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Tree Identification in the Lake District
A fascinating two day course suitable for all levels of ability, with leading UK tree scientist and tutor, Matt Parrott offering tips and techniques f...
Read MoreAnnual Moth night in our wildlife garden
An event in partnership with Butterfly Conservation. Moth enthusiasts will be running light traps on Friday evening in our gardens at Plumgarths. (Bri...
Read MoreObsession - Nt Live Screening Encore
Jude Law (The Young Pope, Closer, The Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, broadcast live from the Barbican Theatre in Lond...
Read MoreManna House Garden Party
Join Manna House for a charming afternoon of sunny delights: craft stalls, plant stalls, original art, live music, tug of war, slow bicycle racing, fa...
Read MoreWestmorland Youth Orchestra
Holst Mars the Bringer of War and Venus the Bringer of Peace (from The Planets) Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf Borowski Adoration Vivaldi ...
Read MoreWYO Summer Concert
The Westmorland Youth Orchestra present a programme including music from Peter and the Wolf in the stunning setting of Kendal Parish Church....
Read MoreWestmorland Youth Orchestra Summer Concert
We have an exciting and varied programme to include classics like Holst's Mars and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, solo items featuring bassoon in a V...
Read MoreOpen Canoe Coaching Workshops
Open Canoe Coaching Workshops for beginners who want to develop their paddling skills, especially those who have recently purchased their own canoes; ...
Read MoreWestmorland Horticultural Society
Sunday 2nd July, 2017. The Westmorland Horticultural Society. 25th Summer Flower Show. The Parish Hall, Kirkland, Kendal. On view will be Sweet Peas, ...
Read MorePresentation on a proposed Lake District Currency
Ken Royall will present the proposed Lakes Currency Project, a regional currency for the area to encourage a more resilient local economy. South Lake...
Read MoreMendelssohn: Elijah
Cumbria Festival Chorus sing Mendelssohn's descriptive oratorio Elijah. With orchestra led by Pam Redman, and soloists Emily Robinson, Gill Smith, Jim...
Read MoreJacci Bulman poetry reading
Why not come along and join us at a poetry event on Tuesday 11 July (3pm 4.15 ish). Cumbrian poet Jacci Bulman will be reading from her first coll...
Read MoreSalome Nt Live Screening (Encore)
The story has been told before, but never like this. ...
Read MorePainting Pop Exhibition
This must-see summer exhibition celebrates British Pop Art from the early 1960s, including work by Sir Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, R...
Read MoreThe Houghton Weavers
K Shoes Male Voice Choir present The Houghton Weavers, Keep folk smiling concert! A fantastic evening of song and good humour, Dont miss it!...
Read MoreBGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)
This is an open meeting - all are welcome. The meeting is led by Sangha [Community of Theravada Buddhist Monks] Authorized Teachers. Theravada is the ...
Read MoreKing's Men Summer Concert
The world famous King's Men make a surprise return visit to Kendal. Music ranges from Tallis and Byrd, through folk song and spirituals to arrangement...
Read MoreNorthern Craft - Beer Festival
A unique collection and celebration of craft brewing in Britain. Featuring over 80 cask & keg beers from independent breweries....
Read MoreAngels In America Part 1 - Millenium Approaches (15) - Nt Live Screening
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and ...
Read MoreCatrin Finch & Seckou Keita
Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita join forces in a stunning exhibition of world-class musicianship, celebrating the remarkable affi...
Read MoreAngels In America Part 2 - Perestroika (15) - Nt Live Screening
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and ...
Read MoreSummer Party with The Seals
A great night out with arrival drink, two course buffet and liver entertainment & disco from The Seals....
Read MoreVilliers Quartet 1
With Benjamin Appl, baritone Haydn String Quartet in D minor Fifths, Op.76 No.2 Delius String Quartet No.2 in E minor Late swallows Barber Dov...
Read MoreBenjamin Appl & Simon Lepper
Schubert Winterreise, D911 Since Benjamin Appls remarkable LDSM début in 2015 singing the first of Schuberts great song cycles on Müllers poem...
Read MoreWine, Women and Song!
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017 Singers from the National Opera Studio perform an unmissable evening of solos, duets, trios and...
Read MoreDr Dee's Daughter and the Philosopher's Stone
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017. The Palisander Recorder Quartet join with puppeteers Rust and Stardust to perform a captivati...
Read MoreChilingirian Quartet 1
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017. The popular Chilingirian Quartet will play : Haydn - String Quartet in G major Beethoven - St...
Read MoreIn an English Country Garden : Herdwyck Consort
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017. This late night concert of unaccompanied sacred and secular choral pieces marks the 450th ann...
Read MoreGould Piano Trio 2
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017. Haydn - Piano Trio in A major Rowland-Jones - Piano Trio no 2 'Eidfjord' Rachmaninov - Piano ...
