SKIPTON: Skipton Players are currently staging Robin Hawdon’s classic comedy The Mating Game.

The play revolves around famous talk show host Draycott Harris, who has a reputation for the ladies.

Performances will take place at Skipton Little Theatre until Saturday, with curtains up at 7.30pm, and tickets can be reserved by emailing skipton.little.theatre@gmail.com or calling 07527 141176.

* Craven Museum and Gallery's current exhibition celebrates two of the town's internationally-renowned festivals, which will be staged in the autumn.

A Tale of Two Festivals showcases the delights of the Yarndale Festival, which will take place at the auction mart on September 26 and 27 and the Puppet Festival, which runs over the weekend of October 2 or 4.

Yarndale celebrates all things woolly, with an impressive selection of exhibitors, exhibitions, skill demonstrations and workshops and the puppet festival will offer 40 international performers.

A Tale of Two Festivals will run until October 4.

* Mill Bridge Gallery is hosting an exhibition of work by artist Judy Sale.

Travel on The Edge shows Judy’s bright, bold abstract canvasses, which have been inspired by the many countries in which she has lived and worked.

American-born Judy, who now lives in Haworth, is also involved in restoring ancient buildings.

The exhibition will run until Saturday, August 29.

* Skipton Folk Unplugged will hold a Singers Night on Monday.

The club meets at the Narrow Boat pub from 8.30pm and all are welcome.

SETTLE: This month's First Sunday Folk event at Victoria Hall will include a ceilidh and barbecue.

As usual, the entertainment will be introduced by presenter and comedian Mike Harding and there will be music from the William Small Small Orchestra.

Sunday's event start at 7.390m and tickets are available from 01729 825718.

* The new Gavagan Art Gallery, in Settle Town Hall, is holding its first exhibition.

Called Beyond the Horizon: Paintings of North Yorkshire and Provence, it features work by Norman Adams.

A professor at the Royal Academy Schools, he bought a house at Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the 1950s and the rugged North Craven landscape proved an inspiration.

The exhibition features a number of works from this period which haven't previously been exhibited as well as watercolours painted in Provence where Adams sought inspiration from the landscape which had influenced Van Gogh, a painter he greatly admired.

The exhibition will run until August 31.

* The Lime Gallery at The Courtyard has launched its summer exhibition.

It features work by artists Hester Cox, Margaret Uttley, Pam Grimmond, Colin Binns, Casey Allum, Tracy Levine, Anna Tosney and Sarah Cemmick.

The exhibition runs until August 31.

* Phone calls are the inspiration of the Gallery on the Green's latest exhibition.

The gallery is housed in a decommissioned phone box and the exhibition, Call Me, is a written collage of notable literary telephone dialogues.

It has been put together by Ellen Bell and Jo Hamill and remembers the days before smart phones, mobiles and even landlines, when private telephone conversations had to be conducted inside a public call box.

Call Me runs until August 15 and further details are available from Settle Tourist Information Centre or online at galleryonthegreen.org.uk * Visitors to The Museum of North Craven Life have the choice of two exhibitions.

Community Skills tells the story of the potteries in Burton-in-Lonsdale, which were fired up in the mid 18th century and showcases around 60 pots from the museum’s collection.

It runs until November 1.

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 were fearful for the first time of enemy attack from the skies.

It will run until the end of August.

For more information, call 01729 822854 or visit ncbpt.org.uk/folly.

ARNCLIFFE: Skipton Brass Band will play at Littondale Fete next Saturday, August 8.

The event starts at 1pm.

BOLTON ABBEY: Pianist Emmanuel “Manny” Vass will return to Bolton Abbey tomorrow to give the final performance in the priory's 2015 concert series.

Manny, the son of a Yorkshire carpenter, is currently in the top ten of the UK Classical music chart with his debut album, Sonic Waves, and is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most charismatic pianists on the contemporary scene.

To welcome his return to the Priory Church, local firm Yorkshire Pianos will erect a stage for the grand piano in front of the sanctuary and the concert will start at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased in advance from the Priory Office on 01756 710238 or (unless previously sold out) on the door on the night.

GARGRAVE: The Nostalgia Swing Band will entertain at Gargrave Village Hall on Sunday.

The 17-piece band from Ramsbottom will play big band music from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

The concert will start at 2pm and there will be an interval break for a homemade afternoon tea. There will be lots of informal seating around tables but there will also be space on the dance floor for anyone wishing to dance.

Tickets are priced at £10 for adults and £5 for under 16s and can be reserved by calling Caroline on 01756 749235 or Sally on 01756 748098.

Special song requests can also be made, but the organisers cannot guarantee all will be played.

HELLIFIELD: Hellifield will stage its annual talent night tomorrow.

The event - which kickstarts the village's gala celebrations - will take place in a marquee on the gala field from 7pm.

This year's theme is Sounds of Summer.

And, on Saturday night, there will be evening entertainment in te marquee from girls' group Eye Candy and Mix Disco.

For more information, contact Dave Preston on 01729 850418.

HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE: As part of its festival weekend, St Oswald's Church will stage Art in the Aisles next Saturday, August 8, from 10am to 4pm.

And, in the evening, local band Saggy Bottom Boys will play blue grass music from 7.30pm. Refreshments will be available and admission is £7.50.