Upcoming events.

Discord & Harmony KARST
Jan
27
to 18 Apr

Discord & Harmony KARST

Discord & Harmony brings together a group of contemporary artists who share Beryl Cook’s (1926 – 2008) radically generous approach to representing everyday life. Simultaneously considered one of Britain’s most loved artists while never being fully accepted by the establishment, Cook lived and worked in Plymouth and was celebrated as a chronicler of the every day. 

View Event →
The Magic Box
Jan
31
to 14 Feb

The Magic Box

When the lights go off in the play room, then the toys in the Magic Box comes alive. A fully immersive production for babies and toddlers with beautiful characters, lighting, sound, bubbles and puppets. 

View Event →
The Magic Box
Jan
31
to 14 Feb

The Magic Box

  • The Soapbox, Devonport Park (Corner of Milne Place & Exmouth Rd) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for this wonderful performance full of fun, mystery and MAGIC! A fully immersive production for babies and toddlers with beautiful characters, lighting, sound, bubbles and puppets

View Event →
Kavus Torabi
Jan
31

Kavus Torabi

Kavus Torabi is a British/ Iranian composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, artist, broadcaster and DJ. His largely autobiographical solo work marries the human with the celestial.

View Event →
Metabolizer
Feb
5
to 11 Mar

Metabolizer

  • 37 Looe Street Plymouth, England, PL4 0DQ United Kingdom (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Metabolizer is a free, interactive installation exploring economic growth and exhaustion through data, and more and more and more dancing. Opening Thurs 5 Feb 6-9pm Open Wednesday-Saturday. Metabolizer also hosts performance by invited artists every Wednesday evening, framed as the Optimizer! mini-series.

View Event →
Classics in the Dome: The Red Shoes (1948)
Feb
13

Classics in the Dome: The Red Shoes (1948)

Cinema’s most intoxicating love triangle - not on a tiny screen, but blown beautifully up in our immersive dome. The Red Shoes — A Night of Dance, Drama & Dazzling Colour. Step into one of cinema’s most intoxicating love triangles - not on a tiny screen, but blown beautifully up in our immersive dome.

View Event →
Journeys with Mai
Feb
14
to 14 Jun
Art

Journeys with Mai

Take a journey of discovery across four gallery spaces exploring the complex histories between Europe and the South Pacific. Centre stage is 'Portrait of Mai' by Plympton-born Sir Joshua Reynolds – widely considered to be his finest work and a portrait of the first Polynesian person to visit Britain.

View Event →
COFFEE AND COMICS February meet up
Feb
19

COFFEE AND COMICS February meet up

 Please come along to our first "Coffee and Comics" met for 2026 This is a social gathering for creatives, storytellers, illustrators, and comic writers in the Plymouth snd the surrounding area. It is a relaxed space to chat about comics, creative projects, doodle, write, read, and create together, with all experience levels welcome.

View Event →
Film: Where Is Heaven?
Feb
20

Film: Where Is Heaven?

Filming over ten years, maverick soulmates Ged and Dave are on a mission through the winding lanes and hidden tracks of North Devon, to record the lives and experiences of people living without mains electricity

View Event →
Two Day Creative Journaling Workshop Friday 6 March and Friday 13 March
Mar
6

Two Day Creative Journaling Workshop Friday 6 March and Friday 13 March

An art journal is more than just a collection of random drawings – it is a vibrant tapestry, woven from the threads of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Unlike a sketchbook – a trusty companion for honing your artistic skills with pencil, pen, or marker strokes on sometimes pristine pages — an art journal is a sanctuary for your soul’s expressions.

View Event →
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: The Real You (12)
Mar
12

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: The Real You (12)

In the near future, ISHIKAWA Sakuya (IKEMATSU Sosuke) receives a phone call from his mother, Akiko (TANAKA Yuko), who wants to tell him something important — but before they can meet, he witnesses her drowning in a river. One year later, after waking from a coma, Sakuya discovers that his mother participated in a government-approved “elective death” programme.

View Event →
Othello on Stage
Mar
14
to 18 Mar

Othello on Stage

Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in a ‘compelling’ (★★★★ Telegraph) new production starring David Harewood (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob).

View Event →
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: Strangers in Kyoto (PG)
Mar
19

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: Strangers in Kyoto (PG)

SHIBUSAWA Madoka (FUKAGAWA Mai), a Tokyo-based manga writer is on a trip to Kyoto after recently marrying the 14th-generation heir to a traditional folding-fan shop in the city. Determined to understand the exquisite essence of Kyoto, she sets out to write a comic essay about life in the city’s historic businesses and the centuries of tradition they embody.

View Event →
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: Blue Boy Trial (12)
Mar
26

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026: Blue Boy Trial (12)

Tokyo, 1965. Amid growing internationalisation after the Olympics, the government introduces new measures to reinforce public morals, particularly public prostitution by women. However, the so-called “Blue Boys”, transgender women who live and work as prostitutes, cannot be prosecuted as they are legally registered as male.

View Event →
Jun
12

Harry Baker: Tender

As in ripe for the taking.

As in a heart swelled to twice its size.

As in soft. As in delicious. As in ready.

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker brings his characteristic warmth, wit and wonder to new parenthood. From introducing his baby to a horse for the first time, to trying to work out if the GP really did drop them on purpose to test their reflexes, Tender contains poems from the first hundred days of new life and celebrates all of the euphoria, panic and vulnerability that come with it.

Following on from the last two years’ 40-date sellout runs of Wonderful and Wonderful 2.0, he’ll even slip in some non-baby bangers too. Expect more laughter and tears than ever.

“Harry Baker’s intricate, quick-fire rhymes have always been on the impressive side of mind-blowing” - The Scotsman

“Spectacularly Witty” ***** (Whatsonstage)

“Blistering wordplay” ***** (Threeweeks)

“Not one syllable out of place” ***** (The Wee Review)

“The Spell Over The Audience Is Tangible” ***** (Broadway Baby)

“Simply put... The greatest performer on earth” ***** (BBC Radio 1)

Get your tickets here.

View Event →

Fires and Fascism (12A) + Director’s Q&A
Jan
15

Fires and Fascism (12A) + Director’s Q&A

The film features the experiences and actions of 25 people across Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, ranging between scientists, teachers, artists, gardeners, engineers, winemakers, NGOs, and authors. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Pete Knapp, director of Fires and Fascism, who shifted careers from air quality research to filmmaking to tell the story of people recovering from wildfires.

View Event →
Wassail & family ceilidh
Jan
10

Wassail & family ceilidh

Dress up as tree sprites, faeries and elves (optional for parents!), join Jack Frost and help us wake up the apple trees in The Spellbound Wood. Then come back to The Soapbox for a story and an evening of dancing with Freedom Fields ceilidh band.

View Event →
Dom Dobry (18)
Jan
5

Dom Dobry (18)

For the final film in our Polish season we have chosen this contemporary drama which has been hugely successful in Poland. When Goska meets Grzesiek online, she’s convinced he’s finally The One.

View Event →