From the Comedy Club to Curtis Stigers, there are dozens of things to do in the week ahead.ARTIMPERIAL War Museum North, Trafford Park, Manchester, is hosting a photographic exhibition entitled Fr Das Kind by Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre. The exhibition marks the arrival of 10,000 Jewish children who came to England 60 years ago to escape the Nazis. The images show the suitcases that they carried. The exhibition is open from 10am-6pm (Mon-Sat).ROSY Cheeks and Harsh Realities: A Country Childhood, an exhibition looking at 19th century watercolours, is appearing at Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, until March 14. For details call 0161-235-8888.THE Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, is hosting an exhibition entitled Non Verbal by Ashley Turton, a young artist with Aspergers Syndrome. The exhibition offers an insight into the world of an artist who doesn't know what he is going to draw until a second before he puts pencil to paper. Non Verbal runs until March 7.PLEASURE, an exhibition of the work of Charles Mitchell, opens at Brantwood, Coniston, tomorrow (Saturday). Mitchell's work was exhibited in Italy last year and is inspired by Italian arts, literature and the Renaissance. Pleasure runs until April 4. For details call 015394-41396.BLACKWELL, The Arts & Crafts House, Bowness, is hosting an exhibition entitled Contemporary Ceramics beginning on Monday. On show will be the work of three leading ceramicists, Emmanuel Cooper, Chris Keenan and Carina Ciscato. There will also be the opportunity to buy pieces of the artist's work. For details, call 015394-46139. The exhibition runs until April 18.EXPLORE the history of the Yorkshire Dales at an exhibition entitled Part of the Landscape at Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes. This exciting interactive family exhibition aims to explode the myth that only one type of real Dales person' exists and explores who has arrived, stayed in or left the Dales and why.COMEDYTHE Comedy Club takes over Accrington Town Hall on Sunday with a programme featuring three top comedians and host compere Billy Lee. On the bill will be established circuit comedians Hal Cruttenden, Karen Bayley and Ian Stone. The first act takes the stage at 8pm. For details call 01254-380293.CORNISH comedian Jethro will be bringing his West Country burr to Manchester's Opera House on Sunday. For tickets call 080-060-1768. JOHN Hegley, bespectacled comic poet and Edinburgh Festival mainstay, is appearing at Forum 28, Barrow today (Friday). The performance begins at 8pm. For tickets call 01229-820000.CONCERTSMUSICIAN and writer Julie Ellison will be performing her own original material at The Pier Hotel, Marine Road, Morecambe tonight (Friday) at 9pm and The Golden Lion, Moor Lane, Lancaster tomorrow (Saturday) at 9pm.THE Lakeland Sinfonia series of concerts continues with a visit by The BBC Philharmonic with their Principal Conductor to Kendal's Leisure Centre tomorrow (Saturday). The programme features Elgar's Enigma Variations, Respighi's Fountains of Rome, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto Number 2. The concert starts at 7.30pm with a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm. For tickets call Pam & Tim Keegan on 01539-722533.TOP country singer Curtis Stigers, famous for a string of 90s hits including I Wonder Why, is appearing in concert at Forum 28, Barrow, on Thursday at 8pm. For tickets call 01229-820000.ROYAL Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is appearing at Preston Guild Hall on Tuesday. The programme includes Rossini's William Tell Overture and begins at 7.30pm. For tickets call 01772-258858. Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Antti Siirala performs music by Rossini, Richard Strauss, and Mendhelssohn at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Opus One Concerts. The performances begin at 7.30pm. For details call 0161-907-9000.ONE of Ireland's most successful singer-songwriters, Frances Black, is appearing at the Lowry Centre, Salford, on Sunday. The concert will include material from her latest album and begins at 8pm. For tickets call 0870-787-5780. EXPERIENCE some uplifting music as the Oxford Concert Party visits Brigsteer Village Hall on Wednesday. For tickets, call 015395-68497 (answerphone)THE Sedbergh School Choral Society performs Handel's Messiah at Carlisle Cathedral tomorrow (Saturday) at 7pm. The concert will be conducted by David Andrew, with the Mowbray Orchestra and also features various soloists. For details call 