Transform your cherished digital photos into physical blue artworks, to celebrate the lives and lasting legacies of those you love

Join us for an uplifting, creative afternoon of storytelling, art-making, and celebration.

Cyanotype Memories is a special workshop, part of the summer programme of the inaugural Good Grief Festival Blackpool. It is designed to honour the people we have lost and the places we shared by turning our favourite digital memories into lasting physical art. This is not a sad occasion; it is a positive, vibrant space to share stories, celebrate beautiful lives, and connect through creativity.

Using the historic, photographic process of cyanotype, we will transform your personal portraits and pictures of meaningful places into striking, blue prints. The prints created during the session will be a mix of prints to take away and prints to be displayed, as part of the official Good Grief Festival Blackpool exhibition this October.

How It Works (Important Photo Submission)

To participate, you must submit your photos in advance.

What to send: Three or four digital images of people and or places that hold special memories for you.

Deadline: All images must be submitted by 19th August so Helen can convert them into digital negatives for printing.

Where to send: Once you have registered for the event, Please email your images to helenkayphotography@gmail.com with the subject line Cyanotype Workshop Submission

What to bring on the day: Just your stories and memories. All art materials are provided. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting a little messy, just in case.

Spaces are strictly limited and a wait list will be in operation. If you book and cannot attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer the place to someone else.

Suitable for : Adults 18+

This session is in our upstairs workshop space. We have a lift! Otherwise it is fourteen steps turn a corner and two more steps. There is an accessible loo on the same floor.

GETTING HERE

Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station

Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd

Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.

Please be aware this session may be recorded for sound or vision, and photographs taken, as part of the Good Grief Festival outcomes. Permissions will be sought on the day.

Description supplied by the event organiser.