This is Lemn’s life story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.

Legendary Jamaican reggae musicians Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I, and Cedric Myton collaborate…

HITSVILLE: THE MAKING OF MOTOWN chronicles the astronomical success and enduring cultural impact of…

As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the…

“Are we the same person? If not, why not? If so, can either of us bear it?”

Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements…

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system…

SPRINTER tells the story of Akeem Sharp (Dale Elliott), who is set to be…

Sofie Hagen returns to Kendal with a brand new show direct from the Edinburgh Fringe.  A show about the things you forget, the things you remember, and the things you wish you could forget. But also, there’s a bit about bums.

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.

Make your own set of postcards using linocut, a technique in which a lino block is carved and printed to make a two colour print and a small edition.  

Yawn is Bill Ryder-Jones’ fourth album, rewarding the listeners’ attention with motifs and melodies that play hide and seek but never fail to deliver.

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

A shy film student begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a…

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is revealed.

One of the programmes from our new archive tour, Britain on Film: Railways is a major new…

This exciting Metallica gig with S&M2 will be screened in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the S&M concerts and album release!

In and Out of Chekhov’s shorts is an exhilarating, fun and accessible romp through some of the best of Chekhov’s short stories

“Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story…

“The Goldfinch” is the film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s globally acclaimed bestseller of the…

Shaun, a directionless man-child, is a disappointment to his girlfriend, family and friends. But…

When a mysterious virus ravages humanity, turning people into mindless flesh-eating zombies, a handful…

Give that threadbare chair a bit of TLC! This intensive 2-day course will cover reupholstering a drop-in seat or stool following the basics traditional upholstery methods including the correct use of tools and fabric, plus skills such as traditional webbing, stuffing and stitching techniques.

After being conjured by a secret Nazi society in 1945, a demon is raised…

Touko Laaksonen returns home to Finland from the harrowing experiences World War II, but…

In Zombillenium, the Halloween theme park, the monsters are unhappy. Not only are the…

Wandering a zombie wasteland, matool survives by his wits, animal instinct and an array…

Sexual intrigue, jealousy, wit, anger… and retribution!

In the mid-seventies, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial city. In a…

An inspired contemporary re-telling of Wilde’s Dorian Gray, exploring male vanity, gym culture, masculinity and body dysmorphia.

Considered by many as the best British film ever made, we celebrate the 70th…

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play.

For the first time in twenty years, there is nobody trying to make him famous.

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind…

When teenage Yi (Chloe Bennet, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) encounters a young Yeti on…

When an alien possessing strange powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep…

The Dub Pistols are a riotous collision of drum & bass, hip-hop, ska, dub and punk.

Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a…

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.

“Nothing prepares you for the high octane music of the Peatbog Faeries. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heartbeat.” The Scotsman

Being a slug is hard. Everyone thinks you’re disgusting.

Jason Byrne returns with his brand-new show, Wrecked But Ready.

“Are We There Yet?” 40th Anniversary Tour

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.

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

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations.

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

29 Oct – 3 Dec | 1.00 -3.30 pm | Tutor Catherine MacDiarmid |…

Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist.

Join us for a special All Hallows Eve-Eve screening of Robert Wiene’s classic horror…

Explore the endless possibilities of paper, wire and stitch! Learn how to colour, paint and wax different papers creating a variety of grounds using inks, dyes and pigments.

This course provides the opportunity to further develop your watercolour skills and gain confidence, exploring techniques such as glazing and creating lights and whites.

This is a fun and practical course giving you an opportunity to create with clay together

Watch out! There’s a Snatcher about!

Join us for an evening of short films, lively discussion and networking for local…

“The musicianship is phenomenal, the enthusiasm infectious – Folk Radio UK

Since she first rose to the surface of the art scene she’s been creating ripples far and wide

Hurried along by relentless content, stricken by disasters and facing problems varying vastly in scale, how do we know where to focus?

Take a journey into the curious, unexpected, and downright surreal origins of the words we use every day.

★★★★ ‘Full of sharp one-liners and well-crafted gags…a real talent to look out for’ Metro

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

Capture the delicate beauty of porcelain in our Christmas workshop where you can make stunning, light enhancing porcelain candleholders. They may be too beautiful to give away as gifts!

An outlandish trip through the mind of one of literature’s most influential imaginations.

“It’s a lot easier to say something in a song than in a conversation,” said Kim Richey.

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage, this mixed programme highlights the versatility of the Company.

Idlewild’s marriage of punk rock, poetry and Highland spirit saw them grow from a raucous cult curiosity into chart-bothering national treasures.

Take a nostalgic promenade to classic British holiday resorts including Weston-super-Mare, Morecambe and Skegness, a…

Don’t miss this witty and devastating portrait of the governing class.

Doors 7pm | Tickets £5.50 | Warehouse Brewery Poets: Antony Christie, Harriet Fraser, Mark…

Half gig, half dance show and half panto! Join the BBC Award Winning team of musicians & dancers for 150% of the very best festive live music, song and dance!

Morgan & West present captivating chemistry, phenomenal physics, and bonkers biology in this fun for all the family science extravaganza!

Regarded with awe throughout the music world, Lee “Scratch” Perry holds status as one of the most enduring and original reggae producers and artists of all time.

