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CACN is a network for arts and cultural organisations and individual creative practitioners based in, or connected to, Cumbria.

Our mission is to connect, empower, champion and extend arts and cultural provision within the region and beyond.

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5 February 2024 in News

Press Release – Feb 24: Catalyst: Creative residencies in Cumbria

Catalyst: Creative residencies in Cumbria - call for three artists to take up creative residencies thanks to brand new Catalyst project. A brand new project in Cumbria to showcase world…
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Training & Mentoring

We have a busy schedule of events including; online meet-ups, marketing, fundraising and environmental training. See the Events page for dates and full details.

Would you benefit from a Mentor? Take a look at the details for our current mentoring programme.

Current opportunities

26 March 2024 in Opportunities

Job Opportunity with Autin Dance – Community Leader: Deadline 29/04/24

Autin Dance Theatre are seeking dance & movement community leaders (we call them guardians) to support the community engagement associated our touring work Parade-The Giant Wheel. Autin Dance Theatre is…
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Got an opportunity to share? Send it to: hello@cacn.co.uk

The Big Meet

1st May, 0930-1400, Rheged
Join us for our next Big Meet at Rheged, where we'll discuss the ever present issue of fundraising. We'll be asking: How can we be smarter about funding our work at a time of real challenge for the creative sector?

Friday Zooms

Friday Zooms 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.

Coming up on Friday Zooms…

08/03/24 – Forgotten Lands music festival; Everyone Here and the Jury for Joy citizens assembly launch
15/03/24 – Words by the Water book festival returns to Keswick; and the Apothecary of Arts
22/03/24 – How to deliver one hander theatre; and the Fevered Sleep project visits Barrow
29/03/24 – Good Friday, no zoom !

167
Friday Zooms since 2020
6286
attendances in total
35.27
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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