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Jeremy Sassoon’s MOJO
12th July 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
“Jeremy Sassoon's MOJO” Musicians Of Jewish Origin 2022 Edinburgh Fringe reviews * * * * * Pick Of The Fringe – “Five stars!” * * * * * AssemblyFest, Edinburgh Fringe – “The perfect Fringe show” * * * * * North West End UK – “An eye-opening experience” * * * * * Jewish Renaissance – “Sassoon has definitely ...
The Sunday Session
13th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Heritage Walk: The Mills of South Cockermouth with Stan Leigh
14th July 2025 6:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
Cockermouth's development was strongly tied to our mills. There is evidence for over 40 mills in the town, stretching back to the Roman period, through the middle ages and a big increase during theindustrial revolution. Join Stan Leigh for a walk to explore some of the mills in the north of the town. This is one of two walks featuring ...
The Penguin Lessons (12A)
14th July 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
The Penguin Lessons is inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down. Adapted from Tom Michell’s autobiographical book, ...
Wayfarers Theatre present ‘The Tempest’
15th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Wayfarers Theatre presents 'THE TEMPEST', a lively, fun and magical adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale. This family-friendly theatre adventure is packed with original live music, puppets and a wonderful troupe of fourteen local performers. Known for theirwild and wonderful outdoor picnic theatre, Wayfarers are heading inside for a one-off relaxed performance at Kirkgate Arts. Leave your waterproofs, muddy boots and ...
The Penguin Lessons (12A)
16th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
The Penguin Lessons is inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down. Adapted from Tom Michell’s autobiographical book, ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Leaving Las Vegas (18)
18th July 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
1995 – Leaving Las Vegas (18) We open the festival with a film which grossed $50 million worldwide, making it a box office success, especially considering its budget of $4 million. Nicholas Cage won the Oscar for Best Lead Actor.Elisabeth Shue (Best Lead Actress) and Mike Figgis (Director and Screenplay) were nominated at the Oscars. Adapted from the novel by ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Up ‘n’ Under (12)
19th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
1998 Up ‘n’ Under (12) The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten years. Ex-pro Arthur (Gary Olsen) bets their boss that he could train a bunch of deadbeats to defeat them in a local rugby sevens tournament. But to do so he must first get them into shape with ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Jude (15)
19th July 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
1996 – Jude (15) In late 19th-century England, Jude (Christopher Eccleston) aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella (Rachel Griffiths). But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. When he moves ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: The Loss of Sexual Innocence (18)
19th July 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
1997 – The Loss of Sexual Innocence (18) A series of loosely connected vignettes and flashbacks explores the life of a filmmaker named Nic (Julian Sands) from his life at age 5, 12 and 16, and as a man embarking on his first film in 1950s Tunisia, and finally to his current age. Along the way, well let’s just say ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Miss Potter (PG)
20th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2007 – Miss Potter (PG) Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) overcomes many obstacles in her quest to become a writer, including a domineering mother and the chauvinism prevalent in Victorian England. She falls in love with her publisher, Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor), yet his marriage proposal and a subsequent tragedy change her life forever. Starring: Renée Zellweger; Ewan McGregor; Emily Watson; ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Supernova (15) + Q&A
20th July 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2020 Supernova (15) Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), partners of twenty years, are on holiday. Jobs have been given up and plans put on hold as they are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past.Their time together is now the most important thing they have two years after a serious ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Me Without You (15)
20th July 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2001 – Me Without You (15) Growing up in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For the troubled, unpredictable Marina (Anna Friel), the friendship remains the only constant in her life. Meanwhile, Holly (Michelle Williams) buries herself in books out of feelings of frustration. She holds just one ...
Heritage Walk: The Mills of North Cockermouth with Stan Leigh
21st July 2025 6:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
Cockermouth's development was strongly tied to our mills. There is evidence for over 40 mills in the town, stretching back to the Roman period, through the middle ages and a big increase during theindustrial revolution. Join Stan Leigh for a walk to explore some of the mills in the north of the town. This is one of two walks featuring ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Kinky Boots (12A)
21st July 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2005 – Kinky Boots (12A) A well known story line as after the film it became a hit musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) inherits the family business, a shoe factory in Northampton, England. He is not interested in shoes, and the factory is in such dire financial straits. However, a fortuitous encounter with ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Calendar Girls (12A)
23rd July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2003 – Calendar Girls (12A) Another well known story line as Calendar Girls grossed a worldwide total of $93 million. Spirited Yorkshire housewife Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) hatches a scheme to raise money for a memorial to her friends late husband. Utilizing a tradition from the Woman's Institute, Chris encourages Annie (Julie Walters) and their friends to create a calendar…… ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: 28 Days Later (18)
25th July 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2002 – 28 Days Later (18) 28 Days Later grossed a total of $82.7 million worldwide, on an $8 million budget.A box office hit which is provided the sequel 28 Weeks Later and in June 2025 28 Years Later is due to be released. When London bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma, he finds his city ...
