Blackpool Photo and Writing Project

Are you creative with a camera or are you wonderful with words? Would you like the chance to win £100 worth of vouchers?

If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, then Blackpool libraries want to hear from you!

As part of the National Year of Reading, the library service, Blackpool and the Fylde College and the BBC are working together to capture the beauty and uniqueness of living in Blackpool. Media students from the college are making a series of short films that reflect the cultural diversity of the town while photography students are hoping to capture this in photographs.

We are inviting the public of Blackpool to join in and are looking for entries, in words or photographs, which show the myriad experiences of living in this place.

Photographic entries must be 7in x 5in and can be of anything which reflects the beauty, the kitsch, the glamour, the unusual side of life in Blackpool.

Is writing your strength? Could you capture the flavour of living in Blackpool in five lines? You can use any format – poetry, prose or an imaginary news report – to do this.

All entries will be displayed at the Central Library, along with the work from the students, in February and there will be a special evening event to celebrate the project. (date to be confirmed)

Entries can be handed in at any of Blackpool’s libraries and the closing date for these is 31st January 2009.

Get Online Day at Blackpool Libraries

Call in at a Blackpool Public Library during the week beginning 20^th October and take part in  Get Online Day.  There are several Get Online Days organised as part of Family Learning Week which are aimed at family members who want to use a computer and the internet, but don’t know how.

Whilst there you can enter an online competition sponsored by UKOnline which has as its prize a new laptop!

If you have no previous knowledge of using the Internet then Get Online Day is for you.

If you have a little experience of using the internet but want to progress, then have a look at www.myguide.co.uk

Doctor Who month at Blackpool Libraries

21st July to 16th August is Doctor Who Month at Blackpool Libraries.

Saturday 26th July is Doctor Who Day at Blackpool Central Library. There will be a display of genuine Doctor Who artefacts kindly loaned by the Doctor Who Exhibition from 19th – 27th July including a Dalek.  There will be quizzes and Doctor Who related discussions and craft workshops all day.

At 2:30pm there will be a parade of characters from Doctor Who. Please come in Doctor Who costume if you can and take part.

At all branches of Blackpool Library there will be drawing competitions with prizes.

Find out about Blackpool Libraries by visiting the Blackpool Council – Libraries website.