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Lancashire hosts a vibrant calendar of cultural arts and exhibitions, showcasing everything from contemporary installations to traditional crafts. Galleries, museums, and pop-up events across the county provide inspiring spaces for artists and audiences to connect and celebrate creativity.
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Lightpool Festival
Dates: 21st Oct 2026 - 31st Oct 2026
Enjoy a spectacular programme of light-based art installations, live performances, 3D projection shows and family-friendly activities. More details coming soon.
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Gawthorpe Textiles Collection Exhibition - National Trust: Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham
Dates: 9th Oct 2026 - 31st Oct 2026
Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth was an expert with a needle, as well as making textiles she also collected and studied them. The items on display in this exhibition are a tiny part of the extensive and beautiful collection, she built up throughout her lif...
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Blackburn Artists' Society 80th Anniversary Exhibition: Day and Night - Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Briercliffe
Dates: 9th Oct 2026 - 30th Oct 2026
Founded in 1946, Blackburn Artist's Society are celebrating their 80th Anniversary in 2026, and what better way to celebrate than with a beautiful new exhibition at Queen Street Mill? They have spent many years meeting at iconic venues across Lanc...
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Forever Clapton
Date: 9th Oct 2026
A fully live six piece showband and outstanding tribute to the incredible guitarist; Eric Clapton.
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Rogues' Gallery at Fairhaven Lake Watersports Centre
Date: 9th Oct 2026
Fiercely feminist comedy cabaret.
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The Vanishing Cabaret at Holmes Mill
Date: 10th Oct 2026
Prepare to have your mind blown.
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Rogues' Gallery at Bolton le Sands Library
Date: 10th Oct 2026
Fiercely feminist comedy cabaret.
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Violinist Aleva Baeva in Concert
Date: 10th Oct 2026
A fantastic chance to hear one of the world's most exciting violinists perform in Lancashire.
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Pumpkin Sunday at West Lancashire Light Railway
Date: 11th Oct 2026
Ride the trains and choose your pumpkin.
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Halloween Special at West Lancashire Light Railway
Date: 11th Oct 2026
Join a scary adventure, if you dare.
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Rogues' Gallery at Freckleton Library
Date: 11th Oct 2026
Fiercely feminist comedy cabaret.
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Songs of the Mayflower, Ménestrel at Oswaldtwistle Library
Date: 13th Oct 2026
Early music and Canadian folk.
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Conversational Workshop: Alastair Morton Artist and Textile Designer - The Harris
Date: 14th Oct 2026
To coincide with our Horrockses Fashions exhibition, join our Fine Art Curator for a rare opportunity to see The Harris’ collection of over 40 Alastair Morton drawings. Explore these beautiful, colourful, abstract works, many of which inspired his...
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Talk about the Lancashire Airman - Thornton
Date: 14th Oct 2026
Neville Stack was one of the most celebrated aviators of the inter-war period.
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Songs of the Mayflower, Menestrel at Clitheroe Library
Date: 14th Oct 2026
Early music and Canadian folk.
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Garstang Musical Productions presents The Great British Bake Off Musical
Dates: 14th Oct 2026 - 17th Oct 2026
A deliciously funny, feel-good musical comedy.
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