This spring Theatre by the Lake has over 6000 free theatre tickets to give away to young people aged under 26 – all you have to do is fill in a form – that’s it, no catch, just free tickets. Under the Arts Council’s A Night Less Ordinary Scheme the Keswick theatre has programmed 17 [...]

Comic material provided by local Cumbrian writers and performed by actors from the current Spring season. Short stories, poems and comedy combine to create a 30 minute interlude to your day. In association with edenarts After the success of last year’s readings at Theatre by the Lake, submissions are being sought for more. If you are a [...]

Hundreds of people from across the country and overseas will have the chance to take part in one of the most spectacular events planned in Britain during 2010. We are looking for 500 people to help create a line of light from one side of Britain to the other, along the length of Hadrian’s Wall, [...]

Very short notice and just over the border of Eden, but a fantastic oportunity to showcase local talent… Each year the Keswick Festival celebrates local film making by showing a selection of short films with a Cumbrian connection. In 2009 the Cumbrian Short Film Awards were established to recognise and reward the talented film makers from, [...]

Arcade …in collaboration with Eden Arts arcade is an artist-led initiative which aims to encourage the bringing together of artists and creative practitioners working in broad ranging art forms, and to organise openly accessible events in public ‘non-gallery’ spaces. Projects to date have been organised specific to a Victorian built walkway Lowther Arcade in Carlisle city centre, [...]

Music and memories, thrift and thread for the Highlights Spring season The new Spring season brochure is out from the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme for Cumbria and Durham. It includes details of fifteen exciting shows covering the whole range of performing arts and also has information about this year’s Contemporary Craft Tour, Thrift & Thread. Performances for [...]

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We are currently accepting proposals for the shop in Devonshire Arcade in Penrith as to the potential for art projects to use the shop windows when units are empty. Obviously from the owners point of view and from the perspective of the shops that are open empty units are not particularly attractive or interesting or [...]

Our good friends at ECO in Appleby sent us this video of images – Appleby Fire and Light Show 2009 – of the recent fire and light show that came at the end of a week of workshops at Centre 67. We are happy to say that we were able to offer some financial [...]