We love to connect with different community-led organisations for our engagement opportunities.
We are dedicated to more than just hosting impressive festivals. Our focus is on people, places, and community pride.
We help communities rethink our town, build connections, encourage creativity, and create shared joyful moments, especially during the darker months.
Our local community does more than attend the art—they help create it. We work with residents, schools, youth groups, and community organisations to co-create works that truly reflect our town. This sense of shared ownership is what makes Lightpool feel locally owned, leading audiences to return year after year, marking it as an event they won’t miss.
Community Arts organisation Aunty Social is back for Lightpool 2025, paying tribute to Blackpool’s resilient and cheeky gulls.
The Old Electric is taking over an empty shop unit and converting it to a Lightbox for Lightpool!
Celebrated artist, Jason Wilsher-Mills MBE, has invited people from Blackpool to collaborate on the creation of a new sculpture
Building on the commission for Lightpool 2025, The Wish, artist Amy Jackson will undertake engagement workshops discussing what a dandelion represents.
Residents are helping with site dressing, costume-making, building and decorating the installation, and welcoming audiences as stewards and guides.
Find the light in the dark at our kid’s neon party – decorate your own T-shirt with glow pens, enjoy games, and dance under shining lights.
Lightpool is looking to commission two organisations, or a consortium of organisations, to plan and deliver engagement in Blackpool, between July and October 2025
