Are you looking forward to Halloween? As it falls on a weekend this year, and the weather is predicted to be ‘exceptionally mild’ it’s a great opportunity to take part in your local celebrations. If you fancy doing something more than the usual trick-or-treating, how about making lanterns or stilts – or even learning [...]
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Penrith Library has an exciting family event during half term week, on Wednesday 28 October. It’s a puppet show of Terry Jones Fairy Tales by DNA Puppetry and Visual Theatre - in an exciting mix of puppets, storytelling, percussion with DNA’s trademark blend of live performance and audience participation.
Find out why Thurtinkle loves his beautiful [...]
There can be no better place to be on an autumn afternoon than out and about in the high Pennines, and Alston Moor is definitely the place to be on Saturday 24th October, when storyteller Dominic Kelly will be leading a storywalk along the River Nent.
Enter the imaginative world of storyteller Dominic Kelly while exploring [...]
Well-known classical flautist Ben MacDougall is one of the new young stars in the classical music firmament, and now seems to be developing a new career as a broadcaster alongside his musical activities – as presenter of SIMPLY CLASSICS on BBC Radio Cumbria. The series will run on Sunday evenings 6-7pm and starts Sunday 4 October.
Ben, [...]
TONIGHT IN PENRITH!
Eden Arts is once again promoting the première of a Quondam theatre company production at Penrith Leisure Centre: Unruly Women part II, on Friday 9 October.
This is the second play in the ‘Unruly Women’ series. The first, very successful, production was based on the true story of women transported to Australia in the [...]
Youth Dance England is inviting young dance groups to apply to take part in its flagship performance event next year.
As part of its national dance participation scheme U.Dance, YDE is to present a three-night event called U.Dance England 2010, which will showcase the work of dance groups from around the country.
Groups of up to 20 [...]
The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary is an annual bursary offered to support a disabled artist working with the visual arts. The bursary is open to mid-career disabled and deaf artists who work in any field of the visual arts, for example: photography, painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, film, video, digital, performance or live art, based in [...]
The Upfront Puppet Theatre swings back into action for the summer holidays. This year it’s Stanelli’s Super Circus, a highly entertaining circus marionette show using the rtick circus puppets from Upfront’s heritage collection of Stan Parker Marionettes – just back from an international puppet festival in Poland. The show runs weekly on Wednesdays and Sundays [...]
Cumbrian writer David Gaffney will be appearing in his first ever show at the Edinburgh Fringe 19 – 31 August, with the best PowerPoint presentation you’re likely to see this year: Destroy Powerpoint. Office life will never be the same again.