Burnley Creative

The fantastical space suits from the Under One Sky project are now installed in the Long Gallery at Towneley Hall and will be there throughout October. Made by local artists Sophie Gibson Art, Fi Kay, and Jai Redman in response to their experiences of surviving lockdown - their take on artists PPE for a 21st Century pandemic. They look amazing in contrast with the dark wood and very traditional surroundings. Not to be missed 🪐🚀🔭🛰👽🛸☄️

Under One Sky is a pop up art installation at 117 St James Street. Come by and see the art work created by local artists and community groups, now until the end of August. Photos here by Tom Lally.

Here is the blurb in full:

Before Covid-19, Burnley Light Night took place every December. Artists, community groups and families came together to make lanterns and artwork, and paraded them through the town, accompanied by local bands and budding musicians from Burnley schools. We lit up the town for one night only and danced in the streets. From modest beginnings, the event grew and became a staple of the seasonal calendar in Burnley Town Centre. We had big plans for 2020 but that obviously couldn’t go ahead due to the pandemic. In 2021, with Covid restrictions still making our lives so unpredictable, we decided not to hold an event but instead to engage artists and communities to create new work responding to the Light Night theme of “Journey into the Night Sky” and to explore their own creative responses to the pandemic and how it has affected all our lives. This exhibition shows the outcomes of the 2021/2022 Burnley Light Night project.

Visual artists Fiona Hornby, Jai Redman and Sophie Gibson who have been lead artists on Burnley Light Night from the beginning, all chose to each make a space suit in their own unique styles, their own take on artistic PPE for a 21st century pandemic.

Community groups Adult Connect, Theatre for Change and the ESOL group, all based at Burnley Youth Theatre, all worked with poet Amy Lee Tempest to create poems along the theme of Under the Night Sky, exploring issues of belonging, togetherness and activism.

As Burnley moves into its next phase of arts development, with a new Cultural Strategy coming over the horizon, the future of Burnley Light Night is unknown. We journey on, under the same night sky.

This project is delivered by Burnley Leisure and Culture, with funding from Arts Council England. Supported by Burnley Council and the Heritage Action Zone, funded by Historic England.

Not to be missed! Opal's Comet is coming to Burnley for the Canal Festival over the August Bank Holiday. Local community choirs are invited to join - follow the link to the website for more info. And Please share 🥰✨

Mr Wilson’s are delighted to announce that our new waterborne project, Opal’s Comet, will be setting sail this Autumn, supported by Arts Council England. We are so excited to bring you this latest work and hope you'll join us on this new and very different adventure.
We are working closely with and our programming partners across the NW to bring you something very special.
To find out more about getting involved and experiencing on a canal near you, you can visit the project page on our website or follow our socials.

website project page- https://www.mrwilsons.org.uk/project/opals-comet/

Under One Sky is launched! See the artwork on display in the shop at 117 St James’s Street til the end of August. 🪐🌟💫🔭🚀🛸

We are holding our first open studios event of 2022 in just over a week. We’ll be open from 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th March.

Our artists will have a wide range of artisan crafted goods and artwork available for sale and we’re always happy to see visitors in our beautiful atrium. We also welcome visitors with dogs 🐕

Join us for our first Super Slow Way - Linear Park event❗️

We will be hosting a day of collaboration and celebration at Blackburn Youth Zone on Monday the 7th of March, with numerous talks and interactive breakout sessions to take part in throughout.

Everyone is welcome, and if you’d like to come along please email [email protected] so that we know numbers for lunch, and to make sure we have room for all.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about our Neighbourhood Commissions and, general vision for our Linear Park project 💚

The Pennine Lancashire Linear Park pilot project is funded by the UK Government via the UK Community Renewal Fund.

Great opportunity for young people to get involved in this project. There are also 3 paid roles - Artist Facilitator, Creative Producer and Youth Worker.

IT'S TIME TO STAND OUT 🏳️‍🌈 We’re over the moon to have been awarded a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a new youth-led project which celebrates Burnley’s history of campaigning for equality 🔥

Stand Out, taking place between April and July 2022, will explore and reinterpret Burnley and Pendle’s LGBT+ heritage through the arts. Selected young people aged 13-25 will produce their own creative events and an exhibition 💥

Fancy getting involved? We're asking for expressions of interest from young people now. On top of that, there's 3 jobs live you can apply for to help deliver the project. See our website for more 👉 https://blazearts.co.uk/news/stand-out/

Great opportunities here for local artists 👀

This Spring we invite you to join us on ‘The Super Slow Way’, the 20 miles stretch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Blackburn to Pendle.

Over the next six months, a series of projects and events will give residents living along the canal the opportunity to get involved, try something new and think about how the canal, and the many unused spaces alongside it, could become a great space for us all to use and share.

Whether it’s walking, canoeing or watching wildlife, planting a pop-up park, discovering new routes from your home to the canal or experimenting with temporary interactive light installations to make your journeys feel safer, reading on a beautiful library boat or stopping for a brew at a pop-up cafe, join us to enjoy the space and shape a vision of what this vital green space could become.

The Super Slow Way are looking for ideas that could happen around the canal and be a part of its future. We have between £250 - £1,500 for you to help make something happen.

We are interested in imaginative ideas that will bring people together. This could be anything from a picnic to a performance or an art installation, something that is temporary.

To apply, you must live or work near the canal from Blackburn to Pendle and have something you can do before June.

Please send in your ideas to [email protected] – we want to hear who you are, what you want to do and where you want to do it.

The deadline is Monday 14th March. If you have any questions, please get in touch.

More information can be found on the full brief and FAQs page - https://superslowway.org.uk/news/open-call-super-small-ways-neighbourhood-commissions/

The Pennine Lancashire Linear Park pilot project is funded by the UK Government via the UK Community Renewal Fund.

visit Lancashire
Canal & River Trust
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Burnley Council
Hyndburn Borough Council

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