What's On in Bassenthwaite
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Food & Drink North Africa, Middle and Far East Wine Tasting
Bassenthwaite Lake Station
This is probably our most interesting topic to date with unusual wines from north Africa, the middle east and even one award-winner from China! We will be tasting some new and some classic wines some of which are considered among the best in the world. Join our informal tasting crowd of regulars - nothing too highbrow but always fun and interesting. And it's timed to finish in time for the X5 bus back to Cockermouth or Keswick too! Or if you prefer to stay over, the Pheasant Inn will have announced its winter bargain rates or park on the verge outside in your campervan and pop in for a brew or breakfast in the morning. Anything goes and everyone welcome. And don't worry, there is absolutely NO selling whatsoever so you say and think whatever you like! No food served at this event so please eat beforehand.
£28
Arts & Culture Lost Cumbria on Film
Higham Hall College
Step back in time with us as we discover rarely seen archive film from Cumbria. Much of the materials dates back over 100 years. Former BBC an ITV Producer Andrew Leitch will guide is through this unique time travelling adventure.
£35 or £65 for 2 includes refreshments and lunch
Arts & Culture Sunday Lecture: Red, the Colour of the Solway Coast
Higham Hall College
Red sandstone has played an important part in the lives of people both sides of the Solway. Names carved on cliffs, attempts to reproduce fossil footprints in pastry, navvies constructing the viaduct embankment, ship’s ballast and the building of Holme Cultram Abbey … Ann Lingard, author of The Fresh and the Salt, the story of the Solway, will tell stories about this colourful and local stone.
£10
Food & Drink Christmas Flavours Wine Tasting
Bassenthwaite Lake Station
One of two annual Christmas tastings to get us all into the spirit of the season. Our Head Chef has created five small seasonal bites and we will enjoys these with some excellent wines and great craic! Always great fun and always a sell-out so please book early!
£45
Food & Drink December Festive Flavours Wine Tasting
Bassenthwaite Lake Station
The second of two annual Christmas tastings to get us all into the spirit of the season. Our Head Chef has created five small seasonal bites and we will enjoys these with some excellent wines and great craic! Always great fun and always a sell-out so please book early! Guests are invited to eat prior to arrival as this is not a full meal.
£45
Arts & Culture Sunday Lecture: Chapbooks, Smit Books and Manx Printing
Higham Hall College
The book in Cumbria: chapbooks, smit books and Manx printing - stories from a unique Cumbrian culture.
£10
Arts & Culture Sunday Lecture: A History of Fellwalking in the English Lake District in Seven and a Half Guidebooks
Higham Hall College
Many people today regard Alfred Wainwright as the patron saint of fellwalking. This is due to the high regard in which his seven-volume Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966, and the landscape he loved are held. Wainwright’s Pictorial Guides are part of a long history of English Lake District guidebooks and of exploration of the uplands of the region on foot for pleasure. This talk highlights the relationship between guidebooks and the development of fellwalking as a leisure practice in the century before Wainwright. It challenges the idea that fellwalking began with Wainwright but also argues that his significance is due in large part to how he reconciled many, although not all, of the themes and tensions which arose in preceding works.
£10