Field Music’s new release is “Making A New World”, a 19 track song cycle about the after-effects of the First World War

A humorous, uplifting film following the adventures of 3 children and their donkeys in…

Hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers of modern African music, Fatoumata Diawara takes her artistry to fresh and thrilling heights on her new album FENFO

As part of National Theatre Connections, Brewery Youth Theatre 15+ bring you this stunning new play.

The world-renowned clairvoyant, medium and psychic is back!

Feature-film directorial debut by Nobutomo Naoko, who has made numerous TV documentaries based on…

An opportunity to explore the technique of Nuno Felt Making. Fine patterns are drawn with fleece onto a silk chiffon or muslin background, when felted together a subtle, delicate fabric is created.

Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour. 

Ladies That Bus is a comedy-drama and a heart-warming, hilarious tale of journeys taken and not taken, of regrets and celebrations, of isolation and what it means to be free…

Britain’s finest, most skilled practitioners in the art of the blues. The Blues Band.

A live adaptation of the unique girls’ manga, which has also been turned into…

Collagraph is a technique where prints are made from a collage; marks made on card with added materials which are then inked, wiped and run through a press onto dampened paper.

“Based on a real-life blog by a real-life Kaori that rose to No. 1…

There is something magical about the combination of Indigo dye and Shibori techniques. In this workshop you will create your own indigo hand dyed fabric by stitching, wrapping and pleating the fabric.

Now in their twelfth year as the UK’s leading Northern Soul band, The Northern Soultrain return to Kendal Brewery Arts Centre for what promises to be yet another big soul party in Kendal courtesy of Lancashire’s number one soul band!

Eight voices, eight stories, eight working lives, eight moments spread across half a millennium. Each playing a part in building our unique Cumbrian landscape.

Express your creativity and imagination in lots of different art forms

Develop your skill and understanding of portrait painting in oils, working direct from a model.

Following a performance of their own songs, schools will join together to perform the musical ‘Paws & Claws’

As used by many prominent printmakers today, discover how to create prints using Collagraph printmaking techniques. Making collages on card plates, you will explore the simple processes using wet and dry techniques as well as cutting to create your design.

Further develop your acrylic painting skills and gain confidence, exploring techniques and mixing colour effectively.

Develop your observational drawing skills in this introductory course, which takes you through some basic techniques and theories.

This course is for players with some experience and prior knowledge of chord shapes, strumming and picking patterns (either on ukulele or guitar).

Have you always wanted to try your hand at acting? Learn more about theatre? Meet new people? Then come along and try this one off workshop to develop new skills, stretch your creativity, build your confidence and have lots of fun.

Gesso has a wide application for every water-based media, acrylics, watercolour, gouache and inks.

Folk music’s legendary triumvirate of musical magpies Mike McGoldrick, John Doyle and John McCusker are out on the road again in 2020

Hollie is a UK poet, spoken word artist and motivational speaker who straddles the boundaries between the literary, poetic and pop scenes

A very special Verbalise event with Hollie McNish!

In 2020, as liberal values find themselves once more under threat, and we find ourselves adrift in a climate of distrust and paranoia, imitating the dog revisit George Romero’s classic zombie movie.

Following a hugely successful inaugural tour, Emergence, the postgraduate dance company of Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford, returns with a new cohort, two new works and the chance to see a reimagining of one of Arnott’s acclaimed productions

A teenage British Kashmiri, Noor, retraces her roots. She is joined by Majid, a…

If ever there was a band that personified the phrase “good things come to those who wait”, it’s Massive Wagons

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very-hard-to-pin-down-indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with a brand new show after a brief hiatus, during which she had a baby and so on.

Based on a true story, Yasuaki Shikano is 34 years old and suffers from…

This unique workshop is led by Theresa Taylor, one of the artists exhibiting in the show ‘Spatiality’ in the Brewery’s Sugar Store Gallery in Spring 2020. You will have the opportunity to create experimental layered prints combining drypoint and monoprint techniques.

Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all – if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart.

An opportunity for First Access classes or Large Instrumental Groups to perform together

Sea of Revival tells a story of a working class family trying to get by…

Willow tipis set delightful vertical accents to your garden, whilst being versatile and practical.

Benjamin Francis Leftwich announces his intimate UK tour for February and March 2020, which will see him play in venues he hasn’t before around the country. 

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.

Six albums in, Joanne Shaw Taylor has nothing to prove, but plenty to say.

Pro wrestling champion Hiroshi Tanahashi makes his acting debut as the gentle giant dad…

Create prints through the exciting processes of etching. Using copper sulphate and aluminium plates, Karen Lester will guide you through the processes of plate preparation, etching, inking and printing. Suitable for those new to etching and for those with some experience.

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!

Rebecca Stephens is the First British Woman to climb Mt Everest and the Seven Summits

Our annual schools’ dance event, now in its 16th year!

Spend a relaxing day with Greenhouse Floristry creating beautiful hand-tied flower bouquets, followed by the opportunity to paint your creations guided by artist Annie Turner.

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside…

Learn different techniques on how to create waves, water, paint, rocks and beaches with local artist Thuline de Cock.

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say. This month our guest is the poet Jonathan Humble.

Defy gravity and zoom into the sky for a dance adventure, inspired by our solar system.

Dynamic dance workshop exploring physical forces. Create your own movement inspired by gravity, resistance, friction, magnetic force and more.

Join us in the chaotic drama laboratory.

Become a boffin in this drama workshop and explore the world of a science lab, create experiments that have dramatic results.

