FOR those who want a visual treat, check out the shortlisted entries in this year's Kendal Windows on Art.

They are:

Best window 2001 shortlist: Gear, Elephant Yard; Impulse Flowers, Highgate; Ann Irving, Stramongate (small window category only); Sopers, Stramongate; Indigo, Kirkland; Bunches By Helen, Blackhall Yard.

Most noteworthy artwork award shortlist: artist Donna Campbell, at Soutergate Gallery; Kate Bentley, Kentdale Rambler; Paul Clark, Boots and The Bed Centre; Priscilla Jones, Gear and Farrers; Rose Hirons, in Caroline Blair's ladies' designerwear shop; Joyce Eldred, Wave and Aga; Rebecca Heaton Cooper, Sopers and Caf Ole.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 18 (8pm).

See Leisure, page 7.

WITH equally deep roots in classical music old and new, and in free improvisation and new jazz, Robert Dick has established himself as a legitimate heir to virtuoso composer performers such as Chopin, Paganini and the great Jimi Hendrix.

His performances have been likened to the experience of listening to a full orchestra, and he's often regarded as the Hendrix of the flute because of his revolutionary musical approach and high-intensity performances.

Judge for yourself when the versatile player performs in Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre Malt Room, on Sunday, September 16 (6.30pm, price £5/£2) with a flute workshop earlier at 2pm.

Tickets and workshop bookings from Suzanne de Lozey on 015395-60054.

THROUGH a series of workshops with Burton-in-Lonsdale poet and dramatist Graham Mort, eight writers from the south of the county have developed a 45-minute piece using poetry and narrative.

Organised by South Cumbria Playwrights, The Ballad of Morecambe Bay receives its premiere next Thursday, September 13 (8pm) at Ulverston's Coronation Hall (as part of the Charter Festival) as well as a poetry reading by Graham Mort.

Tickets £5 (SCP members £ 3).

Box office 01229-587120