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 …

Welcome to the December Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle, and with it all the best Seaons Greetings! Do you like our festive picture above? Thanks to local artist Aisling for creating this lovely image. It would usually be around this time that we’d be putting our feet up and saying ‘that’s a wrap!’ for the year, but not this year. If you’re looking for something …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …