In association with: Free Brief Encounter Programme Saturday 23 September 2017 6pm – 10pm www.prestonguildcity.co.uk/briefencounter Photo credit: Ian Hodgson The #LancsEncounter festival is building At a glance itinerary momentum towards its big return in 2018. In the THE HARRIS MAKERSPACE: • Gold Thread Bobbins Screen Printing meantime, the evening of 23 September offers an • Rubber Stamp Making Workshop SHOP AREA: exciting mix of events and activities in the heart of • Denise Swanson’s Photo Tour CAFÉ: Preston. • Preston Photographic Society’s Pop Up Exhibition • Dance Performance • Red Rose Ragas We have been busy working with The Harris will play host to a wide range of LIBRARY (ground floor): communities from across Lancashire free creative workshops from henna to sign • Arts of China Workshops including Preston, Lancaster, Blackburn making, swing dance to choirs, photography • Not Defined By Numbers Workshop T and West Lancashire who have been to music to keep you occupied into the RING BALCONY: collaborating with our artists Imitating the evening. • One Voice Community Choir Performance Dog to create a new large scale projection DISCOVER PRESTON: We have partnered up with Light Up piece, Trespass!, accompanied by a • Henna Hand Painting Lancaster Festival, taking place in Lancaster • Indian Dance Workshop community choir. We’ve also worked with over the weekend of 4 and 5 November • Indian Calligraphy Writing Workshop people from Preston, Burnley and Blackpool where Trespass! will been performed again • Indian Block Printing Workshop as well as Handmade Parade artists to • ‘Sign Making’ with The Two a.m. Press with an added twist. If you like Lancashire T hone their making skills to create a mini Encounter you are sure to love Light Up COMMUNITY HISTORY: illuminated parade, Luminous Landscapes. • An Assortment of Riches Lancaster! www.lightuplancaster.co.uk • Tin Can People Performance Workshop T • Paint Culture Don’t forget Lancashire Encounter will return over FINE ART: the weekend of 21-23 September 2018. • BYT’s Story Telling Workshops T CONTEMPORARY ART: Brief Encounter 2017 is proud to be sponsored by: in partnership with: • Swing Dance Workshop T • WHITELAB Super Star THE HARRIS BALCONY • Cacophany Arkestra PRESTON TOWN HALL MAIN ENTRANCE • Trespass: Projection/Choir (8.15pm – 8.25pm, 9pm – 9.10pm, 9.30pm – 9.40pm) Preston FLAG MARKET PROCESSION Guild Hall • East Street Gamelan • Hodman & Sally (walkabout) From • Smoked (walkabout) Winckley Square Scintillator Supporter • Umbrella Tree • Saturday Night (is gonna be alright) to the Flag Market HARRIS STREET LancsEncounter • Illumaphonium 8pm – 8.45pm # • Lightweight 2 T Ticketed 3 Workshops 8pm start GOLD THREAD RUBBER STAMPING PHOTO TOUR BOBBINS SCREEN Simple rubber stamping Professional There will be PRINT workshop where photographer, Denise Come and screen- participants are given Swanson, will assist an exciting mini print a unique Brief a short demonstration you to get the best view Encounter design on to about cutting into rubber, points and use the right Light Procession of Light a cotton bag with our and their uses. Adults settings on your camera weaving its way beautiful gold inks. only due to use of sharp or mobile phone. SHOP AREA SHOP MAKERSPACE MAKERSPACE knives. of through Preston city centre on the evening of 23 September 2017. The procession will be led by the spectacular DISCOVER THE NOT DEFINED BY SOUTH ASIAN ARTS in the Harris Handmade Parade’s Northern Giant with an ARTS OF CHINA NUMBERS EET Police Division Get involved with STR LA N Headquarters N A high energy, fun- array of bands.O Look out for the Totem animal N NGT C T UCLan Confucius Indian Block Printing, RI A O E M AR ) S H T R RE EA filled and creative A 1 T S H AS costumes, lantern heads, living landscapes,ET colourful landscapeT bodies and colourful ST Institute’s interactive