coronavirus Archives - Blackpool Social Club

03 May

Blackpool’s Galleon Bar Threatened With Closure

David Simper0 CommentsLocal News, Music & Gigscoronavirus, Covid-19, Cultural Recovery fund, live music, Music, Music Venues, Venues

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A town centre bar that has established itself as a community asset in supporting local musicians and charities is at risk following the Arts Council England's (ACE) refusal of its application to the Cultural Recovery Fund. Reliant on live music performance and its late licence, the venue has struggled under recurrent lockdowns since March 2020 and the 10pm curfew that was imposed. Now it is reaching the end of its resources.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Musician and owner Stephen Pierre has officially complained to the Arts Council after he was told the Galleon didn’t meet the cultural significance criteria of the funding bid. Cultural…

24 Oct

Brief Encounters: An Interview with Daniel Astbury

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, artist, Blackpool, collab, Collaboration, community, coronavirus, Covid-19, design, graphic design, poster

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] After moving back from Myanmar at the start of the COVID crisis, Daniel Astbury found life in the UK strange. D: I came home, and this project came out of arriving back. I have a good friend of mine, Buzz Bury, and it’s very rare that we are in Blackpool at the same time. He told me that Left Coast have a project. I’d only been back a week or two, and it was already strange, as the UK was only just going into lockdown. I remember going through London and being at Euston station, and there being 7…

10 Oct

Winter Gardens receives lifeline grant from government’s Cultural Recovery Fund

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsHeritage, Local Newscoronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Cultural Recovery fund, funding, heritage, Winter Gardens

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Almost 450 heritage organisations in England, including Winter Gardens Blackpool have been awarded cash from the first round of the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage. Grants of up to £1 million will deliver a lifeline for the heritage sector in England with further support to follow and larger grants for capital projects awarded through the Heritage Stimulus Fund This is the first major round of funding from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The Winter Gardens Blackpool is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a lifesaving financial boost from the government thanks to…

26 Aug

DIY: Live Art research & development workshop with José Oliva Garcia

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesArt, callout, coronavirus, covid, online, project, workshops

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] White Vinegar (each day from 2pm & 4pm) Lancaster Arts invites you to a four day online workshop exploring what it means to clean, and to be clean in a post pandemic world. The White Vinegar Workshop revolves around a quote from leading New York Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles; “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” We are inviting applications from artists, cleaners, writers, activists and others to observe and interrogate the iconic act of cleaning, revealing this as a sociopolitical action through performance art and self documentation. This workshop is open to…

12 Aug

Mrs Johnson’s PPE Emporium

Jill Reidy0 CommentsLocal NewsBlackpool, community, community groups, coronavirus, Craft, Knitting, lockdown

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] During lockdown – one of the strangest periods in recent history – Susanne Johnson of Mrs Johnson’s Emporium began to make PPE for the local hospital. Jill Reidy asked her about the experience of running Mrs Johnson's PPE Emporium... I know you’ve always been community minded but How did these lockdown projects come about? Knitters, crocheters and sewers are always contributing to good causes with their work. They've 'knitted knockers', made fish and chip baby blankets to send to Africa, traffic-light hats for babies in incubators, poppies for veterans and wrapped homemade scarves around lampposts for the homeless in…

30 Jun

The World has a Reboot – My Life in Lockdown with Jill Reidy

Jill Reidy1 CommentColumns & Opinioncoronavirus, Covid-19, lockdown

It was at the end of a relaxing week in Spain when the word Coronavirus began to creep into conversations. We’d been listening to the news and following this unknown virus’s march through China, Italy and Spain. Like many people, I hadn’t taken it very seriously. It was something that was going on in the world that didn’t affect me, would soon be over, and I didn’t really need to think about it. The day before we flew home it was announced that the virus had hit the region we were staying in. It still seemed like something that had…