Monthly Market Seller Registration
26th July 2025 9:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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
26th July 2025 10:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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: Kintsugi Craft Workshop for Beginners
26th July 2025 11:30am
Kirkgate Centre
Kintsugi Craft Workshop for Beginners Discover the ancient art of Kintsugi with Amelia in a fun and creative way. Kintsugi, which literally translates as 'golden joinery', celebrates the Japanese philosophy of the beauty of imperfection. In this beginners workshop you will: be given your own toolbox which will contain all the materials and items you need for this workshop. learn ...
King Harolds Mother
26th July 2025 5:00pm (Doors open at 4:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
A mother who lost four sons in 1066. Three sons killed at the Battle of Hastings, one son branded a traitor. A first born lost on foreign soil. But these are times of turmoil, where crowns on the head go with swords in the hand. And this mother has lost everything. Two years later, in Exeter King Harold’s Mother makes ...
Poets Out Loud
27th July 2025 4:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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 Hannah Brine Quartet
27th July 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Singer songwriter Hannah Brine brings the gorgeous songs from her forthcoming album Blue Sky Now to Kirkgate Arts. Inspired by the Great American Songbook, with a voice & song writing style likened to Carole King, Norah Jones and Rumer, Hannah writes & performs lush ballads & lively jazz anthems, telling tales of growth & change, of life & loss, all ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Sightseers (15)
28th July 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2012 – Sightseers (15) Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick ...
Cooking@Kirkgate: Lemon curd and Chelsea buns
30th July 2025 9:30am
Kirkgate Centre
On the menu today: lemon curd and sweet or savoury chelsea style buns. Join Helen's Herbs for a morning of culinary creativity! All materials provided.
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Brideshead Revisited (12A)
30th July 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2008 – Brideshead Revisited (12A) Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), Oxford student Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) finds that the power and privilege is seductive.On a visit to Brideshead, Sebastian’s ancestral home, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell). “The film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited transforms one of the quintessential novels of the ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Life of A Mountain – A Year on Blencathra
1st August 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2017 Life of A Mountain – A Year on Blencathra The Director’s cut not the BBC version. The film sees award-winning film-maker Terry Abraham return to the Lake District to showcase 'the people's mountain' – Blencathra. The result is this spectacular documentary with stunning time-lapse sequences of this unique landscape which will inspire newcomers and regular visitors alike. Featuring: Ed ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Gulliver’s Travels (PG)
2nd August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2010 Gulliver’s Travels (PG) Another famous popular story.The film is very loosely based on Jonathan Swift’s 18th century novel of the same name. Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has been working in the mail room of a New York daily newspaper for the past ten years.One day, after having finally had enough, he decides to declare his love to the beautiful ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Glorious 39 (12A)
2nd August 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2009 – Glorious 39 (12A) Set in the idyllic British countryside just before the start of the Second World War. The story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of life. When the eldest sibling Anne stumbles across secret recordings her seemingly perfect life begins to dramatically unravel. “Poliakoff cleverly ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Children of Men (15)
2nd August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2006 – Children of Men (15) Children of Men was nominated for best adapted screenplay at the Oscars. A dystopian action thriller based on the 1992 novel of the same name by P D James. When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes the unlikely champion in the fight ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Johnny English Reborn (PG)
3rd August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2011 – Johnny English Reborn (PG) Johnny English, the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger and is the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service, who must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. The ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Stan and Ollie (PG)
3rd August 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2019 Stan and Ollie (PG) Laurel and Hardy face an uncertain future as their golden era of Hollywood films remain long behind them. Diminished by age, the duo set out to reconnect with their adoring fans by touring variety halls in Britain in 1953. Starring: Steve Coogan; John C Reilly; Shirley Henderson Directed by Jon S Baird Running Time 98 ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Radiator (15)
3rd August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2015 Radiator (15) A low-budget British drama about a grown-up son dealing with his ageing, dysfunctional mum and dad. Daniel receives a call from his elderly mother and travels to their remote farm to discover that they have fallen over the edge of eccentricity into outright squalor. “This is a small-scale but delicately crafted and moving family drama, lent an ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: The Story of Fleetwood Mac
4th August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2013 The Story of Fleetwood Mac As suggested by the title this is Fleetwood Mac’s story, using archive footage and interviews with Mick Fleetwood and Christie McVie to follow the band through the highs and lows throughout their amazing career. It also features music footage of some of the bands greatest tracks includingAlbatross, Don't Stop, Rhiannon, The Chain. Featuring: Mick ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Pandaemonium (12)
6th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2000 Pandaemonium (12) The friendly collaboration of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah) ultimately turns to betrayal during the French Revolution. ‘Successfully gets to the heart of the obsessions that drive great writers — and will have you dusting down your old school copy of the 'Lyrical Ballads'! Sandi Chaitram- BBC Starring Linus Roache; John ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Snack Shack (15) + Q&A
8th August 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2024 Snack Shack (15) A rare chance to see a film which grossed less than $500,000. Nebraska City, summer of 1991. Inseparable best friends AJ (Conor Sherry, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?," "The Terminal List") and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle, "The Fabelmans") seize the opportunity to run the local pool's rundown snack shack. Dreaming of striking it rich, things take ...
