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.

1st to 9th June 2013

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Chalmers Memo­r­ial Church is a must see! The church is a cat­e­gory A listed build­ing with a unique sten­ciled inte­rior and orig­i­nal tim­ber carv­ing. The church build­ing is vir­tu­ally as it was on the day of the first ser­vice on 1 April 1905, with many of the orig­i­nal arts and crafts fea­tures still...
Cockenzie House will show the largest mixed media exhibition in East Lothian

Cockenzie House will show the largest mixed media exhibition in East Lothian

Cocken­zie House will show the largest mixed media exhi­bi­tion in East Loth­ian. Over 150 art­works will go on dis­play both in this house, dat­ing from the 16th cen­tury, and in the beau­ti­ful gar­dens. Alex Hewitt, pho­tog­ra­pher and Deputy Pic­ture Edi­tor at The Scots­man has taken pho­tographs of Cocken­zie Power Sta­tion and...
Live music @ The Goth during Festival

Live music @ The Goth during Festival

FRIDAY 31st May 7pm (open­ing night of the 3HAF) LIVE MUSIC in the bar all evening. We have music from A&E, Ali­son Henry and Alex Hodgson SATURDAY 1st June9pm   LIVE MUSIC with Sophie Robin­son in the bar SUNDAY 2nd June  3pm   LIVE FOLK MUSIC in the after­noon with the Barriegadgies 8pm LIVE MUSIC with...
Three Harbours Arts Festival 2013

Three Harbours Arts Festival 2013

Want to know what to look for­ward to at this year’s event? Then why not down­load our brochure, have a good leaf through and get dates in your diary for all the great events and activ­i­ties — and work out the artist you want to see. 3H brochure 2013
Battle of Prestonpans Tapestry comes home

Battle of Prestonpans Tapestry comes home

The incred­i­ble Bat­tle of Pre­ston­pans Tapes­try returns ‘home’ for a week. Make sure that you see the 105 metre tapes­try designed by Andrew Crummy and embroi­dered by over 200 vol­un­teers. Get a pre­view of the next Prestoun­grange Arts Fes­ti­val project. The Scot­tish Dias­pora Tapes­try due for com­ple­tion in 2014 for the Year of...
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Prestonpans Fun Day Mining Museum

Prestonpans Fun Day Mining Museum

Good meeting this afternoon

Good meeting this afternoon

Thanks to the 50 or so exhibitors who turned this after­noon.  Big thanks to Mike and Dianne for doing a good talk on how to run an open house. Remem­ber you can pick up brochures from The Goth. They are mov­ing fast.

3pm, 1 June 2013, Cockenzie House

3pm, 1 June 2013, Cocken­zie House A joint pre­sen­ta­tion by David Faith­full (artist), Kate Sloan (Assis­tant Direc­tor, Peter Pot­ter Gallery) and Diana Steven­son (cura­tor) to dis­cuss the work they have being doing to explore the envi­ron­men­tal, social and cul­tural impli­ca­tions of the clo­sure of Cocken­zie Power Sta­tion. This talk is intended to open up debate about...

Meeting

MEETING For Fes­ti­val par­tic­i­pants exhibit­ing at the 3 Har­bours Arts Fes­ti­val 2013 Fri­day 10th May, 3pm at Prestoun­grange Museum, Morrison’s Haven, Pre­ston­pans, EH32 9R. This will be a chance for you to meet some of the other fes­ti­val par­tic­i­pants, pick up some brochures and leaflets as well as ask ques­tions. Mike Young will offer guid­ance on...
Download the Brochure

Download the Brochure

Down­load the 3 Har­bours Arts Fes­ti­val 2013 Brochure.
Registration

Registration

Reg­is­tra­tion for the 3 Har­bours Arts Fes­ti­val 2013 is now closed.    
A new event about yesteryear...

A new event about yesteryear…

Because the ear­lier local his­tory event was unfor­tu­nately post­poned, Iris McMil­lan has jumped in and cre­ated a new event - “Crans, Creels and Tunes” — mul­ti­me­dia talk and exhiti­bi­tion about the rich social and fam­ily his­tory of the scot­tish fish­ing fam­i­lies and communities.1870 to 1930. Sat­ur­day 9th June — 2.00–3.00pm Image shows Iris and her Granny in 1960....
Snap Happy?

Snap Happy?

Have you been out with a cam­era this fes­ti­val? Then pop over to our com­pe­ti­tion page and find out how your images can get you fame if not for­tune in 2013… Miss the pho­towalks? Down­load the notes and have a go!
Fancy a Lunch treat?

Fancy a Lunch treat?

Then pop along to Cocken­zie House on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day (12.00noon — 2.00pm) where we’ll be light­ing up the BBQ and offer­ing a fish lunch — all ben­e­fit­ting Boatie Blest!
Caution: There be dragons!!!

Caution: There be dragons!!!

This year, be wary cos you’ll find a lot more than art inside those open houses — there are rumours abound­ing that dragon’s can be found within too! Call into all the Open Houses over the week­ends of 2 — 4 June and 9 –10 June where chil­dren can enter com­pe­ti­tions with a chance to...
Are you a little crafty?

Are you a little crafty?

The Cockenzie House Craft Fair still have a couple of stalls available - have you got some cool creative stuff to show (and sell)?
Come into the (sculpture) garden!

Come into the (sculpture) garden!

In addi­tion to our other announce­ments about our spe­cial pre­view night events we thought you’d also love to hear about what’s going on in Cocken­zie House… Three Sculp­tors in the Garden This is a response from three local sculp­tors to the unique coastal loca­tion and his­tory sur­round­ing Cockenzie. Jenny Pope is an artist based in Leith. She...