WELCOME TO DERELICT arts
Who We Are
Derelict Arts CIC is a leading producer of live performance & contemporary arts across Lancashire.
We produce incoming theatre programmes, community projects and annual festivals, in partnership with The University of Lancashire and the people of Lancashire.
Derelict Arts is a non-profit organisation made up of artists, producers & community members and is supported by Arts Council England, The University of Lancashire and Preston City Council.
Our activity aims to generate new audiences for international, national and regional theatre in the North West of England whilst also supporting the development of new emerging artists & producers.
our ongoing quest to find one person from all 60 Prestons in the world
'Preston Calling' started with one piece of information. From a conversation with Zuppa Theatre, who hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia, we knew that Halifax is roughly a one hour drive from Preston, Nova Scotia. This was interesting we thought, seeing as our Preston is roughly a one hour drive from Halifax in the UK. We wondered how many other Prestons there are in the world and how their residents were doing in the midst of a pandemic. Perhaps this was the perfect opportunity to ask them we thought.
We learnt that there are (give or take the odd ghost town or unincorporated community) sixty villages, towns and cities around the world called Preston. We devised five very basic questions and embarked on our internet quest to try and reach one person from each Preston and ultimately bring sixty strangers from around the world together.
