17/06/2026
🏄️ REINVENTING THE RIDE -
AN EXHIBITION AND A SERIES OF EVENTS SET AROUND THE WORLD OF SURFING....
🔆 JAMES A. GRANT: REINVENTING THE RIDE
📅 Tuesday 23rd June – Wednesday 1st July
Award-winning British photographer James A. Grant uses his lens to explore the culture, community and quiet moments that exist where land meets sea. The audience can engage with each shaper through a series of images accompanied by audio headsets.
🗣️ THE BOARD MEETING
📅 Wednesday 24th June 11am - 1pm
Warmly welcoming all surfboard shapers from any level to discuss materials, techniques, share ideas and progress in the approach to surfboard production.
🗣️ RISING TIDE FESTIVAL RECONNECTS
📅 Thursday 25th June 5pm
A free talk by Rising Tide - an organisation that exists to promote a more sustainable approach to surfing and introduce it to a broader audience through collectivism and events.
🔆 NEXT GEN BY KINGSLEY SURF ACADEMY
📅 Saturday 27th June 10.30am - 12pm
Working alongside Surf Academy scholars, visitors will have the opportunity to create and shape their own wooden fingerboards while discussing surf design, creativity and the next generation of makers within surfing culture. Alongside this, the team will also be running a “fast fashion reworked” print station!
🏄♀️ ROMA SURFSHOP PRESENTS BOARD HOARD
📅 Saturday 27th June 1pm - 5pm
Jumble sale for surf and beyond. Roma invites you all to have a stall to swap and sell your used and vintage surf goods. Please contact Roma directly to book your place or just turn up to buy!
📽️ OCEAN CULTURE & FILM SHORTS
📅 Tuesday 30th June, 5pm
A free evening where we'll share stories from our global ocean community, before heading into the cinema for a screening of award-winning short films that capture the beauty, power, and fragility of our ocean world.
🖥️ thepoly.org
📞 01326 319461
