Midsummer LOVELESS Garden Party tickets are now on sale 💓🌱
Join us on Saturday 20th June 6-10pm for a evening inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream 🫏🧚🏽♀️
Step into a theatrical and whimsical world of mischief and QUEER magic.
Expect a night of playful rebellion, and spells cast in colour and sound.
Dress up encouraged 💅🏽
… Think theatrical, otherworldly, carnivalesque—fae, lovers, tricksters, or something entirely your own!
🍥18+
🍥Cafe Tullie bar with themed cocktails + more
🍥£5 tickets or limited number of *FREE* tickets available at Tullie.org.uk
A @queercumbria x Tullie event 💚
More details to follow 🌸🪗🍹
Artwork photo by @caseyorrphoto
Modelled by @marisa_crane_
Dear Roberta ❤️
Our letters have been reunited with Roberta's at Abbot Hall! Feels so right that our inspiration and the finished pieces can be together!
Thank you to Abbot Hall and Astrid Mohr for hosting and running amazing workshops exploring our Queer ancestors, it was a very healing process. @lakeland_arts@astrid_alice
Thank you to Queer Heritage and Collections Network for making this all possible & Arts Council for funding our latest issue! @aceagrams
Pick up your copy of the new issue of QC from @theclosetcarlisle ❤️
Join us for a day out in Kendal! ✨️
We always have a great time at Abbot Hall, this time we're doing a really lovely and relaxed workshop with Astrid, involving collage, shape and colour 💘
Then we'll have a lal mooch through Kendal (charity shops are a must!)
To attend you must sign up via the link on our bio 💘
This is a free event and subsidised travel is available!
Thank you Abbot Hall @lakeland_arts ✨️
And that's a wrap on our Them & Now exhibition at Shipping Brow Gallery!
Thank you so much to everyone at Shipping Brow for platforming all our artists and celebrating Roberta with us! Special thanks to Charlotte Stephenson and Jim Osborne for helping us shape this exhibition ❤️
@charlottestephensonart@jimosborne_studio@shippingbrowgallery
We will definitely be back soon 👀
NEW SHOW ALERT - WE NEED YOUR ART!
Submissions now open for our new Pride month exhibition at @gallery9kingstreet in Whitehaven 💘
Swipe for details!
Please send your artwork to [email protected]
Drop us a message if you have any questions 💘
💘 we can't wait to exhibit your art 💘
🌞 QUEER CRAWLS COMING UP! 🌞
THIS SATURDAY & NEXT SATURDAY
12-3:30pm
Our walking project is coming to an end, so we're doing our last two walks in the next two weeks!
Thank you so much to everyone who has joined us for walks over the past year, it's been really valuable to connect in this way - a good walk, good crack and a pint can really solve anything 🌞
Thank you to Travel Actively for funding this project
E C C E N I Q U E E R
As part of the year long @aceagrams x @queercumbria Mentorship Program, myself and @lukeart22 have built a entire mystical world that we have named Ecceniqueer
🌍
We spent hours upon hours creating characters, landscapes, cities, lore and landscapes; illustrating the world that came from our heads.
The world and its myths have been formatted into a zine which will be available for purchase at @theclosetcarlisle with all proceeds going to @lukeart22 ✨
You will find beavers, non-binary wizards, archivists, freshwater mermaids, giant feet covered in moss, camels in deckchairs and cults…
@aceagrams@queercumbria@theclosetcarlisle
💛THIS SATURDAY💛
Get yourselves down to The Closet for our Mentorship Showcase and see work from talented emerging artists!
As a community it's so important that we show up for the artists who are starting out. Let's show them how supportive the arts community is 💛
This has been an amazing project that we're currently looking to extend into next year, so if you're interested in getting a mentorship this is a great opportunity to ask about it!
See ya there, 5-7pm!
Massive thanks to Arts Council for being big supporters of our young artists and funding this year-long project @aceagrams 🌼
Folk tale lovers... this one is for you 🐛
On the blog this week we've got an excellent folk tale by Sam which tells the origin of the midges, inspired by the original Scottish legend
@mistressofdark
Read Thrim's Journey: The Origin of the Midges on our website 🌟
Throwback to our launch event for our exhibition Now & Them: Reclaiming Queer Cumbria ❣️
As this project comes to a close it was great to celebrate all the work that's gone into this vital heritage project. As history is currently repeating itself, and the erasure of marginalised heritage is a common act of fascism, it's important we don't let people forget the Queer folks that came before us 🌹
Roberta, you would've loved the exhibition, this is our love letter to you ❤️
Photos by @leahpenn.photography
Thanks to the amazing artists who made new work for this show:
@pitp.ony@miles._.dyson@dylanmosesmurphy
And our funders, Queer Heritage and Collections Network 🍒
You still have one week left to see the exhibition at Shipping Brow Gallery! @shippingbrowgallery
