What's On

We are a world-class cultural hub in the North West and regularly host some of the best touring artists and productions in the UK

Highlights

MINT Chinese Film Festival

MINT Chinese Film Festival

Fri 6 - Sun 8 Mar 2026

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To purchase a Festival pass click HERE MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) “薄荷紫华语电影节” is an award-winning film festival and leading curatorial organisation founded by Chinese...

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Languages

Languages

New Season of Language Classes

French To book, please get in touch with Florence at florencetourne@yahoo.co.uk Beginners Tuesdays 6.30-8.30pm | 13 Jan - 24 Mar | No class 17 Feb...

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Exhibition

Held

6 Feb - 2 May

Sugar Store Gallery | Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm | Free Lela Harris This spring,  Brewery Arts presents Held, a solo exhibition by award-winning Kendal-based artist Lela Harris....

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Exhibition

Light – Shape – Distance

6 Feb - 2 May

Foyer Gallery | Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm | Free Stuart Irving (b. North Shields, Newcastle) is a visual artist living and working in Carlisle. Born into a...

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Cinema

Hamnet

(12A) 126MINS

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet....

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Cinema

H is For Hawk

(12A) 116MINS

H is for Hawk follows Helen (Claire Foy), who, after the sudden death of her father (Brendan Gleeson), loses herself in the memories of their...

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Cinema

Rental Family

  • Friday 6th February 13:30
  • Tuesday 10th February 16:15

(12A) 110MINS

Set in modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for...

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Cinema

Marty Supreme

  • Friday 6th February 15:45
  • Thursday 12th February 15:45

(15) 149MINS

A hustler-turned-champion ping pong player Marty Reisman’s journey from playing for bets in Manhattan to winning 22 major titles and becoming the oldest to win...

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Cinema

Giant

  • Friday 6th February 16:15

(15) 111MINS

Giant is the true story of Prince Naseem "Naz" Hamed's humble beginnings on the tough working class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Brendan...

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Cinema

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

(18) 110MINS

Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later -- but turning that world on its head -- Nia...

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Cinema

No Other Choice

(15) 139MINS

When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his...

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Stage on Screen

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

  • Friday 6th February 19:30

(12A) 180MINS

Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Robert Hastie Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous...

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Theatre

My Life with Kenneth Williams

  • Friday 6th February 20:00

Standard Theatre Seated Exclusive 2-for-1 Brewery Arts Members Offer for this event! Login to your membership account and the discount will be applied automatically. To...

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Painting

Painting Figures in Watercolour

  • Saturday 7th February 11:30

11.30-5pm  | 16+ yrs Learn to paint figures in watercolour in a free and fresh way. From drawing out to mixing and applying colour, you...

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Cinema

Avatar: Fire and Ash

(12A) 197MINS

With “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam...

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Cinema

Goat

(PG) 100MINS

From Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, comes GOAT, an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will,...

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Cinema

Song Sung Blue

(12A) 133MINS

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late...

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Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026

Ghost Killer

  • Saturday 7th February 17:00

(15) 104MINS

University student MATSUOKA Fumika (TAKAISHI Akari) drunkenly trips in the street after an unsuccessful date. Pulling herself up, she notices a bullet casing lying on...

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Cinema

It Was Just An Accident

(12A) 104MINS

When an auto mechanic encounters the man who may have been his torturer in prison, he kidnaps him to exact vengeance. But since the sole...

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Cinema

The Voice Of Hind Rajab

(15) 89MINS

Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stay on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udC9c6Cfis

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Cinema

The Housemaid

  • Sunday 8th February 19:15
  • Wednesday 11th February 15:45

(15) 132MINS

The Housemaid is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges...

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Cinema

Pillion

(18) 107MINS

Wallflower Colin (Harry Melling) leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), a mysterious biker he is soon desperately devoted...

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Print Room Members Access

Print Room Members Sessions

11am-3pm | 18+ yrs Brewery Arts Print Room Membership allows experienced printmakers the opportunity to work in a safe, relaxed, and creative Print Room environment....

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Dance

Mature Movers

Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 11.30am-12.30pm  | 18+ yrs Mature Movers is an open dance class for all abilities, aimed at over 60s....

