Rheged Centre
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A Place to Meet.
Rheged is a gallery, café, cinema, shopping venue, workplace and creative space on the edge of the Northern Lakes. A place where kids can be kids in our Indoor Play and Making Space and where friends, family and colleagues can share a meal, watch a film, hold a meeting, see an exhibition, buy a gift or catch up over coffee. A flexible space for getting together or enjoying time alone with a book or notepad; a place where stories are told, ideas are sparked and the Cumbrian landscape is a constant source of inspiration.
Cinema
Our giant-screen cinema offers an immersive experience unique within our region. The 18.3-metre-wide screen invites you to leap into the action of the latest Hollywood releases and family favourites or be transported to one of the world’s great theatres, where live-streamed opera, ballet and musical performances come vividly to life through our state-of-the-art surround sound system. Enjoy the show with sweet treats from our Deli including Kimi’s Gelato, popcorn and hand-packed confectionery range from Bon Bon’s.
Indoor Play
Our state of-the-art indoor play area, designed by Tigerplay features a new café serving coffees and cakes, along with a seating area for parents and guardians. The revamped space features three slides alongside each other to race down and a specific area for young children. It also includes an elevated level including a ‘nest-like’ den which can be reached through climbing walls and ladders.
Making Space
Where children can get creative decorating a range of models including bunnies, dinosaurs, masks, letters and more with decorative patterned papers in our Decopatch workshop.
Gallery
In our spacious Gallery we host a changing programme of four exhibitions every year which have a connection with our Cumbria home. We are proud to exhibit work by Cumbria’s artists and craftspeople, as well as emerging and established artists from all over the UK. This strong relationship with artists means we can show creativity at its most diverse, as well as reflecting life in the landscape. Alongside each exhibition is a range of creative classes led by exhibiting artists.
Café
Our 100-seat ground-floor cafe is a relaxed dining space where you can brunch with friends, enjoy a working lunch or catch up before a movie. Our menu is inclusive and flexible, changing with the seasons and featuring handmade food and drink from our community of local producers.
Deli
Our Deli counter offers sandwiches, pies, salads, cakes and bakes made by us as you would make them at home. On the move? We offer speciality coffee by Carvetii in Threlkeld available to take away with you. In our Deli shop you will find edible gifts with a strong sense of place. Local and handmade foods, including Cumbrian preserves, artisan pastas, organic wines and small-batch craft spirits. Functional cookware and eco-conscious utensils and accessories for table and pantry.
New to our Deli, enjoy a selection of hotdogs on your next evening visit to our Cinema. Made with Cumberland sausages from our butchery, and topped with pickled red onions, crispy onions, grated parmesan cheese and a sauce from Wild & Fruitful of your choice, as well as a halloumi option!
Add homemade sea salt & herb potato wedges on the side too, with Cotswold Gold Garlic Mayonnaise or Wild & Fruitful Bowness BBQ Sauce. Available Friday and Saturday evenings (5pm -7pm) or until the beginning of a live streaming event in our Cinema.
Toyshop
Our toy shop is packed almost to the rafters with children’s books, clothes, toys, puzzles, gifts, Jellycat teddies and pocket-money treats. Children can find new titles by their favourite authors, or discover retellings of classic fairytales. Our vibrant range of children’s clothing is from brands such as Blade Rose as well as Marcus Walters screen-printed just for us sweatshirts and t-shirts. We stock a huge selection of LEGO® which features Harry Potter, Avatar, Lego City, Technic, Spider-Man, Lightyear and Minecraft.
Clothing and Wellbeing
Our lifestyle shop includes stylish womenswear and accessories, exceptional beauty products, and contemporary interior accessories. Clothing ranges includes sustainable labels (People Tree; Thought Clothing), iconic names (Birkenstock) and British knitwear from Eribé and Harley of Scotland.
Our Wellbeing space showcases natural skincare and vegan-friendly makeup from emerging and established brands. Our brands include REN, This Works, Trilogy, L’Occitane, Dr Hauschka, with makeup from Stila.
