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“Producing cultural festivals and artistic projects”
Deco Publique is a creative practice based by the sea in Morecambe. We work creatively and operationally across a number of disciplines to produce beautiful cultural festivals and creative projects that resonate with audiences and have tangible and lasting impacts.
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GRAFT is a Community Interest Company, working to exhibit and support emerging artists, presenting a vibrant, diverse visual arts programme to audiences in Lancaster. We promote the value of creative education, offering opportunities for schools and young people connected to all of our events.
Launched in 2017, GRAFT delivers a programme of exhibitions, discussion, workshops and learning opportunities, linking artists, schools and the community. Past events range from an exhibition in an empty shop in St. Nic’s Arcade, to an artist residency and show in a living room.
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“The low-carbon space to work, create, perform, relax, teach and play”
Halton Mill is a collaborative working community, where supporting each other, sharing facilities, knowledge and ideas are central to our ethos.
Many artists and craftspeople work at Halton Mill. We have a shared artists studio, with spaces for six individual artists, as well as many artists and creatives with their own individual spaces. We also have a gallery space for exhibitions which showcases our own, and other local artists. There are weekly art classes and a range of one-off workshops and events.
We host Lunelab, a well-equipped community maker and crafts space. It contains lathes, saws, workbenches, tools, a kiln and potters wheel and clay, jewellery benches and much more. It is divided into a woodwork/ pottery maker-space and an arts and crafts teaching space, which is used for a variety of courses. Individuals can join Lunelab for just £10 a month, which gives 24/7 access and use of a locker.
In 2016 we hosted MillFest, our first Music Festival, and we host regular arts and crafts fairs/open studios. We have prepared a guide for marketing events at the Mill which you can find here.
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Highest Point Festival is Lancaster’s biggest music festival, welcoming over 22,000 happy people in its first year. This year it returns to Williamson Park in Lancaster from the 17th – 19th May with a huge line up!
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imitating the dog tell stories. Fusing live performance and digital technology we create outstanding work for theatres, festivals and events, both in the UK and internationally.
The company works in several contexts and forms including original devised theatre performance, adaptations of classic texts, traditional and new opera, musical theatre, projection mapping and video design.
Led by artists Simon Wainwright, Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks, imitating the dog is celebrated for its originality and high production values, for its rigorous investigation of screen and projection technologies in relation to storytelling in live performance, for its site-responsive work, and for its collaborations with artists and other organisations.
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“A small arts organisation creating and showing art with both modern and contemporary values”
Artist studio spaces – Exhibitions – Classes and Small Events
Our exhibition space hosts up to twelve exhibitions a year. These will be by invitation and through working closely with other curators and artist-led groups around the North West and further afield.
Working in and around the exhibitions there will also be classes, workshops and other events related to the arts.
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We are one of the leading non-auditioned choirs in the North West of England. We have an average membership of around 60 singers, ranging from novice to very experienced, and everything in between. The choir had its origins in the Lancaster Grand Theatre, which was built in 1782. The owner and local entrepreneur, Edmund Sharpe, decided the theatre required a choir to enhance its image, so in 1836 he created the Lancaster and District Musical Society. This eventually became the Choral Society, as it is known today. More than 175 years later, the Lancaster & District Choral Society (L&DCS) is still going strong and conducted by John Perrin.
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“Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University is the University’s award-winning arts provider”
Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University is the University’s award-winning arts provider.
Lancaster Arts reflects the commitment of its major funders – Lancaster University and Arts Council England – in supporting cultural and artistic engagement at the highest level through a programme of internationally renowned contemporary theatre, dance, visual art and classical music.
As well as inviting the public to our distinctive campus-based performance spaces – the Nuffield Theatre, the Peter Scott Gallery and the Great Hall – we are proud to work with a range of arts partners across Lancashire, Cumbria and beyond.
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The Lancaster Grand Theatre has been a major part of the social and cultural life of Lancaster since it opened in 1782, it is the third oldest provincial theatre in England.
The theatre Seats 460 people on two levels and is a listed building.
The Theatre delivers a packed programme all year round which includes big-name Comedians, Music, Ballet, Amateur dramatic shows and a summer school for local young people.
Lancaster Grand is run by Lancaster Footlights which is a charitable trust and is funded purely from programming. There are 16 paid members of staff at the Theatre.
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“LJF is a beacon of artistic activity and promoter of good practice – with a festival that cares for, respects, and actively develops artists”
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“Championing the phenomenal local music scene in the city of Lancaster”
Lancaster Music Festival is an annual festival of music that’s taken place the second week in October since 2009 and is run by Lancaster Music CIC (LM CIC), a cooperative of local musicians, businesses and music based organisations, set up with the purpose of championing the phenomenal local music scene in the city of Lancaster to a wider audience.
