1 THIS weekend Brantwood holds its Winter Craft Fair, featuring a wide range of quality crafts from around Cumbria, and on display throughout Brantwood house. Crafts will include pottery, jewellery, fused and stained glass, felt bags, swill baskets, wood turning, photographs, driftwood clocks, handmade books, silk pictures, cakes and preserves. Open Saturday and Sunday, 10.30am-5pm, until 4pm on Sunday. The following weekend (November 17-18) artist Sarah Casey runs Life Lines, a hands-on drawing workshop. For further information telephone 015394-41396.

2 WATER Yeat Village Hall hosts Christine Collister and Michael Fix tomorrow (Sunday, 8pm). Born on the Isle of Man, Christine worked as a backing vocalist with the Richard Thompson Band and went on to perform for seven years with Clive Gregson, with whom she recorded five albums. She has since worked on her own and with other artists, developing into an amazing singer and writer of folk, blues and jazz. Christine filled the hall on her last visit and is likely to do so again, this time joined by guitarist Michael Fix.

3 SOUTH Lakes Arts Collective heads back to The Dock Museum this weekend following its successful inaugural exhibition at Barrow venue in 2017. Without Boundaries runs at the Barrow venue from today (Saturday) until January 16, featuring paintings, drawings, digital prints, glass art, ceramics, sculpture, poetry and photographs in the mix. The subjects range from Surrealist to detailed anatomical studies, from the representational to the abstract and from conceptual to art for arts sake pieces. Open Wednesday to Sunday 11pm-4pm.

4 STAR of Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Crackerjack, Stewart Francis takes his Into The Punset tour to The Forum at Barrow, tonight (Saturday, 8pm). His brand-new show will be the Canadian born comedians final fling of stand-up gigs that conclude next year. Winner of Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe, the hugely successful master of the one liner has become a household name in the UK and Ireland during the last decade, thanks to his perfectly crafted gags and expert timing. Box office 01229-820000.

5 THE Roxy is showing The Thing tonight (Saturday) at 10.30pm as part of the Ulverston cinema's late night After Hours at the Roxy shows. The science fiction horror film remains something of a cult classic, with its special effects being well ahead of their time - justifying its 18 cert. Directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, the movie is based around a US research station, Antarctica, in early winter of 1982. Box office 01229-582340.