Find textiles, ceramics, lighting and craft to bring warmth and personality to indoor and outdoor spaces in our Home section. As well as bespoke blankets, scarves and natural scented candles created for us by craft producers and beguiling gallery of cards and gift wrap designed and printed in Britain.
Design Shop
An evolving space celebrating art, design and thought. Ceramics, jewellery and items for the home from iconic names and local makers. We stock a range of stationery, art materials and craft kits for both adults and children to get creative with. As well as products made by artist exhibiting in our Gallery.
Outdoor Shop
Kit to inspire adventure in the Cumbrian landscape. Clothing, footwear, rucksacks, accessories, books and camping gear from KUHL, Rab, Fjallraven, Cotopaxi and mindful brands including Fjällraven, Patagonia, Howies and many more.
Cafe: 9am till 5pm
Shops: 10am – 5.30pm
Gallery: 10am – 5.30pm
Deli:
Sunday – Thursday 8:30am - 5.30pm
Friday to Saturday 8.30am – 7pm (serving brand new hotdogs and potato wedges 5pm – 7pm)
Cinema: Please see programme. Drinks and snacks available.
Filling station: 6am – 10pm
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Open New Years Eve and Day
Location
Rheged Centre, Redhills
Penrith, Cumbria
CA11 0DQ
Rheged is a couple of minutes’ drive from the M6 (J40) at Penrith along the A66 towards Keswick.
Regular bus services between Penrith and Keswick stop at Rheged. Visit traveline.info for timetables.
Our 250-space car park is free for Rheged visitors. Please note that the car park closes when Rheged closes. It is locked and unattended overnight.
Filling station and EV charging points available on site.
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Everest East Side with Stephen Venables
George Mallory had a look at Everest’s East Face in 1921 and commented famously, ‘others, less wise, might attempt this way if they would; but emphatically it was not for us.’
Six decades passed before a huge lavishly equipped team finally found a way up the immense rock buttresses and gigantic ice cliffs of this 3,500 metres wall, known as the Kangshung Face. Five years later another team arrived: just four climbers, working alone without high altitude porters, to forge a second route up the wall. The climbing was spectacular, there were some near misses with avalanches and on the final summit bid the team chose to go without supplementary oxygen. Stephen Venables reached the summit alone, the first Briton to do so without oxygen, and on the descent spent a night in the open at 8,600 metres – the highest solo bivouac ever survived at that time.
Perhaps George Mallory had a point, but Stephen and his American team mates were well aware of the risks they took. They also had a lot of fun and fulfilment on the adventure of a lifetime. Reinhold Messner, who knows a bit about these things, described the ascent as ‘the most adventurous in Everest’s climbing history’.
Stephen, just back from Antarctica, will recount that special chapter in the Everest story. But as well as describing his own ascent, he will touch on the very first expedition of all – the 1921 Reconnaissance, when the first ever Europeans visited Tibet’s incomparably beautiful Kama Valley, on the east side of Everest, and set eyes on the terrifying Kangshung Face.
£18 Full, £15 Conc
2 hours (20 min interval)
Image credits: EMILY NICHOLL
Bentley Beetham - Lakeland Climber, Everest Pioneer
From Shepherd’s Crag to Everest is a new talk by Stephen Livingstone and shines a spotlight on Bentley Beetham, one of the climbers featured in the Everest Revisited Exhibition in our Gallery.
Mountaineer and photographer Bentley Beetham began and ended his climbing career in the Lake District. His passion for mountains took him all over the world, most famously to Everest in 1924, but his heart lay in his beloved Borrowdale. Stephen Livingstone tells the story of this remarkable man using Beetham’s own words and personal collection of photographs, reconstructing his popular lantern slide presentation given on his return from an adventure of a lifetime. This will include his friendships with Somervell, Wakefield, Mallory and Irvine.
Stephen Livingstone is an artist whose work principally deals with human impact upon landscapes and habitats. He recently curated Eternal Ascent, a highly successful exhibition for Durham University’s Oriental Museum documenting the 1924 Mount Everest expedition in more than two hundred photographs selected from the Bentley Beetham Collection.
