Mid Pennine Arts

Artist Opportunity 📢

Call out for a comic artist / illustrator to illustrate The Global History of Tea Exhibition!

🔗Find out more: https://bit.ly/3RM81YA

Another of our 'clear out offers'... We have a stack of unused Arts Award booklets, most for Bronze and a few for Silver, plus an advisor toolkit. These are OUT OF DATE, so can't be used to actually do the awards, but might be useful for any school or community group considering taking part, who want to see what is involved. FREE to good home, will need collecting from our Burnley office. Get in touch if interested.

What is Arts Award? What is Arts Award? Arts Award is a unique set of recognised qualifications that encourage young people to discover the arts world, explore their creativity and gain 21st century skills.

Burnley's 2nd annual Burnley Comics Festival takes place at Burnley Library tomorrow. 📚 📍

They're hoping this year's festival will be even bigger and better than the previous year and to bring a chock-a-block schedule of a wide variety of pop-culture related events, activities, and workshops in collaboration with local artists, authors, and creatives. ✍️

***NEW MICRO COMMISSION ARTIST IN RESIDENCY - DEADLINE 1 JULY***
We're offering a new micro commission as a legacy to The Caravan Gallery Burnley Pride of Place Project for an artist in residency opportunity, continuing engagement with the public one day per week to create an artistic response to the exhibition.
Download details....https://blcgroup.co.uk/app/uploads/2024/06/Artist-Residency-Commission-.pdf
Blaze Arts Mid Pennine Arts Rizwan Iqbal Burnley Creative Alliance

Here's our new poster for If you can display one in your community centre, school, shop, cafe - please get in touch. We want as many people as possible to find out about this FREE event. Thanks

Mid Pennine Arts Super Slow Way Finsley Gate Wharf Canal & River Trust Burnley Leisure & Culture

Back in 2011-2013 Project Pride involved young people from Nelson working with artist Karen Alderson to research what was special about their area and to creatively tell the story of what they found. Suffragist pioneer Selina Cooper was the focus for some of that activity and a dress was created celebrating her achievements and their community. This week the dress has gone to a new home at Unity Hall in Nelson, so do make sure to look out for it if you visit.

Benjamin Ingham was born on this day in 1712. This Nonconformist founded the Inghamite Brotherhood, and preached the first sermon in a church of his own denomination on Christmas Day 1750. Inghamite churches proliferated for a while, but this first Inghamite church to be built is now the last to survive and is on the . The church, and , was featured in a Songs of Praise episode in 2021. Find out more about the Trail and Ingham on our website: https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/benjamin-ingham/

It's a great walk, enjoyed very much by participants over the last few years. Come along on Saturday and join us.

Closing date is this Friday. We’re very excited by this as it will have its first outing at Burnley Canal Festival. We can’t wait to see the outcome!

The British Textile Biennial and Showtown, Blackpool are looking for a creative to design and build a mobile pop up exhibition structure to house and tour a collection of photographs and postcards of Blackpool Wakes Week from 1900-1939. It is planned to take the pop up exhibition to family festivals, events and care homes across Lancashire.

Through touring the exhibition, British Textile Biennial will gather oral histories from the people who have lived and remembered experience of Wakes Weeks, to build into an online archive and exhibition to be hosted as part of the www.lancashiretextilegallery.com website.

We hope the exhibition design will respond to/reference the visual imagery of Victorian seaside and/or Lancashire mills and evoke the vibrancy and excitement of Wakes Weeks.

🗓️ Application deadline: Friday 7th June

Budget: £5,000 which must cover fees, expenses, materials and delivery.

Full brief, resources and application process can be found on our website at https://britishtextilebiennial.co.uk/news/open-call-wakes-week-pop-up-mobile-exhibition-stand/ 🔗

Showtown Blackpool
Arts Council England
Super Slow Way
visit Lancashire
Lancashire County Council

With Blaze Arts – we just got recognised as one of their top fans! Which of course we are!🎉

We'd like to take the opportunity of to say a BIG thank you to all the people who help us do what we do. The Trustees, the project volunteers, the fundraisers, the folks who help out however they can. Thank you ALL. We couldn't do it without you x

A fantastic turnout for yesterday’s Radical Walk, and there’s another this coming Sunday (and the weather is looking hopeful for that one too). The Chartist walk is a great stretch of the legs in beautiful countryside with a fascinating slice of history included. Come and join us.!

And this Saturday 8th June it is time for our annual Pendle Chartists' Walk. Remembering the Sabden Chartists' summer camps on a spur of Pendle Hill. All free and no need to book. A unique slice of radical northern history in the form of a walk. Expect flags and rousing seditious speeches on a hilltop as we gather around Pendle's Chartist's Well - still marked on OS maps but tricky to find. England Awake!