Crafts@Kirkgate: Block Printing Family Workshop
9th August 2025 10:00am
Kirkgate Centre
Join Market Place Print Studio for a vibrant, family-friendly workshop exploring the playful technique of Block Printing. There are two times available, 10am or midday, and the sessions run for approximately and hour and a half. We will explore colour, pattern-making, tessellation and repetition through the prism of block printing using lino and rubber stamps. You will learn how to ...
Crafts@Kirkgate: Block Printing Family Workshop
9th August 2025 12:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
Join Market Place Print Studio for a vibrant, family-friendly workshop exploring the playful technique of Block Printing. There are two times available, 10am or midday, and the sessions run for approximately and hour and a half. We will explore colour, pattern-making, tessellation and repetition through the prism of block printing using lino and rubber stamps. You will learn how to ...
OutHaus
9th August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
New Eco Theatre Writing from Tenderfoot Theatre A drag queen and a mallard duck walk into a bar… In the not-too-distant future of our concrete state, a prohibition on green space is in full swing. With every park, field, and grass verge bought up by the bourgeoisie, one dilapidated public toilet houses nature’s speakeasy. Welcome to Club OutHaus – an ...
The Sunday Session
10th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Heritage Talk: Percy House, Market Place
11th August 2025 6:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
Percy House on Market Place in Cockermouth is thought to have been constructed in the early to mid-1500s however dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) has established that it was likely built after 1462-63. The building formed part of a complex burgage plot system. It was converted to tenanted shops early in its history and has been largely unaltered in external physical form ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: East is East (15) + Q&A
11th August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
1999 East is East (15) George Khan, proud Pakistani and chip shop owner — Ghengis to his kids — rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he's raising his seven children to be respectable Pakistanis. But this is Salford in 1971.Much as George's English wife, Ella, loves and tries to honor her husband, she also wants her ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Cold Mountain (15)
13th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2004 – Cold Mountain (15) Renée Zellweger won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.Jude Law was nominated for the Best Leading Actor at the Oscars.The film grossed over $173 million worldwide. Based on the 1997 book of the same name by Charles Frazier, this is a classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil ...Cottontail (12A)
15th August 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child — Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps. ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Swallows and Amazons (PG)
16th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2016 Swallows and Amazons (PG) Based on the book of the same name by Arthur Ransome. Two different groups of children encounter one another on an island they both live by. Both groups try to claim it. While this happens they encounter another boat and a stranger, they must now work together to work out who he is and why ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Phantom of the Open (12A)
16th August 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2021 Phantom of the Open (12A) The heartwarming true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a humble crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness who managed to gain entry to the qualifying round of the Open Golf Championship, despite never playing a round of golf – drawing the ire of the golfing elite, yet becoming a folk hero in the process. “Anchored by ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Last Looks (15)
16th August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2022 Last Looks (15) A rare chance to see a film which only grossed $365,000 worldwide. Once LAPD's top detective, Charlie Waldo (Charlie Hunnam) has dropped out of society. After spending three years without human contact he is asked for his help investigating a high-profile murderof an eccentric actor (Mel Gibson)’s wife. Waldo must either clearing the actor’s name or ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Peter Rabbit (PG)
17th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2018 Peter Rabbit (PG) A box office hit which grossed over $350 million worldwide. Peter Rabbit (James Corden;) his three sisters: Flopsy (Margot Robbie,) Mopsy (Elizabeth Debicki) and Cotton Tail (Daisy Ridley) and their cousin Benjamin (Colin Moody) enjoy their days harassing Mr McGregor in his vegetable garden. Until one day he dies and no one can stop them roaming ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Downhill (15)
17th August 2025 4:30pm (Doors open at 3:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
2014 Downhill (15) Another film barely seen at the time, but appreciated by the critics. A Britishcomedy, devised as a road movie on foot,about four old school friends who reunite to attempt to walk the192 mile Coast to Coast walk. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.If you’ve walked the Coast to ...
