Artist-Led Workshop: Creatures for Change
Join illustrator, Devon Tipping, to take a journey through Dartmoor folktales like the famous Old Crockern and create a ‘creature for change’. Imagine your own guardian spirit – something that speaks to your relationship with home, your current way of life, and the kind of life you’d like to live in the future.
The Way We Live Curator’s Tour
As part of our October ‘Super Saturday’, join curator Beth Hughes for a special tour of The Way We Live.
City Centre Architecture Tours
Join Engagement Officer, Tony Davey on a special architectural tour of Plymouth’s city centre, looking up at the buildings that we often walk past without seeing. Discover how the city was shaped by James Paton Watson and Patrick Abercrombie’s 1943 A Plan for Plymouth and how it still impacts on us today. On the day, the tour […]
Shoebox Dolls’ House Workshop with Fran Daykin
Step into a miniature world of creativity in this hands-on making workshop – perfect for children aged 8+. Led by artist Fran Daykin and taking inspiration from a beautiful painting by Caroline Walker titled Dolls House in our The Way We Live exhibition, young makers will transform an ordinary shoebox into their very own handmade dolls’ house: designing the […]
Super Saturday: Stories of Us
Our monthly ‘Super Saturdays’ are inspired by our major exhibitions and feature talks, creative activities, and special events for people of all ages and interests. In October 2026 we’ll be celebrating the ‘Stories of Us’ in partnership with the University of Plymouth and Nudge Community Builders.
Super Saturday: Plymouth Community History Festival
Join us for a day of history, creativity and community as The Box’s powerful new exhibition, ‘Remember, Respond, Resist’ meets the Plymouth Community History Festival. Through talks, performances, family activities and more, we’ll explore stories of protest, resilience and belonging – past and present. Find out more below.
Hello Sailor
Join us for the event of the summer as ‘Hello Sailor’ splashes into Tinside Lido. This joyful celebration of art, what it means to us, bodies and how much we can do with them will feature local strong people, synchronised swimmers and live music. Take a dip in the pool before you go if you wish – and witness a surprise appearance from an ‘unclothed’ Plymouth icon. All will be revealed on the day!
Artists on the Big Screen: The Witching Hour – Tyler Mellins
Collaged together using footage from the film archive at The Box, ‘The Witching Hour’ positions the local landscape as a psychological stage for strange dreams and fears to play out on. As the film progresses, it collapses into nightmarish visions of witches and evil spirits. Drawing on regional folk customs and LGBT+ histories, this newly-commissioned film by artist Tyler Mellins encourages us to ‘turn and face the strange’, embracing those different from ourselves and resisting harmful narratives.
Surreal Estates
Works of art by over 260 children and young people from across the region are now on display at The Box following a competition that took place earlier in 2025 inspired by surrealism and landscape.
Sonya Dyer: hybrida composita
What will the waters of Plymouth Sound look like in the future? In the wake of a global climate catastrophe, can we imagine which creatures will survive and how they will adapt? This new sculpture by artist Sonya Dyer imagines a creature found in Plymouth’s waters many centuries from now.