Explore aerodynamics and air resistance by creating flying machines. Test them out in the Brewery gardens in a finale launch.

Discover the magic of conductive paint in this hands-on session. Learn the basics of using conductive paint, and bring your artwork to life with LEDs and conductive paint.

Join photographer Tim Murray and explore the magic of chemistry and developing the light-sensitive paper in the Brewery Darkroom

On a rare tour, the 3 original members of Oysterband open their treasure-chest of music and stories of life on the road as one of the most-travelled bands in the folk world.

For the first Scrutinise of 2020 our main guest is Activist and UK Youth Slam Champion Matt Sowerby with his spoken word show ‘Kidz Theez Dayz’

Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £18 | OTD £20 | Malt Room Standing  Mystery Jets are…

This course will provide students with the opportunity to practice and develop watercolour skills working direct from a portrait model.

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills. 

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

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills.

This course is for those who have already completed 4-5 years’ study, have an ‘O’ -level/ GCSE or can express themselves in the present, past and future tenses.

This course is for students who have studied French for at least 5-6 years, have a rusty A-level or lots of experience of the language. It will be run “tout en français!”

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

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.

This class has just completed its second year. If you feel you grasp the basics in terms of verb conjugation in the present tense and passato prossimo, have a basis in everyday vocabulary, can get by at a basic level in everyday situations and wish to build upon all of this, then this course should suit you.

Learn to sew and make garments using patterns that you will draft from your own body measurements.

If you are at a stage where you would like to extend your knowledge of more idiomatic language, look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure, and in doing so revise and clarify some of the basics, this is the course for you.

This course is for absolute beginners or those wishing to start again from scratch.

For those with some experience of watercolour, this short course focuses on techniques and approaches to painting landscapes.

This course explores further approaches to drawing, encouraging freer looser ways to work using exercises and experimenting with a range of media to create marks; watersoluble drawing materials, chalk, graphite sticks, charcoal and coloured paper.

Do you have memories to share, a story to tell, a chapter hidden in a drawer or poems in a notebook?

Observing from life is the perfect discipline to improve drawing skills. This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

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

This course will provide an opportunity for people with some drawing and painting practice to develop their painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

Combine traditional drawing methods using inks with more experimental approaches to get to grips with this versatile medium.

Sketch outdoors, finding inspiration at the beautiful location of the National Trust’s St Catherine’s Estate near Windermere.

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

Hone your camera skills and capture the beauty of the woodlands on the St Catherine’s estate near Windermere. For those with some basic knowledge of their camera who love being outdoors.

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

This course focuses on conversational German.

Boys Moves is a class dedicated to young men and how they move – and is dedicated to ensuring that boys love to dance!

Exciting and fun classes to develop contemporary dance skills alongside other dance styles, with a focus on creativity and performance

Are you new to digital photography and wandering how to get the most from your camera? Through a mixture of theory, demonstrations, exercises and assignments you will begin to master the controls of your digital camera.

This course aims to help you play your favourite songs by explaining some of the basics that are often not clear when tackling songs downloaded from guitar websites or found in guitar songbooks.

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

An inspiring art class for children in home education. Express your creativity and imagination in lots of different art forms.

This class is for older boys with some experience, or a real interest, in developing their skills and widening their knowledge of dance.

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

This class explores contemporary dance, creative dance, choreography, technique and performance. This class is perfect for dancers looking to widen their knowledge and experience of dance.

Have lots of fun moving and grooving with your child using props, music, story themes and tons of imaginative play

A fun session for young people aged 7-11 who love to act, explore & use their imaginations

A chance to explore and make!

Your chance to explore who you are and the world around you through drama. Learn lots of new skills and technique including vocal and physical work, improvisation, characterisation and performance skills.

This group is for anyone who has always wanted to have a go making a film but not sure where to start.

Fun and creative classes, where you and your friends are at the heart of the work you create. Lots of performance opportunities!

For young people who are a bit more serious about their theatre and prepared to be really committed to productions and developing skills and technique, whilst still having a lot of fun

For more advanced filmmakers who have some experience and want to enhance their skills and learn lots of new techniques in a fun and supportive environment

2020 sees the 35th anniversary of The Smiths’ legendary second album “Meat is Murder”. 

During this creative one day course, you will learn a number of techniques in order to produce beautiful pieces of art painted on silk.

A night for spoken word artists, novelists, storytellers, comedians and anyone with something to say. This month our guest is Rowland Crowland.

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.

Harmony-laden Americana band The Wandering Hearts burst onto the scene last year with their debut album Wild Silence.

Come and witness the first and possibly final performance of The World’s Greatest Magical Double Act!

This month’s Brewery Poets are Jennifer Copley, Hannah Hodgson, Amelia Loulli and Beatrice Stanley.

An unmissable evening with two guitar playing legends working in harmony

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

One life in the hands of 12 women.

Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling spheres of Paradiso with their endless configurations of light.

Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy.

Fire up your imagination and join us for a thrilling night of adventure

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality” Frida Kahlo

Bring your favourite stories and characters alive in this ‘dahlicious’ week of ingenious invention, creative dance, mischievous drama and ridiculous rhymes.

A relaxed club watching films and playing games.

Live/Wire is The AC/DC Show. The hugely successful and unique six-man tribute to rock music’s greatest band AC/DC, complete with cannons, a wall of Marshalls’ and over two hours of High Voltage Rock ‘n’ Roll in a show critically acclaimed for its closeness in look and sound to the real thing.

Join Tez as he uses his trademark silly, smart and subversive approach to pit ordinary people against the establishment

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.

Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife.