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The Office of National Parks Authority issued the following press release:

A South Lakeland village is preparing for a special pre-Christmas tiffany on sale cultural weekend which will also puts the spotlight on the environmental challenges facing our rural landscapes.

The Victory Hall in Broughton-in-Furness will be alive with crowds of film, music and countryside enthusiasts – for two days, beginning 5 December – when it hosts a ‘Weekend in the Country’, which has been made possible with funding from Lake District National Park’s Sustainable Development Fund.

The festival will bring together:

*ten films which explore aspects of the rural landscape;

*talks by Northern Art Prize winner, Karen Guthrie and conservationist Bill Shaw; and cufflinks

*a live performance by songwriter Nancy Elizabeth, who captured the mood of the countryside by recording her first album inside a Welsh farmhouse!

Each element of the festival explores in some way just what it means to live and work in an ever-changing rural environment, and organisers Bric Arts are hoping this will strike a chord with the audience.

“The majority of the films have never been shown in Cumbria before and in presenting them in an informal money clips and enjoyable way, Bric hopes to generate a discussion and to raise people’s expectations in terms of what they can expect from local arts events,” said event organiser Sam Allan.

“We’re delighted to support this kind of village community event, which also has the added value of looking for answers to the kind of environmental and landscape issues that effect so many villages in the Lake District,” added Clive Wickham, the national park’s SDF co-ordinator.

The festival – which will include a ‘village fete’ style food stall and hot mulled wine – has been devised by community arts organisation BRIC with additional funds from CGP Duddon Parish Trust and the Parish Pump. All profits from the festival will be donated to the Victory Hall for its pendants ongoing maintenance.