Karen Moore is an independent heritage researcher and member of the Plymouth Community Heritage Network. She is a Postgraduate in Social History - her specialism being her hometown of Plymouth, particularly swimming in the region. Karen will share with us some of her ongoing research.

The cultural lives of a key group, of whose day-to-day existence we know very little.

Celebrate International Women's Day in Plymouth with the West Country Women, empowering speakers, and networking opportunities!

For this Creative Talk we welcome Emily Howard, composer, to share her practice.

From the ambitious, driving cantata The Anvil (2019) – the thickly tapestried piece commissioned to mark the Peterloo bicentenary and recorded by the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir and Hallé Ancoats Community Choir (2023; Delphian) – to the crystalline Magnetite (2007), widely performed across the world, Emily Howard’s distinctive language distills musical elements into their purest form.

This event is part of our Creative Talks series that feature practitioners/makers/artists who work in a variety of disciplines, media and forms across the creative arts, including: the visual arts, design, performance, craft-work, creative writing and more.

This will be followed by a Creative Talk by Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance, Ruth Way and others, introducing somatic movement arts and a discussion of these applied somatic movement approaches to support well-being and ‘being in movement’ throughout our lives.

Join us for a very special in conversation event focusing on the importance of poetry in the work of two interdisciplinary artists, John Lyons and Osman Yousefzada.

The SHIPS Project lecture series Tales of The Sea is a selection of inspirational and informative talks about the sea; how we work, play and interact with the sea and how our actions or lack of action affect the marine environment. The talks are on important subjects we should be discussing about our seas and oceans. 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an exceptionally talented mixed-race musician, composer and conductor who was popular in the early 19th Century, most notably for composing classical music with African themes.

With Dr Mike Sheaff, Visiting Research Fellow University of Plymouth. Dr Austin Nankivell became Plymouth’s Medical Officer of Health in 1925. Four years later the Conservatives lost control of the city council. An extraordinary period of change followed. From birth control to cancer services, and from child welfare clinics to establishing a municipal hospital, the city was at the forefront of radical progress in health care.

The SHIPS Project lecture series Tales of The Sea is a selection of inspirational and informative talks about the sea; how we work, play and interact with the sea and how our actions or lack of action affect the marine environment.

We are delighted to welcome Chris Lubbe to Market Hall for an evening covering topics of discrimination, courage and resilience.