Tickets: £10 and £8
Running time: 2 hours (Lake District Connections (45 minutes) interval 15 minutes: Climbing Everest with Bentley Beetham ( 60 minutes).
Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 | Guest Speaker TBC
Kendal Mountain Tour 2025: A Night Of Adventure Films
Prepare for an unforgettable night of adventure as the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 comes to life!
Join us on a journey through the world's most breathtaking landscapes with a selection of award winning films showcasing the year’s most daring feats of courage and tales of human resilience. Whether you're a seasoned explorer or simply someone who appreciates the majesty of nature, this tour promises to ignite your sense of adventure and leave you with a renewed appreciation for the planet we call home.
The films will be introduced by a member of the Kendal Mountain Presenting team. Alongside the collection of films, will be a talk from an incredible guest speaker - an explorer, activist or adventurer with a unique and inspiring story to share.
Get ready to be thrilled, inspired and moved at the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 – where adventure begins at your doorstep…
2h 30m Duration
The Art of George and Ruth Mallory with Kate Nicholson
A unique cross over between Bloomsbury and Arts & Crafts
George and Ruth Mallory described themselves as artists as well as climbers.
They were of course exceptional climbers (both of them) but they are also uniquely at the cross over point between the two greatest art movements of the late 20th century. This talk looks ‘Behind Everest’ at the art that underpinned the Mallory’s philosophy.
George was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group's Post Impressionism. He was photographed naked and painted by Duncan Grant. Ruth’s family were close to that of William Morris. Her parents met as joint exhibitors in the first Arts & Crafts exhibition, her mother’s essays were published in the catalogue.
Both George and Ruth were invested in the concept of ‘Beauty’, of beauty in movement, in art and in their over all attitude to life. In this talk, Kate Nicholson author of the recently published biography on Ruth Mallory, will look at the centre of the Post Impressionist/Arts & Crafts Venn diagram - to the couple that pioneered new ways of looking, of living and of love.
Ruth’s father was appointed Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (or as Ruth called it, the ‘Anti-Scrape’) and both George and Ruth were life members. Ruth’s family were close to the Morris’s. Her mother, a fine art embroiderer, founded the Women’s Guild with May Morris in 1907 as an alternative to the all male Art Workers Guild.
Ruth was a talented and successful Arts & Crafts artist in her own right exhibiting first in 1916 at Burlington House, London with the third Arts & Crafts Exhibition. Nicholson brings the Mallory’s art back into their story to explain many of the decisions they made about their climbing life, that have always left historians wondering.
Tickets: £10
6pm | Running time: 1 hour
Sean Conway – Endurance
Tickets on sale from 31st August
Presented by Speakers from the Edge
Sean Conway set out to achieve something no-one else on the planet had ever managed; ultra-endurance records for first, longest, fastest AND most. 105 Iron Man competitions in 105 days, the first to swim the length of Britain, the fastest unsupported cycle across Europe and a 4200 mile continuous triathlon later, Sean is one of the most accomplished ultra-endurance athletes on the planet!
In ‘Endurance’, Sean takes audiences on the journey, from miserable school portrait photographer, to world record holder!.
2h inc 20 min interval
A Brief Golden Light – a Mountaineer’s Tale with John Porter
In this thought provoking and beautifully illustrated new lecture, the mountaineer, filmmaker, award winning author and poet John Porter will recount some of the experiences that shaped his life.
John is arguably one of the most accomplished but understated mountaineers of his generation. He made pioneering ascents of the North Face of Bandaka and the South Buttress of Changabang. Neither route has been repeated.
The talk encompasses nearly 70 years of a life informed by adventure, from childhood tragedies to major first ascents with some of the world’s best climbers. Like many of his friends, he was committed to the idea of alpinism, climbing in very small teams without the use of oxygen or any outside support. The race was on to do the purist lines before they were climbed by fixed ropes expeditions. There were many successes, and many tragic failures. He and his friends have been dubbed; “the generation that nearly climbed itself into extinction.” They embraced risk as an essential part of life.
