The Oasis Social Club

Step into The Oasis Social Club, a colourful, creative space where you can do everything from anti-DVT aerobics to bookbinding and bingo, under the wing of artist Rebecca Davies, who will host the preston club as fictional character Denise Braithwaite.   

The Oasis Social Club is part entertainment venue, part discussion space, mixing the long British tradition of Working Men’s Clubs with an important arena for debate on issues such as housing justice and diminishing social space. 

Mobile and sustainable, TOSC has been popping up in unexpected places across the UK, taking up residence in the shadow of a closed community centre and in a newly designed bus terminal in Stoke, and will continue on to Platform 3 of Preston Railway Station followed by areas in the north and east of Hull.

 

Join Denise and the rest of The Oasis Social Club Team in Preston for: 

PROGRAMME

OPEN DAILY 12-16.00 & 18.00-LATE

 

THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER

12 – 14.00 >> Preston : A Tour

From the Station to The Harris, with an introduction to Preston’s local history archive

14.30 – 16.00 >> Book Binding 

Make a book from scratch, using pages from Preston’s historial manifestos 

18.30 – 19.15 >> Denise Braithwaite’s BINGO! 

19.30 – 21.00 >> The Preston Bill

A work in progress. Play by Andy Smith (with Fuel Theatre).

 

FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 

12 -14.00 >> Brassed Off with Mags 

A workshop with our cleaning lady, engrave your brassware! 

14.30 – 16.00 >> Locomotive Landscape Class with Denise 

A drawing class exploring the sites and sounds of the Preston Railway Station 

18.30 – 19.15 >> Denise Braithwaite’s BINGO!

19.30 – 21.30 >> LGBTQ Cinema For All : Discussion and film screening

 

SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 

12 -13.00 >> Aerobics with Tracey

Includes anti DVT exercises tailored for our taxi drivers and commuters

13.00 – 14.00 >> Cardboard Sumo with Mags 

14.00 – 16.00 >> World Café with practical philosopher Ayisha de Lanerolle

An exploration into Northernness and Northern Grit 

WITH BUTTER PIES AND PARCHED PEAS for fuel!  

18.00 – 19.15 >> Denise Braithwaite’s BINGO!

with LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT

20.00 – 22.00 >> Night of Local Live Music (The Moonbeams)

 

SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

12 – 13.00 > Aerobics with Tracey

Includes anti DVT exercises tailored for our taxi drivers and commuters

13.00 – 14.00 > HOST completes MANIFESTO with COMMITTEE

14.00 – 16.00 > Make your NORTHERNNESS BANNER to accompany the Manifesto

18.15 – 18.45 > A MANIFESTO FOR PRESTON

As put together by the Denise Braithwaite and PRESTON COMMITTEE

19.00 – 19.45 > Denise Braithwaite’s BINGO!

20.00 – 22.00 > Closing Party with INDUSTRAOKE! (Karaoke with a special Industrial twist)