SKIPTON: South Craven-based KVU Singers will commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War at its concert at Christ Church on Saturday.

They will perform two works extolling peace – Karl Jenkins’ The Peacemakers and Jonathan Wilcock’s Lux Perpetua.

The Singers will be accompanied on the organ by Christopher Enston, who, while studying at the Royal Academy, won several prizes and awards including the Recital Diploma and FRCO.

The performance will also include accompaniment from piano, flute and percussion.

Admission to the concert is free but there will be a retiring collection to defray costs. To reserve a ticket, ring (01535) 653009.

l Skipton Building Society Camerata will perform Brahms’ Piano Quintet at the next concert in its popular chamber music series.

It will take place at the Skipton Girls’ High School on Wednesday at 7.30pm.

There will be cafe-style seating, with the musicians in the middle of the hall, and admission is £6 at the door.

l To mark the end of her stint as artist in residence at Skipton’s Craven Museum and Gallery, Helen Peyton is creating a unique exhibition.

Helen, who has been artist in residence for the past two and a half years, is putting together a social museum and art (SMART) gallery.

The evolving exhibition aims to involve the public, with them being asked to donate, interpret and create the objects.

All the objects and artwork will be included on the project’s fully interactive website – smartgallery.org.uk.

The exhibition will run until Monday, May 26.

l Dr Ian Adams will give an illustrated talk on Art, Power and Patronage in Renaissance Florence to the Skipton and Wharfedale Decorative and Fine Arts Society tonight.

The meeting will take place in Skipton Town Hall, with coffee served at 7pm before the lecture begins at 7.30pm. Non-members are welcome.

SETTLE: Settle Amateur Operatic Society is embracing the prohibition era.

Its junior members will stage Bugsy Malone in Victoria Hall on Saturday at 6pm.

The cast is made up entirely of under 18s.

l On Sunday, Martin Stephenson, frontman of The Daintees and his friend, Jim Hornsby, will headline at Sunday’s Folk at Victoria Hall event, hosted by Mike Harding.

l The work of printmaker Mike Smith is featured in an exhibition at the Gallery on the Green.

A member of the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mike works through the medium of lino block printing to produce a range of prints of birds, people, places, buildings and scenery.

His images are based on his own drawings or photographs and he has selected a representative set to show in the phone box art gallery.

The exhibition will run until April 26.

l Settle Music will hold one of its popular guitar sessions next Friday, April 11.

It will take place at Settle Primary School from 7pm to 9pm and the cost is £5. All styles and abilities are welcome.

GLUSBURN: Sunshine on Leith will be shown at Glusburn Institute tomorrow.

With music from The Proclaimers, the film follows the stories of Davy (played by George MacKay) and Ally (Kevin Guthrie), who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan.

Doors open at 6.30pm for the screening at 7pm and admission is £5.

INGLETON: Musician Rich Huxley from Glastonbury favourites Hope and Social will turn thoughts, photographs and memories into music and songs at a series of coffee mornings at Ingleton Library.

The events – part of the Creative Residences programme – will take place next Wednesday and Thursday, with further sessions on Monday, April 14, and Tuesday, April 15, from 10am to noon.

Admission is free and to book a place, call 08450 349536 or e-mail ingleton.library@north yorks.gov.uk.

KETTLEWELL: The Cowley Cowboys will entertain at a country music night on Saturday.

They will bring their own take on Americana – called Briticana – to the village hall at 7.30pm.

Their songs are in the country music tradition of loss, heartbreak, betrayal, debt and drink and are variously upbeat and solemn.

Admission is £10 and for further information contact John Taylor on 07501 846922 l Sunshine on Leith will be shown at the next film night in the village hall.

With music from The Proclaimers, the film follows the stories of Davy (played by George MacKay) and Ally (Kevin Guthrie), who have to relearn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan.

The screening will take place next Saturday, April 12, at 7.30pm and tickets costing £5 for adults and £2.50 for under 16s are available from Caroline Hatton on 01756 760378 or Kettlewell Village Store.

SILSDEN: The Blue Suede Dudes will play at the Punch Bowl, Silsden, next Friday, April 4.

The Keighley band plays classic rock ‘n’ roll covers by the likes of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Bill Haley.