How to Festival

HOW TO ENJOY THE FESTIVAL - LIVE

TICKETS

All our events are individually ticketed and can be bought online at kendalmountainfestival.com or in person at the Box Office in the Brewery - open daily from 08.30AM. Many of the events are sold out but you can always check with the Box Office for last minute returned tickets. Nearly all sessions have numbered seats so there is no rush to find a seat with doors opening between 15 to 30 mins before the start. All sessions begin promptly.

VENUES

The Festival is spread throughout the town of Kendal with a few key locations. We were delighted with the successful move of the Basecamp Village to Abbot Hall Park last year and so it is back there again - but even bigger! Welcome to all and free to enter, here you will find the Info Desk, the Festival food & drink provision and our enormous tented village packed full of things to see and do. Come browse, wander, sit and listen and enjoy the Cotswold Outdoor Stage and BUFF® Bothy - delivering three days of fascinating talks - all for free. Plus new for this year is the Plas y Brenin Tipi - where they will be sharing with you the skills you need to enjoy the outdoors. Open from 9.30am - 9.30pm, it really is the destination to head to. Three minutes from Basecamp is the Brewery Arts - the central hub for our Film Programme and Literature Events. Here you will find our Box Office, the Rab Cinema Screens, the Guest Summit Lounge and the expanded Festival Bookshop. You can also enjoy their food and drink provision - many an adventure has been dreamed up over a pint in the Vats Bar! However it doesn’t only happen at these locations – we love using all the venues we can in the town. Stretching through the lanes of Kendal we have the Kendal Town Hall, Shakespeare Centre, Waterstones, The Venue at The Barrel House, Ruskins and the big one – the 900 seat Leisure Centre. The map at the back of the programme will help you find your way!

PROGRAMME

It just keeps on expanding! Films continue to be at the heart of Kendal, and this year over 170 films will be screened over the Festival period. We are also delighted to programme 25 stand-alone feature films, many being World, European or UK premieres. We are thrilled to be welcoming over 180 guests associated with many of the films, attending the Festival to present those films in person. Rounding off the programme we have over 40 book events, 30+ speaker sessions, 25 outdoor activities and a whole lot of parties! The programme lists them all - you can’t see everything of course but now many of the events and films will also be available to watch on catch-up on the Kendal Mountain Player.

GETTING AROUND

All our venues are accessible by foot or bicycle. You shouldn’t need to walk more than 20 minutes between any venues - most are less than five minutes apart. There is limited parking available especially in the immediate vicinity of the Brewery Arts and Town Hall (Highgate). Rather than setting your Sat Nav for the centre of town (and potentially getting stuck in traffic on Highgate or around the town’s notorious one way system) we recommend you point yourself towards a car park/location a little further away and walk to the Festival venues. More parking information can be found on our website.

HOW TO ENJOY THE FESTIVAL - ONLINE

Our four-day Festival programme is packed with an incredible number of speakers and films, but there’s no need to worry about sold-out sessions or timetable clashes. We’ll be recording many of the Festival speaker sessions and sharing these, along with a huge programme of films - digitally on the Kendal Mountain Player from 17 November.

GET STARTED - CREATE OR SIGN INTO YOUR ACCOUNT

Our online platform works just like many of your favourite streaming services. Everything is accessed through our website kendalmountainplayer.com by creating and then logging into your account.

HOW TO ACCESS

This year we are offering a Kendal Mountain Player Festival Pass which gives you on-demand access from 17 November to 31 December. Grab your friends and recreate a night at Kendal Mountain Festival from the comfort of your home.

WHAT IS AVAILABLE AND WHEN?

SPEAKER EVENTS Whilst we can’t capture every unique moment that happens at the Festival, we will be recording many of the major sessions and speaker events. These events will be uploaded to the Kendal Mountain Player within 24 hours of being recorded. FESTIVAL FILMS Festival films are available on the Kendal Mountain Player from 5pm on 17 November until midnight on 31 December. Please note that not all films will be available to watch online due to licensing restrictions - these excluded films will be indicated within the film programme listing (subject to change - correct at time of print).

WHERE TO WATCH

You can access everything at kendalmountainplayer.com on any computer, tablet or mobile device. Just login to your account and start watching your favourite films, events or authors. If you want to watch it on the big screen, we have made our viewing platform compatible with both Google Chromecast and Apple Airplay so you can stream our content straight to many compatible smart TVs.

THANK YOU TO...

Thank you to Danner, our presenting partner for the Online Film Programme.