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Top acts announced for MTV Crashes Plymouth

MTV have announced today that consecutive chart toppers Rudimental and pop music heavyweight Jess Glynne will be heading up the stage at Day One of MTV Crashes Plymouth on Thursday 28 July.

The following night Example will be returning to the city, joining Tough Love and more top DJs (still to be announced) for a roof-raising Club MTV finale.

After the huge success of last year...

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Plymouth welcomes Charlie Hedges

As the busiest female DJ in the UK with a daily audience of 1.8 million radio listeners, her own mix series on board every British Airways flight worldwide and now the face of Skiddle.com’s brand new Weekends Matter podcast, Charlie Hedges isn’t one to do things by halves. So, rather than fade away onto a listings page near you, Charlie Hedges will soon be taking her inimitable brand of up-...

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Romesh Ranganathan Irrational Tour comes to Plymouth

Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand new show exploring the rationality of his worldview.

‘Irrational’ will see Romesh examine the issues close to his heart, and explains why everybody else is wrong about them.

The last two years have been incredible for Ranganathan with his two critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival shows, ‘Rom Wasn’t Built In A Day’ and ‘Rom Com’ being...

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Busy half term for families at City Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has a busy programme of family events and activities on offer during February half term.

On Tuesday 16 February there's a chance to make art and craft creations inspired by the thousands of objects in the Museum’s collections. The ‘Colour and Collage’ drop-in session will run from from 10.30am to 1pm with last entries at 12.30pm.

The...

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Andrew Roachford heads for Plymouth

Andrew Roachford is back with a stunning new album - ‘Encore’, set for release on February 2016. This powerfully emotive and soulful album brilliantly showcases Andrew’s unique song Interpretation of some classic tracks and brings a fresh take in a way only he can.

Andrew explains that “Growing up surrounded with Jazz and Soul, and working in the studio with The Clash as a teenager”...

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John Akomfrah's River Tamar Project commission acquired by Arts Council Collection

A film exploring the darker histories of the River Tamar which was commissioned as part of a major festival in 2014 has been acquired by the Arts Council Collection to mark its 70th anniversary.

Tropikos, by award-winning artist filmmaker John Akomfrah, was commissioned for the It’s All About the River festival, which was curated and delivered by the River Tamar Project (RTP), the...

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Aspiring artists given a chance to shine with Plymouth Young Contemporary Open 2016

Budding artists from across the Plymouth area are being challenged to get creative as part of a new bi-annual competition being staged in the city.

The Plymouth Young Contemporary Open (PYCO) 2016 is designed to showcase the incredible talent of the area’s children and young people.

Anyone aged four to 30 who is living, working or studying in the Plymouth area will be invited...

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Major new exhibition explores relationship between toys and conflict

A new exhibition which opened at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery on 6 February explores the role of warfare in children's play from 1800 to the present day.

‘War Games’ is a nationally touring exhibition from the V&A Museum of Childhood and will be on display until 18 June.

The show, which is designed for adults and children, allows visitors to investigate how toys...

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Give Barbican Leisure Park your best ‘Blue Steel'

To celebrate the return of iconic and hilarious male supermodel ‘Zoolander’ to the big screen, Barbican Leisure Park has created a selfie competition with a difference.

Calling out for people of Plymouth to share their very best ‘Blue Steel’ selfies for the chance of winning a free meal and movie tickets to the new Zoolander 2 movie.

The hotly anticipated film hits our cinema...

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Lord Toby Jug Official State Visit

Lord Toby Jug, leader of The Eccentric Party of Great Britain, will be attending the opening night of the play 'Monster Raving Loony' about the life and times of his late friend and party leader, Screaming Lord Sutch.

The play opens on February 6th at the Plymouth Theatre Royal. Lord Toby will be meeting writer James Graham, and actor Samuel James, who plays Screaming Lord Sutch, after...

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