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01 Nov

StoryFutures offer funded training for Unboxed Festival project

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsOpportunitiesAugmented Reality, funding, opportunities, training, Virtual Reality

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] StoryFutures are seeking diverse UK based storytellers to take part in a nationwide immersive project about our past, our future and our belonging. The StoryTrails project is one of ten to be part of the Unboxed 2022 programme of events (formerly "Festival 2022"). The project will bring untold stories from the past to life through 3D internet using augmented and virtual reality to reanimate public spaces in towns and cities across the UK creating a free, entertaining and playful family-friendly experience. Creatives will develop their innovative ideas using immersive technology in AR* and will receive fifteen thousand pounds reimbursement,…

26 Oct

Make! Craft! Live! The Halloween Crafternoon Tea Party

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsVisual Arts & Exhibitionsceramics, crafts, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, workshops

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On their 50th anniversary, the Crafts Council has announced that they have selected Blackpool's Aunty Social as a Make! Craft Live! partner. The Crafts Council celebrates this special birthday from October 2021 to October 2022 with a season of nationwide exhibitions, learning events, fairs, and digital activities that celebrates the value of craft to empower, enrich and connect our society. These craft activities will take place at venues across the UK such as craft studios, museums, galleries, schools and community centres. Aunty Social is pleased to be selected as one of the Crafts Council’s partners. Working together we will…

22 Oct

New Creative Market is coming to Blackpool

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal NewsArt, artist, Blackpool Creative Market, Craft, makers, market

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On Saturday 23rd October, Blackpool Winter Gardens will play host to a range of independent designers, artisans and creatives from across the Fylde Coast. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The first of its kind in Blackpool, the marketplace will bring together more than 20 invited artists and makers, giving visitors a chance to purchase unique artworks, homeware, fashion and foodie gifts. Visitors can explore at their leisure what the Fylde Coast’s talented artists and makers have to offer. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Jessie Crook from sustainable hair accessory makers That Scrunchie Brand says: [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1634897868048{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffe758 !important;}"]“We…

20 Oct

Open casting call: Trans women, Trans men, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse people

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsOpportunitiesacting, casting, Film, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Trans

Casting call for Trans women and men as well as people who identify as Non-Binary or Gender Diverse to star in a Blackpool-based film in the first half of November 2021. Shaheen Baig Casting is looking for UK based people to feature in an exciting Short Film produced by Mercury Studios shooting in Blackpool in November 2021. They would love to hear from the following: TRANS YOUNG WOMEN AND/OR TRANS FEMMES (16+) This is to play the lead character Charlie (she/her) who is 16 years old You must be 16yrs or older TRANSGENDER, NON-BINARY AND GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE (16-25) This…

06 Oct

Poet JB Barrington to perform at Blackpool’s newest venue

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLiterature & Spoken Word, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceJB Barrington, Old Electric

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cult performance poet JB Barrington is bringing his hard-hitting show Lacking Poetential to Blackpool’s The Old Electric on Saturday 16 October. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The award-winning performance poet is renowned for his searing and satirical poetry, snarling delivery of strong sentiments and sharp rhymes. His funny, endearing and nostalgic poetry has made him one of the most powerful performers on the UK scene. Lacking Poetential delivers a rollercoaster of emotions with a brilliant and imaginative display of poetic writing covering social issues, economics, class and loss.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Barrington's unique, gritty style has won him several high-profile fans, including the bands Sleaford Mods and Reverend…

29 Sep

Calling local creative groups – How well supported do you feel by Arts Council Funded organisations?

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal Newsarts, community, community groups, volunteer, volunteering

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Creative Lives is a registered charity that champions community and volunteer-led creative activity, and works to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. One of their main areas of work is celebrating and promoting the ways that people express themselves creatively with others, recognising the benefits this kind of activity can bring. Creative Lives is meeting with the Arts Council to share the experiences and needs of the creative voluntary sector and need you to tell them what you think is important. They want to connect the different parts of the cultural landscape, so that everyone has the opportunity to improve their…

28 Sep

Confessional comedy show Catch 22 Years come to The Old Electric

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsTheatre, Dance & PerformanceComedy, Old Electric, performance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hard-hitting confessional comedy show Catch 22 Years is set to thrill Blackpool audiences when it comes to Blackpool on Thursday 7 October. Catch 22 Years is a hilarious, brutally honest, heart-warming and provocative, one-woman show tackling the taboo of addiction.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The highly-rated comedy show, written by and starring Katie O’Brien, explores the performer's own battles with addiction which saw her quit alcohol a year before she was legally allowed to drink. This truly unique performance is the comedy actor’s first self-confessional piece of theatre – and anyone who has seen the show rates it for both its honesty and absolute…

22 Sep

Open Call: Blackpool Creative Market – Sat 23 October 2021

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool Heritage Action Zone is excited to announce that it will hold a makers market on Saturday 23 October 2021. They hope to showcase the very best of artists and makers working on the Fylde Coast this creative event. The market will be the first of a series and will take place in St John's Square. Not only is this is a unique half term selling opportunity that's not to be missed, it's your chance to help shape the markets so that they work well for local artists and makers. They're looking for Fylde Coast based stallholders with great…

18 Sep

Review: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis live at the Blackpool Opera House

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigslive music, Music, Music Venues, Opera House, review, Reviews, rock, soul, Winter Gardens

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 10/09/2021 PEACE WILL COME An odd choice of venue for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis? Perhaps. This, however, did not deter a large audience in the grand auditorium of Blackpool Opera House with its 2,813-seat capacity. They were dressed to the nines, with some resembling Cave himself! This being the first joint bill tour, Cave and Ellis may have felt they had something to prove, and prove it they did. Pre-show, the stage was impressive even with the house lights up, with its array of musical instruments including a grand piano, guitar, drums, violin and something mysterious in a…

07 Sep

COMPETITION: Nick Cave gig tickets giveaway

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigslive music, Music, Nick Cave, Opera House

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are performing this Friday night at the Blackpool Opera House, one of 20 UK shows, and we have tickets to give away. Previously members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, formed in 1983, the Australian rock band created a stir in the alternative rock, post-punk, and gothic rock genre. On the back of 17 studio albums, they have also had numerous international tours and hit songs such as Do you love me? and Into My Arms. Memorably, Nick Cave duetted with Kylie Minogue on the track Where the Wild Roses Grow which charted…