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Get ready to make FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE 12&13 MAY 2018 | 11AM—6PM Welcome Contents Our Festival Highlights 4 Cathedral Square 6—7 Blackburn Cathedral 8 Church Street 10 Blackburn Bus Depot*** 11 More workshops, more performances, Open this programme at any page and you’ll find STEAM Pavilion 13 more art, more markets - more making! countless FREE activities brimming with inspiration. Whether you dismantle a virtual jet engine, shop The Bureau 14 Welcome back to the second year of the the newest emerging makers or spot the next big Blackburn Museum 16—17 National Festival of Making! Last year Blackburn thing in music at the BBC Introducing Stage you The Making Rooms 18 became the destination for 30,000 curious & can’t fail to find something to excite. You might find Festival Hub 20 creative minds, as people responded to our yourself sampling fantastic food, travelling in time promise of a ‘new kind of festival for a new to a 1980s wedding preparation celebrating British Make with the Manufacturer 21 festival of making’. Proof, if it was needed, of the Asian culture or gaining exclusive festival access to Festival Street 22 demand for a UK festival with Making at its heart, Blackburn’s hidden heritage & architectural gems; Art in Manufacturing Installations 23—24 and that Blackburn is the place to house it. learning the latest fashion techniques, channeling Blackburn Library your inner breakdancer or simply enjoying the 25 This year we’ve crammed even more creative spectacle - it’s all here waiting to be discovered. King George’s Hall 26 activities into the town centre, with 140 making- Northgate & Blakey Moor 27 themed events across more than 30 town-centre Making is in our blood. People travel from far venues including 40 hands-on workshops, and wide to share their creative passions at the Festival Map 28—29 34-tonnes of advanced manufacturing National Festival of Making and we hope you leave What’s On Listing 30—33 technology, 5-tonnes of industrial-era machinery feeling connected to our artisans, entertainers and Prism Contemporary & Community Clothing 34 and a tonne of fresh clay - seven brand-new inventors. Our celebration is about connection and The Mall 35 artwork installations, four maker marketplaces is threaded through with the optimism, inspiration and one very special Spanish circus troupe. A and excitement of our amazing community. The Gatehouse, Radio Lancashire & Blackburn Youth Zone 36 breathless list for a breathless festival weekend. Be part of it. Conference 37 Our Partners 38 Turn to the back (upside down) for Art in Manufacturing TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT! From the team at the National Festival of Making and our partners, we’d like to make a special thanks to the 100’s of individuals who work tirelessly to realise this Festival. Everyone at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, our supportive funders, sponsors, festival advocates, curators, producers, artists, makers, traders, designers, educational partners and communities - this programme is a combination of all of our creative efforts and imaginations. And to our volunteers, the Festival Makers who will become the heart of the weekend, thank you for opening your arms to our audiences, whose Festival #FestivalofMaking experience is down to the welcome you provide! 2 All information stated in the brochure is correct at time of printing and subject to change without notice. Design by SourceCreative.co.uk Find out more at FestivalofMaking.co.uk 3 Don’t Miss our Festival Highlights! Did we Make it? Making Taste Making Futures Less Waste, More Taste - come Step aboard MANTRA, the TELL US WHAT YOU THINK along, cook, then eat for free Manufacturing Technology at the Bureau Centre for the Transporter! Giving a hands AND WIN OF HIGH STREET VOUCHERS! Arts with Cracking Good on experience with real £50 Food. Page 14 cutting-edge technologies - We are delighted that you joined us for the National Festival of Making 2018. Bus Depot. Page 13 To help us plan for the future of the festival we would like to know what you thought about this year’s event and how we can make it even better. Making History Take a seat at former Northern Making Place Visit festivalofmaking.co.uk/evaluation Soul venue, Tony’s Ballroom for Re‘MAKE’ a Memory with to complete the online survey and enter the prize draw Martyn Ware’s three dimensional, Clayground Collective as to win £50 of high street shopping vouchers. immersive soundscape Church of you help transform A WHOLE Rare Souls. Page 23 TONNE OF RAW CLAY into a sculpture - Museum Street. Page 17 Making Noise You heard it here first! The very best of new Making Communities music talent from raw and Explore the cultural traditions unsigned artists on the BBC involved in the Making of a Introducing Festival Stage at South Asian Wedding with Cathedral Square. Page 