Blackpool City of Culture Survey
6 June 2026
Blackpool City of Culture BID are seeking feedback to help understand what culture means to people locally,
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Blackpool City of Culture BID are seeking feedback to help understand what culture means to people locally,
We want to broaden the conversation about Blackpool’s cultural offer and creative ecosystem by involving the wider community. A City of Culture bid gives Blackpool the opportunity to ask what culture means here, what it could become, and how people want to engage with and shape it. That conversation has
Artist and designer Frederick Worrell has been awarded £12,500 through Arts Council
England National Lottery Project Grants for his new research and development project,
Scaling Reflection: Research and Development of Reflective Light Systems.
The Field of Dreams will explore processes of growing, gathering, and collective making, bringing together ideas of ecology, civic space, and material transformation. The meadow itself is both site and medium, supporting biodiversity and soil regeneration, while also producing materials that will later be harvested and shaped into structures built with the community.
LUTN wish to appoint a Programme Lead to support them to deliver an exciting programme of activities across the next two years, consolidating the extremely successful period of growth in membership and partnership working.
Light Up The North (LUTN), a network of 16 light festivals across the North of England, is proud to announce it has been awarded £96,600 through the Arts Council’s National Lottery Project Grants programme.