Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without our traditional screening of It’s A Wonderful Life!…

Dance Culture UK are back for another night of heavy bass sounds

We are firm believers that anyone and everyone can dance.

This is a course for those who love nature and who wish to explore drawing further with a wide range of media.

This course develops your confidence in speaking, revises and expands aspects of grammar and vocabulary.

This course is for advanced students with a very good knowledge of spoken French.

Ideal for those with a basic knowledge of their camera who want to learn more

This course focuses on conversational German.

A fun and diverse, mixed genre class.

Designed to strengthen your portfolio of work and overall visual style.

Explore the natural world during this new course with Thuline de Cock. Develop your skills in painting animals, landscapes, flowers, and more.

This course will introduce the beginner to the basics of guitar playing, covering practical techniques and rudimentary theory.

Create your own unique piece in our fully-equipped jewellery space.

The benefits of yoga are manifold and include improving relaxation, strength, posture, flexibility and sleep patterns.

Our Brewery Community Choir offers you the chance to enjoy singing in a relaxed and fun environment.

Expand your knowledge to converse more freely in a wider range of topics to suit your interests

Express your creativity and imagination in lots of different art forms.

Learn how to paint land, sea, tree and city-scapes using acrylic, watercolour and pastel with renowned local artist Thuline de Cock.

Explore a variety of techniques, including lino printing, monotype, drypoint etching and collagraph with new Brewery tutor artist and printmaker Penny Hunt.

An inspiring art class for children in home education.

Explore your creativity using a range of art techniques such as masking and resist methods for inks and paints, mark making for pattern and texture, paper cuts, pen and wash, collage etc.

This course opens the door to the wide range of surface treatments available for ceramic work.

Develop contemporary dance skills alongside other dance styles.

Join us for a fun and lively class where you can develop your skills in art, craft and design.

This class is perfect for dancers looking to widen their knowledge and experience of dance.

An informal and relaxed course during which you will develop your keyboard skills.

Learn to describe your interests and leisure, express your ideas with confidence on a range of topics, talk about the present, past, future and conditional events.

A brand new course with professional photographer Tim Murray

Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar.

Explore expressive mark making and develop ways to make interesting and unusual marks.

Dance Fit is a fun, aerobic dance class that you can take at your own pace. Develop strength, stamina and overall fitness whilst moving to a variety of music.

This course for students with a good knowledge of spoken French will be run “tout en français!”

Enjoy movement play involving using props, bodies and imagination.

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model.

If you would like to continue extending your knowledge of more idiomatic language and look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure, this is the course for you.

An opportunity for people with some experience to develop drawing and/or painting direct from a life model.

This course is for students who have studied French for 3-4 years have a rusty O level/GCSE or some experience of the language.

If you have completed a first year in Adult education or have an elementary knowledge of Italian, which you would like to build upon, this is the course for you.

Play lots of drama games and make new friends.

Your chance to explore who you are and the world around you through drama.

Delve into the fascinating world of book illustration.

Explore some of the many printmaking techniques through this course.

This course will enable you to communicate in Spanish at a basic level in a range of everyday situations.

Learn to sew and make garments using patterns, or make accessories and household items for yourselves or for gifts.

Embroider the cover for a beautiful handmade notebook using silk shading and goldwork inspired by Art Nouveau design.

Look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure

Learn how to create unique pieces of textile art, using a variety of different media

You can hold a conversation in Spanish but there are skills that need improving and vocabulary that needs increasing.

Using chalk pastels, develop application and blending techniques further to create paintings using photographs and still life references of winter themes.

Fun and creative dance class.

4.30-6pm | 11-18yrs | £65 per term | Tutor Stuart Sutton This group is for…

Serious about theatre?

6.15-7.45pm | 14+yrs | £65 per term | Tutor Stuart Sutton For more advanced filmmakers…

Be bolder with watercolours and develop skills to create depth

Learn how to screenprint your own design and go through the whole process from the design stage to pulling the squeegee!

Expand your knowledge to converse more freely in a wider range of topics to suit your interests

Learn to play the ukulele, a fun and accessible instrument

In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Would you like to pursue a career in theatre?

Explore the writer’s toolbox from simile to suspense with the intention of producing original work of your own

This course is for those who have already completed 5 years’ study, have a rusty 0 level or some experience of the language

Exploring different techniques, processes and methods to capture character and likeness, using both primary and secondary source material

A class for young people who are home educated to explore the performing arts.

Traditional Thai massage is an ancient healing system that combines broad and targeted acupressure, stimulation and manipulation of energy lines called sen, and assisted yoga postures.

