What's On
Upcoming events, gigs, festivals, and experiences across Keswick.
Arts & Culture Halloween at The Retro Zone Museum Keswick
The Retro Zone Museum
Join us for a spooktacular walk down memory lane this Halloween. See how we celebrated Halloween during the 70s & 80s whilst looking at the other everyday items on display & shouting out “ Oh wow I remember that! “.
Included in entry fee
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
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