06/12/2025
Join us for the indoor performance of the Cockermouth Community Musical!
Sunday, 14th December, 7pm
Kirkgate Centre
FREE, but tickets are limited so book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Marking 80 years since the end of WWII, this free community musical is based on people's memories of living in the area during and after the war - including the VE Day celebrations when the Billy Bowman band played to the crowds from the roof of the air-raid shelter on Main Street.
Moving and powerful stories based on the memories of children who were evacuated to Cockermouth to escape the air-raids in the ship-building towns of the North East and who had to spend their first Christmas away from home.
Reminiscences of refugees who lived at Moota YMCA camp after the war ended, working on local farms, helping to rebuild the country after the hardships of wartime, who used music, dance and song to build connections and relationships with people living here.
Reflections from local residents on what 'Freedom' means to them today.
With storytelling with Jessie McMeekin and an uplifting new song written for the project by JP Worsfold, and arranged for choir by Dave Camlin, learned and sung by a scratch choir of local residents over this autumn.
Performance at 7pm, doors open 6:30pm.
After the performance, we would like to invite you to join us for mulled wine and mince pies in the Egremont Room with a chance to meet with the artists the choir members, and view some of the items from Moota Camp from our Heritage Collection.
Kirkgate Arts and Heritage are a part of the Our Freedom: Then and Now project. Sixty arts centres and libraries across Britain are taking part in nationwide celebrations reflecting on what freedom means 80 years after the end of the Second World War.
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Jessie McMeekin Storytelling J P Worsfold Wild Chorus
