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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 ...
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 with Aaron Bazler
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 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
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
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 ...
An Evening with Ben Jordan @ The Kirkgate
4th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 ...
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 ...
Comedy@Kirkgate with John Lebbon
13th September 2025 8:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkgate Centre
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
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 ...
Drama Taster Session for Adults with Emma Rydal
16th September 2025 7:30pm
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
Tickets for this event can be purchased fromBeggars 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 ...
Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector @ The Gather, Ennerdale
19th September 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
The Gather, Ennerdale
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
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
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
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!
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 ...
Craig Gould & The Noble Thieves @ Maryport Library
17th October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Maryport Library
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Around The World In Four Seasons @ Loweswater Village Hall
25th October 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Loweswater Village Hall
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
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
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 ...
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
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
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
Whisky Tasting
1st November 2025 7:00pm
Kirkgate Centre
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
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
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 ...
Soaked @ Kirkstile Community Centre, Dean
14th November 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Kirkstile Community Centre
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
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
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
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, ...
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 ...
Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Muncaster Parish Hall, Ravenglass
5th December 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Muncaster Parish Hall, Ravenglass
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Donnelly & South’s Christmas Cracker @ Maryport Settlement
7th December 2025 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
The Settlement Maryport
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
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
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
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