2025 Festival Dates: 5 & 6 July

Front Room Factories

Co-commissioned by Super Slow Way and The National Festival of Making, O Production’s Front Room Factories is an intimate and inspiring portrait of Lancashire’s home-based makers. Eight domestic creators invited Front Room Factories through their front doors, revealing an industry producing fusion pies, ceramics, cigar box guitars, African biscuits, petrol can lights, tableware, jewellery and more.

 

 

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Including – ‘Blackburn to the Fore’, a choral arrangement of William Billington’s poem for Jamie Holman’s residency at Roach Bridge Tissues. Performed by the incomparable Blackburn People’s Choir.

 


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2019 Trusts & Foundations

The National Festival Of Making Delivery Team

National Festival of Making is supported by the Arts Council England, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Brian Mercer Trust and Foundations and Partners. This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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