This course is for those who have already completed 2 years’ study, and have some experience of the language.

Get hands-on with clay in our pottery studio.

An introduction to circus skills, movement and acrobatics.

A powerful yet gentle deep relaxation practice, Yoga Nidra is especially useful for promoting normal deep sleep, mental calm and physical ease free of tension and pain.

Sivananda Yoga, one of the branches of Indian Hatha yoga, is medium paced and suitable for all abilities.

A creative dance session.

A day course for those new to etching and those with some previous experience

Advance your movement skills whilst having fun in this all-male class.

Boyz Moves is a class dedicated to young men and how they move.

Mali’s celebrated stars of the desert blues genre and one of Africa’s most successful musical exports.

The Funk ‘n’ Soul Show returns for one of the biggest and friendliest club nights around.

Explore using washes, drawing with inks, and using acrylic paint with rags and card to create your paintings

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say.

One of the most powerful and compelling sounds of Folk and World music

Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the new award-winning five-star hit musical for today.

You don’t need an expensive camera to produce some beautiful images of your holiday in the Lakes.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

If you love your house music and soul and have tried the odd yoga pose, this 2 hour vinyl delight of yoga is just for you.

Our comedy club nights are not-to-be missed!

Fancy a giggle, come along to the Brewery’s monthly comedy night.

Learn how to design and build textures and interest to create a collagraph plate and then how to ink and print a small edition from it.

Richard Eyre’s beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi’s opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love.

“Witty physical theatre at its finest. Go and see it.” Bristol 24/7 

An ideal introduction to needle felting, demonstrating how you can sculpt with fleece to make blackbirds and their nests

Please have your tickets ready for an uplifting journey filled with funk, soul, disco and Motown classics.

“This is one of the most original sounding albums doing the rounds at the moment”  God Is In The TV Zine

Time travelling magic duo Morgan & West present an evening chock full of jaw-dropping, brain bursting, gasp eliciting feats of magic.

A day of hand embroidery using goldwork techniques on boiled wool to create a beautiful silver tup.

Contact with the extra-terrestrial musical collective – HENGE – is imminent.

The husband & wife duo bring an infectious mix of heavenly vocals, lush harmonies and driving rhythmic guitars.

This intensive short course will give you valuable tools and techniques to shape your masterpiece

Cyanotypes are one of the earliest forms of photography.

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say.

After a sellout national tour in 2017, Ed Gamble is back with another bracing flurry of idiocy. 

Experience the healing and transformational benefit of Sacred Meditation

This course will help develop guitar playing skills such as chord playing, strumming and picking techniques, rhythm reading and improvising.

Have developed your mixed media skills using a wide variety of techniques and media enabling you to create a series of your own mixed media work.

Love and friendship triumph in Carlos Acosta’s vibrant production of this dazzling Ballet.

This course will give participants the opportunity to further explore the medium of book illustration.

Pick up a brush and whether you are a complete beginner, or have some painting experience, this workshop will help develop your artistic skills

Discover how to make vessels and bowls, bags and purses using wet felting techniques.

Combine drawing materials with your watercolour painting to discover further possibilities with this wonderful medium

Using magical wet felting techniques, be inspired by the natural beauty of Langdale and create a fantastic felted landscape using wool and yarns.

Explores ways to get the best from your watercolour palette, helping you to make effective choices when selecting colours.

For players with some experience of chord shapes, strumming and picking patterns either on ukulele or guitar

Taking the idea of empowerment as a starting point, both choreographers have created pieces that play to the incredible strengths of the dancers. 

The purity and translucent quality of porcelain is matched by its inherent limitations in workability.

Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £18 OTD £20 | Malt Room Blazin’ Fiddles are one of…

“A dazzling display of soul-searching comedy” Guardian ★★★★

Give that threadbare chair a bit of TLC!

A day course for those new to etching and those with some previous experience

If you have always wanted to put your words to music but were not sure how to begin!

“Tears of laughter… endearingly frank and funny”  Guardian

Explore imaginative ways of responding to the landscape using a mixture of pastel, charcoal, and ink together with paint

Former Bellowhead front-man and multiple BBC Folk Award winner!

What’s going right, what’s going wrong and how does it get better?

Absurd and highly visual performance with puppetry, physical comedy, original music and integrated animated projection.

Enhance your home by designing and creating your own stunning lampshade using some simple printmaking techniques

Where There’s Muck There’s Bras celebrates the real Northern Powerhouse – the sung and unsung women of the North of England.

