FREE WORKSHOP// Writing Lives: Creating Characters for the Stage
Led by Mick Martin, Stage & Screen Writer
🗓 Date & Time: 5pm – 8pm, Tuesday 27th May 2025
📍 Location: Blackpool Grand Theatre

🔗For more details and to register to attend visit: tinyurl.com/7zd4y8s3

Join award-winning writer & director, Mick Martin, from 10.30am - 1.30pm Monday 26 May at Blackpool Grand Theatre for a high-energy, hands-on acting workshop inspired by his new play, Keep On Keepin’ On, & his hit play, Once Upon A Time In Wigan.
Book your #free workshop ticket: tinyurl.com/zuw2w93b

ARTIST SURVEY | Pendle Borough Council are investigating the potential for artist studios, creative workspaces & a co-working area for creative solopreneurs in the transformed #Colne Market. Complete the survey by Sunday 18 May to help shape plans.
Have your say: tinyurl.com/366u49yf

CREATIVE FREELANCER MEET UP | This April The Lowther Pavilion Theatre in #Lytham will open their brand-new 162-seat Windmill Performance & Education Centre.

Freelancers can find out how to be part of their creative community at 7pm Tuesday 8 April.

Register: lowtherpavilion.co.uk/shows/lowthe...

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES | Blaze Arts, in partnership with the Burnley Cultural Education Partnership, are seeking expressions of interest from artists to be part of the Happy Place Festival, a youth-led, multi-art form festival that will take place from 14th to 27th July 2025.

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NEWS | Representatives from More Music were invited by His Majesty King Charles III to attend a reception at Windsor Castle in recognition of the charity’s community music making in Morecambe.

Read all the details: tinyurl.com/272hfpuy

EVENT | Developing Lancashire's Music Industry

Join Lancashire Music Association & guests, Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order), author Rebecca Hook, Will Wolstenholme (BBC Introducing) & journalist, John Robb

12:30pm-3pm
Fri 28 March
Burnley Mechanics Theatre

Sign up: bit.ly/musicfutureslancs

Does your organisation have an archive? 📚

Join the annual UK archive survey by March 31! Your input will help ensure museums, galleries, and arts organisations are represented.

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/PXiKhdl

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📢 News: Funding for museums and libraries!

Department for Culture, Media & Sport have announced £30 million in funding for museums and libraries to improve access to arts and culture.

Find out more about Museums funding 👉 buff.ly/8tnpKsZ

and Libraries funding 👉 buff.ly/XAoTdky

JOB OPPORTUNITY | CULTURAL ENGAGER at Burnley Leisure & Culture.

You will play a vital role in delivering Burnley’s Cultural Framework, building momentum towards Burnley 2027 Year of Culture and beyond.

Deadline to apply: 5pm 13 April 2025 

blcgroup.co.uk/vacancy/cult...

Arts Council England's Illuminate data dashboards are now live for public use! www.illuminate-data.org.uk/insights-pub... this is a GOLDMINE about who consumes culture in England (albeit focused on ACE's NPOs). The individual art form data is especially important

Access support for Arts Council England:
If you're Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent or are experiencing poor health, & are looking for support to submit an ACE Project Grants app, we have some capacity this Spring! 🌸

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UPDATE: Changes to our National Portfolio

Today we've shared our National Council's decision to no longer launch our next Investment Process in April. Instead, we are recommending to Government that our current National Portfolio extends to 31 March 2028.

ONLINE SUPPORT SESSION: Crescendo - Growing Your #Choir

Our next webinar is open to choir & community singing group leaders everywhere. Join us & Loz Kaye for insights & guidance on how to grow & sustain your singing group.

Friday 28 March 2025
6-7.30pm

Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/crescendo-gr…

📢 Calling all arts & culture leaders & trustees!

Join us at In Governance We Trust, a dynamic one-day event dedicated to shaping the future of leadership in the arts in Lancashire.

🗓 Monday 10th March
⏰ 10am - 3.45pm
📍 Burnley Mechanics Theatre

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