Would you like to help The Kirkgate celebrate ‘Our Freedom’?

Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre has been chosen to participate in a nationwide arts and creative programme reflecting what freedom means to people, linked to the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Our Freedom: Then and Now is a new programme of community-based events in arts centres and libraries across the UK highlighting what ‘Our Freedom’ means to …

The Kirkgate Centre’s after your vote!

Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre is hoping to follow up the success of its imaginative and popular 30th Anniversary Film Festival by picking up a prestigious award! Centre staff and volunteers are hoping that customers who enjoy the range of films on offer at the Kirkgate on a weekly basis will feel able to vote for the centre in the first ever …

Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle August 2025

This weekend will be our final six titles of our 30th Anniversary Film Festival, and we close with a very special screening…. Local film maker Michael Groom will be joining us for a Q&A session after the film ‘Between the Lights’ is shown on our big screen! “This romantic, supernatural drama may remind you of classics of this genre like Ghost and Truly, Madly, Deeply.” (Riverside Studios) When sceptical scientist …

Arts Out West Autumn/Winter 2025 Season

Arts Out West Autumn/Winter 2025 – Starts Thursday 4th September and runs until Sunday 7th December Arts Out West is the rural touring arm of Kirkgate Arts and Heritage serving a large area of West Cumbria. We work with volunteers in various venues throughout Cumberland, providing local audiences with high quality professional performances. This upcoming season has a wide range …

Grant support helps Kirkgate improve its facilities

Grants totalling more than £40,000 will enable the Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth to streamline and improve its sound production system for a wide range of performances. The centre is celebrating a successful application to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), which includes the Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) and is managed by Cumberland Council, for £39,129. The grant will be …

Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle July 2025

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle, we’re taking over this months edition with our 30th Anniversary Film Festival! FREE film pass available for those on low incomes! Thanks to funding from Cumberland Council, we are excited to be able to offer free festival film passes to anyone who is currently claiming either working age benefits of pension credits. To claim …

Council grant widens access to anniversary film festival

Cumbrian residents in receipt of working age benefits or pension credits will be able to enjoy free entry to an exciting film festival with a strong local flavour …. thanks to support from Cumberland Council! The Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and one of the main events is a special Summer Film Festival featuring …

Film festival with a local flavour for Kirkgate’s big celebration!

Details have been finalised for a film festival with a strong Cumbrian flavour that will form one of the centrepieces of the 30th Anniversary programme at Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre. Thirty films, one from each year of the Kirkgate’s existence since its launch in 1995, will be screened at the centre over three weeks in July and August. Films have been …