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Peninsula Arts
January – March Programme 2009
Exhibitions
Performance
Music
Public Lectures
Dance
Poetry
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Above: art 2 day, Schools exhibition
Front cover Top: Salt Itinerary, Miso Ensemble
Bottom: Adam Benjamin
Welcome
The new Peninsula Arts season of exciting and unusual events focuses primarily on the theme of Arts and
Science.
The literature and science series of public lectures unveils the poetry of the distinguished Cornish scientist Sir
Humphry Davy and Paul Broks questions the Sense of Self through both neuroscience and creative writing.
Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Show, promoted in partnership with Plymouth Libraries is a celebration of
National Science and Engineering Week for children and families. This is a great and fun way to learn and enjoy the
wonderful world of science.
Central to the programme and an annual headline is the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival. The 2009
festival titled Music & Evolution – 200 years of Darwin responds to the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin’s
Origins of Species. World premieres include The Beagle by Michael Stimpson and Darwin’s Barnacle, a new opera
by Karen Wimhurst. As the Peninsula Arts composer-in-residence her work is also featured in a new choral
piece of We Breathe Trees performed by the University of Plymouth Choral Society.
The Peninsula Arts Gallery hosts Disposable People, a Heywood Touring photographic exhibition responding to
human rights issues and Animal Gaze – an exhibition that explores the complex relationships between animals
and humans.
The history series ranges from the British Museum Mummy Curse to The Holocaust in post-war British culture. This
year’s Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture welcomes Dame Olwen Hufton to speak about Gender and the
Jesuits.
Contemporary dance brings to Plymouth the internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant. He will
join Adam Benjamin in an event titled Holding Forth.
… and if you want to celebrate St Valentine’s Day in style the Ten Tors Orchestra are presenting a special
concert at the Guildhall, Plymouth on 14 February.
This is a selection of the January to March programme from Peninsula Arts, the public arts programme of the
University of Plymouth.
Simon Ible
Director, Peninsula Arts
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Exhibition
Saturday 10 January – Saturday 21 February 2009
Monday – Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday 11.00am – 4.00pm
Disposable People
Contemporary Global Slavery
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Roland Levinsky Building
Disposable People is a Hayward Touring exhibition and features the work of 8 internationally renowned
Magnum photojournalists, all of whom have a strong commitment to human rights issues and explore through
their work aspects of slavery in the world today. Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph ABP.
Associated 1 day symposium, further details on the website.
The photographers:
Abbas – documenting child labour in Bangladesh
Ian Berry – examines the effects of international trade rules on farmers in Ghana
Stuart Franklin – exploring chattel slavery in Sudan
Jim Goldberg – documenting the trafficking of young people from Eastern Europe
Susan Meiselas – investigating the conditions of Indonesian women working in Singapore as domestic servants
Paolo Pellegrin – documenting Haitian ‘Restaveks’ (child slaves)
Chris Steele-Perkins – documenting South Korean women who were held as sex slaves by the Japanese in
World War II and are still seeking restitution
Alex Webb – photographing Haitian cane workers held in organised bonded labour in the Dominican Republic
FREE Admission
A Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos.
The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England, MTV Europe Foundation, Christian Aid and
Concern Worldwide.
Right: Bitter Toil: Haitian Sugar Workers in the Dominican Republic, 2007 Courtesy and © of Alex Webb/Magnum Photos
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Exhibition
Friday 16 January – Friday 30 January 2009
Saturdays by appointment
Schools Exhibition
Cube3 Gallery, Portland Square Building
A celebration of A’ Level and Foundation Students Artwork
This exhibition provides the opportunity to show some of the young
students potential emerging from Plymouth Schools. This is the first
time it has been possible to collectively exhibit an innovative and
exciting collection in central Plymouth.
FREE Admission
Plymouth Chamber Music Trust
Music
Saturday 17 January | 7.30pm
Plymouth Chamber Music Concerts
Flotilla Saxophone Quartet
Upper Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre
Above: Flotilla Saxophone Quartet
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Johnson Morthenson Evernden Zelenka Dove Mcguire Mcguire Carter O Vos
Chorale
Three Songs for Sajmište
Trio Sonata
Tuning In
Remembrance
Celtic Knotwork
Canonic Work
Tickets: £16 (£8 students/registered unemployed)
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Email: [email protected]
Music
January 2009 – June 2009
Contemporary Piano Series
January 2008 sees the launch of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Piano Series, a collection of performances
which showcases the astonishing flexibility of the piano – matchless amongst acoustic instruments in its
expressive range and evocative ability. This series involves performers and composers of international repute
such as Ian Pace, Frank Denyer and Michael Finnissy. Our innovative programme finds Beethoven pastorals
sharing the platform with ‘Hyper-Complexity’; pianists performing with sine wave generators; a premiere of a new
piece for dual pianos; as well as favourites by Debussy and Phillip Glass.
