Find out what arts and culture opportunities are happening in Surrey
Surrey Youth Arts and Culture Festival
Would you like to get involved with our annual Youth Arts and Culture Festival? 2025 dates and information coming soon!
You can keep in touch with events happening in and around Surrey on the Surrey Arts pages.
Check out what Surrey's National Portfolio Organisations have to offer
Youth theatre – for anyone aged 8 to 17, led by professional leaders and artists- No Strings Attached – annual grant programme which aims to help young people aged 18 to 25 make their first piece of professional theatre and explore a potential career within the arts.
- Regular activities for young people
New Adventures is committed to working with young people of all backgrounds and levels of dance experiences, to share our passion for dance, theatre and creativity.
From early years through to A-level studies we offer one-off workshops and residencies that take young people on an adventure of discovery and expression through our unique story telling language and playful creative method.
Discover more about the New Adventures Schools and Young People’s programme and check out the Learn and Explore resources for New Adventures productions, including Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Nutcracker!, Romeo and Juliet, and many more.
Stopgap run a range of youth and adult community dance groups across the southeast of England, who all use the inclusive dance syllabus IRIS. These provide stimulating experiences for enthusiastic participants, some of whom go on to enter the apprentice scheme.
Stopgap also run bespoke community dance projects across the globe, giving rich insight into contemporary dance and social inclusion.
Established in 2013, Second Hand Dance has an adaptive leadership model, run by disabled Co-Director Rosie Heafford and non-disabled Co-Director Claire Summerfield. Creating joyful, inspirational performances and digital dance films for children and adults, the company has presented work across three continents. The company collaborates with dancers, film-makers, animators, musicians and audiences in a co-creation process that is accessible, welcoming to all bodies, and places the audience experience at its centre.
Second Hand Dance became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in 2023.
The Lightbox is an award-winning art gallery and museum, based in the heart of Woking, Surrey.
As an independent charity, they believe in the transformative power of visual arts and deliver our mission through a programme of modern and contemporary visual art, outreach activity, and housing The Ingram Collection and Woking’s Story.
They offer a range of opportunities, including creative workshops for 11 to 16 year olds, work experience with The Lightbox team, as well as volunteering opportunities.
Freewheelers is a diverse and creative company of people with disabilities based in Leatherhead. They work alongside directors, producers, composers, artists and writers, to co-create and produce engaging, thought-provoking, funny, joyous and highly entertaining theatre, dance, film, and music.
For over thirty years they have been a force for change and artistic excellence in the world of Disability Arts.
With locations across Surrey, they make theatre, dance, film, music and visual art that challenges perceptions and defies expectations.
Their person-centred approach, creative process and the friendly Freewheeler welcome creates an environment in which our members’ confidence, independence, social skills and self expression thrive.
They run a youth theatre group on Monday evenings, 5.30pm to 7.30pm in Leatherhead. The group is suitable for young people with disabilities between 12 to 25 years. Contact them directly for further information.