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21 Nov

Funding for Blackpool Tower ballroom means that we can all keep dancing

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsHeritage, Local NewsBALLROOM, Blackpool Tower, dance, dancing, funding, tower

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The home of British ballroom dancing will receive £764,000 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The funding will restore period plasterwork to bring the Blackpool Tower Ballroom back to its former glory. This major grant is announced as Strictly Come Dancing celebrates the iconic venue with a studio special. The Blackpool Tower Ballroom is the latest venue to receive a lifeline grant of £764,000 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, the Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden has announced. The ballroom, located in the Grade I listed Tower Buildings, first opened to the public in 1894 and has a rich history as…

29 Aug

Feel the RUSH at Lightpool Festival

David Simper0 CommentsTheatre, Dance & PerformanceBlackpool, community, dance, illuminations, leftcoast, LightPool Blackpool

The 2018 Blackpool Lightpool Festival, now an essential Illuminations season feature, will feature the RUSH dance event, presented by local arts and cultural organisation, LeftCoast. Set against Britain's favourite seaside resort’s iconic skyline, this is a one night only large-scale outdoor dance spectacular telling everyday people's stories with impressive energy and creativity, featuring professional dancers working with local people. So, this promises to be a treat. The former Bonny Street police station tower (possibly not long for this world) provides the set for a community cast of one hundred residents performing alongside Southpaw Dance Company's professional dancers to an urban…

09 Jul

Fun in the Park with Wordpool Family Day 2018

Jill Reidy0 CommentsLiterature & Spoken WordArt, artist, Blackpool, books, dance, entertainment, families, Film, heritage, Music, musical, performance, Theatre, wordpool, workshops

Walking, talking trees; huge flying birds; giant spiders; theatre in suitcases; elephants and mice; stories and action; crafts; films; kayaking; dancing; singing; face and arm painting .......what more could you wish for on a sunny Saturday in Stanley Park in July? Yes, it was 2018's fabulous Wordpool Family Day - and what a great day it was! Big Top Marvels and Mayhem Schools Project, the Flying Sun Birds, the puppetry of Adambara and Zhim, the walking trees, Aunty’s Pop Up Picture Show, SOS RescueShip’s Nixies, singalong with the Grand Theatre Community Chorus, clown faces in the Grundy’s Big Top, circus skills…

09 Jul

Lost in Music, Spoken Word, Dancing…and Unicorns.

Linda Hampton2 CommentsLiterature & Spoken Word, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceArt, artist, dance, entertainment, Exhibition, Music, performance, poetry

Altblackpool’s Linda Hampton was at Urban Arts Studio in St Annes to join the party for the launch of artist Sam Jayne Simpson’s exhibition, Lost in Music. Yes it’s true what you’ve heard. There were unicorns and there was live poetry too, to herald in the latest showcase of artwork by a local creative at this unique venue. Sam Jayne Simpson creates with acrylics on large canvasses that are alive with movement and passion. Dancers move energetically across the dark background and explode with splashes of colour as if to leap right out of the picture and into the room. …

06 Jul

Wordpool’s Most Marvellous Family Day

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsBlackpool, books, children, community, dance, entertainment, families, heritage, Music, performance, poetry, Stanley Park, The Grand Theatre, wordpool

This Saturday, tomorrow in fact, Stanley Park hosts the excellent Wordpool Family Day. If you have never been, this year is definitely the year to visit with the sunshine blazing down and 2018 going down in history as "that long hot summer". The event is so amazing and FREE, visitors to the park will need to register to take part in the days activities but once you have you are in - expect a treat. This years event is circus themed alongside Circus250 celebrations so expect Big Top Marvels and The Mayhem Schools Project, a promise of the Flying Sun…

05 Jul

Lost in Music –Sam Jayne Simpson art exhibition at Urban Arts Studio

Linda Hampton0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, dance, painting, st annes, we love to dance

Altblackpool’s Linda Hampton interrupted artist Sam Jayne Simpson as she prepared for her upcoming exhibition at Urban Arts Studio in St Annes to get an insight into her work. Q: You have titled your exhibition ‘Lost in Music’. Can you tell me why? A: Dancing is my passion. I express my love for dance through my artwork. Dancing is what makes me feel good. In my artwork I try to capture the moment in time when the dancer is lost in music. Q: What came first for you? Art or Dance? A: Dance definitely came first. I’ve been dancing for…

16 May

Retired Performers – A Photography project paying homage to Blackpool performance

Jill Reidy0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, artist, Blackpool, Blackpooltower, dance, entertainment, performance, photography, retiredperformers, retiredperformersproject, The Grand Theatre, timeandtide, Winter Gardens

In 2013 Claire was photographing Showzam in Blackpool and met a "retired foot juggler" who told her that her husband had performed for Hitler. After searching for a long term photography project, Claire realised that there must be a whole community of hidden stories attached to Blackpool and noted that her own family had such connections with her aunt being a Circusette in the 70's and literally "running away with the circus". The Retired Performers project was born. The Retired Performers Project, 'Time and Tide,' is an Arts Council Funded Photography series, exploring stories around retired performers with connections to Blackpool, active…

01 Apr

Open Studio: Sam Jayne Simpson

Laura Green0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, artist, Blackpool, dance, fine art, Music, paintings

With a range of diverse and dynamic artists living and working on the Fylde Coast there is a wealth of creative spaces on our doorsteps that mostly go unnoticed day to day. We often encounter art work on social media or in shops and galleries. It is easy to forget that the final product you see in those digital and physical spaces start their life somewhere and that “somewhere” might just be a little closer to home than you think. Creative people often need to think outside of the box when it comes to finding a space to let their…

17 Aug

We Love Dancing – Come Join Us. Sam Simpson Dance Activist and Artist.

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsSports & Wellbeing, Theatre, Dance & Performance, Visual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, artist, dance, Music, performance

You may have seen her, you may have met her. Dancing at a bus stop, introducing herself to you with great gusto. For those of you who have not come across Sam Simpson, she is an artist based in Blackpool using dance as a way to inspire, bringing people together in communities and raising aspirations through the power of dance. I caught up with her ahead of this Saturday's, Arts Council Funded free "We Love To Dance" event on The Comedy Carpet. Who are you? I am an artist and a dancer, my business is Sam Simpson Art. Find out more about me…

27 Apr

Back To The Old Pool At Tower Festival Headland

Melanie Whitehead0 CommentsMusic & Gigsdance

Back To The Old Pool, the ultimate old skool and club classics festival, will return to a new location in Blackpool on Saturday 8 July 2017; the Tower Festival Headland, making history as the first dance music event to take place on this site. Back To The Old Pool brings the originators of rave culture from eighties to noughties across five arenas. The lineup features DJ sets, PA’s and live performances from the likes of Chicane, Dave Pearce, Sonique, Seb Fontaine, Mauro Picotto, Lasgo Live, M.I.K.E. Push, Slipmatt, DJ SY, N-Trance, Baby D, Angie Brown, K-Klass, Shades Of Rhythm and many more. The festival is also taking over the LED controls of Blackpool Tower for a mesmerising lightshow. The…