The Arts Institute Plymouth

The Arts Institute Plymouth Our programme brings together diverse voices and ideas to create unforgettable experiences. For further information visit: www.plymouth.ac.uk/arts-institute

We offer a year-round calendar of events that inspire, challenge, and delight. Exhibitions | Talks | Films | Music | Performance | Events

Everyone is welcome! The Arts Institute operates from within the Faculty of Arts and serves as the arts and culture public programming organisation for Plymouth University. The year-round programme includes exhibitions, music, film, public lectures, and theatre

and dance/ performance. One of its principle aims is to provide access to a programme of wide-ranging high quality arts and cultural experiences, which is informed by the expertise, research and scholarship of the University and its partners, to the communities of Plymouth and the South West and visitors to the region. It’s easy to find us; just look for the University’s Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) in the centre of Plymouth, opposite the Drake Circus shopping mall.

Submergence is an immersive installation by Squidsoup () whose works pioneer the use of light, sound and technology.It h...
21/07/2025

Submergence is an immersive installation by Squidsoup () whose works pioneer the use of light, sound and technology.

It has been shown in over 70 spaces, events and festivals on six continents and is now on display in The Levinsky Gallery, within University of Plymouth's Roland Levinsky Building, until Saturday 9 August.

A series of workshops will also be held for autistic people. Although Submergence was designed as a playful experience, many neurodivergent people have reported feeling calmer, more focused and more engaged while experiencing it.

Professor Chris Bennewith, Executive Dean of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University, has worked with Squidsoup for many years and will co-deliver the workshops as part of ongoing research with Squidsoup founder Dr Anthony Rowe.

🔗 Full story in link in bio

Experience Submergence for yourself:

📆 28 June - 9 August 2025
📍 The Levinsky Gallery
🕓 Exhibition open Tues - Fri 10:00 - 16:00, Sat 12:00 - 16:00
🤫 Quiet hours Tues - Fri 10:00 - 11:00, Sat 12:00 - 13:00
🎟️ Free admission, no booking required.

📸 Credit: Lloyd Russell
📸 ID: people standing within Submergence, an immersive installation by Squidsoup, a grid of thousands of connected lights omitting a pink glow.


⚠️ Tonight's talk is SOLD OUT! ⚠️ If you have tickets and can no longer attend, please cancel your booking so we can off...
06/05/2025

⚠️ Tonight's talk is SOLD OUT! ⚠️

If you have tickets and can no longer attend, please cancel your booking so we can offer your ticket to someone else.

If you would like to attend and haven't got a ticket, please join the wait list on Eventbrite - link in bio.

🎤 The Rise of Na**sm after 1929 in Germany, presented by the History Association, Plymouth.
🗓️ Tue 6 May
⏰ 19:00
📍 Lecture Theatre, Roland Levinsky Building

🎭 Student-led Performance 🎭 We're proud to present a season of new works created, produced and performed by our talented...
02/05/2025

🎭 Student-led Performance 🎭

We're proud to present a season of new works created, produced and performed by our talented students

🎭 Destination Unknown
🎓 BA (Hons) Musical Theatre
📆 Wed 7 May
⏰ 19:30 - 21:30
📍 The House
🎟️ £5, free for UoP students and U18s

Set in the hustle and bustle of an airport lounge, this feel-good showcase follows a lively cast of characters as their stories unfold in unexpected directions. Packed with show-stopping choreography and smash-hit musical numbers, it's a witty, emotional and uplifting journey you won’t want to miss.

🎭 Are We Meeting The Criteria?
🎓 BA (Hons) Drama
📆 Tue 13 May
⏰ 19:00 - 21:00
📍 The House
🎟️ £5, free for UoP students and U18s

Join BA (Hons) Drama second-year students for an entertaining and informative* exploration of assessment in performing arts.

As audience members, you will be asked to determine how well the performers have scored against the (real!) criteria for their Performance Practice module.

How will you mark their efforts?
Will they meet the criteria?

(*Your experience may differ)

🎭 Machinal
🎓 BA (Hons) Acting
📆 19 - 31 May
⏰ 14:45 and 19:45
📍 The Drum
🎟️ From £12

"I'll not submit anymore… When I did what I did I was free! Free and not afraid... How can that be?"

Praised as a visceral, expressionistic masterpiece, Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 classic is given a new life by this dynamic young ensemble cast to tell the story of Helen Jones and her fight for freedom.

🎭 MayFest 2025
📆 Mon 19 - Sat 31 May
📍 The House
🎟️ Various

A celebration of theatre and performance presented by University of Plymouth Performance students, including:

⭐ Discovery Week: industry-led talks and workshops for aspiring actors and theatre-makers.
⭐ Plymouth Performance Weekend: supporting home-grown talent across theatre, comedy, music and performance.
⭐ MayFest Student Festival: an eclectic programme of performances created, produced and performed by students from the University of Plymouth.

