artists Archives - Blackpool Social Club

14 May

LGBTQ+ Positive Voices Exhibition

Lauryn Eliza0 CommentsOpportunities, Visual Arts & Exhibitionsartists, Creative Arts and Futures, Exhibition, LGBTQ

LGBTQ+ artists and creatives are invited to contribute to an online exhibition, launching in June 2021, as a celebration of theirpositive experiences, lives and perspectives. The LGBTQ+ community is continuing to break through social barriers and is becoming inspiring and paramount community in todays modern society empowering people to be their true selves. Art and creative works provide the perfect environment to expressing yourself and immersing into a creative world where anything is truly possible. The Positive Voices online exhibition, which is launching in June 2021, are inviting LGBTQ+ artists and creatives to contribute to the exhibition as a celebration…

19 Apr

SHINE Emerging Artist Programme 2021

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsOpportunitiesartist, artists, commission, funding, illuminations, light, lightpool, lights, opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Light Up the North (LUTN) is a network of 6 light festivals across the north of England. In 2021, four of the festivals are joining together to award funding to emerging artists working with light, to produce and exhibit new commissions at their 2021 light festivals. The SHINE programme aims to nurture and develop new talent, giving artists the opportunity to exhibit or perform new work at four of the LUTN festivals (Light Night Leeds, Light Up Lancaster, Lightwaves at Salford Quays and Lightpool in Blackpool). Up to two artists or collectives will be awarded substantial commissions of up to…

18 Mar

A world of difference – Blackpool Artists calling for democracy in Myanmar

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Visual Arts & Exhibitionsartist, artists, Blackpool

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] You wake up. You reach for your phone. You scroll aimlessly through various media, before peeling yourself out of bed for another tedious day of work and general chit-chat. Day after day. It’s become a little mundane after a year of lockdown, hasn’t it? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]But what if you didn’t have that? What if you couldn’t instantly check and see which festival has optimistically announced the release of tickets in the distant, glorious future of faces free of coverings? What if you couldn’t even challenge your right to this ‘privilege’; to access the internet, to have your vote upheld, to…

25 Jul

Local band issues a Blanket call out to Blackpool’s creatives

David Simper0 CommentsMusic & Gigs, Opportunitiesartists, band, blanket, makers, monologues, Music, release, Video

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here's a piece of news and a chance to take part in an innovative video project, tabled by local band Blanket, timed to complement and support their latest record release - ‘How To Let Go’ . A video edited with the band's instrumental tracks, will present a compilation of local makers and artists delivering fifteen second monologues on what 'letting go' means to them, in the context of their work. We see this as the perfect companion to the music we have ready to go, and hope we can make a special and unique video presentation." They are looking…