WHAT TO EXPECT

Across Blackpool you’ll discover a vibrant programme of events, including:

  • Talks and conversations
  • Arts and creative workshops
  • Music and live performances
  • Films and exhibitions
  • Community events and opportunities to connect

Whether you’re bereaved, caring for someone, supporting others through your work, or simply curious to join the conversation, everyone is welcome.

Follow @goodgriefbpl on Instagram to keep up to date on everything happening at Good Grief Blackpool. All donations will go to Trinity Hospice to fund future events and hospice activities. 

If you have any questions about Good Grief Blackpool or would like to discuss your access needs, please email: [email protected] 

What's on

Thu 8th Oct 2026

Dead Good Poetry (Poetry reading and workshop)

Fri 9th Oct 2026

Good Grief Blackpool SoundVan

Fri 9th Oct 2026

An Exhibition Exploring Love and Loss Through the Lens of Lived Experience

Fri 9th Oct 2026

Grief Café

Fri 9th Oct 2026

The Decay of Autumn: A Table Reading and Conversation

Fri 9th Oct 2026

Acts of Remembrance: Flowers, Stories and Meaning (Workshop)

Fri 9th Oct 2026

Trinitas Day Choir Performance

Fri 9th Oct 2026

Broken Chords (Performance)

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Good Grief Blackpool SoundVan

Sat 10th Oct 2026

An Exhibition Exploring Love and Loss Through the Lens of Lived Experience

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Vessels of Light and Tears (Pottery workshop)

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Singing for Creative Health (Performance and discussion)

Sat 10th Oct 2026

A Conversation with Linda Magistris

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Making Space: A Journal for Love, Loss and Reflection (Workshop)

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Grief in the Shadows: Supporting Unseen Losses (Panel discussion)

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Prance on the Prom

Sat 10th Oct 2026

Five Perspectives: A Film About Assisted Dying

Sun 11th Oct 2026

Love and Loss Through Rituals (Discussion forum)

Sun 11th Oct 2026

Love, Loss and Living Through an LGBTQ+ Lens: A Conversation with Basil Newby with Music from Lucy Ray and Electric Pink Voices

Sun 11th Oct 2026

Dr Kathryn Mannix Comes to Blackpool: Death, Dying and Talking About It

Sun 11th Oct 2026

The Power of Creativity (Discussion panel)

Sun 11th Oct 2026

Devolicious: A Celebration of Love, Life and Music (DJ set)

IN PARTNERSHIP

Good Grief Blackpool is produced by Phill Fairhurst, in partnership with Trinity Hospice, Empowerment, Good Grief Festival CIC, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Liverpool, and many local artists, organisations and community groups. It is part of the Coastal Community & Creative Health research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is supported by further funding from Hospice UK’s Dying Matters Community Grants scheme.