The Loom Community Arts

23/03/2026

I am coming to the library tomorrow - see you there! :D

We’re excited to support Blackburn’s bid to become the very first UK Town of Culture in 2028! 🎉

This is a huge opportunity for the town - and your ideas and experiences are needed to help shape the story. Whether you’re part of a community group, school, cultural organisation or heritage project, your voice can help bring this ambitious vision to life.

📅 Come along to the community discussion:
Tuesday 24th March, 1–3pm
📍 Blackburn Central Library

Want to find out more or get involved? Contact Lauren at:
👉 [email protected]

National Festival of Making Super Slow Way British Textile Biennial Discover Blackburn Blackburn Visitor Centre Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

15/11/2025

You ask - we listen!

And you can win prizes too!

Tomorrow at the event, our great volunteers will be collecting your feedback, which will help shape the events that will be organised in the future!

At the end of the event, we will draw a couple of lucky winners, who will receive a poster signed by all the artists and music-themed mystery gifts!

See you tomorrow - we cannot wait!

08/11/2025

Mee Maws aka Where Tiggies Used To Be at the Exchange Building! See you there!

09/10/2025

Aggie here, your friendly neighbourhood Producer.

Lend me your ears, friends! Lend me your ears! 👂🏿🦻🏽👂🏻🦻🏾

I have some great news - we will be back with another great music event - keep your eyes peeled!

And even better news - Alison and her music school will be too!

In case you missed us on the last occasion - here is a complete playlist of performers from her school, including a special treat - a lovely, spontaneous duet sang by Alison herself and our great friend and supporter, Doug Livesey !

Enjoy!

A showcase of the amazing students taught by Alison from her private studio at Heatleys Arcade. Alison teaches piano and vocals and you book a lesson via her...

05/10/2025

The 5th Mee Maws Open Mic should be known as The Cornucopia of Riches!

We've had:

🎵 The most performers - a whopping 15!

🎵 33 songs performed on the day!

🎵 I spent 5 hours and 15 minutes processing and uploading the videos....

🎵And it took over 3 days to upload them - because of the pesky YouTube daily upload limit of 10!

Without further ado - I present to you the entire Mee Maws Open Mic Event Number 5️⃣

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03/10/2025

📣📣It's happening! 📣📣

Tune into our You Tube channel to hear the first batch of the delicious, local and inspired music
from the last Mee Maws Open Mic!

More videos coming tomorrow at 6pm!

https://www.youtube.com/

Alcra Corale Arts 2 Heal Douglas and Moss Discover Blackburn Doug Livesey

02/10/2025

Hello everyone!

Aggie here, your friendly neighbourhood Coordinator at The Loom Community Arts.

Thank you for keeping with us, I have suffered a bout of Covid and Lisa, the Creative worshipper, has also been under the weather.

But we understand the show must go on and especially for those who have missed our event this time, I am super 📢📢happy to announce that 📢📢 tomorrow at 6pm you will be able to watch the ⭐entire show ⭐from the 14th of September!

If you haven't done so already, 🙏🙏please subscribe to our You Tube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/

Meanwhile, I am hard at work editing the footage.

Who can guess which artist's video I am working on right now?

15/09/2025

And that's a wrap! Aggie here, your friendly MC/Coordinator.

Before we delight ourselves with the incredible performances, I want to start by thanking my wonderful volunteers.

One person in particular.

If you've ever been to a live music event, you may have missed those incredibly hard working people, without whom no gig or showcase would take place.

The sound techs.

I lucked out with the amazing people who have been supporting The Exchange Blackburn community events. We've had Pete from Cathedral Studios & Rehearsal Rooms, the indomitable Richard Moss and most recently, Kole Cook.

Kole is a singer, multiinstrumentalist, producer, sound tech...the list goes on :)

Yesterday he worked incredibly hard - so hard in fact, I had to pull him away from his desk so he could get something to eat.

I am so grateful to Kole for his incredible professionalism, hard working attitude, tidiness, lovely and supportive manner and most of all - making everyone sound brilliant!

Our volunteer, Ace, will be taking over this account and posting more photos and videos from yesterday so stay tuned :)

06/09/2025

Great news for all of you lovers of good music, great food and drink!

In partnership with the amazing Mad Hatters Cupcakes & Tea Room, Natalie will be opening the cafe just for you on Sunday the 14th!

Yes, especially for you!

Mad Hatters offers a wonderful choice of yummy food cooked with love! They are also a licensed bar so make sure to drop in for a glass of wine!

See you on the 14th of September - we cannot wait to welcome you at Open Mic @ MeeMaws Cafe on Sun 14 Sept 2025 from 4pm !

05/09/2025

We're Back! Come and join us!

05/09/2025

We're back! We h ope to see you then!