Winter 18
Bowness Bay Blues Festival Competition
Tickets are now on sale for the seventh Bowness Bay Blues festival and early birds can snap up a weekend pass for just £55. After a sell-out show this year, the front-running Blues event will return to the Lake District from 23 – 25 March 2018. An ever bigger programme will see talent such as […]
Photographers In Focus: Paul Thomson
Photographers In Focus It’s unsurprisingly really, given that we are lucky enough to live in one of the most photogenic spots in the UK, that Cumbria would be home to some pretty talented local photographers. Here we focus on the shutterbugs behind the lens and how they capture their stunning shots. Are you an amateur […]
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Burns Night Old Fashioned Cocktail
The annual Scottish celebration, commemorating the life of poet Robert Burns, takes place on Thursday 25 January. The Burns Night supper of course centres on the national dish of haggis, not a fan? No problem, you can still take your tastebuds on a highland fling with a good old fashioned scotch cocktail. Ingredients 1 thick […]
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Theatre By The Lake Opens Booking For An Exciting 2018
With an acclaimed season already under his belt, Artistic Director Conrad Lynch opened public booking of his second year at Cumbria’s largest producing and most idyllically situated theatre today. He said “After an exhilarating 2017 we are thrilled to be producing a fantastic combination of work for our audiences this coming year with vintage comedy, […]
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Countywide Project Celebrates Women of Cumbria
100 years after women were first given the right to vote, a unique collaboration will celebrate the many inspiring, and unsung, women of Cumbria. From pioneering suffragists, to medical marvels, a number of women well worthy of celebration have come from Cumbria, yet still go unrecognised next to their male counterparts. Now in 2018, the […]
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Carlisle Music Society 2018 Line Up
Carlisle Music Society are hitting all the right notes with a stellar lineup of concerts for 2018. Formerly known as North Cumbria Recitals, Carlisle Music Society arrange six concerts a year, bringing the highest calibre of musicians to the city. As the New Year gets into full swing, the Society is set to host this […]
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Songwriters’ Circle at Florence Arts Centre
The first “songwriters’ circle” to take place at Florence Arts Centre next weekend. Saturday 13 January Egremont’s Florence Arts Centre, is kicking off another year of live music with their first ever “songwriters’ circle” on Saturday 13 January. The idea behind the monthly night comes from local singer-songwriter Dave Camlin who will be hosting the […]
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Renowned Scottish Artist will mark National Holocaust Memorial Day
A Renowned Scottish artist will mark National Holocaust Memorial Day with an exhibition in Whitehaven. A thought provoking collection of paintings titled Auschwitz: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future will go on show at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, on January 13. Artist Gordon Cockburn will also be hosting an open session from 1pm until 4pm on January 27 to mark […]
