Free Family Friendly Activities: Ukulele Apothecary At Darwen Market WITH KARINA GARNETT Have you ever met a Ukulele Apothecary? You’ll probably hear them coming, playing their ukuleles and trumpet kazoos as they stride into view looking for people to make friends with, bring a smile to, pass the joy to. Instead of dispensing herbs and…
Free Family Friendly Activities: Paint Your Own Wooden Flowers At Darwen Market WITH AZIZA FOZDAR Join our artist Aziza in a painting craft. Choose your favourite wooden flower, decorate it and turn it into a magnet to adorn your fridge at home! Aziza will have paints and ready-made flowers for you to use – you…
Free Family Friendly Activities: ARCADE Mini At Darwen Market Square WITH CASSON & FRIENDS Join us for games with ARCADE Mini this summer. This is a dance performance that encourages everyone to join in and play. Each ‘set’ lasts approximately 30 minutes and contains six unique games – each announced by The Gamesmaster. The shows…
Free Family Friendly Activities: Space Chickens At Darwen Market Square WITH THE PUPPET VAN WITH HALF A STRING Space Chickens Earth’s unlikely hero: an adventurous chicken who is blasted into space to solve all of our planet’s problems. Sounds ridiculous? Not for our heroic hen who will boldly go where no poultry has gone before……
Blackburn & Darwen 9th Annual Festival of Brass March and Hymn Tune Contest Darwen Market Square The 9th Annual Festival of Brass is taking place on Darwen Market Square on Sunday 9th June 2024. Come and join us for a wonderful afternoon of live brass music. The competition starts at 1pm with the prize…
Starting at Darwen Market Square Sunday 19th May 2024 Ready your engines and prepare your dapper attire, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is returning to Lancashire on Sunday the 19th of May, 2024! We are delighted to announce that we will be welcoming back The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride this year to Darwen Market Square, before they…
Memorabilia Market Scooter & Soul Under The Tower The Screaming Dead Scooter Club of Darwen and the East Lancs Soul Club have come together to organise Scooter & Soul Under The Tower. This is taking place across Darwen on 14th – 16th July 2023. For full event and accommodation details please visit: https://screamingdeadsc.co.uk/events/ The Memorabilia…
Darwen Town Council is thrilled to invite families to join the King Charles III Coronation Big Street Party on Monday, May 8th from 10 am to 4 pm on Darwen Market Square. This free family fun event promises to be a fantastic day of immersive theatre, music, dancing, stilt walkers, magic shows and delicious street…
Sessions by our wonderful bubble-ologist will take place at 10am, 12pm & 2pm.
Face painting AND Magical Story Jars… Design Your Own Staycation It’s tricky to jet off to our favourite holiday destination at this moment in time, but we CAN go wherever our imaginations take us. Staycation here we come!! Choose a mode of transport, the quirkier the better, choose a Magical Story Jar character to accompany…