NetPark – the world’s first digital art park offers an extra layer of activity to the usual park life in Chalkwell Park. Open all year round, it currently hosts 15 digital artworks and stories, created by artists, musicians, writers, illustrators and Southend school pupils.

Do you remember your Arts Award Adviser? Did they inspire you and support you to do your best? Sign up to become an Arts Award Adviser today!  

Are you aged 14 to 19 years old, creative and interested in learning more about working in the arts?

Aged 18-25 and interested in museums and creative learning?

We want your innovation, passion and ideas to help us develop, create and deliver family activities for our September Acton Depot Open Weekend.  

PEER presents Smile Please, a significant new body of ‘painted drawings’ by Simon English, accompanied by other recent works on paper and rarely seen sculptural assemblages created by the artist between 2014 and 2018.

Gallery open 12 to 6pm Wednesday to Saturday and by appointment.

21 July to 22 September

artsdepot is passionate about art and artists and our annual artsdepot Open exhibition is a celebration of creativity. Emerging and established artists from Barnet, London and the rest of the UK are welcome to apply for a chance to have their work displayed at artsdepot in our Apthorp Gallery. This exhibition is a great opportunity for our audiences to experience and buy a wide range of diverse and exciting artwork.

Do you love writing? Do you love fringe theatre? Then you're in luck! We're looking for a group of talented 16-25 year olds to review shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Malvern Theatres’ Advanced Drama Course returns this August (16th-25th), providing practical skills to help aspiring actors succeed in the industry. The nine-day intensive course for young adults (aged 16+) is taught by experienced professionals and covers everything from improvisation and stage combat to audition techniques and movement in performance.

Dali’s Guest is an engaging collaboration of real life stories, dance, music and visual art inspired by the effects of cancer on the body and Surrealist visual art.

An informal chance for regional artists and companies to showcase new work and try it out in front of a live audience. ‘Pay what you decide’ at the end of the night and all donations will be distributed equally between the artists and The Civic to support the development of their work.

Post Show Q&A

Walk in the footsteps of JMW Turner and discover the local spots in Richmond and Twickenham that inspired him.

‘Like a rave version of The Masons’, Evening Standard 

MK ULTRA will blow your mind. Be dazzled by bright lights, superhuman dancing and pounding trap music as choreographer Rosie Kay and filmmaker Adam Curtis collaborate to create a bold commentary on the rise of conspiracy. 

As millions of young people turn away from established political systems, MK ULTRA looks at conspiracy and myth within popular culture and ideas about who really is in control. Taking its inspiration from the CIA code for the real LSD-fuelled brainwashing experiments by the US Military, MK ULTRA shines a light on the Illuminati and temptations to cross to the dark side.