Saturday 3rd May & Sunday 4th May 2025
Richard Rose Central Academy, Lismore Place, Carlisle CA1 1LY
Food Stalls Music Dance Games Shows Arts & Crafts
A FREE Multicultural Event over two days
A great weekend of activities, workshops and performances celebrating international cultures for all the family!
Bring a picnic or buy from our food stalls
Traditional International Dress Welcomed
Music, Dance, Storytelling , Arts & Crafts
Becky Fisher
Happy Mums Foundation
Kids poems (210 x 210 mm) (2) (1) (1) to read the songbook with a printed copy at Culture Bazaar! Come and singalong!
From pregnancy and beyond, no matter what the age of your child, you’re welcome to join us to share how you are truly feeling in a safe, judgement-free environment surrounded by others who ‘get it’. Everyone at Happy Mums has their own experiences of maternal mental health problems, so you can be sure there will be no judgement and a warm welcome. https://happymums.org.uk/
Davinder Singh
Punjabi Roots Academy
Dav brings the Punjab of India to Carlisle with dhol drumming and Bhangra Dance Workshop! Join in on Saturday with the music and dance parade by the community to a fitting end to the day!
Richard O’Neill
Trails of Tales
Richard O’Neill MBE is an acclaimed and accomplished creative professional based in the North of England. He has achieved success as a storyteller, educator, author, playwright, animation scriptwriter. He is one half of Trails of Tales community publishing with Michelle Russell. http://www.richardthestoryteller.weebly.com/ Click here for more about Richard and Michelle!
Michelle Russell
Trails of Tales
Michelle Russell, a local storyteller, author and illustrator, co-founded Trails of Tales with Richard O’Neill MBE.
Her heritage of Travelling Showman is shared in their ground breaking book The Show Must Go On, published by Pearson and is championed by Future 4 Fairgrounds.
Speed language
Multicultural Cumbria
How to play Speed Language. Speed Language Crib Sheet.pdf FOR LANGAUGES AND WHAT’S INVOLVED
Each table has a language and you can go to each table and learn some basic phrases in each language. Each visitor has 8 minutes to learn the phrases before moving on to the next table. Music/timer or verbal instruction will indicate the talking time & when it stops you should finish at that language table. Let us know if you can do a language.
Carlisle Nepalese Association
Nepalese dance is diverse and includes both traditional folk dances and classical dance forms. Notable examples include the Maruni Dance, Ghatu dance and the Charya dance, each with unique origins, performers, and occasions of performance
Jilly Jarman
BlueJam Arts CIC
Susan Cartwright-Smith
Carlisle Clog and Sword (and Solway Morris)
Carlisle Clog and Sword are a clog and hard shoe dance side, performing dances from the North of England, including Westmorland, Lancashire and North East traditional steps. It is a traditional percussive style of dance, performed to recognisable tunes, and has a history in the Industrial revolution, mill towns, and music-hall. It is truly a dance of the working classes, and a celebration of the North!
Juma Mukherjee
I’ve loved dancing my whole life, and now I dance with my daughter, Kiya. It’s not my profession but I do it as a hobby. I will be doing a Bollywood dance workshop. Bollywood dance is a fusion of traditional Indian dance forms like Kathak and Bhangra, with Western influences such as hip-hop, jazz, and even ballroom
Maz Burgess
Let’s Dance Cumbria
Line Dancing – Let’s Dance have been teaching and demonstrating Line Dancing for over 30 Years. UKA Qualified Dance Teachers. Learn to dance in a relaxed atmosphere, make new friends, increase your personal confidence and exercise at the same time. Let’s Dance hopes to provide you with a feeling of being comfortable on the dance floor whether it be at a ball, family celebration, wedding, works party or at a regular social dance. Come along and try it for yourself at Culture Bazaar! http://letsdancecumbria.co.uk
Aditi Aravind & Aishwarya Sankar
Indian Divas
Bharatanatyam is the most popular classical Indian dance-form prevalent in South India, originating from the temples of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the most beautiful, subtle, sophisticated and graceful dance-forms in the world, as well as one of the oldest classical dance traditions in India. It’s splendour is demonstrated by the dancer using ‘Nritta’, technique involving rhythmic movements and intricate footwork, ‘Abhinaya’, facial expressions to interpret the delicate nuances of a lyrical piece of music or poetry and ‘Mudras’, expressive hand gestures. It is a composite art blending drama, music, poetry, colour, and rhythm, allowing the dancer to convey inner sense of artistic and spiritual expressions, seeking union with God.
Jo Oliver-Hardy
RSCDS Carlisle and Borders Branch
Scottish Dancing is a superb pastime for fun, fitness and friendship. There is the challenge of learning each dance and the fabulous reward in dancing it on the dance floor. We are keen to encourage new dancers to Dance Scottish in Carlisle and you will receive a warm welcome and help in becoming proficient in Scottish Dancing. You can bring a partner or come on your own as it is a very social hobby, no one is left out, the aim being to enjoy the dancing and have fun
Business Stalls, Stands & Foods
Harish Rodriguez
MK Spice Kitchen
CARLISLE’S MK Spice is a must-try for anyone who is looking for an introduction to quality, home-cooked South Asian food. MK Spice is an Indian, African, and Continental grocery and food store that aims to cater for all of Carlisle’s different communities.
