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Preston Arts Festival launches today (Photos)

2nd, October 2011 by

Preston Arts Festival launched today and will run until October 16. Showcasing art in various venues around Preston. You can take a look at a slideshow of photos from the launch today and check out the full event listings for the next fortnight here.  

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Project Korova celebrates first birthday with three special shows

1st, October 2011 by

Arts organisation Project Korova is celebrating its birthday this month with a series of three special events. Comedy Mike, a new professional comedy night, will be launched on Sunday 30 October at the Adelphi. This will be accompanied by the first birthday of Organised Mike, an evening of music, comedy, poetry, and magic, and  finally a 10 minute playwriting competition called PresTen. Comedy Mike will [...]

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Preston College opens new £5m creative arts centre

28th, September 2011 by

Preston College’s new £5m visual and performing arts centre of excellence has opened its doors to  learners for the first time this week. New facilities available at the at the college’s Fulwood campus include industry standard dance, TV, and music and photography studios as well as Apple Mac suites. In addition, the building will also boast its very own 140 seat theatre which will be [...]

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SYNC filmmaking event this evening

21st, June 2011 by

The latest SYNC event for filmmakers at the Continental will take place this evening, for an 8:30 start. Rob Birchall will show a selection of his animation work, from clips he’s done for films to commercial companies, along with book series Get Ahead Fred, to the work he did in the Scan & Paint department for Oscar nominated The Illusionist. He’ll talk about his creative [...]

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New Preston Tringe venues announced

23rd, February 2011 by

Preston Tringe Festival organisers have announced that two new venues have been confirmed for this year’s festival. The Frog & Bucket comedy club and the Prescap Arts & Media Centre on Fox Street have been added to other city centre venues including The Adelphi, The Black Horse, The Continental and The Angel pubs. The Arts & Media Centre, which also houses community radio station Preston [...]

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Photos: Preston Arts Festival

19th, October 2010 by

This weekend saw several pre-launch and official launch events for the Preston Arts Festival. Below are a great collection of photos from the day which was a great success.

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Win a pair of tickets for ‘What Colour Was Her Blood?’

13th, October 2010 by

Set in a London and Edinburgh What Colour was her Blood? focuses on the strained reunion of Jackie and Siobhan. It’s over 20 years since Jackie walked out on her daughter and there are so many questions to be answered. What dream life did Jackie leave the family for? What has she done since? Why did she agree to meet? Siobhan, now a successful self-assured [...]

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Preston Arts Council funding halves

12th, October 2010 by

Preston has suffered a 50% decrease in Arts Council funding between 2008 and 2010. The figures, taken from data.gov.uk, show the amount of grants awarded between 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. The awards are then broken down into regional figures and then further into individual local authorities. Preston received £386,221 during 2008/2009 but only £180,510 during 2009/2010. I’ve uploaded the data sets for the Northwest into more easily readable Google Documents and have highlighted grants that [...]

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Preston Tringe Update

28th, April 2010 by

The Preston Tringe is swiftly approaching and the clock is now ticking for groups to apply and be part of it, with the deadline being May 10th. So, what are you waiting for – whatever you talent is, give it a go, it’s a chance to share your gift with the world! Last month,  we revealed some of the current line up for the Preston Tringe and  [...]

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Preston Tweetup II – so, how can we support the arts in Preston?

28th, July 2009 by

The second Preston Tweetup took place on Monday 27th July 2009 at the New Continental. Blog Preston was hosting the event again, with help from They Eat Culture, and it was a relative success. We managed to attract a few people from arts organisations, artists and the bit of the council responsible for the arts. More importantly, we attracted some talented and interested people who [...]

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Preston Tringe Festival line-up announced

13th, June 2009 by

The line-up for the first Preston Tringe Festival has been unveiled. Running from 23rd July to 31st July 2009 at various venues across the city, the Tringe will be a hodgepodge of comedy, music, theatre and other live performance events – complete with a Tweetup about the Preston arts scene thrown in for good measure.

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Preston Tweetup II – how do we support the arts in Preston?

13th, June 2009 by

We’re pleased to announce that the second Preston Tweetup has been confirmed. We’ll be back at the New Continental and this time we’re part of the Preston Tringe Festival that’s taking place in late July, showcasing theatre, music, comedy and much more across the city.

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23 applications for Preston Tringe Festival

20th, May 2009 by

The organisers of Preston’s Tringe Festival are working their way through 23 applications. A host of different groups have put in their bid to be part of the festival, including five acts who have appeared at Edinburgh Festival.

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