Lancashire Archives - Blackpool Social Club

04 Feb

Boldly exploring futuristic and heritage film at the Winter Gardens Film Festival this February

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, HeritageBlackpool, community, entertainment, Film, film festival, filmmaking, heritage, Lancashire, performance, Vintage Film, Winter Gardens Film Festival

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool's very own film festival is back, having announced a programme of screenings, talks and workshops full of futuristic film and vintage delights. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Following last year's comeback event, The Winter Gardens Film Festival returns to the iconic venue from the 11th to 12th February 2023 and will include its usual variety of classic and contemporary film. Main screenings will take place in the wonderful Opera House at the Winter Gardens. Built in 1939 as a cine-variety theatre, combining a super cinema with a world class stage for theatrical performance, the venue's capacity of just under 3000 makes it the…

06 Dec

Gallery: St Anne’s on 120 film

David Simper0 CommentsVisual Arts & Exhibitionsashton gardens st annes, black and white photography, Fylde Coast, Lancashire, st annes, st annes pier, st annes war memorial

Running low on a few things, I had picked up that the art supplies shop in St. Anne's had been rejuvenated and decided to take a trip out (26th October 2022). The medium format camera and a roll of film accompanied me. With a day pass on my phone, I took the service 3 to town and then caught the service 7 in Market Street, which soon had me in St. Anne's town centre. I walked up the small incline to The Crescent to find Dawson's Art and Craft Emporium. This is well stocked with high quality…

08 May

Lancashire 2025: First call-out to artists and creators

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesCity of Culture, funding, Grant, Lancashire, Lancashire 2025

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can you reimagine the way we live? As part of the bid to become UK City of Culture 2025, Lancashire 2025 has launched its Bid Programme Call seeking new ideas for physical locations in Lancashire that include a digital element. The call is open to anyone from anywhere in Lancashire, the UK, or the rest of the world. They want proposals for high-profile events, creative projects, and cultural experiences that reimagine the way we live based on our four topics of cultural regeneration; living, connection, nature and digital.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lancashire 2025 wants to build a groundbreaking, high-quality cultural programme to stage the UK…

17 Jan

Unique outdoor photography festival is coming to Preston this spring

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesExhibition, festival, Lancashire, photography, preston, workshops

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A new outdoor photography festival is set to bring some of the UK’s best documentary photographers to the streets of Preston. Lancashire Photography Festival, created by Preston-based photographer Garry Cook, will display brilliant photography projects in the city this spring, with all images able to be viewed in a safe, socially-distanced way from the street. Photography projects exhibited will also include historical images of Preston and several projects by local Lancashire photographers, who will take part in the festival via a series of free documentary photography workshops.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="31507" img_size="large" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]The festival has been organised with lockdown conditions in…

14 Dec

Cards for Kindness Campaign Brings Christmas Joy to Care Homes

David Simper0 CommentsLocal NewsBlackpool, campaign, cards, care, Christmas, dementia, health, isolation, joy, kindness, Lancashire, loneliness, yuletide

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Time to send Cards for Kindness to care homes to provide Christmas joy. One of my personal favourite things about the Yuletide season is the opportunity to send and receive Christmas cards, perhaps with an update letter enclosed. Some of those circular letters people send attract ridicule, but I'm all for them myself and look forward to receiving them. Come on people, this is the annual chance to renew a relationship that might be decades old, so why not take it? I know there's e-mail and any number of other messaging platforms, but there's nothing like a card and…

02 Jul

Where do I really want to buy my books? An independent bookshop of course

David Simper0 CommentsLiterature & Spoken WordBlackpool, Lancashire, reading, shops

Where do I really want to buy my books? Well not from some poxy supermarket shelf that's for sure, even if a loss-leading discount is on offer. A certain large book chain? Better, especially when one gets to know the people. But really it's the inependent bookshop that does it for me, run by people who are committed and know their stuff, where one feels welcome and is treated as an individual. There are at least five such outlets on the Fylde Coast; let us know if there are more I've missed. One even has cake! There's been a sad…