What’s On
Seeing In The Dark
Foyer Gallery | 26 Apr - 25 Jun | Tue - Sat 11am-4pm | Free Peer into a cinema from the past in Seeing In...
KPF22 Saturday Morning Writing Hour – Online
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Writing Hour with Kim Moore, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the...
KPF22 Saturday Morning Writing Hour
9am-10am | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Writing Hour with Kim Moore, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the festival directors...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Carola Luther – Online
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Join us for a workshop with poet Carola Luther. Please note there are only four...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Carola Luther
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join us for a workshop with poet Carola Luther. Please note there are only 12...
KPF22 Main Reading – Paul Batchelor and Rachel Mann – Online
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Paul Batchelor will join us to read from his long-awaited second collection Acts of Oblivion...
KPF22 Main Reading – Paul Batchelor and Rachel Mann
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Paul Batchelor will join us to read from his long-awaited second collection Acts of Oblivion...
Jurassic World Dominion
(12A) 147MINS
It has been 4 years since Isla Nublar was destroyed and the dinosaurs were freed by Maisie. Blue now lives in the wilderness and has...
KPF22 Meet The Artist with Clae Eastgate
1.15pm - 2.15pm | Free | Brewery Arts: Sugar Store Gallery Meet the extraordinary artist Clae Eastgate, for a tour of the 'Painting the Poets'...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid
2pm - 4pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Come along and join this insightful writing workshop with Nafeesa Hamid. Nafeesa Hamid’s debut collection...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid – Online
2pm - 4pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Come along and join this insightful writing workshop with Nafeesa Hamid. Nafeesa Hamid’s debut collection...
KPF22 Main Reading – Jane Burn and Victoria Adukwei Bulley – Online
2.30pm - 4.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Jane Burn is a Pushcart/Forward Prize-nominated, multi-award-winning, widely anthologised poet and author. She will be...
KPF22 Main Reading – Jane Burn and Victoria Adukwei Bulley
2.30pm - 4.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Jane Burn is a Pushcart/Forward Prize-nominated, multi-award-winning, widely anthologised poet and author. She will be...
KPF22 Poetry Across Borders – With Kateřina Rudčenková’s and Milan Děžinský
5pm - 6pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Join us for this extraordinary event where we will hear from two Czech poets, Kateřina...
KPF22 Poetry Across Borders With Kateřina Rudčenková’s and Milan Děžinský – Online
5pm - 6pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Join us for this extraordinary event where we will hear from two Czech poets, Kateřina...
KPF22 Main Reading – Daniel Sluman and John Glenday – Online
7pm - 9pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Daniel Sluman’s third collection single window (Nine Arches Press, 2021) is a hyper-confessional hybrid memoir...
KPF22 Main Reading – Daniel Sluman and John Glenday
7pm - 9pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Daniel Sluman’s third collection single window (Nine Arches Press, 2021) is a hyper-confessional hybrid memoir...
The Innocents
(15) 117MINS
The Innocents is an original and highly tense psychological thriller meets superhero origin story, filled with chilling supernatural elements and uncanny horror. During a bright...
KPF22 Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant – Online
9.30pm - 11pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along...
KPF22 Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30pm - 11pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along...
KPF22 Sunday Morning Writing Hour – Online
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Join Clare Shaw for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
KPF22 Sunday Morning Writing Hour
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join Clare Shaw for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
KPF22 Main Reading – Nafeesa Hamid and Carola Luther – Online
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Carola Luther was a popular Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere, and she makes a welcome return to...
KPF22 Main Reading – Nafeesa Hamid + Carola Luther
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Carola Luther was a popular Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere, and she makes a welcome return to...
KPF22 Workshop With Don Paterson – Online
11.30am - 1.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Join us for a chance to read, write, and talk about poetry with Don Paterson....
KPF22 Workshop With Don Paterson
11.30am - 1.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join us for a chance to read, write, and talk about poetry with Don Paterson....
KPF22 Meet The Artist With Clae Eastgate
1.15pm - 2.15pm | Free | Brewery Arts: Sugar Store Gallery Meet the extraordinary artist Clae Eastgate, for a tour of the 'Painting the Poets'...
KPF22 Why I Write Poetry talk/discussion – Online
2.30pm - 3.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes...
KPF22 Why I Write Poetry talk/discussion
2.30pm - 3.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes...
