past events
A celebration of sound and light, illuminating the overlooked, bringing people together in the darkness of November. New work by artists and creative technologists. 3 nights of illumination, sound, curiosity and play.
Join Folk Dance Remixed for a fantastic high energy ceilidh bringing people together across the generations through dance and music.
Clare Anstee convenes regional choirs for a resonant hour of song! Join us to hear a multitude of voices in the Spanish Barn.
A new piece of family friendly dance theatre inspired by our South West landscapes: our birds, insects, plants, rivers, trees, & waters.
After ‘last light’, 100 dogs will be accompanied by a live music and a soundscape made from recorded testimony from local people - about the relationships and bonds we share with dogs, with each other and with our natural landscapes.
Join storyteller Lizzie Bryant on a quest for myths and legends of the stars and constellations seen in the November night sky.
Create your very own shadow-puppet and add to a special group video featuring the sounds made by of all our creations.
Bring your little one into the burrow and enjoy a cosy time of lullabies and soothing arrangements of songs.
A fiery Cinderella tale with no prince and a dark twist! Evocative textures of music, layered and played live, woven with poetry and myth.
Find-out about the history of pre-cinema and itinerant storytellers and get your hands on some of the optical devices used before the bioscope and cinema came into being.
Combinations of fretted, bowed and sympathetic strings creates a vivid soundscape echoing many rich traditions of Europe and beyond.
John Walters explores visual communication - from glow worms to moths, insect & bird displays and camouflage.
Using silent disco technology, join the flock of over 100 people moving in tune with each other, following instruction and inspiration from a soundscore that weaves together snippets of natural sound, vocals and fragments of music.
In a world where all things have their own sound, a courageous little animal from South America is on a quest to find her own true voice.
Cliff surfaces see organic patterns transform through projections and light, connecting locations through the interplay of light and image.
Torbay Astronomical Society capture live images of the Moon, linking with real-time telescopes throughout all 3 evenings.
Events each evening, with hands-on activities for families, opportunities to contribute to projections, experiment and explore sound and light.
Torre Abbey becomes a canvas for mass collaboration and a celebration of people and place, with projection-mapping that evolves over three days.
An app-guided audio tour taking you on a journey reflecting on Torquay, its histories, landscape & contemporary panoramas.
Sound Communities host our radio base at the Spanish Barn - varied hosts taking ‘wavelength’ for a walk with great music and discussion.
For Wavelength, Victoria Westaway creates a moonscape of lanterns marking the path from the meadows up to Torre Abbey Grounds.
An interactive installation with soundscape inspired by local birdsong. Haloes glow and sing out as you interact with them physically.
With puppetry, song and story ... and a chance to try out the instruments for early years children and families.
7-16 June 2019
Bringing together site-specific works and partnership projects by artists and local communities that bring to life unexpected places, cultural treasures and natural sites across Brixham, Paignton and Torquay. The Bay is (extra)ordinary.
A procession down onto Torre Abbey Sands, led by a brass band and the embellished Torquay Day Cape. Dancers replicate the tango of the seashorses in the bay. With food, activities and talks and an offering to the sea.
Reckless Sleepers will present A String Section against the backdrop of the Pavilion in Princess Gardens. In 2010 Leen Dewilde started destroying things. A String Section started in this way, a simple set of 5 chairs, 5 women and 5 saws.
A dance performance by a newly formed company of regional dance artists, exploring the simple everyday object of the chair, as a response to ‘A String Section’ by Reckless Sleepers – shown as a double-bill with this piece.
Join us on the beach after dark to enjoy the first test of our Dog Ballet idea, with dogs and dog-walkers on Goodrington Sands. After ‘last light’, dogs will be accompanied by a live violinist and a soundscape made from recorded testimony from local people - about the relationships and bonds we share with dogs, with each other and with our natural landscapes.
An on-street neighbourhood exhibition from the Write2Read - an inclusive community words project in Hele, Barton and Watcombe areas, collecting and sharing local thoughts, memories, and images, and writing about them.
A collaborative dance performance about what it means to be ‘home’, bringing together a cast of exceptional Singaporean dancers with a community cast from Torbay An invitation to consider what home means, set within the arresting environment of Berry Head.
Performances at extraordinary sites across Torbay’s unique landscape, with exceptional musicians from Hong Kong – as part of a new artistic exchange between musicians in Hong Kong and Torbay.
An invitation to join a multitude of machine and hand-sewing makers to create a map of what home means to us, working alongside artist Amy Pitt to create a miniature handmade landscape of Torbay and beyond, if the journey takes us there!
An free outdoor Street Music concert performance, with visiting Hong Kong artists and UK based musicians from the South West. A celebration of music from near and far curated by Trio of Men with Kung Chi Shing. Line up to be announced in May.
An immersive animation-based installation charting our journey from mythological to scientific universes and back again. Exploring the ways in which we've attempted to come to terms with vast natural forces, focusing on a ghostly subterranean megafauna and the 'Cave Hunters' who pursued these big beasts between dark worlds.
An exhibition and workshops with residents of Winner Street and surrounding neighbourhood – as part of a programme of sharing ideas, hands-on making and co-creating, encouraging Neighbourhood Kindness Actions.
Part-sculpture part-performance, these carefully crafted living costumes made from grass, flower and other flora. The work and performance explores the connection we have with nature and the lingering green spaces in our urban environments. Through an embrace of the absurd and a hint of mysticism the audience becomes a part of the spectacle.
March-December 2019
A series of happenings, feasts, presentations and dialogue through the year, bringing people together to ask questions, debate, share ideas, places and perspectives.
Night Walk offers a rare opportunity to experience ‘shared acts of sensing’ on a coastal walk to Elberry Cove. Through a gentle play of communal experience we will arrive together in this place at night-time, using our bodies as sensory instruments to navigate the darkness and to notice what is already there. We will create a space for conversation and reflection on the beach where we will serve hot soup and fresh bread. The walk and conversation are suitable for beginners and all those curious to experience how shared acts of sensing might deepen our sense of togetherness with place, other humans and non-humans. Artist Emma Bush has worked with artists Mary Loveday and Anna Keleher to devise and lead Night Walk.
A conversation asking what are the spaces that surround us, and how might they play a part of what keeps our spirits in good order? Gathering illustrated histories and performed stories across theatre, dance, urban design and cultural history.
A conversation asking what are the spaces that surround us, and how might they play a part of what keeps our spirits in good order? Gathering illustrated histories and performed stories across theatre, dance, urban design and cultural history.
A conversation asking what are the spaces that surround us, and how might they play a part of what keeps our spirits in good order? Gathering illustrated histories and performed stories across theatre, dance, urban design and cultural history.
A joyful conversation about love, set in the preparations of Cupid’s wedding feast, with theatre company Broken Spectacles. Prepare the food, watch the story unfold and hear characters' intimate thoughts on love. Integrating song, dance, clowning - a show for all ages. With a wider discussion from diverse voices across Torbay.
A gathering of people and organisations working, playing and making a living in Torbay's waters. All are invited to explore what the sea means to them, and how collectively we want to look after it for the future.
Doorstep Youth Theatre and Josh Lucas (Running Dog Theatre) take over and animate the new Eyeview shop-space and Winner Street with scratch performances inspired by new, curious ways of seeing the world and each other.
A conversation about communities, taking inspiration from natural ecosystems and drawing on Permaculture Design. Join us for a pot-luck feast to explore the diverse skills, experiences and qualities we each bring and what we need to cultivate to enable our ‘garden’ to thrive.