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With Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee taking place in June 2022, Arts Council (ACE) have launched the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund, distributed by UK Community Foundations (UKCF), to help communities celebrate this historic milestone through culture and creativity.
Last Chance to see a great range of BTB21 exhibitions and installations at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery telling the story of textiles, across continents and centuries, in the service of fast fashion, expression and identity.
Northern Heart Films have won a special commission to create a short documentary that looks to explore the future of food in the UK. Currently in pre-production ‘Ocean Guardians’ will be an intimate portrait of local offshore farmers harvesting and nurturing seaweed along the UK’s coastlines.
This funding round will support up to 3 bidding Cities of Culture to develop their volunteering infrastructure in their local area. Local volunteer projects take many shapes and the opportunities available will be informed by the local context.
The Forepoint team have designed a fun and festive advent digital advent calendar to celebrate the season and end their year on a high note.
Lancashire County Council has launched an open call to commission a professional illustrator to design an attractive book cover for a new anthology of short stories. The deadline is 16th January 2022.
BFI Film Academy Specialist Courses are now accepting applications! These courses provide 16-19yr olds with the opportunity to gain valuable skills specialising in an area of filmmaking that they’re interested in.
Boyband supergroup, Boyz On Block, will be dazzling Darwen with their combined talents at the 2021 light switch on! Blackburn with Darwen Council, Darwen Town Centre and Darwen Town Council are thrilled to be bringing you a weekend of festive cheer and family fun, for Darwen’s Christmas light switch on.
Arts Council is undertaking the largest independent research survey of its kind, to explore the impact of the pandemic on people working in the cultural sector.
The Lancashire Local Skills Improvement Plan needs your views to help shape the key changes needed to make technical skills training more responsive to employers’ skills needs.
Sculptor Marjan Wouda and storyteller Jacqueline Harris will celebrate the hare in Lancashire folklore and landscape through art and story at Gisburn Forest.
Boost Business Lancashire is offering a fully funded Peer Networks programme between October 2021 and March 2022 to assist SME leaders based in Lancashire to develop and grow their business.
To accompany Cloth Cultures - Stories of Movement, Migration & Making Exhibition at Haworth Art Gallery, curator Amber Butchart has created a series of illuminating podcasts to provide a greater insight into the textile story of Lancashire and the world through four fabrics – Wool, Linen, Cotton & Silk...
October is Black History Month in the UK., celebrating the achievements and contributions of black people not just in the UK, but throughout the world, and also to educate all on black history. Inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter events, the new campaign is called ‘Proud To Be’. It will invite Black and Brown people of all ages throughout the UK to share what they are proud to be.
Natasha Hawthornthwaite - Northern Heart Films’ Creative Director - has won Best Documentary at the Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) for her short documentary ‘Joy Uncensored’, about an multi-award winning slam poet and writer, 64 year old Joy France.
