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 …

Kirkgate Quarter Chronicle January 2025

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 Quarter Chronicle December 2024

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, …