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The Ultimate Bubble Show!

29th August 2025 10:00am (Doors open at 9:30 am)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Experience the best in soap bubble entertainment. Join Ray, International Bubbleologist and Guinness World Record Holder, and help him in his quest to complete the bubble game and make the ultimate bubble.This is a fast paced show full of high energy and surprises as Ray uses various different gases to create incredible bubble sculptures, effects and magical displays.Watch in amazement ...

The Ultimate Bubble Show!

29th August 2025 3:00pm (Doors open at 2:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Experience the best in soap bubble entertainment. Join Ray, International Bubbleologist and Guinness World Record Holder, and help him in his quest to complete the bubble game and make the ultimate bubble.This is a fast paced show full of high energy and surprises as Ray uses various different gases to create incredible bubble sculptures, effects and magical displays.Watch in amazement ...

The Salt Path (12A)

29th August 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE SALT PATH is the story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, and receiving devasting news about Moth’s health, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: An introduction to needle felted landscapes

30th August 2025 10:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Learn the basics of needle felting and about the varieties of wool and other fibres available in the UK. Take away your own unique creation and the wherewithal to complete anything you have not finished. Please bring ideas or pictures for inspiration but nothing too complicated.

Your Song – Celebrating the Music of Elton John and Billy Joel

30th August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

A Celebration of the Songs of Elton John and Billy Joel Performed by John Reilly & Lewis Nitikman https://youtu.be/0o5-q6PR_R8?si=oXGgPoFA6dwG2t60 Following a fantastic gig in the summer of 2023, singer-songwriter John Reilly and Canadian pianist and composerLewis Nitikman are delighted to return to Kirkgate Arts Centre in Cockermouth, to celebrate not just the music of Elton John but also Billy Joel ...

JP Worsfold (plus support from Anne Marie Sanderson)

31st August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

J P Worsfold is a writer of emotional contemplative contemporary folk songs that speak of connection, joy and belonging. With a subtle blend of rich vocal harmony, sweeping string arrangements alongside heartfelt piano and guitar. They are songs to evoke life’s deeper meaning and to inspire connection within ourselves and the natural space around us. Throughout his career J P ...

The Salt Path (12A)

1st September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE SALT PATH is the story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, and receiving devasting news about Moth’s health, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a ...

The Salt Path (12A)

3rd September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE SALT PATH is the story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, and receiving devasting news about Moth’s health, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a ...

An Evening with Ben Jordan @ The Kirkgate

4th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Arts Out West

Ben's songs range from pin-drop intimate to high energy foot stomper and all points between. His solo shows are part comedy, part travelogue and always a hairs breadth from careening off the road. His rapport with the audience is a rare and often hilarious thing to see, Ben is never one to shy away from a road story or a ...

The Phoenician Scheme (15)

5th September 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

The Phoenician Scheme is a black comedy spy thriller written and directed by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola. The film features a cast including William Dafoe; Rupert Friend; Tom Hanks; Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray. The plot revolves around a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business with twists involving betrayal and morally grey choices. ...

The Great Big Kirkgate Quiz!

6th September 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Toby Gaffney returns with another GREAT BIG KIRKGATE QUIZ! As always it's going to be a fun packed, brain teasing, melting pot of rounds. Up to six in a team, so come along with some friends, or make new ones on the night and jump in a team!

Wild Zucchinis World Food Night!

7th September 2025 7:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Join Manon and the Wild Zucchinis team for another stop on the World Tour of food! This month we are off to Spain, with three courses to tantalise your taste buds! More info coming soon…

An Evening with Ben Jordan @ Santon Bridge Village Hall

7th September 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Santon Bridge Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

Ben's songs range from pin-drop intimate to high energy foot stomper and all points between. His solo shows are part comedy, part travelogue and always a hairs breadth from careening off the road. His rapport with the audience is a rare and often hilarious thing to see, Ben is never one to shy away from a road story or a ...

Heritage Talk: Cockermouth in the Middle Ages – Angus Winchester

8th September 2025 6:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Local History

When and why was Cockermouth founded? Why is it where it is? What was life in the town like in medieval times? This talk will explore these questions, focusing on the origins of Cockermouth in the 12th century, and the nature of the urban community and economy as recorded in some of the remarkable documents which survive from the Middle ...

