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……
Free Family Friendly Activities: Beyond The Rooftops At Darwen Market WITH EYE OF NEWT THEATRE COMPANY Beyond the rooftops, somewhere amongst the chimney pots a nest is being prepared. In this tale of friendship, courage, and self-discovery we follow Pigeon as she discovers strength in the most unexpected places. A ten minute puppet show performed from…
Free Family Friendly Activities: Print Your Own Tote Bag At Darwen Market WITH HOOP & FRED Join Stephie from Hoop & Fred and print your own tote bag! Stephie will have an exciting box full of ready-made stamps for you to use or if you’ve found a really cool shell at the beach or a really…
Free May Fun Hodman & Sally Walking Performance At Darwen Market THE FLYING BUTTRESSES Hodman and Sally have lived happily by themselves for hundreds of years, blissfully unaware of the changing world around them. Now they have ventured out in search of fame, fortune and friendship, enjoying a second youth touring the world with their possessions…
Free May Fun The Elves and the Shoemaker At Darwen Market JOYCE BRANAGH & HELEN LONGWORTH When two magical elves, Red and Lo, arrive to help the local shoemaker, they realise they need to put themselves into someone else’s shoes to understand what the customers need. But will Lo learn enough to make the perfect pair…
Free May Fun Arabic Calligraphy Workshop At Darwen Market RAZWAN UL-HAQ Join us for a hands-on workshop on Arabic Nastaliq Calligraphy with Razwan. Have a go at using traditional bamboo pens and hand mixed ink. Everyone is welcome! You don’t need to know any Arabic to create these beautiful shapes and patterns. This is a drop…
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…