GeoQuest Performance Tour
Tuesday 25 – Monday 31 May
Various venues across Torbay
A journey of exploration around Torbay, featuring a week of walking, exploring, workshops and performances to celebrate the English Riviera Global GeoPark, a UNESCO designated area of outstanding scientific interest. What more appropriate way to highlight our geological history than a journey through our GeoPark? A performance walk from the Valley of the Rocks at Watcombe to Berry Head in Brixham.
Three ‘Questors’ – artists Hugh Nankivell, Dartington’s featured composer of the year, writer Phil Smith and actor Tony Lidington – will travel the Bay by foot, creating, finding and telling new ideas, stories and songs about the land and the communities they pass, and inventing a new geocultural map. In a series of events along the way the artists will animate the great transformations that have formed our landscape and our lives.
A GeoQuest evening starts at 6pm when you can join the Questors for a short, exploratory walk, followed by a 8pm performance, a talk from a GeoPark expert and a simple shared meal (included in the ticket price).
Walk Start Points
- Tue 25 May: Anstey’s Cove Car Park, Torquay
- Wed 26 May: Daddyhole Plain, Torquay
- Thu 27 May: Occombe Farm, Paignton
- Fri 28 May: Oldway Mansion, Paignton
- Sat 29 May: Paignton Pier
- Sun 30 May: Brixham Breakwater Car Park
- Mon 31 May: Tourist Information Centre, Vaughan Parade, Torquay
Performance Venues
- Tue 25 May: Kents Cavern, Torquay
- Wed 26 May: Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Torquay
- Thu 27 May: Occombe Farm, Paignton
- Fri 28 May: Palace Theatre, Paignton
- Sat 29 May: Paignton YMCA, Goodrington
- Sun 30 May: Berry Head Café, Brixham
- Mon 31 May: Torquay Museum, Torquay
Walks start at 6pm; performance/talk/suppers at 8pm.
