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.

New Beginnings 2024: Free rehearsal space in our Scene Dock

New Beginnings is an opportunity for artists/companies to use rehearsal space at Stanley Arts for FREE, for five consecutive days, with a sharing of their work at the end.

Playground Tours 2023

Back in the beginning of July, ourselves and The Place received funding as part of […]

Join Open-air Movement Classes this Autumn

Join an open air movement class this autumn! This gentle exercise is a great way of enjoy nature and movement. Led by Anusha Subramanyam.

Volunteer at the Carnival of Invention

We’re looking for volunteers to help with our take over of Station Road for the […]

Queers Arts Comission: Applications now open!

Stanley Arts & Raze Collective is offering seed commissions of £5,000, alongside development and fundraising support, for queer artists to create work for production in spring 2024.

Participant Call-out for Dance Umbrella Festival 2023

Dance Umbrella are looking for two groups of people aged 12-18 and 55+ to perform in Family (dys)Function, a brand-new intergenerational dance theatre production from award-winning BirdGang Ltd.

Micro-grants applications now open for natural heritage projects

This micro-grant programme is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund for small, natural heritage and biodiversity-promoting initiatives as part of the London Borough of Culture. The application deadline is 11.59pm on Sunday 28th May 2023.

Stanley Arts Development Surgeries

Are you an individual artist or a company with a great creative idea, but you need some advice or support to help make it happen? Why not come in for a half hour chat with a member of the Stanley Arts team? We love to nurture artistic work, whether or not it is part of the Stanley Arts programme.

New Artist Opportunity – Writing: Redefined

Applications are now closed. Writing: Redefined is an innovative new writing programme, intended to push […]

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