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Inspired by Stripes: Green Libraries Week Workshop

Join nature artist Winston Plowes – Land Artist for a playful and relaxing workshop intuitively making art from nature’s resources at your local library. In a ‘Pop up Artists Studio’ you will use printing techniques using natural pigments and handmade stamps. In Inspired by Stripes we will be making marks in new ways and laughing […]
Date: 27/10/2026
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Palatine Library
Price: Free

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 […]
Date: 27/10/2026 - 02/01/2027
Price: Adults £3 | Children Free

Lightpool Festival lights up for it’s 10th birthday

Thirty artworks, 10 world premieres, the return of Carnival Magic and 10-metre comminity-sewn tapestry – Blackpool’s biggest light-art party turns 10 this October half term, running from Wednesday 21 to Saturday 31 October. Ten years ago, Lightpool Festival started as an idea – that Blackpool’s illuminated heritage could stretch further than the seafront and that […]
Date: 27/10/2026 - 31/10/2026
Location: Various locations
Price: Free

Sweetness and Light: Grundy serves a three-course feast for Autumn

Three autumn exhibitions, including a confectionery-inspired glass show by Liverpool artist Linny Venables, open as the gallery marks its 115th birthday Rock, ice-cream and illuminations have long been Blackpool’s trade. This autumn, Grundy Art Gallery is making them the centrepiece of a trio of exhibitions. Threy open at the Queen Street gallery on Saturday 24 […]
Date: 27/10/2026 - 19/12/2026
Location: Grundy Art Gallery
Price: Free

Food for Thought: Edward Street Gallery opens with photographic look at food insecurity

A new gallery space in the town centre’s heritage action zone launches with Food for Thought, a University of Liverpool-backed exhibition on the Household Support Fund by Claire Walmsley Griffiths. A new photography gallery opened its doors for the first time on Monday night, adding another creative space to the heart of Blackpool town centre. […]
Date: 27/10/2026 - 28/10/2026
Also occurs on: 03/11/2026, 04/11/2026, 10/11/2026, 11/11/2026, 17/11/2026, 18/11/2026, 24/11/2026, 25/11/2026
Price: Free

Heathers the Musical

Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is so very a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That […]
Date: 27/10/2026 - 31/10/2026
Location: Grand Theatre
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