Plymouth

A fin-tastic day for young Plymouth carers

To celebrate this year’s Young Carers Day on Thursday 25 January, the National Marine Aquarium was pleased to host a special visit for a group of young carers from Plymouth.

An annual event, Young Carers Day recognises the incredible contribution of 700,000 young people across the UK who provide valuable care and support and is promoted by the Carers Trust.

The National...

6-a-side football in Plymouth

Are you looking to set up your own team and play small-sided football in your local area?

Leisure Leagues are operating in Plymouth, at Devonport High School, Paradise Street. We're on the lookout for new players and teams to join our huge network and community.

With over 184,000 Leisure Leagues games played per year, we're the largest and best provider of casual football in...

Plymouth 6 a side Football

Are you looking to set up your own team and play small-sided football in your local area?

Leisure Leagues are operating in Plymouth, at Devonport High School, Paradise Street. We're on the lookout for new players and teams to join our huge network and community.

With over 184,000 Leisure Leagues games played per year, we're the largest and best provider of casual football in the UK, and in Europe.

https://www.leisureleagues.net/league/devonport-high-school/plymouth-sunday

There is a Monday league too.

https://www.leisureleagues.net/league...

Growing Business and Employment at Plymouth’s Dry Stack Marina

A thriving Plymouth boatyard which is home to the UK’s largest “Indoor Marina” is seeing its on-site businesses expand and flourish, providing local employment opportunities in the marine trades.

Yacht Haven Quay in Plymstock is the base for a variety of growing marine businesses. Lewis Marine, an inboard and outboard marine engine sales and service company, has just declared a full...

Help is on hand for a New Year and a brand new you

Drake Circus is holding its popular Wellness Week from January 22, with health experts and fitness gurus on hand with the latest tips on getting in shape.

There will be free interactive events in the main atrium including eye tests and healthy living advice, beauty demonstrations and detox suggestions to help everyone feel great in 2018.

The week of wellness also includes free...

Rare ice formation spotted at National Trust’s Buckland Abbey

Hair ice, a rare type of ice formation, was spotted at Buckland Abbey recently. This formation is where the presence of a particular fungus in rotting wood produces thin strands of ice which resemble hair or candy floss.

Area ranger, James Robbins, says: ’I am very excited to have come across hair ice on the estate and to photograph this rare weather phenomenon. The conditions...

Music: Resounding Seizures

Research Concert

ICCMR post-graduate research student Alan D Miles used electrical brain signals recorded during epileptic seizures to compose Resounding Seizures. A cinematic piece of electronic music, the composition attempts to capture and explore the experiences of epilepsy.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/resounding-seizures

Music: Life Music

Research Performance

Colours of Life and Fiction (for marimba and viola): Richard Abbott Arecibo (for marimba): Alexis Kirke Queen Canute (clarinet and electronics): Núria Bonet

While Abbott explored the relationship between colours and sounds to write Colours of Life and Fiction inspired by the River Dart in Devon, Kirke composed Arecibo with DNA information sent from Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory to a distant star constellation in search for extra-terrestrial life. Bonet’s Queen Canute explores the musical structures that can be found in animal behaviour in a duet for...

Music: Decoding Life with Ensemble Bash

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Gala Concert

Reptile Rhythms: Duncan Williams Life-force: Archer Endrich Babbling Baobab: Marcelo Gimenes Artibiotics: Eduardo R Miranda

Join the phenomenal percussion group Ensemble Bash for the premiere of extraordinary new music by ICCMR composers, Williams, Gimenes and Miranda, plus 2018’s guest composer and music technology pioneer, Archer Endrich.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

£10/£7/ Peninsula Arts Friends free

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/decoding-life-with-ensemble-bash

Music: Algoshorts 2018 Film Fest

The second edition of the world’s first public fest of short fiction films on the topic of algorithms presents a number of short films from around the world including the first screening of Alexis Kirke’s Decode here, a film about the potential effects of online political populism on mental health.

Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Free admission, booking advised

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/algoshorts-2018

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