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Arts & Culture
As the cultural centre of Devon and Cornwall there is always amazing art to cultural diversity around the city of Plymouth. Arts and culture fans can delight in the many events held within the city each year.
Choose from an abundance of cultural events and art festivals or head to a vintage festival or antique fair and revel in the music, fashion, film and art and design that Plymouth has to offer.
Plymouth plays host to a number of locally produced and nationally touring exhibitions throughout the year.
Venues such as Plymouth Arts Cinema, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art and The Arts Institute have a rolling programme of high quality shows on display. Admission to these exhibitions is usually free and all the venues are within a short walking distance from each other so it’s easy to visit more than one in a day.
The Box is currently closed for a major redevelopment, due to open in 2020 but is running an offsite exhibition programme across the city that highlight its collections, local history anniversaries and exciting visual arts projects. Venues such as Karst also have exciting and original gallery programmes. Take a look below for more information about what’s on display in the city over the next few months.
Check what art and cultural events we have coming up below.
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War of the Corners, an exhibition by Torsten Lauschmann
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Exhibition
Plymouth
At a time when populist and nationalist vocabularies have again re-surfaced, Torsten…
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Continuum: A Brush with Stroke | Exhibition by Paul Winter
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Arts and Culture
Plymouth
Don't miss this inspiring sci-fi & fantasy art exhibition at Devonport Guildhall by…
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Portrait Clinic
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Arts and Culture
Plymouth
Portrait Clinic is a weekly drop-in session where portrait artists of all abilities can…
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Exhibition: Slow Painting
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Exhibition
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
'Slow Painting' is an exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do…
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Talk Yourself Better
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Talk or Lecture
Plymouth
Comedy writer and journalist Ariane Sherine created and organised the Atheist Bus…
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Bite size: Slow knowledge: the pursuit of contemplative wisdom for a more sustainable world
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Talk or Lecture
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
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"Slow Knowledge - the pursuit of contemplative wisdom for a more sustainable…
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Plymouth Railway Circle: Richard Jones "50 Years with Heritage Railways"
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Talk or Lecture
Peverell, Plymouth
Richard reflects on the railways with which he has served through a photographic and…
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Fiction reading: Painter to the King
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Talk or Lecture
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
Amy Sackville is a British award-winning fiction writer and teacher of creative writing…
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Adult's bead necklace jewellery workshop - crystals + semi precious stones
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Arts and Culture
Plymouth
Let your hair down, relax and come play with beads!
You'll choose from hundreds of beads…
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Renewing Democracy, Renewing Society
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Talk or Lecture
Plymouth
Join us for a talk featuring Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA on 'Renewing…
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Dialogue: towards a community of praxis – Professor Robert Brown (Part of the Inaugural Professorial Lecture series)
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Talk or Lecture
Drake Circus, Plymouth
Re-examining the architectural and pedagogic practice
Our cities are sites of…
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Plymouth Railway Circle: February "Railway Impressions: Master Shots - Capturing the very best in Railway Images."
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Talk or Lecture
Peverell, Plymouth
Our photographic competition is taking a break this year, but our regular team of prize…
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Putin's Russia
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Talk or Lecture
Plymouth
'Putin's Russia' will be the topic for the first of the Plymouth Athenaeum's Winter…
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Eleanor Duffin: A Phantom Limb
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Exhibition
Plymouth
For this South West Showcase exhibition, Eleanor Duffin presents a new installation-based…
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Postbridge Challenge 2020
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Guided Walk
Yelverton
The route goes from Bellever Forest car park to Postbridge, Braddon Lake and Broad Down.…
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400 years on from the Mayflower: secularism in today's world
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Talk or Lecture
Plymouth
Come and hear Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK and President of Humanists…
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Talk: Parliament, women and the vote
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Talk or Lecture
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
A Historical Association and University of Plymouth history department talk
On 6…
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Make your own freshwater pearl + glass crystal bracelet jewellery workshop Plymouth
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Fashion
Plymouth
Tailor make your own freshwater pearl jewellery with Sadie. You will choose from a…
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Plymouth Railway Circle: "A Swiss Railway Evening with John Fissler"
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Talk or Lecture
Peverell, Plymouth
Our photographic John explains the NRLA (New Rail Links through the Alps) strategy and…
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Bite size:Moving from the desk, chatting by the photocopier: slower thinking in everyday academic practice
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Talk or Lecture
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
Like other academics, Associate Professor in Education Studies Dr Joanna Haynes, and Dr…
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Talk: Elite art, populism and the fate of criticism
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Talk or Lecture
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
As in politics there has been a large realignment of contemporary art, in which a…
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