Christmas Wreath Making & Festive Feast

Join us for a very special Christmas wreath making workshop, get creative and make your own Christmas door wreath. All materials will be provided. Includes Festive Feast afterwards.
Let’s Make It A Rainbow Christmas

In this hands-on session , you will design and create your own custom festive Plaque and personalised tree decoration- the perfect keepsakes to add a touch of magic to your home this Christmas
Let’s Make It A Rainbow Christmas

hands-on session , you ‘ll design and create your own custom festive vase and personalised bauble – the perfect keepsakes to ad a touch of magic to your home this Christmas All materials and equipment are provided, and you’ll have access to a beautiful selection of pre -cut festive designs to make your creations truly […]
Carlisle Unity Festival: Nature’s Power To Manage Anxiety

In this interactive workshop, psychotherapist and therapeutic gardener Lina Mookerjee will invite participants to explore nature’s power to help stabilise, manage and improve mental health and wellness. Using ideas, her own story and exercises, Lina shows how using personal power and agency to make change happen can affect our wellbeing. Workshop from 11:00am to 12:30 […]
Carlisle’s Unity Festival

Since 2016 local organisations have created this annual Festival together to celebrate inclusion, equality and diversity and promote unity and wellbeing across the whole community
When Buffalo Bill Visited Carlisle

Learn about the time when American showman William “Buffalo Bill” Cody brought his Wild West extravaganza to Carlisle in 1904. He thrilled the audience with the cast of first native Americans, buffalos, and even the sharpshooter, Annie Oakley. Start time: 7pm Finish time: 8.30pm (approximately) Entrance fee: £4 for members; £6 for non-members, including refreshments. […]
Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival

Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival is back for it’s 9th year! We have a weekend full of poetry, prose and fantastic authors planned, plus a couple of VERY special events: – L J Ross in conversation – M W Craven and Abir Mukherjee in conversation – Poetry Open Mic Night – Eleanor Tweddell – Another door […]
Borderlines: Tea and Cake with K J Whittle

Come along for tea and cake (included in ticket price) with author K J Whittle, as she talks about her debut novel, ‘Seven Reasons to Kill Your Dinner Guests’. A devilish who dun-it that asks the question – what would you do differently if you knew when your time was up? Join us for a […]
Borderlines: Alan Johnson – Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man

Former Labour cabinet minister and author, Alan Johnson, will discuss his recent biography. Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man explores the achievements and life of the four-time election winning Prime Minister. Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections […]
Borderlines: Jenn Ashworth – The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North

After burn-out & a lockdown, author Jenn Ashworth needed to walk and to walk away. Tackling Wainwright’s Coast to Coast, Jenn embarked on a journey of reconnection, self-discovery and a life altering diagnosis. Burnt out and longing for an escape, Jenn Ashworth emerged from lockdown with a compulsive need to walk – and to walk […]