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Award-winning theatre explores rehabilitation, re-offending and penal reform

Release: physical performance at Dartington explores hat happens after an offender has served prison time

An award-winning theatre production entitled Release is premiering at Dartington Hall on Thursday, 24 to mark the launch of a new project to help ex-offenders, ahead of a national tour.

Secret city gallery opens to the public this weekend in Plymouth

Plymouth College of Art Foundation Summer Show image

Foundation students at Plymouth College of Art are putting the final touches to their work before an end-of-year show opens to the public this weekend.

Tate backs bid to open a school for creative innovation in Plymouth

Plans to create school for creative arts winning support

The Tate added its weight to the growing body of support behind Plymouth College of Art’s bid to establish Plymouth School of Creative Arts, a mainstream city centre 4–16 through-school that places creativity and creative arts practice at the very heart of the curriculum and of the wider pupil experience.

Sinopticon: contemporary chinoiserie in contemporary art (review)

Laura White at Sinopticon in Plymouth

There was a giddy sense of occasion as our party of seven academics in search of culture and free drinks entered the atrium of the Plymouth City Museum. We arrived as the opening speeches were progressing and huddled under the Chinese flag dresses, trying not to giggle too overtly as we were jostled intermittently by a large robot triffid.

Cornucopia of inspiraton and imagination – the Appledore Visual Arts Festival

Pete Ward art at the Appeldore Visual Arts Festival

The annual Appledore Visual Arts Festival is a cornucopia of inspiration and imagination, a four-day celebration of the best of visual arts with an impressive range of exhibitions, workshops, art-creation events, talks and walks to stimulate and excite everyone.

Flourscent tree highlights plight of the countryside

Henry Bruce's flourescent tree highlighting phytophthora as part of the Delamore Arts and Sculpture exhibition

Artist Henry Bruce – he of the controversial Giant’s Chair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon – is painting a skeletal 21-metre high oak tree fluorescent pink to celebrate the beauty of nature and the evolving life of trees as part of the Delamore Arts and Sculpture exhibition.