Read MoreBerkeley Ensemble 1
Lake District Summer Music International Festival 2017. Young - Sing each song twice Ibert - Souvenir for string quartet & double bass M Berkeley...
Read MoreBGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)
This is an open meeting - all are welcome. The meeting is led by Sangha [Community of Theravada Buddhist Monks] Authorized Teachers. Theravada is the ...
Read MoreKendal United junior football club tournament
10 age groups, u7s to u16s junior tournament. 7 a side. £35 per team. Parking, tombola, side stalls, raffle, all day refreshments and an ice cream v...
Read MoreKendal United Junior Football Tournament
Under 7s, 8, 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s and 14s age groups football tournament. £35 per team. Parking, all day refreshments. Everybody welcome. Spectato...
Read MoreYerma - Nt Live Screening
The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her award-winning role. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her despe...
Read MoreYerma - Nt Live Screening
The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her award-winning role. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her despe...
Read MoreMonday evenings of Growing Singing
Fancy a sing? Join a regular Monday group to learn some glorious songs in harmony. No auditions, no performance, just a lovely informal atmosphere for...
Read MoreCircle Dancing
This is a weekly class for the teaching of Circle Dance. The dances have proscribed steps that are clearly taught, that have come from international f...
Read MoreDawn Chorus of Growing Singing
Fancy a sing? No auditions, no performance, just a lovely informal drop-in singing session run by Clare Elleray Mee. All songs are taught without musi...
Read MoreThe Brewery Wine Club - Session 5
Welcome to our wine club, exploring some classic and some of the less well known wines from around the world in the convivial atmosphere of our Wareho...
Read MoreTitus Andronicus
RSC Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and severed body parts fill ...
Read MoreCurtis Ellers American Circus 2017
Eller is a gifted and prolific songwriter whose banjo driven songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have colla...
Read MoreK Shoes Male Voice Choir concert with Rinteln Male Voice Choir
K Shoes Male Voice Choir is proud to join Rinteln Male Voice Choir for a twining concert. This promises to be a fun filled evening for all the fam...
Read MoreMobile - The Paper Birds
We are taught from a young age to aim high, to reach for the stars, to want more, more than our parents, more than the generations before us, to climb...
Read MoreFlutes & co Open rehearsal
Flutes & co, our local flute orchestra of 30 flute players aged 12-70+ is inviting potential new members Grade 4 + to an Open Rehearsal. A chance ...
Read MoreBGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)
This is an open meeting - all are welcome. The meeting is led by Sangha [Community of Theravada Buddhist Monks] Authorized Teachers. Theravada is the ...
Read MoreDavid Gilmour Live At Pompeii
Both concerts also saw very special performances of 'The Great Gig In The Sky' from 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', which David rarely plays as a solo ar...
Read MoreThea Gilmore
That Thea Gilmores latest album is as ethereal as it is thought-provoking, as bewitching as it is bold, will come as no surprise to her army of admi...
Read MoreWestmorland County Show
Awarded Cumbria Tourism Event of the Year for 2015, Westmorland County Show is one of the UKs favourite Shows and Cumbrias largest livestock Show....
Read MoreKendal Torchlight Carnival
Now in its 47th year Kendal Torchlight Carnival is premium event in the local calendar. The Friday evening procession showcases local businesses, danc...
Read MoreSon Yambu
Son Yambu play authentic Cuban son, the intoxicating fusion of Spanish and African rhythms that gave rise to salsa. The band features a new generatio...
Read More'Washington Wild Flowers' by Alan Oatway
This Hardy Plant Society talk is free for member. We also welcome visitors and charge just £3.00....
Read MoreSkerryvore Plus Support
Skerryvore entered 2017 having, once again, been recognised as the Live Act of the Year 2016 at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards, an award th...
Read MoreIn Our Hands
Alf is a trawler fisherman whose experience, camaraderie and loyalty have put him and his boat at the top of the game. But times are changing and so i...
Read MoreMostly Musicals with Chepstow Male Voice Choir and K Shoes Male Voice Choir
A very enjoyable and entertaining joint concert brought to you by Chepstow Male Voice Choir and K Shoes Male Voice Choir. (Details updated as of 10/06...
Read MoreThe Brewery Wine Club - Session 6
Welcome to our wine club, exploring some classic and some of the less well known wines from around the world in the convivial atmosphere of our Wareho...
Read MoreDoug Scott: Crawling Down The Ogre
Doug Scotts mountaineering highpoint was the first ascent of Everest by its enormous South West Face Everest: The Hard Way but his greatest ad...
Read MoreRoyal Northern Sinfonia
We welcome the Royal Northern Sinfonia back to Kendal with a programme which takes us 'from Bach to Bruch'. They will perform the extraordinary Brand...