The Phoenician Scheme (15)

8th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

The Phoenician Scheme is a black comedy spy thriller written and directed by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola. The film features a cast including William Dafoe; Rupert Friend; Tom Hanks; Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray. The plot revolves around a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business with twists involving betrayal and morally grey choices. ...

The Phoenician Scheme (15)

10th September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

The Phoenician Scheme is a black comedy spy thriller written and directed by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola. The film features a cast including William Dafoe; Rupert Friend; Tom Hanks; Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray. The plot revolves around a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business with twists involving betrayal and morally grey choices. ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)

12th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Colour and Collage with Celia Burbush

13th September 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Collage is a wonderful approach, explored by many artists, but most iconically by Kurt Schwitters, the grandfather of modern art, who lived in Cumbria for the last years of his life, having fled his home country of Germany. Collage involves the combining of found images or scraps of materials to construct new images, which can have an aesthetic charge or ...

Comedy@Kirkgate with John Lebbon

13th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Comedy

Comedy@Kirkgate is back with another superb line up ready to tickle your funny bones… Hosted by local comedian John Lebbon and this month featuring… Lewy Morrison Naturally Funny Northerner Sully O'Sullivan Multi-award-winning Kiwi comedian Sully O'Sullivan is renowned for his rambunctious crowd-work and energetic deadpan style. His performances have captivated audiences from New Zealand to Zagreb, with The Scotsman calling ...

The Sunday Session

14th September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Are you a musician, looking for a place to test out your tunes? Do you sing/play and would love to meet up with other musicians to have a bit of a jam? Our open mic night has evolved! We're starting a new approach, to cater for all, with our Sunday Sessions. Come down for a listen, or bring an instrument ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)

15th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis ...

Drama Taster Session for Adults with Emma Rydal

16th September 2025 7:30pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Develop your drama skills with actor Emma Rydal in this one- off 2 hour workshop. Emma’s session will be a fun mix of drama games, improvisation and some script work. We are running the workshop as a taster session, and are hoping to continue it as a regular class if there is interest. Emma has been a professional actor for ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)

17th September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Film

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis ...

Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector @ Beggars Theatre

18th September 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

The Beggars Theatre

Category: Arts Out West

Booking is available throughBeggars Theatre. In this unique double-bill, two actor-writers, Grace Kirby and Peter Macqueen, perform their own one-person shows, each directed by the other. 'Nancy's Orange' is inspired by Grace's experiences in a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to patients, often elderly and isolated, in the beautiful but remote countryside of the North Pennines and along the Cumbrian ...

Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector @ The Gather, Ennerdale

19th September 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

The Gather, Ennerdale

Category: Arts Out West

In this unique double-bill, two actor-writers, Grace Kirby and Peter Macqueen, perform their own one-person shows, each directed by the other. 'Nancy's Orange' is inspired by Grace's experiences in a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to patients, often elderly and isolated, in the beautiful but remote countryside of the North Pennines and along the Cumbrian stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Brief ...

Crafts@Kirgate: The Art of Laying Gold Leaf – Contemporary Gilding Workshop with Amelia

20th September 2025 11:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

The Art of Laying Gold Leaf – Contemporary Gilding Workshop In this 2 ½ hour workshop, youwill: learn the art of contemporary gilding, how it has changed over time and how you can use it in your own home to give it the Midas touch! be given your own toolbox which will contain all the materials and tools required for ...

Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector @ Ullock Villlage Hall

20th September 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Ullock Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

In this unique double-bill, two actor-writers, Grace Kirby and Peter Macqueen, perform their own one-person shows, each directed by the other. 'Nancy's Orange' is inspired by Grace's experiences in a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to patients, often elderly and isolated, in the beautiful but remote countryside of the North Pennines and along the Cumbrian stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Brief ...

FEVER Drag Cabaret

20th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

The FEVER team return, with another packed night of mischief and mayhem… Always a superb and entertaining night out, with the North West's finest Queens (and Kings!) gracing the stage. Music, laughs and always plenty of glitz and glamour! Hosted by effervescent, engaging and ever so flexible 😉 Summer Salt! Starring: Aura Gasm, who will be sure to make you ...

Cooking@Kirkgate: Jam and muffins

24th September 2025 9:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

On the menu today: Plum jam and savoury muffins! Join Helen's Herbs for a morning of culinary creativity, all materials provided.