KPF22 Poetry Birmingham: The Editor’s Perspective talk/discussion – Online
4pm-5pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal was first published in 2019 and has already been heralded for its ‘intellectually...
KPF22 Poetry Birmingham: The Editor’s Perspective talk/discussion
4pm-5pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal was first published in 2019 and has already been heralded for its ‘intellectually...
KPF22 Main Reading – Don Paterson and Naush Sabah
5.30-7.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Don Paterson’s latest collection Zonal (Faber, 2020) takes as its starting point the classic television series The Twilight Zone to create a...
KPF22 Main Reading – Don Paterson and Naush Sabah – Online
5.30pm - 7.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Don Paterson’s latest collection Zonal (Faber, 2020) takes as its starting point the classic television series The Twilight Zone to...
Top Gun: Maverick
(12A) 131MINS
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as...
Print Room Member Access Tuesday 11am-3pm
Brewery Print Room Membership | 11am-3pm | £6 per session | Print Room Brewery Arts Print Room Membership allows experienced printmakers the opportunity to work...
Mature Movers
Mature Movers | Tue 7 June to Tue 5 July 2022 (5 weeks) | 11.30am-12.30pm | £25 (5 wks) | £6.50 pay as you go |...
Print Room Member Access Tuesday 6-9pm
Brewery Print Room Membership | Tue 3 May - Tue 12 July | 6-9pm | £5 per session | Print Room Brewery Arts Print Room...
Life Drawing Day
Life Drawing Day | Wed 29 June | 10.30am-4.30pm | £60 | Age 16yrs +| Under 18s £30 | Tutor Catherine MacDiarmid | Venue Studio 3 Take your drawing skills...
Kendal Mountain Tour 2022
Starts 7.30pm | Tickets £18.50 | Conc £10.50 | Theatre Use the code KMTOUR22 at checkout to enjoy 2 for 1 tickets! Unleash your adventurous...
Now showing
Summer Showcase: 50th Anniversary
Starts 7pm | Tickets £8 | Conc. £6 | Theatre Our celebratory Showcase is just around the corner! Join us as we celebrate 50 years...
Pickpocket
(PG) 76MINS
In one of Robert Bresson’s most admired, intriguing, and influential films, resolute drifter Michel spends his days learning the art of pickpocketing and targeting the...
I Am Zlatan
(15) 98MINS
I Am Zlatan is the incredible true story of one’s man’s meteoric rise as a football legend. Facing adversity in an urban jungle, a young...
Thor: Love and Thunder
(12A) 119MINS
Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he's ever faced - a quest for inner peace. But his retirement...
Sean Webster Band
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £17.50 | Theatre We have updated the doors time for this event. You will now be able to enter the Theatre...
Life Drawing Evening
Life Drawing Evenings | Wed 4 May | Wed 15 June | Wed 13 July | 7.30-9.30pm | £12pp per session | 16 + |...
She Drew The Gun
Doors 8pm | Tickets £14.50 | Support Bossyking | Malt Room Standing "I believe art should provoke a reaction." - She Drew The Gun Passionate, principled,...
Explorer + exclusive recorded Q&A with Ranulph Fiennes and Bear Grylls
(12A) 143MINS
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is credited as being the World’s Greatest Living Explorer. Among his extraordinary achievements he was the first to circumnavigate the world from...
Minions: The Rise of Gru
(U) 88MINS
In the heart of the 1970s, amid a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of...
Between Two Worlds
(12A) 107MINS
Juliette Binoche impresses as an undercover journalist living amongst gig workers in acclaimed writer Emmanuel Carrère’s powerful drama. Adapted by Carrère from journalist Florence Aubenas’...
Bergman Island
(15) 112MINS
A dazzling and bittersweet romantic drama from acclaimed filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden, Things to Come), BERGMAN ISLAND tells the story of two couples spending their...
National Theatre Live – Prima Facie
(15) 120MINS
Starts 7pm | Tickets £15.50 | Conc. £13.50 | Recorded Screening | Theatre Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK...
All My Friends Hate Me
(15) 94MINS
Pete (Tom Stourton) is ready to leave his youthful indulgences behind and settle down with his girlfriend, Sonia (Charly Clive). When his uni friends invite...
Cha Cha Real Smooth
(15) 107MINS
Fresh out of college and without a clear life path going forward, 22-year-old Andrew is stuck back at home with his family in New Jersey....