See for programme and tickets.

"Cornwall is a part of England, and I’m not here to argue that fact geographically or politically. However, I can tell y...
01/04/2025

"Cornwall is a part of England, and I’m not here to argue that fact geographically or politically. However, I can tell you what it’s like to grow up in Cornwall and what it feels like to cross the Tamar” -



The Levinsky Gallery is delighted to present Kingdom, , Danny Fox’s first UK solo institutional exhibition featuring paintings that explore the complexities of Cornish identity, drawing on personal and historical narratives.

📅 12 April – 07 June
📍 The Levinsky Gallery
🎟️ Free admission

Don’t miss our curated programme of events:

🖼️ Exhibition tours every Tuesday at 11:00 and Thursdays at 14:00

🎤 30 April Bitesize: Painters and ‘the Canon’: the Image of the Artist, Past and Present

🎤 1 May Creative Talk: Danny Fox and Hannah Barry in Conversation

🎤 21 May Re-imagining Art History: Studio Notes with Danny Fox (UoP students only)

🎤 21 May Danny Fox Poetry Reading

📽️ 27 May Another Another World

See link in bio for all event details and tickets.

Supported by

The Poet, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 61 cm by Danny Fox. Photo credit: Steve Tanner.



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We are delighted to announce two events with HENRY DANIEL Professor Emeritus in Dance, Performance Studies, and New Medi...
30/01/2025

We are delighted to announce two events with HENRY DANIEL Professor Emeritus in Dance, Performance Studies, and New Media Technologies, on Wednesday 5 February – a Creative Talk open to everyone and a Research Roundtable for staff and postgraduate research students at University of Plymouth and Arts University Plymouth.

Henry Daniel (Professor Emeritus in Dance, Performance Studies and New Media Technologies) is a practitioner-researcher with a professional background in dance, theatre, and new media via a career that started in his native Trinidad & Tobago and continued in the USA, Germany, the UK, Canada and Mexico.

He has led and continues to lead advances in cultural knowledge by bringing to bear the perspectives and skills of the artist/scholar. Through his collaborations with researchers from the fields of science and engineering, he enables and contributes to technological innovation. As well, his ongoing preoccupation with issues of identity and diaspora and its roots in a colonizing process begun in the late fifteenth century allows him to engage with the issue of how contemporary bodies perform, and hence transform, their sense of place, space, and identity.

Creative Talk: Professor Emeritus Henry Daniel
Wednesday 5 February
13.00 - 14.00
The House Stage, University of Plymouth
Free, booking required. Everyone welcome.

Art & Design Research Roundtable
Wednesday, 5 February
15.00-17.00
The House Stage, University of Plymouth
Free, booking required. Open to all staff and postgraduate research students at University of Plymouth and Arts University Plymouth.

Tickets for both events via Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-talk-professor-emeritus-henry-daniel-tickets-1226265546259?aff=oddtdtcreator

Musica Viva Sinfonia Saturday 1 February 7pmLevinsky HallTickets £12, £10 conc. Free to all students and under 18sAs par...
30/01/2025

Musica Viva Sinfonia
Saturday 1 February 7pm
Levinsky Hall
Tickets £12, £10 conc. Free to all students and under 18s

As part of our 2024-25 Musica Viva season celebrating the works of the iconic composer Béla Bartók, this exciting concert features the new Musica Viva Sinfonia with Mark Forkgen conducting a unique programme of Purcell / Britten Chacony, Bach Piano Concerto in D minor (with Robert Taub, pianist) and the ground-breaking Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

"We are thrilled to highlight the inaugural concert of the Musica Viva Sinfonia! This is a world-class ensemble comprised of fabulous London-based musicians playing an exciting and varied programme. Do join us for this special performance!” - Dr Robert Taub, Director of Music, The Arts & Culture programme, University of Plymouth

This is the debut concert of our own ensemble - don’t miss your chance to book tickets. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/musica-viva-sinfonia-tickets-993661778127?aff=oddtdtcreator

SOAK celebrates multidisciplinary work by South West artists. Our next SOAK features a tantalising mix of performance ar...
29/01/2025

SOAK celebrates multidisciplinary work by South West artists. Our next SOAK features a tantalising mix of performance art, interspecies folk music, poetic dreaming, diagrams, existential yoga and anarchic punk alt-rock.

Expect new voices, of birds, of wonder, of dissent. From Tik-Tok movements to liminal explorations, anarchist pranks and drag to minimalist poetry and acoustic loveliness.
This is one not to miss!

