Wide Open is a celebration of Paignton’s people, places and spirit. Join us to dream up, make and experience great creative and cultural activities where you live.
Wide Open is a celebration of Paignton’s people, places and spirit. Join us to dream up, make and experience great creative and cultural activities where you live.
Squeezebox: Artists in Residence
October's resident artists who open conversations on care as universal experiences through installation, performance and workshop.
Open View: Technofossils - Traces of the Deep Future
Open Viewing of Erika Cann's final scupltural work, inspired by the geological past and future of Paignton, exploring the boundaries between geology and human, and natural and man-made.
Drop in: Technofossils, Erika Cann
Come along to meet artist Erika Cann and she explores the different art forms of photography, printmaking and sculpture, to understand and replicate forms and processes within geology. Submit your own deep-time finds, and to share your own stories about deep-time.
Creative Roaming
Creative Roaming walk with Erika Cann. A chance to explore the artist's creative process and to learn about how creativity can be a tool to question, imagine and unpick big questions through a group walk.
Technofossils: Traces of the Deep Future
Through September, we welcome our Artist in Residence Erika Cann, responding to the theme of Deep Time. Erika explores the relationship between bodies and geology, through her own body as a rock climber, making work inspired by the geological past and future of Paignton, exploring the boundaries between geology and human, and natural and man-made.
Un|Earthed, Inez Aponte
Inez Aponte joins us as artist in residence this July, exploring stories of home, roots and belonging through her residency: Un|Earthed.
We are here: m/others of Torbay
Artist in Residence Lottie Bolster brings the local community together through the shared experience of m/othering through her residency 'We are here: m/others of Torbay'.
MAKING SPACE: monthly artist residency opportunities in Paignton from June to Sept 2024
ARTIST CALL OUT: Residency opportunity in Paignton town centre in June - September 2024
MAKING SPACE: artist residency opportunity in Paignton in May 2024
ARTIST CALL OUT: Residency opportunity in Paignton town centre in May.
From creative events and activities, to unique spaces to test out and share your ideas, find out how you can get involved.
Wide Open is part of a major capital programme centred on Paignton Picture House made possible by the Cultural Development Fund. It will see the successful reopening of the historic grade II* listed landmark in 2025, one of the earliest purpose-built cinemas in Europe.