Whats on where in the area this week.

MISCELLANEOUS

MILNTHORPE'S Dallam Education and Training Centre is holding a number of summer school courses over the weekend. Check out workshops in jewellery design and manufacture on Friday or sewing, woodcarving and garden design on Saturday and computer classes and painting on Sunday. All courses run from 10am-4pm. For more details of these and other workshops call 015395-65123.

THE grounds of Holker Hall, at Cark-in-Cartmel, will be filled with hundreds of vintage vehicles this weekend. Opening on Saturday and Sunday, the Historic Motoring Weekend will see exhibitors proudly displaying HGVs, PSVs, military and agricultural machines alongside some rather special classic cars from over the years. Tel 015395-58509.

YEWBARROW House, at Grange-over-Sands, will be opening its gardens in aid of charity this weekend. Open Saturday and Sunday from 11am-4pm, the Mediterranean-styled grounds are worth a view.

EXPERTS from Preston North End Football Club will host a Summer Soccer School at Windermere Junior School from Tuesday. Boys and girls, aged eight-14 years, are invited to develop their ball-skills at the workshops which will take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10.30am-3pm. Tel 01772-704275.

CONCERTS

DOCTOR Franci O'Gorman, a senior lecturer and former Oxford organ scholar, will present a programme of Venetian organ music and J.S. Bach at St Andrew's Church, in Coniston, on Friday night at 7.30pm.

UNDER the steady and skilled hand of conductor, Martin Hughes, the Cobweb Orchestra will play a concert of some of Mozart's finest pieces at Rheged, near Penrith, on Sunday (7.30pm). Tel 01768-860090.

ON Saturday from 8pm, Cartmel Priory will be the venue for Off the Beaten Track, a concert of organ and mezzo-soprano music.

ON Tuesday, from 8pm, you can see Heejung Kim play a concert of piano music at Hawkshead Parish Church.

FRESH from Germany, the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will play a concert at Windermere's St Herbert's Church on Thursday (7.30pm). Tel 01539-446499.

THEATRE

ON Saturday, Lancaster's Williamson Park will welcome Chapterhouse Theatre Company for a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. On Sunday, the same actors will recreate the playwright's As You Like It at the park. Both performances begin at 7.30pm (the grounds are open all day for picnics). Call 01524-33318 to book.

EXHIBITIONS

MEMBERS of the Heron Theatre, in Beetham, have loaned their favourite paintings and pictures to form a varied exhibition. Open until the end of August on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (10am-noon).

ON Saturday, Kendal Art Society opens its Annual Exhibition in the town hall (10am-5pm Monday-Saturday).

FOLLOWING the Sugar Store Gallery's Preface exhibition earlier this year, Kendal's Brewery is hosting the second, fascinating installation by Sophie Henderson and Catherine MacDiarmid - Face2. Tel 01539-725133.

FOXHOUNDS are the focus of animal-loving artist Mary Ann Rogers's current exhibition of fine watercolours at the Upfront Gallery, at Hutton-in-the-Forest. Tel 01768-484538.

FORMER Carlisle teacher, Marie Wood, is showing Drifting Back - a collection of sculptures, paintings and drawings inspired by the sea - at Ivegill's High Head Sculpture Valley.

BENDER, an photographic exhibition portraying action figures in various poses, is on show at Lancaster's Folly. Nigel Grimmer has captured adult concerns and experiences of belonging, isolation and alienation. Open Tuesday-Thursday 11am-5pm and 11am-4pm Friday and Saturday until the end of the month. Meanwhile, the gallery is also hosting Home-Maker, an award-winning interactive domestic installation by artist Jeanie Finlay, which explores what makes a house a home.

A PHOTOGRAPHIC exhibition, reflecting the feelings of locals who live and work in and around Morecambe Bay, has opened at Ulverston's Lanternhouse. Bay Tales is part of Longline - Welfare State International's three year project exploring ecology, mythology, people and industries of Morecambe Bay. Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and Saturdays 11am-4pm.

PART of the Lake District Summer Music Festival, the Summer Music Exhibition of works by Cockermouth-born artist, Dorothy Bradford, at St Martin's College, in Ambleside, closes on Saturday.

FOLLOWING the success of the first picture exhibition, The Life and Times of George Romney, a collection of his paintings, portraits and sketches, opens at Kendal Town Hall on Friday at 11am. Open until August 22.

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL exhibition of Lake District paintings by Bowness-born artist John Hewitt is the current offering at Preston Patrick Gallery, Crooklands. Tel 01229-773380.

BLACKWELL, the Arts and Crafts House at Bowness, is now housing the Anderson Collection of Art Nouveau. This stunning new exhibition features furniture and objects. Open daily from 10.30am-5pm. Tel 015394-46139.

WIRE and bronze sculptures, installations, collages and prints of human torsos and animal heads all feature in an exhibition at the Storey Gallery, in Lancaster. You can view the work by artist Sophie Ryder until the end of the month (Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm). Tel 01524-844133.

FORMER county and district councillor, Edward Acland, is displaying his artwork in the Brewery Warehouse. Another Story reveals our extravagant consumer way of life is slowly despoiling bruised planet Earth and looks closely at everyday surroundings. Tel 01539-725133.

A textile exhibition at Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, displaying work made from a variety of materials from wool and silk to hand-made papers and embroidered lace, closes on Wednesday. Open 10.30am-5pm daily, call 015396-21958 for more information.

SOME rare Blake drawings, last seen in the UK in 1914, are currently on display at The Wordsworth Museum, in Grasmere - as part of an exhibition on Milton's Paradise Lost. Works by Medina, Romney, Turner and original editions of Milton's work will also feature. Tel 015394-35544.

THE complete body of Lucian Freud's published etchings are displayed at Kendal's Abbot Hall Art Gallery. Including some rare early prints and several new and unpublished works, the 60 pieces cover a variety of subjects from portraits and nudes to studies of nature. Open 10.30am-5pm Monday-Saturday. Tel 01539-722464.

SILVERDALE Painting Group will be showing its annual exhibition of paintings at Gaskell Hall, Silverdale, this weekend. Open on Friday and Saturday from 10am-5pm and on Sunday from 10am-4pm. Tel 01524-701146.

WORKS by local photographer Rob Daniels can be seen at the Community Shop, in Morecambe, as part of the relaunched Folly Community Art Scheme. Open 10am-4pm Monday-Friday, call 01524-413064 for more information.

THE Alfred Wainwright Exhibition continues at Kendal Museum this week. 01539-721374.

THE Severn Studio, at Brantwood (the former Coniston home of John Ruskin), has been transformed by Pamela McTurk. Her exhibition, Transformed, is a thoughtful collection of paintings on show daily (11am-5.30pm) until September. Tel 015394-41396.

TALKS

RAIL buffs should enjoy an event at Haverthwaite Steam Railway on Tuesday (10.30am-3.30pm) when Arnside author John Cotta and Tebay train enthusiast Len Clarke sign their latest publications and reminisce about their days on the railways. Tel 015395-61321.

ON Thursday (2pm), the curator of Abbot Hall, in Kendal, will discuss the gallery's current exhibition, Walter Sickert: The Human Canvas, focussing on select paintings on show. Tel 01539-722464.

AT the age of six, Cumbrian-based musician and poet Josephine Dickinson became profoundly deaf overnight. With two published collections under her belt, you can hear this inspirational success story on Tuesday evening at the Thistle Hotel, in Grasmere, when she presents a 6.30pm talk as part of the Wordsworth Trust's Summer Poetry Readings programme. Prize-winning writer and art historian Jenny Swan will also feature. Tel 015394-35544.