Kirk Kit – Sellers Registration

25th September 2025 5:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Recycle your unwanted sports and exercise equipment with our Kirk Kit Sale! After the years of successful sales through Cockfrock, we wanted to offer a similar chance to sell sporting goods.You can sell clothing and equipment for all sports, outdoor activities, camping, water activities, cycling etc. Men's and women's clothing and equipment, for all ages, adult and children will be ...

Kirk Kit – Autumn 2025

27th September 2025 10:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

It's time for a workout revamp! Get ready, set and go! with our second 'Kirk Kit' sporting goods sale. After the years of successful sales through Cockfrock, we wanted to offer a similar chance to sell unwanted sports and exercise equipment.It's the same format as Cockfrock, but for clothing and equipment for all sports, outdoor activities, camping, water activities, cycling ...

Kirk Kit – Autumn 2025

28th September 2025 10:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

It's time for a workout revamp! Get ready, set and go! with our second 'Kirk Kit' sporting goods sale. After the years of successful sales through Cockfrock, we wanted to offer a similar chance to sell unwanted sports and exercise equipment.It's the same format as Cockfrock, but for clothing and equipment for all sports, outdoor activities, camping, water activities, cycling ...

Poets Out Loud

28th September 2025 4:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Booking not required Poets Out Loud For writers, readers and listeners from Cumbria and beyond. All are welcome to a most informal poetry session at the Kirkgate Centre. It IS for listeners, not just writers. Lovers of poetry and the spoken word who would like to just sit and enjoy the words are most welcome It ISN’T an open mic ...

Jazz@Kirkgate: Mike Smith Band

28th September 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

We are very excited to welcomeThe Mike Smith Band back to the Kirkgate after their entertaining concert in early 2024 – we got a huge crowd in that night as well! He comes to the Kirkgate with a superb line up, including the the wonderful Tom Kincaid on piano. Mike Smith – sax (Echo and the Bunnymen, Elkie Brooks) Tom ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Dreams and Zines with Celia Burbush

4th October 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Explore and experiment with text, image and layout, creating your own zine (short for magazine). Zines are a chosen medium of vibrant subcultures, with their first appearance as 1930s fanzines celebrating science fiction. In recent years, entire festivals and fairs are dedicated to these self-published works. They’re all about DIY, use what you find, and say what you want to ...

National Theatre Live – Inter Alia (15)

5th October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Event cinema

Inter Alia a new play by Suzie Miller Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Autumn Wreath

11th October 2025 10:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Helen Shipton-Smith returns to Kirkgate to share her skills in this three hour workshop. Bringing together all the colours of autumn this wreath making class will reflect the gorgeous colours of the season. Materials provided.

30th Anniversary Event: Party

11th October 2025 7:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

To celebrate 30 years of Kirkgate Arts & Heritage we have a series of special celebratory events over 2025. The last event will be our 30th Anniversary Party! Join us at The Kirkgate for a New Orleans speakeasy style celebration with the 1920s swing jazz band Alligator Gumbo, there'll be food with a Cajun twist and you'll have a final ...

The Sunday Session

12th October 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Are you a musician, looking for a place to test out your tunes? Do you sing/play and would love to meet up with other musicians to have a bit of a jam? Our open mic night has evolved! We're starting a new approach, to cater for all, with our Sunday Sessions. Come down for a listen, or bring an instrument ...

Craig Gould & The Noble Thieves @ Maryport Library

17th October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Maryport Library

Category: Arts Out West

Join us for The Campfire Sessions, where Craig's heartfelt performances and storytelling combine for a truly special live music show. Sharing the stories behind songs inspired by his journey to recovery, Craig creates a deeply personal and memorable connection with his audience. With sold-out shows on four national tours, appearances at The Long Road, Ynot, Camper Calling & Solfest Festivals, ...

The Singing Bones @ The Globe Hall, Ireby

17th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

The Globe Hall, Ireby

Category: Arts Out West

"If we imagine them hard enough, will these shadows of a wilder past start to move again? Could we sing these bones back to life, even just for one night?" In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, Borrowdale's ancient yew trees are singing a special song just for you, so step into the sacred grove and let the breath sigh ...

Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector @ Bassenthwaite Parish Rooms

18th October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Bassenthwaite Parish Room

Category: Arts Out West

In this unique double-bill, two actor-writers, Grace Kirby and Peter Macqueen, perform their own one-person shows, each directed by the other. 'Nancy's Orange' is inspired by Grace's experiences in a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to patients, often elderly and isolated, in the beautiful but remote countryside of the North Pennines and along the Cumbrian stretch of Hadrian's Wall. Brief ...

