Plymouth Arts Cinema

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Plymouth Arts Centre

Plymouth Arts Cinema is an independent cinema based at Plymouth College of Art. It screens new independent cinema from all around the world, classic films, along with festivals, special events, and Open Air Cinema.

Plymouth Arts Centre was a centre for

UK. It was first opened in 1947 with funding from the newly formed Arts Council of Great Britain. It was located in a Grade II listed town house in Looe Street, and included space for exhibitions, a cinema, artist studios, a café and a bar. Beryl Cook
had her first exhibition here, and many other artists held exhibitions here early in their careers. In 2018, Plymouth Arts Centre closed. The organisation moved to a new location at Plymouth College of Art and continues to exist as an independent cinema, named Plymouth Arts Cinema.

History

Founded in 1947 in a Grade II listed town house in Looe Street, Plymouth Arts Centre was opened by art historian Kenneth Clark.[1] The building is listed as part of a significant group of seventeenth and eighteenth century town houses in the street, many of which are listed. It is a three-storey building that at one time was used as a shop. It has a painted brick front and a steep slate half-hipped roof with deep moulded eaves.[2]

Plymouth Arts Centre was one of seven arts centres set up around the country with funds from the newly established Arts Council of Great Britain.[3] The centre comprises gallery spaces, a 61-seater cinema, artist studios, café and bar space and receives over 70,000 visitors a year.[4]

The artist Beryl Cook had her first exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre in 1975,[5] and Bernard Samuels, then Director of the Plymouth Arts Centre, is credited with discovering her.[6]

In 2008, to celebrate its diamond jubilee, the centre had a retrospective exhibition, displaying an assortment of old programmes, photographs, posters, invitations and ephemera that had been stored for years in the

Sir Terry Frost. Many people exhibited here at the start of their careers and went on to become household names.[7]

In 2018,

Plymouth College of Art that opened on January 10 2019.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Arts centre's rich canvas | This is Plymouth". thisisplymouth.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013. Sir Kenneth Clark
  2. ^ "38, Looe Street, Plymouth". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Application Office 2013.pdf" (PDF). pdf.js. 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013. Just seven arts centres
  4. ^ "Navaho Technologies: Digital Signage, Content Creation, Network Security and Managed Network ServicesPlymouth Arts Centre". navaho.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013. over 70,00 visitors every year
  5. ^ "The Official Beryl Cook site - offering Beryl Cook's original paintings, prints, calendars, books, exclusive content, press cutt". berylcook.org. 2013. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Plymouth to host major Beryl Cook exhibition". plymouth.ac.uk. 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013. Bernard Samuels,Director of the Plymouth Arts Centre
  7. ^ a b "BBC - Devon - Arts and Culture - Art for Plymouth's sake". bbc.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  8. ^
    Plymouth Herald
    .

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