The National Conference is our flagship annual event – watch the 2025 highlights video.
At the conference, we bring together the entire Outdoor Arts community for inspiring learning opportunities, meaningful collaboration, and vibrant networking. Our hope is that you will leave with new ideas and connections – there is usually a mix of talks, breakout sessions, networking, and discussion opportunities throughout the conference to facilitate this.
Testimonials
Honestly one of the greatest days of my life. Thank you everyone @outdoorartsuk national conference
…It was great to catch up and connect with colleagues across the sector. And also a day of vital and necessary conversations, reminding us all that within a world that currently feels so divided, the arts is a place where Care, Inclusion, Safe Spaces and Wellbeing can and should be nurtured. Thoughts and questions I am left with…
How do we courageously and collaboratively commit and delve into long term change making processes, which involve sitting with discomfort, proactive learning and self reflection, and having honest conversations?…
Last Thursday most of the SO Festival Team attended the Outdoor Arts UK Conference.It was a great event, with lots of opportunities to network and meet artists and other Outdoor Arts Professionals from across the UK, we made sure to champion the outdoor arts in Lincolnshire! There was an interesting programme of talks, from very knowledgeable speakers, which we all found inspiring.It also gave us the opportunity to catch up with our Lincolnshire Outdoor Arts friends, some of whom SO Festival supported to attend the conference. It was also a great opportunity to catch up with many of our partners in the International Programming Consortium.
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National Conference 2025
Equity in Action: The Power of Diverse Narratives, Stoke-on-Trent
National Conference 2023
Reconnect, Bradford
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Main Image Credit: Rave New World by Revoluton,Tangled Feet & Pirates of the Carabina, Outside Marsh House Community Centre Luton, 2025, photo: Greta Zabulyte