Craig Gould & The Noble Thieves Present @ Burgh by Sands Village Hall

18th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Burgh by Sands Public Hall

Category: Arts Out West

Join us for The Campfire Sessions, where Craig's heartfelt performances and storytelling combine for a truly special live music show. Sharing the stories behind songs inspired by his journey to recovery, Craig creates a deeply personal and memorable connection with his audience. With sold-out shows on four national tours, appearances at The Long Road, Ynot, Camper Calling & Solfest Festivals, ...

Ryan Young

18th October 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

2022 MG ALBA Musician of The Year nominee Ryan Young brings new and exciting ideas to traditional Scottish music, receiving international praise for his spell-binding interpretations on the fiddle. His debut album was recorded with four time GRAMMY winner Jesse Lewis (who has worked with the likes of Bela Fleck and Yo Yo Ma) and launched at Feakle Traditional Music ...

I’m Muslamic Don’t Panik @ Whitehaven Library

21st October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Whitehaven Library

Category: Arts Out West

A hilarious and heart-felt story of one man’s journey to Iran to discover his cultural heritage. Featuring a captivating mixture of live music, spoken word, break-dancing and comedy. Join Bobak on his journey of self-discovery as he meets a whole cast of weird and wonderful characters – from women defiantly running the first (and last) ever Tehran marathon, to stumbling ...

I’m Muslamic Don’t Panik @ Millom Library

22nd October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Millom Library

Category: Arts Out West

A hilarious and heart-felt story of one man’s journey to Iran to discover his cultural heritage. Featuring a captivating mixture of live music, spoken word, break-dancing and comedy. Join Bobak on his journey of self-discovery as he meets a whole cast of weird and wonderful characters – from women defiantly running the first (and last) ever Tehran marathon, to stumbling ...

Around The World In Four Seasons @ Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven

23rd October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Rosehill Theatre

Category: Arts Out West

Please book tickets for this event fromRosehill Theatre. Based around Vivaldi’s four seasons, the Lantivet Duo and Joy Becker take you on a captivating journey. Spanning 800 years of music we explore the passing of time and changing of the seasons, which give rise to feelings of joy and loss, celebration and mourning. Each half of the concert will be ...

Around The World In Four Seasons @ The Hill, Millom

24th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

The Hill Village Hall, Millom

Category: Arts Out West

Based around Vivaldi’s four seasons, the Lantivet Duo and Joy Becker take you on a captivating journey. Spanning 800 years of music we explore the passing of time and changing of the seasons, which give rise to feelings of joy and loss, celebration and mourning. Each half of the concert will be experienced as a continuous musical piece, allowing you ...

Quickbeam – Need Fire

24th October 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Need Fire A Need Fire was an old Cumbrian way of marking the transition of the seasons: Every homestead in a valley would be plunged into dark, then a single fire kindled and taken house to house, bonding communities together. Join a-capella close harmony quartet Quickbeam for a musical Need Fire – a journey through the cycle of the seasons ...

Monthly Market Seller Registration

25th October 2025 9:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

For £10 you have access to one of ten tables for the morning of our monthly indoor market, where you can sell your unwanted items, home produced crafts, books, music, almost anything! We will send you a link to our seller guidelines when you book, but please click the link to check that your items are suitable before booking a ...

Kirkgate Monthly Market

25th October 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

We're opening our downstairs space for a monthly sale! Whether it'soriginal creations from local makers and crafters,unwanted household items, CD's, books, DVD's, toys and games you're sure to find some treasure among our sellers offerings. For the spring and summer we are also offering plants for sale, plus tasty treats to enjoy with a cuppa while you browse! If you ...

Around The World In Four Seasons @ Loweswater Village Hall

25th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Loweswater Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

Based around Vivaldi’s four seasons, the Lantivet Duo and Joy Becker take you on a captivating journey. Spanning 800 years of music we explore the passing of time and changing of the seasons, which give rise to feelings of joy and loss, celebration and mourning. Each half of the concert will be experienced as a continuous musical piece, allowing you ...

