Get Creative Newquay was 14 months of creative community workshops that ran once a month at various venues/locations across Newquay.

Workshops included visual arts, craft, dance and creative movement, music and singing, outdoor activities and everything in between.

The workshops were funded and supported by Cornwall Community Foundation, RAF St Mawgan, Newquay Lions and Newquay Community Orchard.

During this project Blystra Arts also joined the carnival parade and two of the winter parades as well. We paraded large scale puppets at two events, the carnival and the winter festival. The first sculpture was a sea witch sculpture and the 2nd was Morgawr (‘sea giant‘ in Cornish) who according to Cornish folklore is a serpent-like creature who lives in the sea near Falmouth Bay.

The team made other creations with the community too out of recycled materials like empty plastic bottles and food containers.