01228-548151. COUNTRYSIDEThe Forest of Bowland Hedgelaying Competition takes place at the Crook of Lune Picnic Site tomorrow (Saturday). On show will be the finest in countryside skills and there will also be an opportunity to have a go at hedgelaying under the watchful eye of an expert. The competition takes place from 9am-4.30pm. For more details call 01995-640557.COURSESTHE annual Wordsworth Winter School, a residential course of lectures, seminars, poetry readings, walks and excursions, begins tomorrow (Saturday). The course runs until February 11 and this year's theme is Wordsworth on the Heights: 1804. For details of events call Jessica Wordsworth on 01865-557552.DANCEEXPERIENCE some fine contemporary dance at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University tomorrow (Saturday). Dance Cuts is a series of short choreographed pieces including performances from CO3 and the Lancashire Dance Company. The evening begins at 8pm. For details call 0800-028-3042.SPORTKENDAL Town FC entertain Bishop Auckland In the UniBond League First Division at Parkside on Saturday. Spectators should note that the match kicks off at the earlier than usual time of 2pm because of the floodlight work at the ground. kENDAL Rugby Union Club face the trip to Dudley Kingwinsford in National League 3 North on Saturday (2.15pm kick-off).THE Kendal Winter League fell running continues with the Barbon Fell Race (from the Barbon-Dent road) on Sunday (noon start).STORYTELLINGEDEN Valley Storytelling Club meet at the New Crown Inn, Ainstable, near Carlisle, on Monday for an informal gathering of young and old telling local and traditional tales. Meet at 7.30pm. For details call 016974-72256.TALKSAMBLESIDE and District University of the Third Age is holding a meeting at The Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, Windermere, on Monday. The meeting includes an illustrated talk by Ian Jones entitled The House of Hird and begins at 2.30pm. MOUNTAINEER and Wilderness photographer Karl Farkas presents a talk at Rheged tomorrow (Saturday) entitled Of Snow, Ice, Sleds and Huskies recounting his experiences of sledding with dogs with the British Antarctic Survey. The talk starts at 8pm. For tickets call 01768-860005.THEATREALAN Bennett's hilarious comedy Kafka's Dick is showing at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster. The play surrounds the antics of an obsessive fan of the writer Franz Kafka who gets to meet his hero reincarnated in the form of a tortoise. Kafka's Dick runs until February 28. For details of performances, call 01524-598500. CAROUSEL, the musical story of the romance between a loveable rogue and a beautiful mill worker who fall in love at the fairground is appearing at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, this weekend (Friday & Saturday). For performance times, call 01253- 290190.COMBINED Lancaster Grammar Schools present West Side Story, the gangland tale of a love affair between members of two different gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, at the Lancaster Grand Theatre this weekend (Friday & Saturday). Performances begin at 7.30pm. For tickets call 01524-64695.PHOENIX Productions are recreating the romance of the Viennese Festive Season at Forum 28, Barrow-In- Furness, on Wednesday. The show recreates the finery of a bygone age with classic costumes, waltzes, operettas and music from Strauss and Lehar to name but a few. The show begins at 7.30pm. For tickets call 01229-820000.LITTLE Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs, a satirical comedy about the dubious urges to political and personal power starring Jeff Hordley (Kane from Emmerdale) is showing at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, until February 21. Call 01204-520661 for details.ARNE Richards and the Oxford Concert Party take 300 years of music from around the world, turn it upside down and infuse it with energy and passion at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, on Sunday. The concert begins at 7.30pm. For tickets call 01768-774411.THE Dead Earnest Theatre Company perform Stalingrad a play set on the wintry banks of the Volga during the Second World War at St.Peter's Arts Centre and Vernon Auditorium, Preston, on Wednesday at 7.30pm. For tickets, call 01772-893-001. Showing from February 11 14.ENJOY the farcical antics of the French Resistance at an amateur production of the hit 80s wartime comedy Allo, Allo at the Lowther Pavilion, Lytham, on Wednesday 7.30pm. Allo, Allo runs until Saturday (February 14). For tickets call 01772-634644.