The Tate Gallery, on a three month national tour with a unique children’s workshop, visited Brougham Hall on Sunday 15 August as part of an all-day family festival.
Brougham Hall is a beautiful 14th century manor house just outside Penrith provided the perfect backdrop for the festival, which was helped by the clear blue skies [...]
Imagine loading your car with pots and driving to Berlin or Barcelona in the hope that someone will buy them. Up to seven hours on English motorways down to a ferry at Dover. Maybe another seven hours on mainland Europe in the hope that someone likes what you make. That’s just what happens in reverse [...]
Little Salkeld Watermill is taking part in National Real Breadmaker Week from 1st-9th May; and one of seven Cumbrian Watermills celebrating National Mills Weekend on 8th & 9th May.
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Help a Herdwick with your knitting.
Nurture Lakeland needs your knitting!
Our mission: to knit a life size woolen Herdwick sheep.
The cause: raise money and awareness of the Herdy Fund – a fund dedicated to the conservation of the Herdwick sheep and rural lifestyle associated with upland fell farming in Cumbria and the Lakes.
How you can help: [...]
Free creative workshops: Iconic Eden – 7 & 8 April, between 10am-4pm in Devonshire Arcade, Penrith
Come and join artist Karen MacDougall and Penrith and Eden Museum curator Judith Clarke during Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th April for action packed creative workshops in one of the shops in the Devonshire Arcade (beside the George Hotel) as [...]
Vista Projects Chicken City exhibition at the Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries.
John Kennedy & Christian Barnes
Saturday 6 March – Saturday 17th April 2010
Open Tuesday Saturday 10am to 5pm
28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries, DG1 1JQ
01387 262084
www.dumgal/gracefield
John and Christian have worked together on selected projects since 2003.
“‘Chicken City’ is a project about the things that matter to us in [...]
We are reviewing our knowledge database of artists in Eden and want to make sure that we’ve ‘got you all’ in our system. To that end we’d like you to make sure that we have got your details. If you are in our system you will have been receiving our enews updates, if [...]
You are invited to
Arcade in collaboration with Eden Arts
an Exhibition #Town2Town
5th – 20th March 2010
A dual sited exhibition of arts in empty shops in both Carlisle & Penrith
Launching Fri 5th March at 8pm Lowther Arcade Carlisle
with Arts throughout, live music & Mini Food Fest from The Circle Cafe Bar.
Launching Sat 6th March at 12 [...]
The Highlights Rural Touring Scheme is celebrating its sixth contemporary craft tour during the early summer of 2010, entitled Thrift & Thread: Contemporary Heirlooms.
Showcasing the work of textile artist Mandy Pattullo, Thrift & Thread will be on display from Friday 30 April to Monday 3 May at Dufton Village Hall (Dufton near Appleby, [...]