Louis de Witt's South African Blaxploitation crime film was one of the first films in the country to feature an all-black cast. In 1973, South Africa was in the grips of apartheid and after just two public screenings the film was banned by the government and not seen again for over forty years.
The film tells the story of a mysterious gangster who starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final. In the criminal underworld of soccer, only our eponymous hero Joe Bullet can save the championship.
As part of Plymouth Art Weekender, The Arts Institute will be screening work by Richard Broomhall, winner of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 and by Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, recipients of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 Prize.
Richard Broomhall is an artist who works with film, installation and photography. He begins with coastal locations where subsea fibre optics make landfall, exploring how the infrastructure of fibre optic networks inscribe and intertwine the politics of corporate and national power into landscapes and citizens’ bodies. The work constitutes...
In 1850, the Royal Academy elected the painter Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865) as its 7th President, who, like its first President, Sir Joshua Reynolds, hailed from Plymouth.
Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, the National Gallery’s senior research curator in the History of Collecting, will uncover key episodes of Eastlake's 15-year tenure as 'PRA', including a broadening of its membership to encompass engravers and women artists, and his attempts to promote the institution to the outside world, notably his invitation to the press to attend the annual Academy Dinner.
Join exhibition curator and artistic director of The Arts Institute Dr Sarah Chapman for an overview of Great Artists | Great Teachers exhibition, including why each of the artists were selected and the impact they have had on art education.
Wednesday 10 Oct Time: 13:00 – 13:45 Free admission
As part of the Great Artists | Great Teachers exhibition and 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, join us for In Conversation with Sir Michael Craig-Martin RA, and Dr Sarah Chapman, Curator and Artistic Director of The Arts Institute, exploring the special character, methodologies, and value of art education at every level.
Sir Michael studied Fine Art at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and, on completion of his studies in 1966 he moved to London, where he lives today. He had his first one-man...
Inaugural Reynolds Lecture with Christopher Le Brun
Join Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, who will deliver the inaugural lecture on this special opening night of Great Artists | Great Teachers. Christopher will give us an insight to the renewal and redevelopment of the Royal Academy for its 250th anniversary and beyond.
Christopher, a painter, sculptor and print maker was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts
Great Artists | Great Teachers brings together the work of some of the most significant artists/teachers working across the 20th Century and into the present. Selected as important artists in their own right, each of the artists are recognised as being hugely influential art teachers, helping to shape the direction of art education and inspiring the next generation of artists.
Featured artists: Anthony Caro, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Hamilton, Lubaina Himid, Janice Kerbel...
“If this is the future of dance, we’re in safe hands.” Evening Standard (on NYDC)
"They are strong, skilful and ready for anything" Daily Telegraph (on NYDC)
National Youth Dance Company bring their new work created by acclaimed 2018-19 Guest Artistic Director and recent Olivier Award nominee, Botis Seva.
Thirty eight of the UK’s best young dancers present a unique evening fusing contemporary dance, physical theatre and hip-hop. Botis Seva’s choreographic style combined with the young dancers’ energy and talent is set to produce an enthralling and...
Join us for the University of Plymouth Summer Concert on Thursday 23 May for an evening of musical delight, as students, staff and community members take to the stage to play a selection of popular pieces from Star Trek, My Fair Lady and French composer, Georges Bizet.
Featuring pieces for full orchestra and also for the string, woodwind and brass sections individually
Parting donations will be welcomed on the night in aid of concert costs.
Programme: Star Trek through the years Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 My Fair Lady selection Music for wind, strings and...
For over 100 years now, the cinematic medium has been used to spread a multitude of ideas, from the artistic through to the political. This is so ingrained in our culture that it can be difficult to imagine our lives without film, let alone how we might have felt when we first experienced its power.
In this haunting documentary, film-maker Mark Cousins visits a small Kurdish-Iraqi village and shows films to local children their first time. They are then given cameras to make their own films, and the resulting creations tell insightful stories of the magic, horror, and mundanity, of...
