Following the success of the 2024 and 2025 Lantern Parades which happened down in the picturesque Trenance Valley we’re now looking forward to the third Newquay Lantern Parade and Trenance Cottages Lights Switch On event which is set to return on Friday 20th November...
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...
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...
We’re excited to announce two wonderful tours coming up in March & April 2026. The Rime of the Ancient Marriner. The first production to tour will be ‘The Rime of the Ancient Marriner’ a bold retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem lauded as one of the...
