The America's Cup World Series comes to Plymouth

Fast and furious, daring and spectacular! 

The America's Cup World Series event is the best sailors on the fastest boats racing on the edge around Plymouth Sound. Nine teams battled it out on their high tech, AC45 catamarans pushing themselves and their boats to the limit.

America's Cup World Series 

Sheffield Fayre 2011 - The American Civil War Society

Sheffield Fayre 2011 - Northern World War II Association

Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

YSP presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Encouraging tactile and sensory exploration, this vibrant exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound.

Plensa’s sculpture gives physical form to the intangible, using the body as a way of exploring what it means to be human and engaging with universal themes: love, memory, language and despair. Other works need the presence of a human body to make them complete, such as Song of Songs. These glass cabins, immersed in coloured light, are only large enough for one visitor to enter and are spaces for solitary contemplation.