Typically, the festival takes place over five days and comprises hundreds of local, national and international artists covering a wide range of genres at around fifty locations in and around the city of Lancaster. The number of attendees has steadily grown year on year with over 70,000 estimated in 2016 with a net benefit of around £2m to the city. Because LMF CIC is not dependent on public funds and is run on a commercial basis the event is relatively immune to variations in UK arts funding.
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“Everyone’s always welcome at Lancaster priory”
Lancaster Priory Church is a vibrant, open and inclusive church at the heart of Lancaster. Music, education and community are at the heart of our worship. We seek, through our sermons, community life and pastoral care, to make the Christian faith relevant, accessible and inclusive for all people today. The life and ministry of Lancaster Priory is supported and underpinned by our congregation, volunteers, sponsors, a highly respected concerts programme, our Priory Music Foundation and many other activities, that extend hospitality to over 30,000 visitors a year.
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“Litfest develops writers, engages readers and audiences, and celebrates literary excellence”
We do this through our annual literature festival which has been staged since 1978 and a range of other publishing, development and participatory projects that have positioned the organisation at the heart of Lancashire’s cultural and creative activity.
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Our ambition is to further the reach of high-quality dance experiences across society, awakening the power of dance in all. Whether that be through performance, participation or research.
We work in close collaboration with other small project funded dance companies in the North West offering fundraising support, project management and choreographic mentoring.
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“Lancashire’s leading dance development charity”
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More Music is a music and education charity based in the West End of Morecambe, with over 25 years of experience delivering workshops, training, performances and festivals across the district, region and beyond. More Music seeks to build confidence and spirit in individuals and communities through the arts, especially music.
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“Regeneration through Art in Fantastic Morecambe”
Established in 2014, Morecambe Artist Colony (MAC) is a not-for-profit group of local artists and creatives, passionate about using art for the regeneration of our town by instigating, delivering and supporting curated, high-quality art-led exhibitions and projects in existing, new and under-used spaces in Morecambe.
MAC curates regular changing exhibitions in the Hothouse and the Stone Jetty Cafe, Morecambe as well as working on projects, events and festivals in the area and is currently fundraising to site a Time & Tide Bell on the Stone Jetty as part of a national trail of bells by the artist Marcus Vergette.
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Promoting Light Orchestral Music Concerts
The Promenade Concert Orchestra was formed in 2007, by professional clarinettist, Howard Rogerson, to provide the opportunity for Morecambe and the Bay area to also enjoy such music. The Promenade Concert Orchestra has developed a highly acclaimed and successful series of concerts at the Platform in Morecambe and has subsequently taken programmes to places such as Grange-over-Sands, Settle, Ribble Valley, Chorley and Lancaster Grand Theatre.
The light orchestral music performed covers the entire range from Palm Court, ballroom and cafe music to shows, radio, TV and film music: and also covers the Viennese and ballet repertoire.
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“Creating and presenting great art which changes people’s lives for the better”
The Dukes is a registered charity, the only building-based professional producing theatre in Lancashire and an independent cinema since it opened in 1971.
The Dukes Café bar is open to all from 11 am until 11 pm Monday – Saturday. On Sundays, we’re open 1/2 hour before film screenings, and 1 hour before satellite screenings. With friendly staff and a relaxed atmosphere, you’re welcome anytime.
Winner of the inaugural Lancashire Tourism Cultural Venue/Organisation Award in 2013.
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The Exchange Creative Community CIC is a community-driven, visual arts hub in the West End of Morecambe. We offer a community run cafe, exhibition venue, workshop space, studio and gift shop. Born of a love for the area and the people in it, we seek to actively promote the good things that are happening in our community and provide regular accessible creative opportunities in and around our venue.
We believe that art is good for us and should be available to everyone, offering significant scope for bringing improvements to well-being, learning and enterprise in the area. This is why we are leading the ‘Steeple For The People‘ campaign to bring the former Trinity Methodist Church back into use as a visual arts venue in Morecambe that is embedded into the life of our community.
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The Gregson Community Association own and run the Gregson Centre, a popular venue for participatory arts and community activity which includes meeting rooms, a bar, cafe and small cinema. The halls are used for sports and community arts activities including three community choirs, language cafes, a Brazilian carnival group, European folk dancing and a monthly comedy club. Room are available for hire for celebrations and public meetings. GCA also manages a popular local sports facility, provide free seasonal festive family and maintain a local meadow which has been left in perpetuity for the children of Lancaster.
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Three Left Feet are a small team of four who work alongside freelance creative artists to deliver inclusive, collaborative theatre. At the moment, all four core members of the Three Left Feet team are alumni from Lancaster University. As a result, we’re incredibly passionate about creating relevant, interesting art for the North of England.
One of the company’s primary aims is to identify and spotlight young talent up North. This is why we work alongside a plethora of talented artists.
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We are an art collective focused on helping women and mothers develop their art practice via residency opportunities and peer support. Villages is a project led by Klaire Doyle and Georgianna Cardoso Zarate founded in 2020.