Calligraphy or a Dance E OL ST UD 7 STRE NG H 0 R H WN LI OW O ST LA 5 CR L VI Contemporary Dance RO R TO AD E workshops include suitcase lanterns whichA are all pieces of the artME created Oby local communities. E E workshop and have your ND F ( M I W Y AD N N N A L E workshop for dancers BA DE D ST ST LA Calligraphy, brush N hand painted by Henna NO ( R A WS A R N S E R During August andL September Procession Producers Handmade6 Parade artists ET aged 11-19years E K T RT T O S ) T painting and the art artists. E R P ON TH EE E H R A T AD T O ZAB S U LIBRARY LI OW exploring Preston Youth LIBRARY have been workingO with communities E from Preston (Gateway),T BlackpoolD (MeresideL of the Chinese tea S EA ’ ET W ( D S M S A M TR N RE EL R L 58 LU O ST Dance Company’s I EE T NG MAFIA) and Burnley (Burnley Youth Theatre) to create the landscape related art A ceremony. T 3) D AS PEDDER T E ON STREET S most recent work, “Not TR pieces for the procession. One group has evenT been taught to stilt walk! E TREE ET AD ER S DISCOVER PRESTON ND RO WALK Combined R Defined By Numbers.” AUDLA IN M TREET G Rock FM WALKER S S Courts W This mini procession will start at WinckleyN Square at 8pm. It will then AY O Magistrates (A LE W 5 Procession Court D C 9) continue along Cross Street before turning into Cannon Street, then T I A W GH H R K R I R L I L EL K T L S I T I S O it’s a right turn alongGR FishergateEA and a left into CheapsideM to doTH a LF T SHAW R L N STREE O E F E M T IE S ST R A UCLan B LD R I T ‘SIGN MAKING’ AN ASSORTMENT loop round the FishA MarketK before ending on the historic Flag Market.A TIN CAN PEOPLE R R R E R T EE E RO N C G ST T R E WITH THE TWO A.M. OF RICHES R CO A E S T E EE A workshop on devising AD T T T O T R E W L E RE F RP A S Bus P ST T T PRESS NC Y Help to create a large St John’s OL performance through E S ORAT Station T RC T A Shopping E E R ST P S Artisan craft workshops scale patchwork print by play and autobiography. E Centre E Market T ER E N I R T A ON RSH L E using hand made drawing and printing the This playful session will MA RO LK E ST T ET MAM B RE ST IRI ST A R ’S WA GE RD A OD LLE RD print and typography Harris and its treasures. explore the layering of L A R D RE E Town LO H K Y C O E S C ET RC T H T T Hall processes. Join us to A great way to explore real life stories, bad O U T TO E FR S R E N I TRT AR C R CO G R T create a bespoke sign the building. dance moves and the A H T EEE S E Preston U E R H R T O C ) Guild Hall R T that animates your future of Preston! W U E 59 H G SH LAN C R AR ) (A IM M (A59 Y Harris message or declaration LU SH WAY A Flag DISCOVER PRESTON RING W Museum A G NE about Preston. COMMUNITY HISTORY COMMUNITY HISTORY AD IN MaMarket W RO R M S OT GER R S TALB ARD T A TR B FO S T NC TREET St George’s Miller E O EE R E X H W E Shopping Arcade ES T ET ST T T TR L Centre T P S T E A RE I Preston S T R N N T R E ET D T B Minster OA E S O RE R GL O ST T TI E D T A THUR R RGA L PRESTON R E T H PAINT CULTURE WHITELAB A E H RA IS O O F CAC P W E N E T A V Lancashire I ’ SWING VINTAGE N PO NNN E S H GU Add imagery that you A soundscape of audio, C R N S County Council R C K ONO O I S O L L DANCEHALL County Hall C TH EY D N U feel represents part recorded from people C R STS H E S O T T A AT T R This workshop will give S of our city’s diverse LL U and places around EEE E E R N T CH A E R ST L T A T M Post culture to the 22ft x 6ft you a taste of Lindy Hop, H S A U Preston. This is your R H A A SY T W KE ST S RT Office E RE VEN Fishergate PE ET A T S ET I E I a social dance from IN N N City of Culture painted MO chance to add music T RE T GT ST Shopping C ’S R H L AN KL O C S RC ST U Centre UN ETE the 1940s. Flat shoes N B E T panorama which began HR and have your say on the L EY RER R D CH L T G R I U S RE S RE E R O IST H T S T OSO E R I A SQS R S T E LE ST recommended.