Ace Hoffman's fascinating and informative compendium of nuclear issues is made available as a print on demand book especially for RockSolid?2 Get your copy here £10.50

🐾 Trail – Art trail through Kendal town centre, drop by the museum for a trail sheet. 🥂 Exhibition preview – Open preview evening 6-8pm on Friday 10th May at Kendal Museum’s People’s Gallery. All are welcome. 🎙 Talk – Atomic Wastes Under Cumbria?” with Dr Ian Fairlie, an expert on radiation in the environment and Richard Outram of Nuclear Free Local Authorities 7-9pm on Saturday 11th May at The Venue via Kendal Museum. Entry is free but please RSVP to info@kendalmuseum.org.uk. 🥾 Walk – a geology, wildlife and literature walk along the Cumbrian coastline from St Bees to Jonathon Swift’s House at Whitehaven (date tbc).. Entry to the People’s Gallery at Kendal Museum on Station Road is free and open to public Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9:30-16:30. Please note that the gallery is down a flight of stairs. Please contact Kendal Museum if you require alternative access Tel 01539 815597

Excitement growing for RockSolid?2 with images being sent in of some wonderful artworks exploring the unique landscape, geology and flora and fauna of the Lake District. Here is a sneak peek of one just arrived from Lake Artist Society Award Winner, Andrea Pentecost. This charcoal drawing is called "Fell Runners".

Image from Wastwater Chronicles A Very Relevant Blast from the Past - this is Geoff Betsworth's "Wrong Rock Blues" from over 10 years ago when the Solway Plain, Cumbria was in the frame -  Solway Plain or Lake District Coastal Plain - the "stuff they plan to bury underneath the Solway Plain will still be lethal in a hundred thousand years."  (and longer).    Click here to hear  Wrong Rock Blues     

 Last week Rock Solid? artists and visitors to Kendal Museum had a wonderfully creative time sketching from the amazing Cumbrian geology collections.  The sketches will inform artworks to be created for 'Rock Solid? 2'.  More events coming up - keep your eyes peeled!   Here are a selection of sketches....

 Sketching from the Amazing Geology Collections at Kendal Museum Join Artists to sketch from the collections of Lakeland Geology at Kendal Museum.  There will be art materials available for those who just want to 'have a go.'    Rock Solid? 2 Artists will be using their sketches to inform their forthcoming artworks.   Rock Solid? 2 is an exhibition scheduled for May and June in the People's Gallery at Kendal Museum,  exploring the geology of Cumbria through the prism of the plan to use that deep geology to contain humanity's most long lasting legacy - nuclear waste.                                 Baryte Hailmoor Mine- Beckermet from the Bill Shaw Collection Haematite/Specularite - West Cumbria from the Bill Shaw Collection Entrance to the Museum is £5 for adults this includes free annual membership - a bargain for this treasure trove of a Museum  which includes a cornucopia of natural history, social history and all sorts of interesting stuff for children, adults and e