Crow and the Oak Tree Carnival Arts Street Theatre

Funded on
08 Apr 2026

Crow and the Oak Tree; a participatory Caribbean Carnival/Street Theatre inspired, series of creative workshops, performances-involving Lytham, Warton, Preston communities. at planned regional events.

£9,941 Raised of £9,687

38 Backers

102%

Costs

Paying 6 band members £100 per performance (8 gigs) £4,800
Developing 8 Carnival arts/music workshops at Street WIse and Lowther £1,600
Project management fee- based on 10 days @£100 non contact time fee £1,000
Materials for crow costumes and carnival style backpack wings wings £1,000
Renting rehearsal spaces £400
Target: (inc. fees) £9,686

https://cacophanyarkestra.com/

Cacophany Arkestra https://cacophanyarkestra.com/ set up 10 years ago promotes Caribbean carnival arts & music through creating a costumed live band that performs in a variety of processional contexts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpgxiqxLGA&t=26s&ab_channel=CacophanyArkestra

CA encourage & promote many local musicians providing paid gigs.

CA work as participatory artists delivering carnival projects in communities. Co-creating costumes, writing songs & inviting communities to perform.

CA have Partnered with: StreetWise Warton, Horse & Bamboo(Waterfoot), Lowther Lytham, More Music Morecambe, Freinds of Fishwick & St Matthews, Community Gateway, Lime NHS Manchester, RHS Bridgewater, delivering free participatory cultural arts/music projects that benefit communities.

CA perform at: Preston, Huddersfield, Manchester, Derby Caribbean Carnivals, Kendal Torchlight, Bury, Barnoldswick, Morecambe Lantern Festivals, Morecambe Kite Festival, Waterfoot Wakes, Thornton, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Littleborough, Heywood, Singleton Carnivals, Club Big, Home Machester, Manchester Peterloo Commemoration Custard Factory Liverpool & many more events

CA see the benefits culture brings to participants,audiences lives & want to share their experience, knowledge & strengthen the cultural sector mentoring: younger,established,older artists, participants to enrich and strengthen cultural continuum in the Preston area.

Carnival community members have joined the live band & perform with us.

CA developed a flexible approach to delivering cultural projects & have delivered:

8 ACE NLPG's 2 HLF projects 1 Awards for ALL

All projects involve working with community groups,schools, local artists and musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/@cacophanyarkestra4866

CA develop Environmental Awareness Projects: Insecktageddon, ApoCalypso Inferno, Our Time is Now highlighting the Climate crisis & Bio diversity loss, co-creating processional tours with groups.

No Man is an Island working with Asylum seeker/refugee groups in Blackburn

Peterloo The Mad Parade (HLF) with asylum seeker group Commemorating the 1819 Peterloo Massacre

Heritage: Preston is the Pace for Me 50th anniversary of Preston Caribbean Carnival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veW31VRDoQw&t=20s&ab_channel=CacophanyArkestra

CA worked with artist John Hyatt as his House band for his retrospective exhibition Club Big at Home Manchester

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBT07xYfJPY&ab_channel=CacophanyArkestra

Project Owner: Cacophany Arkestra The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.