Last updated 10:35, Thursday, 16 October 2008

Your guide to arts and community events for the week ahead.

Keswick Theatre

Exhibitions
Whitehaven: Presence of Place, The Printmakers Council, The Beacon, until November 1.
Egremont: Open exhibition, local artists, Lowes Court Gallery, Saturday until November 4.
Cockermouth: Out and About, art exhibition, Percy House Gallery, until November 5.
Gigs & Music
Whitehaven: Blueshounds, John Paul Jones, Friday; Charity Show in aid of NCH, Civic Hall, 8pm, Sunday.
Cleator: Live music, The Brook, every weekend.
Egremont: Electric and acoustic jam night, Wheatsheaf, 7.30pm, every Monday.
Arlecdon: Jenia, The Hound Inn, 9.30pm, Saturday.
Workington: The Nimmo Brothers, blues, 8pm, tonight; Four Fighters, 9pm, Friday, all at Monroes.
Nethertown: Smooth Jazz, music and dinner, Good Companions, 7pm, tonight.
Maryport: Jon Amor Band, King’s Arms, 4pm, Sunday.
Carlisle: Ken Dodd, Sands, 7.30pm, Saturday; Carlisle’s Got Talent, Sands, Sunday.

Community
Whitehaven:AGM, Whitehaven Rambling Club, United Reformed Church Hall, 7.45pm, Wednesday; Romans on the Road, October 21, Tasty Tuesdays, 2pm, Beacon; Buddhist Meditation Classes, Quaker Meeting House, 7.30pm, every Monday; Hatha Yoga, 5.45pm, Monday, Gentle Yoga, 3pm, Tuesday, both at Senhouse Centre; Bob McConnell, photographic society talk, Sneckyeat Community Centre, Monday; Life drawing classes, Beacon, 10.30am, Monday.
Mirehouse: Legs, bums, tums, West Coast Community Gym, 5.45-6.45pm, Thursdays.
Egremont: Egremont Craft Fair, farmers’ and Fairtrade market, Market Hall, 9.30am-1pm; Circle dancing with Gill Hazlehurst, Parish Church Hall, 2pm-4pm, Mondays.
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; Tap dancing, Methodist Church Hall, 7pm (advanced), 8pm (beginners), Thursdays; Autumn Fayre, St Leonard’s Church, Civic Hall, 1.30pm, Saturday.
Arlecdon: Quiz night, The Hound Inn, 9pm, every Thursday.
St Bees: Tango classes, Village Hall, 8pm, Tuesday.
Calderbridge: Morris dancing, Village Hall, 8.15pm, Mondays.
Workington: Sing Owt!, sing a variety of songs, Cre8, 7-9pm, Thursdays (during term-time).
Cockermouth:Choir rehearsals, Harmonic Society, United Reformed Church, 7pm, every Monday.

Film
Rosehill: This Happy Breed, Tuesday, October 21 and Wednessay, October 22.
Workington: Eagle Eye, Igor, Burn After Reading, The Escapist, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, City of Ember, Taken, Mamma Mia!, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Space Chimps, Wild Child, Plaza Cinema.
Theatre
Gosforth: The Ghost train, GADS, public hall, tonight to Saturday.
Rosehill: Robin and the Withering Wood, Kinetic Theatre, today 10am-2pm.
Haile: The Last Waltz, Village Hall, Friday, October 17, 7.30pm.
Keswick: Arsenic and Old Lace; The Bogus Woman; The Lady in the Van; The Lonesome West; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Caretaker, until November, all Theatre by the Lake.
Ulverston: Deadringer from Hell, rock opera, Coro Hall, 7.30pm, Friday.