Samantha Addis
Smash Shack
Sam serves humorously named smash burgers, dirty fries and signature corndogs with fresh produce coming from Steve Wilson’s Butchers.
The business has been running since September 2024 and has been doing the rounds in Carlisle, Houghton & Brampton. Great to have Smash Shack at Culture Bazaar on 3rd/4th May at Richard Rose Centra Academy in Carlisle.
Cynthia Waggah, Zainab, Talitha
Afrikana
Afro-Carribean Food, Drinks and Beauty items
This Social Enterprise will help create awareness on the benefits of welcoming immigrants into the community and help the community see the benefits and the positive impact immigration has in the society. It will also help take care of the mental health of the immigrants and help them integrate into the society since Carlisle and Cumbria as a whole is changing dynamics at a fast pace.
Helen Rivers
A Taste of Spanish
I´m Helen Rivers. Your culinary guide cooking Spanish food & to learn the Spanish language learning and a QUALIFIED Teacher of Spanish.
Taste of Spanish was founded to inspire Spanish learners, motivate them though cultural learning and HAVE LOTS OF FUN DOING IT!!!
Enjoy my Salmorejo -A Taste of Spain recipe and I will be doing a food demo on Sunday at 4pm and Speed language at 3pm at Culture Bazaar! Come and meet me in the Souk and let’s talk Spanish!
Jason & Sandra Bell
Lucian Designs
Bespoke silver jewellery pieces, Handmade greetings cards, Memory boxes and keepsakes
Soad Aldammad
Henna Art and Beauty Accessories
Soad brings her unique Henna designs to Culture Bazaar! Henna, a natural dye derived from a plant, which has a rich and diverse history, spanning millennia and various cultures. Today Henna art on hands, feet, and body is a part of modern day fun, celebrations and religious traditions ands rituals right across the middle east, Asia and diasporas bringing Henna through migration and retaining culture!
Dianne Holyer
Eden Valley Hospice
We will have knitted hearts, information leaflets, sweets. stickers and key ring making.
Eden Valley Hospice is a charity dedicated to providing specialist care for adults in north Cumbria who have life limiting conditions. In addition, we also provide care for their families, friends and carers. All the care the hospice provides to its patients and their families is free at the point of delivery.
To visit the website of our children’s hospice, Jigsaw, please click here.
Rob & Kim Turnbull
Reiverreads
Based in Carlisle Covered Market, We sell books, mainly second hand but some new titles too. Kim and Rob run Reiver Reads bookshop in Carlisle Market Hall. We are an independent bookshop with a large array of titles. Rob’s background is in medieval history and is a published author.
Malcolm Judge & Jenni Payne
Access to Eden
Multicultural artwork on rivers, we are going to have an interactive river display/artwork. Visitors can pin up words (and images) for rivers and associated wildlife and feelings in both English and their mother tongues. An opportunity for people to suggest ways to help improve access to nature.
Access to Eden: breaking barriers, building bridges is a partnership project, led by Eden Rivers Trust that will remove the barriers that prevent people and wildlife from accessing the natural heritage of East Cumbria and ‘build the bridges’ needed so that they enjoy and thrive in, on and beside Eden’s rivers.
Stuart Ritson
Pride in North Cumbria
Pride in Noth Cumbria (PiNC) is a group that supports the LGBTQ+ community . We also run sessions to support Asylum seekers and refugees by running a food session each Friday PiNC is also part of the development committee for Cumbria Diversity carnival
Adrienne Gill
Carlisle One World Centre
Carlisle One World Centre is a charity that raises awareness about global issues in Carlisle. It brings communities together from diverse backgrounds including race, culture, faith and economic status. Projects include Cumberland Sanctuary Network and other City of Sanctuary Work, Carlisle International Women’s Group, Carlisle Faith Directory and the new Cumberland Sanctuary Network directory
Claudi Hayward and Arianna Salaris
Integrate Cumbria
We are dedicated to welcoming and supporting refugees and migrants through a comprehensive, needs-based integration approach founded on compassion and empathy. Our organization focuses on providing proactive, holistic support that addresses the fundamental needs of refugees and migrants and their families, to facilitate successful social and economic integration towards resilience and empowerment. Integration includes user-planned and led initiatives.
James Edward Stockwell
Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC)
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police fore in England and Scotland dedicated to protecting civil nuclear sites and materials. They are part of the UK’s strategic armed policing reserve and have a duty to protect the public. Their core role involves patrolling communities near nuclear sites, securing nuclear materials in transit, and responding to threats or incidents.
