Some of the performers who will appear at Encounter Festival 2024 Encounter Festival has revealed its programme for 2024. Preston’s free festival of
Cottam Parkway back on track after wrangle over landPreston’s free festival of arts and culture is set to take place at locations across the city centre on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September.
The Ribble of Dreams installations will be available to view in the shop fronts surrounding the Flag Market, where from 6.30pm you can have a drink and a dance to DJs Soulhouse Avenue and Buddha, playing soul, reggae and more. Every year Encounter commissions new work for Preston audiences and this year the festival is working with Lancashire companies imitating the dog and Blaze Arts.Encounter Festival brings people from all walks of life together to celebrate arts and culture whilst nurturing creativity, ambition, and community spirit in Preston and beyond.
If you want to get involved in creating these real and imagined tales of our city, you can join imitating the dog for a workshop in The Guild Hall Foyer on Sunday 15 September at 11am or 2pm.Bring your glamour, glitz and grace and come together in a fabulous celebration of self-expression. Four dancers go head to head in a dance, fashion and lip sync competition in an interactive event where the audience decides the winner.
Preston City Mela will serve up their usual celebration of South Asian arts, while Caribbean Carnival will add noise and their wonderful brightly coloured costumes. Hellfyre Magpie fire border morris team and Rivington North West Morris Dancers, plus some of the best Carnival Morris troupes will bring the sparkle.
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