Cumbria, The Lake District, is a vibrant county with always something going on throughout the year. From festivals to farmers markets, county fairs to concerts there is always something of interest for everybody.
Whichever of our Lake District Cottages you decide to stay in there will be plenty to keep you entertained.
There are plenty of good diary and event sites to let you know what's where and when and it is well worth picking up our great, award winning local news paper, The West Moreland Gazette, or visit their website.
Some Of The Coming Events For August & September
Abbott Hall Kendal Art Exhibition of Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections
Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections - 9 July - 8 October 2011
This summer Abbot Hall Art Gallery has curated the first major UK exhibition of the American artist R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007), following the Tate’s controversial retrospective in 1994. Offering an opportunity for a reappraisal of his artistic achievements the exhibition features fifty paintings and works on paper, which have been selected from the point of view of Kitaj’s own concept of painting as portraiture in its broadest sense. Including many self portraits and portraits of some of the leading thinkers, poets and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Isaiah Berlin, Robert Creeley and David Hockney. -
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The Lakeland Maize Maze - Raines Hall Farm, Sedgwick, Near kendal
Lakeland Maize maize, near Kendal, is a great day for all. Along with two mazes in which to get lost for a day there is a soft play area, a pets corner, go karts plus lots more.
For more information and open hours visit the maize web site
Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House - MH Baillie Scott and CFA Voysey, The Lake District & Beyond: Arts & Crafts Houses and Furnishings
22 July - 30 October 2011
The summer exhibition for Blackwell’s anniversary year looks at the work of two outstanding Arts & Crafts architect-designers: Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) and Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865-1945), Blackwell’s architect. Voysey was Baillie Scott’s senior by nine years and had an enduring influence on him. It was the truth and “absolute sincerity” of Voysey’s architecture that appealed to Baillie Scott, whilst Voysey in his turn praised the younger man’s work.
The exhibition is an opportunity to look beyond the architecture to the interiors and furnishings designed by Voysey and Baillie Scott, and will include textiles, metalwork and furniture as well as architectural plans and archive material.
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