The Arts Institute is delighted to launch our brand new Young Arts Pass.
If you are aged 18 and under, you can enjoy FREE access to selected exhibition events, films, music, performances and talks. From cutting-edge performances to fascinating historical talks, we have got you covered this season.
Professor Angela Wright marks the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the centuries since, Shelley’s story of human striving, scientific ambition and monstrosity has become one of the most enduring considerations of what it means to be human.
7pm. Tuesday 22 January. Theatre 2
Two couples; one liberal, one conservative. One progressive, one traditional. One faithless, one faithful. Call It a Day stems from a real meeting with a traditional Amish couple in the US on a freezing snowy day in January 2009.
Greg Wohead is a writer, performer and live artist specialising in theatre performances, one-to-one pieces and audio works.
7:30pm. Wednesday 6 February. The House
This season we are exploring landscapes with leading Photographer, Jem Southam, and have arranged a variety of films, talks and workshops to accompany his Exhibition: Birds, Rocks, Rivers, Islands.
Billy Casper suffers abuse both at home and at school. Billy appears headed for a menial job with no future and with no motivation and nothing to look forward to, until the day he finds a wild kestrel. He raises, nurtures, and trains the falcon and its wildness and beauty gives him a joy and hope that his life could be different.
7pm. Monday 11 February. Jill Craigie Cinema
Judy, an applied psychologist, will discuss the risk-taking behaviour behind the tragic turn of events, along with personal recollections of contemporary responses in Teignmouth, where Crowhurst sailed from in 1968.
7pm. Monday 25 Feburary. Jill Craigie Cinema
The London Mozart Players has developed an outstanding reputation for adventurous, ambitious programming, from Baroque works through to contemporary music. This exciting evening features three greatly contrasting works, accompanied by pianist and Music Director of The Arts Institute, Dr Robert Taub.
An informal pre-concert talk will take place at 19:00 led by Dr Taub with members of the London Mozart Players, to which everyone is invited, and a reception to meet the musicians will follow the performance.
7pm. Saturday 9 March. Minster Church of St Andrew
Shut Down explores the spectrum of modern-day masculinity and investigates the pressures, contradictions and confusions of being a man.
Directed by Charlotte Vincent, ‘one of the most important feminist artists working in Britain today’ (The Observer), Vincent Dance Theatre’s first ever all male production is humorous and highly charged political and poetic dance theatre. Dance, spoken word, rap and real-life testimony collide to ask: what is it like to live as a man today?
7:30pm. Wednesday 13 March. The House
Showing as part of our Celluloid Psychology film series, this dark fantasy about a young girl’s dreams that become populated by her drawings will be introduced by Dr Alastair Smith from the School of Psychology.
Alastair conducts research into the cognitive processes underlying drawing production. He will discuss how drawing abilities emerge in development and explore the relationship between meaning and appearance in children’s drawings.
7pm. Monday 25 March. Jill Craigie Cinema
In this illustrated talk, fashion historian Amber Butchart looks at the politics of dress and display through some of the 18th Century's key figures - from Casanova to Catherine the Great, and from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Marie Antoinette - to dissect how wealth and power were read on the body through attire, and how the Revolutionary Era brought about huge transformations in the way both men and women dressed.
Fashion historian and author, Amber is Associate Lecturer at the London College of Fashion. She works across cultural heritage, broadcasting and academia.
7pm. Tuesday 2 April. Theatre 2
The Arts Institute, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA
Book online 24 hours a day. For enquiries/ticket booking line - our phone lines are open between 13:00–17:00 Monday to Friday and are closed weekends and bank holidays.