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Featured Events
Holker Garden Festival
Friday 8 June - Sunday 10 June 2012
The Holker Garden Festival celebrates the best of gardens, countryside and food and promises an absolute riot of colour and fragrances. Attractions include displays by leading horticulturalists, show gardens, floral marquees, food stalls and marquees from leading real-food producers.
More info at the Holker Hall website
Lake District Local Events
Winter/Spring 2012
Brantwood Art Exhibitions
from 14 January until 25/27 March
Absence and Presence in the Severn Studio: An exhibition of recent work by this up and coming young artist Stephen Maxwell Campbell. Oils depicting a range of subjects from pastel floral studies to bold landscapes and urban scenes.
Loving the Unloved: John Ruskin's Thistles in the Blue Gallery: Ruskin developed an eccentric, often mystical, attitude to plants which is nowhere more distinctive than in his interpretation of thistles and other spiky plants.
Model Railway Exhibition, Leisure Centre, Kendal
Saturday, 28 January - Sunday, 29 January, 10am-5pm
Kendal Model Railway Club 2012 Exhibition with minimum of ten working layouts in a variety of scales. Also trade stands selling a range of goods for the modeller, preservation society and special interest stands.
Gardeners Question Time, Grange-over-Sands
31 January, 5.30pm
The popular Radio 4 series Gardeners Question Time is being recorded at the Victoria Hall in Grange-over-Sands. The BBC were invited by The Friends of Park Road Gardens to record this long-running gardening programme in Grange.
Further info: 015395 34026 (tickets limited)
Cartmel Food Market
20 January, 17 February, 16 March, 20 April, 18 May, 15 June, 20 July, 17 August, 21 September, 19 October, 16 November & 21 December
The popular country market features the finest food from around the area including Farmers, Growers, Artisan Producers and Speciality Food Merchants.
Further info from David Unsworth: 015395 36025
South Cumbria Music Festival
Sunday, 25 March - Saturday, 31 March
Seven days of competitive music and speech classes.
Tea with Peter Rabbit
Sunday 1 & 15 April, 20 May, 24 June, 11 July and Wednesday 8 & 22 August at 1pm
Come and enjoy a scrumptious party lunch with Peter Rabbit. There will be sandwiches, crisps and cakes galore. A guest of honour to read The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Booking essential, call 0844 504 1233 ext 277.
The Great Peter Rabbit Easter Egg Hunt
Thursday, 5 April from 10am - FREE.
Take part in one of the UK’s largest Easter Egg Hunts for a chance to win one of ten top prizes. This year 110 ceramic eggs have been specially designed and hand-crafted to celebrate Peter Rabbit’s 110th birthday and the centenary year of ‘The Tale of Mr Tod’. The distinctive eggs will be hidden across Cumbria with clues to help you in your search.
Cartmel Medieval Festival
Sunday, 25 March - Saturday, 31 March
Taking place in over a dozen locations in the historic village of Cartmel over the weekend with acts as diverse as juggling, archery, medieval sports and a son et lumiere.
Cartmel Races
Ladies Night on Derby Day
Saturday, 2nd June
Arrive early to enjoy the musical entertainment and live screening of the Derby from Epsom. It will be Ladies Night - so why not dress up for the occasion? There will be some great prizes on offer.
Cartmel Races
Diamond Jubilee Holiday Festival
Monday, 4 June
This annual Bank Holiday Festival is always one of the year's star attractions, but 2012 promises to be even better because we will be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Holker Garden Festival
Friday 8 June - Sunday 10 June
The Festival has attractions for all the family, from gardening inspiration, bouncy castles and playground roundabouts to a unique shopping experience for adults, with over 200 exhibitors. The Festival has attractions for all the family, from gardening inspiration, bouncy castles and playground roundabouts to a unique shopping experience for adults, with over 200 exhibitors.
