How a Portsmouth festival will promote the city's plastic plight
MORE work must be done in Portsmouth to protect our oceans.
That is the message from a theatre director ahead of an environmental festival in the city.
The Festival of the Sea 2020, run by New Theatre Royal in Guildhall Walk, is focusing on the impact of plastic pollution in our oceans.
Launching on February 13, the festival is kicking off with a panel event called The Problem with Plastic (and what to do about it).
The event will see speakers such as BBC broadcaster Lucy Siegle and Portsmouth sailor Geoff Holt discuss the ways that plastic is damaging our oceans and how we can help to reverse the problem.
Director and CEO of New Theatre Royal, Scott Ramsay, said: ‘We have a particular responsibility to our oceans as the UK’s only island city.
‘Our Festival of the Sea 2020 has been carefully curated to not only celebrate our relationship with the waters that surround us but to empower and equip our communities to protect them.’
The panel event will be followed by family-friendly The Sea Show on February 16, as well as a comedic take on Horatio Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar with Nelson – The Sailor’s Story the same day.
Other events will also be taking place through to July.
For more information about the events lined up and to purchase tickets, people can go to newtheatreroyal.com.
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