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Cumbria Contemporary presents...
The Cockermouth Weekender
On the weekend of 8th, 9th and 10th March, 2013 Cumbria Contemporary invites you to creative Cockermouth - Wordsworth’s birthplace, rich in history, independent shops and galleries, and doing a mean line in local food, ales and music. With Stuart Maconie presiding over events it promises to be sociable, fun and more than a little bit quirky:
Friday night, comedian and science enthusiast Robin Ince
Lunchtime Saturday at The Trout, food and beer pairing presided over by Stuart Maconie
Saturday afternoon - tours of the town
Lee Patterson sound installation The Laughing Water Dashes Through
Saturday evening and Stuart Maconie’s at the Kirkgate
Sunday morning walk with Stuart Maconie and Alison O’Neill, Shepherdess
Sunday evening Jon Boden
Tickets for Robin Ince and Stuart Maconie evening performances are available direct from The Kirkgate Arts Centre which is open from 10am - 1pm Monday to Friday: 01900 826448
6.30pm till 10.00pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4 Play Cycle shop and 1 Castlegate, local artist, Maggie Hall has created two video pieces which incorporate experimental drawing and photographic animations. Artist information
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We have some fantastic (but limited) accomodation offers here
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Cockermouth Weekender : 8-10 March 2013
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We have some fantastic (but limited) accomodation offers here
Any more questions? Then drop an email to swood@cumbriatourism.org
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Tourism in the Lake District goes way back, as does its links to art and culture. In the 1700s, pioneering clergyman Thomas West published a Guide to the Lakes. The book tore up the manual when it came to travelling in the North. West banished the idea that Cumbria was wild and inhospitable; instead, he created an aesthetic tour, a series of special viewing ‘stations’ from which the earliest creative tourist could best appreciate the glorious Lakeland vista. And with that, the Lake District was suddenly on everyone’s map, and tourism as we know it (in the Lakes, at any rate) was born.
Cumbria Contemporary revisits that cultural heritage, and introduces visitors to the contemporary riches and depths of a whole county - the vibrant community of artists, venues and creatives, who connect with the landscape, with each other and with a back catalogue of cultural icons to trump most rural areas we can think of.
Think of Cumbria and what springs to mind? A rural retreat made up of Lake District landscapes, character-building hikes and snug pubs? If these are the images scudding across your mind’s eye right now, you’d not be wrong. Yet there is much more to Cumbria than its wholesome outdoor image might suggest. And much more to its art and culture, too.
