SKIPTON: Performing arts students at Craven College will tread the boards at Skipton’s Mart Theatre next weekend.

They will stage the rock opera, Godspell, next Friday and Saturday, February 6 and 7, at 7.15pm.

When the musical was first produced on Broadway in 1971, it broke new ground in its stage treatment of the historical Jesus Christ.

Based on St Matthew’s Gospel, it deals with the last days of Jesus and includes dramatised versions of several well-known parables.

The cast are conceived as clowns, improvising scenery and costumes, and using many well-known theatrical devices, pantomime vaudeville and varied musical styles to interpret one of humanity’s greatest events.

Tickets cost £9 for adults and £6 for concessions and are available from 01756 709666 or themarttheatre.org.uk Skipton Brass Band will play its first concert of the year on Saturday.

It is a joint venture with the Skipton branch of Soroptimist International and will kickstart its fundraising events for 2015.

The concert will take place at St Andrew’s Church, on Newmarket Street, Skipton, and is in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, the nominated charity of the Soroptimists this year, with some funding also going to the band.

It will start 7pm and tickets costing £8 are available through the band members, members of the Soroptimists or at Skipton Tourist Information in the Town Hall.

A new work by photographic artist Daniel Shiel is on show at the Mill Bridge Gallery.

Skiptonia with Starlings is a photo-collage made from more than 300 images taken in and around the town of Skipton.

It will run until the end of February.

Local folk are being invited to show off their singing talents at an Open Mic Night at The Three Links Club on Saturday, from 8pm.

For more details, contact 01756 798022.

The Singing for Fun group for people living with dementia or Parkinson’s disease will meet at Skipton Baptist Church on Tuesdays, February 3 and 17 from 2pm.

No singing experience is needed. For more information, contact the Alzheimer’s Society on 01423 813464.

SETTLE: Scottish songwriter Bill Adair will celebrate the life of poet Robert Burns at Victoria Hall on Saturday.

As well as being a gifted guitar player, Bill is widely recognised as a renowned interpreter of the poems and songs of Robert Burns and he has recently been working with Glasgow University on its Editing Burns for the 21st Century.

He will share the stage with Pandora’s Handbag - an acapella harmony singing group who perform an extensive range of songs from Russian lullabies to country music and even songs about trifle!

For tickets, call 01729 825718 or visit settlevictoriahall.org.uk.

Settle College art students are exhibiting their work at the town’s Gallery on the Green.

This is the second time that pupils have shown their work in the converted phone box and the current exhibition has the theme, Fauvism in the Dales.

The students have adopted a range of different techniques to recreate the use of energetic and intense colours seen in the art works of Fauvist artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin and Seurat.

The exhibition will run until March 1.

For more information, visit galleryonthegreen.org.uk.

BARNOLDSWICK: Rolls-Royce Leisure will host its first soul night of the year tomorrow.

Dubbed Barlick’s Big Soul Night, it will feature resident DJ Roman and guest DJ Shaun Fitton.

It will run from 8pm to 1am and admission is £5 on the door.

GIGGLESWICK: The Engineer Theatre Collection will stage Run - about four investment bankers chasing a career in the city - at the Richard Whiteley Theatre on Tuesday.

The play exposes the glamour and grind of the square mile and was inspired by the true story of Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year-old intern who died at his London flat after working for 72 hours straight.

Suitable for audiences aged 14 and over, the production uses striking physicality, sound and contemporary design to reveal people’s rapacious relationship with money.

Curtains rise at 7.30pm and tickets are available from 01729 893180 or giggleswick.org.uk/rwt.

GLUSBURN: The film, Saving Mr Banks, will be screened at Glusburn Institute tomorrow.

Spurred on by a promise he made to his daughters, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) embarks on what would become a 20-year quest to obtain the movie rights to Mary Poppins. The author, PL Travers (Emma Thompson), proves to be an uncompromising curmudgeon who has no intention of letting her beloved characters become mangled in the Hollywood machine.

The screening starts at 7pm and admission is £5 for adults and £3.50 for concessions.

GRASSINGTON: Grassington Movie Nights continue in the Octagon Theatre next Saturday, February 7.

The 4.30pm film will be Disney’s Maleficient - the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty - while the film at 7.30pm will be Grace of Monaco, an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of the 20th century’s most iconic princess, Grace Kelly, as she strived to reconcile her past and her present.

Tickets costing £5 for adults and £2.50 for children are available from The Hub on 01756 752222.