The Black Phone
(15) 103MINS
The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a...
Aynsley Lister
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £18.50 | Theatre Aynsley Lister is one of the UK’s hottest contemporary blues guitarists – many consider him to be among...
Everything Went Fine
(15) 113MINS
A daughter is forced to reconcile her past with her father when he contacts her with a devastating final wish, in François Ozon’s powerful family...
Verbalise – July
Verbalise Live and on Zoom | Sat 30 Jul | Doors 7.30pm | Warehouse £6 | Zoom £3.50 Join us for Verbalise either Live or...
Peatbog Faeries
Doors 8pm | Tickets £18.50 | Malt Room Standing Peatbog Faeries celebrated their 25th Anniversary in 2016 on the back of the critically acclaimed album Blackhouse,...
Arts Unleashed – Creative Summer Camp
8 Aug - 12 Aug | 9.30am-3.30pm | £160 | Age 7-13 | Tutor Emily Davies, Emily Baxter & Freelance Artists Arts Unleashed is back!...
Joan as Police Woman
Doors 8pm | Tickets £20.50 | Theatre Joan As Police Woman returns to Europe in August 2022 with her incredible band for extra concert shows...
Willy Mason
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | OTD £18.50 | Conc. £13.50 | Theatre Magic, miracles, ghosts, world leaders; these days it seems there is little...
Jamali Maddix – King Crud
Starts 8pm | Tickets £16.50 | Theatre Jamali Maddix is the critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice's Hate Thy Neighbour and C4's Adventures in...
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Malt Room Standing Since releasing 2018’s ‘The More I Sleep The Less I Dream’, We Were Promised Jetpacks’ Adam...
Riding Out
Starts 7.30pm | Tickets £13 | Theatre 'Riding Out: A night of adventure: Cycling 3,500 miles around pandemic Britain' is a multimedia presentation of short...
South Lakes Archive Film Night + Live Q&A
(U) 120MINS
South Lakes Archive Film Night + Live Q&A Thu 15 Sep | (U) 90mins | Screen 2 Join us for a specially curated evening of...
Turin Brakes
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £25.50 | Theatre 2022 sees Turin Brakes release their ninth studio album - Wide-Eyed Nowhere. The band will play a handful...
The Bubble Show
Starts 2pm | Tickets £8.50 | Ages 3-12 | Theatre The Highland Joker presents The Bubble Show Join Mr.Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in...
Verbalise – September 2022
Verbalise Live and on Zoom | Sat 24 Sept | Doors 7.30pm | Warehouse £6 | Zoom £3.50 Join us either Live or on Zoom for...
James Taylor Quartet
Doors 8pm | Tickets £17.50 | OTD £19.50 | Malt Room Standing James Taylor, one of the great British instrumentalists of his generation, has taken...
Katey Brooks
Doors 8pm | Tickets £16.50 | OTD £18.50 | Malt Room cabaret seated (unreserved) | + Support Melanie Baker Katey Brooks is a rebellious artist...
Propellor – Flight
Doors 6.45pm | Tickets £12.50 | Theatre Propellor are a 12-piece ensemble of soaring strings, ambient guitar, double percussion and otherworldly winds, directed by Kendal’s...
The Billy Joel ALBUMS SHOW starring Elio Pace and his Band
Doors 7pm | Tickets £32 | Theatre The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK... for a FOURTH time! TWO MORE classic Billy Joel albums performed in their...
Damien O’Kane And Ron Block
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £15.50 | Theatre When you look at their backgrounds, Damien O'Kane and Ron Block have followed similar trajectories. Both began playing...
Father Earth – A Documentary Feature Film + Live Q&A
(12A) 83MINS
After the screening there will be an informal Q&A with Graham Fellows (AKA John Shuttleworth) Father Earth is the true story of one man’s attempt...
HENGE – matinee show
Doors 3pm | Tickets £12.50 | Family of 4 £40 | Malt Room Standing Enter code HENGE22 during checkout, for a group of four to...
HENGE – evening show
Doors at 7.30pm | Tickets £12.50 | Malt Room Standing Attention Humans! This is HENGE. We are not from this world. We bring you music...
Andy Irvine
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £20.50 | Theatre Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great...
