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 …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle June 2025
Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle, it’s a packed newsletter this month, so much to share and also a fantastic event to look back on… Well, the sunshine couldn’t last forever… but I bet the gardeners among you have been relieved to see the clouds in the last couple of weeks! The soggy start to …
Kirkgate looking for a helping hand
Cockermouth’s award-winning Kirkgate Arts and Heritage is looking for a volunteer to help out with its marketing and communications activities for one to two days per week. The organisation, which last year was presented with the King’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK, wants to ensure that as many people as possible …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle May 2025
We hope you are all enjoying the glorious weather! The sun has well and truly got his hat on this month, let’s hope it stays sunny into June for our 30th Anniversary Picnic at the Castle on the 1st! Tickets are now completely sold out, and we’ve been busy behind the scenes organising the delicious contents of our picnic boxes. …
Cockfrock’s lessons in fashion for Prom Season 2025!
Cockfrock — Cockermouth’s eagerly-anticipated pre-loved fashion and shopping experience — is back and proving as popular as ever! Cockfrock Spring 2025 takes place at the town’s Kirkgate Centre on Saturday, May 17, and Sunday, May 18 … and, with a couple of weeks still to go, organisers have announced that all sales spots have already been snapped up. “That means …