Ian Pace with Michael Finnissy The Pastoral | Wednesday 28 January 2009
Ian Pace Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2009 | Sunday 1 March 2009
Catherine Laws Piano and Electronics | Wednesday 18 March 2009
Sam Richards Improvisation, Impression, Composition | Wednesday 1 April 2009
Mike McInerny Evil Insects | Wednesday 6 May 2009
Frank Denyer and Catherine Laws Two Pianos | Wednesday 17 June 2009
In association with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research.
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Tickets £5 (£3 over 60s) per events
Special Offer: £25 for all events in series (£15 over 60s)
Free for Friends Plus, and UoP students and staff
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Music
Wednesday 28 January 7.00pm Pre-concert Talk
7.30pm Performance
The Pastoral
Ian Pace with composer Michael Finnissy
Described as ultra-deft (The Sunday Times), pianist Ian Pace will perform works based on the theme The Pastoral,
including Beethoven-transcribed Franz Liszt, and Michael Finnissy’s English Country Tunes. Finnissy himself will
provide a half-hour pre-concert talk. This is a rare opportunity to see two contemporary music figures of
international importance.
Tickets £5 (£3 over 60s)
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Dance
Monday 2 February | 7.30pm
Choreographic conversations
Theatre Lecture 1, Roland Levinsky Building
A lecture demonstration with Russell Maliphant and
Adam Benjamin.
‘...with holding’ an improvisation by Russell Maliphant and
Adam Benjamin.
Holding (choreographed work in progress)
Commissioned by DanceUnited and Sadlers Wells Choreographed by Russell Maliphant & Adam Benjamin.
Danced by Junaid Jemal Sendi and Addisu Demissie from the Adugna
Dance Theatre in Addis Abbaba
Holding forth
An open discussion with the two choreographers and the dancers
about the creation of the duet Holding, the role of improvisation in the
creative process, and the story behind the work.
www.dance-united.com
Russell Maliphant
Internationally acclaimed choreographer and Olivier Award winner, he
danced with the Royal Ballet, DV8, Sylvie Guillem and The Ballet Boys
‘Elements of extraordinary beauty – this piece is smooth and
flowing with lighting worthy of Caravaggio.’ Figaro (Transmission)
Adam Benjamin
Founder joint artistic director of CandoCo Dance Company (1991/8).
He is a Rayne Fellow and lectures in Theatre and Performance at
University of Plymouth. He performs with 5 Men Dancing
‘An extraordinary example of integrated dance.
Darkly lyrical, epic yet intimate.’ The Times (Angels of Incidence)
FREE event
Adam Benjamin
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Poetry
Wednesday 4 February | 6.30pm
Mark Ford
Lecture Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building
Mark Ford is the author of two acclaimed collections of poetry:
Landlocked (Chatto, 1992) and Soft Sift (Faber, 2001), as well as the
definitive biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel (Faber,
2000). He has edited the poems of various post-war American
poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbery, and
is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and London
Review of Books. He is Professor of English at University College,
London.
Mark Ford
Herold String Quartet
Music
Saturday 7 February | 7.30pm
Plymouth chamber music concerts
Haydn Smetana Sluka Janacek String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 Lark
String Quartet No. 2 in D minor
String Quartet No. 4
String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters
Tickets: £16 (£8 students/registered unemployed) From Alice Li
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Music
Saturday 7 February | 10.00 – 4.00pm
String Orchestra Workshop
Tchaikovsky goes to the Barber
Come and play two of the most popular string pieces
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings Op. 11
“You never are in any doubt about what this piece is about. There’s a
kind of sadness and poetry about it. It has a melodic gesture that reaches
an arch, like a big sigh...and then exhales and fades off into nothingness.”
