SKIPTON: Skipton District Oddfellows will serve up a double helping of music next weekend.

Nina and friends will entertain next Saturday, October 17, from 8pm and there will be a Country and Western afternoon with Ade Payne from 1pm next Sunday, October 18 (entrance is £3 on the door).

* Country duo Cowboy and a Dancer will be the next act to appear at the Iron Horse Country Music Club in Skipton.

The duo will perform at the White Rose Club, on Newmarket Street, tomorrow.

Doors open at 7.15pm and dancers and listeners are welcome. Tickets are £5 on the door.

SETTLE: Settle Stories will to hold its first-ever Star Party on Saturday.

It is a meeting of storytellers and astronomers - and its aim is to stimulate interest in space and astronomy among people of all ages.

It will kick off at 11am and finish late and venues include Victoria Hall, the Friends Meeting House and the Gallery on the Green.

Acclaimed storyteller Cassandra Wye will explore the myths and legends of the stars and other highlights include Star Lab – an indoor planetarium - , talks on the history of astronomy, "solar observing" using hydrogen alpha telescopes and a rocket-making workshop for children.

The Gallery on the Green - housed in a former telephone box - will add an extra dimension to the Star Party.

It will display a selection of entries from Settle Stories' competition titled My Journey to the Stars.

In a test of imagination, writers were invited to describe their journey to the stars on a postcard and the winner and some other entrants will have their work displayed in the gallery from Saturday to November 28, alongside visuals that capture the scope of the challenge and size of the universe.

* The Folly has looked overseas for its latest exhibition.

It is hosting Textil/Juvel: Contemporary Craft from West Sweden.

It features seven leading makers of textiles and jewellery and reveals the rich craft heritage of West Sweden, together with an awareness of the natural world and humans' impact upon it.

The show is the fourth in the Art Unpacked series of exhibitions from Chrysalis Arts of Gargrave and will run until November 1.

Visitors to The Folly - home of the Museum of North Craven Life - will also be able to view the Community Skills exhibition, which has been running since the spring.

It 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 too runs until November 1.

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

* The Lime Gallery, at The Courtyard, has unveiled its latest exhibition.

Nature's Elements features a series of photographs featuring Iceland and Greenland by Ross Brown.

The images include dramatic glacial icescapes, aerial photography, landscapes and close studies of the flora and lichens wresting a precarious life from apparently barren terrain.

The exhibition will run until November 6.

* Settle Music will hold its night guitar session tomorrow.

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

ADDINGHAM: Addingham Ceilidh Club will meet in the Memorial Hall next Sunday, October 18, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

Lively resident band Beneath The Clock will provide a varied programme and there will also be performance spots from musicians and guest callers.

Admission is £4 and for more information, call 01535 664634 or 01943 609393.

APPLETREEWICK: Badapple Theatre will bring its comic, backstreet fairytale The Carlton Colliers to the village hall tonight.

Starring Robert Angell from BBC’s Waterloo Road, the play tells of a hard-up former pit village transformed forever, thanks to a touch of magic from a most unexpected quarter - its struggling football team.

It includes original songs and music written by Sony award-winning singer songwriter Jez Lowe.

The show will be staged at 7.30pm and tickets costing £9.50 for adults and £5 for under 16s are available from 01423 339168.

CONONLEY: Touring theatre group The Jay Walkers are on the road again with their production of Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter.

The play was originally set in Potter’s home area of the Forest of Dean, but the Jay Walkers have transposed the setting to Skipton and begin the play with a scene which uses the traditional Craven Herald feature of "50 years ago".

Five adults, aged 57, read the newspaper in 1993 and then go back to replay the summer of 1943 when they were all seven years old.

Following performances in Burnsall and Skipton, the theatre group will be in action at Cononley Institute tomorrow and Grassington's Octagon Theatre on Saturday. Both performances start at 7.30pm and tickets can be obtained at thejaywalkers.co.uk or by ringing 01756 760302.