In homage to Trevor Bell’s lifelong interest in Zen Buddhism yoga teacher Jodie Hansen – Yoga with Jodie – will guide us through a gentle yoga practice suitable for all abilities.
During each session, we will move through a gentle sequence, keeping a strong focus on tuning in and becoming present through movement and breath. Moving from the head into the body and using yoga as a tool for mindfulness and self-discovery.
Mats are provided or you can bring your own.
Dates: Thursday 26 April or Thursday 3 May or Thursday 17 May Time: 19:00-20:00 Ticket information:...
A selection of major works from the award-winning artist
Trans-Form presents a selection of major works spanning the last three decades of award-winning artist Trevor Bell’s career, including the most recent paintings and favoured works from the artist’s personal archive.
Along with other significant artists who were working in St Ives in the 1950s, Trevor Bell (1930-2017), helped establish British art on the international stage. He also spent 20 years living and working in America and showed work on both sides of the Atlantic.
Before we begin, we should warn you: This story ends with a dragon…
Seth Kriebel returns to Plymouth with Beowulf, an interactive performance-game inviting the audience to explore the world of a story from our legendary past… without leaving their seats.
Each show is unique, depending on the audience’s choices, bringing the world of the ancient epic to life… and asking why, after all these years, we still tell each other stories about the monsters that lurk in the dark.
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
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...
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
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
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival launch and talk
With talk by Dr Markus Schmidt, Director of Biofaction
Biofaction is a company based in Vienna, Austria, which conducts research and provides consultancy in the areas of emerging biotechnologies, art and science collaboration, and public communication of science.
A showcase of extraordinary new technologies and approaches to composition and performance that are pushing the boundaries of music
Decoding Life is the theme of this year’s festival, which celebrates the internationally renowned research combining music, engineering and the life sciences developed at Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).
Decoding Life proposes a weekend of musical allusions to human endeavours to understand, modify, simulate and even create life.
The annual Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture brings an exciting and local historical topic to life with visiting academics and historians coming to Plymouth every year.
A not to be missed for all history lovers.
Tickets: £6 (standard), £4.20 (concessions), Peninsula Arts Friends free/ Free to Plymouth University students via SPIA
