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 [...]
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, [...]
a very special concert at Maryport’s Wave Centre on 31 January. The week before, Brampton Live are confining eight of the nation’s finest singer songwriters and performance poets to a remote farmhouse on Hadrian’s Wall. With their every need attended to, free from all distractions apart from each other, they’ll be invited to [...]
Before Christmas, Today guest editor Robert Wyatt asked people who sang in amateur choirs around the UK to send the sound of their song to the Today programme.
They have been inundated in music – from requiems to carols and folk songs. From Mousehole to Aberdeen you can hear the sound of Great Britain’s choirs by [...]
Two of the country’s leading names in the arts will be appearing in Cumbria next month in a special benefit concert to help the victims of the Cumbria floods and recognise the effort made by some of the rescue organisations who helped out at the height of the floods.
Singer Lesley Garrett and actor Brian [...]
A national award from the National Centre for Early Music working in partnership with BBC Radio 3 and The Tallis Scholars – see pdf here NCEM Composers Postcard 2010
This is a national competition open to young composers aged under 25 across the UK, who are invited to compose a new a cappella work for [...]
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 [...]
BBC Blast is the BBC’s youth creativity service offering free creative learning opportunities for 13 – 19 year olds across the UK. For full details about the project visit the website : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/
BBC Blast is currently running an art & design competition until Monday 8 February 2010, challenging young people to design an album [...]
BLUEJAM BENEFIT GIG!! Eden Rural Foyer Cafe space. Saturday 19th December from 7pm. £5 (children free) Proceeds to Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund
For this special event former BlueJam musicians get together with guest players from Cumbria, Leeds and London. Hear the popular Festival, CafeJazz, BlueAcoustic and BigJam bands, join in a folk session with the folk [...]
A Cockermouth band has recorded a charity single that is due to be released internationally in aid of the Cumbria Flood Appeal.
The band, ESP, with the support of Kirkgate Arts Centre in the town, recorded a moving version of Over the Rainbow this weekend to help individuals and businesses affected by the recent flooding [...]