Plymouth City Council in partnership with Sky and British Cycling are hosting weekly group cycling activities throughout the summer.
Sky Ride Local rides are fun, free community bike rides that offer a great way of getting out and exploring your local area and meeting like-minded people.
This is a Ride Easy ride - the easiest rides, slow-paced and traffic-free for all ages.
This ride is 3.3 miles long and starts close to the Life Centre. Join us on this gentle route, riding mostly on tarmac cycle paths at a steady relaxed pace as we explore the area around...
A great opportunity to enjoy a light-hearted but informative wine tasting led by local wine merchant, Charles Steevenson from Charles Steevenson Wines of Tavistock. Charles will guide you through a diverse selection of wines of intrigue from around the globe. With his wealth of knowledge he will de-mystify the complexities of the modern wine list, the influences of the principle grape varieties, key styles of production and offer guidance on food/wine pairing.
This will be followed by a delicious two-course meal by award-winning Food Dreckly who specialise in locally sourced food...
Deft, daft, delightful… and definitely Dickens! Written by one of England’s greatest authors, Great Expectations is the profound and complex story of Pip’s journey through life.
Some of his most memorable characters – the terrifying Magwitch, Joe Gargery the kind and generous blacksmith, the eccentric Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, Mr Jaggers the pompous lawyer and Pip’s wise friend, Herbert Pocket – are vividly brought to life in this anarchic and joyful telling of this glorious tale.
Using original words and speech (well, mostly!), Dave Mynne, Cornish...
Calstock Arts is delighted to announce a special preview concert by the Dante Quartet at The Old Chapel, in advance of their Summer Festival in July.
The concert entitled Dreams and Debussy provides an opportunity to sample the delights of the festival programme in advance. However, this performance comes with a bonus: prior to playing wonderful quartet music by Haydn, Kodaly and Debussy, the musicians will present a light-hearted pre-concert entertainment of solos and duets, including music by Mozart and Beethoven. This will begin at 7.15pm, leaving time to enjoy a glass of wine...
A welcome return to the Old Chapel for our local jazz duo Peter (piano) & Li (clarinet and sax) who are now a trio! They will be accompanying their guest singer Marianne. In addition to the well known and much loved jazz standards they will also present three new numbers that they each composed and performed for the “New Songs Jazz Café” during the successful 2012 Calstock Jazz and Blues Festival.
A relaxing and enjoyable evening guaranteed with their easy listening style of music.
Chatty atmosphere, free entry. This is a fund raising event to purchase some...
A remarkable double bill featuring two key figures from the British jazz scene.
Alan Barnes’ strong tone, assured improvisations and imaginative arranging technique have marked him out as one of the country’s top saxophonists and clarinetists, respected by audience, critics and fellow players alike. He has twice won the prestigious BBC Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year award.
In a remarkable achievement, David Newton was voted Best Jazz Pianist in the British Jazz Awards for the tenth time in 2011.
His partnership with Alan Barnes is legendary, with a strong...
Rising star Gabrielle Ducomble brings her sophisticated Gallic style to the UK jazz scene. With a range of styles from contemporary jazz to French popular song, she has performed in some of the UK’s leading jazz venues and is receiving much airplay on JazzFM.
Performing in English and her native French, her set will include tracks from her recent album “J’ai Deux Amours”, as well as giving a fresh interpretation to classic songs by Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astor Piazzolla, as well as the great American songbook.
A lively evening presented by music students from Plymouth University.
These exceptionally gifted and dedicated students will perform an eclectic range of songs including covers by Bombay Bicycle Club, Bill Withers, Joss Stone, David Bowie and Tracey Chapman, as well as performing their own compositions.
The students will be accompanied by their vocal coach Helen Porter on keyboard.
