In celebration of six decades at the core of the
city’s cultural life, and as one of the first arts centres in the country, Plymouth Arts Centre celebrates its relationship with the city and marks its achievements. This exhibition discloses fragments of Plymouth’s past and present through archive material, film footage, radio broadcasts and stories, which focus on our 60 year history and the culture created by the city’s residents.

Root Index unearths relics from the archive and re - presents some of its remarkable history. In the production of a new commission, Reciting the City, Mike Lawson - Smith has also worked with archival material. His two - screen video installation sets the stage for a latent dialogue between Plymouth’s citizens, prompted by film footage extracted from the South West Film and Television Archive.

A city’s narrative exists in the thoughts and memories of its inhabitants and this exhibition attempts to reveal a number of stories that form Plymouth. These anecdotes are a running feature of Freesound 106.6FM, which broadcasts from Plymouth Arts Centre all summer and provides a conduit for local discourse and creative output to both the city and the world beyond.