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Opportunity: ‘We’re Still Here!’ is looking for project volunteers.
Be part of creating Blackpool’s first-ever LGBTQIA+ digital archive We’re Still Here! is delivered by Abingdon Studios in partnership with: This is History in the Making Blackpool has one of the largest and infamous LGBTQIA+ communities in the… Read More
Opportunity: ‘We’re Still Here!’ is looking for two Community Heritage Champions
Photo by Stuart Linden Rhodes. Blackpool, 1995 ‘We’re Still Here!’ is looking for two Community Heritage Champions to take part in creating Blackpool’s first-ever LGBTQIA+ digital archive. Blackpool has one of the largest and most infamous LGBTQIA+ communities… Read More
‘We’re Still Here!’ is looking for stories celebrating 20 years of Blackpool Pride!
Do you have a story about feeling proud in Blackpool? Have you marched in the Pride Parade along the Golden Mile? Did you dance until the early hours at the Flamingo? When have you felt the strength and… Read More
We’re Still Here! is hiring…
We’re Still Here! c/o Abingdon Studios are seeking to appoint freelance creative professionals to join our small team in 2026/27. You will work with us on a distinct contemporary arts and LGBTQIA+ heritage project in Blackpool. HOW TO… Read More
We’re Still Here! – New Funding Announcement
Photo by Timon Benson, taken at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. We’re Still Here! awarded £235k from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for an exciting series of public exhibitions in Blackpool in 2027. Abingdon Studios commissioned project We’re Still… Read More
WORK/LEISURE_4 IS CLOSED.
Work/Leisure_4 is now closed. You can see documentation of the projects by Chris Alton & Emily Simpson, Sam Williams and Grace Clifford at https://work-leisure.org/. Thank you to all the artists, funders and supporters of the projects. CHRIS ALTON… Read More
Sam Williams: Half-Swallowed
OPENING – 12 DECEMBER 2024, 6 – 8PM / ABINGDON STUDIOS PROJECT SPACE SAM WILLIAMS HALF-SWALLOWED My alarm sounds faintly from my phone. A soft pulsation of pressure around my legs, a weird sucking at the hips. Waking… Read More
SAMMY PALOMA
Descent to Kilgrimol Rx 23 JUNE – 2 JULY (STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT) OPENING: THURSDAY 23RD JUNE, 6-8PM The opening night will have a performance/ritual at 7pm by Sammy. ‘Descent to Kilgrimol Rx’ is an exhibition of new paintings,… Read More
Harry Grundy / PREVAILING RAIN
Prevailing Rain is a new exhibition bringing together 6 works by the West Yorkshire-based artist Harry Grundy to Abingdon Studios Project Space (ASPS) following a period of residency in Blackpool as part of the 2022 Work/Leisure programme. In Prevailing Rain, Grundy misremembers the Victorian… Read More
Posted: 1st July 2026 by Abingdon Studios
We’re Still Here! History Club – 8th July
The year is 2006. Line dancers and flat bed trucks showcasing fabulously dressed people are heading down the promenade in the first ever Pride parade headed to Bank St car park where the Cheeky Girls will perform next… Read More