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Playwriting Course
An intensive, in-person course with a limited number of spaces available; participants should commit to attending each week as far as possible. Back for its 10th year, this popular and well tested course will develop your understanding of how to create a play for the stage. Using resources developed by professional playwrights and producing theatres, […]
Incubate: a paid training ground for Blackpool creatives
A new programme of paid professional development workshops begins this September – built specifically around what local artists and producers say they actually need. Delivered by The Old Electric as part of Creative Blackpool’s Sector Development activity, Incubate is a schedule of training workshops, skills-sharing sessions and behind-the-scenes insights into how real projects get made, […]
All Day Breakfast explores Blackpool’s Creative Health
This month’s Creative Blackpool Network Breakfast runs straight into Growing Creative Health in Blackpool, a Showcase & Symposium exploring the town’s creative health. Creative Blackpool’s September Network Breakfast is going to be a belly buster. On Thursday 17 September, the usual morning meeting at Blackpool and the Fylde College University Centre will run straight into […]
Three Acres and A Cow
Radical history show Three Acres And A Cow connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt to contemporary issues via the Enclosures and Industrial Revolution, drawing a compelling narrative through the people’s history of England in folk song, story and poem. Performed by Stroud-based folk singer Katherine Hallewell and musician and historian Robin Grey, it’s part […]
VR Club
Ever wanted to paint a world of your own into existence? Join us for this new 6-week creative journey as we design and exhibit a brand-new digital gallery. Using Open Brush, you’ll learn how to create immersive 3D artworks to take over our Edward Street space. Whether you’re a VR veteran or a complete beginner […]
Murmurations: creative workshops for women
This autumn Blackpool Grand is hosting a new series of Murmurations – interactive sessions for women aged 18+ who are interested in connection and creatively exploring what it means to be a woman living in Blackpool today Across four Saturdays between September and November, the group will work through herstory, comedy, activism and Shakespeare to […]
Confidence Building Improv
Discover the fun and freedom of improvisation in these welcoming and supportive sessions. Whether you’re completely new to improv or already have some experience, these sessions will help you build confidence, think on your feet and trust your own ideas. Through games, creative exercises and plenty of laughter, you’ll develop skills that extend far beyond […]
Life Drawing: The Avant Garde + Light and Shadow
This is a Life Drawing course unlike any other! Artist Mike Cassidy will be here again to lead you through an examination of mark making and the human condition. Joined this time, by renowned performance artist Kris Canavan, the course will also explore the link between performance art and mark-making. You’ll learn about form and […]
Spontaneous Audio Lab
A live performance workshop for improver instrumentalists, vocalist and the DJ controller as an instrument, dancers and spoken word artists from any genre to come together to create live improvised pieces. Led by local multi-instrumentalist, improviser and songwriter Lucy Ray and DJ Devolicious, a workshop will be followed by a performance to a small live […]
World Fireworks Championship
The World Fireworks Championship are set to light up the skies above the seafront again this autumn. The three teams set to compete in this year’s championship have now been announced, with Wales, South Africa and Germany all returning to the resort to battle it out for the prestigious title. Each of this year’s competitors […]
Gallery of Rogues: A Celebration of Women in Art, at Grundy Art Gallery
Gallery of Rogues draws on punk expression, art history and good old-fashioned female rage, with songs, poetry and spoken word. Supported by seed funding from Creative Blackpool, this project draws on creative workshops, research, and the Grundy archives to celebrate women who make, inspire and experience art. Black Liver have created a show that will […]
Sober Sunday Scratch
Are you a writer, poet, or spoken word artist looking for a space to test out new material? Whether you are perfecting a draft, experimenting with a new format, or simply looking to find your voice, join us for Sober Sunday Scratch. Hosted by associate artist Liz Wilkinson every other month, these sessions offer a […]
The Men’s Exchange
A group to connect over conversation, culture, and creativity. We’re not a therapy group, and there’s no pressure to create, perform or share — just an informal space to be yourself, meet new people, talk if you want to, listen if you prefer, and experience something meaningful together. Alongside our monthly meetups, we also go […]
Write Club
A monthly in-person group aimed at anyone interested in writing for the stage. Each month we read aloud new work by members of this group or other playwrights. A peer-supported group for writers who have ideas, scenes or whole plays they have developed; a safe environment for sharing, feeding back and being first to hear […]
Blackpool’s subcultures collide as Style Assembly returns with RESTYLE
House of Wingz brings together the town’s artists, performers and makers for a fifth Style Assembly, this time built around one message: RESTYLE. Blackpool Style Assembly returns on Saturday 24 October, bringing the town’s designers, models, photographers and performers back to House of Wingz for its fifth edition – and this time round, organisers want […]
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A new programme of paid professional development workshops begins this September – built specifically around what local artists and producers say they actually need. Delivered by The Old Electric as part of Creative Blackpool’s Sector Development activity, Incubate is a schedule of training workshops, skills-sharing sessions and behind-the-scenes insights into how real projects get made, […]
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House of Wingz brings together the town’s artists, performers and makers for a fifth Style Assembly, this time built around one message: RESTYLE. Blackpool Style Assembly returns on Saturday 24 October, bringing the town’s designers, models, photographers and performers back to House of Wingz for its fifth edition – and this time round, organisers want […]