Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
Past Events: Art
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- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
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Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure Film Club
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Environment & Nature
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- Virtual Cinema
Viewing Archived Events: Art
Sarah Forrest: Recital
Gallery in the Cinema: Recital (2016) is set in those first strange moments of waking up, where certainty and strangeness run in parallel as the mind tries to make sense of what is happening.
David Blandy and Larry Achiampong: Finding Fanon Sequence
The exhibition premiere of Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s film trilogy Finding Fanon (2015—17) is a moving and multi-layered exploration of race, identity and globalisation.
Allan Sekula: Lottery of the Sea
Gallery in the Cinema: What does it mean to be a maritime nation? To rule the waves? Or to harvest the sea? An American submarine collides with a Japanese fisheries training ship.
Lunchtime Talks
Join us for a series of free lunchtime talks on our current exhibition
Lunchtime Talk with Dr Hannah Wood
Dr Hannah Wood, founder of Story Juice and creator of 2014’s interactive theatre game Resurgam will discuss ‘Between Self and Other’: Player-characters, narrative, agency and identity in video games.
Bringing in Baby: To The Gallery
Join our visual arts team for a short introduction to the current exhibition, meet other parents with a passion for culture and relax in the comfort of our cafe.
Rory Pilgrim: The Sacred Repositories Trilogy
Shown for the first time as the complete Sacred Repositories trilogy, the three interconnected films explore communities who are speaking out against the status quo. Rory Pilgrim will visit to give a talk on 19th June.
By Date
By Category
- See All
- Adventure Film Club
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Environment & Nature
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- Virtual Cinema
Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure Film Club
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Environment & Nature
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- Virtual Cinema
Thank you so much to everybody who donated to our Crowdfunder campaign!
We’ll be in touch with donors by email before the end of January with details about rewards.
We exceeded our target of £10,000 to raise £11,745, and were blown away by all the kind comments of love and support.
Thanks to Plymouth City Council who donated £5000 to the campaign from the City Change Fund.
Big thanks to the our brilliant suppliers and cultural partners across Plymouth who donated rewards: Salcombe Dairy, Summerskills Brewery, Canton Tea, Tolchards, Ocean Studios, Plymouth Gin.
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