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This category relates to all things to do with arts in Preston.

Lancashire Encounter festival signs deal with major outdoor arts company

Daytime performance of BLOCK in Winckley Square Pic: Paul Melling Preston’s premier arts festival is set to be even bigger in 2020 with the addition of England’s biggest network of outdoor arts festivals. Lancashire Encounter, which runs every other year […]

5 years ago
Showcase of Preston’s arts to take over UCLan’s Media Factory

The Media Factory will be home to the one-day festival Pic: Tony Worrall A day showcasing the city’s buzzing arts scene is to take place at Preston’s university. Derelict Theatre are preparing to take over the Media Factory in the University of Central […]

5 years ago
Wallace and Gromit bring ‘SmellyVision’ to Preston this weekend

Cheese, Gromit? This Saturday the People’s Production Lab in Guild Hall Street will kick-up a stink with a smelly-vision screening of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.   […]

5 years ago
How this former Preston policeman has got all arty from his Fulwood back garden

Patrolling the streets has been swapped for picking up paintbrushes by this retired police officer. David Wiles spent nearly 30 years as a policeman with Lancashire Constabulary but is now […]

5 years ago
Advertisement Advertisement Preston InstaMeet VI to explore GRAFT exhibition at the Harris

One of the striking exhibitions at the Harris's new young artists showcase Some of the freshest young art talent in the UK is heading for the Harris. And this is your chance to get a look before anyone else. Preston InstaMeet VI […]

5 years ago
UCLan’s second Northern Young Adult Literary Festival is big success

Publisher at UCLan Publishing Hazel Holmes with students Johanna Marton and Jess Ferrier Over 500 young book fans descended on Preston for the second Northern Young Adult Literary Festival. The festival – hosted by UCLan and the only event of its kind to […]

5 years ago
UClay exhibition to celebrate ceramics stars moulded in Preston

A previous MA Ceramics graduate exhibition A new exhibition will celebrate work by emerging artists from UCLan’s MA Ceramics course. The UClay exhibition of ceramic work has been organised by a group of students who graduated […]

5 years ago
Preston girl’s vision of Britain by 2219 created in Lego

Saira with her drawing and the Lego recreation Flying cars, train tracks in the sky and jet-packs being the primary mode of travel is how Britain will be by 2219. A seven-year-old Preston has won a nationwide competition […]

5 years ago
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