SKIPTON: The Mart Theatre will host two concerts in November. The first concert, which will be held at 7.30pm on Friday, November 11, will be the band Kast Off Kinks, which features former members of the legendary band The Kinks.

Tickets cost £20 for adults and £18 concessions.

Then on Saturday, November 12, the Sounds of Simon, a tribute to Simon and Garfunkel, will perform at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £13.

To book tickets, ring the box office on 01756 70966 or visit themarttheatre.org.uk.

Skipton Music will present a performance by soprano Sarah Fox in Skipton Town Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday, November 15.

Born in Yorkshire, Sarah Fox is one of the leading English sopranos of her generation. She was educated at Giggleswick School, London University and the Royal College of Music.

She performs many musical genres including opera, folksong and musical theatre. Her concert career has taken her all over the world, working with many leading orchestras. She has appeared several times at the BBC Proms and performs frequently with John Wilson and his orchestra.

Alexander Taylor will be the accompanist for the concert.

For more information or to book a ticket, visit skiptonmusic.org.uk or ring 01756 799912.

Skipton Town Hall will stage Louise Jordan’s show No Petticoats Here on Friday, November 25, tells stories through songs of the remarkable women who lived through the First World War.

To book tickets for any of the performances, contact Skipton Tourist Information Centre on 01756 792809, email skipton@ytbtic.co.uk or call in at the Town Hall, Monday to Saturday, 9.30am to 4pm.

Craven Museum and Gallery will display the innovative free exhibition Artyfacts, featuring works of art designed and produced by people living with dementia. It runs until December 24 in the Town Hall.

Artyfacts, a joint venture between Craven Museum and Gallery and arts-based charity Pioneer Projects, hopes to raise people’s awareness of dementia and also the great initiatives that have been carried out in the area.

Pinsuti, the Ilkley and Skipton Chamber Choir, will perform in concert at Christ Church, Skipton, at 7.30pm on Saturday, November 12. The choir will perform music written in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and two sets of settings of Shakespeare's texts.

Skipton Film Club will present its next film, Where to Invade Next, at Plaza Cinema in Skipton on Sunday

The film, directed by Michael Moore, features Moore 'invading' several European countries with the intention of pinching their good ideas and taking them back to the USA. Moore is known for directing Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko.

Where to Invade Next will be screened at the Sackville Street cinema at 5pm. A short film will precede the screening.

Tickets cost £5.50 for film club members or £6.50 for the general public.

Skipton Folk Unplugged will present a performance by folk singers Alan Rose and Lynda Hardcastle on Monday at the Narrow Boat Inn.

SETTLE: Settle Orchestra's next two concerts, titled Hummel, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, will be held at 7.30pm on Saturday, November 19, in Settle College and at 7.30pm on Saturday, November 26, in Christ Church, Skipton.

The programme for these autumn concerts, which are under the baton of principal conductor Ola Ness and led by Anne Heaton, includes Shostakovich's Festive Overture, Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5 and Hummel's trumpet concerto.

The soloist for the Hummel's trumpet concerto is former Settle Orchestra member and Royal College of Music graduate, Adam Stockbridge, who was born in Skipton.

For further details, visit settleorchestra.org.uk

Who will survive this? is a new exhibition at the Gallery on the Green that runs until December 3.

The installation has been created by poet Sue Vickerman and photographer Mike Kilyon and relates to the year the two spent working in Shanghai.

Artists Linda Clemence and Liz Smart are inviting people to an art and coffee event at the Friends Meeting House.

Original paintings, sketches and cards will be available together with coffee and homemade biscuits.

The event runs from 1pm to 4.30pm today, and from 10am to 4.30pm tomorrow and Saturday. Everyone welcome.

Nordic Fiddlers Bloc will perform in concert at Settle Victoria Hall at 7.30pm on Saturday.

The group is comprised of Olav Luksengård Mjelva of Norway, Anders Hall of Sweden and Kevin Henderson of the Shetland Islands.

Individually they are regarded as three of the finest young fiddle players in the international folk music scene, while collectively they are finding themselves more in demand across the world due to this unique collaboration.

Doors open at 6.45pm and all tickets cost £14.

English folk singer Jim Moray will perform songs from his forthcoming album Upcetera at Settle Victoria at 7.30pm on Sunday. Upcetera features dramatically orchestrated child ballads reimagined as torch songs.

The First Sunday Folk concert will be introduced by Mike Harding with The William Small Small Orchestra

Doors open at 6.45pm and all tickets cost £12.

GLUSBURN: A film called The Danish Film will be screened in Glusburn Institute at 7.30pm tomorrow.

Set in Copenhagen in 1926, Danish artist Gerda Wegener paints her husband Einar Wegener as a lady in her painting. When the painting gains popularity, Einar changes his appearance to a female and names himself Lili Elbe.

Tickets cost £5.

The Ellie Gill Band will perform their Funky Tour de Yorkshire concert in Glusburn Institute at 7.30pm on Saturday.

The band's unique blend of jazz, blues, ballads and pop has made them popular with audiences across their native Yorkshire.

Silsden-born Ellie’s voice has been compared to Mary Hopkin and Joan Baez, so join Ellie and the band as they perform their favourite covers and fresh tracks from their new EP Step Out With Us.

Tickets for the film and concert are available by ringing the box office on 01535 630223 or visiting glusburn.institute

BARNOLDSWICK: In Strikers Footsteps, a multi-media storytelling piece of old and new Lancashire tales that mixes live performance with projection, animation and an interactive exhibition of theatrical peep boxes, will be performed at the Rainhall Centre at 7pm on Friday, November 18. Tickets cost £6, £5 concessions.

CARLETON-IN-CRAVEN: The final event of 2016 at Iron Horse Country Music Club in Carleton Social Club will see the first appearance of MT Allan, one of the most popular acts on the British country music circuit, on Saturday, November 12. Doors are open at 7.15pm and entry costs £5 on the door.