Pottery Painting with Fired 4 U
Nestled in Walton-le-Dale, sandwiched between a row of unassuming shops, is Fired 4 U. It’s a pottery painting workshop run by Jane Fox, a former hotel manager who decided to throw caution to the wind and pursue her passion for arts and crafts.
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Preston North End season preview
Following on from English football’s nadir of the so called golden generation at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, normal service resumes this Saturday when npower Championship League football returns to Preston North End with the visit of Doncaster Rovers.
Despite the positive promise of the new season, it is worth saying that it has been a turbulent time recently at Deepdale. The clubs financial matters made the headlines back in May when the club was reported with a winding up petition from the HM Revenue and Customs. Despite that grave news however, this has not stopped manager, Darren Ferguson from making a dip into the transfer market for new blood. read article »
Preston Tringe Festival
The open to all, Preston Tringe festival is now just over a month away and it is promising to bring you an amazing mixture of theatre, music, comedy and magic from all over the U.K.
Don’t forget that the festival will be kicking off on the 24th July and will be bustling with arts and acts until 1st August. This week, we’re taking a look at what the Blackpool, Fylde and Cumbria participants have to offer us in the form of theatre, magic and undoubtedly a little bit of mayhem.
St Catherine’s Bookshop
Uttering the phrase “Secondhand Bookshop” conjures up a variety of images. Dusty shelves, a musty smell and heaps of dog-eared books that’ve seen better days. But you’d associate none of these with St Catherine’s Hospice bookshop in Ashton-on-Ribble. read article »
Bank Holiday ideas in and around Preston
Bank Holiday weekend in Preston
It’s nearly time for the Bank Holiday weekend to begin and we’ve collected together what’s happening in and around Preston.
Includes Caribbean Carnivals, Whit Fairs, steam engines and Jimmy Carr. read article »
Election 2010 in Preston
Blog Preston will be covering the 2010 general election and local elections direct from the Town Hall.
Here’s our live blog as the local election results are announced, follow Joseph Stashko and Daniel Bentley as they keep tabs on all the wards: read article »
Your Questions – General Election 2010
Earlier this month we requested questions from you, the readers of Blog Preston to put to parliamentary candidates standing in the forthcoming General Election 2010.We edited the questions down to the top fifteen, now is your chance to see how the candidates responded! We’ve gathered in the answers, hopefully giving you an insight into how each of the candidates propose to work for Preston.
I just want to thank you the readers of Blog Preston for your questions and thank each of the candidates for taking time out of their schedules to answer the questions. Here follow the answers in no particular order…
Mark Hendrick, Labour Candidate for Preston.
Nerissa Warner- O’Neill, Conservative Candidate for Preston
Birds, Bees & Black Leopards
In my last article I gave ideas as to how to create a wildlife oasis in ones very own back garden and I was pleased to hear some of the success stories but now we are reaching the time of year when a great variety of birds will abandon city life and head off to a more rural surrounding. Yes, it’s the breeding season and it’s all beginning to happen out there.
Why Preston Loves a Good Blog
There’s a new community in Preston. It isn’t in a new village, it isn’t a in a religious building, it isn’t in a school. It’s online.
184 million people had started a blog by 2008 according to media agency Universal McCann and that number is growing all the time with a new blog supposedly being created every second.
Preston is no exception. There’s a whole parallel universe Preston happening on the internet. Everyone has something to say and it’s never been easier to dispense that information to the world.
Get Involved!
Interested in seeing the Odeon re-open in town? Want to get involved? The Former Odeon (New Vic) Action Group Meeting is being held this Thursday 8th April 2010 at the Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema, UCLAN Foster Building from 7-9pm. The meeting is open to all who want to help and find out more about the project. The project is being widely discussed on the Facebook Group and on a previous post here at Blog Preston.
A Preston Love Song
Get a dose of culture with your coffee later this month. First year illustration students from UCLAN will be exhibiting their work upstairs at the Equator Arts Cafe from 23rd – 30th April 2010.
Charlie & Lola come to Preston
Well timed for the Easter break Lauren Child’s comical sibling double act come to Preston’s Charter Theatre. Charlie and Lola, stars of the well loved kid’s TV series and children’s books, will be brought to life by a magical mix of puppets and music, with stories adapted from some of the funniest episodes.
New Exhibition: Recent Findings
Head down to the Harris Museum & Art Gallery this Saturday as it launches Recent Findings, a new exhibition and British premiere of current work by artist Simon Faithfull. Faithfull works predominantly in drawing, video and installation, using different technologies to record his surroundings.The show combines new work Faithfull has shown in Germany, France and New York but have yet to be shown in the UK.
The Sound of the Underground
Dr Hoffmann aka Norbert Papp spent the first half of the new millennium building a reputation as one of the most sought after events promoters in Hungary, his renowned Techno nights pulling in crowds of over a thousand people per night. In 2005 after a series of unfortunate events he left Hungary for the UK and thought he had turned his back on the music scene for good. Two years later he rediscovered his passion for music. A radio production course at Preston FM inspired his ground breaking foray into radio with his electronic dance music show, the Blind Spot.
Help for Haiti
DJ Des Grant is lending a hand to help raise funds for Haiti this Friday 19th February at Jalgos Sports and Social Club. The fundraiser promises a fantastic evening of cultural entertainment including music, African drumming, Caribbean Expressive dancing, limbo dancing, masquerade dancing, poetry, charity auction and food. Runs from 7pm til late. Adults £5. Children aged 12-16 £2.
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