Do you love to tell a good story? Are you imaginative? Do you have the urge to put pen to paper? If so, write a short story of up to 1,000 words on a theme of ‘What a Score!’ to celebrate the Festival’s 20th anniversary. ‘Score’ can represent a...
Read moreCome & Sing Fauré’s Requiem, June 2024
The Prescot Festival Chorus will gather on Saturday 22 June to sing Gabriel Fauré’s enduringly popular Requiem. Ian Wells (Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool Parish Church) returns to conduct, with Peter Kwater (St Bartholomew’s Rainhill)...
Read moreShowcase Your Art for the 2023 Prescot Festival
You are invited to take part in this year’s Community Art Display. Submissions inspired by the theme ‘Coronation’ will be exhibited online during the 19th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts. It is non-competitive...
Read moreCome & Sing Vivaldi’s Gloria
The Prescot Festival Chorus will assemble once again this June, and sopranos, altos, tenors and basses from across the region are invited to join them. The typically 100-strong massed choir will be singing Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, under...
Read moreShakespeare North Playhouse Opens 15 July
The Shakespeare North Playhouse officially opens on Friday 15 July with ‘All the Joy That You Can Wish,’ a colourful community parade through Prescot town centre and jubilant celebration outside the newly built theatre. A weekend of...
Read more2022 Short Story Competition Now Open
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED Feeling imaginative and yearning to put pen to paper? Write a short story of up to 1,000 words for the 2022 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition, and a prize of £100 and publication could be yours. The theme for this...
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