KENDAL Community Theatre is in the running for a Cumbria Life Culture Award in the Amateur Group/Society of the Year category. Artistic director Chris Taylor's ambitious group's staged 300 performances in July 2016 as part of its ground breaking Kendal Yarns Festival of New Plays, which took took almost two years to plan and included more than 80 actors and 58 playwrights. The special night of cultural gongs is staged at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake, on Friday, February 3, hosted by Stuart Maconie with 16 awards up for grabs.