MEET TRANS ACTION WEST CUMBRIA

“Right now Trans people need an energy of protest and resistance as well as celebration and community” Read More

Love is the Key

Carlisle Key is a dynamic charity dedicated to supporting young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of […] Read More

QUEER RAIL TRAIL!

Queer Cumbria have partnered with Community Rail Partnerships and Northern Trains to create a queer art trail across the norther […] Read More

Everything Gets Brighter as the Night Grows Darker

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a boy. Molten, dark, pale, silky soft, an accumulation of strange angles that never […] Read More

Blood, Sweat and Teens

We have opened a tin of period worms. By talking openly with people of all ages about their menstrual cycle, […] Read More

Riotous Youth Arts Project Coming to West Cumbria

Meet your new best arty friends, North Star Co-Design – a community interest company co-directed by Louie Ingham and Lee […] Read More

Bookends Carlisle Creates New LGBTQ+ Section

Bookends Carlisle has long been a space for LGBTQ+ allyship. With their diverse and welcoming staff and their dedication to […] Read More

Chosen Family at Xmas

The holiday season for most conjures up comforting thoughts of time spent with family, meals shared, gifts exchanged, memories made. […] Read More

I Dont Get To Love Where I Live

The rays of sunset fall on the fells below Scafell Pike, dousing the terrain in a golden hue. Bluetits and […] Read More

I can handle another 949 days of this school, I think

When we received a reader story by 10 year old Delilah we were so taken by their humour and imagination […] Read More

Saturday Town shows us the future is bright, wild and queer.

The radical self expression of youth is being captured via pop-up technicolour studios across northern England, thanks to Casey Orr […] Read More

Why the king’s speech stinks

Some artists, when faced with the stark white walls of a gallery space, would be forgiven for taking a nervous […] Read More