A Festival of Connections – Saturday Celebration
Join DAiSY on Saturday 22nd November for a full day of inclusive arts and community-led creativity. This special event highlights the work of artists from across Surrey and beyond, offering a rich mix of performances, exhibitions, workshops, and screenings.
Throughout the venue, visitors can explore a wide range of artistic experiences – from live music, dance to film screenings and immersive installations. Participatory activities, such as collaborative canvas painting and clay sculpture workshops, offer opportunities for everyone to get involved, while curated exhibitions explore themes like connection, place, and identity.
Organisations including Freewheelers, Bloomin’ Arts, Orpheus, Post19, Art Venture, and others will share their work in spaces throughout the building – transforming G-Live into a hub of creative exchange.
Free, family-friendly, and inclusive. This event is open to the public.
Saturday Celebration
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This is a family friendly event that it is open to the public. While some workshops are ticketed, you can spend the day at G Live exploring free exhibitions, stalls, workshops and performances. We’ll have BSL interpreters and helpful festival stewards on site to assist you. G Live has a great cafe to keep you refreshed throughout the day.
Our Theme – Connections
We’ve chosen Connections as this year’s theme to celebrate the collaborative spirit at the heart of our network model. By bringing together artists, disability organisations and cultural partners, we see how shared ideas and experiences spark more ambitious, inclusive cultural projects. Connections invites us to reflect on the value of working together to build stronger, more creative communities.
What does the theme make you think about? There will be plenty of opportunity to join in the conversation over the two day festival, either at our ticketed ‘long table’ forum on the Friday, or at our Saturday celebration event.
- How can creative work help us build connections – with each other, with our environment, or even with ourselves?
- How do we build cultural ecosystems that are inclusive, sustainable, and bold?
- How do networks empower us, sustain us, and help us imagine new futures?
- How can we centre care — for ourselves, each other, and the land — as a foundational principle in cultural practice?