Yet climbing is only a small part of John’s life. He will talk about his many other adventures from leaving American at the age of 20 to start a new life in the UK: how he brought New Balance to Cumbria, his award-winning writing and filmmaking, and work for various charities.
7.30pm | 1 hr 10 mins plus Q & A (no interval)
£10 Full
£8 Concession
Big Fish Comedy Club Showcase
Big Fish Comedy Club brings new voices in comedy to venues across Cumbria.
Our triannual showcase at Rheged will see 4 comedians hand-picked from the North West scene and beyond, bringing their freshest jokes to enjoy the unique 'big fish in a small pond’ experience that Cumbria has to offer.
Come and catch the next big thing before they’re (really, really) famous 🎣
Hosted by our resident MC: Steph Bradshaw @_stephbradshaw
Doors Open: 7pm / show starts 7.30pm (finishes around 9pm)
Ticket Price: £10.00
Hari Budha Magar – No Legs, No Limits
Presented by Speakers from the Edge
From injured veteran to the world’s first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest; Hari shares his inspiring journey from being born in a cowshed, going to school barefoot, growing up in civil war, passing the most difficult military selection, losing his legs in 2010, battling depression and discrimination, to standing atop the world’s largest peak in May 2023.
As an extraordinary pioneer, pushing both physical, psychological and perceptual boundaries of human ability and spirit, his story is one of resilience and innovation, proving that having a disability is not life limiting. Hari demonstrates the mental agility required to remove limits and shows how mindset is everything in conquering dreams
2h (inc Interval)
Big Fish Comedy Club Showcase
Big Fish Comedy Club brings new voices in comedy to venues across Cumbria.
Our triannual showcase at Rheged will see 4 comedians hand-picked from the North West scene and beyond, bringing their freshest jokes to enjoy the unique 'big fish in a small pond’ experience that Cumbria has to offer.
Come and catch the next big thing before they’re (really, really) famous 🎣
Hosted by our resident MC: Steph Bradshaw @_stephbradshaw
Doors Open: 7pm / show starts 7.30pm (finishes around 9pm)
Ticket Price: £10.00
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Rheged Centre. Please fill in as much detail as you can.
A Place to Meet.
Rheged is a gallery, café, cinema, shopping venue, workplace and creative space on the edge of the Northern Lakes. A place where kids can be kids in our Indoor Play and Making Space and where friends, family and colleagues can share a meal, watch a film, hold a meeting, see an exhibition, buy a gift or catch up over coffee. A flexible space for getting together or enjoying time alone with a book or notepad; a place where stories are told, ideas are sparked and the Cumbrian landscape is a constant source of inspiration.
Cinema
Our giant-screen cinema offers an immersive experience unique within our region. The 18.3-metre-wide screen invites you to leap into the action of the latest Hollywood releases and family favourites or be transported to one of the world’s great theatres, where live-streamed opera, ballet and musical performances come vividly to life through our state-of-the-art surround sound system. Enjoy the show with sweet treats from our Deli including Kimi’s Gelato, popcorn and hand-packed confectionery range from Bon Bon’s.
Indoor Play
Our state of-the-art indoor play area, designed by Tigerplay features a new café serving coffees and cakes, along with a seating area for parents and guardians. The revamped space features three slides alongside each other to race down and a specific area for young children. It also includes an elevated level including a ‘nest-like’ den which can be reached through climbing walls and ladders.
Making Space
Where children can get creative decorating a range of models including bunnies, dinosaurs, masks, letters and more with decorative patterned papers in our Decopatch workshop.
Gallery
In our spacious Gallery we host a changing programme of four exhibitions every year which have a connection with our Cumbria home. We are proud to exhibit work by Cumbria’s artists and craftspeople, as well as emerging and established artists from all over the UK. This strong relationship with artists means we can show creativity at its most diverse, as well as reflecting life in the landscape. Alongside each exhibition is a range of creative classes led by exhibiting artists.
Café
Our 100-seat ground-floor cafe is a relaxed dining space where you can brunch with friends, enjoy a working lunch or catch up before a movie. Our menu is inclusive and flexible, changing with the seasons and featuring handmade food and drink from our community of local producers.
