Starts Saturday 15th February and runs until Saturday 31st May 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 Allerdale and Copeland providing local audiences with high quality professional performances. This upcoming season has a wide range of shows – from …
Interested in meeting up with a group of like-minded people to chat about all things related to Cockermouth’s past? Then the town’s Kirkgate Centre may have just the thing for you! It’s launching the Cockermouth Chat Group on Thursday, February 6 (1pm), a free monthly opportunity to sit down and share memories about significant events or personal memories of life …
Happy New Year! A particularly happy one for Kirkgate Arts as it is our 30th birthday year!! We’re also really excited about all the work going on in our auditorium at the moment. Although we’ve been sat in the office cringing at the crashes and bangs of the ceiling coming down in the auditorium, we know it will be worth …
Kirkgate Arts & Heritage is delighted to announce the next phase of their improvement works at The Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth have begun. After the completion of the first two stages of funded work, a complete refurbishment of the lift and replacement of all the outdated lighting around the building, the upstairs auditorium space is now undergoing significant improvement with …
Welcome to the December 2024 edition of the Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle. A very different newsletter this month, as Gloria, Bob and all the volunteers have worked so hard bringing you their articles over the last twelve months we wanted to give them a festive break. We can’t quite believe how fast 2024 has gone by! So many events, exhibitions, projects, improvements, …
We are delighted to announce that we have received support from the Lakes to the Sea investment panel to improve facilities in our downstairs performance space at the Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth. The funding will provide industry standard PA equipment to compliment the existing sound facilities at the centre, as well as enable the sound engineers at the Kirkgate to …
Welcome to the November 2024 edition of the Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle. This is always a busy month at Kirkgate! Alongside all our usual events, classes and activities we are host to the annual Round Table Beer festival! You can now book your tickets for this on our website, although they are already sold out for some of the sessions… Get …
Exhibition will tell the story of brewing’s importance to Cockermouth Final details have been confirmed ahead of the launch of an exhibition at Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre chronicling the fascinating history of beer and brewing in the town. The Cockermouth Heritage Group has been exploring the origins of brewing as a cottage industry in the town up to the closure of …
Music lovers in Cockermouth will get the opportunity to help world-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli celebrate his 30-year career later this month. Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration (PG) is a musical extravaganza filmed over three days in a breathtaking natural amphitheatre, the Teatro del Silenzio (Theatre of Silence), in the singer’s hometown of Lajatico, Tuscany. The film captures Andrea in …
Kirkgate Arts and Heritage’s latest community heritage project will be celebrating the history of beer and brewing in Cockermouth. The Cockermouth Heritage Group will be exploring the origins of brewing as a cottage industry in the town up to the closure of Jennings Brewery and the effect that has had on the local community, with a series of free events …
