Tuesday 28 February, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinksy Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dr Warwick, Reader in History of Art for Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, explores the key pictorial development of Renaissance art as an understanding of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The motif of the mirror within the painting would become a visual metaphor of the art and skill of painting, from Van Eyck’s Arnolfini portrait to Velazquez’s...
Monday 27 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. Out of ideas, he starts to recall major happenings in his life and all the women he has loved and left. An...
Monday 20 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim Running time: 106 minutes Cert: PG
In one of the most famous Hollywood openings, William Holden’s bankrupt screenwriter floats dead, face-down in the swimming pool of faded star of the silent screen, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), and starts narrating the story of his demise. With a cast that...
Tuesday 14 February, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinksy Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dr Lorenzo Pericolo, Associate Professor for History of Art at University of Warwick
Dr Lorenzo explores the life and work of Guido Reni (1575-1642). In the final years of his successful career, the Bolognese painter and compulsive gambler was swamped in debt. In contracting or reimbursing debts, he would offer his labour and work as guarantee of payment. The myriad of sketched-out...
Monday 13 February, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Dir: John Carpenter Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh Running time: 86 mins Cert: 15
“Listen….Do you hear the: voices coming through THE FOG? Listen….They’re calling for you. They deliver a message….”
They say…come and see The Fog…very specific for a ghostly voice! Mondo Monday is back for an immersive night of sea shanties, undead fishermen and spine...
Thursday 9 February, 19:00 The House, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
David Herd’s collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet), Outwith (Bookthug), and most recently Through (Carcanet, 2016). He is the author/editor of various critical works about American poets, including Contemporary Olson (Manchester University Press, 2015). His essay about the politics of human movement, ‘The View from Dover’, appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books in 2015, and he is co-organizer of The...
Tuesday 7 February, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
‘… even carrion crows sing love-songs.’
In ancient Greece and Rome designated ‘Augurs’ determined the ‘Auspices’, the will of the gods, by interpreting the flight patterns of birds. In Cirque des Oiseaux – ‘circus of the birds’ – Maria McManus offers a contemporary take on this ancient practice. Belfast-based poet, McManus is the author of We Are Bone, The Cello Suites, and Reading...
Saturday 4 February, 09:45-17:00 Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Informal performance: 16:00, free admission
Directed by Jonathan Hurdle and Jamie Dove
César Franck: Symphony in D minor
Orchestra players are invited to play and explore this 19th-century masterpiece and the only symphony composed by César Franck. The Belgian composer, best known as an organist and teacher, created this wonderfully colourful, romantic work in 1888 and it received its premiere at the Paris Conservatoire the following year.
Wednesday 1 February, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Acclaimed performer and choreographer Wendy Houstoun, returns to Plymouth in defiant form with new work, Pact With Pointlessness, a double act for one that mixes comedy, spoken word and performance. It offers a frank demonstration of how it feels to be knocked sideways by death, renegotiate and then carry on. It is an all or nothing kind of event. A do or die kind of affair.
Dr Sarah Chapman, Director of Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University
Malcolm Le Grice moved from painting into film and installation as a way of extending the experience and two dimensionality of the canvas. Join Dr Sarah Chapman, Director of Peninsula Arts, for an introduction into what is known as the expanded field of painting, alongside a look at the interplay between Le Grice’s ‘graphic works’ and moving image installations.