Deli
Our Deli counter offers sandwiches, pies, salads, cakes and bakes made by us as you would make them at home. On the move? We offer speciality coffee by Carvetii in Threlkeld available to take away with you. In our Deli shop you will find edible gifts with a strong sense of place. Local and handmade foods, including Cumbrian preserves, artisan pastas, organic wines and small-batch craft spirits. Functional cookware and eco-conscious utensils and accessories for table and pantry.
New to our Deli, enjoy a selection of hotdogs on your next evening visit to our Cinema. Made with Cumberland sausages from our butchery, and topped with pickled red onions, crispy onions, grated parmesan cheese and a sauce from Wild & Fruitful of your choice, as well as a halloumi option!
Add homemade sea salt & herb potato wedges on the side too, with Cotswold Gold Garlic Mayonnaise or Wild & Fruitful Bowness BBQ Sauce. Available Friday and Saturday evenings (5pm -7pm) or until the beginning of a live streaming event in our Cinema.
Toyshop
Our toy shop is packed almost to the rafters with children’s books, clothes, toys, puzzles, gifts, Jellycat teddies and pocket-money treats. Children can find new titles by their favourite authors, or discover retellings of classic fairytales. Our vibrant range of children’s clothing is from brands such as Blade Rose as well as Marcus Walters screen-printed just for us sweatshirts and t-shirts. We stock a huge selection of LEGO® which features Harry Potter, Avatar, Lego City, Technic, Spider-Man, Lightyear and Minecraft.
Clothing and Wellbeing
Our lifestyle shop includes stylish womenswear and accessories, exceptional beauty products, and contemporary interior accessories. Clothing ranges includes sustainable labels (People Tree; Thought Clothing), iconic names (Birkenstock) and British knitwear from Eribé and Harley of Scotland.
Our Wellbeing space showcases natural skincare and vegan-friendly makeup from emerging and established brands. Our brands include REN, This Works, Trilogy, L’Occitane, Dr Hauschka, with makeup from Stila.
Find textiles, ceramics, lighting and craft to bring warmth and personality to indoor and outdoor spaces in our Home section. As well as bespoke blankets, scarves and natural scented candles created for us by craft producers and beguiling gallery of cards and gift wrap designed and printed in Britain.
Design Shop
An evolving space celebrating art, design and thought. Ceramics, jewellery and items for the home from iconic names and local makers. We stock a range of stationery, art materials and craft kits for both adults and children to get creative with. As well as products made by artist exhibiting in our Gallery.
Outdoor Shop
Kit to inspire adventure in the Cumbrian landscape. Clothing, footwear, rucksacks, accessories, books and camping gear from KUHL, Rab, Fjallraven, Cotopaxi and mindful brands including Fjällraven, Patagonia, Howies and many more.
Cafe: 9am till 5pm
Shops: 10am – 5.30pm
Gallery: 10am – 5.30pm
Deli:
Sunday – Thursday 8:30am - 5.30pm
Friday to Saturday 8.30am – 7pm (serving brand new hotdogs and potato wedges 5pm – 7pm)
Cinema: Please see programme. Drinks and snacks available.
Filling station: 6am – 10pm
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Open New Years Eve and Day
Location
Rheged Centre, Redhills
Penrith, Cumbria
CA11 0DQ
Rheged is a couple of minutes’ drive from the M6 (J40) at Penrith along the A66 towards Keswick.
Regular bus services between Penrith and Keswick stop at Rheged. Visit traveline.info for timetables.
Our 250-space car park is free for Rheged visitors. Please note that the car park closes when Rheged closes. It is locked and unattended overnight.
Filling station and EV charging points available on site.
Everest East Side with Stephen Venables
George Mallory had a look at Everest’s East Face in 1921 and commented famously, ‘others, less wise, might attempt this way if they would; but emphatically it was not for us.’
