Main Junction is a Drop-in for young people aged 16-25, working in conjunction with Prescap, held an exhibition launch of the work produced during a ceramic project, funded by the Porcelain and Paintes Trust.

It took place on Wednesday 9th July 2008, at Fishergate Baptist Church, Fishergate, Preston.

Nguzo Saba Centre and Merseyside Dance Initiative presented a spectacular collaboration showcase event at the Harris Library on Saturday 14th June 2008. The event united music, dance and fashion design through analyses of cultural identity in a performance exploring traditions, helping other communities to understand and to conserve it for future generations through original and contemporary works of art.  read more »

Prescap ran two facilitated discussions about the benefits and challenges of accreditation for young people in the arts as part of the seminar, "Making an Impact: recognition of the Youth Arts sector's delivery of new government strategies around participation", delivered by ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network).

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North West Celebrates its 1000^th Arts Award

1000 Arts Awards have now been awarded to young people from the North West region.  read more »

Congratulations to over 220
schools across the North West region which have been awarded the Artsmark by
Arts Council England! The mark recognises a school’s commitment to, and
excellence in, arts education. A school must dedicate a minimum of 10 per cent
of its curricular teaching time to the arts to receive an Artsmark; 12 per cent
wins a Silver Artsmark and 15 per cent qualifies for Artsmark Gold. An Artsmark
school also provides teachers’ professional development and involvement with  read more »

The History Zone Project, funded by Heritage Lottery is being facilitated by
PRESCAP (Preston Community Arts Project). Artists Des Butler and Kate
Eggleston- Wirtz are enabling service users of Moor Lane Resource Centre to
create an interactive ‘history wall’ recording the social history of disabled
people in Preston. Parts of the installation will be portable and will
enable elements of the work to be shown in different locations.  read more »

Aim: to discover, as part of the region wide Youth Arts Audit, how young people related to the arts in peer led workshop sessions  read more »

Aim: to provide media based activities in a peer led workshop  read more »

Aim: Blackburn and Darwen Youth service approached Prescap to develop a project to explore the issues that surround the school bus journey in the morning.

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Aim: This project was instigated by Knowsley YOT to tackle the attitudes and lifestyle choices of young people in Knowsley with relation to cannabis.

Artist Ben Hunt worked with several young participants from the area, some young offenders, some in referral units and others just members of the community to create a comic magazine that is a peer led humorous (with a serious agenda) advocacy product.

Click the images in the gallery to make them larger.  read more »