We’re bringing Blackpool’s creative community together for a morning of connection, conversation, and new opportunities.

This breakfast event is a chance to:

• Discover upcoming creative opportunities across the town

• Be part of the conversation shaping Blackpool’s cultural ecosystem

• Share your projects, ideas, and ambitions with fellow creatives

• Build relationships that strengthen our growing creative network

Whether you’re an artist, maker, producer, venue, freelancer, or someone championing creativity in Blackpool, your voice and presence matter.

Come along, get inspired, and help shape what’s next for creativity in our town.

Agenda:

8.30am - 9am: Arrivals. Grab a hot drink and morning snack.

9am - 9.10am: Introductions. Lets find out who is in the room.

9.10am - 9.20am: Creative Blackpool update. Updates on City Of Culture submission, Cultural Passport development, Seed/Community projects and Cultural Sector development programmes.

9.25am - 9.40am: In conversation with creative practitioners running projects in Blackpool with a focus on wellbeing, mental health and building resilience. Hear from Black Liver on comedy projects and Phill Fairhurst on singing and the Good Grief Festival.

9.40am - 9.55am: In conversation with Helen Shearn, Sue Flowers and Joe Booth - relfections on the Blackpool Coastal Communities Creative Health projects.

9.55am - 10.30am: Networking and consultation. A chance to build connections over a cup of tea. Join round table conversations about Blackpool's creative future.

The Creative Breakfast ends there but we are inviting people to stay on for the event that follows - Blackpool's Making Waves Discussion Forum - September 2026...

Growing Creative Health in Blackpool Showcase & Symposium

17th September 2026 , 10.30 am to 4.30 pm at Blackpool & Fylde College

Showcase & Symposium with MC Nathan Parker

An exciting all-day partnership event incorporating Creative Blackpool’s Network breakfast meeting and the Coastal Community & Creative Health research programme’s Making Waves networking meeting.

This event will shine a light and acknowledge the brilliant creative health work currently being delivered in Blackpool and explore how we can grow, sustain and embed it. Through the presentations and interactive discussions with local, regional and national leaders in the creative health sector we aim to find solutions together.

Presentations from National leaders in the creative health field, an exploration of creative health projects in the town and an opportunity to help shape the growth of creative health in Blackpool for the future.

Includes an exhibition of artwork created by people with lived experience of young people’s mental health, substance misuse & recovery and those experiencing end of life care & bereavement will be on display alongside creative responses by artists Joe Booth, Henry Iddon and Jayne Simpson in the gallery.

Booking link for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blackpools-making-waves-discussion-forum-september-2026-tickets-1985276117309?aff=oddtdtcreator

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