Barbara Heyman
Above: P I Tchaikovsky &
Samuel Barber
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings Op. 48
“The larger the string orchestra, the better will the composer’s desires be
fulfilled.” P I Tchaikovsky
University of Plymouth Orchestra Workshop
Directed by Jonathan Hurdle
FREE Admission
Below: Sir Humphry Davy
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Public Lecture
Literature and Science Series
Poetry and Science: The Case of Humphry Davy
Sharon Ruston, Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature
and Culture, University of Salford
Coleridge wrote that Sir Humphry Davy ‘would have established himself in
the first rank of England’s living poets, if the Genius of our country had not
decreed that he should rather be in the first rank of its philosophers and
scientific benefactors’. Davy is known today as a chemist and the inventor
of the miner’s lamp (or Davy lamp) yet he was also a poet. This talk focuses
on the Penzance-bred chemist and poet, and considers the link between
literature and science at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Free for Friends Plus, and UoP
students and staff
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Music
Ten Tors Orchestra
The Guildhall, Plymouth
St Valentine’s Day Concert
Simon Ible Evalina Puzaite conductor
piano
Rossini Barber Schumann Beethoven Tancredi Overture
Adagio for Strings
Piano Concerto in A minor
Symphony No.7 in A minor
The perfect start to a Valentine’s Day concert, the Ten Tors Orchestra
launch into this exciting evening with Rossini’s wonderful Tancredi
Overture. Regarded as one of the most famous pieces of the 20th
Century, Barber’s Adagio for Strings is followed by Schumann’s only
piano concerto. The evening is brought to a close with Beethoven’s
Symphony No.7 in A minor, described by Wagner as the apotheosis of
the dance
Tickets £17 (£15 Friends of Ten Tors Orchestra and Peninsula Arts,
£5 children and students)
Available from Peninsula Arts and Plymouth Pavilions Tel 0845 146 1460
or online at wwwplymouthpavillions.com or Peninsula Arts Box
Office.
Photo courtesy of George Harvey
Evalina Puzaite
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Public Lecture
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE SERIES
The British Museum Mummy Curse:
A Fantasia
Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary
Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
In 1899 a mummy lid was presented to the British Museum by the Douglas
Murray family. For thirty years it had allegedly caused fatality and misfortune
to all who encountered it, and it continued to exercise its malignant powers
in the British Museum, becoming the subject of rumours and folk-lore in
London. Long before Tutankhamen, then, the English were fantasizing about
mummy curses and supernatural vengeance. The lecture will trace the
reasons for a concentration of curse stories at the turn of the century.
Music
Above: Tutankhamen
students and staff
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Below: Jakob Fichert
JAKOB FICHERT piano
OLIVER COATES cello
ANNA DENNIS mezzo-soprano
Janacek
Debussy Loeffler Langer Grieg Saariaho Brahms Berlioz Pohadka
Clinq Poemes de Baudelaire
Quatre Poemes
Songs after poems by Danill Kharms
Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 nos 1,4,5,& 6
Changing Light
Two Songs, Op. 91
La Captive
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Public Lecture
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE SERIES
The Self in Science,
Philosophy and the Arts
Paul Broks, Neuropsychologist, author and playwright,
University of Plymouth
The human brain - 1.4 kilograms of jellified fats, proteins, sugars and
salts - is a physical object. How can this lump of material produce
conscious experience, and how does the brain construct a sense of
self? Neuropsychologist, author and playwright Paul Broks has been
exploring such questions through both science and creative writing.
Drawing on his recent work in theatre and film, he argues that ‘The
Self’ represents a point of convergence between science and art.
Free for Historical Association
members, Friends Plus and UoP
students and staff
Below: Fascism movement
Paul Broks
students and staff
Public Lecture
Tuesday 24 February | 6.30pm
History Series
The Occult Roots of Nazism:
Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence
on Nazi Ideology
Prof. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, University of Exeter
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In his lecture, Professor Goodrick-Clarke, Director of the Exeter University
Centre for the Study of Esotericism, traces an important strand of Nazi ideology
back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg
Empire during its waning years. These sects combined notions of defensive
German nationalism with an advocacy of Aryan racism and German worldrule. Over time their ideas and symbols came to exert a certain influence on
Himmler’s SS. The fantasies were played out with terrifying consequences in the
realities structured by the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
Peninsula Arts Contemporary
Music Festival 2009
Music & Evolution – 200 years of Darwin
Friday 27 February – Sunday 1 March
Friday 27 February | 5.30pm
Festival Launch and Fragility of Flight
Exhibition
Festival Directors Simon Ible, Director of Peninsula Arts, and Eduardo
Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, University of Plymouth.
Peninsula Arts presents one of the UK’s most innovative festivals of
contemporary music with three days of performances and premieres
of the latest in contemporary classical music, by internationallyrenowned performers including the Maggini String Quartet.
