Creator of Lancashire Fringe Festival and Lancashire Photography Festival – and dozens of independent events, exhibitions and performances.

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2026 shows:

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Dead Man’s Shoes film screening + An Audience with Stuart Wolfenden

‘Highly recommended’ ★★★★★ TOTAL FILM
‘Raw, searing… completely gripping’ ★★★★ EMPIRE
‘Chilling, the best British film you’ve seen this year’ ZOO
Named in the top 12 of Total Film’s greatest ever films.

Get ready to watch the cult British film Dead Man’s Shoes – followed by a Q+A with one of the film’s stars, Stuart Wolfenden.

Thurs May 21 – Continental, Preston
Get tickets from Skiddle here.

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CALL OUT: #EdFringe Previews in Preston, Lancashire

#EdFringe Previews Festival
June & July, 2026
Preston, Lancashire
See some of the best shows going to this summer’s #EdFringe Festival.
All shows in Preston, Lancashire. Various venues.
Tickets links and show details are here:

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Weds June 10 – The Ferret

DOUBLE BILL:
SPOKEN WORD
The Chubby Northerner: Condoms & Cucumbers
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 (7.30pm)
Duration: 60mins

Condoms & Cucumbers is a bold, witty, and disarmingly honest solo show that unpacks the messy, often contradictory rules of masculinity and asks what it really means ‘to be a man’

Blending spoken word, theatre, comedy, and audience interaction, it invites you to help rewrite the rules of “being a man.” From locker rooms to leotards, sex ed to Brits abroad, it unpacks the pressures and stereotypes that shape male identity. Funny, honest, and thought-provoking, this is a shared experience that sparks conversation and challenges us to talk more openly.

STAND UP COMEDY
Henning Nilsen: A Letter to My Parents
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 (8.45pm)
Duration: 60mins

Viral sensation Henning Nilsen recalls the emotional journey from leaving his Finance job to making his challenging Edinburgh Fringe debut. What makes an accountant from Norway quit his stable job and move to the UK to pursue a career in stand-up comedy?

Double bill tickets £15 from Skiddle

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Fri June 12 – Artch Studios

DOUBLE BILL:
STAND UP COMEDY
Ben Van der Velde: Van der Laugh Generator
Fri June 12, 2026 (7.30pm)
Duration: 60mins

Ben Van der Velde is one of the best improvisers on the stand-up circuit grapples with being overwhelmed by the chaos of the world. Sometimes there’s just too much stuff to process.

‘Perfect: a master of audience interaction. The audience were hysterical’ Huffington Post
‘A sharp and crafty gagsmith, with wittily obtuse takes on an impressively wide range of topics bringing flair and confidence to them all’ Chortle
‘Wonderfully improvised riffs showcasing his impressive spontaneity and sharp tongue’ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

STAND UP COMEDY
Denzil Ede: Artificially Intelligent Procrastinating Pundit
Fri June 12, 2026 (8.45pm)
Duration: 55mins

Denzil de Cristo delivers puns, parodies and pedantry on robots, relationships and religion. Expect whimsical tales, nerdy one-liners and ludicrously bad singing in a fast-moving, gleefully absurd and joyfully chaotic hour.
‘Ricochets from the sublime to the ridiculous’ ★★★★ One4Review
‘Ludicrously bad’ Simon Cowell
As seen on The X Factor.
Double bill tickets £15 from Skiddle

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Sat June 13 – Artch Studios

DOUBLE BILL:
STAND UP COMEDY
Courtney Buchner: One of the Girls (WIP)
Saturday, June 13, 2026 (7.30pm)
Duration: 60mins

Let Courtney become your next best friend and ultimately instagram follower. A show that will make you laugh, cringe and text your best friend immediately. 

Following her sold out Edinburgh Fringe Debut ‘I Wrote this Show Last Night’ and her five-star follow-up ‘Big, If True’, Courtney returns with a story about friendship. Or rather, the end of a friendship.
‘Uniquely charming’ ★★★★★ EdFringeReview

CHARACTER COMEDY
Shaun Guff: Enuff is Enuff (WIP)
Saturday, June 13, 2026 – 8.45pm
Duration: 60mins

Join Clementine Bogg-Hargroves with her ‘Yorkshire-based robustness and sunny charm’ ** (The Scotsman), in this very serious seminar filled with pyrotechnics, PowerPoint presentations and personality.

‘Winning humour and infectious irreverence’ ★★★★ The Stage
‘Infectious wit’ ★★★★ List
‘Mesmerising’ ★★★★★ BroadwayBaby
‘Was my life changed, well no, but I was still giggling on the way home’ ★★★★ The Lancashire Post

Double bill tickets £15 from Skiddle

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Weds June, 24 – The Ferret

SPOKEN WORD and COMEDY
Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Good News! It’s Been Destroyed
Weds June 24, 2026 (8pm)
Duration: 60mins

★★★★★ ‘Riveting, hilarious… addictive’ EdFringe Review
★★★★ ‘At the top of his game’ Bunbury Magazine
★★★★ ‘His unique style sets him apart’ North-West End
★★★★ ‘A star’ Broadway Baby
‘Star of the future’ The Sunday Times

Tickets £8 from Skiddle

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Weds July 08 – The Ferret

STAND UP COMEDY
Tom Little in His Comfort Zone
Wednesday, July 08, 2026 (7.30pm)
The Ferret, Preston PR1 2XQ
Duration: 60mins

‘A properly talented comic. Unique is an appallingly overused word. But you know it when you see it. I see it in Tom Little’ ★★★★ The Scotsman
‘Inventive, unexpected and often very silly… with material as strong as he has, he surely can’t remain a hidden treasure for long’ ★★★★ Chortle
‘His elevation to TV panel show favourite is surely only a matter of time’ ★★★★ The Wee Review
Tickets £8 from Skiddle

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Fri July 17 – Artch Studios

DOUBLE BILL:
STAND UP COMEDY
Anna Thomas: How To Juggle A Ferret (WIP)
Friday, July 17, 2026 (7.30pm)
Duration: 60mins

Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award. Finalist of the Sean Lock Comedy Award. Co-host of the Early Worms podcast with Phil Ellis.
‘Whatever planet she’s from, they know funny’ ★★★★ Chortle

STAND UP COMEDY
Natalie Patuzzo: Every Single Sound in the World
Friday, July 17, 2026 (8.30pm)
Duration: 55mins

An alien arrives on Earth with a simple task: collect every single sound on the planet.
Please help her!
‘Will send you back out into the world feeling a little brighter’ ★★★★ Reviews Hub

Double bill tickets £12 from Skiddle

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PREVIOUSLY:

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Lancashire Fringe Festival 2024

(Shows listed in date order)
All shows are ticketless and free to attend – just turn up.
We a re running an optional Pay What You Decide model at the end of each show where you can put money into a bucket! Simple.

Leave feedback for all the shows via THIS LINK.

The record-breaking Lancashire Fringe Festival 2024 has finished.

Look out for monthly shows coming up throughout 2025. See them announced here first.

Leave feedback for all the shows via THIS LINK.

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Lancashire Photography Festival 2023
(Preston, June-September, 2023)

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Lancashire Fringe Festival 2022 was held in April and May, 2022, in Preston.

#lancsfringe

You can see details of the shows and photos here.

LFF was delighted to receive Arts Council England funding in 2022. Previously, LFF took place in Preston in 2019 for 10 consecutive nights across the city, showcasing the work of dozens of performers.

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PREVIOUS SHOWS & EVENTS

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Lancashire Fringe Festival (Preston, 2022)

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Lancashire Photography Festival (Preston, 2021)