February
February: Art
Spring Creatives: Self-Portraits In Disguise
Mon 15 Feb | 5pm | £5 | Tutor Catherine Macdiarmid | Family-friendly, 7+ Our Spring Creative workshops are specially designed together with inspirational artists...
February: Art & Crafts
Spring Creatives: Paper Sculpture
Mon 8 Feb | 5-6pm | £5 | Eleanor Chaney | Family-friendly, 7+ Our Spring Creative workshops are specially designed together with inspirational artists and...
Tuesday Art On Zoom
Tue 23 Feb to Tue 23 March | 4.30-5.30pm | Age 7-16 years | £25 (5 weeks) | Tutor Amy Williams A fun and creative class on Zoom to connect with your classmates...
Wednesday Art On Zoom
Wed 24 Feb to Wed 24 March | 4.30-5.30pm | Age 7-16 | £25 (5 weeks) | Tutor Amy Williams A fun and creative class on Zoom to connect...
February: Creative Learning
German Advanced Online
Mon 22 Feb to Mon 22 March | 11.30am-12.30pm | £32 (5 weeks) | Tutor Dorothea Williamson An online course to develop your confidence in speaking, revises and expands...
German Conversation Online
Mon 22 Feb to Mon 22 March | 1.30-2.30pm | £32 (5 weeks) | Tutor Dorothea Williamson Practice your German conversational skills discussing current affairs and German culture and...
French Advanced Conversation Online
Mon 22 Feb to Mon 22 March | 2-4pm | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Dominique Pluskwa A course for advanced students with a very good knowledge...
Spring Creatives: The Fundamentals of Film
Mon 22 Feb | 4-5pm | Tutor Naomi More | £5 | Family-friendly, age 11+ Our Spring Creative workshops are specially designed together with inspirational...
Spanish Advanced Online
Tue 23 February to Tue 23 March | 10am-12noon | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Pilar Valera If you can hold a conversation in Spanish and would like to...
Mature Movers On Zoom
Tue 23 February to Tue 23 March | 1-2pm £20 (5 weeks) | Tutor Emily Davies An open dance class that takes place on Zoom, for all abilities,...
Act Your Age Online
Tue 19 Jan to Tue 9 Feb 2021 | 2-3pm | £16 (per 4 weeks) | Tutor Emily Baxter Please note that previous attendees of this course will...
Byd Boys Moves Advance On Zoom
Tue 23 Feb to Tue 23 March | 4.45-5.45pm | Age 11-16 years | £25 (5 weeks) | Tutor Emily Davies This class is for older boys with some experience, or a real...
French Advanced On Zoom
Wed 24 Feb to Wed 24 March | 9.45-11.45am | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Dominique Pluskwa This course is for students who have studied French for at least...
French Year 5 Online – Wednesdays
Wed 24 Feb to Wed 24 March | 1-3pm | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Dominique Pluskwa This online course concentrates on spoken French in a friendly atmosphere. It...
Spanish Year 5 Online
Thu 25 Feb to Thu 25 March | 1-3pm | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Pilar Valera Join our year 5 Spanish course if you are able to converse...
Byd 11-14 & 15+ Online
Thu 25 Feb to Thu 25 March | 5-6pm | Age 11-14 and 15+ | £25 (5 weeks) | Tutor Emily Davies A combination of our BYD 11-14 and BYD 15+...
Byt15+ On Zoom
Thu 25 Feb Jan to 24 March | 5.45-6.45pm | Age 15 +| £25 (5 weeks) | Tutor Emily Baxter If you are young and serious about theatre, committed to productions...
Spanish Year 4 Online
Thu 25 Feb to Thu 25 March | 6.30-8.30pm | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Pilar Valera This course is for those who can maintain simple conversations in Spanish...
French Year 5 Online – Fridays
Fri 26 Feb to Fri 26 March | 10.30am-12.30pm | £64 (5 weeks) | Tutor Florence Tourne This course will help you to use your French freely and creatively...
