Users of the car parks at The Plymouth Athenaeum should be aware there will be reduced car parking capacity in the east car park on Tuesday, 28th May 2019 due to site investigations taking place in the area surrounding the stage scenery door.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated on any changes to these arrangements.
If you have any questions please contact us on info@plymouthathenaeum.co.uk or (01752) 266079.
Plymouth Language Club returns to The Plymouth Athenaeum on Saturday 8th June (7.15pm for a 7.30pm start) with a line-up of readers featuring Annabel Banks, Brian Herdman, Rachel Gippetti, Crab and Bee and Ed Tapper.
Annabel Banks is an award-winning writer of poetry and prose. Her work can be found in such places as The Manchester Review, Shearsman, Stride, The Clearing and 3.AM.
Her poetry was included in Eyewear’s Best New British and Irish Poets, 2016. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for the Queen’s Ferry Press best short fiction award, BlazeVox’s Bettering American Poetry and the Derringer Awards. Her debut poetry collection, DTR, was published earlier this year by Broken Sleep Books and was nominated for the Forward Prize in two categories. She lives in London.
Brian Herdman gate-crashed the Plymouth poetry scene a year ago and has enjoyed being a part of it ever since. Originally from Manchester, he moved to Plymouth in 1970 and has also lived and worked as a teacher of English and Philosophy in France, Greece, Scotland and most recently in China. He has intermittently published his journalism but sees writing as an important aspect of his life in terms of a ‘therapeutic outlet’. However, a first collection of his poems may be on the horizon….
Rachel Gippetti works in Higher Education at Plymouth College of Art and is a graduate of Plymouth University’s M.A. Creative Writing programme. Her poetry has appeared in a number of magazines, including Shearsman, and she also organised the Lit series of open mic readings at Plymouth Social Club, an important contribution to the local live event scene. Her debut poetry collection, Birthright, was published by Eyewear/Aviator in 2016.
Crab and Bee (aka Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst) are the South West’s answer to Iain Sinclair, psycho-geographers who combine documentation with poetry and visual artforms (Richard Long also comes to mind). Their main focus is on addressing spaces of ‘exclusion, amnesia and marginalisation’ by creating artworks, exhibitions, texts, painted poems, performances, walks and maps. Phil Smith is associate professor in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth and a visiting lecturer at the University of Exeter. His books include The MK Myth; Walking, Stumbling, Falling; and Anywhere (a mythogeography of South Devon and how to walk it). Helen Billinghurst’s recent exhibitions include Crossing England (Ariel Gallery, Totnes) and English Diagrams (The Royal William Yard), an exhibition of paintings, drawings and asemblages. Their most recent project is Plymouth Labyrinth, exploring Plymouth through various myths: Ariadne’s Red Thread, Gogmagog of the Leap, Albina of Teat’s Hill and Mother of Albion.
Ed Tapper (aka Ian Sainsbury) is a painter and poet, making his debut reading at the Language Club. His exhibition Six Poets and a Painter, at the Ariel Centre in Totnes in 2016, documented aspects of the Language Club via a series of portraits of poets taking part over a period of several years.
Entry is by donation – suggested minimum donations are £5 waged, £3 unwaged. The Language Club receives no public funding and relies on your support.
The Plymouth Athenaeum’s 2019 Spring Lecture series, which is part of Plymouth History Festival, concludes with Dr Elaine Murphy’s talk on ‘The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653: Why they Matter’ on Thursday, 23rd May (7.30pm).
Dr Murphy is Associate Head of School – History and Art History in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University.
Her published works include The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653, and Ireland and the War at Sea, 1641-1653.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
If wheelchair access is required please contact The Athenaeum in advance on (01752) 266079 or via email at info@plymouthathenaeum.co.uk
The 2019 Talks series resumes as part of Plymouth History Festival with a talk by Owen Ryles FRSA, Chief Executive of The Plymouth Athenaeum, titled ‘Walking through the storm: William Snow Harris v The Admiralty’.
Born and raised in Plymouth, Sir William Snow Harris was an electrical researcher, nicknamed ‘Thunder-and-Lightning Harris’.
Discover the story of his struggle to get his lightning conductors for ships system adopted by the Royal Navy and the roles played in that story by Charles Darwin, the Russian Tsar and Queen Victoria.
Talks are free and open to the public.
If wheelchair access is required please contact The Athenaeum in advance on (01752) 266079 or via email at info@plymouthathenaeum.co.uk
The Plymouth Athenaeum’s 2019 Spring Lecture series resumes as part of the Plymouth History Festival with Dr Peter Hinds’ talk on ‘A General History of Ears: The Uses and Abuses of Print in the 17th and 18th Centuries’ on Thursday, 9th May (7.30pm).
Dr Hinds is an Associate Professor in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Plymouth.
His written works include The Horrid Popish Plot: Roger L’Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late-Seventeenth-Century London.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
If wheelchair access is required please contact The Athenaeum in advance on (01752) 266079 or via email at info@plymouthathenaeum.co.uk