Families are going to be spoilt for choice at Lytham Festival this year with everything from outdoor cinema to workshops, art trails to the full proms experience and all right beside the seaside. The idyllic locations of the Lytham Proms Main Arena and Lytham Hall will host screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and ...
Bowie look-alikes and Stormtroopers are set to mix with leather and suspenders this summer as the Lancashire seaside town of Lytham hosts a three-night outdoor cinema spectacular. Early in the week cinema lovers can enjoy cult classic Labyrinth, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the sedate and ...
Budding TV presenters are being invited to become stars of this year’s Lytham Festival. For the first time in its history, Lytham Festival will be hosting its very own online TV channel – LF:TV – throughout the week-long event. LF:TV will broadcast from venues throughout Lytham from August 1 – 7 keeping both festival and ...
Sunday, 17 July saw a very different wildlife at Lytham Bowling Club. On a tree, which was a revelation in itself, we had thought there were two trees, an artist, a technician and a trusty volunteer installed Sally Barker‘s “we only print in blood red”. Thousands of fingerprints, made with squeezed clay, gradually invaded the tree. ...
Are you a budding writer who loves live music and events? If so, Lytham Festival needs you. Lytham Festival organisers are on the hunt for talented young writers to review gigs across this year’s week-long event from August 1 – 7. Young people aged between 16 and 22 are being urged to show off their ...
14 images, printed from lino cuts onto cotton, the fabric of Lancashire* form a temporary trail around Lytham. *Cotton, one of the traditional industries of Lancashire, brought wealth to the town through the industrialists and families of former mill workers who settled here. The trail takes the form of 14 hand printed representations of gulls, common tern, ...
Exciting times are afoot on Lytham’s art scene. This week, the week when the art interventions start to arrive, we’re nearly ready to put our pens down, leave our desks and start rolling up our sleeves to start installing the amazing work that’s going on show. First to be installed is Tea’s “We Were ...
The Lytham Festival Ticket Hub has been officially unveiled for 2016. And rather than a traditional Box Office, Lytham Festival organisers Cuffe and Taylor have gone one better for 2016 by installing a public piece of art in Lytham’s Market Square. The traditional beach hut-style Ticket Hub is adorned with fresh flowers, a miniature pier ...
Lytham Festival organisers have fired a message into space inviting UK astronaut Major Tim Peake to come and see Noel Gallagher perform his intergalactic classic. Major Peake is due to arrive home to earth Saturday, June 18 after an historic six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS). While in space Major Peake has been ...
Acoustic duo and Wonderstuff members Miles and Erica are joining the line up for this year’s Lytham Festival on the Pavilion Stage. Made up of vocalist and guitarist Miles Hunt and violinist Erica Nockalls, the pair will perform a selection of their own tracks plus Wonderstuff material on Saturday 6 August. They join the already ...