This year’s festival responds to the evolutionary writings of Charles
Darwin’s Origin of Species, Darwin the man and socio-political
responses to his theories.
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The festival showcases computer music research and new creative developments in evolutionary music at the
As Plymouth was the port from which Charles Darwin and HMS Beagle sailed on their voyage of discovery, the
University of Plymouth has taken a major role in working closely with a wide range of collaborators to provide
a comprehensive range of activities to celebrate Darwin 200.
A full range of the activities throughout the year can be found on the www.darwin200plymouth.org website.
http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/event.htm
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Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2009
Music | Film
Friday 27 February | 7.30pm
Fragility of Flight
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building
Karen Wimhurst, Sarah Homer, Neyire Ashworth, Keith McIntyre, Susan Sloan
A multimedia performance of live clarinets and electronics with film. The Fragility of Flight performance combines
a virtuosic clarinet trio and innovative use of new animation technologies. It is a surreal anthropomorphic tragicomedy in which birds and humankind merge to face survival in the wake of profound changes.
FREE Admission
Music Festival 2009
Talk
Saturday 28 February | 11.15am
The Fragmented Orchestra
Jane Grant, John Matthias, Nick Ryan
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Sound-artist Jane Grant, musician/physicist John Matthias and BAFTA
Award Winning Composer Nick Ryan won the PRS New Music
Award 2008 for The Fragmented Orchestra, a visionary work which
enables us to hear the human brain at work and the sound of the UK.
This talk will discuss and explain the concept.
Right: Paramount Pictures
Fragility of Flight
FREE Admission
Still from The Fragmented Orchestra Film
by Matt Wade
Michael
Bird at Kin
Exhibition
Saturday 28 February – Friday 13 March
Fragility of Flight
Keith McIntyre & Karen Wimhurst
Fragility of Flight is a surreal anthropomorphic tragi-comedy as birds and humankind merge to face survival in the
wake of profound changes to the natural world.
The exhibition combines innovative use of drawing with bird song and a virtuosic clarinet trio.
The exhibition is in conjunction with the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2009
FREE Admission
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Music Festival 2009
Music | Film
Variations premiere
iDAT, Andrew Evenden
A digital AV composition in three forms.
A10 - “These two months at Plymouth were the most miserable which I ever
spent”.
F10 - Laws of Variation.
M10 - Gene-Pool (the shallow end). Inspired by Darwin’s thwarted attempts to
leave Plymouth.
Variations is a generative work playfully exploring some of Darwin’s insights.
FREE Admission
Music Festival 2009
Talk
The Technology of Salt Itinerary
Miso Music
The opera Salt Itinerary breaks new ground in electronic music and
questions the boundaries between music, theatre, and opera. This
pre-concert talk will discuss the technical and musical elements of the
opera.
FREE Admission
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Opera
Salt Itinerary
Miso Ensemble
Reflecting on Art and Madness, Salt Itinerary revolves around language
- words as meaning and sound. Live electronic audio and video
processing with diffusion of voice, poetry, gesture, music and the
drawings creates a sensory polyphony. This opera is a powerful and
engaging combination of music and drama, performed in 4 languages.
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Talk
Introduction to The Beagle
Michael Stimpson
Michael Stimpson is an internationally renowned composer whose
works have been performed at the UK’s leading venues. His String
Quartet No. 2 The Beagle is the second part of Age of Wonders, which
commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. In this
talk, Stimpson introduces his new composition.
FREE Admission
Mike Stimpson
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Music Festival 2009
Music
Maggini Quartet
Schubert Piazzolla Michael Stimpson Mendelssohn Quartettsatz D703
Four for Tango
The Beagle premiere
Op.44 No.1
Formed in 1988, the Maggini Quartet is established as one of the
finest British string quartets, both in performance and through its
international award winning recordings. This opportunity to hear them
premiere Michael Stimpson’s new work is not to be missed.
Above: Maggini Quartet
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Music Festival 2009
Concert
Saturday 28 February | 9.00pm – 10.30pm
Interface II
Tim Blackwell,Torsten Anders, Hilary Mullaney, Alexis Kirke
Southside Café, Roland Levinsky Building
The University of Plymouth’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer
Music presents an informal performance including music generated
of artificial swarms, composition with human brainwaves, and
electroacoustic work.
FREE Admission
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The Southside Café will be open
throughout the event serving
coffee, food and wine.
