Family Half Term in Kendal & the Lake District — Your Guide to May 2025

Half term is the perfect excuse to explore somewhere brilliant! And Kendal and the surrounding Lake District deliver in spades. Whether you’re after fresh air, a bit of history, creative sessions or free family fun, there’s something on every day this week. Here’s your guide to making the most of it. What’s On This Week […]

Abbot Hall opens exhibition featuring emerging portrait artists Lela Harris and Joshua Donkor

Abbot Hall art gallery in Kendal announces Familial Traces, a compelling new exhibition bringing together the work of two rising voices in contemporary portraiture, Joshua Donkor and Lela Harris. The exhibition opened on 11 April and is now on view. Familial Traces is an exploration of identity, heritage, and the stories that shape who we are. Through painting, both artists invite […]

A Wednesday worth saving: the Quaker Tapestry Museum is back

If you walked past the Quaker Tapestry Museum on Stramongate last winter and noticed it was closed, here’s some genuinely good news: it’s reopening, and it’s free. The museum shut its doors in December after rising running costs outpaced what it was bringing in from visitors and other sources. It was a real blow for […]