30th Anniversary Film Festival: Between the Lights (12) + Q&A
17th August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
We close the festival by a showing of the debut film by local Cumbrian film makers. The filmis a romantic drama with a liberal dose of the supernatural, in which we visit our characters over three consecutive Christmases. “[Between The Lights]… builds to a shivery and lovelorn climax reminiscent of Truly Madly Deeply and The Box of Delights”. Phil Hoad ...Cottontail (12A)
18th August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child — Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps. ...Cottontail (12A)
20th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child — Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps. ...
The Marching Band (15)
22nd August 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother's exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy ...
Monthly Market Seller Registration
23rd August 2025 9:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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
23rd August 2025 10:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Poets Out Loud
24th August 2025 4:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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 Matt Carmichael Quartet
24th August 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
‘A distinctive new voice in a crowded scene….Carmichael has the gift of uplift in his music’ ★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine ‘can make you laugh and shed a tear within the turn of a bar’ Jazzwise Magazine ‘Has his own sound and is a storyteller’ BBC FOUR ‘Joyous’ Jamie Cullum (BBC Radio 2) Matt Carmichael (sax) Ali Watson (bass), Stephen Henderson ...
The Marching Band (15)
25th August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother's exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy ...
Cooking@Kirkgate: BBQ Galore!
27th August 2025 9:30am
Kirkgate Centre
BBQ Galore! with Manon Plouffe Lets learn how to marinate/massage/twist and shout a burger/meatless hot dogs/flat breads and all that jazz for a festive outdoor party. All materials provided.
The Marching Band (15)
27th August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother's exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy ...
The Ultimate Bubble Show!
29th August 2025 10:00am (Doors open at 9:30 am)
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
THE SALT PATH is the profound true 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 ...
Crafts@Kirkgate: An introduction to needle felted landscapes
30th August 2025 10:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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
A Celebration of the Songs of Elton John and Billy Joel Performed by John Reilly & Lewis Nitikman 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 and the Band of Gold
31st August 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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. J P and his Band ...
The Salt Path (12A)
1st September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
THE SALT PATH is the profound true 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 ...
The Salt Path (12A)
3rd September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
THE SALT PATH is the profound true 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 ...
The Phoenician Scheme (15)
5th September 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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. ...
Wild Zucchinis World Food Night!
7th September 2025 7:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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…
Heritage Talk: Cockermouth in the Middle Ages – Angus Winchester
8th September 2025 6:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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
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 ...
The Sunday Session
14th September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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
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 ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)
17th September 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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@Kirgate: The Art of Laying Gold Leaf – Contemporary Gilding Workshop with Amelia
20th September 2025 11:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Cooking@Kirkgate: Jam and muffins
24th September 2025 9:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Quickbeam – Need Fire
24th October 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
Need Fire Four women singing in close harmony about human traditions of gathering, with storytelling, folk songs, clog dancing and startling original compositions. 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 ...
Monthly Market Seller Registration
25th October 2025 9:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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
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 ...
Poets Out Loud
26th October 2025 4:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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
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 ...
Cooking@Kirkgate: Cinnamon Swirls
29th October 2025 9:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
Crafts@Kirkgate: Gilded Christmas Decorations
8th November 2025 11:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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
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 ...
Cockfrock Autumn 2025
15th November 2025 10:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Cockfrock Autumn 2025
16th November 2025 10:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Crafts@Kirkgate: Christmas Wreath
6th December 2025 10:00am
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Crafts@Kirkgate: Christmas Wreath
6th December 2025 2:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
GreenMatthews’ Midwinter Revels
7th December 2025 3:30pm (Doors open at 2:30 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Cooking@Kirkgate: Fun Festive Food!
10th December 2025 9:30am
Kirkgate Centre
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.
The Sunday Session
14th December 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:45 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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 ...
Wild Zucchinis World Food Night!
14th December 2025 7:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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…Sorry, no Events match your filter criteria. Click here to reset filters