Dog Ballet | Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari. Photography: Marco Kesseler

Our work is focused on supporting culture-led development in Torbay and the wider region, including:

  • Catalysing project-based work, generating opportunities for a wide range of artists, producers and other creative practitioners

  • Capacity building through developing skills and talent across cultural, community, health, statutory and commercial sectors

  • Collaborative-design and culture-led community engagement

  • Culture & events programme development & delivery

  • Cultural asset/skills/knowledge mapping and development

  • Ongoing action learning enquiry

Below you’ll find links with more detail on some of the current projects we are involved with.  

Current / Recent Projects

Wide Open: A new cultural programme for Paignton, part of Torbay’s Cultural Development - Paignton Picture House, that will see the successful reopening of one of the earliest purpose-built cinemas in Europe.

Let Me Show You Around: Conversations and guided walks with residents at Great Parks / Queen Elizabeth Drive to capture memories, experiences and uses of the local area, towards a resident-led approach for improved social and community resilience.

Talent Development: How can creativity best connect and align ambitions across sectors (health & social care, regeneration, tourism, education, natural environment/green infrastructure) and enable sustained impact?

Talent Development: How can creativity best connect and align ambitions across sectors (health & social care, regeneration, tourism, education, natural environment/green infrastructure) and enable sustained impact?

[Agri]Culture, Villages in Action: Development & action learning on ViA’s new delivery model, embedding a culturally-driven action-network across Devon’s rural communities, integrating co-produced & participatory work with rural touring. Image credit: Emily Appleton.

All our stories: Gathering stories from people across Torbay, especially those who have experienced most disadvantage, to inform TCDT and LocalMotion in democratic and inclusive placemaking.

All Our Stories, LocalMotion: Gathering stories from people in Torbay who have experienced disadvantage to share their life stories, to inform future visioning for the area as part of a collaborative initiative to enact systemic change with and for our communities.  

Eyeview Cultural Programme: Wavelength: Three nights of illumination, sound, curiosity and play that took place in November 2019 in Torquay, bringing together artists, technology and local people after dark.

Eyeview Cultural Programme: The cultural programme for Torbay’s Great Place Scheme, bringing together artists and communities through site-specific commissions, participatory projects and community actions. Image: Impressions by Limbic Cinema projected on Rock Walk, Torquay.