Six decades passed before a huge lavishly equipped team finally found a way up the immense rock buttresses and gigantic ice cliffs of this 3,500 metres wall, known as the Kangshung Face. Five years later another team arrived: just four climbers, working alone without high altitude porters, to forge a second route up the wall. The climbing was spectacular, there were some near misses with avalanches and on the final summit bid the team chose to go without supplementary oxygen. Stephen Venables reached the summit alone, the first Briton to do so without oxygen, and on the descent spent a night in the open at 8,600 metres – the highest solo bivouac ever survived at that time.
Perhaps George Mallory had a point, but Stephen and his American team mates were well aware of the risks they took. They also had a lot of fun and fulfilment on the adventure of a lifetime. Reinhold Messner, who knows a bit about these things, described the ascent as ‘the most adventurous in Everest’s climbing history’.
Stephen, just back from Antarctica, will recount that special chapter in the Everest story. But as well as describing his own ascent, he will touch on the very first expedition of all – the 1921 Reconnaissance, when the first ever Europeans visited Tibet’s incomparably beautiful Kama Valley, on the east side of Everest, and set eyes on the terrifying Kangshung Face.
£18 Full, £15 Conc
2 hours (20 min interval)
Image credits: EMILY NICHOLL
Bentley Beetham - Lakeland Climber, Everest Pioneer
From Shepherd’s Crag to Everest is a new talk by Stephen Livingstone and shines a spotlight on Bentley Beetham, one of the climbers featured in the Everest Revisited Exhibition in our Gallery.
Mountaineer and photographer Bentley Beetham began and ended his climbing career in the Lake District. His passion for mountains took him all over the world, most famously to Everest in 1924, but his heart lay in his beloved Borrowdale. Stephen Livingstone tells the story of this remarkable man using Beetham’s own words and personal collection of photographs, reconstructing his popular lantern slide presentation given on his return from an adventure of a lifetime. This will include his friendships with Somervell, Wakefield, Mallory and Irvine.
Stephen Livingstone is an artist whose work principally deals with human impact upon landscapes and habitats. He recently curated Eternal Ascent, a highly successful exhibition for Durham University’s Oriental Museum documenting the 1924 Mount Everest expedition in more than two hundred photographs selected from the Bentley Beetham Collection.
Tickets: £10 and £8
Running time: 2 hours (Lake District Connections (45 minutes) interval 15 minutes: Climbing Everest with Bentley Beetham ( 60 minutes).
Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 | Guest Speaker TBC
Kendal Mountain Tour 2025: A Night Of Adventure Films
Prepare for an unforgettable night of adventure as the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 comes to life!
Join us on a journey through the world's most breathtaking landscapes with a selection of award winning films showcasing the year’s most daring feats of courage and tales of human resilience. Whether you're a seasoned explorer or simply someone who appreciates the majesty of nature, this tour promises to ignite your sense of adventure and leave you with a renewed appreciation for the planet we call home.
The films will be introduced by a member of the Kendal Mountain Presenting team. Alongside the collection of films, will be a talk from an incredible guest speaker - an explorer, activist or adventurer with a unique and inspiring story to share.
Get ready to be thrilled, inspired and moved at the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 – where adventure begins at your doorstep…
2h 30m Duration
The Art of George and Ruth Mallory with Kate Nicholson
A unique cross over between Bloomsbury and Arts & Crafts
George and Ruth Mallory described themselves as artists as well as climbers.
They were of course exceptional climbers (both of them) but they are also uniquely at the cross over point between the two greatest art movements of the late 20th century. This talk looks ‘Behind Everest’ at the art that underpinned the Mallory’s philosophy.
George was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group's Post Impressionism. He was photographed naked and painted by Duncan Grant. Ruth’s family were close to that of William Morris. Her parents met as joint exhibitors in the first Arts & Crafts exhibition, her mother’s essays were published in the catalogue.
Both George and Ruth were invested in the concept of ‘Beauty’, of beauty in movement, in art and in their over all attitude to life. In this talk, Kate Nicholson author of the recently published biography on Ruth Mallory, will look at the centre of the Post Impressionist/Arts & Crafts Venn diagram - to the couple that pioneered new ways of looking, of living and of love.
Ruth’s father was appointed Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (or as Ruth called it, the ‘Anti-Scrape’) and both George and Ruth were life members. Ruth’s family were close to the Morris’s. Her mother, a fine art embroiderer, founded the Women’s Guild with May Morris in 1907 as an alternative to the all male Art Workers Guild.
