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Let’s Make is back for the summer holidays with a free ‘Summer Fun’ events programme! This popular programme of free family fun offers everything from face painting and crafts to theatre and story telling. Experience magic shows, theatre and unleash your creativity with crafts, drama and slime workshops, story jars, pottery making and talent shows!…
Following the success of last year’s event, Blackburn with Darwen Council has teamed up again with Crafty Vintage for Darwen Live Makers of Market Square. The event will take place on Saturday 25th May, 10am – 4pm in the newly refurbished Darwen Market Square. The event is set to be a fun, family focused craft…
Darwen’s new market square was officially opened on the day of Darwen Rotary’s Charity event. The community gathered to enjoy celebrations including a brass band, a Punch and Judy show, live music and more as well as enjoy the new space. The former three-day market site now boasts an open space with a large copper peregrine…
The regions favourite FREE live music event returns this May bank holiday. Darwen Live weekend sees a host of live music performances take place at the main stage in Darwen Market Square and across venues, pubs and bars in town. The main stage event will kick off on Sunday May 26th at 1pm at the…
Darwen Live 2019 returns this May bank holiday kicking off on Sunday 26th May but not before the market square is taken over by some of the best ‘makers’ of the region. Head to the market square between 10am and 4pm to explore over 40 stalls of local makers, producers and craft sellers. Plus the…
Darwen Rotary and Darwen Primary Schools have joined up to celebrate St George’s Day. A town wide school arts project which has seen students creatively designing their own dragon egg in recent weeks will culminate in a display of over a thousand dragon eggs at Darwen Market. The competition, run by Darwen Rotary, has been…
This Easter Saturday Darwen Market presents Music in the Market Hall, with vintage cream tea, dancing and live entertainment. On Saturday 20th April, Darwen Market will be welcoming celebrity singer Charlotte Jones who will be singing live from 11am – 3pm in the Annexe. Charlotte, who has appeared on BBC1’s Celebrity MasterChef, Saturday Kitchen and…
Darwen’s brand new Market Square is set to be officially opened at an event this May. Following months of hard work to transform the area, the £1.5m project has created an impressive public space that will be officially unveiled on Saturday 11 May. The area boasts the formal Market Square with enough space for people…
A week of free, family fun, activities at Darwen Market has been confirmed for the Easter holidays in April. The activities provided by the Markets Team at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, in partnership with award winning Crafty Vintage, are designed to provide young people with opportunities to create, relax, learn, laugh, make friends and…
In the UK this year it is estimated that we will eat a total of 12.4 billion eggs. That’s a lot of eggs to scramble, fry, boil and poach! Clearly one of our favourite foods, we spoke with Darwen Market traders who according to our calculation sell in the region of 3600 eggs a week.…
