Last updated 15:24, Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Your guide to art and community events for the week ahead

Exhibitions
Whitehaven: 300th Anniversary of Whitehaven Harbour, The Beacon, until September 6.
Egremont: Autumn Contrasts, mixed media and landscape painting and ceramics, Lowes Court Gallery, August 16 until September 30.
Santon Bridge:A and N Pendlebury, Bridge End Gallery, until September 26.
Cockermouth: Summer Selection, Percy House Gallery, to August 27.
Carlisle:Art Exhibition, Carlisle and Cumbria Artists, Cathedral Fratry, until August 17.
Gigs & Music
Whitehaven: Big Baby Ernie, Friday; karaoke, every Thursday and Sunday, all John Paul Jones. MT Arms, Vagabond, Sunday, 3pm.
Cleator: Live music, The Brook, every weekend.
Egremont: Cliff Rescue and the Helicopters, The Central. Acoustic jam night, Wheatsheaf, 7.30pm, every Monday.
Arlecdon: Guy Lancaster, August 16, The Hound Inn, 9.30pm, Saturday.
Community
Rosehill: Taster Singing Fun Day, West Cumberland Choral Society (Junior and Youth choirs), Monday, August 18, 10.30am-3.30pm, Rosehill Barn. Pilates: 6pm Improver, 7pm Essential, 8pm Intermediate, The Barn, Thursdays.
Whitehaven: Boom Dang Drumming Workshops, Tuesday, 1pm, Civic Hall. Make A Noise, children’s music workshops, August 14 and 15, The Beacon.
Mirehouse: Legs, bums, tums, West Coast Community Gym, 5.45-6.45pm, Thursdays.
Egremont: Egremont Farmers’ Crafts and Fairtrade Market, Market Hall, 9.30am-1pm, August 15. West Cumbria Fuchsia Society, annual show, Sunday, August 17, 1.30pm-4pm, St Mary’s and St Michael’s Church Hall.
Cleator Moor: Cleator Moor Brass, St John’s Church, 7-9pm, Mondays and Thursdays; Exercise classes with Lynda Ridley, Civic Hall, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Mondays and Wednesdays; Wellness Club, 6-7pm, Wath Brow Hornets Club, Tuesdays.
Arlecdon: Quiz, The Hound Inn, 9pm, every Thursday.
Calderbridge: Morris dancing, Village Hall, 8.15pm, Mondays.
Ravenglass:Secondhand and collectable book fair, Muncaster Parish Hall, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10.30am-5pm.
Muncaster: Foolish fundays, Muncaster Castle, August 17 and 18.
Nether Wasdale: Wasdale Winter Wonderland and Fell Walkers’ Buttermere, audio visual presentations, Old School Community Hall, Wednesday, August 20, 8pm.
Workington: Sing Owt!, sing a variety of songs, Cre8, 7-9pm, Thursdays (term-time).
Film
Workington: You Don’t Mess With The Zohan; Wild Child; Star Wars: The Clone Wars; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly; Hellboy 2: The Golden Army; The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor; The Dark Knight; Wall-E; Mamma Mia, all from Friday, Plaza Cinema.
Theatre
Keswick: Arsenic and Old Lace; The Bogus Woman; The Lady in the Van; The Lonesome West; The Importance of Being Earnest, all Theatre by the Lake, until November.