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Visual Arts

Art Explorers

Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 1-2.30pm  | 7+ yrs Art Explorers is a creative and sociable mixed media arts class for young people...

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Drama

Act Your Age

Tuesday 3rd February 2026 – Tuesday 24th March 2026

Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 1-3pm  | 18+ yrs Act Your Age are currently working towards a performance of The Outrun by Stef...

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Stage on Screen

National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step

  • Tuesday 10th February 20:00

(15) 87MINS

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively...

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Cinema

Sentimental Value

  • Wednesday 11th February 12:45
  • Thursday 12th February 15:30

(15) 133MINS

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he...

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Dance

Get Moving

Wed 14 Jan- 25 Mar (10 wks) | 6.45-7.45pm  | 18+ yrs An open adult dance class for all abilities. The class will explore moving...

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Cinema

Fires and Fascism +Director Q&A

  • Wednesday 11th February 19:30

(15) 90MINS

Fires and Fascism is a new documentary showing the wildfires in Europe are more than just climate change and mismanagement. It links the growing wildfires...

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Stage on Screen

Woolf Works – The Royal Ballet

  • Thursday 12th February 19:15

(12A) 210MINS

Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic...

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Music

Niall McCabe

  • Thursday 12th February 19:30

Malt Room Cabaret Seating | Plus Support from JP Worsfold Exclusive 2-for-1 Brewery Arts Members Offer for this event! Login to your membership account and...

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Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026

What Should We Have Done?

  • Thursday 12th February 20:00

(15) 101MINS

In 1983, at the age of 24, director FUJINO Tomoaki’s older sister Masako, a kind and caring person, began showing symptoms of schizophrenia. Having excelled...

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Coming soon

Painting

Held In Nature: Family Watercolour Workshop

Saturday 14th February 2026

11.15am-12.45pm | 5+ yrs | 1 adult to 2 young people maximum Develop your drawing and painting skills with Artist Lela Harris in this fun,...

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Pottery

Discover Pottery Throwing

Saturday 14th February 2026

11.15am, 1.30pm or 3.30pm | Sessions are 90mins  | 16+ yrs Discover Pottery Throwing is a fun intensive throwing workshop that will concentrate on improving...

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Painting

Held in Ink: Adult Workshop

Saturday 14th February 2026

1.30-5.30pm | 16+ Develop your drawing and painting skills with Lela Harris, in this nature inspired ink collage workshop. By the end of the workshop,...

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Cinema

Is this Thing On?

Coming Soon

(15) 121MINS

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while...

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Stone Carving

Stone Carving with Danny Clahane

Friday 27th February 2026

27 Feb-27 Mar (5wks) | 2-4pm | 18+ yrs An introduction to Stone carving in three dimensions, from an initial drawing, maquette or simply an...

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Festivals

Adventure Motorcycle Film Festival

Saturday 28th February 2026

Standard Theatre Seated The Adventure Motorcycle Film Festival is brought to you by The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast (TAMP) and the Reel Riders podcast....

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Printmaking

Lino Cut Botanicals

Saturday 7th March 2026

12-5pm  | 18+ yrs Create unique fruit and flower inspired mini lino prints in an afternoon. What will the class cover and how will it...

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Slate Carving

Slate Carving with Danny Clahane

Saturday 14th March 2026

11.30-5pm | 18+ yrs An introduction to Slate relief carving. Looking at tool use and aspects of working stone to create an image. What will...

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Dance

Brewery Arts School Dance Platform 2026

Monday 16th March 2026 – Thursday 19th March 2026

Standard Theatre Seated We invite you to join us for The ‘Brewery Arts Schools Dance Platform’ taking place across 16th-19th March 2026. The platform returns...

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Mosaic

Mosaic Art

Saturday 21st March 2026

11.30am-5pm | 18+ Join Helen Clues, Mosaic artist, to create beautiful mosaic pieces using fabulous materials in this workshop. There will be a choice of...

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Stained & Fused Glass

Stained Glass Flowers

Saturday 28th March 2026

12-4pm |18+ yrs Students will be shown how to cut glass safely and will cut out flowers from coloured glass, wrap adhesive copper foil around...

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