For five days from 4th March until 9th March, Plymouth University will play host to a stunning and exciting sculpture. ‘Heaven Sent’, a sculpture by locally based artist, Simon Ruscoe, will be unveiled in the Levinsky Building on the main campus, standing on a plinth which will be specially designed to collect donations for NSPCC. At the same time a ‘not for profit’ crowd funding campaign will...
Tuesday 21 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 Terry, Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, is an expert in the Russo-German War and the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union. He is also interested in allied wartime knowledge of the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities. This talk is based on his current research on the history of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Saturday 18 February, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Running time: 105 minutes with a 20 minute interval
It’s 1966. The record player’s on, her hair’s bobbed and eye-lashes curled: for seventeen-year-old Susan, life is an adventure waiting to begin. But what happens next turns everything upside down. Step into the wordless world of Vamos Theatre for this bitter-sweet story of mistaken morals and broken hearts, 45s and beehives, where sexual revolution proves a hard and...
Monday 6 March, 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
Considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles Running time: 106 mins Cert: 15
A successful mod photographer in London is bored with what would now be seen as a ‘celebrity lifestyle’. Whilst photographing a couple embracing in the park, he discovers he may have captured a murder and he blows up his negatives,...
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...
