunkerfest 2024 Recap – a community effort that raised over £1200!
Bunkerfest 2024 was a huge success, raising over £1200 for the Community Pantry – and we couldn’t have done it without you! The money raised (after event costs have been taken out) will go to funding our regular pop-up pantry … Continue reading
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Kindness is a blessing – update from Gill (and Speedy)
Gill here with a report on Friday’s pantry – with gratitude to donors and volunteers. Today’s offerings included giant peppers, chocolate biscuits, and soup. Volunteers Ziggy, Abby, and others helped distribute groceries, and new visitors were welcomed. Appreciation was extended to Board in the City CIC for their work. The pantry welcomes visitors next week from 11am to 1pm. Continue reading
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Pantry update by Gill – Friday 24 May ’24 at Board in the City
Gill here on Friday May 24th. Before even arriving at BitC I had pantry users approaching to ask if we open today . Today we had a warm colour theme going on, big juicy oranges, bright red beef steak tomatoes, shiny … Continue reading
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Pantry update by Gill – Friday 17/5/24 at Board in the City
Gill here …Hi everyone! After an unexpected break last week due to a bereavement & unavailability of volunteers to cover (more about that later), we made it back to run the Pantry at Board in the City CIC this week! … Continue reading
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Pantry update – Friday 26 April ’24
Gill here! Todays pantry we had a lovely selection of goodies saved from supermarket waste. Huge beefsteak tomatoes, lovely ripe bananas, satsumas by the few dozen, swede, butternut squash, a huge variety of breads, cakes and pastries, vegan milk, coconut … Continue reading
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Bunker178 FAQs – where are you based now?
Bunker178 FAQs: Have you moved to Arch 4, Arches studios? No. We are now a pop-up which means we swoop into a space which we’ve hired or been allowed to use, dress it as the Bunker, run the event and … Continue reading
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The Shed!
In February, when we were planning ahead to become a pop-up, we asked our community to fund a lockable storage box at Board in the City for our pop-up community pantry which we’ll be holding there every Friday 11am – … Continue reading
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Beautiful Garbage – Bunker178 set and decor
Jez here. Nic Beck and I were hard at it yesterday creating sets and signage for Bunker178 Events – The Art House pop ups! Using our #BeautifulGarbage method, everything used was repurposed, scavenged, materials we already had and found objects/materials. … Continue reading
One Last Glorious Time at The Art House – short film
On Sunday 17 March 2024, we invited our Patrons and crew to the ‘Last Chance Salon’, a private final night at The Art House before we had to pack up. Many of you, our Patreon supporters, were there – but … Continue reading