A near £300,000 refurbishment programme at Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre is complete. An 18-month improvement project, with funding from a range of organisations, has allowed the Kirkgate to substantially upgrade the equipment and facilities at its town centre base – a converted Victorian primary school. To mark the event, representatives from one of the major funders, the Benny Walker Charitable Trust, …
Spring has well and truly sprung in recent weeks, the weather doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do… but we have faith that the sunshine will win the battle! It’s the perfect time for a clear out and a fresh start, and we’ve got plenty going on this month to help with that. You’ll have had details of …
The Cockermouth Community Musical, developed through Kirkgate Arts and Heritage as part of the Our Freedom: Then and Now project, is part of a national photography exhibition launched recently in London to a host of organisation representatives. Our Freedom: Then and Now was a UK-wide, locally-led arts and creative programme reflecting on what ‘Our Freedom’ means to local people and …
The Oscar winners are on their way to Cockermouth! The town’s Kirkgate Centre hosts weekly movie screenings with popular films shown each Friday, then the following Monday and Wednesday. And this week’s offering is none other than Hamnet, for which star Jessie Buckley won the Oscar for Best Actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The film dramatises …
After Jazz January, Film February… Let’s make it a musical March! We’ve already had two members of the NE Street Band with their ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ show, and we’re fast approaching a sell out gig from Tryckster this Saturday. Later this month we welcome Old Baby Mackerel to the Kirkgate stage, after sell out performances on our Arts Out West rural touring network last year. Definitely not to …
Three top quality acts who proved big hits on recent visits to Cumbria will shortly take centre stage at Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Arts Centre. All three proved hugely popular when they visited Cumbria as part of the Arts Out West programme, which stages performances in community venues from Furness to the Solway and is managed by the Kirkgate. “These three acts …
The Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth’s popular monthly Crafts@Kirkgate programme led by professional artists is now up and running with all 2026 dates confirmed. This year’s series kicked off last month with Flower Painting for Beginners. It continues shortly with a Fused Glass Taster Session led by Roxanne Denny of RD Glass on Saturday, February 28 (2pm). Kirkgate Chief Executive Emma …
It’s lovely seeing the snowdrops bobbing their heads above ground! Not long until they’re followed by daffodils, then we’ll know spring is well on it’s way. Look out for the blooms appearing in front of the centre, the bulbs donated by Cockermouth Rotary and planted by a team of volunteers to join in with the town’s daffodil extravaganza in March …
Arts Out West programme brings a touch of music, dance, bingo – and murder! An eclectic mix of characters – including Flanders and Swann, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Juliet and Romeo and a bingo-playing murderer! — all combine to highlight the Arts Out West programme of village hall theatrical activities for the first half of 2026. Kirkgate Arts Out West …
Happy New Year! We’re bursting into 2026 with another packed schedule of events, more being added to the website by the day so do keep checking in here. Have you got your Jazz January tickets booked yet? Don’t forget, tickets booked for any of the 2026 jazz@Kirkgate events get a discount of 10% when you use the promo code JAZZ2026. This offer …