CLR James died on this day in 1989. This extraordinary, radical polymath only lived in Nelson for a year, but would later say that his time in Pendle had more influence on his work than all his time in Bloomsbury. Read more about this on our website.
https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/clr-james/

Looks like the weather will be kind for this Sunday's organised by the National Clarion Cycling Club and the Friends of Clarion House. This annual Whit Walk to Clarion House for a brew and picnic. This unique guided walk links two Workers' Assembly Halls recorded on UNESCO's world heritage map - Unity Hall, Vernon Street in Nelson and the Clarion House at Roughlee. Retrace a traditional route taken by Nelson weavers on their Sundays off to the ILP's refreshment room over the hill in the unspoilt countryside below Pendle Hill.
On Sunday 2nd June it will leave Unity Hall (postcode is BB9 9DE) at 10:30am but arrive around 10:00am for a look around the historic Independent Labour Party building and a brew! Our walk route is approximately 3 miles to the Clarion House so bring some lunch - refreshments are available at the tea bar. We will return to Nelson a different way. The route is approximately 6 miles in total, to be undertaken at an easy to moderate pace. The walk is family friendly but there are some gradients and stiles (so not suitable for buggies). No need to book on this walk and it is a FREE event though donations are always welcome! Supported by Mid Pennine Arts project.
Please note there are public transport options for this walk - Nelson has a train station on the Blackburn-Colne line.

OPEN CALL FOR EMERGING CREATIVES & ENTREPRENEURS!⁠
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Not Only a Street Market promotes and encourages creative entrepreneurship by hosting mini block parties in often overlooked areas of town. This year, for a new Festival marketplace, they are seeking makers, artists, collectors, or any creatives looking for a place to emerge as an entrepreneur. ⁠
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💥 Are you a person who feels they want to be part of a circular and sustainable economy? ⁠
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💥 Do you want to be immersed and engaged in an inspiring and creative environment through having your own stall? ⁠
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Then we need you! ⁠
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All products, goods (new and second hand) and made items considered. ⁠
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Application Information: ⁠
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💥 Email [email protected] to register your interest⁠

💥 Stall holders: aged 16-30 ⁠- The aim of this market is to support young makers, however if you feel you would benefit from this opportunity and are outside the age restriction, you are welcome to still apply.
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Application deadline: Monday 10th June ⁠
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Contact the email above if you have any questions.⁠
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Discover BwD Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council Blackburn College Arts Council England

We saw some great photos of the with the recent Northern Lights. Thanks to Diana Muldowney for sharing this one with us.

Another great artist opportunity from British Textile Biennial. The resulting work will make its debut with us at Burnley Canal Festival in August. We can't wait!

The British Textile Biennial and Showtown, Blackpool are looking for a creative to design and build a mobile pop up exhibition structure to house and tour a collection of photographs and postcards of Blackpool Wakes Week from 1900-1939. It is planned to take the pop up exhibition to family festivals, events and care homes across Lancashire.

Through touring the exhibition, British Textile Biennial will gather oral histories from the people who have lived and remembered experience of Wakes Weeks, to build into an online archive and exhibition to be hosted as part of the www.lancashiretextilegallery.com website.

We hope the exhibition design will respond to/reference the visual imagery of Victorian seaside and/or Lancashire mills and evoke the vibrancy and excitement of Wakes Weeks.

🗓️ Application deadline: Friday 7th June

Budget: £5,000 which must cover fees, expenses, materials and delivery.

Full brief, resources and application process can be found on our website at https://britishtextilebiennial.co.uk/news/open-call-wakes-week-pop-up-mobile-exhibition-stand/ 🔗

Showtown Blackpool
Arts Council England
Super Slow Way
visit Lancashire
Lancashire County Council

🎨 2024 is now open for entries!

ℹ️ It's free to enter so for all the details and to sign-up now go to 👇🏽

lancashire.gov.uk/artistoftheyear

Your artwork must be an original by you and be in 2D and landscape format.

The closing date for entries is Wednesday 12 June 2024.

Great start last night for Burnley Pride of Place Project exhibition with the opening event at our hub in Charter Walk. The exhibition is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from tomorrow until 15 June. All welcome, bring your photos, artworks, stories, poems, memories and help us to grow a unique exhibition celebrating Burnley.
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If you're in Pendle there's a couple of lovely things to take part in this Friday & Saturday from our friends at Super Slow Way

Any of you NW studio based artists fancy three months working on your practice in Rome?

New open call for a studio-based artist living and working in North West England to spend three months at the British School at Rome ✨🎨

Apply now: https://bsrome.slideroom.com/ #/login/program/78292