Welcome to the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark and a landscape of dramatic changes, of exploration and discovery.
To kick start the 10th Geopark Festival celebrations the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark is delighted to launch the Earth Echoes film. This film documents the development of the incredible community lead opening ceremony of the 7th International Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks.
Click here for The Earth Echoes Learning Pack, resources and evaluation report
The film, accompanies the full Earth Echoes Learning Pack ( link above) script, music score, mp3’s, as well as the project evaluation report. Newly available, the pack allows access to best practise for those seeking to engage with local communities and volunteers around a common purpose. It will be of great benefit to organisations, here and abroad, interested in replicating any type of creative community engagement activity.
The conference, was hosted by the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark in September 2016 in Torquay and welcomed over 700 international delegates. It was hailed the most successful ever by both UNESCO and the president of the Global Geoparks Association.
The success was in part due to an incredible Arts Council funded, community lead and performed opening ceremony. It told the story of the planet through all of the geological ages through to asking a fundamental question of today; what will we leave behind? It provided a key message that #therockconnectsus. The performance involved over 100 members of the local community, aged 8 to 80. Performers included students from South Devon College, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Doorstep and the Barbican Plymouth. The performance received a standing ovation from the international delegates who were truly enthralled.
To access the full archive for the 7th International Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks please click here.
To kick start the 10th Geopark Festival celebrations the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark is delighted to launch the Earth Echoes film. This film documents the development of the incredible community-led opening ceremony of the 7th International Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks held at the RICC in September 2016.
HUNDREDS of delegates from all around the world have converged on Torbay for one of the most important conferences ever held locally this week.
The International Conference on Unesco Global Geoparks has attracted more than 700 delegates from 120 global geoparks from 63 different countries to Torquay.
Prof Steward, who is Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute, PlymouthUniversity, said: "AS patron of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark, I am delighted that the 7th International Conference will be taking place here in Devon, in an area of such outstanding beauty as well as geological significance.
WE'RE all off on a selfie scavenger hunt — and you're all invited to join us.
All summer long we are joining South Devon College for a celebration of our magnificent Geopark South Devon scenery, and there are great prizes to be won.
Cockington Visitor Centre
Go on an adventure with your little explorers! Borrow a backpack full of things to do & look...
Meet our patron
Television's favourite geologist Prof. Iain Stewart is patron of the English Riviera Geopark.
Iain is the presenter of Journeys from the Centre of the Earth, the award winning BBC series Earth - The Power of the Planet and his current BBC series How Earth Made Us.
In November 2009, the English Riviera Geopark signed a partnership agreement with the Hong Kong Geopark, allowing both Geoparks to strengthen
their international relationship. Click here to find out more about our sister Geopark