6 artist Dawinder Bansal at Blackburn Market - making workshops from samosas to Making a Living floral garlands!Page 10 Showcasing over 50 hand selected designer makers - Making On The Move work your wallet at the Makers The UK’s first Textile Biennial coming to Market, curated by Hopeful & Lazerian hits the road to galleries, museums and former textile mills Glorious at King Georges Hall Blackburn. After 5 years across Pennine Lancashire in September - Page 26 of being converted, Liam 2019. FABRICATIONS explores Pennine Hopkins brings his mobile Lancashire’s relationship with textiles and craft making studio! Making Things the politics of cloth in relation to people, production and place. Do Not Disturb brings the ingenuity of making to life Emerging Artists & takes festival goers back Marking the 100 year Anniversary Visit fabrications.org.uk for more to 20th century factory life of Votes for Women, join GIRLS information and please join the mailing list to - vibrant, unmissable street GIRLS GIRLS at King William keep up to date with upcoming activity. theatre from Spanish circus Street and get stuck into company, Vaiven Circo at slogan inspired screen printing. FABRICATIONS.ORG.UK Cathedral Square - Page 7 4 #FestivalofMaking Find out more at FestivalofMaking.co.uk 5 ONE CATHEDRAL SQUARE, MAP Cathedral BBC Radio BB1 1FB Lancashire 1 Square FESTIVAL SPECIAL LIVE SHOW BBC INTRODUCING FESTIVAL STAGE Sat and Sun 12noon—2pm Sat 12th and Sun 13th May from 3—6pm Street Food Cathedral Square, 11am—6pm Every year you’ll find the BBC at of the biggest No music stage is complete without unmissable and best music festivals across the country festival food, and you’ll be spoilt for choice - this May we are proud to be hosting BBC with the ethical and delicious vegan fare of Introducing at The National Festival of Making in Earthworm Kitchen, the chocolatey, crunchy, Blackburn, Lancashire! comforting iced flavours of Ginger’s Comfort Emporium, the best in Blackburn’s home-baked Shining a light on the very best undiscovered, pies from Pie Mezzanae and much more. unsigned and under the radar music, join presenter Sean McGinty at the BBC Introducing All aboard the bus! Cathedral Square services Lancashire stage. Hear the very best of local up all your thirsty needs - beers from the bus, a and coming musical talent while it’s still raw and cocktail or mocktail from A Mano or a Birchalls unsigned. And remember, you heard it at Tea from Cafe Northcote. The National Festival of Making first! Do Not Disturb VAVIEN CIRCO Cathedral Square, 2pm (50 minutes) FAMILY FRIENDLY Vibrant, unmissable and FREE street performance that brings the ingenuity of making dramatically to life, Do Not Disturb takes festival Saturday Sunday goers back to the early 20th century, evoking a day’s work in a factory. Spanish circus company, 3:00pm Avishek Choudhury 3:00pm Jamie Wooding Vaiven Circo Danza, perform this high energy, 3:15pm TBC 3:15pm Lauren Hope poetic show, combining dance, acrobatics and 3:30pm Jack Woodward 3:30pm Livvy K physical theatre with contemporary circus tricks on each day of the festival. 3:45pm AKIDO (DJ) 3:45pm DJ 4:00pm Lanterns 4:00pm Sam Leoh The characters are asked to build a machine, 4:25pm AKIDO (DJ) 4:25pm DJ but without a guide to how it fits together, the performance throws up all manner of funny, 4:40pm Myth of Unity 4:40pm The Kut exciting and risky situations. As they fit the 5:05pm AKIDO (DJ) 5:05pm DJ various oversized components together, a 5:20pm Rival Bones 5:20pm BURD colossal and expressive performance unfolds, relying on balance and counterbalance to successfully manage the huge wooden Artists, performers and times subject to change without written notice. machine. 6 #FestivalofMaking Find out more at FestivalofMaking.co.uk 7 THE CRYPT — ACCESS FROM MAP Blackburn CATHEDRAL SQUARE B MAKING HISTORY Cathedral 1 SPONSORED BY Talbot Talks BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL NAVE Saturday Only 11am and 2pm Book your free place online or just turn up on the day. Fancy something a bit more contemplative? Lecturers and Archivists at Blackburn University College provide a unique insight into Blackburn’s THEME MAKING Cardboard Cinema famous Talbot Archive. Wally and Howard Talbot BY HANNAH FOX & CARDBOARD BOX COMPANY catalogued life in Lancashire from the 30s to the 90s, documenting the area’s social, industrial and 11am—6pm FAMILY FRIENDLY architectural history. Collect your cardboard ticket from our (1 hour talk with digital archive and exhibition) cardboard-usherette, fill your cardboard popcorn cone and enter a different world, where a handmade animation flickers in the warmth of a completely Cardboard Cinema. Harking back to the wonders of a bygone era - Blackburn once housed an impressive 15 From the moment we wake to the moment we First established in 1888, the College has cinemas - Hannah Fox and the Cardboard Box sleep, we’re all part of history.