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Bassline Festival comes to Powderham Castle

Great news for everyone who missed out on tickets for this summer’s Radio One Big Weekend!

Bassline, the South‐West’s biggest dance music festival, will take place in the grounds of the magnificent Powderham Castle, Exeter on the weekend of the 9th - 11th of September 2016.

Phase One acts now confirmed: Rudimental, Krept & Konen, Sigma, Wilkinson, Sub Focus, Charlie Sloth,...

University and Port Eliot Festival work to enhance creative experiences

Plymouth University is enhancing its links with one of the South West’s most iconic summer events, the Port Eliot Festival.

For the second time, the University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities is to be the official Creative and Cultural Partner of the festival, taking place at the home of Lord and Lady St Germans in South East Cornwall from July 28 to 31, 2016.

And this year,...

Music: Plymouth Fringe Festival

Venue: 
The House, Barbican Theatre, The Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 10:00 to Saturday, June 4, 2016 - 16:00
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Plymouth Fringe Festival is a week-long celebration of live performance, featuring some of the most exciting companies from across the UK as well as the very best in home-grown talent.

Join us for over 50 performances at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre, The House, and some unexpected places too.

Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 June Thursday 10:00-23:00 Friday 10:00-16:00 & 20:00- 2300 Saturday 1000 - 1600

More details to follow

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016

Frontiers: expanding musical imagination

Promoted in partnership with Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).

Festival directors:

Simon Ible, Director of Music, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University Eduardo Reck Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, Plymouth University

The theme of the 2016 edition of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination.

It will showcase extraordinary new technologies and approaches to composition and performance that are pushing the...

Festival promises a weekend of folk, food and fun

All roads lead to Dartmoor on 23- 25 October, when one of the country’s best loved folk festivals hits the streets, halls and pubs of Okehampton.

The 17th Baring-Gould Weekend, organised by Okehampton-based music charity Wren Music, combines intimate concerts by established acts alongside community orchestras and choirs, impromptu street performances, dancing, and plenty of local food...

Plymouth International Book Festival 2015

The Plymouth International Book Festival is back once again, bringing words and books to life across Plymouth. Organised through a partnership of Plymouth University, Peninsula Arts, Literature Works (the literature development agency for the South West) and Plymouth City Council, it will unite local and global authors in a celebration of writing and reading for everyone to enjoy.

This 2015 programme includes exciting, new novels from bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and Judy Finnigan, stimulating non-fiction from Bidisha, spoken word from the always entertaining John Hegley, and...

Plymouth Seafood Festival set to be a fin-tastic weekend

Freshly caught seafood, mouth-watering dishes and an ocean of fun is what will bring the Barbican and Sutton Harbour alive this weekend (26 and 27 September) as the city celebrates the Plymouth Seafood Festival.

Organised by Plymouth City Council for the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership Business Improvement District and sponsored by Plymouth Gin and Brittany Ferries the festival is a...

Rockfish Blue Mile kick-starts Ocean City Festival

The Rockfish Blue Mile got Plymouth's 2015 Ocean City Festival off to a cracking start, with on-the-water action taking place off the Barbican and Hoe waterfront throughout the day on Saturday 5 September.

This was the fifth Plymouth Blue Mile and the first time with new sponsors Rockfish and charity partners, Plymouth-based The Shark Trust.

The day's events got under way in...

Leading literary lights lined up for International Book Festival

Bestselling authors Judy Finnigan, Simon Scarrow and Matt Haig will be among the leading literary lights appearing at the 2015 Plymouth International Book Festival.

Writer and musician John Hegley, Thurston Moore, co-founder of experimental rock band Sonic Youth, comedian and actress Helen Lederer, refugee campaigner Bidisha and whisky connoisseur Ian Buxton are also on the roster for...

A creative ensemble lands on the golden shores of St Ives this September!

St Ives September Festival’s 300+ artistic, theatrical and musical celebrations bring an eclectic close to the hazy days of summer.

Welcoming in the warm September autumn days in a creative seaside haven, the extensive St Ives September Festival is staged over two weeks, providing locals and visitors alike with a colourful array of artistic performances, literary recitals and musical...

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