Programme

Digital Participation

Folly pioneers socially engaged digital art for the North West through a Digital Participation Programme that tests the power of the arts to transcend the digital divide.

AND festival visits Manchester

Bursting from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the Northwest, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival that questions the normal and champions different approaches.

read more about FLI

The Folly Lanternhouse International Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice, with a particular emphasis on participatory activity.

read more about portable pixel playground

A bit like an adventure playground, a bit like a work of art, and a bit like a computer game.

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Predict is a programme for developing the next generation of arts leaders, supporting young people to excel within a future job market and imagine new horizons within the arts.

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Radar is a new programme of artists' residencies in public libraries across Lancashire.

read more areas of outstanding natural banality

Areas of Outstanding Natural Banality encourages people to seek out and document beauty in the everyday, to take pictures and share them worldwide.

read more about digital artists' handbook

The Digital Artists Handbook is an accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.

read more about f.wish

A new kind of online forum. The eastern myth says if your wish hangs in the tree it will come true. Try your luck, submit a wish to folly's tree.

read more about the secret life of cumbria

The Secret Life of Cumbria is a book written by the people of Cumbria. A collection of stories about escape, love, grief, and favourite T-shirts!

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A Walk from A-Z is an audio walk that takes you on a tour of the history of the library movement via the collection at Lancaster Library. Part of Radar, the artists' residency scheme in Lancashire's public libraries.

read more about what's cooking grandma?

What's Cooking Grandma is a video cookbook of grandmothers and their special recipes, celebrating Grandma's cooking and sharing knowledge across generations.

read more about love culture

Love Culture is an online community where you can make friends and share your views about art and culture.