Create, learn & take part
Fuel your creativity through workshops, training and expert insight, and opportunities to get hands-on with the arts
Our year-round programme of events, workshops and projects is designed to engage and inspire children, families, young people and adults of all backgrounds, and build connections with, and through, the arts – whether you’re here with us, at home, or in the classroom.
Workshops & masterclasses
Be inspired, hone your skills or discover new ones at events like these.
Sing Out the Summer: Saturday
Sing out the Summer: Sunday
Back Together Again
Two Destination Language: Hope & Ponies
Making Poetry: Experimenting with Interactivity
Out-Spoken Masterclass: September
Making Poetry: Creating Banner Poems
Open for applications
Sign up or register your interest for our latest artistic development series and opportunities to get involved.
Hidden Tracks
Tell the story of a song that changed your life, on stage, as part of our London Literature Festival.
Closing date: 1 September
Our programmes
Throughout the year we run a packed programme of participatory events to encourage creativity and inspire new artists of all ages, from technical courses to school resources to making the arts accessible for all.
Talent & artist development
Opportunities for emerging artists and new talent to work with established artists and leading creatives.
Schools
Creative learning projects, exploratory days, year round workshops and arts-based resources for teachers.
Arts & wellbeing
Nurturing connection and creativity in our communities to improve health and wellbeing through art.
Creative insight
Find inspiration from the work and words of established international artists.
How I create… with Martin O'Brien
Get an insight into the creative process of the performance artist and zombie.
Tavares Strachan: ‘There’s something nice about materialising the absurd’
Enjoy an insight into the Hayward Gallery exhibition Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere from the artist himself.
How I create… with Crazy Smooth
The dancer and choreographer answers questions about his creative process.
Nadia Shireen on Grimwood and becoming an author and illustrator
Nadia Shireen, award-winning children’s author and illustrator of The Cow Who Fell to Earth and Good Little Wolf answers questions on her career.
Nicola Dinan, Bryan Moriarty and Wiz Wharton on first books, inspirations and London
Authors Wiz Wharton, Bryan Moriarty and Nicola Dinan discuss their debut novels, their inspiration and their setting.
Arts unravelled: Why is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony so significant?
Music professor Laura Tunbridge explains when and why Beethoven wrote his most famous masterpiece, the Symphony No.9 with its celebrated ‘Ode to Joy’.
Header image: ‘When I Look at You I Don’t See Colour’ (2023) by Kadi Diallo. Produced by Diallo as part of our Photo Fantastic programme.