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We’d like to wish everyone, wherever you are and whoever you are, a much-improved and considerably happier new year! 
We can’t understate how challenging 2020 has been for the cultural sector. But the creative spirit that flows through our community gave rise to moments full of optimism and hope that show despite another wave of restrictions accompanying us into 2021 Culture is very much Alive
Here are a few of those moments:
@Still/Moving transformed the Mount Batten Breakwater for 60 inspiring days with the dazzling Speedwell. It gave us space to ask difficult questions about ourselves, about our relationship with the planet and our relationship with each other. For that, we are grateful.
The skating community, long a fixture of Plymouth’s culture, we’re at the heart of the project to transform the hoardings outside the Civic Centre into a mural. The collective of artists that worked together to create it was a signal at how we might...
approach our public realm in the future. The collaborative effort of @primeskatepark @karstgallery, LOCI, @TakeAPart @urban_splash & @mayflower400uk showed how partnership working can happen in new and exciting ways.
The 11th annual Union Street Party celebrated the culture at the heart of a transforming Stonehouse, bringing community and colour to the area thanks to @nudgecommunity...
Refusing to be bowed by the pandemic, this safe and joyful celebration included Nudge venues such as The Plot and the Clipper - places unrecognisable from the past but respectful of their heritage...
Those spaces now include the old Millennium building, as Nudge continued their exceptional work during the Covid crisis.
The much awaited and game changing opening of @theboxplymouth, Plymouth’s £46 million cultural destination combining a museum, art gallery and archive, finally arrived...
With six outstanding national collections, over two million artefacts, archives, film, photographs, figureheads and a mammoth and more - The Box is a signal far and wide that Plymouth is a growing cultural destination.
The @PlymArtWkndr returned with innovative exhibits and installations across the city including ‘All Things Hang Like a Drop of Dew’ at Hyde Park House, ‘Lockdown Tarot’ by John Walter, and a giant fat seagull on the Piazza...
In a year that suppressed much of what we cherish in life, the Weekender was an astonishing achievement.
A procession of 5m high puppets from the @BarbicanTheatre marched through the back alleys of St Judes and Freedom Fields accompanied by a wonderful junk band and bucket loads of fun and laughter...
The Theatre showed that culture belongs everywhere, and when people can’t come to it, it will come to them.
@AntonyGormley1 introduced us to Look II; 22 blocks of cast iron, mounted in human form looking out across Plymouth Sound “to evoke the yearning to travel across the horizon in order to establish a new life in another place.”...
Look II, finds itself in the same spot Sir Francis Chichester landed the Gypsy Moth in 1967 after sailing single-handedly around the world.
And finally, in time for the Christmas Panto season, we saw @TRPlymouth reopen its doors in a Covid-safe way to welcome families back. Sadly, it would only be for a limited time, but for those brief weeks it was a glimpse at normality in one of the city’s great institutions.
There are many more that we have missed, feel free to post them in the comments/replies!
For now, be safe and we will see you in 2021
#CultureIsAlive
For now, be safe and we will see you in 2021
#CultureIsAlive