Hannah Moule & The Moulettes
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £17.50 | Support Blythe Pepino (Mesadorm) | Theatre Now embarking on the biggest musical adventure in their career so far, Hannah...
Jason Byrne
Starts 8pm | Tickets £20 | Theatre Jason Byrne has not only had his heart unblocked and been given a new lease of life, but...
From The Fields Presents Dreadzone
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £23 | Malt Room Standing | Age 14+ Fast approaching their 30th anniversary, Dreadzone are an unstoppable force who have long...
Thea Gilmore + support
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £19 | Theatre | On general sale Fri 18 Mar 10am After the success of her first ever solo tour in...
Verbalise – October 2022
Verbalise Live and on Zoom | Sat 29 Oct | Doors 7.30pm | Warehouse £6 | Zoom £3.50 Join us either Live or on Zoom...
Wishbone Ash
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £25.50 | Theatre We have updated the doors time for this event. You will now be able to enter the Theatre...
Keeley Forsyth
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £14.50 | + Support | Theatre Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England....
Luke Wright
Starts 8.15pm | Tickets £12.50 | Malt Room Cabaret Seating John Cooper Clarke’s regular warm-up guy writes poems that are tender, riotous, caustic and romantic...
Nick Sharratt’s Halloween Drawalong
Starts 2pm | Tickets £9 | Theatre Join much-loved children’s author and illustrator Nick Sharratt for a special Halloween-themed drawalong. He’ll be sketching gently spooky...
Nosferatu 100th Anniversary Screening with Live Piano Score
(PG) 94MINS
Starts 8pm | Tickets £8.50 | Conc. £7.50 | U25s £6| Theatre 2022 brings the centenary of the most influential horror film of all time,...
Vincent Dance Theatre: Hold Tight
Starts 8pm | Tickets £14 | Conc. £11 | Theatre | Age guidance 14+ Directed & Designed by Charlotte Vincent Composed by Jules Maxwell Home...
Clinton Baptiste Vs. Ramone
Starts 7.30pm | Tickets £25.50 | Theatre | Age 14+ CLINTON BAPTISTE VS RAMONE! As featured in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights…it’s Clinton Baptiste - and his arch...
Verbalise – November 2022
Verbalise Live and on Zoom | Sat 26 Nov | Doors 7.30pm | Warehouse £6 | Zoom 3.50 Join us either Live or on Zoom for...
Matt Deighton
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £18.50 | Theatre Matt Deighton’s stunning discography is an undiscovered island inhabited by a human being everyone wants to love and...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £17.50 | OTD £19.50 | Malt Room Standing The Lancashire Hotpots are back with a bang on their Top Of The...
Tom Stade: The High Road
Starts 8pm | Tickets £19 | Theatre | Age guidance strictly 16+ During these turbulent times, Tom Stade has been flying by the seat of...
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £20.50 | Conc. £16 | OTD £22 | Theatre John Doyle, John McCusker and Michael McGoldrick first crossed paths as teenagers....
Coming soon
Spooky Men’s Chorale
Doors 7.00pm | Tickets £22.50 | Theatre We have updated the doors time for this event. You will now be able to enter the Theatre...
Nurturing Creativity x Folded Zine
Foyer Gallery and Sugar Store Gallery | Tue – Sat 11am-4pm | Free An exciting new multi-media exhibition featuring the works of young creatives in...
The Railway Children Return
(PG) 98MINS
The Railway Children Return is an enchanting, moving and heart-warming adventure for a new generation. 1944 – As life in Britain’s cities becomes increasingly perilous,...
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
(15) 97MINS
Nancy Stokes, a retired school teacher and widow, is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. Whilst her husband Robert...
Leave No Traces
(15) 160MINS
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk – a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true...
The Princess
(12A) 100MINS
The story of Princess Diana is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive footage creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the...
DC League of Super-Pets
(PG) 110MINS
Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the...
Everything Everything – Revive Live Tour
Doors 8pm | Malt Room Standing Everything Everything will be playing Brewery Arts as part of Music Venue Trust / The National Lottery’s Revive Live Tour. The...
Tide Lines – Revive Live Tour
Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £15 | Malt Room Standing Tide Lines will be playing Brewery Arts as part of Music Venue Trust / The National...
Tom Allen – Work in Progress
Starts 8pm | Tickets £15.50 | Theatre | Strictly age 14+ This show contains strong language and adult humour. Tom Allen is heading back on...