February: Festivals
Kpf21 – Young Writers Workshop With Fiona Benson
4 - 6pm | Free | Age 14-21 What happens when we let different voices into our writing? What do they say, how do they...
Kpf21 – Festival Pass Ticket (Feb 19 – Feb 28)
We have a limited number of £60 festival passes, giving access to all events (excluding workshops). This is a huge saving of £40 if you...
Kpf21 – Festival Launch
6.15 - 7.30pm | Free Everyone is welcome to the Festival Launch. Although this year we can’t provide the wine, feel free to bring your...
Kpf21 – Speaking Of Paradise: Evening Reading With Moniza Alvi & Roger Robinson
8 - 9pm | £5 Moniza Alvi’s eight collections include The Country at My Shoulder (OUP, 1993) shortlisted for the Whitbread and the T.S. Eliot...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival for an early morning Writing Hour, to run every day the...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Ann & Peter Sansom From The Poetry Business
10 am - 12 noon | Max 16 Join Ann and Peter - described by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage as 'the most astute and effective...
Kpf21 – Read Regional Poetry Workshop Sponsored By Kendal Library
1.30 - 2.15pm | Free Sponsored by Kendal Library. Join us to read and discuss The Celox and the Clot by Hafsah Aneela Bashir, along...
Kpf21 – Poetry Reading With Hafsah Aneela Bashir In Assoc With New Writing North And Read Regional
2.30 - 3.30pm |Free | Reading with Hafsah Aneela Bashir Sponsored by Kendal Library Hafsah Aneela Bashir is an award winning writer and performance poet...
Kpf21 – An Afternoon With Jackie Hagan
4 - 5pm | Free In “This is Not a Safe Space”, disabled poet, performer and theatre maker Jackie Hagan explores the world of life...
Kpf21 – Speaking Out: Evening Reading With Fiona Benson & Jay Bernard
8 - 9pm | £5 Fiona Benson’s latest collection Vertigo and Ghost (Jonathan Cape, 2019) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Roehampton...
Kpf21 – Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30 - 11pm | £5 Ann Grant returns for a second instalment of the Late Night Open Mic. Come and take part - or just...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join the one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Acclaimed Canadian Poet Karen Solie
10 am - 12 noon | Max 16 | £16.50 Getting Started: A Writing Workshop ...
Kpf21 – These Are The Hands – Poems From The Heart Of The Nhs
2-3pm | Donations – pay what you feel Join us for a celebration reading from this wonderful anthology. Published by Fair Acre Press, this ground-breaking...
Kpf21 – Afternoon Tea With Brewery Poets
4 - 5pm | £5 Kendal’s Brewery Poets have been meeting for over thirty years and are the driving force behind the Kendal Poetry Festival....
Kpf21 – Breaking Boundaries: Evening Reading With Vahni Capildeo & Mark Waldron
8 - 9pm | £5 Vahni Capildeo’s seven books and five pamphlets extend from prose poetry into immersive theatre. Capildeo’s work is intimate yet full of...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Hafsah Aneela Bashir
10 - 12 noon | Max 16 | £16.50 Manchester-based poet, playwright and performer, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, is the founder of the Poetry Health Service...
Kpf21 – Not Dying With Jamie Hale
2 - 3.30pm | £5 NOT DYING - a solo show featuring poetry, monologue, spoken word, and comedy - explores what it means to face...
Kpf21 – A Sense Of Place: Evening Reading With Abeer Ameer & Jen Hadfield
8 - 9pm | £5 Abeer Ameer will be joining us from Cardiff to read from her eagerly awaited first collection Inhale/Exhile, published by Seren. ...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Hearing Poetry – A Poetry Writing Workshop With Jonathan Davidson
10 am - 12 noon | Max 16 | £16.50 The art of listening to poetry – not just reading it or reading about it...
