Summer season launches next week in Egremont. Tickets going fast! 

"Reach for the Sky inspires and aspires" The Guardian 

View film footage of our events from Bowness, Carlisle and Penrith

View film footage of our events in Maryport, Whitehaven and Barrow-in-Furness

Welcome to Lakes Alive- a new programme of arts and performance events running across The Lake District and Cumbria, UK for the next four years. 

Our programme launched from 23-31 May with Reach for the Sky – a series of six international live aerial spectacles in stunning locations across the county (Bowness-on-Windermere, Carlisle, Penrith, Barrow-in-Furness, Maryport and Whitehaven), and will be followed by a summer season of events across the county and culminating (for 2009) in Mintfest in Kendal over August bank holiday weekend (27-30 August). 

The six Reach for the Sky events took place over May half term, and images and film footage are now available in the gallery or on the individual events pages.  Thanks to everyone who came out to support the events. The atmospheres created by the audiences were fantastic and played a huge part in making the events so successful. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did and we're looking forward to the next ones in July and August.

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Thanks for visiting, and we hope you’ll join us for a fantastic four year programme of arts and performance across The Lake District and Cumbria.

Presented by Kendal Arts International and Manchester International Arts