Local Studies Day celebrates the history of Plymouth and surrounding area. Together with a full day programme of presentations there are exhibitions on local history and book stalls. Features include the Vikings, the Cattewater Wreck, revolt and taxation 1550-1640, war graves and film of Plymouth Blitz.
Further details and tickets available from February, visit www.plymouthmuseum.gov.uk
Nigel Overton, Curator City & Maritime Heritage, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
Nigel introduces us to a number of people from the early days of photography: Henry Fox Talbot and his photographs of Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth, and pioneering photographers such as Linnaeus Tripe, Robert Hunt and Richard Beard, all of whom were from Devonport.
The photographs they took, and evidence from the numerous Union Street photographic studios, provide a fascinating glimpse into the local and social history of the ‘Three Towns’, and the growing fashion for photography...
Sex and the City: Rethinking the Victorians series
Passions Between Women in Victorian Britain
Join the distinguished historian of gender and sexuality, Dr Lesley Hall, as she explores the fascinating subject of romantic friendship between women in the Victorian period. Were passions between women deemed appropriate only in adolescence, to be superseded by marriage, or were things rather different in reality?
Dr Hall’s talk will examine the stories of women who loved and were loved by other women in 19th-century Britain, which reveal a more varied account than the...
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.
By Katy Richardson Performed with Imperfect Orchestra
In 2000, Dilys Richardson anonymously sent her eldest granddaughter Katy her 1949 wedding dress, then later, a journal containing memories of her early life.
Based on these sources, Katy Richardson (artist and performer), and Imperfect Orchestra (Home 2013, Tamar 2014) present Relic, an immersive visual, auditory and musical performance exploring themes of deterioration of memory and identity.
'Relic' is supported by the Suzanne Sparrow Plymouth Language School.
Music by Paul K Joyce Poems by Johnnie Douglas-Pennant
Ten Tors Chamber Orchestra Simon Ible, conductor Paul K Joyce, synthesizers/sounds and narration Sarah Simmonds, soprano Helen Porter, mezzo-soprano Billy Bottle, male voice Will McNicol, acoustic guitar Simon James, sound Graham Gaunt, film/projections Chris Watson, sound recordist
Celestial is a moving and uplifting collage of songs, words and projections created by composer, Paul K Joyce. This new work is inspired by the childhood poems of Johnnie Douglas-Pennant, many of which show him struggling to come to terms...
Christopher Fox: Magnification Scott Mc Laughlin: Snowflake Michael Finnissy: Same as we Nicholas Peters: Scantlebury
Juliet Fraser performs Voice(s), a programme for soprano and electronics that exploits the technology of pre-recorded tape parts and live manipulation to explore the interior worlds of memory, dreamings and identity. The central piece of the programme is Nicholas Peters' Scantlebury which sets his Grandad's spoken reminiscences of all the characters in his family, who were from Devonport, Plymouth, to music (?).
Come and enjoy an evening of chamber music for strings and a delicious supper in the Cornish village of Botus Fleming. Funds raised will support Ten Tors Orchestra’s 2016/17 concert series.
The ensemble will perform popular music by Mozart and Handel and the famous Monti Czardas.
Please note this event is not a part of the Peninsula Arts programme. For more information, please contact the event organisers directly.
1 hour performance followed by buffet supper
Wednesday 25th May at 19.00
Tickets: £20 (includes buffet) in advance only from Karen Ible:...
