This month we’re inviting you to put the kettle on, get yourself cosy and delve deeper into what we do at Kirkgate Arts & Heritage. Our Monthly Chronicles have been jam packed this year, with all sorts of exciting events, celebrations and milestones, and now it’s time to take a moment to think about the people who make it all …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle October 2025
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle October 2025 Autumn has well and truly landed, thank goodness for those double glazed windows and efficient boilers that we installed a few years back! Certainly feeling the benefit in recent weeks at the centre. It’s onwards and upwards with our funded work as technical details are now pinned down ready for our upgrade to digital sound …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle September 2025
Welcome to the September Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle. It’s already feeling autumnal, we can see the colours on the trees changing before our eyes from our office window at Kirkgate and we are gearing up for our September sports sale… Yes, Kirk Kit is back! There’s still time to register as a seller at this event, if you have any camping …
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 …
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 …
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 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. …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle April 2025
We did it!! After months without cinema, and hosting all our live events in the bar downstairs (which proved very successful!) we are now back in the auditorium! The final stage of redecoration was a mammoth task for our team of staff, volunteers and some extra people-power from Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick. More about that later in the Chronicle. So are …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle March 2025
All being well this will be our last month without our auditorium space! The work is on track and we’re looking forward to sharing some photo’s in our April Chronicle. It’s a busy month at the centre, and elsewhere as our Kirkgate Arts Out West season is in full swing. Did you catch Old Baby Mackerel last weekend? Two sell out …
Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle February 2025
It’s almost half term and the bulbs are just starting to pop their heads above the ground after their winter slumber. We’re looking forward to a colourful spring outside the centre – with daffodils and crocuses that our volunteers planted, thanks to Cockermouth Rotary for supplying the bulbs. The auditorium work is progressing well, with ductwork now being installed ready …