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CACN is a network for arts and cultural organisations and individual creative practitioners based in, or connected to, Cumbria.
We connect, empower, champion and extend arts and culture within Cumbria and beyond.
A Year in Arts & Culture
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CACN Podcasts
Sgraffito | Episode 4: David Kirkbride
Sgraffito | Episode 4: David Kirkbride
Sgraffito | Episode 3: Lauren Reid
Sgraffito | Episode 3: Lauren Reid
Sgraffito | Episode 2: Steph Bradshaw
Sgraffito | Episode 2: Steph Bradshaw
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Friday Zooms
The CACN Friday Zoom Calls happen every Friday morning from 09:30-10:30. They enable Cumbrian artists, creatives and cultural organisations to connect, share ideas and help each other grow. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the joining information each week.
Upcoming Friday Zooms…
Nov 13th: West Cumbria River Trust sculpture trails; CACN’s PIVOT programme reviewed with two PIVOTees; Lucy Nicholson dance artist
Nov 20th: Dan Jarvis on the new ACE freelancer book; Everyone Here film maker Nadia Jaynes; Azraa Motala new exhibition Motherland at Art Gene
“Every Friday morning I am inspired, cheered and educated. You should be able to get it on prescription.” Andrew Deakin
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Friday Zoom calls since 2020
9,709
Friday zoom attendances in total
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Tonnes of carbon saved through meeting online
CACN website Image Credits
Home (except image carousel):
Top Left: Detail Moth Trap Light Installation by Hannah Brackston, Barra Night Life, Art Gene 2019, Image Credit – Maddi Nicholson.
Top Mid: 39 Steps, Theatre by the Lake, Image Credit – Tony Bartholomew.
Top Right: Temple of Cultures Mural by Blank Wall Assasins and ATMA, Tullie House, Image Credit – Stuart Walker.
Mission Page: Somewhere Nowhere, Image Credit – Rob Fraser
Press Enquiries Page: Theatre by the Lake, Image Credit – Theatre by the Lake.
Image Carousel:
Composer Rebekah Okpoti & photographer Ian Clegg, Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture at St Andrew’s Church, Coniston | Kate Davis reading poetry at the Norman Nicholson Festival, Beggar’s Theatre, Millom, Credit: Charlie Lambert | Andy & Rosie, Prism Arts, Credit: Prism Arts | Artist for Change Danielle Chappers-Aspinwall, Playcations, Credit: BarrowFull | Ceramics by Catriona Archibald, Credit: Catriona Archibald | Cockermouth Live, Credit: Tom Kay | Creative Games at the BarrowFull Playcations, Credit: John Rennie | Dove Cottage Costumes, Credit: Wordsworth Grasmere | Festival of Colours, BarrowFull, Credit: Helen Bartosinski | Gallery 4 Abbot Hall, Lakeland Arts, Credit: Robin-Zahler | Green Croft Arts, Credit: Kit Haigh | Halima Cassell Momento (2022) Lakeland Arts, Credit: Robin Zahler | Harriet Fraser holding up the installation ‘What Rises Above the White Noise’ over the Langstrath Beck, The Long View project, Place Collective, Credit: Rob Fraser | Julie-Brook, Abbot Hall, Lakeland Arts, Credit: Robin-Zahler | Laila Sakini performs at Full of Noises, Barrow Park, Credit: Laurence Campbell | Moss Hut, Wordsworth Grasmere, created by Charlie Whinney, Place Collective, Credit: Rob Fraser | Prism Arts, Carlisle Puppet Pageant 2019, Credit: Prism Arts | Felicity Hammond, In Defence of Industry Exhibition, Signal Film & Media, Credit: Signal Film & Media | Signal Film & Media, Audience Interacting with LAB 212 installation, Credit: Signal Film & Media | Signal Film & Media, Audience at Will Kendrick Exhibition, Credit: Signal Film & Media | Signal Film & Media, Emerging Digital Artists Workshop, Credit: Signal Film & Media | Split Rock, Place Collective, Credit: Rob Fraser | StudioKGB, Carlisle Fireshow, Credit: The Studio Morland | StudioKGB, Four Critters, Credit: The Studio Morland | StudioKGB Sunshine, Credit: The Studio Morland | The Legend of King Arthur Exhibition, Tullie, Credit: Stuart Walker | Tullie Art Group, Credit: Stuart Walker | Vega Brennan, Drypoint printing at Richard Rose Central, Credit: Vega Brennan | Vega Brennan, In press room, Linden Print Studio, Credit: Vega Brennan | The Studio Morland, Credit: The Studio Morland | Woodland Connecting with Nature, Credit: Wordsworth Grasmere | Wordsworth Grasmere TM5, Credit: Tom McNally
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Registered office: c/o Theatre by the Lake, Lakeside, Keswick CA12 5DJ
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