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Art Review: Lagoon West

Tuesday 23rd June 2015

Matthew Houlding’s Lagoon West is at Plymouth Arts Centre until July 18.

Lagoon West is an exhibition that doesn’t believe in playing coy. Big, bold and ambitious, it is, in every sense … Continue Reading

Film Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Tuesday 16th June 2015

Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At … Continue Reading

My Experiences Volunteering at Plymouth Arts Centre

Wednesday 3rd June 2015

Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK – and it’s taking place from the 1-7 June 2015.

We would like … Continue Reading

Work Experience with an Art History Student

Wednesday 13th May 2015

As part of my Art History degree at Plymouth University, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to take a module that included a work experience placement. As … Continue Reading

SENSEability Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery at Victoria Sewart Gallery

Thursday 7th May 2015

SENSEability is a touring exhibition which has been to Munich, Victoria Sewart Gallery now have the pleasure of showing it in … Continue Reading

When the Waters Recede: an exhibition of research at Plymouth Arts Centre

Wednesday 6th May 2015

Artist Emma Critchley talks us through the making of her exhibition, which is at Plymouth Arts Centre until 10 May

On 20 January 1607, in the … Continue Reading

Film Viewing is ‘Intense’ Experience for School

Thursday 23rd April 2015

A group of students from Stoke Damerel Community College have attended a screening of the Oscar-nominated film Selma as part of the … Continue Reading

Art Review: Everything Made Bronze

Wednesday 8th April 2015

Ellard and Johnstone’s Everything Made Bronze is showing at Plymouth Arts Centre until 10 May.

It is a very contemporary dilemma: how to take art from a passive experience … Continue Reading

Alzheimers on film: Still Alice.

Tuesday 24th March 2015

https://youtu.be/ZrXrZ5iiR0o

Emily Jones from the Alzheimer’s Society reviews Still Alice and the changing face of Alzheimer’s in our culture.

Still Alice powerfully captures the personal journey of dementia and it is rare to … Continue Reading

Film Review: Selma

Tuesday 17th March 2015

Review of Civil Rights Movement film Selma, showing in Plymouth Arts Centre Cinema from 20-26 March.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic

This past month has seen the 50th anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery marches, a landmark … Continue Reading

Artists in Empty Spaces

Wednesday 4th March 2015

By Vickie Fear

In February I was invited to take part in a panel discussion at Plymouth College of Art on the topic of artists accessing empty spaces in Plymouth. … Continue Reading

Fifty Shades of Grey: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Tuesday 24th February 2015

https://youtu.be/SfZWFDs0LxA

Plymouth Arts Centre film programmer Anna Navas considers issues of feminism, domestic abuse and freedom of speech in Fifty Shades of Grey.

Well, I have done it. I paid my money … Continue Reading

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