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21 Feb

Theatre Q&A: Erin Shanagher

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsTheatre, Dance & Performance

Blackpool-born Erin Shanagher is taking to Manchester's Royal Exchange stage in David Eldridge's two-hander Beginning. Premiered at the National Theatre in 2017, it's an intimate and beautifully comic play about risking it all and wearing your heart on your sleeve. Shanagher is a recurring cast member in ITV's The Bay, and other TV credits include Peaky Blinders. She's patron of Blackpool School of Arts, where she studied, and a fierce advocate for the town and working-class actors. In Beginning she plays Laura, alongside Gerard Kearns (Shameless) as Danny. The 100-minute, real-time play finds the pair brought together by circumstance. He’s the…

18 Feb

Preview: Kick Like a Girl at Bootleg

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigsbootlleg social, Music

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Loose Articles invite you to join them on their musical journey on Saturday 25th February at Bootleg Social. The all-female Manchester quartet specialise in discordant, hypnotic repetition, tales of nights out, and radical politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Loose Articles will share the secrets of what it’s really like to be successful in the male-dominated genre of punk music. If you are female or identify as female, you can go along on Saturday to shadow the band and their crew at sound check, and ask as many questions as you like afterward. In return. They will add your name to their VIP LAFC club and…

04 Feb

Boldly exploring futuristic and heritage film at the Winter Gardens Film Festival this February

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, HeritageBlackpool, community, entertainment, Film, film festival, filmmaking, heritage, Lancashire, performance, Vintage Film, Winter Gardens Film Festival

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool's very own film festival is back, having announced a programme of screenings, talks and workshops full of futuristic film and vintage delights. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Following last year's comeback event, The Winter Gardens Film Festival returns to the iconic venue from the 11th to 12th February 2023 and will include its usual variety of classic and contemporary film. Main screenings will take place in the wonderful Opera House at the Winter Gardens. Built in 1939 as a cine-variety theatre, combining a super cinema with a world class stage for theatrical performance, the venue's capacity of just under 3000 makes it the…

03 Feb

Theatre preview: Barely Visible

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsTheatre, Dance & Performance

Issues faced by queer women are explored in powerful solo theatre show's UK tour which arrives at Blackpool’s newest theatre space, the Old Electric, this month. Acclaimed Liverpool performance artist Rowena Gander will shine a spotlight on issues that queer women face on a daily basis in Barely Visible on 24th February. It’s an empowering physical performance that explores sexualisation, (fe)male gaze and what it really feels like to live in the shadows. Watch the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDS2eoX3W_w With incredible strength, a 100-kilo vertical pole, and a lot of humour, this powerful solo performance covers identity, objectification and what it…

08 Dec

Preview: Madame Scrooge

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsTheatre, Dance & Performance

It is Christmas Eve and Madame scrooge is visited by three ghosts who show her past, present, and future. This weekend House of Wingz presents a fantastically funky fresh twist on the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. The hip hop dance and performing arts school is using original language fused with explosive dance styles, spoken word, rap and an electro swing soundtrack to tell the familiar story in an original and exciting way and bring the old tale new relevance for young people in Blackpool. House of Wingz is a Blackpool based collective of young people, emerging artists, and local…

05 Dec

Reclaim the Night: Blackpool women issue call to action

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunities

Women, children and male allies will be marching through the streets of Blackpool town centre on Friday evening (9th Dec) to Reclaim the Night. Reclaim the Night was a movement that began in Leeds in 1977 following the police response to the Yorkshire Ripper – instructing women to stay out of public spaces after dark. Women demanded that public spaces should be safe for anyone to be, irrelevant of gender, by joining together and marching through the streets after dark. After the brutal murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021, the Metropolitan Police issued similar advice, leading to a second…

20 Nov

Take her serious: Sophie Aspin on her new single

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Sophie Aspin chats to Blackpool Social Club about her new single “Original, I’m no remix/ stepped up in my Jordan Ones cause that’s what a queen is,” spits Sophie Aspin on a brand new single. The 20-year-old rapper wants to show us all she’s grown up – but lost none of her sense of humour. Don’t Take It Serious is a tongue-in-cheek take down of anyone who doubted her as a serious artist and the online hate that’s been directed her way since she featured in the notorious Noisey documentary The Controversial Rise of Blackpool Grime and the subsequent Channel…

11 Nov

Music Q&A: Everclear

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Cult American alt-rock bands Soul Asylum and Everclear are arriving at The Waterloo on 13th November during their co-headline tour. Marking their 30th anniversary as a band this year, Everclear have kicked things up a notch in 2022 as they celebrate the major milestone amidst a career already filled with huge achievements. After forming in Portland in 1992, The band released their full-length debut World of Noise a year later. Amassing a range of fan favourite hits with the likes of Santa Monica and Father Of Mine, Everclear have sold over six million records, achieved four gold or platinum albums,…

24 Oct

Creative Opportunities & commissions for November 2022

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunitiescommission, funding, jobs, opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in November 2022. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1657909055679{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffe758 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="36221" img_size="large" alignment="center" title="Stalls available at Blackpool Heritage Action Zone's Christmas Market"][vc_column_text] Blackpool Creative Market is back on December 3rd - this time with a festive flavour! They're pulling out the stops for Christmas, so on the day there will be there will be a variety of creative workshops and…

20 Oct

Music Q&A: Beth Nielsen Chapman

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Two-time Grammy nominee Beth Nielsen Chapman is back with her 15th album, CrazyTown and an extensive run of UK dates this Autumn, including Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion on 15th November. With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Beth proves she’s still as vital as ever with an essential new album CrazyTown and an enviable back catalogue. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016, the Nashville-based singer has also recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, Elton John and Neil Diamond, plus many more. What inspires your music and songwriting?My life inspires my music and songwriting, probably more than anything else,…