Take an evening walk from Torre Abbey with Vista, an app-guided audio tour that takes you on a journey reflecting upon Torquay - its histories, landscape and contemporary panoramas - in dialogue with another coastal town across the Atlantic Ocean: Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
By downloading the app onto an Android device or iPhone, you can follow a journey along the Torquay seafront that will take about 30-40 minutes. It can be taken alone or in small groups.
Vista contemplates questions of health and the environments that surround us. Torquay and Halifax are two places that have long existed as sites of migration: Halifax's "Great Harbour" (Kji'puktuk) is a place of great spiritual significance for the Mi'kmaq people, while Victorians flocked to Torquay's mild climate and warm "healing" waters in the late nineteenth century, substantially growing the town's population.
Through a series of recorded conversations, an ambient soundtrack and questions of both a philosophical and factual nature, Vista attempts to navigate the space between the ideal and the practical, both of which shape issues from urban design to public health in the ever-present mythology and memory of both places.
Vista was developed through a partnership between the International Agatha Christie Festival (Torquay, England) and Zuppa Theatre Co. (Halifax, Canada). It was created during an IACF residency with additional support from The Canada Council for the Arts, Halifax Regional Municipality and the Eyeview cultural programme in Torbay.
Part of eyeview - A cultural programme - working with artists and communities to offer fresh perspectives on the places and spaces that make Torbay unique.
Cost Free
