Plans for the National Festival of Making have been finalised across 25 different venues, from Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery to The Making Rooms, The Exchange, Tony’s Ballroom, The Mall, Blackburn Cathedral and Cathedral Square. Forty different listings have been devised for the weekend of July 6 and 7, catering for everyone from families and music aficionados to art lovers, foodies and film and fashion fans Lauren Zawadzki, festival co-director, said: “The countdown is well and truly on to Blackburn with Darwen’s biggest event of the year. “Organising a festival on this scale is definitely not for the fainthearted.
We work hard to strike a really good balance between keeping what we know people love while adding in new, exciting things too and the feedback is always incredible. “The Festival of Making is a fun celebration of all things ‘making’ – from the kitchen table to the factory floor, proudly showcasing the work of leading UK creative talents, alongside emerging and next generation artists. “There’s also lots of opportunities for people to get involved and try their hand too at our many creative workshops while enjoying live performances, live music, and the fabulous food offer too.
“We want Blackburn to be seen far and wide as the natural home of making, both in the past - with the town’s rich links to the cotton industry - and looking to the future too, we have so much creative talent right here to celebrate.” For months artists have been.
