Take a seat under a hairdryer with a difference in Blackpool this autumn and be transported back to the era of rock ‘n’ roll.
Created by sound artist, Dan Fox, from original Sixties hairdryers, Voices from the Hood is the latest element of Jukebox: The Teenage Revolution, a Lancashire-based celebration of teenage culture of the Fifties and Sixties.
Visitors can take a comfy seat on one of the three period chairs and instead of having their hair dried, they can choose to listen to classic hits and the memories of local people who were teenagers during that time.
While ‘under the dryers’ visitors can also read a magazine explaining more about the project and listing the choice of tracks.
Voices from the Hood, which is free, is currently at Stanley Park Visitor Centre until October 24 and then will appear at Blackpool Central Library until November 20 when it will be a part of the finale celebration of Jukebox: The Teenage Revolution at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.
Blackpool and Lytham St Annes were the birthplace of the distinctive British jukebox produced by the Ditchburn Equipment company.
Jukebox: The Teenage Revolution project, is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players; Arts Council England, the Granada Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation.
About Lancaster University
Lancaster University is a collegiate university in the UK city of Lancaster and a member of the N8 Research Partnership: an association of the eight most research-intensive universities in the North of England.
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About the Garfield Weston Foundation
Established in 1958, the Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide variety of charities across the UK. The Foundation’s funding comes from an endowment of shares in the Weston family business – a successful model that still exists today. The Weston family have a consistent aim. The more successful the family businesses, the more money the Foundation can donate.
Each year the Foundation gives away its income and donations have continued to grow. Since it was established it has donated over £1.5 billion, of which over half has been given away in the past ten years. In the most recent financial year the Foundation gave away over £100 million to nearly 1,800 charities across the UK.
About Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture.
We have set out our strategic vision in Let’s Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences.
From 2023 to 2026 we will invest over £467 million of public money from Government and an estimated £250 million from The National Lottery each year to help support the sector and to deliver this vision. www.artscouncil.org.uk
