creativity Archives - Blackpool Social Club

03 May

Skate Stories: Hidden skateboarding spots and creativity

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsLocal NewsBlackpool, creativity, skate, skate culture, Skateboard, skateboarding

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool bods whose skateboarding activities feed into their creativity. In this article, we talk to a chap known as "Sandy" to his pals. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tell us who you are: My Name Is Rob Sanderson, most skateboarders and artists know me as Sandy, I'll be turning 32 this year, born and raised in Blackpool. I've been skating for about 17-18 years now which doesn't feel that long ago, I'm starting to feel the ache now though, having to stretch and get warmed up more each time I go out. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What came first skating or creativity? Skateboarding definitely came first, I was sketching things…

03 Feb

Work reaches completion at the Mount Pavilion and Gardens in Fleetwood

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal Newscommunity, creativity, fleetwood, heritage

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The restoration work at the Mount in Fleetwood is very near completion with only a few finishing touches of the project due to be completed. Wyre Council was delighted to have been awarded a £2 million ‘Parks for People’ grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund in 2018 to continue its work to revive the Mount Pavilion and Gardens in Fleetwood. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The seaward side was restored in 2017 thanks to a £1m personal donation from Mrs Doreen Lofthouse. This involved work to reinstate the Victorian railings, restore the shelters, repair the pathways and create…

18 Nov

Should I get a proper job? By Ruth E Cockburn

Ruth Cockburn1 CommentColumns & Opinion, Theatre, Dance & Performancecreativity, performance, Theatre, zoom

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As we head into winter and the prospect of all the Christmas gigs and theatre shows and Pantos not happening I start to wonder. Should I get a proper job? But what is a proper job? I have worked in the arts in all its wonderful forms for over 15 years now and I have never been so concerned as I am now. To control a nation first you must control their form of expression. If art is seen as unnecessary then it is easier to patronise and take for granted. In the courts of old, the only person…

18 Jul

A Big Issue: Publishing and the pandemic

Antonia Charlesworth0 CommentsColumns & Opinionbig issue, community, creativity

Big Issue North's deputy editor explains why the magazine is supporting Blackpool Social Club, and why you should support the magazine during an especially difficult time for its vendors Ten years is long enough to do any one thing so when, in the week that marked 10 years since I first wrote Big Issue North’s listings, I sat down to the familiar routine of drawing together the weekly cultural highlights across the region and there were none, I wish I could say it was a welcome change. Instead, it signalled the end of our social and cultural calendars for a…