The Shackleton Trio

25th October 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Captivating songwriting and fiery tunes that combine mandolin, fiddle, guitar and banjo with powerful three part harmonies. The unmistakable sound of The Shackleton Trio brings to life the stories of their native East Anglia, and beyond. The trio features Georgia Shackleton (fiddle, vocals), Aaren Bennett (guitar) and Nic Zuppardi (mandolin and banjo). Collectively the band draw influence from British, American ...

Poets Out Loud

26th October 2025 4:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Booking not required Poets Out Loud For writers, readers and listeners from Cumbria and beyond. All are welcome to a most informal poetry session at the Kirkgate Centre. It IS for listeners, not just writers. Lovers of poetry and the spoken word who would like to just sit and enjoy the words are most welcome It ISN’T an open mic ...

Jazz@Kirkgate: The Zoe Gilby Quartet

26th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Zoë Gilby is a vocalist and songwriter, making a stunning impression on the music scene today. Parliamentary Awards Jazz Vocalist of the Year 2019 Her compelling original compositions are written with double bassist husband Andy Champion. A powerful collection of songs with a strong narrative. Supported by guitarist Mark Williams and drummer John Bradford they deliver a commanding mix of ...

Around The World In Four Seasons @ St Bees Village Hall

26th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

St Bees Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

Based around Vivaldi’s four seasons, the Lantivet Duo and Joy Becker take you on a captivating journey. Spanning 800 years of music we explore the passing of time and changing of the seasons, which give rise to feelings of joy and loss, celebration and mourning. Each half of the concert will be experienced as a continuous musical piece, allowing you ...

Cooking@Kirkgate: Cinnamon Swirls

29th October 2025 9:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

On the menu today: Beetroot chutney and cinnamon swirls. Join Helen's Herbs for a morning of culinary creativity, all materials provided.

Crafts@Kirkgate: Rag Rug Workshop

1st November 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Make a rag rug out of recycled clothes! Learn a traditional craft and recycle / repurpose worn out clothing. Make a really special Christmas gift. All materials included. A light lunch is included in the price, or you are welcome to bring your own. Any questions, please ask info@cumberlandragrugs.co.uk

Whisky Tasting

1st November 2025 7:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Led by local whisky enthusiast Stephen Walker, the tasting will consist of five single malt whiskies (25 ml measures) with a cask strength whisky included in the tasting. During the tasting, Stephen will talk about the whisky making process and the whisky industry. A two-course meal will be provided, prepared and cooked by Helen, Stephen’s wife, When booking please let ...

The Tannahill Weavers

2nd November 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Traditional Celtic music at its best! With fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, haunting ballads and a good dose of humour, the Tannahill Weavers have transformed traditional material and brought it into the modern world, vitally alive and kicking. Members of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame, in 2019 the Tannahill Weavers were nominated for Folk Album of the Year and ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Gilded Christmas Decorations

8th November 2025 11:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

The perfect workshop to ring in the Christmas spirit! Learn the art of laying gold leaf by gilding your own festive Christmas ornaments and decorations ✨ You will be taught about the art of gilding, how it has changed over time and how you can use it in your own home to give anything a new gilded sparkle! Your festive ...

Sandy Smith – Shout Out to the Sixties!

8th November 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Get Ready to step back into the fabulous music of the 1960s with this toe-tapping, twisting, head-shaking’ celebration of the decade's greatest idols, This show honours the Artistes who made the music of the era unforgettable, from Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Aretha Franklin, to the Shirelles, The Supremes, Tina Turner, and many more. Featuring over thirty beloved ...

The Sunday Session

9th November 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Are you a musician, looking for a place to test out your tunes? Do you sing/play and would love to meet up with other musicians to have a bit of a jam? Our open mic night has evolved! We're starting a new approach, to cater for all, with our Sunday Sessions. Come down for a listen, or bring an instrument ...

Cockfrock Autumn 2025 Sellers Registration

13th November 2025 3:30pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

We're looking for good quality ladies fashions and accessories… If you would like toregister as a seller at Cockfrocksimply 'buy' a ticket to this 'event'. You don't even need to come to the sale itself! We take care of all that for you, all you need to do is get your clothes labelled and ready on hangers and drop them ...

Soaked @ Kirkstile Community Centre, Dean

14th November 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Kirkstile Community Centre

Category: Arts Out West

It’s Wine O Clock when do you stop? Imogen and Rich don’t care if the glass is half full or half empty, as long as there’s wine in it that’s what’s important. That’s how they unwind, how they party, how they cope with the stresses of life; young children, high powered careers. But after twenty years of drinking to excess, ...

