Blackpool Council - Arts Development

Arts Development

Our Arts Service provides Blackpool’s residents and visitors with opportunities for access to and participation in a wide range of high quality arts activities.

We have a strategic and delivery role in the development of these activities and work in partnership with a range of organizations such as the regional arts council.

We work with all art forms, including music, dance, drama, new media, creative writing, visual and public art.

The Service has overall responsibility for the Grundy Art Gallery and the Council’s Collection as well as the contemporary art works that make up the Great Promenade Show on South Shore.

We are able to offer advice and assistance to any community group in Blackpool interested in setting up a creative project with an artist or arts organization. We can also offer advice to local artists and creative practitioners interested in working with the community or in developing their creative business.

Please contact us to find out when our next surgery advice day is taking place and we can arrange an appointment.

Please note that the closing date for the first round of applications is 5th May 2010.

Current Projects

Blackpool Culture Shops Programme

Blackpool Council is one of a number of local authorities across the country that has recently received support from the Department for Communities and Local Government through the Looking After Our Town Centres initiative. This support has been provided to encourage the use of vacant shop premises to reinvigorate town centres and help economic recovery following the recession. As part of a complementary set of recession-related measures, Blackpool Council has also been awarded a Grants for the Arts Award for the Art in Empty Spaces initiative to support a programme of artistic activity in our empty town centre properties.

We are now looking for expressions of interest from artists and creative enterprises that would like to be considered for our 12 month pilot programme.

Please download the Blackpool Culture Shops information pack and additional information files for more details and advice on how to apply.

You can also look at the following websites for more information about Arts Development:

Creative Lancashire - the creative industries partnership for Lancashire offering advice for creative businesses

Great Promenade Show - information on the series of public art works on the South Promenade including the largest mirror ball in the world

Arts Council - information on support for the arts

Blackpool Grand Theatre - information about the Grand Theatre, the 1894 Matcham designed Victorian Theatre in the centre of Blackpool that offers a wide ranging performance programme and is supported by the Council.

FOR MORE ARTS PAGES PLEASE VISIT:

Grundy Art Gallery

Dance Development

Arts Awards For Young People

Arts For Health

Creative Industries

Poet in Residence

Arts Regeneration Programme

Wordpool

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Arts Service
Culture and Communities
Progress House
Clifton Road
Blackpool
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