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 [...]
Are you aged 10+? Do you already breakdance or want to know how?
There is much emerging breakdance talent in Cumbria but with no breakdance crews or teachers in Cumbria, the county council wanted to create more opportunities for these boys and were thrilled to have been successful in obtaining a Youth Opportunities Fund grant completed [...]
You are warmly invited to enter the Fear and Fashion Awards 2010 for outstanding examples of projects that have proved successful in helping young people to stop carrying and using knives – for fear of attack or as a badge of belonging to a group or gang. This can include:
* Awareness-raising in schools and communities
* Building [...]
Don’t miss the chance to see a new exhibition of digital art and media work on display at The Forum over the next few weeks. Work created by local emerging talent during Signal Films workshops in 2009-10 will be open to the public in The Forum’s exhibition area from 21st May through until the end [...]
We’ve received the following call out from the organisers of Kendal Calling, looking for local arts and culture:
CALLING ALL CREATIVES!
Kendal Calling would like to invite any one who is involved in arts within Eden to come and be a part of the event this summer. The festival has been grown form very humble beginnings and [...]
28 January 2010
The first UK Young Artists event will take place in the Autumn of 2010. Artists who are selected to take part in this event could also be selected to represent the UK at the XV edition of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
Work should be new and can be [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The best young crime writers in Cumbria are being sought out in a national competition launched by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA).
Organised by the CWA, which represents the interests of published crime writers, and library authorities nationwide the competition will appeal to writers aged up to 18 (born on or after September 1, 1991).
Stories should [...]
Rheged have a full week of funky fun this half term from 15-19 February.
“We have a great week of family activities planned at Rheged this February half term from Kite Flying for a Blustery Day to Suitcase Stories, an imaginative story telling show. After the great success of the Mad Science shows last year [...]