Ruth was a talented and successful Arts & Crafts artist in her own right exhibiting first in 1916 at Burlington House, London with the third Arts & Crafts Exhibition. Nicholson brings the Mallory’s art back into their story to explain many of the decisions they made about their climbing life, that have always left historians wondering.
Tickets: £10
6pm | Running time: 1 hour
Sean Conway – Endurance
Tickets on sale from 31st August
Presented by Speakers from the Edge
Sean Conway set out to achieve something no-one else on the planet had ever managed; ultra-endurance records for first, longest, fastest AND most. 105 Iron Man competitions in 105 days, the first to swim the length of Britain, the fastest unsupported cycle across Europe and a 4200 mile continuous triathlon later, Sean is one of the most accomplished ultra-endurance athletes on the planet!
In ‘Endurance’, Sean takes audiences on the journey, from miserable school portrait photographer, to world record holder!.
2h inc 20 min interval
A Brief Golden Light – a Mountaineer’s Tale with John Porter
In this thought provoking and beautifully illustrated new lecture, the mountaineer, filmmaker, award winning author and poet John Porter will recount some of the experiences that shaped his life.
John is arguably one of the most accomplished but understated mountaineers of his generation. He made pioneering ascents of the North Face of Bandaka and the South Buttress of Changabang. Neither route has been repeated.
The talk encompasses nearly 70 years of a life informed by adventure, from childhood tragedies to major first ascents with some of the world’s best climbers. Like many of his friends, he was committed to the idea of alpinism, climbing in very small teams without the use of oxygen or any outside support. The race was on to do the purist lines before they were climbed by fixed ropes expeditions. There were many successes, and many tragic failures. He and his friends have been dubbed; “the generation that nearly climbed itself into extinction.” They embraced risk as an essential part of life.
Yet climbing is only a small part of John’s life. He will talk about his many other adventures from leaving American at the age of 20 to start a new life in the UK: how he brought New Balance to Cumbria, his award-winning writing and filmmaking, and work for various charities.
7.30pm | 1 hr 10 mins plus Q & A (no interval)
£10 Full
£8 Concession
Big Fish Comedy Club Showcase
Big Fish Comedy Club brings new voices in comedy to venues across Cumbria.
Our triannual showcase at Rheged will see 4 comedians hand-picked from the North West scene and beyond, bringing their freshest jokes to enjoy the unique 'big fish in a small pond’ experience that Cumbria has to offer.
Come and catch the next big thing before they’re (really, really) famous 🎣
Hosted by our resident MC: Steph Bradshaw @_stephbradshaw
Doors Open: 7pm / show starts 7.30pm (finishes around 9pm)
Ticket Price: £10.00
Hari Budha Magar – No Legs, No Limits
Presented by Speakers from the Edge
From injured veteran to the world’s first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest; Hari shares his inspiring journey from being born in a cowshed, going to school barefoot, growing up in civil war, passing the most difficult military selection, losing his legs in 2010, battling depression and discrimination, to standing atop the world’s largest peak in May 2023.
As an extraordinary pioneer, pushing both physical, psychological and perceptual boundaries of human ability and spirit, his story is one of resilience and innovation, proving that having a disability is not life limiting. Hari demonstrates the mental agility required to remove limits and shows how mindset is everything in conquering dreams
2h (inc Interval)
Big Fish Comedy Club Showcase
Big Fish Comedy Club brings new voices in comedy to venues across Cumbria.
Our triannual showcase at Rheged will see 4 comedians hand-picked from the North West scene and beyond, bringing their freshest jokes to enjoy the unique 'big fish in a small pond’ experience that Cumbria has to offer.
Come and catch the next big thing before they’re (really, really) famous 🎣
Hosted by our resident MC: Steph Bradshaw @_stephbradshaw
Doors Open: 7pm / show starts 7.30pm (finishes around 9pm)
Ticket Price: £10.00
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Rheged Centre. Please fill in as much detail as you can.