From September 29 to October 29, East Lancashire hosts the British Textile Biennial 2023, a festival that celebrates manufacturing heritage, addresses issues such as sustainability and the legacy of colonialism, and provides a showcase for the latest developments in fashion, design and art. This year, contributors from Bangladesh, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and the UK will present new commissions in venues that include Blackburn’s Cathedral and Cotton Exchange, Goodshaw Chapel up on the moors, Helmshore Mill, the Pendle Heritage Centre and the Whitaker Art Gallery in Rossendale.
Among many others – Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, Jewish, Polish, Welsh and Early Modern-era Southerners – Irish people settled across the region. The Liverpool Irish Festival – the areas to the north of the Mersey form part of the historic county border – runs from October 19 to 29 and features art, film, storytelling, a céilí, walking tours, boat tours, talks, performances and gigs.
Light in the darkness
You might think it’s a bit late in the year to be planning a northern beach break. But Blackpool created the Illuminations or Lights as many Lancastrians call them, in 1879 (when most people in England, including Yorkshire, quite happily lived in the dark) to extend the daytripper and holiday economy beyond the standard British summer.
The Lights used to run from August to November but now provide a full season’s worth of family-friendly visual delight. This year’s six-mile-long installations, which stretch from Starr Gate to Bispham, were switched on by Sophie Ellis-Bextor on September 1 and will lighten up the benighted world till January 1, 2024. They are powered by green electricity from renewable resources comprising of wind, small-scale hydro, landfill and Bio-Gas and 30 per cent of the lights are ultra-efficient LEDs.
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Publish date : 2023-09-29 03:00:00
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