Super Slow Way

15/06/2026

Summer Solstice at the Exbury Egg 🥚

Join artist Stephen Turner and Super Slow Way this Sunday for a midsummer gathering at the Exbury Egg.

Marking the longest day of the year, the event will celebrate the Egg’s continuing life in Burnley through conversation and reflection inspired by nature, place and community.

Last year, a Summer Solstice Garden was created in the shape of the Egg’s shadow as it fell at noon on Midsummer’s Day. Alongside horticulturalist Ian Halawi, we will tend to the garden, create hand painted plant signage and once again gather to witness the sun’s shadow reach the garden’s boundary, reconnecting the Egg to the rhythms of the season and its place beside the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

The gathering will also provide an opportunity to explore new ideas for the future of the Egg, including the possibility of an Exbury Egg Club: a community of participants connected through acts of care for nature, culture and place.

This will be a Jacob’s Join, so please bring food or drink to share if you are able!

🗓️ Sunday 21st June, 11am-1pm
📍 Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg, Finsley Gate Wharf, Burnley, BB11 2FG

08/06/2026

Join us at again Audley Community Park this Saturday 13th June for our next open day where you can take part in creative activity and planting. There’ll also be opportunity to find out more about Our Heritage project, plans for the park and how you can get involved! Our collaboration with Naeema Project will also continue with a litter pick of the park and surrounding streets.

A pay as you feel communal lunch will be prepared by the Taste of Home Cooking Collective. This is a free event suitable for all the family and everyone is welcome!

🗓️ Saturday 13th June, 1-4pm
📍 Audley Community Park, on the field next to Jans, Higher Audley St, Blackburn BB1 1DH

🅿️ Participants can park for free at St Pauls Church car park. Please note free parking is not available in Jans Conference Centre car park.

📧 To find out more please contact [email protected]

05/06/2026

We’re seeking artists of any discipline to work with local residents over the course of a year to help nurture connections between them and the natural world found along the canal corridor.

We are looking for three separate practices to work in three places along the stretch - in Pendle, Burnley and Hyndburn. Super Slow Way has been working with communities in these places over the past ten years and has formed strong relationships with people who are passionate about where they live and eager to understand and develop the natural assets along the canal on their doorsteps. Many of these disused green spaces are sites of former cotton mills that were demolished at the end of the last century and carry that history.

For more information and the full application process and requirements, please visithttps://superslowway.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SSW-Residencies-2627.pdf 🔗

• Application deadline: 5pm, Friday 26th June 2026

• Interviews: Week of 13th July - exact dates TBC

• Projects to take place between: September 2026 - Sept 2027

📧 Please email applications to [email protected] by 5pm, Friday 26th June 2026

27/05/2026

Tomorrow’s gardening session at the Exbury Egg has been postponed due Egg repairs! We apologise for any convenience caused and we’ll be back for the next session on Thursday 11th June 🪴

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27/05/2026

Eid Mubarak!

We would like to wish you all a day of joy and celebration this Eid al-Adha, and we hope you have a wonderful time ☪️

Best wishes from The Super Slow Way.

26/05/2026

After 8 weeks of waiting and watching our local swan couple on their nest at Eanam Wharf, we were finally greeted by mother swan and their 8 beautiful signets this afternoon 🦢

Expect more Super Slow Way signet updates throughout the coming months!

26/05/2026

This Thursday in Nelson! ⬇️

Nelson after dark

One night. One place. A room full of memories.

Join Diane Muldowney at the Station Hotel for the final episode of Juliet Bravo and real stories from Nelson’s nightlife as part of the After Dark project.

Date: 28th May
Time: 7pm-10pm
Location: Station hotel, Nelson

Free | All welcome

DJ, food and lots of nostalgia. Bring your stories ✨

21/05/2026

Join artist for a series of creative canalside walks where we’ll be exploring the blue and green spaces along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. We’ll identify and map what you see, from heritage buildings to wildlife, factories to flora and hear your stories about what the linear landscape means to you.

An original printed postcard will be given to participants at each walk, those who attend three monthly walks will receive a limited-edition print designed by Ian himself!

🗓️ Wednesday 27th May, 1-3pm
📍Meet at Calypso Restaurant, Eanam Wharf, Blackburn BB1 5BY

Walks will typically be a gentle stroll of approximately 2 miles. More walks to be announced soon!

Light refreshments will be provided.

18/05/2026

Join us at Audley Community Park this Saturday 23rd May for our next open day where you can take part in creative activity and planting. There’ll also be opportunity to find out more about Our Heritage project, plans for the park and how you can get involved! Our collaboration with Naeema Project will also continue with a litter pick of the park and surrounding streets.

A pay as you feel communal lunch will be prepared by the Taste of Home Cooking Collective. This is a free event suitable for all the family and everyone is welcome!

🗓️ Saturday 23rd May, 1-4pm
📍 Audley Community Park, on the field next to Jans, Higher Audley St, Blackburn BB1 1DH

🅿️ Participants can park for free at St Pauls Church car park. Please note free parking is not available in Jans Conference Centre car park.

📧 To find out more please contact [email protected]

14/05/2026

Our next This_is_Nelson People’s Assembly ⬇️

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Let’s bring hope into the open 🌼

Join us for a People’s Assembly linked to HOPE Not hate’s A Million Acts of Hope: a campaign to bring hope out into the open.

Patrick Spain from Burnley and Pendle Accessibility Campaign (BPAC) has been working with lots of different local people over the last few months to plant fruit and nut trees from around the world, as the beginning of an edible trail he is developing across the town.

Join us to celebrate this amazing addition to a Nelson green space and help plant some herbs to add to the space on the day!

There will also be:

• Creative activities from artist Nazia Sultana and the Pendle Festival of Culture team making flags and decor for the Festival in June.

• Talkaoke, join us for a special conversation exploring ideas for how to bring hope back out into the open.

• Locally cooked food from Zinat from Saffron Kitchen

📆 Thursday 21st May
🕙 1-3pm
📍 Netherfield Gardens, Nelson (oppositie Farmhouse Biscuits)