Get it Loud in Libraries Academy: Music Artist 360
Calling all Teen Music Artists – write and record your own tracks, learn music production, videography and much more on this free week-long academy. Free lunch included. Sign up
Birthday Week Library Tour
To celebrate Central Library’s 115th Birthday there will be a special tour of this beautiful public building, and a showcase of library artefacts from the Showtown collection too. There will be some stairs involved if you want to delve into the basement with us, but otherwise the tour will be accessible to people with mobility […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]