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This autumn, Abbot Hall presents Boat Works, a solo exhibition by Turner Prize-winner Simon Starling. Bringing together his major boat-themed projects, the show explores the vessel as a symbol of migration, transformation, and change. Highlights include Island for Weeds, Houseboat for Ho, and a new collaboration with Lakeland Arts’ conservation team, with plans and sketches […] 
Explore our Collection Galleries for less while we prepare for our upcoming exhibitions. From Wednesday 18 March – Friday 10 April, we’re offering reduced entry to Abbot Hall as the Curatorial team completes the exhibition changeover. While our first floor galleries undergo an exciting transformation, visitors are invited to explore a selection of our much-loved […] Celebrate spring at Abbot Hall with creative, family-friendly activities running throughout the Easter holidays. From hands-on crafts to gallery adventures, there’s plenty to keep curious minds busy. Make a Paper Daffodil Celebrate the arrival of spring by creating your own paper daffodil. Materials and simple step-by-step instructions will be available in the Creative space, so […]
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Join us in the Learning Centre this Easter Holidays for free, hands-on activities designed to spark curiosity and creativity through play. Egg Painting Drop into the Learning Centre to decorate your own egg, inspired by the colours and wildlife of Windermere. Available Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the Cumbrian Easter School Holidays between 11am–3:45pm. Interactive […] Looking for something creative to do with the family this Easter? Join us at Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts house for hands on Easter activities inspired by spring, pattern, colour and the beautiful details on display throughout the house. Paper Flower Crowns Step into the Guild Room and create your own spring flower crown […] |
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Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […] |
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Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival After a sell out run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel is dishing up another frying pan full of family-friendly comedy. The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even funnier! Join Olaf Falafel […]
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Bart Schrijver’s acclaimed drama follows former best friends and roommates Chris (Bart Harder) and Lluis (Carles Pulido), who meet up after a decade to hike Scotland’s West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. Having taken the same 350-mile walk in their youth, the pair hope to rekindle their once-strong friendship by spending 30 days together […]
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7 events,
Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […]
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Few musicians can claim to have made such a mark on the British music scene in the last thirty years as Laetitia Sadier. As a member of Stereolab, she’s released ten full albums, gaining along the way a large dedicated fanbase and acclaim that rightfully singles out Stereolab as “one of the most influential alternative […]
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Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […]
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North Fire Soul brings a night for creatives to The Venue. Expect DJs, art, poetry, food and more… Pay what you can afford tickets are available for this event. |
8 events,Kendal Sound & Soul Music Festival at The Venue Expect uplifting music and fabulous company. Featuring a dynamic mix of local musicians: with emerging and up and coming talent, and prominent and seasoned performers. With over 30 artists performing in The Barrel House & The Venue across the weekend – there truly is a sound […]
Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […]
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In 2022, Danny Kyle award-winning global folk band Mishra began a new cross-cultural collaboration with international fusion vocalist Deepa Shakthi. The resulting album ‘Turn O Spinning Wheel’, released in October 2025, is brimming with multilingually reimagined folk songs, new compositions, and swirling Celtic melodies underpinned by hypnotic qawwali grooves. Mishra, who has extensively toured the […] |
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Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […] |
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Join us monthly on Wednesday Mornings from 10am-12.30pm for our 16+ Carnival Club Once a month, we’ll take over the Scrapstore café, classroom and wood workshop for an evening of joyful, hands-on creativity. Whether you’re a seasoned maker or just curious, this is your chance to help build the visual heart of the Ragtag Parade […] 
Join us monthly on Wednesday Evenings from 6:30pm -9pm for our 16+ Carnival Club Once a month, we’ll take over the Scrapstore café, classroom and wood workshop for an evening of joyful, hands-on creativity. Whether you’re a seasoned maker or just curious, this is your chance to help build the visual heart of the Ragtag […] |
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Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […]
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From the new Story Time series of family musicals by the creators of There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. For Jack and his little sister Molly, an egg is much more than a simple shell – it’s a tiny world full of secrets. A miracle waiting to happen. Together, they embark on […]
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As women it can be challenging to find time for ourselves. This space is to gather women to enable them to find their voice. Sharing their thoughts, wants, needs and dreams with the aim of creating a space to gather in, to be still and to listen or be heard – whichever way, belonging. The […]
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7 events,
Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […]
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The ABBA REUNION tribute Show is the creation of an Award Winning West End Director, Producer and Choreographer Starring the original ‘Frida’ from the London West End cast! ABBA REUNION gives Abba fans, old and new, the opportunity to once again get together and re-live the addictive Abba phenomena that swept the airwaves and discos […]
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Join us for a powerful multi-media exhibition exploring stories of fragility and survival, told through the voices of people in Barrow and Kendal. Step into an unseen world through immersive sound and film, artwork, poetry, and images created by and with people affected by homelessness, substance recovery and other severe challenges in South Cumbria. This […] 
The Paper Quilt Project is a living exhibition in which a community art piece is created while on display in the gallery. This project has been designed in response to the two adjoining exhibitions; Bellwethers and Joshua Donkor & Lela Harris. Both exhibitions discuss experiences of marginalized identity through distinct creative practices and mediums. The […] 
This exhibition brings together two emerging portrait painters. Lela Harris gives depth and humanity to figures who have been overlooked or marginalised by history, while Joshua Donkor collaboratively embeds the personal histories and cultural narratives of his sitters into his multi-layered portraits.