FREE Admission
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Talk
Sunday 1 March | 11.15am
Evolutionary Music
Professor Eduardo R. Miranda
The University of Plymouth is a world-centre of Evolutionary
Computer Music research. One of the questions that this field seeks
to answer is: Would it be possible to program machines to evolve
their own musical compositional rules? Plymouth researchers are
using Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life to model musical
evolution.
FREE Admission
Music Festival 2009
Talk
Sunday 1 March | 1.30pm
The Composition of Kropotkin
Sam Richards
Sam Richards gives a pre-concert talk introducing the ideas behind
his composition Kropotkin.
FREE Admission
Sam Richards
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Music
Kropotkin premiere
Sam Richards
Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building
Composition, improvisation, group and solo playing, coexist in Sam
Richards’ new work for large group. It is inspired by Kropotkin’s
Mutual Aid (1902), a rebuttal of crude social Darwinism, Kropotkin
saw cooperation as a greater factor in life than competition. In this
experimental piece cooperation between many players is fundamental.
Kropotkin
FREE Admission
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Talk
The Composition of Grain Streams
Grain Streams is a piano and electronics piece by composer Eduardo
R. Miranda. In this talk Professor Miranda discusses the composition
process for this piece of music.
FREE Admission
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Music
Piano and Electronics
Ian Pace
Ian Pace is one of Europe’s leading performers of contemporary
piano music. In this concert he will demonstrate his extraordinary
virtuosity through performances of a selection of pieces for piano
and electronics, including Eduardo R. Miranda’s Grain Streams, Konrad
Boehmer’s Orpheus Unplugged, and work by Hilda Paredes.
IanPace
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Interview
Rebecca Stott
Rebecca Stott, Dr. Peter Smithers
Novelist Rebecca Stott is the author of the best-selling Darwin and the
Barnacle and Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of East Anglia. She will be interviewed by Dr. Peter Smithers
of the University of Plymouth, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological
Society.
FREE Admission
Rebecca Stott
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Music Festival 2009
Opera
Darwin’s Barnacle premiere
Karen Wimhurst, Keith McIntyre, Rebecca Stott
An intimate piece fusing music theatre, drawing and scientific research,
portraying Darwin’s eight year obsession with barnacles. While
participating in Dr. Gully’s strange water cure, Darwin struggles to
unlock the riddle of this abberant species to move him towards one of
the most spectacular breakthroughs ever known. Artist Keith McIntyre
and composer Karen Wimhurst collaborate with writer Rebecca Stott
in a work inspired by Stott’s wonderful novel Darwin and the Barnacle.
Composer/Musical Director Karen Wimhurst
Stage Director
Rhian Hutchings
Bass
Dean Robinson
Cellist Sophie Harris
Set-Designer
Keith McIntyre
Lighting Designer Ace McCarron
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Festival Party
Roland Perrin and friends
Roland Perrin
Roland Perrin is a composer and pianist who creates music that
incorporates irresistible world music grooves within the European
symphonic tradition. Come and enjoy a relaxing drink in the café and
listen to this renowned jazz pianist.
The Southside Café will be open throughout the evening.
FREE Admission
Roland Perrin
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Public Lecture
Tuesday 3 March | 6.30pm
History Series
The Holocaust and post-war
British culture
Dr Mark Donnelly, St Mary’s University College,Twickenham
Dr Mark Donnelly is an expert in twentieth-century British History,
specialising in popular culture and politics from the 1940s to 1960s.
His main publications include Britain in the Second World War, London
(1999) and Sixties Britain (2005). His lecture develops from current
research interests and investigates the memory of the holocaust in
post-war Britain.
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Music
Saturday 7 March | 7.30pm
Ten Tors Orchestra
The Theatre, Teignmouth Community College
Baroque Adventure
Simon Ible
Alexander Robin Baker
David Shead
conductor
baritone
trumpet
A programme exploring the new musical adventure of the time - its style, passion
and magnificence - featuring the music of Purcell, Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi.
Alexander Robin Baker graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
with first class hounours. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2007 singing David
Matthews’ Marina in the Composers’ Portrait series, broadcast live on Radio 3.
Alexander won Second Prize at the 2008 Kathleen Ferrier Competition.
