A fun session for those who love to act, explore, use their imaginations, play drama games and make new friends. This class is for existing BYA students only.

For anyone who fancies drawing a self-portrait, join award winning artist Catherine MacDiarmid and explore what we’ve all got used to – the ‘Zoom view’ of ourselves. 

This drama workshop will explore different creative ways to perform online and create together. Our workshops are designed for children and are ideal for the whole family.

Create wonderful lights and darks in your drawings using soft willow charcoal.

Whether you’re new to creative writing and fancy a laugh or a writer who would like to inject more humour into your work.

From lighting to charcoal drawing techniques join Catherine MacDiarmid in this workshop exploring setting and drawing a self-portrait in tone.

Pick up a brush and start to explore the magical qualities of watercolour in this introduction to some key watercolour skills.

Self-portraits are revealing but what if we mask reality? Use wigs, hats, glasses, moustaches, masks, face paints etc and join a fun zoom workshop drawing yourself in disguise. Go as wild as you dare!

Using short writing exercises we’ll explore dialogue, making characters sound realistic and different from each other.

Six albums in, Joanne Shaw Taylor has nothing to prove, but plenty to say.

The story of Smoove & Turrell began in the post-millennium North East of England with a group of working-class lads and a shared passion for soul.

Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children and their families… but without the rude bits!

Sharon Shannon is a musician who continues to surprise. While she is known for her arrangements of traditional Irish tunes and Irish-influenced compositions, she has always been eager to explore new styles, and to meet and work with other musicians.

What was Philadelphia’s loss is Manchester’s gain, with the inimitable force behind BC Camplight, Brian Christinzio.

Nonsense Room Productions bring you a brand new interactive musical show for all the family. But in this show – YOU CHOOSE what happens!

Cara Dillon, the multi-award winning Northern Irish singer, returns this Autumn to perform some of her favourite and most popular songs along with her band.

Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker

Mystery Jets are an English indie rock band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London.

British Indie outfit The Rifles rose to popularity in the mid-2000s with their swaggering, jaunty garage rock & roll sound.

In this all-new show, multi-award winning stand-up comic Rob Newman weaves together Nietzsche’s sunglasses, James Bond in Toxteth, electric spiders and singing Neanderthals into a hilarious tour-de-force that offers new hopes for a changing world.

A dynamic four-piece of fiddle, flute, guitar and percussion, Gnoss tackle energetic tune sets and driving folk song with a ‘maturity of ability many of a greater age will envy’.

Tim Burgess is lead singer of one of the defining bands of the ’90s, The Charlatans.

For one night only, St Johns Hospice Choir and Fellside singers come together for a beautiful evening of contemporary choir music in aid of St Johns Hospice.

Join Tez as he uses his trademark silly, smart and subversive approach to pit ordinary people against the establishment

Mary Coughlan is one of Ireland’s greatest female jazz and blues singers, a true artist who has carved out a highly regarded career and a legion of devoted fans worldwide.

Attention Earth!… Do not be alarmed…. Contact with the extra-terrestrial musical collective – HENGE – is imminent.

Attention Earth!… Do not be alarmed…. Contact with the extra-terrestrial musical collective – HENGE – is imminent.

You’ve seen him on television, now experience his trademark blend of laugh-out-loud comedy and jaw-dropping magic live on stage.

Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife.

Encompassing a rare and virtuosic selection of the fiddle’s diverse Highland and island voices, with ensemble and solo-led sets both backed by powerhouse guitar and piano, the Blazers pack all the power, passion and sensitivity of Scotland’s traditional music, into a single show.

2020 sees the 35th anniversary of The Smiths’ legendary second album “Meat is Murder”.