Local events

Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall will create a spectacular line of light from coast to coast. This once in a lifetime event will follow the route of the 84 mile long Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail. As it reaches Carlisle there will be a second public event ‘Welcoming the Light’ to celebrate the light’s arrival.

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Join Huck, an outcast teenager, and Jim, a runaway slave, as they flee down the Mississippi on their makeshift raft. With live music and a charmingly funny script, Huck is a messy, raucous and uncouth epic for young, old and everyone in between.

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The Sands Centre will be host to a night of classical music as you get an opportunity to hear one of Bax’s orchestral masterpieces, Spring Fire, with its musical references to his interest in Celtic mysticism.

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Stones in his Pockets is the award-winning, hilarious and sometimes poignant tale of a quiet Irish community and the change it undergoes with the arrival of a massive Hollywood movie shoot.

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Join the North of England's biggest Easter Egg Hunt. 100 unique Peter Rabbit eggs will be hidden across Cumbria, thanks to The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction.

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