In 2025 Blystra Arts were commissioned by Safer Stronger Communities to explore why young people living in Newquay were leaving the town to build lives and work elsewhere. The Office for National Statistics data shows that Newquay has fewer young people in their teens...
Stories from the Station, our GWR funded project is leaving the station. After ten months of exploring, creating, learning and making during our Stories from the Station project, it has finally come to an end and what an amazing ten months it has been. During the...
Since 2022 Blystra Arts have been involved in the lantern parade activity across Newquay, running workshops in schools and joining in the parade itself, adding wonder and awe to the parade with bigger, willow lanterns made by one of our main artists, Chris Nixon. In...
In 2026 we’re excited to be touring not one, but two shows working with nineteen actors and three backstage crew from across Cornwall aged from 12 to 20 years. The two plays we’ve been working on this season couldn’t be more different. The first is a striking, gothic...
Throughout 2025 Blystra Arts have been lucky enough to be running a project, Stories from the Station, which has involved multiple community partners and creative activity across Newquay. The project was funded by Great Western Railway’s Customer and Community...