Drop into RagTag in the Easter holidays for some self-led crafty workshops in our cozy café and exciting Play Space! Get crafty in our scrap station with Mask Making, Frames, and Junk Modelling. Step into our Play Space and build dens, design epic ball runs, and hands-on activities. And for something extra special, paint one […] |
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5 events,Every third Thursday of the month, Future Fixers will be offering free business advice. They offer business health checks, coaching training & wellbeing, guidance on charity, community and social enterprises, Finance & Accounts, Graphic Design, Marketing and Environment & Carbon Management. Take a positive step for you life & business, show up and have a […]
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Jane Weaver’s illustrious career has produced an expansive library of music that has seen her journey through solo folkloric and pop leaning beginnings through to the psychedelic synth-pop explorations of today. Celebrating her pioneering vision, Fire Records will be deep diving into her early catalogue with a new reissue series set for release in 2026. […] |
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LYR are UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson, and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Richard Walters. After sell-out shows in previous years, a breathtaking performance at the 2025 BBC Proms, and following two highly acclaimed albums, the trio are undertaking their most extensive tour to date. Soaring vocals, ethereal soundscapes and extraordinary lyrics have […]
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Presented by Kendal BID This annual celebration returns on 18th April 2026. A lively celebration of folk, jazz and blues music, featuring live performances from local and national artists across town.
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How many bands have the career longevity to release ten albums? They might have been perilously close to falling apart on various occasions in their history, but the Dub Pistols have rolled with the punches and their 10th album is released in 2025. It’s been a long road travelled, full of twists and turns, but […]
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4 events,BGKT founded 1991. All welcome. Free. https://www.buddhistgroupofkendal.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Buddhist-Group-of-Kendal-Theravada/348652228579651 Monthly 3rd Sunday Open Meeting (except December) https://www.buddhistgroupofkendal.co.uk/bgkt-open-meeting/ BGKT holds an open meeting on the 3rd Sunday of the month (except November and December), from 2.00 – 4.30pm. All welcome. Free. Castle Street Community Centre, Castle Street, Kendal, LA9 7AD. Detached Room - entrance on the side […] |
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Bernard Butler, Norman Blake and James Grant are three established and respected musicians. Norman, a centrifugal force in Teenage Fanclub, Bernard, renowned for his production and songwriting with myriad artists, and James, best known as the songsmith of Love And Money. At the suggestion of FRETS host Douglas MacIntyre, Butler, Blake & Grant put together […]
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Now seen by over 350,000 fans live and watched by millions on TV, Europe’s No.1 multi-award-winning show “The Legends of American Country” returns for another fantastic night of toe-tapping country nostalgia! The show will showcase highly acclaimed tributes to Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Don Williams, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette and Kenny Rogers and […] |
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LOVE with Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee’s longest-serving band head to Brewery Arts, performing the classic songs from Love’s first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course the timeless Forever Changes. 2026 also marks the 60th anniversary of their debut album and the release of its follow-up, Da Capo. This year, Rhino […]
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John Jones is best known as the powerful and charismatic singer with Oysterband, veterans of the folk and roots scene since the 1980s. They started as The Whitstable Oyster Company Ceilidh Band, one of the best ceilidh bands in the business, which then evolved into the folk/punk/rock group Oysterband, releasing over 20 albums and playing […] |
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4 events,Hosted on the last Monday of every month, the group aims to bring together adventure and nature writers, potential writers, and publishers in a supportive and collaborative group. This session will include author of Swimming Wild in the Lake District, Suzanna Cruickshank. and the usual safe space peer support, for group members to share their […] |
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Even on a cloudy Cumbrian day, you can generate electricity with solar panels - join this FREE event to discover more! Find out if solar would suit your home with advice and real stories from local householders and installers. Unpack concepts like self-consumption and smart tariffs, and take the opportunity to get your questions answered. […] |
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The combined vocal and multi-instrumental talents of Rowan Rheingans, Hazel Askew and Hannah James make up the uniquely captivating band Lady Maisery who have for well over a decade enraptured audiences throughout the UK and Europe. Individually three multi award-winning artists, Lady Maisery form a unified voice, carrying stories of sisterhood, human struggle, the joy […] |
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Cumberland Medieval Festival Greystoke Castle, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 0TG £12 Adults, £8 Children, £30 Family (2 adults and 2 children) www.greystokecastle.co.uk/whats-on Step Back Into The 12th Century at Greystoke Castle! TWO DAY EVENT. BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND! 3 - 4 May 2026 10am to 5pm each day The grounds of Greystoke Castle will come alive […] |