Saturday Girl – Casey Orr’s Book Launch
Saturday girl is the amazing project by Photographer Casey Orr. The book launch was held at 170 Saint James's Street here in our High Street Heritage Action Zone. Saturday Girl about town You can read their book here via this
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The first business to benefit from an initiative to improve shopfronts in part of Burnley town centre has unveiled its new look.
Funding was made available to eligible businesses in Lower St James’s Street to improve their frontages as part of a wider scheme to regenerate the area. To mark the milestone, a ribbon cutting ceremony took place at 143 St James’s
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An Amazing Response from Our Stone Carving Workshop!
As part of the HSHAZ Heritage Skills Training a Stone Carving Workshop took place on Friday 28th October at Burnley College. 20 members of the public attended the course learning how to use appropriate tools using traditional and simple carving methods.
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Brand New Heritage Workshop Coming Soon!
Our much-anticipated Bag making workshop is almost here. The Heritage Skills workshops are run by our fantastic Heritage Action Team in collaboration with the Cultural Consortia for the HS HAZ. The workshop consists of a two separate events on the
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Sophie Gibson’s Exclusive Interview – Empire Theatre
Sophie Gibson's Exclusive Interview all about the Empire Theatre.Sophie Gibson graduated with a degree in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University, in 2009. Since then, Sophie has been working within the arts and culture scene throughout the whole of
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Community Projects – Invigorating Burnley’s History
Fascinating elements of Burnley town centre history are set to be recognised through community projects which are being delivered by a number of town centre partners. Burnley's Heritage Action Zone (HAZ), and The Cultural Consortia are working together on two
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Coming soon! Exclusive Empire Theatre Interview!
Coming soon! Empire Theatre Interview! The HAZ team have been busy interviewing Sophie Gibson from the Empire Theatre. Sophie told us about all the art exhibitions she has been involved in along with why and how she got involved with
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Voices of the Counter Culture Book Launch
The Voices of Counter Culture was researched, compiled and edited by the wonderful Fiona Hornby. It is the culmination of dozens of interviews with people who remember Lower St James's Street, Burnley and in particular the Red Triangle Cafe at
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Under One Sky Exhibition Launch
Please join our wonderful Cultural Consortia team for the opening exhibition of UNDER ONE SKY. A pop up art installation based around the outcomes from the 21/22 Burnley Light Night. Friday 15th July 3pm - 4pm 117 Lower St James
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