What's on events
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![<p>Musica Viva – Southbank Sinfonia<br></p>]()
Musica Viva presents Southbank Sinfonia
Musica Viva presents Southbank Sinfonia at the University of Plymouth. The concert features two deeply expressive and uplifting works of Beethoven: Symphony no.7 and Piano Concerto no.4.
4 February 2023 19:00 - 21:30
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![<p>Armada Maps, 1589. Courtesy of the National Museum of the Royal Navy<br></p>]()
The Armada Maps and other gems of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Collection
A Historical Association and University of Plymouth History Department talk with Louisa Blight, Head of Collections and Research, National Museum of the Royal Navy.
14 February 2023 19:00 - 20:20
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![<p>Film: Encounters at the End of the World <br></p>]()
Encounters at the End of the World (U)
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica, where he finds a desolate, beautiful landscape, largely untouched by human hands, and a group of truly unique people who risk their lives to study it.
20 February 2023 19:00 - 20:40
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![<p>CLIMAVORE Workshops: Touching Ground in Coxside<br></p>]()
CLIMAVORE Workshops: Touching Ground in Coxside
Within this workshop, participants will be led by Cally Barrett to discuss the heavy metal contamination within Blaxton Meadows, on the River Plym.
25 February 2023 12:00 - 15:00
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![<p>Dr Sarah Marden, Curator of Natural History at The Box, Plymouth cropped<br></p>]()
Bitesize: The Butterfly Effect: The life and relevance of the Lepidoptera collections at The Box
Dr Sarah Marden explores how butterflies are inspiring conversations and positive local action, creating small notes of hope in the climate emergency. Just as the Butterfly Effect suggests, the specimens we see at The Box are causing larger consequences.
1 March 2023 13:00 - 13:45
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![<p>Piotr Jaruga<br></p>]()
III Symfonia
'III Symfonia’ (Third Symphony) is a highly acclaimed dance performance by Janusz Orlki to the music of Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki. Watch live at the University of Plymouth.
1 March 2023 19:30 - 20:30
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![<p>Film: Agnès by Varda (15)<br></p>]()
Agnès by Varda (15)
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career.
6 March 2023 19:00 - 20:55
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![<p>Heidi Morstang, still from <i>Pseudotacylyte</i>, 2019<br></p>]()
Family Workshop – Creative Writing
This creative writing workshop for families begins with a visit to Heidi Morstang: Field Observations exhibition, followed by a story making and storytelling workshop.
11 March 2023 14:00 - 16:00
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![<p>David Bessell photo: Neil Fellowes<br>Trio Kurtag photo: Olivia da Costa<br></p>]()
New Music at Levinsky Hall
Join us for an exciting evening of works of our time - string trios of the 20th and 21st centuries - performed by the translucent London-based Trio Kurtag, and the premiere of a new composition commissioned by Musica Viva from David Bessell.
11 March 2023 19:00 - 21:30
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Mozart Requiem
University of Plymouth Choral Society Spring Concert.
11 March 2023 19:30 - 22:00
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![<p>Heidi Morstang, still from 47˚C <br></p>]()
47˚C and Pseudotachylyte (15)
Watch 47˚C and Pseudotachylyte, two documentaries directed by Heidi Morstang. Part of 'Heidi Morstang: Field Observations' exhibition.
13 March 2023 19:00 - 20:20
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![<p>Creative Commons<br></p>]()
Identity Politics and Memory Wars after 1989: Ukraine, Russia and Belarus
Identity Politics & Memory Wars after 1989: Ukraine, Russia & Belarus. A Historical Association & University of Plymouth History Department talk.
14 March 2023 19:00 - 20:20
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![<p>Professor Anthony Caleshu</p>]()
Bitesize: Heidi Morstang in Conversation with Anthony Caleshu
Join Heidi Morstang and Anthony Caleshu for an in-gallery discussion on poetry and place in films and writing from the Arctic.
15 March 2023 13:00 - 13:45
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![<p>Film: Wild (15)<br></p>]()
Wild (15)
Join us for Wild, a film based on the book Wild: Lost and Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.
20 March 2023 19:00 - 20:50
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A War of Words: Political Language and Political Identities in the Civil War
A Historical Association & University of Plymouth History Department talk based on 'a War of Words: Political Language and Political Identities in the Civil War'.
21 March 2023 19:00 - 20:30
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![<p>Bitesize: Woodland Restoration With Dr Thomas Murphy<br><br></p>]()
Bitesize: Woodland Restoration
Join Dr Thomas Murphy as he discusses the use of creative approaches to better understand, communicate and negotiate woodland restoration targets.
29 March 2023 13:00 - 13:45
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![<p>Jessica Lennan, Cyanotype, 2020<br></p>]()
Workshop: Cyanotype
Taking your inspiration from the exhibition Heidi Morstang: Field Observations make your own Cyanotype with guidance from artists Jessica Lennan and Heidi Morstang.
1 April 2023 12:00 - 14:00
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![<p>Jessica Lennan, Cyanotype, 2020<br></p>]()
Workshop: Cyanotype
Taking your inspiration from the exhibition Heidi Morstang: Field Observations make your own Cyanotype with guidance from artists Jessica Lennan and Heidi Morstang.
1 April 2023 15:00 - 17:00
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![<p>Heidi Morstang, Prosperous Mountain, 2014<br></p>]()
Heidi Morstang: Field Observations
Heidi Morstang: Field Observations presents selected films and photographic works, made since 2001, where landscape is the principal line of inquiry with the attempt to capture the various ways humans intervene with and in it.
11 February 2023 - 8 April 2023
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![<p>Helen Maybanks, Design by Matt Hodges<br></p>]()
Mama
Mama is the latest work from Olivier award winning choreographer Botis Seva. Watch the performance at the University of Plymouth.
10 May 2023 19:30 - 20:30
