In 2025 Blystra Arts received funding from Great Western Railway’s Customer and Community Improvement Fund to deliver their project: Stories from the Station (SFTS), a creative heritage project that explores the impact Newquay station has had on the town. SFTS is a...
Empowering Newquay’s Future is a partnership project between Newquay Town Council, Newquay Orchard, Newquay BID, Young People Cornwall, The Careers Hub, Newquay Tretherras, Treviglas Academy, Blystra Arts and Groundswell CIC, which is about inspiring young people in...
In 2022 Blystra Arts took on the running of Cornwall Youth Theatre Company (CYTC). The group took a break in 2020/2021 due to the Covid 19 pandemic, and Jackie and Dave who had run the company for 38 years decided that they wanted to step down in 2022, which is when...
Since 2019 Blystra Arts have been involved in the Newquay Zombie Crawl running creative workshops across the town as part of the event. Our famous Gruesome Wound Making Workshop has been there from the start, but since 2022 Blystra have been involved in the event to...
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...
The desire to expand on delivering exciting events with a clean, quiet power supply has resulted in the creation of Powered Up. The development of our pedal-powered system using Cultivator Cornwall’s Creative Investment Grant, and a self-funded expansion of our solar...