Wild @ The Globe Hall, Ireby

14th November 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

The Globe Hall, Ireby

Category: Arts Out West

Wild – What does it conjure up for you? Is it a moment standing at the edge of a raging sea or being lifted up and spat out of a whirling tornado; running for your life through city streets or coming face to face with a wolf; the animal within that can’t always be tamed or the wilderness at the ...

Cockfrock Autumn 2025

15th November 2025 10:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

The North West's biggest pop-up pre-loved boutique! Cockfrock Autumn 2025 promises to be the best yet!! Got your Christmas party outfit yet? If not then this is the event for you… We've got knockout frocks at a knockdown prices, shoes, handbags, jewellery, whether it's glitz and glamour or more practical outfits you're after- there is always a wide range of ...

Soaked @ Brigham Memorial Hall

15th November 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Brigham Memorial Hall

Category: Arts Out West

It’s Wine O Clock when do you stop? Imogen and Rich don’t care if the glass is half full or half empty, as long as there’s wine in it that’s what’s important. That’s how they unwind, how they party, how they cope with the stresses of life; young children, high powered careers. But after twenty years of drinking to excess, ...

The Singing Bones @ St Bees Village Hall

15th November 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

St Bees Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

Booking is available throughRosehill Theatre. "If we imagine them hard enough, will these shadows of a wilder past start to move again? Could we sing these bones back to life, even just for one night?" In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, Borrowdale's ancient yew trees are singing a special song just for you, so step into the sacred grove ...

Cockfrock Autumn 2025

16th November 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

The North West's biggest pop-up pre-loved boutique! Cockfrock Autumn 2025 promises to be the best yet!! Got your Christmas party outfit yet? If not then this is the event for you… We've got knockout frocks at a knockdown prices, shoes, handbags, jewellery, whether it's glitz and glamour or more practical outfits you're after- there is always a wide range of ...

Cooking@Kirkgate: All things pastry!

19th November 2025 9:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

On the menu today: Glorious pies! All things pastry! Join Manon Plouffe for a morning of culinary creativity, all materials provided.

Monthly Market Seller Registration

22nd November 2025 9:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

For £10 you have access to one of ten tables for the morning of our monthly indoor market, where you can sell your unwanted items, home produced crafts, books, music, almost anything! We will send you a link to our seller guidelines when you book, but please click the link to check that your items are suitable before booking a ...

Kirkgate Monthly Market

22nd November 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

We're opening our downstairs space for a monthly sale! Whether it'soriginal creations from local makers and crafters,unwanted household items, CD's, books, DVD's, toys and games you're sure to find some treasure among our sellers offerings. For the spring and summer we are also offering plants for sale, plus tasty treats to enjoy with a cuppa while you browse! If you ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Fused glass Christmas decoration taster session

23rd November 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Book your place on a fused glass Christmas decoration taster session with Roxanne Denny of RD Glass. Learn a new skill and have fun being creative with hands on instruction and the freedom to choose what you make. During the session you will use pre-cut pieces of glass, glass rods and crushed glass in a range of shapes and colours. ...

Poets Out Loud

23rd November 2025 4:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Booking not required Poets Out Loud For writers, readers and listeners from Cumbria and beyond. All are welcome to a most informal poetry session at the Kirkgate Centre. It IS for listeners, not just writers. Lovers of poetry and the spoken word who would like to just sit and enjoy the words are most welcome It ISN’T an open mic ...

Jazz@Kirkgate: Arun Ghosh ‘Northern Quartet’

23rd November 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Very excited to be able to bring this artist to the Kirkgate, with some fabulous musicians. Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist, composer and music educator. Named as Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year in 2014 and 2018 in the APPJA / Parliamentary Jazz Awards Arun brings his “Northern quartet” to jazz@Kirkgate featuring John Ellis on piano and Dave Walsh on ...

Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Muncaster Parish Hall, Ravenglass

5th December 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

Muncaster Parish Hall, Ravenglass

Category: Arts Out West

The most fun you can have without shinning down someone’s chimney! Christmas show with some crazy bits, a sackful of their singalong, wintry-wonderful songs. The best Christmas-Duo-Show this side of Morecambe & Bublé! A stocking-load of Keith’s hilarious seasonal anecdotes and jokes. The gift of a couple of scary solstice ghost stories. Pour on lashings of Lauren’s, silky-smooth, brandy-butter vocals. ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Christmas Wreath

6th December 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Celebrate Cumbria’s winter season by making your very own sustainable Festive Wreath to dress your front door. Harriet from Cumberland Flower Farm will bring a lovely mix of cumbrian evergreen foliages, grasses and berries and guide you in crafting a compostable wreath using sustainable materials and techniques. Tuition, materials and tools and equipment will be supplied, but please wear old ...

Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Florence Arts Centre, Egremont

6th December 2025 1:30pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Florence Mine Arts Centre

Category: Arts Out West

The most fun you can have without shinning down someone’s chimney! Christmas show with some crazy bits, a sackful of their singalong, wintry-wonderful songs. The best Christmas-Duo-Show this side of Morecambe & Bublé! A stocking-load of Keith’s hilarious seasonal anecdotes and jokes. The gift of a couple of scary solstice ghost stories. Pour on lashings of Lauren’s, silky-smooth, brandy-butter vocals. ...

Crafts@Kirkgate: Christmas Wreath

6th December 2025 2:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Celebrate Cumbria’s winter season by making your very own sustainable Festive Wreath to dress your front door. Harriet from Cumberland Flower Farm will bring a lovely mix of cumbrian evergreen foliages, grasses and berries and guide you in crafting a compostable wreath using sustainable materials and techniques. Tuition, materials and tools and equipment will be supplied, but please wear old ...

Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Kirksanton Village Hall

6th December 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Kirksanton Village Hall

Category: Arts Out West

The most fun you can have without shinning down someone’s chimney! Christmas show with some crazy bits, a sackful of their singalong, wintry-wonderful songs. The best Christmas-Duo-Show this side of Morecambe & Bublé! A stocking-load of Keith’s hilarious seasonal anecdotes and jokes. The gift of a couple of scary solstice ghost stories. Pour on lashings of Lauren’s, silky-smooth, brandy-butter vocals. ...

GreenMatthews’ Midwinter Revels

7th December 2025 3:30pm (Doors open at 2:30 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Music

Following on from A Christmas Carol: In Concert and A Brief History of Christmas, GreenMatthews present their new festive show. Spanning several centuries, GreenMatthews’ Midwinter Revels is a celebration of Yuletide Past guaranteed to warm the cockles of the most Scrooge-like heart. Featuring Christmas carols, winter folk songs, toe-tapping tunes and a plethora of weird and wonderful instruments, the show ...

Wild Zucchinis World Food Night!

7th December 2025 7:00pm

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

Join Manon and the Wild Zucchinis team for another stop on the World Tour of food! This month we are celebrating Christmas from around the world, with three courses to tantalise your taste buds! More info coming soon…

Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Maryport Settlement

7th December 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)

The Settlement Maryport

Category: Arts Out West

The most fun you can have without shinning down someone’s chimney! Christmas show with some crazy bits, a sackful of their singalong, wintry-wonderful songs. The best Christmas-Duo-Show this side of Morecambe & Bublé! A stocking-load of Keith’s hilarious seasonal anecdotes and jokes. The gift of a couple of scary solstice ghost stories. Pour on lashings of Lauren’s, silky-smooth, brandy-butter vocals. ...

Cooking@Kirkgate: Fun Festive Food!

10th December 2025 9:30am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Fun Festive Food! Easy and stress free recipes to impress your guests at Christmas. From starters to pudding with an addition of bling with cute canapés & colourful cocktails. Join Manon Plouffe for a morning of culinary creativity, all materials provided.

John Cleese Packs It In

13th December 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Event cinema

1 85-year-old Man, 5 Countries, 16 Cities, 23 shows, 6 weeks. Will he make it home … or is this the end of the road? One of the most recognisable figures in British comedy, John Cleese’s career spans six decades – from his early days with the Cambridge Footlights to co-founding Monty Python, co-creating Fawlty Towers, and writing and starring ...

The Sunday Session

14th December 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Are you a musician, looking for a place to test out your tunes? Do you sing/play and would love to meet up with other musicians to have a bit of a jam? Our open mic night has evolved! We're starting a new approach, to cater for all, with our Sunday Sessions. Come down for a listen, or bring an instrument ...
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