Working with a cross-section of the Cockermouth community, Kirkgate Arts and Heritage will gather a group of people to help put together a performance and display to explore what freedom means to each of us, individually and together.
They are working with two local artists, storyteller Jessie McMeekin and musician JP Worsfold, to create a musical that will be performed by local people at The Kirkgate Centre and at events in the town in November 2025. The community musical will be inspired by stories from Cockermouth at the end of the Second World War and in the post-war period. It will use research from the Cockermouth Heritage Collection, alongside reflections from the people living in the town today on what freedom means to them, gathered from a series of community workshops they will hold in the town over the summer.
