Peninsula Arts
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA
England
Website
Telephone
01752 58 50 50
Peninsula Arts operates from within the Faculty of Arts and serves as the arts and culture public programming organisation for the University of Plymouth. The year-round programme includes exhibitions, music, film, public lectures, and theatre and dance/ performance. One of its principle aims is to provide access to a programme of wide-ranging high quality arts and cultural experiences, which is informed by the expertise, research and scholarship of the University and its partners, to the communities of Plymouth and the South West and visitors to the region
Venue Type:
Gallery
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA
England
Website
Telephone
01752 58 50 50
Exhibition: Transpositions
Transpositions combines notions of alchemy, philosophy and the latest scientific imaging techniques into the cellular development of an aquatic embryo. Deborah Robinson is an artist who collaborates with scientists to create artwork in a variety of media that includes video, sound and projections onto liquid.
This exhibition brings together work from different projects, each of which dynamically explores transposition – changes based on exchange of ideas, places and contexts. The dynamics of each collaboration generate artistic experimentation
with scientific process, method and output - filtering and re-presenting ideas
to make new meanings.
Currently Deborah is Artist-in-Residence with scientists from Marine Biology, Plymouth University.
Where
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA
England
Website
Telephone
01752 58 50 50
Lecture: Contemporary and Source Poetry: A Conference with poetry readings.
This conference aims to explore the use of source material in contemporary poetry. The term ‘source’ should be given wide remit, incorporating ‘origin’, ‘subject’, and ‘method’. Contemporary poetry, here, refers to writers working post-1950, but of course their sources may well be historical. Poetry readings and panel discussions will cover a range of sources, including: the visual arts, music, nature, the personal, the impersonal, found material, the documentary, language, literature, biography, history, politics, philosophy, and translation. Singular poetry readings or lectures by plenary speakers, Alice Oswald, Mark Ford, David Herd, and Peter Gizzi.
Funded by Centre for Humanities, Music & Performing Arts Research, Plymouth University
Where
Portland Square Building, Plymouth University
Admission
Three day Conference, £100
concessions £50
please register at
www.tinyurl.com/Contemporary-Poetry-and-Source.
Website
Exhibition: The School of Humanities and Performing Arts Showcase
This year’s School of Humanities and Performance Arts Showcase celebrates and profiles student work from across the subject areas of Theatre and Performance, History, English and Creative Writing, Art History, Music and Dance. For School and College parties a full schedule of workshops across the different disciplines is available to choose from as part of your visit to Plymouth University.
Full details will be published on the Peninsula Arts website.
Public Open Days: Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 May, 10.00 - 16.00
Where
Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
Lecture: Clouds, Veils and Nights in the Mystical Theologies of Islam and Christianity
Ian Richard Netton is the Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies and Acting Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author or editor of nineteen books of which some of the most recent are Islam, Christianity and the Mystic Journey: A Comparative Exploration (2011), Islam, Christianity and Tradition: A Comparative Exploration (2006) and (ed.) Islamic Philosophy and Theology (2007). Professor Netton is also the General Editor of The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. This lecture runs as part of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts Showcase.
When
-
Where
Jill Craigie Cinema Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Admission
Tickets: £5 concessions £3
Free for Friends of Peninsula Arts,
PU students and staff
Website
Performance: Theatre and Performance End of Year Scratch Night Performances
This year’s School of Humanities and Performance Arts Showcase celebrates and profiles student work from across the subject areas of Theatre and Performance, History, English and Creative Writing, Art History, Music and Dance. For School and College parties a full schedule of workshops across the different disciplines is available to choose from as part of your visit to Plymouth University.
When
-
Where
Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building
Admission
Free
Website
Performance: BA Theatre and Dance Degree Showcase Performance 2
This year’s School of Humanities and Performance Arts Showcase celebrates and profiles student work from across the subject areas of Theatre and Performance, History, English and Creative Writing, Art History, Music and Dance. For School and College parties a full schedule of workshops across the different disciplines is available to choose from as part of your visit to Plymouth University.
