Elaine Chalus, Professor of British History, Bath Spa University
Elaine Chalus’ research expertise lies in English social and political history during the long 18th century. Her current research project is on ‘The Admiral’s Wife: An Intimate History of Family, Navy and Empire’, which draws upon the largely unknown diaries of Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778-1857), and the letters and correspondence of the larger Fremantle (Barons Cottesloe) family. Her lecture is drawn from this project, and examines the separation of husband and wife during the Napoleonic Wars.
Simon Ible, conductor Laura Mitchell, soprano Angela Simkin, mezzo-soprano Ross Scanlon, tenor Christopher Cull, baritone
Pergolesi: Magnificat in B flat major Mozart: Missa Brevis No.2 in D minor
Plus carols for audience participation
Archbishop Colerado of Salzburg liked his masses short and composed in a simple direct musical style. Mozart produced for him a glorious and delightful miniature. You can hear in Pergolesi’s Magnificat the early stylistic traits which were to grow into the classical style, and which would one day, albeit retrospectively, be called...
Choose your path through an imagined world... or perhaps your neighbour will choose for you. Without leaving your seat, you - or most of you, anyway - can go anywhere. But don’t worry. Life is full of second chances.
Explore a new interactive performance from the creator of The Unbuilt Room.
Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.
Wednesday 2 December 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper sticks it to The Man/weird capitalist space aliens in Mr Jon Carpenter’s stone cold classic. This will appeal to those those who felt that what was missing from Invasion of the Body Snatchers was an unnecessarily long fist fight in an alley and for anyone who appreciates the subtle nuance and raw emotion that only a professional wrestler can bring to a screen performance.
Monday 30 November 2015 | 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Tickets: £6.60 | £4.50 concessions | Free to Peninsula Arts Friends
A diverse and exciting show that reflects the rich variety of postgraduate masters level work, undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Showcasing an array of ideas, methods and approaches, this exhibition invites you to explore and enjoy bookworks, creative writing readings, film and video, paintings, photographs, sculpture and 3D design, all by exhibiting students. Come and immerse yourself in their creative world.
Graduate work is exhibited from architecture; contemporary art practice; creative writing; digital arts and technology; photography; publishing;...
The Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth is based at the Royal Navy Initial Training Establishment, HMS Raleigh, in Torpoint, Cornwall. Performing at Plymouth University gives the band a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate its versatility in the concert band idiom with some outstanding soloists, big band jazz ensemble, and contemporary symphonic wind band compositions, as well as giving an insight into a career in military music.
Saturday 28 November 2015 | 19:30 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Free admission:...
A performative gesture inspired by iconic queer artist, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman. Temporal orientations arise and fall away as one artist traces the origins of Jarman’s brilliant queerness. Performed by force/collision’s Founding Director John Moletress with a text by OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich, Jarman explores spatial relationships between live performance and media.
Wednesday 25 November 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Simon Barton, Professor of History, University of Exeter
Simon Barton works primarily on the political, social and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period. He has published extensively on the aristocracy, chronicles and chroniclers, and Christian-Muslim relations, especially with regard to the peninsula crusading movement and the activities of Christian mercenaries in Muslim Iberia and North Africa. The topic of this evening’s lecture is based on his recent book, Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval...
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward, Clare Sutcliffe.
14 year old Wynne (Jenny Agutter, two years before Walkabout) is a schoolgirl who lives with a foster family and is inseparable from her friend Corinne (Sutcliffe). Wynne has crush on her older foster brother George who she suspects may be the man killing local young girls. Agutter is superb as Wynne, poised and intelligent at times and woefully ill-equipped at others, in this often overlooked classic...
Dr Santanu Das, Reader in the Department of English, King’s College London
India joined WW1 as part of the British empire, contributing nearly one and half million men, including 900,000 combatants and 600,000 non-combatants, who served in places as far-flung as France, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Egypt and the Far East.
Drawing from archives in Europe and India – letters, diaries, original sound-recordings from German POW camps, photographs, paintings, and literary representations by both British and Indian writers – this lecture will investigate the Indian war...
