Getting involved in Southampton’s Arts and Culture couldn’t be easier. There are many opportunities.
Create Southampton is a fantastic resource website for creatives in Southampton and is designed to assist all forms of creative talent within the city
Take an Art Vault Tour Art Vaults is a collaboration between the Conservation Department of Southampton City Council and the a space arts organisation whereby seven of the medieval vaults in the Old Town are used as exhibition spaces for artists, housing some of the finest and most varied contemporary artworks from across the Country.
The Nuffield Theatre offers a range of ways that both young people and adults can get involved, ranging from Youth Theatre and Drama Clubs for young people to a course for would-be playwrights and theatre workshops for adults. Including:
The Active Arts Community is a community arts group based in the city. Working with the wider community, they create inspiring, family-friendly activities and events, using their skills as a group in Drumming, Didgeridoo, Arts & Crafts, Poetry, Story telling, Dance, Cooking, Circus skills, Self Care and Singing.
Southampton Colleges and Universities offer a wide range of Creative and artistic courses, such as photography, fashion, fine art, graphic design, product design, drama, script writing, media etc. See the Study and Skills section for links to Southampton’s further and higher education.
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people, managed by Arts Council England and funded by the DfES and DCMS and among other things aims to improve schools approaches to culture, creativity and partnership working and raising the aspirations of young people.
Cultural Strategy is a document that aims to express a cultural vision for the city in the future. It looks at the city's current strengths and weaknesses, our aspirations and ways to achieve them. All local authorities are required by the government to produce this document.
Southampton's New Arts Complex (SNAC) will be a visual, performing, moving image and Asian arts organisations, with equipment and facilities for community and professional performers, artists and film-makers, will occupy the lower floors of a larger residential scheme, featuring landmark towers and overlooking East Park.
Red Hot Press is a fine art print workshop open to the public, and dedicated to the production and promotion of original prints as a Fine Art medium. It is a print facility that caters for relief and intaglio printmaking techniques. All are welcome from interested beginners to accomplished printmakers to learn and use printmaking as a creative process.