What’s On: Next 7 Days
A high energy Caribbean dance workout that’ll get you moving and grooving to some banging beats! Our workshops are designed for children and are ideal for the whole family.
What’s On: Book now
A fun session for those who love to act, explore, use their imaginations, play drama games and make new friends. This class is for existing BYA students only.
Portrait Masterclass: A Zoom Self Portrait
For anyone who fancies drawing a self-portrait, join award winning artist Catherine MacDiarmid and explore what we’ve all got used to – the ‘Zoom view’ of ourselves.
Spring Creatives: Act Up
This drama workshop will explore different creative ways to perform online and create together. Our workshops are designed for children and are ideal for the whole family.
Start Drawing With Charcoal
Create wonderful lights and darks in your drawings using soft willow charcoal.
Whether you’re new to creative writing and fancy a laugh or a writer who would like to inject more humour into your work.
Portrait Masterclass: Self Portrait And Tone
From lighting to charcoal drawing techniques join Catherine MacDiarmid in this workshop exploring setting and drawing a self-portrait in tone.
Start Painting With Watercolour
Pick up a brush and start to explore the magical qualities of watercolour in this introduction to some key watercolour skills.
Portrait Masterclass: Self Portraits In Disguise
Self-portraits are revealing but what if we mask reality? Use wigs, hats, glasses, moustaches, masks, face paints etc and join a fun zoom workshop drawing yourself in disguise. Go as wild as you dare!
Using short writing exercises we’ll explore dialogue, making characters sound realistic and different from each other.
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Six albums in, Joanne Shaw Taylor has nothing to prove, but plenty to say.
Smoove & Turrell
The story of Smoove & Turrell began in the post-millennium North East of England with a group of working-class lads and a shared passion for soul.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children and their families… but without the rude bits!
Sharon Shannon is a musician who continues to surprise. While she is known for her arrangements of traditional Irish tunes and Irish-influenced compositions, she has always been eager to explore new styles, and to meet and work with other musicians.
What was Philadelphia’s loss is Manchester’s gain, with the inimitable force behind BC Camplight, Brian Christinzio.
Nonsense Room Productions bring you a brand new interactive musical show for all the family. But in this show – YOU CHOOSE what happens!
Cara Dillon
Cara Dillon, the multi-award winning Northern Irish singer, returns this Autumn to perform some of her favourite and most popular songs along with her band.
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker
Mystery Jets
Mystery Jets are an English indie rock band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London.
British Indie outfit The Rifles rose to popularity in the mid-2000s with their swaggering, jaunty garage rock & roll sound.
Rob Newman’s Philosophy Show
In this all-new show, multi-award winning stand-up comic Rob Newman weaves together Nietzsche’s sunglasses, James Bond in Toxteth, electric spiders and singing Neanderthals into a hilarious tour-de-force that offers new hopes for a changing world.
Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess is lead singer of one of the defining bands of the ’90s, The Charlatans.
For one night only, St Johns Hospice Choir and Fellside singers come together for a beautiful evening of contemporary choir music in aid of St Johns Hospice.
Tez Ilyas: Populist
Join Tez as he uses his trademark silly, smart and subversive approach to pit ordinary people against the establishment
Mary Coughlan
Mary Coughlan is one of Ireland’s greatest female jazz and blues singers, a true artist who has carved out a highly regarded career and a legion of devoted fans worldwide.
Attention Earth!… Do not be alarmed…. Contact with the extra-terrestrial musical collective – HENGE – is imminent.
Henge (evening Show)
Attention Earth!… Do not be alarmed…. Contact with the extra-terrestrial musical collective – HENGE – is imminent.
PETE FIRMAN – BAG OF TRICKS
You’ve seen him on television, now experience his trademark blend of laugh-out-loud comedy and jaw-dropping magic live on stage.
Blazin’ Fiddles
Encompassing a rare and virtuosic selection of the fiddle’s diverse Highland and island voices, with ensemble and solo-led sets both backed by powerhouse guitar and piano, the Blazers pack all the power, passion and sensitivity of Scotland’s traditional music, into a single show.
2020 sees the 35th anniversary of The Smiths’ legendary second album “Meat is Murder”.
What’s On: Coming soon
The Wandering Hearts
Harmony-laden Americana band The Wandering Hearts burst onto the scene last year with their debut album Wild Silence.
Rebecca Stephens – An Easy Day For A Lady
Rebecca Stephens is the First British Woman to climb Mt Everest and the Seven Summits
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
“He’s blessed with the sort of laid-back charm and sharp turn of phrase you can’t manufacture” **** Daily Telegraph
Join BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 broadcaster, musician and author Mark Radcliffe and electronica tech-head Paul Langley as they present electronic music spanning many styles with a plaintive lonely voice at its heart.
An unmissable evening with two guitar playing legends working in harmony
Jimeoin: Turn It Up
It’s a great fun night out so don’t miss your chance to see the award-winning star of TV shows including ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Conan’, ‘Royal Variety Performance’ and ‘Sunday Night at the Palladium’ – Live!
Musicians from Northumberland, Scotland and England invoke the dark, powerful, shamanic sounds of Ancient Northumbria and broadcast them to the modern world.
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122a Highgate
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 4HE