SKIPTON: The Phoenix Dance Theatre Company will perform a one-off event at Christ Church on Wednesday.

It will perform its ReFINED show - a mix of solo, duet and quartet dances created by its artistic director, Sharon Watson.

There will also be a screening of the film, Ghost Peloton, choreographed by Phoenix and filmed by Reset Films as part of theYorkshire Festival 2014 to celebrate the Tour de France launch.

And Wednesday’s show will feature a curtain raiser, performed by a diverse group of young people from a range of backgrounds and geographical areas.

Advanced tickets costing £10 for adults, and £6 for under 18s are available online at ruralarts.org/products/refined. Any remaining tickets will be available on the door at £12 for adults and £8 for under 18s.

lThe surrealist-inspired work of Peter Harris is being exhibited at Skipton’s Mill Bridge Gallery.

His one-man show, Searching for the Marvellous in an Age of Isolation, Fear and Hate, combines his love of mountain walks, nature and the outdoors, his socialist beliefs and his pursuit of individual freedom and liberty.

The exhibition - which runs until Saturday, April 25 - includes photographs, collages, found objects and 3D pieces.

lSkipton Soul Club will meet at the Black Horse Hotel next Saturday, April 18.

DJs Keith Fletcher, Steve Lawson, Kevin Jackson, Ray France and Ian Kinmond will play Northern Soul, Motown and 60s Soul from 8pm to 1am.

Admission is £5 on the door.

lStuart Douglas will make a rare solo outing when he performs at Skipton Folk Unplugged on Monday.

He will entertain with his large repertoire of contemporary folk music and Americana.

The club meets at the Narrow Boat pub, on Victoria Street, from 8.30pm.

lFrank Woodgate will be guest speaker at tonight’s meeting of the Skipton and Wharfedale Decorative and Fine Arts Society.

He will give an illustrated talk on Revealing the Beauty of Nature: the Landscape Art of Andy Goldsworthy.

The meeting will take place at Skipton Town Hall, starting with coffee at 7pm and the lecture at 7.30pm.

lSkipton Oddfellows will host a country and western afternoon at the Three Links Club next Sunday, April 19, from 1pm to 4pm.

Admission is £3 on the door.

SETTLE: Hotbuckle Theatre will bring its acclaimed touring production of Persuasion to Victoria Hall tonight.

Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, the play tells the story of Anne Elliot and Fredrick Wentworth, who were once hopelessly in love.

Persuaded by her family that he is not of her standing, she ends their engagement and he leaves for sea, only to return eight years later in search of a wife.

Curtains rise at 8pm and tickets are available from 01729 825718.

lThe Lime Gallery, in The Courtyard, is hosting an new art show, Drama in the Dales by Kate Bentley.

Kate’s paintings capture the landscapes and weatherscapes of daily life around Yorkshire’s Three Peaks and the Eastern Dales.

Accompanying the exhibition are excerpts from Great War poet Laurence Binyon’s poem Inheritance, in which he reflects the awe and majesty of Ingleborough.

Kate is an award-winning professional painter based in the Lyth Valley, in the Lake District. She is a elected member of the Society of Women Artists, The Lakes Artists Society and the Birmingham Watercolour Society. She also recently became an associate member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

She said: “Living and working in the Southern Lake District, I have no shortage of subject matter but somehow there always seems to be a bit more going on in the Dales’ landscape and weather.”

Drama in the Dales runs until Monday, May 11.

lThe Museum of North Craven Life is hosting two exhibitions.

One tells the story of the potteries in Burton-in-Lonsdale, which were fired up in the mid 18th century.

The Community Skills exhibition will showcase around 60 pots from the museum’s collection – the largest in Yorkshire – including high quality stoneware and novelties such as puzzle jugs.

The second exhibition, Reality Hits Home, focuses on the First World War and contrasts the frontline experiences of the volunteers with life at home where people stumbled through dark streets, fearful for the first time of enemy attack from the skies.

Stories involve the Rev Theodore Bayley Hardy, an army chaplain from Bentham, who was the most highly decorated non-combatant in the First World War, and Bertram Lambert, the Settle-born inventor of the gas respirator.

A full programme of expert talks will uncover the history behind the exhibitions, starting with Nigel Mussett’s look at 19th century occupations in Settle next Saturday, April 18.

For more information, call 01729 822854 or visit ncbpt.org.uk/folly lSettle Music will hold one of its popular guitar sessions tomorrow.

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

lSettle U3A’s singing for pleasure group invites everyone to a sing-along session on Wednesday at 2pm in St John’s Hall.

There will be tea, coffee and biscuits available in exchange for a donation.

LOTHERSDALE: This month’s informal folk music session takes place at the Hare and Hounds on Wednesday, starting at 8.30pm.

Everyone is welcome to join in, or just to listen to some of the best local musicians and singers.

WIGGLESWORTH: Rural Arts are putting on a performance of Bless Em All at the community centre on Wednesday, April 22, at 1.30pm.

The show features songs and acts from the 1940s and admission is free for the over 60s. To book, ring 01729 840794.