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.
Creative writing sessions
A series of weekly creative writing workshops gently linked to the theme of ‘sky’ and led by poet & short fiction writer Zo Copeland. Guiding you through a series of prompts and exercises, Zo's workshops aim to empower you with tools and techniques to enhance your wellbeing and creative practice.
Strandline
Join artist/musicians Emma Welton & Steve Sowden for the last few creative meet-ups as part of Strandline - a creative project sharing our everyday stories & making something new for our town. All welcome - tell your story & get involved!
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.
Strandline
Join artist/musicians Emma Welton & Steve Sowden for our last creative meet-up as part of Strandline - a creative project sharing our everyday stories & making something new for our town. All welcome - tell your story & get involved!
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.
Strandline
Join artist/musicians Emma Welton & Steve Sowden for the last few creative meet-ups as part of Strandline - a creative project sharing our everyday stories & making something new for our town. All welcome - tell your story & get involved!
Creative writing sessions
A series of weekly creative writing workshops gently linked to the theme of ‘sky’ and led by poet & short fiction writer Zo Copeland. Guiding you through a series of prompts and exercises, Zo's workshops aim to empower you with tools and techniques to enhance your wellbeing and creative practice.
Paint a Dragon Door
Paignton Community Shed welcome families to help paint a ‘Dragon Door’ - an ancient dragon escaped Dartmoor many moons ago to come and live amongst us in the bay.
Zines with Zo - Open studio & drop in
Pop in to the Projection Room on Friday 16th August - an open studio session. Chat with Zo about their project, interact with the memory map, and have go at making zines independently using guides and resources available.
Strandline: Bench Stories
We’re seeking stories from Paignton people about Paignton benches. A photo, painting, poem, eulogy, memory? We’ll be recording people telling their bench stories on Saturday 27th July at Unit 5 Community Lounge,
Un|Earthed: Story-sharing
Join artist Inez Aponte at Unit 5 Community Lounge and share your stories about identity, ancestry, home, migration and belonging.
Un|Earthed: Story-sharing
Join artist Inez Aponte at Unit 5 Community Lounge and share your stories about identity, ancestry, home, migration and belonging.
Strandline #4
Join artist/musicians Emma & Steve for a series of workshops/meet-ups as part of Strandline - a new creative project in Paignton, sharing our everyday stories & making something new for our town. Tell your story & get involved!
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'.
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.