Blackpool’s Arts Engagement Programme is an ambitious two year programme supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England through an Arts Lottery Award to encourage local communities to engage with and participate in the Arts in innovative and creative ways.
The Arts Engagement Programme aims to:
- work with partners, agencies and communities to increase participation and engagement in the Arts.
- work with local, regional and national artists in the delivery of innovative programmes of creativity.
- link communities with existing creative opportunities within Blackpool and use them to their advantage
The Arts Engagement Programme is in the process of delivering a number of projects in Blackpool, for example:
Nooks & GRANNIES
Gallery of Resident's Artwork Nestled in Neighbourhoods for an Ingeniously Excellent Show
Artist Emily Speed is working with community groups at Vincent House, Grange Park and Claremont Park Community Centre to create artwork in unusual and unexpected places.
Join us on Monday 4th July 2011 from 1.30-3.30pm at Claremont Park Community Centre to view the exhibition.
You can follow Nooks and GRANNIES here: nooksandgrannies.wordpress.com
Little Histories
'Little Histories’ is a peoples history project aiming to collect and present unique and unusual tales of Blackpool told by Blackpool people.
Artists Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio are working with some of Blackpool’s own Heritage Champions over the coming months to compile these stories which will be transformed in comic strips destined to appear in the Blackpool Gazette for a run of sixteen weeks and made into a light installation as part of Blackpools 2011 Illuminations season.
You can follow Little Histories progress here: littlehistoriesblackpool.wordpress.com/
Previous Arts Engagement projects have included:
Wedding Quilt
Internationally renowned textile artist Lynn Setterington worked with community groups across Blackpool to create this unique wedding quilt, which reflects and celebrates Blackpool and its vibrant history and culture.
Lynn's vision for the wedding quilt was to create a contemporary Signature Quilt, which since the 19th century has been a traditional craft form made by community groups to acknowledge friendship networks, wedding celebrations and fundraising for good causes.
This Wedding Quilt offers a modern interpretation of the theme and memorialises participating individuals via their signatures and features iconic Blackpool imagery, in thread, to create a lasting heirloom of a unique royal event.
More information can be found on the Wedding Quilt blog: http://theweddingquilt.wordpress.com/
For further information about the Arts Engagement Programme or any of its projects, please contact:
Clancy Mason Arts Engagement Manager
email: clancy.mason@blackpool.gov.uk or
Telephone: 01253 478266
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