Cockermouth charity Kirkgate Arts and Heritage has won a major grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support a year-long celebration of Dorothy Wordsworth, the town’s most famous daughter. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the £67,100 grant for Kirkgate’s ‘I Am Dorothy’ project will fund a range of community activities including a special art work …
Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre is ready to ‘Shine’ the spotlight on the blossoming Cumbrian music scene as it prepares to re-open its doors to live events. Whitehaven pop and rock outfit The Little Lies launches the Kirkgate’s summer selection of live music events next Saturday – a programme that includes an appearance by internationally-renowned pipes and fiddle player Kathryn Tickell. Tickell, …
Two Cockermouth businesses are joining forces to cook up a new spin on Friday nights out on the town. From this week (Friday, June 4), film fans at the Kirkgate Centre cinema will be able to order in pizzas from nearby Fermento, Market Place, to enjoy before the film in the Kirkgate’s newly spruced up ground floor bar. From 6 …
Stars of stage, screen and sport are set to shine a light on the entertainments scene in West Cumbria as the region emerges from the darker days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cockermouth’s Kirkgate Centre is preparing to welcome back visitors in a socially distanced and COVID-safe way on Monday, May 17, after five months of enforced closure in the lockdown …