Above: Alexander Robin Baker
Tickets £17 (£13 NADSA members,
Friends of Ten Tors Orchestra and
Friends of Peninsula Arts)
Promoted in partnership with Newton
Abbot & District Society of Arts
Supported by Teignbridge District Council
Public Lecture
History Series
Sex and Death in the 14th-century
English Royal Family
Dr Ian Mortimer, University of Exeter
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Dr Ian Mortimer is a best-selling author, biographer and academic
(www.ianmortimer.com). Recent books include The Greatest Traitor:
the life of Sir Roger Mortimer (2003) The Perfect King: the life of Edward
III (2006), and The Fears of Henry IV (2007). In 2004 he received the
Alexander Prize by the Royal Historical Society, which is publishing
his latest book The Dying and the Doctors: the Medical Revolution in
Seventeenth-Century England. His lecture draws on his considerable
knowledge of late-medieval royalty.
students and staff
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Exhibition
Friday 13 March – Friday 3 April 2009
Saturdays by appointment only
Darwin 200
Botanical Illustration Exhibition
Jessica Shepherd and Peter Bond
This exhibition features the work of Jess Shepherd from Plymouth
City Museum, who has drawn a series of plates to describe all the
species within the genus Araucaria, including the well known Monkey
Puzzle Tree, and Pete Bond from Plymouth Electron Microscopy
Centre who has used the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to
produce a set of images depicting various plant structures.
Traditionally, prior to the development of digital and electronic
equipment, explorers and scientists would draw and paint to
describe and portray their specimens. Microscopes have always been
part of the illustrative process by exposing features that are invisible
to the naked eye. The SEM expands on this, because it displays those
structures with real depth.
This exhibition compares and contrasts the traditional approach
of drawing in pen and ink, with Scanning Electron Microscopy as
descriptive scientific tools. Both methods also convey the beauty of
the subject matter.
As an interesting connection – Darwin’s grandson Horace, cofounded the company that produced the first commercial SEM.
FREE Admission
Dandelion Pollen
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Music
Friday 13 March | 8.00pm
University of Plymouth Orchestra
Main Hall, Davy Building
A programme of music for orchestra and chamber music for string,
wind and brass prepared during rehearsals and workshops through
the term.
The University of Plymouth Orchestra rehearse on Thursday evening
from 7.30pm at the Sherwell Centre on the university campus.
Membership of the orchestra consists of students, staff and members
of the community. There is no audition and membership is open to
everyone from age 16 years with a reasonable playing ability.
FREE event (parting donations invited towards concert costs).
Above: The University of
Plymouth Orchestra
For further information on the
University of Plymouth Orchestra
contact Simon Ible, Director of
Music, Tel: 01752 585 039
E-mail [email protected]
Music
University of Plymouth Choral Society
We Breathe Trees
St Andrews Church, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Simon Ible
conductor
Karen Wimhurst composer
Claire Williamson librettist
We Breathe Trees is a major new work for adult and children’s choirs, soloists,
brass ensemble and percussion. This piece, written through the seasons
celebrates the trees that surround us, whether in the city or the countryside.
Climbing in trees, hiding in bushes, creeping through undergrowth … it’s
childhood at its best! It also rejoices in natural lifecycles, planting, growing,
decay, returning to the earth and, life out of the darkness, and our need for
clean, fresh air.
Inspiration and knowledge was drawn from the Woodland Trust and its
commitment to restoring ancient woodlands for all of us to walk in.
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Above: Simon Ible, conductor
For further information on the
contact Simon Ible, Director of Music,
Tel: 01752 585 039
E-mail [email protected]
Tickets £12
(£5 UoP students and children)
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Special Family Event
Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Show
A Celebration of National Science and Engineering week for
Children & Families
Nick Arnold is the best selling author of the Horrible Science series
and will be appearing as part of Plymouth Libraries celebration of
National Science and Engineering Week and Darwin200.
This action-packed show features the best bits from Nick’s books,
including gruesome facts; curious quizzes and revolting experiments
and should be an unmissable event for families with children aged 7
and over.
Email: [email protected] for further information
The library service will be hosting
science experiments and exhibits
in the Levinksky foyer beforehand.
FREE Tickets can be obtained
from Plymouth Central Children’s
library, Drake Circus
Tel: 01752 305916; or Peninsula
Arts Box Office, Roland Levinsky
Building, University of Plymouth
George 111
Public Lecture
History Series
King Killing: George III, Margaret
Nicholson and other ‘Troublesome
Subjects’
Dr Steve Poole, University of the West of England
Dr Steve Poole is a leading expert on English popular culture in the
long eighteenth century, and a frequent presenter on TV and radio. His
major publications include The Politics of Regicide in England, 1760-1850:
Troublesome Subjects (2000), which reassessed the relationship between
contractual monarchy and ‘the people’ from a popular constitutional
perspective, a theme he explores in his lecture.
