Empowering Newquay’s Future

Empowering Newquay’s Future

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...
Cornwall Youth Theatre Company

Cornwall Youth Theatre Company

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...
Newquay Zombie Crawl

Newquay Zombie Crawl

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...
Newquay Lantern Parade and creative activity

Newquay Lantern Parade and creative activity

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...

Powered Up

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...
Snapshots in Time

Snapshots in Time

April – June 2022   Wordpress Photo Gallery   We powered our session with Youth Art Connect using pedal power, and ran the “Bubble Bike Boogie” on Newquay’s Killacourt above the harbour and Towan Beach during the Connecting on the Court event. The...