A festival in Cornwall has made an announcement as to whether it will be going ahead this year.

Porthleven Arts Festival has announced it will go ahead this year after receiving a huge financial boost from the National Lottery’s Community Fund.

The festival, launched during lockdown in 2021, was initiated to celebrate the local creative community and its achievements over ten-days of celebration throughout Porthleven with high hopes for it to become a much anticipated yearly fixture in the village’s events calendar.

Now, the Porthelven Arts Community (PAC), a voluntary-run CIC responsible for organizing the festival, has secured a grant of £9,800 through the Community Fund scheme run by the National Lottery.

Festival Coordinator, Alec Short said: "Its brilliant news for the festival and we’re all really pleased to get plans in motion to make the 2022 festival even better than the last."

The financial boost will help the PAC put on a packed week-long festival, starting on September 24 and runnign until October 2.

Last year’s highlights saw live musical and dance performances, workshops, tutorials, exhibitions and film showings which highlighted the wide-ranging and diverse creative talents across the county.

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One highlight was the ‘pod of Mermaids which will be making a much-anticipated return for the 2022 festival.

Jenna Sobey, a Director of the PAC said: "What is different about this festival is it’s held across the whole village in already existing buildings, instead of one purpose -built marquee for example.

"We hope that people will travel all over the village to see what this year’s programme will have to offer.

"The events are so diverse, we’re all really excited to see it come to life and for people to come together and celebrate the huge wave of creative talent we have here.

"It’s such a joy to see and we’re all looking forward to building on the huge success of 2021."

The PAC are keen to get more people involved in the organization this year.

If you would like to be part of the festival in any way they would love to hear from you.

You can email info@porthlevenarts.com to register your interest.