Free Easter Fun Creative Cardboard Games At Darwen Market SARAH GRANT Join us for a creative cardboard junk sculpture group challenge! Challenge your family and friends to play with the giant egg maze and race against each other to steady your ball up the giant cheese wall. These fun games are all made with recycled cardboard…
Free Easter Fun Postcard Printing At Darwen Market IAN HALAWI Come and join artist Ian Halawi for Postcard Printing and print your own postcard souvenir! Choose from a selection of image reliefs, inks and card colours to make your very own souvenir print. In this workshop you’ll be shown how to ink up a relief print and…
Free Easter Fun Flock At Darwen Market BREAD & BUTTER THEATRE Meet Heidi and Henrietta, two Herdwick sheep who have ventured down from the Lakeland fells to graze and proudly show off their quintuplet lambs nestled in a beautiful old-fashioned pram. They aim to bring the serenity and beauty of the Cumbrian hills to Blackburn and…
Free Easter Fun Earth Art At Darwen Market WINSTON PLOWES Come and join the Earth Art workshop with artist Winston Plowes and create beautiful patterns with natural objects. Take this chance to find the wildness inside us all and reconnect with ourselves by making art from nature’s resources. Help us with our sand globe garden, slate…
Free February Fun for Families at Blackburn & Darwen Markets On the hunt for something fun to do this half term? Take a look at the fabulous what’s on guide for Blackburn and Darwen markets! Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is delighted to once again be working with local company, Culturapedia, to bring holiday…
Love was most definitely in the air when celebrity designer Patrick Grant visited Darwen Market. Judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick chose the beautiful Victorian building as the location for the latest fashion shoot for his ethical clothing brand, Community Clothing. And, he wasn’t short of willing volunteers with the traders keen…
The festive season is here once again, and luckily for Darwen families, that means more free Christmas fun at Darwen Market! Three fantastic free events have been organised by the Culturapedia team, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Blackburn with Darwen council, and there’s something to get everyone…
We’re very excited to announce that C.P. Company are bringing CINQUANTA, an exclusive exhibition looking back at 50 years of Italian sports and casual wear, to Darwen, as part of the British Textile Biennial. Exclusive designs from the collaboration between C.P. Company and adidas Spezial will also be revealed. This is especially significant for Darwen,…
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…