Read MoreDavid Starkey: Henry VII: The First Brexiteer
Henry VIII is the only king whose shape you remember. He bestrides our history like a colossus and the decisions he took still reverberate today....
Read MoreLeveret
Leveret features three of England's finest folk musicians in an exciting new collaboration. ...
Read MoreLakes International Comic Art Festival
The Festival features international comic artists and creators, as well as live drawing, film, exhibitions, comic trails, workshops, performance, mast...
Read More'Unnatural Gardening' by Peter Williams
This Hardy Plant Society talk is free for member. We also welcome visitors and charge just £3.00....
Read MoreLemn Sissay: Something Dark
A rare chance to see a dramatic reading of the acclaimed one-man play by celebrated performance poet, Lemn Sissay....
Read MoreDracula: The Bloody Truth
Le Navet Bete, in association with Exeter Northcott Theatre presents 'Dracula: The Bloody Truth'...
Read MoreSheelanagig
Sheelanagig have become something of a West Country institution for the past decade....
Read MoreKendal Concert Band - Autumn Concert
Kendal Concert Band returns to Kendal Town Hall with its programme from Elgar to Queen with plenty in-between....
Read MoreBGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)
This is an open meeting - all are welcome. The meeting is led by Sangha [Community of Theravada Buddhist Monks] Authorized Teachers. Theravada is the ...
Read MoreMatthew E. White Solo
Matthew E. White is in the middle of work on his new album and would like to share and try out some of his works in progress and older classics....
Read MoreJohn Power
Former bassist with The La's and singer/guitarist with 90's hit makers Cast, Power has also carved out a career of his own, releasing three solo album...
Read MoreThe Blues Band
The individual members of The Blues Band were already held in admiration by generations of rhythm & blues fans when they formed back in 1979. Almo...
Read MoreThe Furrow Collective
Described by MOJO as 'a mouthwatering collaboration', Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton are four fine soloists sharing a...
Read MoreDawn Chorus of Growing Singing
Fancy a sing? No auditions, no performance, just a lovely informal drop-in singing session run by Clare Elleray Mee. All songs are taught without musi...
Read MoreThe Brewery Wine Club - Session 7
Welcome to our wine club, exploring some classic and some of the less well known wines from around the world in the convivial atmosphere of our Wareho...
Read MoreEddi Reader
Eddi Reader was brought into the limelight with Fairground Attraction and their single Perfect and parent album First of a Million Kisses which bo...
Read MoreEmily Barker plus support
Emily Barker is the award-winning writer and performer of the theme to BBC TV crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh....
Read MoreDodgy Acoustic
Dodgy started life 27 years ago. In that time they released 6 albums, countless singles, toured the World, criss-crossed the UK, as well as managing t...
Read MoreRoyal Northern Sinfonia
This award winning chamber orchestra returns to complete the cycle of Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos interspersed with two contrasting pieces by Gor...
Read MoreBGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)
This is an open meeting - all are welcome. The meeting is led by Sangha [Community of Theravada Buddhist Monks] Authorized Teachers. Theravada is the ...
Read MoreKendal Mountain Festival
Kendal Mountain Festival is an award-winning and the most diverse event of its type in the world. Our vision is to inspire more people to explore, enj...
Read MoreChristmas Lights Switch On Event
The Switch on of the lights takes place at 4.45pm on the Lakeland Radio stage situated near the library. Festive food in the Market Place. Reindeers a...
Read More'Woodland Garden Plants' by Neil Huntley
This Hardy Plant Society talk is free for member. We also welcome visitors and charge just £3.00....
Read MoreLau
Lau is the pioneering contemporary folk trio comprising three of the UK's finest traditional musicians. ...
Read MoreThe Joy Singers Of Venice
All the way from the romantic canals of Venice to the stunning Lake District we bring you the Joy Singers Choir....
Read MoreThe Brewery Wine Club - Session 8
Welcome to our wine club, exploring some classic and some of the less well known wines from around the world in the convivial atmosphere of our Wareho...
Read MoreDuke Special Plus Support
On this very special tour, Duke Special will be performing songs and music based on the poetry of influential and renowned Belfast writer. Miichael Lo...
Read MoreK Shoes Male Voice Choir Christmas Extravaganza
K Shoes Male Voice Choir welcomes you to their Christmas extravaganza. An unmissable evening full of fun and Christmas cheer. ...
Read MoreLakeland SINFONIA Wyn Davies conductor and Ben Goldscheider French Horn
Lakeland's own Sinfonia presents this varied, delightful, popular programme. The hugely talented BBC Young Musician 2016 finalist Ben Goldscheider is...
Read MoreMayor's Christmas Coffee Morning
Mayor of Kendal's Charity Christmas Coffee Morning Cake and craft stalls Raffle The Tokari School of Theatre Arts Kendal Concert Band...
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