New performances from:

Crab & Bee
Anna Ling
Jung Hee Borthwick
Andrew Martin
Noodlez
MC Happy
Spoils Collective

📅 Friday, 31 January 2025
🕡 Doors open: 18:30. Performance: 19:00–22:00
📍 The House, University of Plymouth University of Plymouth
🎟️ Tickets: £5 – £15 (FREE to UoP students on the door) UPSU

SOAK Live Art is curated and run by Sarah Blissett and Kerry Priest. This event is supported by The Bridge, University of Plymouth

📅 What's on December 📅 Talks, film and festive music coming up this month in the University of Plymouth arts and culture...
01/12/2024

📅 What's on December 📅

Talks, film and festive music coming up this month in the University of Plymouth arts and culture programme, presented by The Bridge and open to everyone.

🎤 📽️ December Listings 🎶 🎄

Last chance to see Bloomberg New Contemporaries at The Levinsky Gallery until 7 December.

2 Dec | Cinema Paradiso (1988)

3 Dec | AI Forensics: Drawing, Worlding and Listening to Images with Dr Eleanor Dare

4 Dec | Book launch: Rupturing Architecture by Dr Sana Murrani

5 Dec | Creative Talk: Siân Davey. Connecting to the Creative Self

5 Dec | University of Plymouth Carol Service

12 Dec | Creative Talk: Peter Oswald & Howard Gayton. Physical Theatre meets Verse Drama.

18 Dec | Magnificat

🎟️ Many events free to all or free to students UPSU

See website for tickets and full event details:

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/the-bridge/the-arts-and-culture-programme/whats-on

📕 Book Launch: Rupturing Architecture Join us for the launch of Dr. Sana Murrani’s latest book, 'Rupturing Architecture:...
28/11/2024

📕 Book Launch: Rupturing Architecture

Join us for the launch of Dr. Sana Murrani’s latest book, 'Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023' (Bloomsbury, 2024)

This compelling work captures a broad spectrum of spatial responses to trauma and presents a fresh perspective on how ordinary Iraqis create refuge across the spaces of the home, the urban environment, and border geographies.

📅 Wednesday 4 December
🕔 18:00 – 19:30
📍 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
🎟️ Free, booking required

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/rupturing-architecture-book-launch

🤖✏️ AI Forensics: Drawing, Worlding and Listening to ImagesIn this talk and workshop, Dr Eleanor Dare will explain the r...
28/11/2024

🤖✏️ AI Forensics: Drawing, Worlding and Listening to Images

In this talk and workshop, Dr Eleanor Dare will explain the role of drawing, worlding, listening to images in AI foresnsics, while audiences create and listen to their own images.

📅 Tuesday 3 December
🕔 16:00 – 17:30
📍 Room 206/207, Roland Levinsky Building
🎟️ Free, booking required

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/ai-forensics-drawing-worlding-and-listening-to-images

Photo credit: Eleanor Dare

🎬 Cinema Paradiso (1988) Join us for a screening of Cinema Paradiso, a heartwarming tale of friendship, love, and the ma...
28/11/2024

🎬 Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Join us for a screening of Cinema Paradiso, a heartwarming tale of friendship, love, and the magic of cinema. This Oscar-winning classic captures the power of film to bring people together and the bittersweet nostalgia of growing up.

Presented as part of our Celluloid Psychology series with an introduction from BabyLab scientist Alvise Rogers on the importance of young children's imagination and role models.

📅 Monday 2 December
🕔 19:00 – 21:00
📍 Jill Craigie Cinema
🎟️ £6 / £4 concessions / Free for students

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cinema-paradiso-1988-tickets-993430747107

📅 What's on November 📅 Music, talks, theatre, film and more in the University of Plymouth's arts and culture programme,...
01/11/2024

📅 What's on November 📅

Music, talks, theatre, film and more in the University of Plymouth's arts and culture programme, presented by The Bridge and open to everyone.

🎶🎤 November Listings 🎭 🎞️

4 Nov | America Decides: The 2024 Presidential Election 📸
5 Nov | United Irish Fears and French Invasion
7 Nov | Creative Talk: Huda Tayob
9 Nov | Kleio Quartet 📸
18 Nov | Amadeus (1984)
20 Nov | Is Anybody There? 📸
21 Nov | Creative Talk: Laura Kazaroff 📸
23 Nov | University of Plymouth Orchestra
25 Nov | Planet Ocean: X Trillion (2024) 📸
26 Nov | Folk Religion and the Chinese Communist Party in the Mao Era (1949-1976) 📸
27 Nov | Theatre is Dead - Long Live Theatre!

🔗 see link in bio for tickets and full details of all our upcoming events.

🎟️ FREE and discounted tickets for students, see individual event listings.

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