“Anyone with a nose for genuine rock’n’roll already knows that Fat White Family are plainly the most exciting, influential and talked-about band to come out of this country in the last few years,” declared Domino boss Laurence Bell in December 2016.

Willow Winter Wonders! Give your festive decorations a natural touch this season: Wreaths, stars and hearts, mini willow xmas trees for the table, or gorgeous reindeer – who can resist?

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

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter.

Seth returns in 2019 to touring and festival dates with some solows and with his brilliant new four-piece band featuring long-time collaborator Ben Nicholls (upright and electric bass), plus new boys Kit Hawes (electric and acoustic guitar) and Evan Jenkins (drums).

Natacha Atlas is an internationally-acclaimed artist with one of the world’s most distinctive voices.

Christmas comedy at the Brewery, enjoy a range of comedians from ‘up’ North.

Make a simple, soft-backed books using different bookbinding techniques as well as a hard-backed book to take home for yourself or for a handmade gift just in time for Christmas.

Join The Knotted Project & Hawk Dance Theatre on our interactive icy adventure for ages 4+ and their families!

One of the finest rock & roll bands of the 1970s, Showaddywaddy also proved to be one of the most successful and enduring.

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet has been hailed as ‘the single most eagerly awaited dance show for 2019’ by The Daily Telegraph.

A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls.

From a 1910 suffragette demonstration to striking coal miners in the Rhondda Valley, from…

Part of their European tour 2019 Big Country are performing at the Brewery.

The world’s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, the only Mac tribute to authentically replicate the classic ‘Rumours’ line-up

‘Cracking adlibbing…a joke-rich rallying call for a better Britain’ THE GUARDIAN

The undisputed kings of musical comedy The Lancashire Hotpots are back to bring you another non-stop night of madcap music and laughs!

The Royal Ballet’s glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite.

Creating a sense of the fireside in the theatre.

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

This is an introduction to Spanish for learners who have no prior knowledge of the language, or who have picked up a few Spanish phrases and want to expand on this.

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

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

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

This is a chance to explore some of South Lakeland’s superb scenery at a photographer’s pace.

Immerse yourself in the natural world finding inspiration at the beautiful location of Footprint, Windermere.

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

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.

This course focuses on conversational German.

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

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

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

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop using oil paint in a more experimental way.

This ten-week course is designed to help you gain experience and understanding of working with porcelain clay. The purity and translucent quality of porcelain is matched by its inherent limitations in workability.

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

This course opens the door to the wide range of surface treatments available for ceramic work at The Brewery and suggests ways of integrating them into your pieces. The aim is to give you more control over the finish of your work.

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.

Want to learn how to use a film camera? Interested in developing your own prints? On this brand new course, professional photographer Tim Murray will guide you all the way from learning the functions on a film camera and improving your photographic compositions to the printing process and producing your own prints in the Brewery Darkroom.

Explore expressive mark making and develop ways to make interesting and unusual marks. Learn how to use different materials and layer these in exciting ways.

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.

This course will give you the opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of book illustration.

A relaxed and informal course dedicated to discovering the secrets and stories in 20th-century art and linking how they relate to the present day.

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

This course aims to give you the freedom and confidence to begin writing (or go on writing) whatever it is you really want to write. Suitable for anyone who’s ever had the urge to put pen to paper.

One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency.

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.

Discover how to make felt in all its forms. From making vessels and bowls to ‘Nuno’ and needlefelting, you’ll have the opportunity to try a broad range of techniques and develop your skills in this versatile medium.

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

Learn how to paint with this exciting flexible medium, focussing on paint handling and mixing colour.

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.

Learn to play the ukulele, a fun and accessible instrument. With its small size and soft strings, it is easy to learn a few chords and strumming patterns that will enable you to play many well-known songs for your own pleasure.

If you have little or no previous screenprinting experience this new course will get you started! You will learn how to screenprint your own design and go through the whole process from the design stage to pulling the squeegee!

This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both in its new home after World War II and as a world-class company.

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 in the 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 help you explore the writer’s toolbox from simile to suspense with the intention of producing original work of your own.

This course will provide opportunities for students to develop portraiture, exploring different techniques, processes and methods to capture character and likeness, using both primary and secondary source material.

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

The estimable London 4-piece release their eighth studio album through Cooking Vinyl on January 26th 2018, followed by a UK & European tour.

One of the Edinburgh Fringe’s most celebrated talents of recent times sets out on his first full national tour.

The band are delighted to be coming back to Kendal again, and your enjoyment is guaranteed – you will go away breathless, excited, exhausted from singing along … but craving more !!

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.

“Witty, moving and seriously catchy, Robyn Hitchcock is a glorious return for a man who wasn’t really gone in the first place.”

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poignant final scene over which the composer himself wept.

This workshop co-insides with Catherine Macdiarmid’s exhibition ‘Personal’, in the Sugar Store Gallery. On it, you will gain an incite into Catherine’s artistic processes while composing your own unique portrait.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop using oil paint in a more experimental way.

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).

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

For almost 30 years, Tommy Fleming has been honing his craft and entertaining the masses with his extraordinary talent

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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