Culture, creativity and heritage makes Torbay a better place in which to live, work, learn and visit. Torbay Culture was set up with support from Arts Council England to provide strategic leadership for the local culture sector, and progress the cultural strategy which is focused around people and place.
Torbay’s Great Place Scheme aims to grow and celebrate our local area as a great place to live, work and visit. Through a series of projects running until March next year, Torbay Culture is striving to put arts and heritage at the heart of the Bay’s bright future. We are doing it by working with local residents, businesses, cultural organisations and assets; and with creative practitioners from Torbay and around the world. We have partners across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Jacob Brandon became the Chair of Torbay Culture in March. He brings to the role a wealth of knowledge about culture and Torbay.
Conversations is a series of happenings, feasts, presentations and dialogue, bringing people together to ask questions, debate, share ideas, places and perspectives.
A mass sewing event, dancers in the dramatic landscape, and giant grass men are amongst the happenings around Torbay for (extra)ordinary – ten days of performances, events and activities offering fresh perspectives on Torbay’s unusual places and spaces.
Torbay Culture is aiming to develop a group of ‘go to’ people who are friendly, well-informed ambassadors for Torbay, passionate about culture and keen to support a variety of projects.
An immediate partner is sought to deliver guided tours across the English Riviera that attract a new type of tourist to the area.
Torbay Culture has appointed Martin Thomas as their new Executive Director to deliver Torbay’s ten-year Cultural Strategy.
With the departure of Kate Farmery to The Box in Plymouth at the end of November 2018, we are looking for a new Executive Director to work with our Chair, board and partners to drive sustainable economic and social development in Torbay through arts, heritage and culture.
Torbay Culture, TDA and the English Riviera BID Company have set their sights on increasing the number of cultural tourists coming to the destination by developing new holiday itineraries, trails and guides to share the real, authentic story of the area.
We are seeking an experienced, dynamic Lead Producer to execute the development and successful delivery of Torbay’s Great Place Scheme Cultural Programme, an ambitious year-long programme of cultural happenings across Torbay’s three towns, key cultural venues, new spaces and in the public realm.
Torbay is a growing centre for creative commissioning. Artists and cultural organisations are increasing the health and wellbeing of residents by bringing their creative skills into other sectors, collaborating with organisations such as the NHS Foundation Trust to help them achieve their own aims. Having recently completed a series of 'test and learn' projects in the health and care sectors, we are seeking a freelance individual or organisation to take the next, necessary steps that will fully embed this practice here, increasing reach and deepening impact.
Can you help us put Torbay on the map as a great creative centre? We are looking for a brilliant communicator to raise the profile our work with local, national and international stakeholders, advocating for arts, heritage and culture in Torbay and ensuring the growing impact of strategic investment such as the Great Place Scheme is widely understood.
