Community Arts Archive - Stanley Arts London

Community

Stanley Arts is a home for arts and community activity. We have a growing programme of different community activities for people to get involved with. From the three year Inventing South Norwood culture programme, to one-off arts workshops, to our Croydon Emerging Writers Programme, we have lots of free activities for you to get involved in. This part of the website hosts all the current and past programmes in one place.

Croydon Pride’s Got Talent 2022: Performer Call Out

Croydon Pride’s Got Talent 2022 is a variety competition organised by Croydon Pride in conjunction with Stanley Arts to showcase the brightest and best of Croydon’s LGBT+ community. This will be the culmination of Stanley Arts LGBT+ History Month Festival and will launch Croydon Pride’s 2022 programme. Croydon Pride exists to represent and empower the […]

Truth To Power Café: Open Call

This is an open call for South London based female, non-binary and gender fluid speakers to share their experiences and talk truth to power at the next Truth To Power Café at Stanley Arts Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café is a profound theatrical reflection on loss, hope and resistance – this internationally acclaimed performance event […]

Panto Dame Costume Competition

Our Pantomime Dame Costume Competition is now over, but the final winner is yet to be announced! Stanley Arts kickstarted the run up to Christmas with our very own costume competition. The process was simple: use our template to draw a design and send it to us via email for your age category before November […]

CREW

CREW (CRoydon Emerging Writers) is a peer-led writers group that is open to all. CREW was founded in order to bring together both aspiring and experienced writers alike, to allow them to collaborate, gain feedback on their work, and talk in a safe and non-judgemental space with other like-minded creatives. All CREW projects have been […]

Invention Archive

The South Norwood Invention Archive will record the local history of invention and celebrate examples of current innovation from the area. We will be delving into South Norwood’s history and then using that content to inspire the creation of a story of invention for South Norwood. Over the three years of the culture programme, the […]

Invention Points

Throughout the three years there will be regular pop-up Invention Points, starting in October 2021 with the very first Invention Point to be held at the Clocktower Market. Invention points might be a workshop or a lecture, the performance of a piece of music or the sharing of spoken word. They will be a chance for […]

Inventing South Norwood

A celebration of South Norwood’s history of invention and creativity. Over three years the programme will deliver online and in-person events that engage the whole of our local community in our unique local story of invention. The project will be inspired by famous South Norwood historic figures like the inventor & industrialist William Stanley and […]

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