“I can’t remember feeling so exhilarated by such a match of music and landscape.” Richard Morrison, The Times (on Kathryn’s Northumbrian Voices).

A one-man musical comedy by award-winning duo Tom Wells (Jumpers for Goalposts) and Matthew Robins (music) fresh from a sell-out tour.

“..has the ability to inject pure emotion into a song. The kind of voice that can leave you shell-shocked’’ The Sunday Times

Hal’s literally filled our screens recently on Have I Got News For You, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Bake Off: Extra Slice, and Live at the Apollo.

This course will take you through a complete digital workflow from the basic file created in the camera through to the final pigment print

A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world. It’s a world of lost things: car keys, wedding rings, dads, and a mysterious girl who is building an amazing machine.

Moya Brennan, Voice of Clannad and First Lady of Celtic Music is touring internationally to showcase her new studio album Canvas.

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say

A special musical tribute to the legendary Elvis Presley

Leonora falls in love with Don Alvaro, but when her father forbids their marriage, a fatal accident triggers a drama of obsession, vengeance and tragedy.

Grab your tights, your spanx and your most supportive sports bra.

Fancy a giggle, come along to the Brewery’s monthly comedy night. 

Our comedy club nights are not-to-be missed!

Learn some of the key skills of a sculptor (Pinch, slab & coil) and in the process, you will create your very own masterpiece that you can be proud of.

A brand new spoken word night for Verbalise performers who are developing new material for full-length shows.

The characters of Moomintroll, Snufkin, Little My and Thingummy & Bob are brought to life with 2D rod puppets and life size 3D puppets.

Within days of writing and playing together, they knew they were onto something. Now they’re taking it on the road!

Hone your camera skills and capture the beauty of the woodlands on the St Catherine’s estate near Windermere.

If you have always wanted to put your words (or someone else’s) to music but were not sure how to begin, then this workshop will help you get started.

Are you new to digital photography and wandering how to get the most from your camera?

Develop portrait painting in oils, working direct from a model.

This is an introductory Pottery course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work.

The course explores the practical and creative applications of clay and covers a wide variety of traditional pottery techniques.

An opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model

A fun, creative course that explores all the techniques associates with Silk Painting and Batik

Create drawings using different approaches to develop freer, more expressive drawing styles in response to observation of a range of subjects

Start to work with watercolour paint, exploiting its beautiful properties, using big washes and brushes to build layers of colour

“Glory Boys” 40th Anniversary Tour 1979-2019

Unsung explores the untold stories of four pioneering and inspirational female figures from our past, asking why they, and hundreds like them, have been relegated to the footnotes.

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting skills

Tutor Catherine MacDiarmid | £69 | 5 weeks This course will provide an opportunity…

This is an introductory Pottery course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work.

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2018

One of Ireland’s finest vocalists

Paint flowers/blossoms in acrylic and finish off with some pastel.

Join acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Nick Sharratt and draw along with him!

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say.

Discover the creative possibilities of making art and craft from and in the natural environment at the Footprint, Windermere.

The story of Faust, who trades his soul with the Devil for youth and power.

For many, Rembrandt is the greatest artist that ever lived and this deeply moving film seeks to explore the truth about the man behind the legend.

Starts 8pm | Tickets £12.50 | Theatre  Directed by Daniel Goldman Five years ago, James’s…

“The most enthralling sounds around.” The Scotsman

Addicted to the pounding beats and neon glow of her generation, follow Kate as she discovers her potential as a cutting-edge scientist.

A one-day course exploring the springtime woodlands nearby to inform our writing on place and nature.

Learn some traditional principles of willow and hedgerow weaving

A kind of unstoppably funny Superhero.

“She has plenty to say, and says it with pointedness and potency” Guardian

 The U.K’s premier improv comedy troupe who have taken the comedy world by storm.

Fancy a giggle, come along to the Brewery’s comedy night designed especially for kids.

These days Justin’s not certain about anything apart from his uncertainty.

Equal parts historical and hysterical, lose yourself in the company of sailors, barmaids and bootleggers in this darkly comic cabaret.

Two recent works and one World premiere showcase the contemporary face of the Royal Ballet.

Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £25 | Malt Room Seated EDDI READER announces her brand…

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say.

Calling all adventure lovers!

Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers encounter passion and tragedy in Kenneth Macmillan’s 20th-century ballet masterpiece.

Luke Wright seeks poetry’s top job. Has own quill.

Comedian and Impressionist Luke Kempner hosts an ultimate reality show where no one is off limits.