Creativity.
Culture.
Community.

The Old Electric offers workshops, events, projects, shows, and a creative meeting place for our communities. The only socially-engaged theatre using arts as a transformative process to positively change Blackpool.

We aim to reduce barriers for residents to connect with their own creativity; encouraging people to think and develop confidence while having fun.

Winter Family Festival

Join us this December for The Old Electric’s first Winter Family Festival! Programmed by local families in collaboration with Blackpool Family Hubs and Blackpool Libraries.

11 December – Little Bear & The Christmas Lights
12 December – Tales From The Lighthouse
13 December – Jack Frost Christmas Time Adventure

Tickets on sale mid-November…

Our vision

• A stronger, more resilient resident community are empowered to create a new narrative about the town.
• New work that provokes, surprises and entertains audiences is regularly made and performed in Blackpool and shared across the UK and around the world.

Our mission is to

• Provide transformative creative experiences that improve lives of local residents.
• Be valuable contributors to the town’s economy through a new hub of creative opportunities.

About Us

The Electric Sunshine Project (TESP) was formed in 2016 to offer creative experiences; workshops, events, projects and shows which aim to reduce barriers for Blackpool communities to connect with their own creativity.

The name was inspired by events of 1879, when Blackpool became the first town in the world to have electric street lighting; they called it ‘electric sunshine’; we aim to capture this spirit of aspiration, innovation and creative solution and, through the arts, to reinvent perceptions of what Britain’s best-loved seaside town can offer the rest of the world.