SKIPTON:

Skipton Ladies Choir will give its summer recital on Saturday July 3 in Skipton Baptist Church, on Otley Street, at 7.30pm.

* Skipton Players will be treading the boards of the Little Theatre in the crime thriller Grand National Night from Tuesday to Saturday. Performances start at 7.30pm. For more details visit the group’s website skiptonlittletheatre.org.uk

* Skipton Castle will be the venue for an outdoor production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Dean Taylor Productions will give five performances – at 2pm and 7pm next Friday, June 25, and next Saturday, June 26, and at 2pm next Sunday, June 27. Tickets cost £22, £16 for concessions and £12 for children and are available from 01772 466256.

* Craven Museum is hosting a free soccer exhibition covering the history of football from 1909. The exhibition includes a pair of former England captain John Terry’s boots, a genuine 1966 World Cup shirt – when England won the competition – and some original Wembley Stadium seats.

SETTLE:

Female camaraderie is the focus of the Victoria Hall’s next show. Girls’ Night is a down to earth comedy following five girlfriends on a cocktail-fuelled karaoke night out. The show, written by “Where the Heart Is” writer Louise Roche, will be staged on Saturday July 3. For tickets call 01729 825718.

* St John’s Church will host a concert by Keighley Vocal Union Choir next Saturday, June 26, at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £6.50 and half of the money raised will be donated to Castleberg Hospital.

* The Gallery on the Green, situated in a disused telephone kiosk in Upper Settle, is hosting its first international art display. Midnight Visions is by Canadian photographer Jim des Rivières and features his pictures of moths. Further information is available from Settle Tourist Information Centre or online at galleryonthegreen.org.uk

* The Linton Court Gallery, off Duke Street, is showing an exhibition of watercolour paintings by the late Norman Adams (1927-2005). Norman bought a house in Horton-in-Ribblesdale in 1958 and the landscape provided him with a constant source of inspiration.

* Paintings by three generations of women from a Malham family, Constance Pearson, Philippa Holmes and Katharine Holmes, feature in an exhibition at the Folly, Settle.

KIRKBY MALHAM:

Langcliffe Singers will give their summer concert next month. The mixed choir of 60 voices will perform a selection of anthems by Henry Purcell and Samuel Sebastian Wesley to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wesley’s birth. The programme will also include John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals. The concert will be in Kirkby Malham Church on Saturday July 3 at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 from Cave and Crag in Settle, Bentham Post Office or on the door.

GRASSINGTON:

Grassington Players are performing “Talking Head” style monologues, written by member Keith Bromley, at venues across the area. As part of the Grassington Festival fringe events, they will perform at St Margaret Clitherow Church, Threshfield, tomorrow (Friday) and at the Congregational Church on Monday. This year’s tour will raise money for Parkinson’s UK.

GARGRAVE:

Local artists will exhibit their work in the village hall from next Thursday, June 24, to next Sunday, June 27. Among those taking part is former villager Trevor Batchelor, who now lives in Kendal and specialises in abstract colour photographs. The exhibition is free and opening times are 11am to 8pm (5.30pm on Sunday).

INGLETON:

St Mary’s Church will host “A Taste of Music” weekend. It will start with a talk and songs by Jacqueline McDonald, who used to sing with The Spinners, next Friday, June 25, at 7pm. Saturday’s events will include a singing workshop led by Jane Whittam from 10am to noon and a concert and demonstration by the “Middle Agers” at 7pm.