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Music
Wednesday 18 March | 7.30pm
Catherine Laws
Catherine Laws’ programme demonstrates the vibrant expressive
potential of combining piano with electronics. The powerful rhythms
of Dennehy’s “pAt” contrast with Lucier’s meditative “Still Lives”,
while new commissions from Edward Jessen and David Prior further
explore the musical drama that lies in the relationship between piano,
pianist and recorded sound.
Catherine Laws
Public Lecture
students and staff
Thursday 26 March | 6.30pm
Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture
Gender and the Jesuits
Professor Dame Olwen Hufton, Merton College, Oxford
This year’s Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture will be delivered by
Professor Dame Olwen Hufton, Emeritus Professor of Merton College, Oxford,
one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social
history and of women’s history. Among her most significant publications are
The Poor of Eighteenth Century France 1750-1789 (1974) and The Prospect Before
Her: A History of Women in Western Europe - Volume One, 1500-1800 (1995). She
is currently engaged in a book-length project on the influence of the Jesuits
in early modern Europe, and her lecture explores the ways in which issues of
gender impacted upon the movement.
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Music
Navarra Quartet
Xander van Vliet Marije Pioemacher Simone van Glessen Nathaniel Boyd violin
violin
viola
cello
Haydn Ades Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No.4 ‘Sunrise’
Arcadiane, Op.12
String Quartet in e flat, Op.74 ‘Harp’
Tickets: £16 (£8 students/registered unemployed)
From Alice Li Tel: 01752 588017 (8.30am – 4.00pm Monday – Friday) Email: [email protected]
Navarra Quartet
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Exhibition
Saturday 28 March – Tuesday 5 May 2009
The Animal Gaze
Curated by Rosemarie McGoldrick this exhibition features a number of contemporary artists whose work
explores the complex relationships between animals and humans. Artists include; Mircea Cantor, Jacob
Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Kate Potter, Kathy High, Sarah Beddington, Chloe Brown, Catherine Bell, Daniel
Anderssen and Snaebjorndottir / Wilson.
As part of the Darwin 200 celebrations, this exhibition is a London Metropolitan event that has been bought
to the South West by the Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium and is part of a series of city wide and county
exhibitions that feature other aspects of the curated show.Venues include Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural
World, Exeter, with an associated commission by Groundwork South West.
A series of cross city artists talks will accompany this series of exhibitions.
Further details will be posted on the Peninsula Arts website.
FREE Admission
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Chloe Brown - They Abide and They Endure.
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Calendar
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Date
Event
Venue
Time
Jan 10 – Feb 21
Exhibition: Disposable People
Contemporary Global Slavery
Peninsula Arts Gallery,
Roland Levinsky Building
Various
Jan 16 – Jan 30
Schools Exhibition
Various
Jan 17
Flotilla Saxophone Quartet
7.30pm
Jan 28
Talk and Concert
Ian Pace – The Pastoral
7.00pm & 7.30pm
Feb 2
Choreographic conversations
Lecture Theatre 1,
7.30pm
Feb 4
Poetry: Mark Ford
Lecture Theatre 2,
6.30pm
Feb 7
7.30pm
Feb 7
String Workshop
Lecture Theatre 1,
10.00am – 4.00pm
Feb 9
Literature and Science Series: Poetry and Science:
The Case of Humphry Davy
Lecture Theatre 2,
6.30pm
Feb 14
Ten Tors Orchestra
St Valentine’s Day Concert
The Guildhall, Plymouth
7.30pm
Feb 16
Literature and Science Series:
The British Museum Mummy Curse:
A Fantasia
Lecture Theatre 2,
6.30pm
Feb 21
Jakob Fichert, Oliver Coates & Anna Dennis
Upper Lecture Theatre,
Sherwell Centre
7.30pm
Feb 23
Literature and Science Series:
The Self in Science, Philosophy and the Arts
Lecture Theatre 2,
6.30pm
Feb 24
History Series:
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan
Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology
Lecture Theatre 2,
6.30pm
Feb 27
CMF: Exhibition
Festival Launch and “Fragility of Flight”
Roland Levinsky Building,
5.30pm
Feb 27
CMF: Fragility of Flight
7.30pm
Feb 28
CMF: The Fragmented Orchestra
Jill Craigie Cinema,
11.15am
Feb 28 – Mar 13
Fragility of Flight Exhibition
Keith McIntyre & Karen Wimhurst
Various
Feb 28
CMF: Variations (premiere)