When
-
Where
Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building
Admission
Tickets: £5.00 concessions £ 3.00
and free to PU students and staff
Website
Exhibition: Two Stories: Polish Exhibition
The Two Stories exhibition explores the lost history linking Poland and Britain and corrects misconceptions held here about Poland and its past. Photographs of the last Polish resettlement camp remaining in the UK (now demolished) were chosen to illustrate, in a symbolic fashion, little known events: the invasion of Poland by the Soviets in 1939 and Britain’s controversial role in the aftermath.
Where
Cube 3 Gallery, Portland Square Building, Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
Exhibition: Degree Show
Come and celebrate the creative work of talented final year Arts students at
Plymouth University. Work from the following areas will be showcased: Fine
Art; Illustration; Photography; Graphic Communication with Typography; Media
Arts; Architecture; Digital Art and Technology; 3D Design, and Digital Media and Animation
Where
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Roland Levinsky Building, Scott Building & Royal William Yard, Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
Film: Archive Re-Scored
Returning for a third year, archive re-scored provides a unique opportunity to see an eclectic mix of short films and clips from the South West’s regional film and television archive re-scored by Plymouth University’s Sound and Music Production course.
When
-
Where
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Admission
Free
Website
Exhibition: Strange Neighbours: the beauty and fascination of Devon’s Insects
Devonshire Association
Insects are all around us, and influence all our lives. Recognisably animals, but disconcertingly different from the animals we know best, their alien appearance
can evoke mistrust, even revulsion - yet many are strikingly beautiful at close quarters, and their adaptations and special qualities are entirely fascinating. Devon is particularly rich in notable species, reflecting its southern location and great
diversity of habits.
Where
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
Music: Arnold Camerata Festival
John Ireland Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 60
Peter Yarde Martin New Commission Premiere
Jim Parker Mississippi Five
Edward Elgar Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet Op.84
This year the Essentially English Festival marks the 50th anniversary of the death
of composer John Ireland, featuring his works in all three of the festival’s concerts.
The Arnold Camerata is a diverse and dynamic chamber ensemble named after
the late great Oscar winning composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, founded by violist
Richard Waters in 2009.
When
-
Where
Upper Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Admission
Tickets: £12, £10 Friends of Peninsula Arts and Arnold Camerata
£5 students and children
Free to PU students
Website
Exhibition: Signposts
This is the fourth collaborative exhibition of art by Devonport High School for Girls ‘A’ Level students and local professional artists. This is a point in time, a
signpost that is significant to our students who are all about to embark on new directions and careers, some in Art, but all are likely to still be compelled to make Art at some time in the future. This exhibition will be striving to showcase the art of the present and the diverse directions creative thinkers are taking their work now in the South West.
Where
Cube3 Gallery, Portland Square Building
Admission
Free
Website
Exhibition: Voices of the South Atlantic
Curated by Mark Sealy, Autograph
Voices of the South Atlantic examines issues of war and its consequences. Rooted in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War, it includes the voices of people who fought on both sides, as well as civilians who were directly affected by it. Colour photographs of landscapes of the Falkland Islands, and black and white seascapes of the South Atlantic challenge the notion of the heroic and deconstructs the idea of national pride. The focus of the project is not about who is right or wrong – justice or injustice. It is about extreme human experiences under the harshest of conditions and its resultant effects on the body and mind of the persons in focus. Its premise is that fear and loss are universal, and that pain and trauma affect both the losers and the winners.
Where
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Admission
Free
Website
Music: Puccini’s Madam Butterfly
Madam Butterfly tells the true story of the passionate love affair between a beautiful
Japanese geisha and a handsome US naval officer – who later abandons her and their child. The opera features some of Puccini’s most ravishing and well-known melodies, including the gorgeous love duet ‘Vogliatemi bene’ (Love me, please) and ‘Un bel di’ (One Fine Day) Now in its eighth season, New Devon Opera, the South West’s resident professional opera company, returns to Plymouth accompanied by an orchestra of 21 professional musicians. The cast is led by Italian tenor, Pietro Picone. The role of the young geisha Cio Cio San, is shared between international sopranos Susan Jiwey and Mariya Krywaniuk. The opera is sung in English.
Director and Designer Martyn Harrison
Conductor Paul Foster
When
-
Where
Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Admission
Tickets: £25 £20 Friends of Peninsula Arts, £15 Children/Students
Website
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA
England
Website
Telephone
01752 58 50 50
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