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 […]
Happiness! The Ken Dodd Exhibition
Opening on 24 June and running until 2 January, this major new exhibition brings Sir Ken Dodd’s extraordinary world of comedy, laughter and happiness to Blackpool in spectacular style. Packed with iconic costumes, famous tickling sticks, rare memorabilia, original notebooks, hilarious props and interactive experiences, it’s a joyful journey through the life and career of […]
Exhibition Preview: Excavation of a Traitorous Body by Holly Kilner
Holly Kilner has made her own body the subject of her first solo show and the results don’t flinch. Excavation of a Traitorous Body previews at Abingdon Studios this Thursday. Across paintings, biomorphic forms and recurring motifs, Blackpool-based disabled artist Holly Kilner charts what she describes as an ongoing negotiation between the body, the medical […]
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, […]