iDAT, Andrew Evenden
2.00pm
Feb 28
CMF: The Technology of Salt Itinerary,
Miso Music
3.30pm
Feb 28
CMF: Salt Itinerary Miso Ensemble
4.00pm
Box Office 01752 585050
Feb 28
CMF: Introduction to The Beagle
Michael Stimpson
6.30pm
Feb 28
CMF: Maggini String Quartet
7.00pm
Feb 28
CMF: Interface II
Tim Blackwell, Torsten Anders, Hilary Mullaney,
Alexis Kirke
9.00pm–10.30pm
Mar 1
CMF: Evolutionary Music
11.15am
Mar 1
CMF: The Composition of Kropotkin
Sam Richards
1.30pm
Mar 1
CMF: Concert Kropotkin
Sam Richards
2.00pm
Mar 1
CMF: The Composition of Grain Streams
3.30pm
Mar 1
CMF: Contemporary Piano Series:
Ian Pace – Piano and Electronics
4.00pm
Mar 1
CMF: Interview Rebecca Stott
Dr. Peter Smithers
7.00pm
Mar 1
CMF: Opera, Darwin’s Barnacle
Karen Wimhurst, Keith McIntyre, Rebecca Stott
8.00pm
Mar 1
CMF: Festival Party, Roland Perrin
10.00pm
Mar 3
History Series:
The Holocaust and post-war British culture
6.30pm
Mar 7
Ten Tors Orchestra
Baroque Adventure
The Theatre, Teignmouth Community College
7.30pm
Mar 10
History Series: Sex and Death in the 14th
century English Royal Family
6.30pm
Mar 13 – April 3
Darwin 200: Botanical Illustration Exhibition
Jessica Shepherd and Peter Bond
Various
Mar 13
University of Plymouth Orchestra Concert
Main Hall, Davy Building
8.00pm
Mar 14
We Breathe Trees Concert
St Andrew’s Church, Royal Parade, Plymouth
7.30pm
Mar 14
Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Show
6.00pm
Mar 17
History Series: King Killing: George III, Margaret
Nicholson and other ‘Troublesome Subjects’
6.30pm
Mar 18
Contemporary Piano Series:
7.30pm
Mar 26
Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture
Gender and the Jesuits
6.30pm
Mar 28 – May 5
The Animal Gaze Exhibition
Various
Mar 28
Navarra Quartet
7.30pm
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Plymouth Campus Map
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Babbage Building
Brunel Laboratories
Buckland House & Portland Mews
Chaplaincy
Cookworthy Building
Davy Building
Endsleigh Yard / Card Office
Fitness Centre
Fitzroy Building
Francis Drake Hall
‘Freshlings’ Nursery / EL CETL
Gilwell Hall of Residence
Hepworth House
Immersive Vision Theatre
Isaac Foot Building
Kirkby Lodge
Kirkby Place
Kirkby Terrace (DPC)
Library
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Link Building
Main Hall
Mary Newman Building
Nancy Astor Building
Phytology Unit
Pilgrim Hall of Residence
Portland Square
Portland Villas
Post Room
Radnor Halls of Residence
Reception
Reynolds Building
Robbins Halls &
Conference Centre
33 Rolle Building
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Scott Building
Security
Sherwell Centre
Smeaton Building
Students’ Union
Thomas Pitts Hall
University Medical Centre
How to book
To book tickets please contact:
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth
Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus
Plymouth, PL4 8AA
BOX OFFICE TEL: 01752 585050
Monday – Friday, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
All events take place at the University of Plymouth unless otherwise
stated.
University of Plymouth venues are fully accessible. The Roland Levinsky
Building has level access from north entrances and lift access from
Cobourg Street.
Limited parking is available on campus after 4.00pm.
A hearing loop is available for talks.
We regret it is not possible for us to offer refunds once a ticket has been
sold except for an event which has been cancelled due to circumstances
beyond our control.
Designed and typeset by The Document Production Centre,
Please note that all details are correct at time of going to press.
The promoters reserve the right to change programmes, performers
and lecturers if necessary.
This leaflet is available in large print.
Please contact:
Peninsula Arts
Telephone: 01752 585050
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Friends of Peninsula Arts
Why not become a Friend of Peninsula Arts and enjoy
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Vouchers for use in the Southside Café, Roland Levinsky Building
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Individual Membership £30
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Why not become a Friend Plus and enjoy free entry
to all our talks as well as all the benefits above.
Friends Plus Individual Membership £50
Friends Plus Double Membership £75
We look forward to welcoming you to our next Friends event.
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Peninsula Arts
University of Plymouth
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