SKIPTON: Skipton Building Society Camerata will give two performances in the town over the next week.

It will join forces with The University of Leeds, its chamber choir the Clothworker’s Consort and the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society at Christ Church on Saturday.

They will give a new lease of life to Phillip Hayes’s choral work, The Judgement of Hermes.

Then, next Friday, May 1, the orchestra will perform in Skipton Town Hall to mark the building’s reopening.

The musicians will be joined by leading oboist Nicholas Daniel for a programme which includes Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto.

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

His one-man show, Searching for the Marvellous in an Age of Isolation, Fear and Hate, runs until Saturday.

lSkipton Oddfellows will host a magic and music evening featuring local talent at the Three Links Club on Saturday from 8pm.

And, on Wednesday, there will be a free and easy music night, with three local groups performing, from 7.30pm.

lAward-winning authors Bryan and Mary Talbot will appear at Skipton Library on Wednesday as part of the Read Regional campaign.

They will give a talk on their graphic novel, Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, which tells the story of the campaign for votes for women.

The event will take place at 7.30pm and to book a place, contact 0845 034 9538.

lAC Gallery in Victoria Court is holding an exhibition of rare signed prints by LS Lowry The show will run until Saturday.

SETTLE: Greg Lawson and Pete Garnett will perform with their new band Caper at Victoria Hall on Sunday.

The pair - best known as members of Moishes Bagel – will play in a round using the natural acoustics within the hall.

Doors open at 7.15pm.

The Ribblesdale Area Moving Picture Show (TRAMPS) will continue its popular foreign film season with the screening of the award-winning The First Grader in Victoria Hall on Wednesday.

Based on a true story, it tells of the battle of Kenyan pensioner Maruge (played by Oliver Litondo) to get an education.

The screening starts at 7.45pm and admission is £5.

lThe Lime Gallery, in The Courtyard, is hosting a 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.

Drama in the Dales runs until Monday, May 11.

lThe Museum of North Craven Life is hosting 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 – the largest in Yorkshire.

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.

lPhotographers Paul Rogers and Roger Taylor have joined forces to explore and speculate on the public’s preoccupation with photographing themselves.

They are staging a joint exhibition, entitled Click, at the Gallery on the Green - housed in a former phone box. The exhibition will run until to June 27.

ADDINGHAM: Addingham Drama Group delves into underhand dealings in political circles with its latest production which opens tonight.

The group will present the Eric Chappell comedy, Up and Coming, at Addingham Memorial Hall.

The play focuses on political hopeful Philip Conway, whose position is compromised by various people.

There will be five performances - tonight, tomorrow and next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30 and May 1 - starting at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available from Steve Crossley-Smith on 01943 830640.

lAddingham Methodist Church will host an art exhibition and sale.

Fifty original pictures will be on show from 10am to 4.30pm on Saturday and from 1pm to 4.30pm on Sunday.

Proceeds will be divided between the Sightsavers charity and the Methodist Church.

BARNOLDSWICK: A production featuring historic tales from rural communities on Canada’s east coast will be shown at the Rainhall Centre tomorrow.

Theatre Newfoundland will present With Cruel Times in Between, a show inspired by the writing of Al Pittman, at 7pm.

Tickets are available from 01282 818250.

lRolls-Royce Leisure will host its next Big Soul Night Out tomorrow.

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

GRASSINGTON: The Wharfedale Support Group for Manorlands Hospice will present a We Will Rock You evening at Grassington Town Hall on Saturday.

The event - featuring Night Patrol - is being staged in memory of Grassington woman Esme Binns who died of cancer last year. Saturday would have been her 50th birthday.

It will run from 8pm and tickets are available from 07834 352944.

SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN: The Green Hut Theatre Company is staging Roy Sault’s nostalgic musical When The Lights Go On Again.

It will open in the village hall tonight and will run until Saturday. As well as evening performances, there will be a matinee on the last day.

To book tickets call 01535 632289.

THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE: St Oswald’s Church will host a lunchtime concert on Saturday.

Starting at noon, it will feature soprano Avelina Wright and pianist Charles Edmondson.

Tickets are available from 015242 42207.