THOUGH lockdown restrictions are being eased, this June is unlike any other summertime in Cumbria. However, we have five very different things to enjoy in the county this month.
1. Sign up for Tullie Textiles online today
Our resident artist Helen Walsh is launching her new series of Tullie Textiles crafting online today, Sunday, June 7, 2020.
Pre-COVID Helen was running courses at our beautiful Tullie House Gallery and Museum in Carlisle. During lockdown, she has been continuing to bring together crafters online with Tullie Textiles Online.
You can be part of the next session by visiting her Delicate Stitches Facebook page today.
2. Keep up with the arts scene in Cumbria with a new magazine
LOCAL charity, Lakeland Arts, is producing a brand-new community magazine to deliver arts, culture and heritage to those in isolation.
The magazine is the latest development to the charity’s Arts at Home campaign, which aims to amaze, inspire, amuse and unite audiences while they’re unable to visit Lakeland Arts attractions.
Lakeland Arts venues include Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House and Windermere Jetty Museum, both of which temporarily closed their doors on March 19 2020. Kendal-based venues, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry closed earlier in the year ahead of major redevelopment work.
Read more about Arts at Home
3. Help Cumbria Tourism support tourism businesses in the county
As Cumbria Tourism supports hundreds of tourism businesses in their preparations to reopen this summer, the organisation has launched a new, national survey, inviting people to tell the organisation how the Covid-19 pandemic is influencing their next destination choices.
The survey will form a vital part of Cumbria Tourism’s research into consumers’ future travel habits with a wide variety of questions ranging from the kind of measures visitors would like to see in-place during their visit, to the kind of areas they would feel most at ease.
Cumbria’s tourism industry needs your help.
Find out more about the survey & how to take part.
4. Listen to Cumbria Heritage Group’s new CD to plan your future visits
As some businesses start to reopen after lockdown, proactive members within a group of heritage attractions, despite mostly being unable to fling open their doors, are staying in touch with prospective visitors and trying to keep their spirits high by launching their own CD.
Cumbria’s Living Heritage has created a 15-track CD – a compilation of contemporary songs from five different decades, the titles of which all communicate a feature of their offering or the essence of the experience that can be enjoyed when passing through their gate.
The Cumbria’s Living Heritage Greatest Hits CD is the latest in a series of initiatives that have continued to engage interest in the member attractions since lockdown.
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5. Revisit some of your favourite outdoor National Trust sites
The National Trust is starting to reopen a number of their outdoor sites, including several in Cumbria.
Though outdoors, you will be required to book a place/time to visit – to help maintain social distancing.
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