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Young People's Programme

Growing creative skills, confidence and collaboration in the new generation — Now online

Are you a young person aged 11 to 30 in Luton?

Do you want to:

develop your creative skills and experience?
access free creative events and opportunities?
see creative events for free?
take part in creative projects in our town?
join a friendly family of creative young Lutonians?

Then join the Revoluton Arts YP Familiam!

Our programme is entirely online for the time being, delivered on Zoom and Facebook Live.

About

Our young people’s programme is a cultural programme for 16 to 30-year-olds in Luton that aims to:

celebrate the unique creativity of Luton’s young people
develop young Lutonians’ creative skills and experience
encourage young people from across the town to collaborate creatively
inspire more young people to participate in arts and creativity — whether as an audience member, or a maker or performer.

To do this, we work in collaboration with Luton’s young people to design programmes of events, activities and projects that reflect their unique interests.

We also bring the UK’s leading creative talent to Luton to work with our young people and help shape the programme.

“@revolutonarts is an amazing project that is just giving young people the space to just be.”

— Young People's Programme participant

Case study on our young people's programme

Learn more about the methods and approaches of our young people's programme in this case study written by Dr Ruth Melville.

'Young People’s Familam is a group, but not a ‘group’ — it is explicitly open and accessible to all, avoiding any sense of clique. The structure is explicitly non-hierarchical: Jo isn’t the leader, but “the glue” – sticking people together, and there’s an attitude of listening and saying "yes".'

Read the case study on our young people's programme.

Case studies on our Young Digital Associates

We’re Revoluton Arts, A Community Interest Company (CIC). Through our training programmes and opportunities we support young people like Ferdusi, Lavz and Tiarnan to nurture their creative interests and build confidence in their abilities.

Ferdusi

Ferdusi is a skilled social media manager and digital strategist who supports young people through her careers curriculum work with schools and businesses. She writes how a chance email to Revoluton Arts not only helped her scratch a creative itch, it led to career opportunities in the arts that she’d never have dreamt of.

Lavz

Lavz is a performer, writer and music producer. We supported her Kickstarter EP launch campaign and provided digital content training that set her up for our Digital Revoluton programme in 2020. She writes how Revoluton Arts provided the support and platform she needed at a time when she wanted to reconnect with her community and local arts scene.

Tiarnan

Tiarnan is an actor, writer and Young Digital Associate. With his first-class presenting skills and digital expertise, he brought his A-game to our lockdown events programme, Digital Revoluton. He writes how his work with Revoluton Arts has helped him grow as a performer and develop skills that will set him up for life - whatever path he chooses.

Events and projects for young people

New programme coming in autumn 2020.

Past projects

Wellington Street Underpass — From drab and dingy to bright and brilliant, Revoluton's young people transformed it into a tunnel of light.
Justice 39 — Large-scale young people's performance project working with world-class professionals