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Oxheys artists' planning meeting

Mayhem and Miscreance afoot

By Denise on July 4, 2018

At Oxheys we don’t do bored and stuffy – our planning meeting yesterday took place on the Flag Market outside the Harris Museum, in glorious sunshine with elderflower and dandelion & burdock juice aplenty. We discussed the outcomes of the recent Making A Mark event, assessed what had worked well and where improvements could be […]

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Winston Plowes engaging more visitors with poetry

Preston is a town of poets – a Poem for Preston

By Denise on June 23, 2018

If you were on the Flag Market on 9th June for Making A Mark, you may recall seeing Winston, the world’s first cyclist poet, engaging with the crowds and creating a poem for Preston.   He did this by cycling around, stopping and asking people to pick a word from the spokes on his bicycle […]

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Oxheys' Pop-up at the Harris

Oxheys’ Pop-up at the Harris

By Denise on June 21, 2018

During the Making A Mark activities on 9th June on the Flag Market outside the Harris Museum, something was also going inside the Harris on the 2nd floor. After persuading our friends at the Harris to let us have use of both 2nd floor galleries for the weekend, in between exhibitions, we issued a call-out to […]

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just some of the donated tins

Making our mark

By Denise on June 15, 2018

Saturday June 9th 2018 – hundreds of people visited the Flag Market in Preston to watch, take part or simply have fun during Making A Mark 2018. Months in the planning, the event featured over 20 different Preston-based artists, performers, musicians and creatives, all keen to make their mark and more importantly, to share their […]

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Make Your Mark

Make Your Mark

By Denise on June 6, 2018

12-4pm Saturday 9th June Join us in the Harris Museum and on the Flag Market in Preston. We have organised and commissioned artworks, activities and interventions from some of Preston’s best known artists, with something to appeal to everyone. Bring your families, join in, get creative and have some fun.  Full programme of events So […]

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We did it! Funding raised for Making A Mark 2018

By Denise on May 23, 2018

We are delighted that our Arts Council funding bid for Making A Mark 2018 has been successful!! Last year’s event was all organised and done on a voluntary basis, with funding only for materials which was kindly provided by Preston City Council. For 2018, we have secured some Arts Council funding which means we can pay […]

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Spoke n Word - Winston Plowes lost for words

Making A Mark 2017 – gallery

By Denise on June 13, 2017

Making A Mark, Preston – June 3rd 2017 Tweet

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Making A Mark

We made our mark in Preston

By Denise on June 5, 2017

Saturday June 3rd was a fantastic day on the Flag Market and inside the Harris Museum – hundreds of people came to see us and to join in the Making A Mark activities – a huge thank you to everyone that came, who brought their children and parents along and took part. Huge thanks also to […]

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Making A Mark in Preston

By Denise on May 17, 2017

We may have been quiet over the past few weeks as our artists settle in to new studio spaces and get things sorted out but we have been busy planning our next event. Several of us (Denise, Caroline, Robin, Evelyn and Gordon) will be working with Preston City Council and the Harris, along with our friends, artists […]

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