A derbyshire and a Japanese living room will be recreated at Lancaster's Folly this month, when an award-winning interactive domestic installation drops into the gallery as part of a national tour. The result of two residences that took place in the living rooms of seven house-bound people in south Derbyshire, England, and Tokyo, Japan, Home-Maker, by artist Jeanie Finlay, examines what makes a house a home and how does this change if you cannot leave?' Navigating the two, very different, rooms provokes questions on culture, home, family, faith and solitude, giving the viewer an intimate insight into the lives of Florrie, Roy, Betty, Lillian, Aiko-San, Emi-San and Monji-San. Home-Maker runs until September 10. Opening Tuesday-Thursday 11am-5pm, Friday and Saturday 11am-4pm. For further details contact Folly on 01524-388550.

ONE of the UK's top orchestras for young musicians returns to Kendal's Westmorland Hall for a concert on Sunday, August 29 (3pm) after a seven-year absence. The National Children's Orchestra's programme includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol, Khachaturian's Adagio from Spartacus (the theme from the Onedin Line) and Elgar's Serenade for Strings. Local music teacher and director of the Furness Music Centre, Anastasia Micklethwaite, is one of 12 tutors from the country's top music schools and orchestras working with the under-13 ensemble. Tickets are £10/£8 concessions/ £4 under-14s available on 01934-820254 and from Kendal Tourist Information Centre.

VIOLINIST Takako Yamasaki and Emiko Tadenuma (piano) perform works by Bach, Debussy, Bartok and Beethoven at Hawkshead Parish Church on Tuesday (August 10, 8pm) as part of the Music for a Summer Evening series link up with Lake District Summer Music 2004. Both musicians are highly regarded and studied at the prestigious Tokyo Geidai, the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Admission is free.

KENDAL'S own king of swing' and his 16-piece band play the Brewery Arts Centre on Sunday afternoon. Duncan MacFarlane's Concert Big Band is one of the best foot-tapping outfits in the county and performs big band music and jazz standards in the Kendal arts centre's garden between 1pm-4pm. The concert is free. For further details contact 01539-725133.