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Lightpool Festival 2025

Type:Lightpool Festival

Various Town Centre Locations, Promenade, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 1AP

Tel: 01253 478222

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The award-winning Lightpool Festival is back, lighting up the night for nine evenings from Friday 20 October to Saturday 28 October. Enjoy a spectacular programme of light-based art installations, live performances, 3D projection shows and family-friendly activities.

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2025 (15 Oct 2025 - 1 Nov 2025)

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Free AdmissionFree

Note: Prices are a guide only and may change on a daily basis.

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Friday, 29th August 2025 - Sunday, 4th January 2026

Blackpool IlluminationsBlackpool Illuminations 2025The world-famous Illuminations need little introduction. With six miles of traditional festoons, tableaux and interactive features along the Promenade, no wonder it’s commonly known as the greatest free light show on Earth! Blackpool’s annual Illuminations display will once again be extended by…
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Thursday, 11th September 2025 - Sunday, 4th January 2026

Guardians of the NorthGuardians of the NorthWatch as three dragons, drawing on Lancashire's rich myths and legends, light up on the Tower Festival Headland.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Aqualux Lightpool Festival 2025Aqualux WallAqualux Wall is an eye-opening feature as part of Lightpool Festival, raising the importance of water
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Ataraxie Lightpool Festival 2025AtaraxieA row of lasers fills the space with beams of red light that first form simple crosses for Lightpool Festival.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Blackpool Rock Lightpool Festival 2024Blackpool RockThe newly commissioned Blackpool Rock sculpture for this year’s Lightpool Festival continues the love story first told through the artist's earlier work for the Blackpool Illuminations.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Chocolate Shop Lightpool Festival 2025Chocolate ShopPeddie’s Chocolate Shop returns Clottu’s magic to Blackpool in a unique collaboration with the Cardboard Box Company and Festival of Making for Lightpool Festival.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Eternal Ensemble Lightpool Festival 2025Eternal EnsembleEternal Ensemble is a work of spatial audio and immersive projection that suspends the viewer in a repeated moment in time
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

FiguresFiguresFigures is the latest installation produced by the collective, which reinvents itself using wood as a primary material. Figures is a succession of 48 wooden slabs laid in an unbalanced fashion. This tenuous controlled balance gives an impression of movement and even lightness to the overall design.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Gull Power Lightpool Festival 2025Gull PowerGet off my chips! How many times have you seen the local gulls dive-bombing an unsuspecting pedestrian, making off with their illicit tasty swag? 
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Showtown Welcomes ChilaShowtown Welcomes ChilaA spectacular explosion of colourful signature neon-light artworks that together celebrate Burman’s rich Hindu-Punjabi heritage, with references to Indian mythology.
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Saturday, 1st November 2025

Tower Light Show Lightpool Festival 2025Tower & Golden Mile Light ShowThe Blackpool Tower is emblazoned with a glowing heart and 25,000 lights on the structure
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Wednesday, 15th October 2025 - Sunday, 4th January 2026

Spiro Blackpool Illuminations 2023SpiroA family friendly immersive walk-through sculptural tunnel of light experience
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Saturday, 18th October 2025 - Sunday, 19th October 2025

The Crow and the Wood of Wishes: A Claremont TaleLuminaire Drone RaceYou'll see top pilots from across the UK lighting up the skies with their incredible racing drones, for a micro drone racing showdown like no other!
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Monday, 27th October 2025 - Monday, 27th October 2025

Carnival Magic by Global Grooves Lightpool Festival 2023Carnival Magic by Global Grooves: Lightpool FestivalAn exhilarating menagerie of illuminated carnival will return to the Tower Ballroom for an electrifying showcase.
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Awards

  • Sub-Regional AwardsLancashire Tourism Awards Finalist Lancashire Tourism Awards Finalist 2015
  • Sub-Regional AwardsLarge Tourism Event Award Large Tourism Event Award 2017

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