Kpf21 – Sanatorium With Abi Palmer
2 - 3.30pm | £5 Join Abi Palmer for a live performance of Sanatorium, scored with haunting, dreamlike film. A young woman spends a month taking...
Kpf21 – Ransom: Andrew Mcmillan & Michael Symmons Roberts In Conversation
8 - 9pm | £5 In Association with the Poetry Book Society The Poetry Book Society join us for a Zoom version of their popular...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Ann & Peter Sansom From The Poetry Business
10am-12 noon | £16.50 Join Ann and Peter - described by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage as 'the most astute and effective tutors in the UK'...
Kpf21 – 100 Poems To Save The Planet
2 - 3 pm | £5 Join editors Zoë Brigley Thompson and Kristian Evans for a celebratory reading from this life-affirming anthology, due to be...
Kpf21 – Healing Words: Evening Reading With Carolyn Forche & Romalyn Ante
8 - 9 pm | £5 Romalyn Ante has blogged about the parallels between the art of writing poetry and being a nurse – how...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Rifling Things: A Poetry Workshop With Jon Stone
10 am - 12 noon | 16 places | £16.50 A match. A musty flask. A mosquito. Poetry is an art uniquely suited to honour...
Kpf21 – Talk/discussion With Jonathan Davidson
2 - 3pm | £5 A Commonplace - Poetry, Commentary & Ephemera Jonathan Davidson's newly published collection, A Commonplace (Smith|Doorstop 2020), is unusual in containing...
Kpf21 – Body And Soul: Evening Reading With Andrew Mcmillan & Hannah Hodgson
8 - 9pm | £5 Hannah Hodgson is one of Cumbria’s rising stars and our top tip for a poet to keep an eye on! ...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Carolyn Forche
10am - 12 noon | £16.50 Join us for a writing workshop with the wonderful poet Carolyn Forche. Welcome to Kendal Poetry Festival. This...
Kpf21 – Rising To The Challenge: Poetry In An Age Of Covid
2 - 3pm | Free How can we as organisations and individuals respond to the challenge of producing live literature events under the shadow of...
Kpf21 – Love And Life: Evening Reading With Alison Brackenbury & Ian Humphreys
8 - 9pm | £5 Ian Humphrey’s first full-length collection Zebra (Nine Arches, 2019) takes in 1980’s gay culture and his multi-racial heritage. His poetry...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Jen Hadfield – ‘manifesto!’
10am - 2pm | £45 | Max 10 In the past year, it's really been brought home to us how notional our sense of our...
Kpf21 – Poetry Business New Poets Pamphlet Event
2.30 - 3.30pm | £5 The Poetry Business New Poets Pamphlets Competition is one of the most prestigious and exciting competition for young poets. Come...
Kpf21 – Society And The Self: Evening Reading With Mary Jean Chan & Karen Solie
8 - 9pm | £5 Mary Jean Chan’s first full-length collection Flèche (Faber and Faber 2019) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards for Poetry....
Kpf21 – Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30 - 11.30pm | £5 Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along to take part or just...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Andrew Mcmillan
10am - 12noon | £16.50 A Dance of Description During this workshop we will look at how we might use ballet and contemporary dance to inspire...
Kpf21 – Ludokinetic Poetry With Jon Stone
2 - 3pm | £5 Jon Stone discusses and performs ludokinetic poems - poems that involve the reader through mechanisms of play. This innovative category...
Kpf21 – Staying Human Anthology Event – Neil Astley In Conversation With Clare Shaw
4 - 5 pm | £5 The Staying Alive series of Bloodaxe anthologies - Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011) and Staying Human (2020) – have been a huge presence...
Kpf21 – Voice And Song: Evening Reading With Vicki Feaver & David Morley
8 - 9pm | £5 Vicki Feaver will be reading from her much anticipated fourth collection I Want! I Want! (Jonathan Cape, 2020). Her new...
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