The largest and most diverse arts festival in east Lothian.

The 3 Har­bours of Pre­ston­pans, Cocken­zie and Port Seton pro­vides the per­fect set­ting for this unique fes­ti­val show­ing arts in unusual spaces.

2nd to 10th June 2012

Registrations are open for 2012

Registrations are open for 2012

The 3 Har­bours Arts Fes­ti­val is happy to announce to now tak­ing online reg­is­tra­tions for visual artists, musi­cians, per­form­ers, events and venues to attend our 2012 event – the largest and most diverse arts fes­ti­val in East Lothian. Next year’s fes­ti­val will run from 2nd — 10th June in Cocken­zie, Port...
Christmas Fair at Cockenzie House

Christmas Fair at Cockenzie House

Join us for festive treats and crafts with Cockenzie House Heritage Group
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Registrations are open for 2012

Registrations are open for 2012

The 3 Har­bours Arts Fes­ti­val is happy to announce to now tak­ing online reg­is­tra­tions for visual artists, musi­cians, per­form­ers, events and venues to attend our 2012 event – the largest and most diverse arts fes­ti­val in East Lothian. Next year’s fes­ti­val will run from 2nd — 10th June in Cocken­zie, Port Seton and Prestonpans. To reg­is­ter,...
Christmas Fair at Cockenzie House

Christmas Fair at Cockenzie House

Join us for festive treats and crafts with Cockenzie House Heritage Group
Highlights from the Mural Fest

Highlights from the Mural Fest

The Mural Fest in Cuthill Park show­cased the tal­ents of 6 artists in Pre­ston­pans at the week­end. It was one of the main events wrap­ping up the fort­night of art exhi­bi­tions in the 3 Har­bours Fes­ti­val. The painters cre­ated their murals based on their dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions of a given poem. David Grigor is one of the...
Mural Fest Interview- Shelley Jones

Mural Fest Interview– Shelley Jones

As the 3 Har­bours Fes­ti­val drew to a close at the week­end, one of the prime attrac­tions was the Mural Fest in Cuthill Park,  on the out­skirts of Pre­ston­pans. Six artists faced the task of paint­ing a mural based on their inter­pre­ta­tion of the John Lind­say poem “Scary Haven”. Among the artists was local woman...

Orla interviews… Genevieve Bicknell

A display of work that portrays emotion through the abstract.

Orla interviews… Wendy McCarroll Sandeman

find out more about this artist who has concerns for the local area and focuses on it's harbour traditions.
Win a Bellany print while supporting the festival.

Win a Bellany print while supporting the festival.

Win one of six amazing artworks in this year's raffle...
Bringing 3 Harbours into focus...

Bringing 3 Harbours into focus…

Pho­tog­ra­phy has, in recent years, become pretty much a uni­ver­sal art­form — from dis­pos­able film cam­eras to the inven­tion on the dig­i­tal com­pacts and beyond and now the qual­ity of imagery achiev­able on mobile phones. All of this means not only more party, hol­i­day and pet snap­shots — but also a huge rise in the...
And we're off...

And we’re off…

Last night saw advance view­ings at both the Seashore Gallery and, before it the open evening at Cocken­zie Power Station. Fiona Cros­bie from the Seashore Gallery reported that she had a great evening and really enjoyed meet­ing every­one; adding that she had never seen the gallery so full. Before that was the event at Cocken­zie Power...
Weather forecast stops Coastal Food Fair, but...

Weather forecast stops Coastal Food Fair, but…

Unfortunately we've had to pull the festival of food in Cuthill Park this weekend - but that's only one of an amazing array of events around the 3 Harbours this weekend!

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And, when you thought it was all over...

And, when you thought it was all over…

After the last show closes and the last event runs there’ll be the great End of Fes­ti­val Party; at the Goth from 7pm on Sun­day 5th June. For every­one who has taken part in or oth­er­wise sup­ported the 3 Har­bours Arts Festival! Poster cre­ated by Car­o­line Fearon Doney